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Thus far, Hershey Felder has created one-man shows about George Gershwin, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Leonard Bernstein — all great pianists. So the title of his latest effort, "Abe Lincoln's Piano," might raise some eyebrows. Who knew Abe even had a piano, let alone that he could play it?
As it turns out, Lincoln probably didn't play the piano, but he did own one while in the White House, and that's just one of many things about our 16th president that you can learn from Felder's show, an ArtsEmerson presentation that opens Tuesday at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.
Felder first performed in the Boston area in 2002, when the American Repertory Theater presented him at the Loeb Drama Center in "George Gershwin Alone." Robert Orchard, formerly executive director at the ART and now executive director for the arts at Emerson College, says that Felder is "always a delight to work with."
"He goes back to the early part of the last century, when actors were entrepreneurs and created their own structure around their work, not only to enable production but also touring. I believe his great gift as a performer — and indeed as a creator, he does it all — is his capacity to bring the audience into an intimate conversation about some historical figure. He has a way of engaging and embracing the audience."
Felder also performed his Chopin play "Romantique" (later turned into the solo show "Monsieur Chopin") at the Loeb. For ArtsEmerson, he's done "Maestro: Leonard Bernstein" and a revival of "George Gershwin Alone," both in 2012.
He found Abe Lincoln's piano, he explains, in the attic of the Chicago History Museum, alongside the table on which Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Willie, the Lincolns' third son, took lessons on it. (Willie died in 1862 at 11, of an illness probably related to typhoid fever.) The instrument was also played by some of Lincoln's White House guests, among them the composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. What's more, Lincoln did love music, and he had a particular fondness for the songs of Stephen Foster. So in "Abe Lincoln's Piano" Felder will be performing "Oh! Susanna," "Old Folks at Home," "My Old Kentucky Home," and "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair," as well as George Frederick Root's "The Battle Cry of Freedom."
In its initial incarnation, however, "Abe Lincoln's Piano" had no piano. Felder's inspiration had been an address given in 1909 — the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth — by Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, the young Army surgeon who on the evening of April 14, 1865, came out of the Ford's Theatre audience to attend to Lincoln after he had been shot by John Wilkes Booth.
"I came across this," Felder says, "and I thought it would make for a good musical experience, and I created a composition and recorded it with members of the Chicago Symphony. That piece got some attention from members of the Library of Congress, who contacted me and said, 'You're not going to believe this, but we just found the original document that the doctor composed in 1865, hours after the president died.' It had been sitting in the basement of the Library of Congress. And then, after one of the performances in Chicago, the great-grandson of the doctor showed up with artifacts of the evening that his great-grandfather had left for him. So I found myself in the middle of this historic maelstrom of really wonderful stuff and a wonderful story that many people don't know."
One part of that story connects Dr. Leale with Lincoln's piano. "The piano is all part of the key into the story," Felder says. "The doctor stuff and the piano were side by side in the attic." So he wound up taking the orchestra out of the piece and putting the piano in. The connection between doctor and piano, he says, has to do with something "that made news all over the country in 1865," but he doesn't want to spoil the surprise for the audience. "Let's just say that magic happens."
Felder will appear as Dr. Leale, but that's just the beginning, since the characters in this one-man show also include an officer of the Army of the Potomac, a young boy who dies in the Civil War, Mary Todd Lincoln, Secretary of State William Seward, Booth and all his brothers, the doctors who surrounded the president on his death bed, even Mark Antony from "Julius Caesar."
"I mean, there are a lot of characters who come in and out of this thing," Felder acknowledges. "It's a real bunch of people. Oh, and I'm also Gottschalk, who plays for the president."
About the only person he doesn't portray is Lincoln — but he will be reciting the Gettysburg Address, to music he composed himself. "It's never really been set to music, and so many people promised. [Aaron] Copland promised, and Gershwin promised, and Bernstein promised, and nobody did. So while I don't consider myself one of them, I thought, well, somebody should. I wanted to give it a cushion of sound underneath so that the words could illuminate once again, because they're absolutely unbelievable. It is one of the most remarkable pieces of writing that exists in modern time. It moves me every single night."Jeffrey Gantz can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The eclectic Detroit rock troupe Dutch Pink is taking its show on the road this weekend — all in one day.
The quintet, celebrating the release of its latest album, "Lady Luck Motel Suite," will play four shows in the metro area on Saturday, Nov. 23. Things kick off at 1 p.m. at the Loving Touch in Ferndale, followed by a 4 p.m. stop at Small's in Hamtramck, 7 p.m. at the Old Miami in Detroit's Cass Corridor and 11:30 p.m. back in Ferndale at Woodward Avenue Brewers, where the first 50 arrivals will get a free T-shirt.
Tickets are available for each of the individual shows — and include a digital download of the album — but the group is also offering a $40 bus package that includes admission and transportation to each show, a copy of the album on vinyl and digital download, a commemorative ticket and a 9:30 p.m. coney drive-by.
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Let's hope he will guide the development team to squeeze as much performance per-core rather than slap more and more cores....
I think you need both. You need both, good multi-core, scalable chip *and* efficient cores.
The question is, can he turn the company around? I've seen a noticeable gap in the offerings from AMD in recent months, and given past performance, have wondered WTH has been going on. I say this is someone who is running on a FX-8150: where is my upgrade path when Intel bangs out something new?
rather than slap more and more cores....
Yes, more performance per core is always good since some imporatne tasks are inherently serial, and almost certainly impossible ti parallelize.
However, if your workload is parellelisable, then AMD provide some very good options. If you're buying a dual or quad socket machine, then you're going to get at a mimumum 8 cores, (probably more like 12, 16, 24 or 32), which means that you expect your workload to be quite parallel (if not, you'd be best off dumping all the mon
Keller didn't just accidentally end up at Apple as the result of the purchase of PA Semi; the consensus is that PA Semi were specifically bought to acquire the team led by Keller, moreso than Apple caring about the company itself (i.e. it was what startups these days like to call an "acquihire"). Keller headed the A4/A5 design at Apple (the system-on-a-chip in the iPhone and iPad), so there's now a noticeable staffing gap if they plan to continue in-house development of their mobile chips.
Besides that this guy designed the K8, one of the most under-rated chips of all time, and set the direction for AMD that led to the AMD64 chip that had Intel flubbing about looking for an answer for nearly two whole years from a company that at the time was struggling to stay afloat.
AMDs entire cash-on-hand balance can be nearly directly credited to this man.
I'm not what you'd call a fanboy, but I am a fan of AMD products(in particular since they acquired ATI). Lets hope this guy can bring some of the bang back.
Wasn't that the K6 and K6II that preceded the AMD64 and early dual-core Athlons? K8, IIRC, was the disappointment known as "Phenom."
Phenom is the K10.
Besides people correcting you, the Phenom and Phenom II chips were by no means "bad" excepting a few pricing faux-pahs where they priced new parts too high for their relative performance out of the gates.
There are actually very few(nearly none) video games out there that max out any CPU these days. Its all GPU now. The physics engines pretty much do as much as they are going to and all thats left is to make it shinier.
I bought my FX4100 purely because of how quiet I can make this thing run. The loudest thing in it is the 800 RPM PSU fan and the computer is overclocked.
Which actually brings me to a pet-peeve about bulldozer. They've underclocked these chips by a LOT. Its actually ridiculous what they've done to themselves. This computer idles at room temp and hits maybe 40 Celcius under load on chip temp, and its overclocked about 600 MHZ which yields something like a 25% total increase in performance. In other words its competitive with an I5 or low end I7s for $100 or more less cost. The best part is any idiot can overclock it with one of these new UEFI boards from Asus, they don't even have to know how to install software or navigate a bios by keyboard.
There are actually very few(nearly none) video games out there that max out any CPU these days. Its all GPU now.
MMOs are more popular than ever and are very CPU heavy - RIFT has to be one of the worst CPU hogs I know (my 2.8 GHz Phenom II x4 is at the very bottom-end of acceptable processors and even WoW did profit from going 64bit in benchmarks (definitely not due to memory but 32bit WoW does not require SSE2 iirc - so the performance gain is probably a mix between being able to rely on more modern instruction sets and having more registers available).
Rift was running at 60 fps on my 3800+ AMD Athlon X2 with a 4890 Video card attached on pretty high settings, all I had to do was turn shadows down. As such, I find your claims incredibily hard to believe, and I keep that board and processor around purely because of folks like you. It may say that on the requirements for the game but the game itself in no way requires that.
