80% of people stop watching HD video stream when it buffersReviewed by Filothea Web Team on Sep 2Rating: 5.0
Despite all the talk of improved video quality for movies, TV shows, and YouTube clips, a slow Internet speed will pretty much ensure that you have a terrible viewing experience.
A new report released from Wistia shows that about 20 percent of households across the country have Internet connections that are incapable of streaming HD video, which is defined as speeds of 2Mbps or less. Also, about a quarter of all businesses can?t reliably stream HD content. But what?s more interesting is that the report found that about 80 percent of those people will stop watching a stream if it stops to buffer the video while playing.
Wistia conducted the report to find the actual Internet speeds people were consistently getting, which is different from the speeds your broadband provider advertises as peak speeds. For example, you may pay AT&T Uverse for an Internet service package of up to 6Mbps, but that doesn?t mean your connection runs that fast.
The company even calls out the FCC?s official map outlining parts of the country with HD-capable internet because it relies on the ISP numbers rather than data from actual speeds. And while a fifth of the country always has an insufficient Internet connection for HD video streaming, I?d assume there?s another double-digit percentage of people who pay for a moderately fast connection and suffer from buffering during peak usage times ? meaning they also probably stop watching.
?We try to remind content creators about the inherent tradeoff between video quality and video deliverability. The world?s best-looking video will not be seen by many viewers if it requires buffering,? Wistia said in the report. ?The data in this report simply attempts to put concrete numbers behind this trade-off so all video creators can make informed decisions about their content.?
The main takeaway from the report is that the biggest roadblock for IP TV is in upgrading the connection speeds, which isn?t much of a surprise. At the same time, video creators and entertainment companies should definitely take note.
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University at Buffalo, TACC receive funding to evaluate XSEDE clustersPublic release date: 30-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Faith Singer-Villalobos faith@tacc.utexas.edu 512-232-5771 University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center
AUSTIN, Texas ? A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant is funding the University at Buffalo and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin to evaluate the effectiveness of high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program and HPC systems in general.
Today's high-performance computing systems are a complex combination of software, processors, memory, networks, and storage systems characterized by frequent disruptive technological advances. In this environment, service providers, users, system managers and funding agencies find it difficult to know if systems are realizing their optimal performance, or if all subcomponents are functioning properly.
Through the "Integrated HPC Systems Usage and Performance of Resources Monitoring and Modeling (SUPReMM)" grant, the University at Buffalo and TACC will develop new tools and a comprehensive knowledge base to improve the ability to monitor and understand performance for diverse applications on HPC systems.
The close to $1 million grant will build on and combine work that has been underway at the University at Buffalo under the Technology Audit Service (TAS) for XSEDE and at TACC as part of the Ranger Technology Insertion effort.
"Obtaining reliable data without efficient data management is impossible in today's complex HPC environment," said Barry Schneider, program director in the NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure. "This collaborative project will enable a much more complete understanding of the resources available through the XSEDE program and will increase the productivity of all of the stakeholders, service providers, users and sponsors in our computational ecosystem."
"Ultimately, it will advance our goals of providing open source tools for the entire science community to effectively utilize all HPC resources being deployed by the NSF for open science research in the academic community," Schneider said.
Working with the XSEDE TAS team at Buffalo, TACC staff members are running data gathering tools on the Ranger and Lonestar supercomputers to evaluate data that is relevant to application performance.
"We gather data on every system node at the beginning and end of every job, and every 10 minutes during the jobthat's a billion records per system each month," said Bill Barth, director of high-performance computing at TACC. "It's going to end up being a Big Data problem in the end."
The tools will present various views on existing XSEDE usage data from the central database, according to Barth. This data will include how individual user jobs and codes are performing on a system at a detailed level. In the coming year, the research and development effort will gather data and evaluate performance on all XSEDE systems, including Stampede, which will launch in January 2013.
"HPC resources are always at a premium," said Abani Patra, principal investigator of the University at Buffalo project. "Even a 10 percent increase in operational efficiency will save millions of dollars. This is a logical extension of the larger XSEDE TAS effort."
TAS, through the XSEDE Metric on Demand (XDMoD) portal, provides quantitative and qualitative metrics of performance rapidly to all stakeholders, including NSF leadership, service providers, and the XSEDE user community.
Work on the grant began on July 1, 2012, and will continue for two years.
