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Maharishi Vidya Mandir (MVM) School, Amarpatan is a part of Maharishi Global Education Movement. In India Maharishi Vidya Mandir School chain is one of the largest school systems with 153 branches in 15 states. About 6000 teaching, administrative and support staff are busy training as many as 80000 students from KG to 12th standard. The school is running under the Society MAHARISHI SHIKSHA SANSTHAN and the Registration is valid upto 99 years.
Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Amarpatan has been established in the year 2000 and is situated Maharishi Vidya Mandir area of Amarpatan in 2.0 acres of land with vast infrastructure, state of the art facilities including audio visual teaching system, computers, library, reading room, music room, art room, Transcendental Meditation hall, yoga hall etc.
Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Amarpatan like all other Maharishi Institutions is established to introduce Maharishiji's Consciousness Based Education System in mainstream school education to its students. This system (MCBE) has been tried, implemented successfully and is repeatedly verified by over 700 scientific research studies conducted in 215 universities and independent research institutions of 35 countries. These studies have been published in 6 volumes and have documented the remarkable benefits of Consciousness Based Education e.g. greater use of intelligence, superior brain wave functioning, faster learning ability, faster reaction time, coherent thought process, longer retention of knowledge, improved health and reversal of aging.
Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Amarpatan is affiliated to Board of Secondary Education, Madhya Pradesh (Nursery to Xth). The school has obtained NOC No. -------- on from the Madhya Pradesh state Govt. The school has a unique approach to complete and holistic education. The genius of Maharishi school curriculum is that every student studying different subjects identified by the Board of Secondary Education, Madhya Pradesh of Secondary Education, seamlessly integrates these with Supreme Science of Life–Vedic Science and Technology.
All students practice Yog, Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and Advance Techniques, to attain higher states of consciousness. This scientific approach to train and balance correlation between mind, body and consciousness has received wide appreciation from parents and they have acknowledged the substantial improvement in their wards.
In the words of Maharishi Ji, 'the roots of modern day problems are the incomplete growth of human brain because of incomplete, fragmented education. The education is incomplete when the student is not able to utilize or develop the creative brain potential, thereby allowing imbalances to creep in.
'The dissatisfaction created by the failure is nothing but an outcome of cumulative stress and strain due to gross violation of the laws of Nature. Thereby, it is essential to take the knowledge through education to pure consciousness level, where all the laws of Nature are aligned. This facilitates every student to adhere to the Laws of Nature and to realise an ideal and successful environment'.
To fulfill this aim, Maharishi Vidya Mandir schools are establishing the value of pure consciousness in all the students across the country, thereby not only helping the students to acquire conventional knowledge for gaining professional skills but also for implementing their total knowledge of natural law in personal life. This allows a student to lead a stress-free and strain free life to accomplish their desires without any difficulty. The aim is to allow each generation to enjoy fruits of all knowledge and with its own accomplished life can enliven the whole world consciousness and play again the role of Jagat Guru.


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Is your third-grader constantly "forgetting" her glasses at home? Does your little boy come up with all kinds of excuses not to wear his?
Here are some tips for keeping those glasses on!
Their Glasses Should Be Their Own
Glasses don't carry quite the same stigma they used to, but the fear of facing mockery from peers is still one of the main reasons many children don't like wearing their specs. The best way to help your child feel confident wearing glasses is to let them pick the frames they like. Forget about color coordination and fashion—kids have their own idea of what looks cool, and nothing else will make them feel awesome in glasses quite like wearing the coolest frames they can find.
It's also important to make sure you're getting frames that match your child's age. Toddlers shouldn't wear glasses for older children, and older children will be embarrassed if they're still wearing toddler-style glasses when they're keen to show off what big boys and girls they are.
Find The Right Fit
Even if they look cool, frames that don't fit right will have your child tugging their glasses off and leaving them behind at every available opportunity. We have special tools at our practice to adjust the fit of glasses so that they stay in place while still being comfortable.
For a few more tips about finding the right frames for your child, check out this video:
Have Good Glasses Role Models
Some kids worry that they'll stand out in all the wrong ways when they wear glasses, so you might want to help them make a collage of awesome people who wear glasses. Are they Harry Potter fans? Harry has glasses! Do they know that the actor who plays Iron Man wears glasses when he's not filming? And Superman and Supergirl wear glasses as part of their secret identities! Help your child feel more confident about their glasses by giving them reminders of these awesome role models.