WoW after updates runs the same.
EVE Online is BY FAR the biggest CPU hog out there because largeish portions of its GFX engine still run
Yup. They were designed for high clocks and run very well at high clocks. It's purely TDP that keeps AMD from spec'ing them for much higher clocks.
See, I wouldn't think TDP would be a problem. If I was willing to let the proc run at 50 celcius under load, which was previously the norm for AMD I'd probably have it cruising well north of 4 ghz.
Is it just that an unacceptable amount of the chips due to some manufacturing flaws wouldn't be able to sustain those clocks?
The 8-cores are thermally limited. I have an 8150 that has high leakage, i.e. runs HOT. It's a GloFo process issue.
They've sold themselves incredibly short on their 4 core chips then. Very few(if any) apps make use of more than 4, and those that do see very limited benefit from increasing the number of cores.
They could have had a dazzler on their hands in their 4-core line. I'm saying the business-marketing assholes caused this because "But but 8 cores obviously has to be faster than 4!!!! We need to limit the 4 core so the 8's are faster... mhmmm."
Its either that or an incredibly inept design dept. Either of these thin
K8, one of the most under-rated chips of all time
You misspelled "kept from market dominance by illegal abuse of monopoly by intel".
I did. Thank you for fixing that for me.
If it wasn't for pre-existing exclusivity deals and pushes against it by intel at the time Intel probably would have been forced to burn through their entire cash-on-hand supply to catch up rather than just half of it.
Thank you for injecting a random bit of allegation into the conversation. Out of interest (sincerely), can you back that up?
Well, I certainly hope he can help them out - since I remember the K6 was one of the worst abortions I've ever seen for a CPU chip. Honestly, it was pretty godawful. Nothing against AMD the company tho, but I really wish their Linux drivers were at least up to PAR with Nvidia's.
The K6-2 was actually a better performer than the Pentium II. The K6's problem was that Intel was already up to their shenanigans in those days and sprung SSE on the marketplace while AMD knew nothing about it but pretty much every other tech company had been told about it and forced to abide by NDAs etc in exchange for access and some kick backs from Intel.
The K6 itself on raw performance metrics and stability trounced the Pentium it just wouldn't RUN certain programs and in particular most games of the da
Go design some awesome CPU's and bring back the competition between Intel and AMD!
All in all, this is a good thing for AMD, and not nearly so good for Apple. The litany of execs leaving AMD of late has caused SemiAccurate to say that nothing good can come of this far too often for our liking lately. This time, all we can say is that a lot of good can and will come of this. Jim Keller is one of the good ones, and you don't leave directorships at Apple without a damn good reason.
http://semiaccurate.com/2012/08/01/apples-cpu-architect-jim-keller-moves-back-to-amd/ [semiaccurate.com]
P.S. I liked the subheading
The problem now is it'll take 2 or 3 or maybe even 4 years for this guys work to show up. Hopefully he'll help AMD turn the corner, but Intel won't exactly be sitting around waiting for them to catch up.
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Wabash County roads, bridges and highways will benefit from a $1,573,158 funding increase over the next two years, said State Sen. Jim Banks (R-Columbia City).
During the 2013 legislative session, the General Assembly passed the 2014-2015 state budget, which increased transportation funding by $210 million per year. This includes $100 million for local units each year.
In total, the Wabash County region is slated to receive an estimated $6,222,263 in road funding over the next two years, which represents a $1,573,158 increase from its current funding level. It will be appropriated among local government units as follows:
-Wabash County Government: $5,002,834
-La Fontaine: $57,529
- Lagro: $27,285
-North Manchester: $401,852
- Roann: $31,494
- Wabash: $701,269
"Reliable roads and infrastructure are essential to a strong economy," Banks said. "This allows us to transport goods and services more easily, giving companies another reason to invest in our area. But beyond that, it creates a more cohesive community, connecting our families to the people and places that matter to them."


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Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams was on the Mount Union College campus yesterday for a reception and discussion session, hosted by the Center for Public Service.
Mayor Williams' visit provided students, faculty and community leaders with the opportunity to meet with an area government official and public servant who is truly making a difference.
'We were ecstatic to have Mayor Williams on campus and to have him share with the students his life story and motivation to become a public servant,' said Dr. Ronald 'Eric' Matthews, Jr., Director of the Center for Public Service. 'He is truly an inspiration and it was an honor for the students to have the opportunity to meet with him one-on-one, ask questions and learn from his experiences. He brings a wealth of knowledge and is very engaging and personable.'
Williams is the first African American mayor of Youngstown as well the city's first mayor to be elected as an Independent. He also served his community as a banker and at the Federal Reserve before being named the Director of Economic Development for the City of Youngstown.
'He has made tremendous strides in a positive direction for Youngstown and is only 34 years of age,' added Matthews.
The Center for Public Service has plans to host 'An Evening with Congressman Ralph Regula' in mid-January as well as Steve Largo, a national Principal of the Year finalist from the state of Florida.
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Ok, so you think it is fake... How are you going to prove it, and to whom are you going to show that proof? The back of the card says he signed that card. I don't see how you are going to get your money back from the seller, and I believe Panini will just laugh.
I think you are stuck with it, so you either live with YOUR belief that it is fake, OR... you listen to everyone here and believe it IS his signature, but just a crappy one on this card.
On a side note... Why do you consistently do this in all your posts? You ask for our opinions, then poo-poo our opinions and keep restating yours. I gave you an opinion in a different thread you started, but you totally disregarded what I said, and actually argued with me about my opinion. You are doing it here with everyone who has posted. Someone makes a comment, you immediately post a differing opinion. I understand you might not agree with some opinions, but jeez... let people try and help without you constantly shooting down their efforts. Sorry for the rant, but it has bothered me for a long time. The members here know what they are talking about, but you refuse their help, even after asking for it. I won't be helping you again.
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We've never been huge fans of Moby's music, but we have to admit we like his style. For a little bald guy with glasses he does himself pretty well. Sartorially he may not be much to write home about, but he manages to exude the right kind of insouciant electro-rock star cool in a way that's essentially inimitable: just you try walking around like this and see how far you get if you don't believe us.
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Families Minister Jenny Macklin couldn't possibly live on welfare payments of $35 a day, says a WA senator who actually attempted the feat last year.
Despite a real weekly income of more than $6000 per week Ms Macklin told reporters "I could" when asked on Tuesday if she would survive on the average weekly Newstart Allowance of $246.
By Wednesday, however, her office would not comment on calls for her to walk the talk with Greens acting leader Adam Bandt next month.
The price of living debate was reignited by changes to the social welfare system this week that shifted thousands of single parents from the more generous parenting payment to the Newstart Allowance when their youngest child turns eight, rather than the previous cut-off age of 16.
The changes would affect between 7000 and 8000 single parents in WA, according to Western Australian Council of Social Service estimates.
WACOSS Director of Policy Chris Twomey said the switch to Newstart could not come at a worse time for affected families.
"The minister's comments suggest that she really needs to take the time to get in better touch with her portfolio and gain some insight into the lives of single parent households, who were already doing it tough before she cut their incomes by $60 to $100 per week," he said.
"She should spend some time talking with single mothers to gain some understanding of the day-to-day reality of raising children below the poverty line ... and see how long she could get by living on $35 per day."
WA Greens Senator Rachel Siewert who spent a week on the job seeker's payment to test its viability in April said it was "incredibly difficult".
"There's no way you can survive on it in any meaningful way – you end up living in poverty," she said.
"Jenny Macklin clearly doesn't understand what it's like to try and make do for $35 a day.
"If you're on there a long time you end up going into debt. There's no two ways about it – you max out your credit card, you end up borrowing money from friends and you end up with payday lenders."
After putting away $135 for rent, a calculated amount for bills, $10 for prepaid phone credit, bus fares and about $50 for food, Ms Siewert was left with $12 in her purse.
There was nothing left for personal care, insurance, or an emergency.
"I made a classic mistake in that I calculated all that out and did my week of shopping so that I could have food for the week, but that leaves no money for an emergency," she said.
"You have no money if for example you're going for an interview and have to do your hair, if you have a medical emergency, personal care needs, if your car breaks down."
Even the small "co-contribution" required when purchasing medication on a concession was impossible for her to meet.
"A week only gives you a small window and I tried to do it really seriously," she said.