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University at Buffalo, TACC receive funding to evaluate XSEDE clustersPublic release date: 30-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Faith Singer-Villalobos faith@tacc.utexas.edu 512-232-5771 University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center
AUSTIN, Texas ? A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant is funding the University at Buffalo and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin to evaluate the effectiveness of high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program and HPC systems in general.
Today's high-performance computing systems are a complex combination of software, processors, memory, networks, and storage systems characterized by frequent disruptive technological advances. In this environment, service providers, users, system managers and funding agencies find it difficult to know if systems are realizing their optimal performance, or if all subcomponents are functioning properly.
Through the "Integrated HPC Systems Usage and Performance of Resources Monitoring and Modeling (SUPReMM)" grant, the University at Buffalo and TACC will develop new tools and a comprehensive knowledge base to improve the ability to monitor and understand performance for diverse applications on HPC systems.
The close to $1 million grant will build on and combine work that has been underway at the University at Buffalo under the Technology Audit Service (TAS) for XSEDE and at TACC as part of the Ranger Technology Insertion effort.
"Obtaining reliable data without efficient data management is impossible in today's complex HPC environment," said Barry Schneider, program director in the NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure. "This collaborative project will enable a much more complete understanding of the resources available through the XSEDE program and will increase the productivity of all of the stakeholders, service providers, users and sponsors in our computational ecosystem."
"Ultimately, it will advance our goals of providing open source tools for the entire science community to effectively utilize all HPC resources being deployed by the NSF for open science research in the academic community," Schneider said.
Working with the XSEDE TAS team at Buffalo, TACC staff members are running data gathering tools on the Ranger and Lonestar supercomputers to evaluate data that is relevant to application performance.
"We gather data on every system node at the beginning and end of every job, and every 10 minutes during the jobthat's a billion records per system each month," said Bill Barth, director of high-performance computing at TACC. "It's going to end up being a Big Data problem in the end."
The tools will present various views on existing XSEDE usage data from the central database, according to Barth. This data will include how individual user jobs and codes are performing on a system at a detailed level. In the coming year, the research and development effort will gather data and evaluate performance on all XSEDE systems, including Stampede, which will launch in January 2013.
"HPC resources are always at a premium," said Abani Patra, principal investigator of the University at Buffalo project. "Even a 10 percent increase in operational efficiency will save millions of dollars. This is a logical extension of the larger XSEDE TAS effort."
TAS, through the XSEDE Metric on Demand (XDMoD) portal, provides quantitative and qualitative metrics of performance rapidly to all stakeholders, including NSF leadership, service providers, and the XSEDE user community.
Work on the grant began on July 1, 2012, and will continue for two years.
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The plan for today is to make an argument that fighting before marriage is a good thing. Does this sound counter-intuitive? Here are my arguments.?
Some people see fighting as a sign of fundamental incompatibilities. They are right. The thing is that we are all incompatible on some levels, and it?s delusionary to think otherwise. The first phase of any romantic relationship, which I have referred to as the ?cocaine-rush? phase (see my former blog entry from August 4, 2012: ?Falling in Love is Like Smoking Crack Cocaine?), is a period of untested fantasies of being the ?perfect match? for each other. Perfect match fantasies will be reliably tested during the second phase of a romantic relationship, which I identify and describe in my book as the ?Testing? phase.??
Pamela Paul, author of the well-researched book The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony, suggests that ?a typical marriage follows a certain course. The first year is the hardest, as the saying goes.?* In my role as a marital counselor, I often hear that the first two years of marriage are experienced in one of two extreme ways. That is, some couples experience consistent moments of sublime bonding that lead others to observe that they have ?that newlywed glow,? while other couples acknowledge that the first two years were ?a rough transition.???
I would hypothesize that a major reason for this distinction is that some couples marry too soon, while they are still in the cocaine-rush phase of their relationship. When couples marry during the cocaine-rush phase, they can predictably expect to go through the tunnel of stress and chaos that is the entry into the ?Testing? phase at some point soon after they are married.
Other couples, who have had a longer, less impulsive, more thoughtful courtship, have already passed through the transition between the cocaine-rush phase and the testing phase. They have a much better idea of who they are marrying and are much less likely to experience major disillusionment after marriage. So, the presence of fighting before marriage often signals that a couple has probably transitioned (or is transitioning) into the ?Testing? Phase of a relationship.??
