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EUROPEAN STYLE INN HAS FURNISHED ROOMS STARTING AT $250 PER WEEK (lower nob hill)

The Inn at the Holy Grail has fully furnished rooms starting at $250 per week with a shared bathroom and up to $350 a week with a private bathroom. All our rooms have pillowtop beds, fridge, microwave, desk and dsl. We're a 10 minute walk to downtown and are located near great restaurants and cafes. We're ideal for a short term stay in the city. Please call Sandra at (415) 6092199 for more details and availability. Thank you.

EUROPEAN STYLE INN HAS ROOMS AVAILABLE FROM $250 PER WEEK (lower nob hill)

The Inn at the Holy Grail has fully furnished rooms starting at $250 per week with a shared bathroom and up to $350 a week with a private bathroom. All our rooms have pillowtop beds, fridge, microwave, desk and dsl. We're a 10 minute walk to downtown and are located near great restaurants and cafes. We're ideal for a short term stay in the city. Please call Sandra at (415) 6092199 for more details and availability. Thank you.

Cheap Sublet in "Old Oakland" near 12th st BART (oakland downtown) $530 1bd

FYI - if this posting is up, it is STILL AVAILABLE. So, my awesome roommate is leaving for greener apartment pastures and the Holy Grail of super cheap rent. I am sad. Consequently, I now have 2 rooms available for sublet August first in my upper duplex apartment in downtown "Old Oakland". A larger one for $600 and the another for $530. Old Oakland is a livable, safe-ish neighborhood located right next to the Oakland PD station, near yuppie restaurants, smelly Chinese grocery stores, overpriced giganto-condo developments, old victorian buildings that are being hurriedly refurbished, an AWESOME Belgian beer bar, an ugly Catholic church and 12th St. BART! It is very accessible with easy commutes to SF and Cal Berkeley et al. The catch: The apartment is small and worn down, there isn't much common area except for the bright kitchen. For many years this place was a rocker party/crash pad. The party (but not the rock) has since moved on, and I am now in the process of slowly fixing the place up. The carpets are old and janky and the walls need painting, but the apartment is a peaceful place to stay. When I first moved in there were 3 people here and it was totally doable. I am looking for people who are exceptionally kind and respectful, smoke outside, clean up after themselves, etc... all the usual adult stuff. This place would be good for artists, students, musicians, literate people in transition, people who are "queer positive", anti-racists, rockers, dudes, trannies, 'mostly' sober punks and metal heads, people who need their solitude, people with a sense of humor...you get the picture. You will be living with me: a 30-something dude songwriter/contract worker and whomever else decides to sublet the room. Longer term is possible for one of the rooms. You would need to present a deposit of $1060 sooner rather than later. If you are interested please shoot me an email with your phone number and I will get back to you shortly. I'd like to get this all settled ASAP since it is so close to the end of the month. Cheers and Good Luck!

Step Right Up and Buy ... The Holy Grail!

A mouth-watering selection of geekly movie memorabilia is going on auction, including Indiana Jones' Holy Grail and Charlton Heston's The Ten Commandments. There's stuff from Blade Runner, Alien, Conan the Barbarian, Austin Powers, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Back to the Future to name just a few.

FURNISHED ROOMS AVAILABLE FROM $250 PER WEEK AND UP (lower nob hill)

The Inn at the Holy Grail has fully furnished rooms available starting at $250 per week and up. All our rooms have pillowtop beds, fridge, microwave, desk and dsl. We're a 10 minute walk to downtown and near great public transport. We're ideally located for a short term stay in the city. Please call Sandra at (415) 6092199 for more details and availability. Thank you.

EUROPEAN STYLE INN HAS ROOMS AVAILABLE FROM $225 PER WEEK (lower nob hill)

The Inn at the Holy Grail has fully furnished rooms starting at $225 per week. All our room have pillowtop beds, microwave, fridge, desk and dsl. We're a 10 minute walk to downtown and have great access to public transportation. There's a laundromat one block away and supermarkets and restaurants nearby. Please contact Sandra at (415) 6092199 for more information and availability. Thank you.

Rooms starting from $250 per week. (lower nob hill)

The Inn at the Holy Grail has rooms available starting from $250 to $350 per week. All our furnished rooms have pillowtop beds, fridge, microwave and dsl. We're a 10 minute walk to downtown and located near great restaurants. Please contact Sandra at (415) 6092199 for more details. Thank you.