"I went to a lot of emergency relief services; I spoke to people on Newstart, so I could see what it was really like for people living it."
Six months later Ms Siewert bought the same basket of groceries again and discovered the price had gone up by more than $7, while Newstart had increased by $1.45 in the same period.
Ms Macklin previously defended the parenting payment changes as a measure to ensure all recipients had the same treatment.
Before this week people who were receiving the parenting payments before July 2006 were able to continue on them until their youngest was 16.
Those who started receiving the payments after July 2006 were already subject to the revised cut-off of eight years.
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The word "cliff" has been all over the news the past few weeks. There are all kinds of cliffs. We have "people" cliffs, like Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights" and Cliff Clavin, the mailman who homesteaded on a stool in the "Cheers" pub.
Then there are "thing" cliffs — defined in Webster's Dictionary as "a very steep, vertical, or overhanging face of rock, earth or ice; Precipice." Our pop culture contains many images of this kind of cliff, from the car sailing off the cliff in the movie "Thelma and Louise" to Butch Cassidy and Sundance jumping off a cliff into that river.
But my favorite cliff image involves Wile E. Coyote. Never thinking past the next minute, he runs right past the edge of the cliff overlooking the canyon. The action freezes as his eyes bug out and he looks horrified, realizing he's going down. The action starts up again, and there he goes — splat. We are left looking at the outline of his body on the canyon floor with a little cloud rising up.
The screen goes dark for a second, and we next see Wile E. bearing the bruises of his fall, with little hash marks or a bandage on his head, or maybe limping along on crutches. A few scenes later, he is back to his normal activities.
Recently, we had our brush with the "fiscal cliff," which seemed to tower over our economic canyon. I've been thinking that good ole Wile E. is a great metaphor for what we've seen in Washington over the past couple of months. Let me be very clear: The fiscal cliff was a crisis that didn't have to happen. Like the situations Mr. Coyote routinely finds himself in, it was entirely selfinfl icted. A dysfunctional Congress created this artificial situation of the fiscal cliff as the solution to yet another self-created crisis over raising the debt ceiling in the summer of 2011.
On New Year's Eve, Congress went up to the edge of the fiscal cliff, curled its collective toes over the rim and leaned out as far as it could go. We were there, and as we looked at the canyon floor, we could have been an outline down there. We as a country are like Wile E. Coyote — a bit banged up and bruised, even though we didn't actually go splat. And like him, sooner than might be expected, Congress is back in its regular routine.
That routine seems to be: Create a deadline, dither around for however long it takes to become a crisis, and then with much political posturing come up with some short-term or tweak-around–the-edges solution that Congress passes with much agonizing and angst, while creating even more deadlines for future crises.
So the self-inflicted debt-limit crisis of 2011 begat the fiscal cliff crisis of New Year's Eve 2012, which begat the sequestration deadline at the end of February, which will most likely become a crisis (coinciding, incidentally, with the next debt ceiling crisis). Do you see the pattern here?
But here is my fear: Like Wile E. Coyote, we just don't seem to learn. We have very short political memories. "Back to normal" for Wile E. is to continue plotting against the Roadrunner (Beep! Beep!), and we all know how well that's going to work out for him. "Back to normal" for Congress seems to be back to one side plotting against the other and issuing threats, kicking cans down the road, and continued avoidance of the big issues that should dominate our political discussion — immigration reform, debt reduction, or fixing the tax code.
"Back to normal" is more political finger-pointing while pushing the big issues out and not acting on them until they reach (usually selfinfl icted) crisis level — and often with damaging implications for the country.
With Wile E. Coyote, the problem is his limited number of functioning brain cells. With some of our congressional members, the problem is cowardice. That cowardice is based on political fear — fear of a primary challenge in the next election, fear of losing committee positions if they buck the party line, fear of the wrath of the radio talk show host who seems to run the party, or fear of the dire threats from "The Pledge" enforcer. I think members of the political party meeting this description will recognize themselves.
Pundits say we are at a critical time in our history — but then, doesn't it seem like that's where we always are? It is going to take fearless leadership and stern resolve from our government officials — at all levels, on both sides of the aisle — to get to where they work together to deal with the important issues and actually govern and legislate.
Here is where we, the electorate, can and must take a stand, regardless of our political persuasion. We need to write or call our representatives, express our views (whatever they are), and then demand that they work together for the betterment of the country rather than for their own political careers and ideologies.
We elected these folks (and pay them $174,000 a year) to work for us, not to work for their next re-election. It's time to remind them of that.
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Fiscal cliff was a self-inflicted calamity
The word "cliff" has been all over the news the past few weeks. There are all kinds of cliffs. We have "people" cliffs, like Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights" and Cliff Clavin, the mailman who homesteaded on a stool in the "Cheers" pub.


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Several hundred women and men are poised to burst into dance today at seven locations around Sonoma County, part of a global demonstration against violence inflicted on women and girls around the world.
The event, dubbed One Billion Rising, will take place today in nearly 200 nations, organizers say. But many participants said they've already been profoundly moved by the prospect of dancing in solidarity with others across the globe, most doing the same dance steps to an anthem written for the campaign.
"What I see in the rehearsals is people get lit up," said Sebastopol organizer Quiana Grace Frost. "Women are powerfully moved by feeling that energy and being women together."
"It's pretty amazing," said fitness instructor Janice Blalock, who will lead a noontime demonstration at the Healdsburg Plaza. "We're all kind of in tears at the end of each rehearsal."
Organizers say one in three girls and women around the world will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. The movement aims to mobilize a billion people to take action against such violations, beginning with today's events.
One Billion Rising is an off-shoot of an annual Valentine's Day observation called V-Day, created by playwright Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues." This is the 15th anniversary of V-Day, which typically includes benefit performances of the play to raise awareness and funds for programs combatting rape, female mutilation, sexual exploitation and other violence.
A half-dozen "risings" are scheduled today around Sonoma County, most featuring "flash mob" performances of a
4?-minute dance choreographed by actor/dancer Debbie Allen to the movement's theme song, "Break the Chain," though organizers say last-minute joiners can dance any steps they want.
Dancing, says Ensler and other organizers, is a means of liberating body and soul, though it's only a starting point.
Santa Rosa organizer Kathy Johnson said she views the actions as part of a continuum toward a shift in global consciousness.
"I don't think anyone is going to deceive herself into thinking we're going to dance and it's all going to change," Johnson said. "But in terms of making a statement of support, solidarity, it's one way."
The One Billion Rising movement has spread largely through social networking websites, with participants accessing videos of the campaign's choreography from the event website.
Kris Freewoman, a Parkpoint Health Club fitness instructor and African dance teacher, has led several rehearsals during the past two weeks.
The dance, she said Wednesday, "is a prayer for ourselves and for women everywhere. But it's also personal because so many have experienced violence. We're dancing for ourselves, and each other."
The largest event, with 160 already signed up, will likely start in Santa Rosa's Courthouse Square at 5 p.m. Other risings include:
Petaluma -- 11:15 a.m. beginning at The Oasis, 141 Second St.; Sonoma -- noon to 1 p.m. at La Luz Center, 17560 Greger Street; Healdsburg -- noon to 12:15 p.m., in the town plaza; Santa Rosa -- 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., at Monroe Hall, 1400 W. College Ave.; Petaluma -- 3 p.m. to
9 p.m., at the Petaluma Community Center, 320 N. McDowell Blvd., dancing and other activities with $12 admission; Sebastopol -- 6 to 6:15 p.m. in the town plaza.
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Use a testing framework (JUnit)
Use a testing framework to ensure your class fulfills its contract.
One widely used framework is JUnit. JUnit has these advantages:
- it's simple to use
- it can test a single class at a time, or a suite of tests can be created for a group of classes
- it greatly increases your confidence in the correctness of your code
- it often improves the design of the class you are testing - since you spend more time thinking about how an object is actually used, instead of its implementation, defects in its interface become more obvious
- failure of a test is glaringly obvious
- the positive feedback provided by successful tests produces unmistakably warm, fuzzy feelings even in the embittered heart of an experienced programmer ;)
Test DoublesUnit testing is about testing classes in isolation, one at a time. However, classes usually don't operate in isolation - they usually have collaborators, other classes needed for correct operation. In some cases, those collaborators aren't immediately available during unit testing. For example, in a servlet application, the underlying request and response objects are created by the servlet container, and passed to the application for further processing. During unit testing, the 'real' request and response are not typically available, since the servlet container isn't running.