Glasses-Wearing Practice And Goal-Setting
The easiest way for your child to get used to glasses—once you're sure they actually fit and look cool—is by wearing them, but if they're not willing to wear them full-time right from the start, a gradual adjustment period could help. Start out by expecting them to wear their glasses for half an hour, then move up to an hour, then two, and ultimately they'll be wearing them full-time. You could even discuss glasses goals with your child and offer rewards for meeting them.
Supervision Can Help
Another way you can make sure your kids are wearing their glasses is to enlist the help of other adults, like their teachers. However, this won't do you much good if you're not being a stickler about the glasses yourself! Hold them to their goals for wearing them and be supportive in talking through any problems they're having.
We're Here For Your Whole Family!
Don't forget that we're always here to help if your child is having problems with new glasses. If they say the glasses are uncomfortable, bring them in so we can check the fit! We're committed to be partners in your child's lifelong vision health.

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The Landon Pant is made of Robertson denim, which is a heavyweight fabric that has been stone-washed for a softer feel. It is cut in a loose tapered fit with a regular waist, meaning that the pant has a roomy upper leg which tapers below the knee. The five-pocket style is detailed with a Square Label on the rear.
Do you live in Antwerp or do you have plans to visit our store? If so, choosing pick-up in store is an easy solution and also with the lowest impact on nature. We're open from Monday till Saturday and also each first Sunday of the month. If you aren't happy with the product you can exchange right or away or ask for a refund, we will transfer the money back to the account that was used to pay for the order.
We ship all our orders with UPS Carbon Neutral and we offer UPS Standard and UPS Express Saver options. If you order before 14:00h CET UPS aims to deliver your order within 2 workdays in Europe and the rest of the world in 1 to 3 days. We recommend and push for using a UPS Access Point for the delivery, but we can also ship directly to your door.
To protect the environment from unnecessary CO2-emissions, we don't offer a free return option. However, when you return an item we refund the shipping costs you payed when ordering the product. In case you want to exchange a product you don't have to pay the shipping costs a second time. These two benefits only apply for orders inside the EU. All customers have 14 days time to return a product.


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The 11th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architecture Heritage, Terra 2012 will be held in Lima, Peru, from 22 to 27 April 2012.
Terra 2012 will focus on Conservation of Earthen Architectural Heritage in particular in regards to Risk Preparedness for Natural Disasters and Climate Change. More than 500 specialists in the fields of earthen architecture are expected to attend.
The conference is organized by the International Scientific Committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage (ISCEAH) and the Ministry of Culture of Peru in collaboration with UNESCO - World Heritage Centre, CRAterre, ICCROM, ICOMOS and the Getty Conservation Institute.


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Readers: There is no category selection poll today. I have you down for the small straight.
Nine rolls. Let's go Sixes or Yahtzee...
Rules here
Random rantings and ravings about the Los Angeles Dodgers, written by a small consortium of rabid Dodger fans. With occasional comments on baseball, entertainment, pop culture, and life in general.
Readers: There is no category selection poll today. I have you down for the small straight.
Nine rolls. Let's go Sixes or Yahtzee...
Rules here
Roll, Tootsie!
I'm baack... no whammies!
Rollie Fingers.
1 or 5 would be perfect right now.
Roll bitches! (crosses fingers)
Sugjan Stevens last night was amazing. ROLL.
Roll up in this bish!
We have a small straight already set, but one more six will get our upper bonus on.
I've got 63242356, with one roll remaining.
4 3
4 3 5 not looking good...
I saw Sufjan for the Illinoise tour - that was pretty amazing
Small straight it is. Take the first instance of each number?
Wow. Nice one, FB. I wish I saw him during that tour. This one is very much a different side of Sufjan. But it was amazing. The greatest concert I've ever seen. Granted I haven't seen many. But wow.
4 3 5 6
another extra large straight on the way...
1 4 3 5 6
I totally effin' suck at this.
...but I keep on rollin'...
1 4 3 5 6 5
1 4 3 5 6 5 5
1 4 3 5 6 5 5 1
nothing worthwhile can come of this
1 4 3 5 6 5 5 1 4
Taking the 6 in the sixes.
I'm going for broke in the last round. Even a Yahtzee won't make a difference but I want final the score to look respectable.