Red Wings forward Dallas Drake retires (AP)

Dallas Drake's last act in the NHL was hoisting the Stanley Cup. Not a bad way to cap 16 seasons as a pro. The Detroit Red Wings forward announced his retirement Tuesday, a month after he finally got to skate with hockey's Holy Grail. "I think it's a good way for me to go out," he said. The 39-year-old Drake said he's still mentally fit to play, but that "the wear and tear on my body" has become...

EUROPEAN STYLE INN HAS ROOMS AVAILABLE FOR SHORT TERM STAY (lower nob hill) $275

The Inn at the Holy Grail currently has rooms available to rent on a weekly basis. Our rooms are fully furnished with pillowtop beds, fridge, microwave and dsl and all have private bathroom. We're ideal if your relocating to the city as we're located near great restaurants and are a 10 minute walk to downtown. Please call Sandra at (415) 609 2199 for more details. Thank you

Supercomputing Power Hits the Desktop, Minus the Software

The PC industry's two largest graphics companies released new top-of-the-line models this week. The new graphics processors will bring not just better videogame performance, but will also turn ordinary desktop PCs into the equivalent of supercomputers -- if programmers can figure out how to take advantage of the chips' massively parallel architectures. "We're talking about every man, woman and child basically having a supercomputer on their desk," says Jon Peddie, a graphics-industry veteran and president of Jon Peddie Research. AMD, which acquired graphics maker ATI in 2006, released two new chips, the Radeon HD 4850 and the Radeon HD 4870. Nvidia, the other dominant player in the space, unveiled its new GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 280 processors. According to both companies, the new series of chips feature performance measured in teraflops (that's a trillion floating point operations per second), billions of transistors, hundreds of cores and new architectures that, according to industry analysts, could have a staggering effect on not only Crysis frame rates, but also how and what we use our computers for. Indeed, cheap access to such formidable computing power could mean that, over the next few years, we will see an explosion of new independent research along with profound new discoveries, analysts say. Additionally, new consumer applications will be able to draw on the graphics processing unit (GPU) for even more eye-watering special effects and even occasionally useful visual information. "We'll start to get things like real-time mapping from Google that incorporates all manner of real world information," says Bob O'Donnell, an analyst at IDC. "All of this is going to bubble up more and more." As Peddie observes, it was only 11 years ago that the U.S. government spent approximately $33 million to build ASCI Red, one of the first supercomputers to achieve 1 teraflop. The new graphics chips offer similar power to the 1997-era supercomputer for a fraction of the cost. "Now we can go down to Fry's or Best Buy and buy a graphics board that has 1 teraflop of processing power for $600 or less," says Peddie. Getting that processing power to work for the average computer user, however, remains a challenge. With the exception of a few games, most applications still aren't made to take advantage of the GPU's power. That's because GPUs are made for parallel processing (crunching lots of bits of data at the same time, then assembling the results all at once), whereas most current software programs are written to be executed serially (operating on one piece of data at a time, then proceeding to the next step). That is starting change, albeit slowly, thanks to new initiatives designed to spur parallel processing. Just last week, Khronos, the industry consortium behind the OpenGL standard, announced what it calls Open Computing Language, or OpenCL. With this new heterogeneous computing initiative, the group hopes to come up with a standardized (and universal) way of programming parallel computing tasks. In many ways, it's the Holy Grail developers have been waiting for: a hardware-agnostic standard that unleashes the power of multi-core CPUs and GPUs using a familiar language. Apple is throwing its weight behind parallel processing too, and last week committed to using the OpenCL specification as part of its next operating system release, Snow Leopard. Other companies, including AMD, Nvidia, ARM, Freescale, IBM, Imagination, Nokia, Motorola, Qualcomm, Samsung and Texas Instruments have joined the OpenCL working group. If initiatives like OpenCL gain momentum, the days of researchers applying for grants and traveling across the country to use a given university or research facility's super computer may well be at an end. Similarly, distributed computing projects like Folding@Home and Seti@Home may see an huge boost in performance by using hundreds of thousand of computers equipped with these new powerful processors. Of course, if curing cancer or looking for aliens isn't your thing, we can also be fairly certain that Crysis will really scream on any system equipped with these new GPUs.