Thus, test doubles are often required during unit testing. Test doubles are used to mimic the collaborators of a class being tested. See xUnitPatterns.com by Gerard Meszaros for more information.
Tests and PackagesSome programmers put their unit tests in a package separate from the classes being tested. This is neither necessary nor desirable. It's not necessary since the tests can always be placed in the same package as the items being tested. It's not desirable for two reasons:
- it's not compatible with package-by-feature
- it often forces you to increase the scope of items being tested to public, merely for the sake of running unit tests
From Effective Java, by Johsua Bloch:
"It is not acceptable to make a class, interface, or member a part of a package's exported API to facilitate testing.
Luckily, it isn't necessary either, as tests can be made to run as part of the package being tested, thus gaining access to its package-private elements."
See Also :
Construct classes from the outside in
Use Ant for build scripts
Test using main method
Design by Contract
Choose form validation style carefully
Use a fake system clock
Use Ant for build scripts
Test using main method
Design by Contract
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WOODSTOCK – The Land Conservancy's winter workdays will be held this week at two sites in McHenry County.
• The Land of Oz: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday. This will be the group's first volunteer restoration day at this 60-acre wetland complex north of Marengo that TLC bought with grant funds in 2009. Volunteers are needed to clear invasive honeysuckle and buckthorn from under a grove of oak trees that sits at the center of the property. Volunteers should take Kishwaukee Valley Road west from Woodstock to the intersection with Deerpass and Menge roads (Deerpass will be on the left and Menge on the right). Turn right onto Menge and proceed about a half-mile, then look for the other cars parked along the side of the road. The group will hike back from there.
• Dutch Creek Conservation Area: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. This will be the first restoration day of the year at this natural area with a high-quality creek and remnant oak groves. The group will be clearing buckthorn from along the creek. Visit the Dutch Creek volunteer website for information about the event and the project: www.sites.google.com/site/dutchcreekvolunteers/home. Volunteers should take Johnsburg Road east from Route 31 in Johnsburg, then turn left onto Riverside Drive (after about a half-mile). The volunteers will gather on Riverside Drive in Johnsburg, about a half-mile north of Johnsburg Road.
No experience is necessary; volunteers should wear their work clothes and a pair of work gloves. The Land Conservancy will provide water and something sweet, such as brownies. At some events, something hot for lunch will be provided when the work is through. For information, call 815-337-9502 or email Melissa at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Land Conservancy of McHenry County is a nonprofit organization that works with individuals and communities to preserve and restore natural, scenic and agricultural land in the county.


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Will Peggy the Programmer Be the New Rosie the Riveter? 333
But Silicon Valley claims the talent crisis is now (although there are 19 billion reasons to question SV's hiring acumen). So, what about the women who are here now, asks Dr. AnnMaria De Mars. 'If you are overlooking the women who are here now,' De Mars writes, 'what does that tell the girls you are supposedly bringing up to be the next generation of women in tech that you can overlook 15 years from now? Why do we hear about 16-year-old interns far more than women like me? If it is true, as the New York Times says, that in 2001-2 28% of computer science degrees went to women compared to the 10% or so now — where are those women from 12 years ago? It seems to me that when people are looking at minorities or women to develop in their fields, they are much more interested in the hypothetical idea of that cute 11-year-old girl being a computer scientist someday than of that thirty-something competing with them for market share or jobs. If there are venture capitalists or conference organizers or others out there that are sincerely trying to promote women who code, not girls, I've never met any. That doesn't mean they don't exist, but it means that whoever they are seeking out, it isn't people like me.'"


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Greenpeace has renewed its call for John Key and dairy giant Fonterra to stop the import of palm based animal feed because of its devastating climate impact, by painting a large slogan reading "Fonterra climate crime" on a shipment in the Port of...
A protest outside Port Tauranga the day after the last of the 14 activists were removed from the East Ambition.
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After Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected four times, America decided it didn't want to do that anymore, and a limit of two, consecutive terms was placed on the nation's highest office.
Roosevelt saw the nation through the bulk of the Great Depression and most of World War II, eventually dying of polio - a disease that for him was just about as big of a secret as the Manhattan Project or the language of the Navajo code talkers.
And FDR was the first President for which Estherville businessman Mel Breyfogle ever voted.
"He was one of the first ones I voted for, I guess," said Breyfogle. "Plus he was in there longer than anybody else."
That's probably why Breyfogle regards Roosevelt as the greatest President we've ever had.
Breyfogle voted for FDR when he ran for his third term in 1940, just before he enlisted in the Navy Reserves, going active duty from 1942-44. It was while he was aboard a Fletcher Class destroyer when FDR died - something Breyfogle didn't hear about until much later.
"Out there in the middle of the ocean you don't get newspapers," Breyfogle explained.
Breyfogle sees FDR's administration as the nation's greatest due to the fact that he got us out of the Depression, despite what Mel's father may have thought. That was the sort of thinking of a lot of Americans who saw government assistance as out-and-out charity - something they shunned. Gradually, though, the public caught on to FDR's way of seeing things. And that was why he continued to win reelection.
So how would FDR have handled the current situations of a recession and two wars?
"I don't know how he would perform in this day and age, really," Breyfogle said. "I think he could have performed well, but this is a changed world."
For one thing, there was FDR's affair.
"The news wasn't as complete as it is now," Breyfogle said. And of course electronic media was limited to radio.
So after voting for so many Presidents, what direction would he like to see the country take after the election?
Well, he hopes the country can get out of debt and get the economy going. And there's a key to that, he figures.
"If we could get us out of these stupid wars" said Breyfogle.
Breyfogle sees Hoover as not being nearly as strong as a President as FDR.
"Hoover was an Iowa President too. But he wasn't that strong of a President."
Morris Jorgensen of Ringsted regards Lincoln as his favorite President.
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It seems dentistry as a profession has one of the biggest burn out rates of all the professions. This may at first seem shocking, but the question is why? It may also be different depending on which side of the Atlantic Ocean a dentists practices.
Perhaps one reason is the initial length of time it takes to become a dentist. In Britain this takes 5 years, the same length as a medical doctor, but that is just the start. It also takes many years of practice, not to mention the need to update knowledge and skills regularly. Without a doubt, this and other factors can cause stress.
Stress is a major factor in any profession, but for dentists the stress could differ depending on whether they work in an NHS or private practice. Working in the NHS can be difficult as there are budget concerns, different layers of management to contend with, and more recently cuts to NHS dentistry.
However, those working in private practice have their own set of stressful conditions. To start with, a private dentist is not just a medical practitioner but also a business person and like all business people strict accounts and meticulous record keeping is of paramount importance.
Not just that, if the private dentists also employs staff, this adds to costs and also requires other matters to be taken into consideration.
So, before criticising your dentist or missing an appointment without telling him or her, spare a thought for what it takes to be one.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Oakley is the latest sponsor to drop Lance Armstrong, after cycling's governing body stripped him of his Tour de France titles and banned him for life following doping allegations.
On Monday, Union Cycliste Internationale accepted an August report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that accused Armstrong of leading a massive doping program on his teams.
The wave of sponsors dropping Armstrong crested last week, around the same time Armstrong stepped down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer charity.
Oakley said it was waiting to hear UCI's decision. Now, the sunglass and sports clothing maker says it is severing ties effective immediately.
Other sponsors that have dropped Armstrong include Nike, Trek Bicycles and Anheuser-Busch, 24 Hour Fitness and Honey Stinger.
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We're going to need every RB we have this year. We can't rely on just Willie to carry the ball 30 times a game week in and week out and expect him to be fresh in December and January when we need him even more. Verron will need to play a big role as will now Davenport. As for Duce at this point, maybe he becomes expendable if Davenport shows he can produce ?By Mike Prisuta
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Willie Parker reported to Heinz Field for the 2006 NFL regular-season opener dressed more for his vacation than his vocation, right down to the shades he sported in the locker room.
But Parker also showed up with a purpose.
"I looked in the closet and was like, 'Well, we play Miami, and I want to end up in Miami,'" he said. "So I put on my clothes like I was going to the beach.
"Everybody was like, 'Willie, we ain't in Miami.' I said, 'We're going to be there.'"
The Steelers took their first step toward Super Bowl XLI in February at Dolphins Stadium by beating the Miami Dolphins, 28-17, last Thursday night.