Well let me think about this:
-->if I bet on a Yahtzee next round and get it, it'd be 50 next round plus the 6 I'd bank this round, so +56
-->if I bet on 4 sixes next round and get it, it'd be 0 this round but at least 26+35 next round, so +61.
I'm guessing the probability of a Yahtzee is > probability of 4 sixes. But Yahtzee is all or nothing. With 4 sixes, a fail could still yield lesser points.
So conclusion: I'm not sure what to do. Any suggestions?
@EK - You have to take the 0 on the Yahtzee now and hope to get 5 sixes next round while the readers roll none. In that scenario you win by 4, 245 - 241. There is no other scenario that I can see where the Sons can win this thing (except for the readers royally screwing up the vote on the small straight this round).
(Sax and I are practicing for final, pivotal round)
good call Jason -
roll (how am i doing, EK?)
We're a lock for the small straight.
You have good form, Sax.
No poll today folks, I have you down for the small straight.
@MR F the bandmembers and singers dressed in cheerleader outfits like this.
erm... it was better than that sounds :)
4/3 vs. SF (W, 5-4): Sax
4/15 vs. WSH (L, 4-6): Dusty, Orel, Sax
5/6 vs. MIA (W, 6-3): AC, Sax
5/16 vs. CIN (L, 2-7): AC, Sax
6/12 vs. TEX (L,2-3): Sax


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God's Past Favor and Israel's Present Need
1For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites.
2O God, we have heard with our own ears;
our ancestors have told usa
The deeds you did in their days,
with your own hand in days of old:
3You rooted out nations to plant them,b
crushed peoples and expelled them.
4Not with their own swords did they conquer the land,c
nor did their own arms bring victory;
It was your right hand, your own arm,
the light of your face for you favored them.d
5You are my king and my God,e
who bestows victories on Jacob.
6Through you we batter our foes;
through your name we trample our adversaries.
7Not in my bow do I trust,
nor does my sword bring me victory.
8You have brought us victory over our enemies,
shamed those who hate us.
9In God we have boasted all the day long;
your name we will praise forever.
10fBut now you have rejected and disgraced us;
you do not march out with our armies.g
11You make us retreat* before the foe;
those who hate us plunder us at will.h
12You hand us over like sheep to be slaughtered,
scatter us among the nations.i
13You sell your people for nothing;
you make no profit from their sale.j
14You make us the reproach of our neighbors,k
the mockery and scorn of those around us.
15You make us a byword among the nations;
the peoples shake their heads at us.
16All day long my disgrace is before me;
shame has covered my face
17At the sound of those who taunt and revile,
at the sight of the enemy and avenger.
18All this has come upon us,
though we have not forgotten you,
nor been disloyal to your covenant.
19*Our hearts have not turned back,
nor have our steps strayed from your path.
20Yet you have left us crushed,
desolate in a place of jackals;*l
you have covered us with a shadow of death.
21If we had forgotten the name of our God,
stretched out our hands to another god,
22Would not God have discovered this,
God who knows the secrets of the heart?
23For you we are slain all the day long,
considered only as sheep to be slaughtered.m
24Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Rise up! Do not reject us forever!n
25Why do you hide your face;o
why forget our pain and misery?
26For our soul has been humiliated in the dust;p
our belly is pressed to the earth.
27Rise up, help us!
Redeem us in your mercy.
* [Psalm 44] In this lament the community reminds God of past favors which it has always acknowledged (Ps 44:2–9). But now God has abandoned Israel to defeat and humiliation (Ps 44:10–17), though the people are not conscious of any sin against the covenant (Ps 44:18–23). They struggle with being God's special people amid divine silence; yet they continue to pray (Ps 44:24–26).
* [44:11] You make us retreat: the corollary of Ps 44:3. Defeat, like victory, is God's doing; neither Israel nor its enemies can claim credit (Ps 44:23).
* [44:19] Our hearts have not turned back: Israel's defeat was not caused by its lack of fidelity.