Compatibility of personality, beliefs, core values, and goals shows up with greater clarity during conflict. One hallmark of the cocaine-rush phase is that both partners selectively filter for evidence that each is the ?perfect match? for the other. Lovers in the first stage of a relationship often highlight similarities and minimize differences. If differences do not come to light before a couple marries, the risk for post-marital disillusionment and dissolution is higher. If sources of incompatibility and disagreement can come up before marriage, then each partner will have an opportunity to decide whether particular differences are ones he or she can live with or whether there are deal-breaker differences.??
Fighting before marriage also allows each partner to gain a rich source of information about the process of how you fight and whether you can learn to have conflict without weakening your bond. Only in the context of conflict will you be able to see whether each of you can do things like??
? Manage and de-escalate your own negative emotions?
? Understand each other?s perspective even when you don?t agree
? Treat each other with basic respect in the heat of conflict
? Strengthen your bond through the process of post-conflict insight and repair
? Come to new understandings of yourselves and your relationship in a way that deepens intimacy?
Essentially, conflict tests character. How you work through problems is in many cases even more important than the actual issue(s) you resolve. Successful couples show core respect, recognize the validity of each other?s thoughts and feelings, and make generous attributions for each other?s behavior.** So, specifically, ask yourself, on the far side of a conflict, do you both feel heard and respected? Does each of you feel like you had influence on the other person and on the decided outcome? Being mindful of how the process of conflict feels is critical to assessing the true potential of a developing love relationship. Depending on how it is handled, conflict can be a powerful catalyst for growth.?
The context of conflict also allows you to evaluate whether a potential partner is fundamentally trustworthy. Conflict plays a central role in trust-building process in several different types of close relationships. For example, in therapy, a slight rupture followed by a repair of the treatment alliance often leads to a much stronger relationship. I think this is because ruptures and repairs give us critical sources of information about how much we can trust each other to stay connected, show respect, and stick it out when the going is rough.?
In addition to assessing trustworthiness, there is the bigger question of whether you can trust yourselves as a couple to weather the storms that will come. Theorists and researchers refer to this as relationship self-efficacy. In other words, do you, as a couple, feel confident that you can work through conflict productively? This may seem obvious, but it's a very important point: You can?t know the answer to this question without having had some conflict. A major reason to wait out the cocaine-rush phase of the relationship is to date each other long enough so you can weather a few storms before you take the final plunge together.?
In fact, I strongly recommend that couples in the pre-marital phase of their relationship proactively ask each other lots of hard questions to set off some hidden land mines before they consider marriage. Couples that set off some land mines up front benefit from some of the protection that comes from the tendency to idealize each other in the first stage of love. Motivation to overcome barriers and find common ground is typically at peak levels before two people are legally bound to each other. Probable areas of future conflict can be identified and respectful rules of engagement can be developed. ?Two people who go into their marriage knowing that they can stay connected despite conflict have a much better chance of staying married. So, fighting before marriage is indeed a very good thing.??
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* Paul, P. (2002). The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony. New York: Villard Books, p. 100.?
** Koren, P., Carlton, K., and Shaw, D. (1980). "Marital Conflict: Relations Among Behaviors, Outcomes, and Distress. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 48, 460-468.?
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The non-profit Brothers Redevelopment starting today is seeking requests from firms to develop a marketing campaign to draw tens of thousands more distressed homeowners in the state to the Colorado Foreclosure Hotline.
The campaign has a maximum budget of $200,000. It is being funded as part of Colorado?s share of the national foreclosure settlement with five servicers ? the Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Ally Financial.
Brothers, which established and launched the hotline in October 2006 on behalf of the Colorado Foreclosure Hotline, is seeking a ?creative, strategic and results-driven marketing communications firm to create top-of-mind awareness? for the hotline.
In the six years since the Hotline was launched, more than 160,000 callers have reached out to it.
Four of five callers who took the next step to meet with a housing counselor at one of the 26 U.S. Department of Housing Urban Development-approved agencies associated with the hotline were able to successfully avoid foreclosure.
Despite the numbers, they could be vastly improved, said Jeff Martinez, spokesman for Brothers.
?We really want to get as many folks calling the hotline as possible,? Martinez said. ?We think only about 30 percent of the folks who could be helped are calling. We would like 100 percent of the people to call us, but even if we could increase the number of callers by 100 percent, it would be phenomenal.?