The win was inspiring for a number of reasons, from the Steelers' fourth-quarter rally to the relatively seamless fashion in which Charlie Batch replaced Ben Roethlisberger at quarterback.
Parker contributed 115 yards rushing, but it took him 29 carries, which concerned, as well as pleased, coach Bill Cowher.
"We'll need to make sure we monitor how much we're using this kid," Cowher said, "because he's not a big kid."
The Steelers entered the season with running backs Verron Haynes and Duce Staley, who made a brief appearance against Miami, on the roster. Fifth-year pro Najeh Davenport was added to the mix the day after the season opener.
"We're going to need Duce down the road," Cowher said prior to the acquisition of Davenport.
Parker, 5-foot-10 and 209 pounds, exudes confidence as a third-year pro, but even he isn't sure if he could absorb such a pounding on a regular basis.
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Pingdong wrote:Surely, you can find out what kind of red tape is on the property beforehand cant you? we have gone out with the people, and they explained to us some basic things, but nothing was in writing, so it doesnt count really. but there must, in writing, be something talking about it?
We've spent six years looking for land, bidding, winning, building and so on, with a large group of people. We've seen several people lose all their investment, too. You really have to investigate things carefully. For example, you might get an old farmhouse and find out you cannot do any work on it, or pull it down. You could get stuck with a dilapidated building. Or, you might think you have road access but then find there is some little thing that is stopping you from getting permission from your neighbors to build a road along their property. If you can read and write Chinese, join http://www.2home.com.tw. You can read about every success and failure imaginable there, and find answers to your questions about finding land, legal stuff, building strategies, etc. It's an amazing resource.
Another thing to keep in mind is, this auction thing has become pretty popular over the past three or four years, and now it's really hard to get a good deal on the properties offered. Sometimes, the bids are way over the market value of the land or buildings. It wasn't like this several years ago.


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Ellis Roy Pugh, 78, of Conover, died Monday, Dec. 20, 2010, at Catawba Valley Medical Center.
A memorial service will be held Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, in the Chapel of Drum Funeral Home in Conover.
Joey Lynn Keller, 48, of Hickory, went home to be with Jesus on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, at Catawba Valley Medical Center. The Keller family has entrusted funeral arrangements to Drum Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Conover.


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Massive Citibank Alert: UPDATE
EXCLUSIVE: More dirt on the Citibank ATM failures. What happened after we posed as a concerned customer, as well as secret codes for hassling the Citibank public affairs department after the jump…
UPDATE: We finally reached Louis in Citibank's public affairs office. He says they're "looking into it" and will "get back" to us. When we told him the story is already running and it would be good to have some kind of official response, he said that as the issue "borders on several products" he will forward our information to his "colleague" who will "get back" to us "as soon as possible." The Wall Street Journal is supposed to be running a piece about this tomorrow. Bet they don't have too much trouble getting an official quote…
UPDATE: A reader tells BoingBoing the Royal Bank of Canada is experiencing similar issues.
UPDATE: Jake Applebaum's, who first reported the problem, response as to why this new info contradicts what he was told.
Our calls to the public affairs office were unsuccessful in reaching Louis Roserro, whom we were told to speak to about this. Ask for him at 212-559-1299. If you get the machine, star T, then star A, then enter R, O, S, then 3 to be transferred to his direct line. Or you can call him on his cell at 202-607-9027. We
ve called several times and left messages this morning, to no avail.
Then we called up the Citi Identity Theft Services 800-627-3999 (NY metro area) 800-274-6660 (other areas). We Pressed 6 for
victim of Identity theft
and pretended to be a concerned customer who got the same "INELLIGIBLE ACCOUNT" screen in Toronto. They asked for our account information but we refused, saying we were uncomfortable disclosing that information over a cellphone as people could be listening in.
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ve known about the problem for a month. Citibank alleges that the service shutdown is not due to class break or security fault, but is because some of the various interlocking ATM networks are not accepting transactions initiated by Citibank customers. He said that he was unable to specify which networks were affected as Citibank didn
t know either. The rep confirmed that the problem only affects Canada, UK and Russia.
No ETA was available the problem
s resolution. If customers see any suspicious transactions, they should report it and Citibank will verify the dispute.
Assuming they
re telling the truth, this doesn't sound as sexy to us as the virtual bank robbery theory brought up by BoingBoing. If you
re traveling to Canada, UK or Russia, make sure to take out all the money you need ahead of time.
Or, take this opportunity to switch to a different bank.
UPDATE: Jake Appelbaum's response, as posted on BoingBoing, on why this contradicts what he was told:
A month huh? That's two weeks up from the last time! This new explanation doesn't seem correct. The woman I spoke with on the phone said that the networks in these countries were compromised, she sent a new card to my US address as a result of using said networks. She also told me that if I used these networks again, Citibank might lock my card again. She could not assure me that it wouldn't happen the first time I used the Canadian ATM network with my new card. Her suggestion to withdraw large sums of money was cute, but perhaps not unwarranted given the stupid state of Citibank.
This sounds like an issue that's unrelated to cards just being rejected, doesn't it? If it was just the networks rejecting cards, why did I need to have a new card reissued? I've had fraud issues with my account cleared over the phone numerous times from my insane traveling schedule. Never have I had to have a card reissued because my card was "rejected by some banks." WTF?
Though if anything, it's like there's more than one problem with Citibank and ATM networks in Canada. It seems like we've got a few issues:
1) Citibank cards are being rejected by some Canadian banks on the Canadian ATM network. This is being claimed the consumerist. It happened to me but perhaps this isn't the same case. My card was rejected but it wasn't only rejected by the bank I visited, it was locked by Citibank.
2) Citibank had/has a fraud issue with people generating card numbers and pins. This was disclosed when I called previously. It is unclear if my card was generated or if my pin was generated. I'm of the mindset that this could be the case but they're pretty tight lipped about it.
3) Citibank claims that using any of the Canadian ATM network will result in a card likely being flagged and locked. The only way to reset this flag is to get a new card issued. This does not prevent the issue though. They claim this is because the Canadian network itself is insecure. This is a pretty bold claim and the woman I spoke with on the phone repeated that this has been an issue for two weeks. This was also disclosed when I called.
4) Citibank says this is also happening in the UK and Russia. Again, they told me this over the telephone. The consumerist appears to have gotten the same response to the affected areas of the world.
I say they're doing damage control. Something doesn't sit right with me. How does "some banks reject citibank customers" translate into three nations worth of ATM networks being untrusted? I give a hearty WTF.
So what's really going on? Is there a security breach or a vendor issue?
UPDATE: Bill Hansley told BoingBoing that the Royal Bank of Canada is having similar issues.
I'm a US customer of Royal Bank of Canada / Centura, and they're having similar issues. The word from them was that Visa corp told them that several thousand (65,000 according to the service desk people at my grocery store, who knew about this as well) *cards* (not accounts) had been compromised and were cancelled Saturday and replacements mailed. My card was affected, my wife's, who's on the same account, was not. I wonder how many other banks were affected?
Isolated incident or global bankup fux0rup? Rumor has it the Wall Street Journal will tell us something tomorrow.
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I thought things were supposed to get faster with newer technology but it does indeed look like the newer devices run slower becuase of bloated apps and firmware. Maybe this has to do with programming being "bestshored" =D nowadays.
And here I thoguht I was the only one complaining that changing channels gets slower and slower with every new receiver box.
On analog it was basically instant, less than 100ms.
First digital box took half a second. Full HD box sometimes takes a whole second or more (and it's not even deterministic anymore)
That SUCKS big time!
That's down to compressed stream buffering. An analog box could be instant because every frame was transmitted uncompressed. With digital TV, you have to wait for a keyframe at least.
It might if it's getting the channel's feed in the background. It is annoying though. They really ought to consider a "just the listings, I don't want to see the channel at the same time" option. That would be a TON faster.
That's due to how digital cable works. I'll speak of DVB since that's what I know (I don't know what USA is using, but surely it will be similar). DVB sends a big stream composed of several smaller streams, some of those are video/audio streams, some are channel information (the guide, the streams IDs (audio/video/cc) of the channel, etc), others are info on the stream itself (carrier frequencies) or general information (time).
For the video stream, as the parent poster said, you'll have to wait to get a key
TV Guide is instant on over-the-air television. Mainly because the data is immediately available from the box's memory. Anything past 3 hours takes a little longer to fill-in, since those are only sent every 5 seconds. Past 1 day, the data is only sent every 30 seconds.