* [44:20] A place of jackals: following Israel's defeat and exile (Ps 44:11–12), the land lies desolate, inhabited only by jackals, cf. Is 13:22; Jer 9:10; 10:22. Others take tannim as "sea monster" (cf. Ez 29:3; 32:2) and render: "you crushed us as you did the sea monster."
c. [44:4] Dt 8:17f; Jos 24:12.
d. [44:4] Ps 4:7; 31:17; 67:2; 80:4; Nm 6:25; Dn 9:17.
h. [44:11] Lv 26:17; Dt 28:25.
i. [44:12] Lv 26:33; Dt 28:64.
k. [44:14–17] Ps 79:4; 80:7; 123:3–4; Jb 12:4; Dn 9:16.
n. [44:24] Ps 10:1; 74:1; 77:8; 79:5; 83:2.
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1-8. When the city of Inab already existed, but the city of Kiritab did not yet exist, when the holy crown already existed, but the holy tiara did not yet exist, when the holy herb already existed, but the holy cedar did not yet exist, when holy salt already existed, but holy alkali did not yet exist, when intercourse and kissing already existed, when giving birth in the fields already existed -- I was the grandfather of the holy cedar, I was the ancestor of the mec tree, I was the mother and father of the white cedar, I was the relative of the hacur cedar. 9-15. At that time there was a princely land among the cities; Inab was this princely land among the cities. The ruler of Inab was Tigi-cem-ala. Now, he had a wife whose name was Cage-gur (Desired-by-the-heart), and a child, who ......, and her name was ....... 16-25. The people living around the city hung up nets, the people living around Inab hung up nets, hung up nets, chased gazelles and killed the gazelles as one kills humans. One day, as the evening came, and they had reached the place of rations, they established the rations before the god ...... 26-33. Martu went home to his own mother, and spoke to her: "In my city I am among my friends and they all have already married wives; I am there among my mates, and they all have already married wives. Unlike my friends in my city I am single, I am single and I have no children. Yet the imposed share exceeds that of my friends; over and above that of my mates, I received half of theirs." 34-40. One day, as the evening came, and they had reached again the place of rations, they established the rations before the god ...... 41-52. Martu went home to his own mother, and spoke to her: "My mother, find me a wife to marry and I will bring you my ration." His own mother replied to Martu: "Su-henuna, my son, I will give you advice; may my advice be heeded. I shall say a word to you; you should pay attention to it. Marry a wife of your choice, marry a wife of your heart's desire, give me thus a companion, ...... me a slave-girl. Having built the houses of (?) your people living around the city, and ...... gardens, you will dig the wells of (?) your mates. Martu, ...... mates ......" 53-66. At that time a festival was announced in the city; a festival was announced in the city of Inab. (Martu said:) "Come, friends, let us go, let us go there, let us visit the ale-houses of Inab, let us go there." The god Numucda participated in the festival; his beloved daughter Adjar-kidug participated in the festival, his wife Namrat, the lovely woman participated in the festival. In the city, bronze cem drums were rumbling, and the seven ala drums resounded as strong men, girdled champions, entered the wrestling house to compete with each other for Numucda in the temple of Inab. There were many coming to Inab, the city where the festival was taking place, to marvel at this. There were many coming to Inab, the city where the festival was taking place, to marvel at this. 67-75. For Numucda, because he was holy (?), Martu too strode around the great courtyard to compete in wrestling at the gate of Inab. They kept looking for strong fighters for him, they kept offering him strong fighters. Martu strode around in the great courtyard. He hit them with a destructive ...... one by one. In the great courtyard, in the battle he caused them to be bandaged; in the great courtyard of Inab he lifted the bodies of the dead. 76-83. Rejoicing over Martu, Numucda offered him silver, but he would not accept it. He offered jewels, but he would not accept them. Having done so a second time, having done so a third time (Martu says): "Where does your silver lead? Where do your jewels lead? I, Martu, would rather marry your daughter, I would rather marry your daughter Adjar-kidug." 91-97. (Numucda says:) "You ...... the wife with calves as a marriage gift. Milk cows shall feed the calves. In the byre the breeding bull shall lie down. ...... cows shall live in the ...... and the calves shall stay at their right side. You must give your word thus and only thus, and then I will give you my daughter Adjar-kidug." 98-104. "You ...... the wife with lambs as a marriage gift. Milk ewes shall feed the lambs. In the sheepfold ...... shall lie down. ...... ewes shall live in the ...... and the lambs shall stay at their left side. You must give your word thus and only thus, and then I will give you my daughter Adjar-kidug." 105-111. "You ...... the wife with kids as a marriage gift. Milk goats shall feed the kids. In the stall the breeding goat shall lie down. The goats and kids shall live in the ...... and the kids shall stay ....... You must give your word thus and only thus, and then I will give you my daughter Adjar-kidug." 112-114. He ...... great ....... He shouted like ....... At the quay of Inab he ....... 115-125. 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The KDE development team is working hard on the KDE 4 platform. KDE 4 will include many exciting new technologies which will greatly enhance the functionality of KDE. One of these new technologies is Decibel. We would like to give you an idea of what Decibel is all about.