He said a lot of homeowners may not realize that help is available today, which wasn?t in the past.
?There are a lot of new loan modification programs out there and the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority is providing support,? Martinez said. ?We would like the hotline to reach every single person who is facing foreclosure, may face foreclosure, is worried about losing their home because of their employment picture, or is in some way in distress.?
While the number of foreclosure filings?in Colorado have been dropping, Martinez said it is still a serious problem.
He anticipates the marketing campaign would have a ?broad mix of radio, TV and possibly Internet exposure.? The goal is to reach every corner of Colorado, including urban, rural and mountain communities, he said.
Proposals are due to Brothers Redevelopment by Sept. 14.
The campaign is expected to begin by Oct. 22 and run? for eight to 12 months.
The $200,000 will include all work results, execution expenses and firm costs and fees.
An advisory committee with representatives from the Office of the Colorado Attorney General, Colorado Housing and Finance Authority and Brothers Redevelopment will assist in the review and selection process.
Details of the RFP are online at www.brothersredevelopment.org and www.coloradoforeclosurehotline.org. A copy of the RFP also may be picked up at Brothers: 2250 Eaton St., Garden Level Suite B, in Edgewater, 80214. Any questions about the RFP must be emailed to housingcounseling@brothersredevelopment.org by Sept. 7.
LONDON (AP) ? Self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky lost his multibillion-dollar legal battle against a fellow Russian oligarch on Friday, with a British judge ruling that Roman Abramovich was the more truthful witness in their clash over vast oil wealth.
The case in London's High Court had sparked broad interest because of its focus on the two oligarchs' personal, as well as business, relationship in the chaotic days of post-Soviet Russia. The weeks of testimony included juicy details about both jet-setters' lifestyles ? including yachts, vacations and spending on luxury goods.
Berezovsky, a former Kremlin power broker, had alleged that Abramovich, who he called his protege, had betrayed and intimidated him into selling his stakes in the Russian oil company Sibneft significantly beneath their value.
Abramovich had denied the allegations.
On Friday, Judge Elizabeth Gloster ruled the 66-year-old Berezovsky was not as reliable as a witness as the 45-year-old Abramovich, the billionaire owner of the Chelsea soccer club.
"The bottom line of my analysis of Mr. Berezovsky's credibility is that he would have said almost anything to support his case ," Gloster said in her judgment.
On the contrary, the judge said she found "Abramovich to be a truthful, and on the whole reliable, witness."
Berezovsky, who appeared Friday in court, alleged blackmail and breach of contract and was seeking more than 3 billion pounds ($4.8 billion) in damages.
Abramovich did not attend Friday's proceedings.
The two men were said to have become friends after meeting on a private cruise in the Caribbean, built a business empire together, but parted bitterly when their fortunes were reversed.
Berezovsky, a mathematician-turned-Mercedes dealer, amassed his wealth during Russia's privatization of state assets in the early 1990s. In return for backing former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, he gained powerful political connections and access to valuable assets at very low prices.
Berezovsky says he mentored the younger Abramovich, treated him like a son, and founded Sibneft with him and a third partner. Berezovsky claimed that the friendship faltered when he fell out with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, at which point Abramovich "intimidated" him into selling his Sibneft shares ? causing him losses of almost $6 billion.
Abramovich claims that Berezovsky was not his mentor and never owned the stakes ? in fact, he argued that Berezovsky only had a political role in creating Sibneft and never "contributed a single cent" to acquiring or building up the company.
The Chelsea owner said he had already paid more than $2.5 billion to Berezovsky for his services as his "political godfather" ? a protector whose political influence helped him do business in Russia ? and reluctantly funded Berezovsky's extravagant lifestyle of yachts and vacation homes because he feared retaliation.
The judge concluded that the deal between Abramovich and Berezovsky was that, in return for substantial cash payments to Berezovsky, Abramovich and Sibneft would enjoy Berezovsky's political patronage and influence, "which was indispensable to the construction of any major business in the conditions of the 1990s."
Gloster wrote that she "could not excuse the extent of Mr. Berezovsky's deviations from his previous case as presented in his pleadings and witness statements. His 'I blame my lawyers" excuse was not convincing. "
"Mr. Berezovsky's evidence frequently could not be relied upon, where it differed from that of Mr. Abramovich, or other witnesses. I regret to say that," she added.
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