As for channel changing, I've noticed some boxes are slow as snails, while others are instant and display the picture almost as fast as analog. It all depends on the manufacturer.
This does not explain the > 500ms delay when trying to use the guide.
That's probably due to being 'keyframe' compression. The way that works is you start with frame 0, and that is the entire picture. The computer looks at frame 1, compares it to frame 0, and determines the difference. Frame 1 is now a partial frame that is overlaid on top of frame 0. Then frame 2 repeats the process, you end up with a partial frame which looks a lot like an old cel of animation missing its background, yadda yadda yadda. Then, when you reach a certain threshold (like 96 frames, maybe?) a
it is the encryption technique utilized that introduce this lag. There is a key change at about 1s so it must wait until the next key to decode the stream.
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Since many of these technologies transmit the data for all channels simultaneously, why not just scan for key frames and store the last key frame received for each channel? It might be that even just scanning for key frames might be too CPU intensive to do for all channels. But most people, when channel flipping, do so in a fairly predictable order. You could start doing this for the most likely targets for channel flipping when channel flipping behavior is detected.
A cable box needs to have a separate tuner for each stream. Live TV takes one, each recording show takes one, etc. and such keyframe prefetching would also take at least one. Most cable boxes only have 2-3 tuners, and inevitably they're all going to be taken. So while this could definitely hide the latency in some situations, it's not a perfect solution.
Cable companies are also beginning to use SDV, which broadcasts channels on demand instead of all at once. Some latency will be involved here too, becau
I the case of a request things get a little easier. The entity serving up the response can do a little extra work to send an immediate key frame and tailor the rest of the stream up until the next key frame for the requestor before shifting them to just getting a duplicate of the data everybody else is getting. You still have the request latency, but I bet you could still manage to keep the latency under 50ms if you tried hard.
A cable box needs one wideband tuner and an SDR that can demodulate all the channels at once. There's obviously no need to do video decoding (decompression), just buffering of some subset of channels (say most often recently used). One QAM channel brings about 34.5 Mbit/s. A modern ASIC should have no problem easily dealing with demodulating and buffering twenty such channels (700 Mbit/s) when presented with a wideband IF output. The buffering only needs 90 Mbytes/s for 20 channels. That's not much if you
Since many of these technologies transmit the data for all channels simultaneously, why not just scan for key frames and store the last key frame received for each channel?
Only a few HD channels are transmitted on each 6 MHz carrier. Scanning for keyframes on other carriers would need multiple tuners, which increases the cost of the cable box.
I'm guessing Microsoft does something like for their IPTV platform (used in U-Verse in the US). You receive a unicast stream until the multicast stream is joined (and presumably another keyframe reached). Although this isn't always seamless and you can't rewind to what you received in the unicast stream.
Saving the last key frame is also a waste, unless you save all the deltas up to the current time, too. That's the same as trying to play all the channels at once.
You wait for the key frame, display it, and start viewing the stream from there. Using an old key frame and viewing the deltas somewhere midstream would result in weird looking corruption until the next key frame was displayed. Best just to wait.
In my opinion, showing just a still keyframe, or a keyframe with weird corruption is still preferable to channel switching taking a full 500-2000ms. Though the weird corruption would probably be a customer education issue.
No, in my case I can trace the worst of it directly the the Time Warner Cable channel guide. Slowly rolled out in Austin over a few days, I immediately noticed a huge delay when changing channels, and was able to confirm with friends and neighbors across the city (some who had HD boxes, some not, some with the new guide, some without), that those who had the new channel guide were noticeably slowed (~1s), and those with the old guide didn't see anything unusual... until they too received the "upgrade".
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And here I thoguht I was the only one complaining that changing channels gets slower and slower with every new receiver box.
On analog it was basically instant, less than 100ms.
First digital box took half a second. Full HD box sometimes takes a whole second or more (and it's not even deterministic anymore)
That SUCKS big time!
Or a more positive spin,maybe this will result in less TV watched. I've noticed that since we have gone Dish (wife must have TV5Monde), we hardly watch TV at all (the little tot watches the most, probably 30m-1hr a day avg, but this is all netflix streaming/DVR/appletv content).
If some startup or established company is keen on solving this, they could be highly disruptive in the TV space.
The N900 suffers from this, alas.
I can't comprehend why the phone app isn't in memory on boot. It's a PHONE. Instead, when the phone rings you have to wait several seconds for the phone application to load.
In contrast, my wife's new HTC Z snaps and zings along with Android, even though it's "bloaty" Java / Davlik.
Is it a phone?
I use my "phone" for phoning and receiving phone calls and talking on the phone maybe...I dunno, 0.6% of the time it's lit up?
It's a computer. If I happened to put a phone in there, then that saves me having also to have a phone.
Though I will get a burner if I think Jack Bauer is on to me. Maybe a six-pack. I ain't stupid.
That's a hell of an argument, it's not a phone, it is just a shitty computer with some cellular and audio hardware built in.
But at least they made a computer with a shitty phone application, and not a just a shitty phone.
I can't comprehend why the phone app isn't in memory on boot. It's a PHONE.
As Nokia put it, it's a device designed around "mobile computing." The phone app is entirely secondary (unlike on most Symbian devices, which have physical buttons) and is mostly there as a convenience thing. The primary reason the circuitry for it is even there is for 3G data.
Instead, when the phone rings you have to wait several seconds for the phone application to load.
Which lies totally outside my experience, where it comes up instantly.
90% of the lag on the N900 is if you've just done something memory intensive (notably the browser) that caused stuff to be paged out to the eMMC, which isn't exactly fast. But the crippling problems that used to cause were resolved back in September or so with the PR1.3 update.
In contrast, my wife's new HTC Z snaps and zings along with Android, even though it's "bloaty" Java / Davlik.
That's because it's a phone, and not a more general purpose sort of device. In fact, they don't even want you messing with it which is why you have to root the damned thing.
What do you mean about the messaging? My Dell Streak has been used a lot more for texting, web browsing , ebook reading and youtube than it has as a phone. Likewise my Xoom doesn't even have anything but wifi.. Android is no more a phone OS than iOS is.
What do you mean about the messaging?
messing, not messaging. Regardless, they don't want you stepping outside the carefully set bounds of the Android OS and they try to enforce it by making you root the system.
The N900, by contrast, is a much more typical Linux system that you can freely enable root access via official methods. Tuning has definitely been needed, but my point against the GP was that I had not seen the latency he talks about in response to phone calls, and why the phone application wasn't loa
Whenever I use iReport there is about a sixth of a second delay between interacting with it and it doing what I asked. It's barely noticeable but still drives me insane.
I was going to read the article, but it took too long to load.
I don't personally have Satellite, but it seems that almost every satellite receiver is underpowered to run the GUI.
I've had a slightly different experience. I use DirecTV; while it's not the snappiest at changing channels, the channel listing menu is fairly responsive. In comparison, using my in-laws' (or my dad's) digital cable is like trying to use the application through a VPN into a slow windows ME box in Elbonia. Not only was it slow to change channels, the channel list itself had noticeable rendering latency and artifacts.
At least then you get the product slightly cheaper. I find products with plenty of cpu far more annoying. Take the Xbox 360 UI. A lot of the menu navigation has a delay of about 1 sec, just for doing some animation. And input is disabled in that time.
Slashdot's Javascript.
It actually drives me insane, it is markedly worse, I read less stories because of it (because I do not like the feel of the site so much).
I would bet most of the actual slashdot users feel (think ?) the same way. Why is there no mass appeal to change it back / forward in a more reasonable (i.e., simpler) direction ?
It actually drives me insane, it is markedly worse, I read less stories because of it (because I do not like the feel of the site so much).
The "Many more" button (to get more stories) has never worked for me. This is across multiple computers and operating systems. I read less Slashdot because I simply can't easily get to the older stories.
I'm sure it has something to do with my account setup, but -- bah. The new Slashdot is a train wreck.
BUT, on the phone (HTC desire) - tragedy!! Stock browser does not scale the text properly. Opera mini scales OK, but refuses to display more than the 250 comments. Nothing helps - open in new tab, open in new window, the same window - it just does not work. View more stories sometimes works sometimes not but never works from t
My computer is a single core 1.66 GHz Atom, so I'm somewhat used to things being kind of slow, but Slashdot takes the cake. (Running Windows 7)
I am not very good with computers and programming - am I missing something?