In putting this article together, the KDE promotional community was able to get most of the information from the lead developer of Decibel, Tobias Hunger. Tobias lives in Germany and studied Computer Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern. Upon graduating, he found a job as a consultant for a small company specializing in systems management. Currently, he is employed as a software developer for basysKom GmbH.
This article is part one of a four part series about Decibel. In part one, we would like to provide a general overview of Decibel. Part two will define several terms related to Decibel. Benefits for developers will be covered in part three. Finally, part four will discuss benefits for users.
People use their computers to communicate with others. Usually, they want to communicate as close to real-time as possible. Email, instant messaging, and Voice over IP (VoIP), are some of the different ways people communicate using their computers. Each of these has its strengths and weaknesses. Ironically, each of these means of communication do not talk very well with other means of communication.
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Also, Decibel is being developed to integrate with other KDE technologies. For instance, Phonon is a KDE technology that deals with integrating multimedia programs and services. It is possible for Decibel to work with Phonon in situations such as encoding and decoding voice data during a VoIP conversation.
In part two of this series on Decibel, we will define some terms to help further enhance your understanding of Decibel. In the final two sections, we describe potential benefits for both users and developers, and provide information on how to get involved with the Decibel project. The goals of the Decibel team are wide-ranging and forward-thinking. They have done an excellent job of specifying their vision. However, they are still in the beginning stages of reaching their goals. Much work needs to be done. The Decibel team would appreciate any help they can get.
Personally, I think Decibel sounds a bit scary. I'm not big on integration myself, and that's what it sounds like to me. That said, KDE appears to have a much better approach than Microsoft (sorry, but I'm both a KDE and Windows fanatic ;-) ). For example, Microsoft chose to integrate MSN Spaces, Microsoft's blogging site, with MSN Messenger. Now, I absolutely despise MSN Spaces, and have no official way of removing the 'functionality' from their Messenger, or associating with a different blogging site.
Either way, I'm still very interested to see it in action. You guys have proved to be capable of making some very cool stuff. I consider KDE 3.4 to already be superior to the Windows desktop environment, and that definitely says something to me (although some people might take it the wrong way).
On an unrelated note, how is KDE4 moving along, if I may ask? On Slashdot, I read a random commenter saying saying something along the lines of it being mostly ideas, but little code. Are you still on track for a final release in the first half of this year? That's what I read, anyway. 2007 looks like it'll be a great year for Linux-based OSes!
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I see Decibel the same way as DirectX is: a framework that gives application writer the *possibility* to use certain technologies without having to deal with their details in each single application. Application writer may simply ignore some of Decibel, that would not harm.
KDE4 is indeed a lot of ideas, with the subtle difference that you can check them out, compile and run them on your computer :-)
It's not gonna be like DirectX at all, do you even know what DirectX is? Think SDL, this is not a programming interface, it is indeed a service based integration. Just like Phonon is, you add Phonon to your application and your application will use any feature you define in Phonon, for example, you can use Xine engine or Gstreamer, or just like a demonstration in Phonon article in here that shows that we can change the sound devices on the fly.
If for example Kopete would implement Decibel, then you'll have different things to it, there's houston that's a connection manager, I.E: You add a plugin for a certain protocol, and Kopete will be able to connect to this protocol. From what I understand, it can already do that (Decibel).
In fact PAF was not completely wrong.
For example DirectShow allow any media player to use different filters (codec) without having to make specific code. And as AvKode is the phonon backend for FFMpeg, FFDShow is a DirectShow backend for FFMpeg.
So even if phonon has more features, it is comparable to DirectShow.
So please don't ask question like "do you even know what DirectX is?", if you don't know the answer.
Btw, many video gamers confuse DirectX with Direct3D. Direct3D is only a part of DirectX.
> Think SDL, this is not a programming interface
> If for example Kopete would implement Decibel
How can one implement something that is not even an interface ? What I meant is that the application writer needs to make the decision "I want to use online presence in my app", and then gets an API to program against. Now later, when new instant messaging protocols appear, this app will not have to change one iota to accomodate for that new service providing its own online presence.