I don't think you're missing anything. The new Slashdot is just poorly written.
Use firefox instead of chrome.
Then block it. I use NoScript. Set your discussion preferences to "Classic Discussion System (D1)" for best effect.
Linus Torvalds has rejected patch after patch after patch that would make Linux into BeOS style latency. He has rejected them all. Why?
because he wants to goose the server performance numbers. thats basically the story of the last 20 years of linux.
Hi, I wrote the article in the story.
Can you give me some verification and links to your comment, and I might see if I can fit it into the article. As you say, there should always be a sensible balance between latency and throughput.
I have definitely noticed addition latency in the UI with VS2010, and it has always bugged me. I can't be certain if it is VS itself or if the underlying WPF is to blame. My current belief, and I have no facts to back this up, is that the VS UI is simply much more complicated than the "typical" use case that was targeted for WPF, and as a result, low-to-mid range computers fail to meet a human's expectations of UI latency.
On a separate beef, why is it that so many people put up with the AWFUL latency on smartphones? Especially when browsing the web, it can sometimes become unusable. The phones get more and more powerful, but instead of making the last UI work, the designers just add more and more flashy crap instead. UI is just as slow but it looks cool in the ads.
When I don't have a real computer nearby, I can use the android browser when I need to, because I recognize the flaws and can patiently work around them. It kills me to watch my girlfriend attempt to navigate the interface of her nook color. Usually goes something like this...
1. press UI element
2. no response, press harder (because that's what humans do when a button doesn't work)
3. harder has no effect, start tapping repeatedly
4. UI finally changes, menu pops up and immediately goes away, having tapped on an unknown selection.
5. human gets mad, claims unit is broken, goes to check email on 5 year old PC.
As an added bonus, the PC doesn't require you to put your fingers in the way of what you're trying to look at.
How much of that is connection lag and how much is UI though?
If touching doesn't immediately produce a visual or audio response that the device is trying to load something over the connection, then it's perceived as UI lag. That's part of why Slashdot has that little "Working" box with a throbber that pops up at the bottom of the screen when I preview a comment.
The phone I use has indeed lags sometimes but this has less to do with the languages or frameworks used but a lot with processors and batteries not being able to cope
My Super NES with a 3.6 MHz 65C816 CPU doesn't lag when I play Super NES games. So why should a phone with a CPU 1000 times faster lag?
I read about this right here in January [slashdot.org]. And February [slashdot.org].
Seriously, how many times can you recycle the same story with slightly (and I mean slightly) different nuances, but the same frakking story?
Next thing you know, I'll be reading another story on this with the angle 'women and children affected the most [google.com]'.
Slashdot is becoming the USA Today of the Internet. Isn't it time for another site upgrade?
Modern platforms have dtrace.
Which ones? I can only find it on stuff based on 4.3BSD and SVR4.
The first article in the summary has some silly ideas on how to fix this:
What can we do reverse the onslaught of latency in all its forms?
What?!?! 1) That is not possible and 2) That would not help. There are so many reasons for this I can't even list them all.
First, there isn't an LCD panel in existence that actually responds that fast. Those phony 240 hz screens don't actually change the pixels 240 times per second. We don't need faster displays to solve a software problem.
If the software provided a 1/60 second delay, that would be just fine. The issue is that we are not taking advantage of the refresh rates we have no - so increasing those rates doesn't help. Heck -- that's probably faster than the debouncing circuits in the controller!
Compensating for a longer pipeline by increasing clock speed doesn't help anyway, because to get the higher rate you need to increase the pipeline more...
Those phony 240 hz screens don't actually change the pixels 240 times per second.
Well your retina doesn't react instantaneously either, but your brain knows how to compensate for it. My personal theory is that the slow response of the LCD is also an analog or analog-appearing process and your brain will find it less offensive than other types of timing distortions.
But even if the LCD itself doesn't respond instantaneously, increasing the frame rate can potentially decrease every frame-count-denominated so
I think he's talking about the image processing. LCD controllers need to see multiple frames in advance so they can set the control signals right to minimize ghosting. This "response time" is a marketing number, so they try to make it as small as possible. Unfortunately, that means delaying one or more input frames plus some extra processing time. At 60Hz, one frame is 16ms, which is a large unit for input lag purposes. Changing to 120Hz means the next frame comes faster, which in theory means less lag.
going from 60hz to 120hz on my crt helped latency considerably. however, I"m one of those old school quake heads who sees stuff like that. today's world of laggy GUIs and clunky virtualized binaries (java/.net et al) drives me insane...especially since the cpus we have today are roughly 10x faster than they were in 1998.
Unless some one can give me a 'do that and you will see it' test that works I remain skeptical that buffer bloat is the cause.
Its sounds more like confirmation bias tied with a different issue.
If someone running a twitch game(Usually TF2), download bit torrent(WoW patch or ISO), on a computer (AMD Quade, 4 Gigs)that's may also be serving up media to my TV(10/100/1000) can't experience this, does it really exist?
I have 25/20 Mbps
Sometimes in a thunderstorm you see lightning, but it can take several seconds till you hear thunder.
Pretty bad design, imho.
"(Java or Visual Studio 2010 anyone?"
Really? do you even know what the hell you are talking about? OR did these two think pop into your skull and you use your meaty finger to pound out some sort of text in a vain effort to stay relevant?
Java or Visual Studio 2010 anyone?
Crappy programmers.
And has anyone documented a repeatable real world test for 'bufferbloat' or is this still an academic issue?
This is one of the reasons why on all the devices and computers I use I disable animations when I'm permitted.
I think the real problem, however, is that we've grown increasingly impatient. I notice it in myself. Some application takes over 3 seconds to open and I start getting agitated, wondering what the hell is taking so long.
Think back to the earlier days of computing when it might take 30 seconds or more to get an application started. I recall on my PCjr booting up games and sitting there for a good minute while the drive ground away. That said, some games nowadays have some rather appalling load times. But look at what has to be loaded compared to those games from the 80s.
I also recall trying to play games that were more demanding than my computer could handle. I'd hit a key and get an action a fraction of a second later. I got used to it, but it's something that would be intolerable today.
Even using early versions of Windows and Mac OS was an exercise in patience, especially if something was going on in the background. And what about waiting for a simple website to load, especially over 56kbps? Hell, what about loading up text-only menus on your favorite BBS via 2400 baud?
The simple fact is that we've been spoiled and as such have grown increasingly impatient over shrinking timescales. That said, given all the computing power at the tips of my fingers I do expect everything to be instant.
Think back to the earlier days of computing when it might take 30 seconds or more to get an application started
Back when I wrote one of my first gui programs, I added sleep() calls into the load process, because otherwise the splash screen disappeared before you saw the progress bar move and that wasn't so "cool"...
we aren't spoiled. we're more dependent. in the 80s you used your computer to play simplistic video games and maybe type a one page school assignment.. if you were learning programming, you were coding simple routines in assembly, maybe C if you were lucky enough to have a 68000 based machine with sufficient ram to run a full suite of tools..even then you were still coding a lot of assembly.
Today, programmers are pumping out bloated binaries using point-and-stick development environments. this problem is ad
.....I want to say it was around 2003 or so around here, when there were all sorts of discussions about "the cost of hardware and bandwidth is so cheap now, we don't need to optimize for the machine, we should instead optimize for the programmer". This came up again and again, and all the n00b programmers danced around their shiny Powermacs and sang and held hands and ratified it.
Notice how everything has exploded exponentially in size, and each revision of any bit of software has been noticeably more slug
The latency problem in non-networked applications is ultimately caused by poor software engineering, starting with system-provided APIs. Most of "bog standard" system libraries were designed for something entirely different than what they end up used for. The "normal" C I/O paradigm is used everywhere, yet it was really designed for batch applications, not for interactive use. The only way to do almost any filesystem and network interaction should be to submit a request, then react when the results come back, all the while being receptive to other "results" (events) coming in. Unfortunately, designing things this way requires a certain discipline and a mindset, and default APIs and "industry practices" simply don't encourage it at all.
A correctly engineered system API should not have any blocking calls apart from the "wait for events" call, it's as simple as that. It's very rare that an application is only waiting for one thing to happen. Even something as simple as a UNIX cat has two file descriptors open, and simultaneously waits for stuff to come and and for stuff to finish going out, with a buffer in-between (I'm ignoring no-copy APIs for a moment). Coding it up as a read followed by a write is, at best, wishful thinking. Of course event-based programming is something that seems like a lot of extra work, but it's just a matter of getting used to doing things the right way.
In fact, if you decide to code up your whole system in an entirely reactive way, you gain other benefits. By reactive I mean you could reduce every application thread's interface to a single processEvent(event), run-to-completion function that you implement. As it turns out, it becomes almost natural to get the guts of the processEvent() function implemented as a state machine. The state machine formalism often helps in producing better quality code, and it certainly makes it very easy to trace interaction with the outside world. Miro Samek shows a striking example [drdobbs.com]: the supposedly "so simple it couldn't possibly go wrong" calculator example from old Visual Basic has several bugs that stem from its bug-prone yet commonplace design. The calculator's state is spread out in an ad-hoc manner in various variables, and the tests done on those variables in response to external UI events pretty much amount to a buggy reconstruction of a single state variable to drive a state machine.
The state machine paradigm is in somewhat stark contrast to the way a typical GUI application is designed, where you have on_fooBar methods that get invoked when fooBar event happens. In the fooBar method it's up to you to verify that the application is in the correct state to do whatever fooBar calls for. This requires forethought, and status quo indicates that it's easy to get it wrong. Perhaps that's the reason: the de-facto mode of implementing reactions to external events is so broken that it's not used for much besides the GUI. Perhaps this is why "quick" system calls are usually done in line and end up blocking the whole application, or at least one thread, and those are not free either so why waste them with blocking APIs?! Apart from perhaps querying the current time or current username, there are really no "quick" system calls. Simple things like listing a directory or getting a key's value from the registry can potentially take seconds if your drive is thrashing around due to high I/O demand, or if the network happens to be slow.
Of course the line has to be drawn somewhere, so let's assume that paging of code, libraries and heap is something we should not worry about because it cannot be helped much. At that point one realizes that indiscriminate memmapping of data files can be problematic in itself: a memory-mapped file is, after all, supposed to hide the fact that you are doing a request-response that can be either very fast or very, very slow. The latter is something you should explicitly handle, and with memmap it's at best cumbersome: you have to use some API to check if given page is av
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Sorry, 74 sucks, don't apply there, no does and no BC bucks.
There are a lot of very good hunters on this site, but I bet the average guy kills the first or second decent 74-78 inch antelope he sees after 4 days of hunting. I had 4 friends kill their bucks before noon on the first day. They scouted 1 1/2 days before the opener and were convinced they saw all the bucks in the area. YA Right. I saw a WY hunter, an older guy, shoot a small thin horned 13 antelope near the road in a blue chip area. I helped him drag it to the road. I asked him why he shot it, He said he was just hunting meat. I'm not faulting him, but I passed two 14 inch bucks on the same road before I met him. I guess guys like these are good as they are not competing for the trophy class animals.
I read and reread Mikes book, especially the trophy judging section, and I came to the conclusion, that antelope are very hard to judge, at least for me. When bucks are in the rut and chasing other bucks off, its hard to get a good look at them long enough to judge them properly. I found this very frustrating. Maybe this is why the Eastmen's hunt later in the season. I guess with time I'll get a lot faster at judging them. I also think it easy to fall into the trap of shooting 78-80 inch bucks and never getting past that point in trophy quality. Just my thoughts on this subject.
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Then I'd def stick to that northern border, maybe that's where they all were hiding.
Of course I saw antelope on both sides of the highway, didn't really stop along the highway, I drove all over that unit for 3 days this past fall/2011, I feel very lucky to have filled my doe tag!
I'm pretty sure the northern portion of 74 is more broken up with public/private, so I hit more of the middle/southern borders.
Ran into a guy on the road taking his family to whatever monument is there or whatever telling me they just saw a "big boy" about a mile down the road, well I saw the "big boy" he was referring to and it might have been 70-75", not very big when guys are talking about 80-85" which look like monsters in comparison. Honestly that was the only buck in that unit that we saw that was decent, all others were dinks!
Unless by noon the 1st day hunters killed them all, but were were there for 3 days after a doe.
did see more antelope along that northern border your right, mostly groups of does/yearlings with maybe a small buck leading them, and again was worried about the mix of public/private, so stuck to the bigger blocks of public ground. maybe that unit gets hammered opening morning??
after reading about that winter kill in 2010/2011, I wonder if I was seeing the results of that?
the difference from a dink and a booner doesn't take much, although side by side they will look different, at least on the wall, in the field, good luck!
I totally agree about guys shooting the first 65-70" buck they see, or not even, to each their own, but if you want meat, just shoot a doe? or 2, or 4 right? Most guys would rather take a dink than get skunked though, I however am not one of those guys, I've been skunked on more hunts than many easterners have probably taken out west. If I was willing to take a dink, my hunt success rate would probably be about 95% but who cares?
Also why burn 4 points on a blue chip if you're going to shoot a 65" buck? in hopes they may get lucky with a booner? once in a lifetime type buck? I think this is how many guys hunt, that once in a lifetime buck is a once in a lifetime because it was the first buck to show up that day within shooting range and happened to be a booner, vs. the guy who has passed 20 bucks by the end of the season and finally gets a big boy or nothing at all.
It's like those pictures of guys next to a barn with 20 bucks mounted, and when you look close they're dinks, it's like, is he a master hunter? hunting isn't tough, trophy hunting is tough!
Hey Roger, I decided to use my 3 pts. on 74, and will also be a week late. Hope to run into you and MH7wsm if we all draw. Good luck, both of you.
I agree also. Mosy guys are more than happy with a mid 70 buck. I know I was, and I still haven't killed one past the 80 inch mark. With non res tags so hard to draw in good areas ,I'll only be hunting for the big boys from now on.
I also think that non residents that are not looking for real quality animals make a big mistake trying to draw quality areas and not trying to kill a decent buck. I think you can get on a lot of these eastern private land areas for a resonable tresspass fee and kill a 11-13 antelope and a few does and hunt EVERY YEAR. $50 -200 isn't too much to pay if you and your party have the ranch to yourselves for a few days. Not having excess hunting pressure is well worth that.
Good luck to you to Bullbuster. I will probably be the only one out there with a crappy camper from the 60's but it should still be a good time. I hope we run into each other so we can bull**** about the nice antelope that we shot.
I'll be tent camping with a trailer with 2 quads. White F350 that says "Wing Music Ranch" on each door.Should br there the 26 or 27. If I draw my Colo goat tag for unit3 I'll be hunting it on the way home.
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I can't tell you how many times I hear... "This is my first (insert animal) hunt, so the 1st legal animal is what I want" Really? You're in a elk unit with 400" elk all around and you'll take a spike, 4x4??
I'm done hunting bad units, I'll be back to WY, but plan to hunt NM, NV and if I ever get lucky AZ for antelope, may do those hunts before WY again, and other species have now in higher demand now that I have a good antelope. Might make my next WY hunt easier to hold out for a whopper, course they are hard to judge, so something you think is 85 might be 80, or 90, although I think when I see a booner plus he'll look huge.
I'd certainly rather wait a year or two extra for a premo unit, high end trophy quality, and less pressure.
You can shoot a booner or a world record anywhere, but I think your odds of shooting a booner certainly are great in great units than ok/bad units.
I remember reading somewhere that Arizona was I think holding antelope classes prior to hunts trying to get guys who wait 20 years for an antelope tag to take a monster vs. some 75" goat, ie too many guys were taking sub part goats for the areas/units.
btw after comparing what I thought was a big 80" goat to these monster 95" record breakers I may have developed goat fever! I really want a monster antelope! and you have to chase them where they exist! and WY can/does produce some big boys.
Luck certainly doesn't hurt.
My next WY antelope hunt may be in one of the best units, and hold for a whopper or nothing, of course I don't know where the other state record came from but the 1 came out of 73 I believe, which isn't much of a special unit, more of a numbers game, ie someone has to get lucky and shoot a big boy in every unit every year.
In fact I often wonder if state/world records are more likely to come out of less known areas/units because in the good units guys just want a booner and when/if they see one they're taking it! where as in other units big boys can grow old and avoid pressure and guys aren't trying to shoot a booner.
oh well, happy hunting!
Doubt I will draw it this year unless im really lucky but I put 74 as my first choice this morning. Even if I dont draw it Im gonna try to do some scouting on my way back from 16. Good luck everyone!