Same thinking goes for audio/video streaming, PIM info management, and already exists for GUI, kioslaves, kparts, and the list is long...
I think I was not too off the mark :-)
It wasn't off the mark. The guy obviously just had a problem with DirectX being a Microsoft product...so he'd rather choose SDL because it is Open Source. It is your every day example of letting emotion manipulate your thoughts.
FYI, I used to program DirectX...back in DirectX 4 or 5...last time I checked it was at like DirectX 9. Man, I'm getting old.
I don't think this will be the case for KDE4, they are not gonna really make it a part of every application, they are gonna make it an option you can either use or disable, most likely. I don't know though, but I still think Plasma, Phonon, Solid, Decibel, etc... sound really really good, and not overhyped like some thing.
Decibel, it would be awesome for communication, for example, people could write plugins for new protocols and then it would be so easy to implement it in the application. I think we'll finally see some decent VoIP protocols in Kopete, such as real integration with Jingle (Google Talk) and SIP, and who knows, maybe by the time we have KDE4/Decibel out, maybe Skype will finally let people connect to it from other clients, so we'll have a plugin for decibel to connect to Skype. Then Plasma will also allow us to work with Kopete in ways we couldn't think before :) Oh my god... Ok, maybe I'm overhyping this a little.
"I'm not big on integration myself, and that's what it sounds like to me."
Um, what's wrong with integration? Seriously? Should they just keep on re-inventing the wheel? Each and every app does teir own thing, and none of the apps would talk to each other? Is that what you want?
Wow, thanks for all the replies!
And for why I often dislike integration? If you put a lot of not necessarily related functionality in one application (think browsing and BitTorrent), you might end up with a great browser, that has a lousy BitTorrent implementation, and you'll slowly end up with bloatware.
As long as you can still separate the parts, it'll probably not be as much of a problem. If I would've been able to change MSN Messenger's blogging provider as easily as I can change Internet Explorer's search engine, it would not have been a problem. Konqueror's file managing and browsing capabilities don't get in eachother's way either, but that's simply because I think it does a good job at the both of them.
Decibel sounds like it will be a rather modular project, so I'd love to see what will become of it even more.
Another reason is that I like staying on top of certain things myself*. I don't think I'd like to have a list of my contacts, which would automatically select a way of communicating with the person. I like being able to do this manually: open Kopete, check if the person is online, if not, decide to postpone whatever it was I was doing - and not have the operating environment bring up KMail instead, because it would assume it would be the second best option.
*) I am a GUI guy, though.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you have "combined" integration, like Konqueror, and the linking type of integration, like Internet Explorer's search engines. Both can be good, both can be bad - it has to be done in a non-intrusive way.
"If you put a lot of not necessarily related functionality in one application (think browsing and BitTorrent), you might end up with a great browser, that has a lousy BitTorrent implementation, and you'll slowly end up with bloatware."
Um, that's what would happen with less integration. With integration, you could have separate apps that talk to each other seamlessly. Without integration, every app would have to provide all possible functionality by itself.
And what about likes of Kontact? It has lots of functionality. But that functionality is achieved by integrating separate apps in to one (the separate apps are also available independently). Without such integration, they would have had to write every bit of functionality from scratch. More wasted time, more bloat. Instead of having an app that merely integrates existing apps in to one, they would have had apps for email, calendar etc, but they would also have a PIM-suite that would offer it's similar, yet separate email-app, calendar etc. etc.
KDE is usually not integrating, but it is extending its framework and all apps then use that framework getting the functionality for free.
one can integrate some apps, let say:
- email (kontact) and IM (kopete)
- browser (konq) and torrent (ktorrent)
then the email app would be able to connect with the IM app, and the other way around (same for browser/torrent); or one of the apps completerly integrates the other.
the 'framework sharing' solution is that a framework is created that all apps share (like: anakondi, decibel, kio-slaves, khtml/kjs) then all apps can use the framework; they are really just views of the framework!
so kontact just builds on anakondi and decibel, just like kopete does.
and ktorretn and konqueror just use kio-slaves for sucking in torrents.
that's the kde approach.
"framework sharing" (tm)
Well, if I understand the article correctly, this is an integration project only on service level, not application level, so programmers might make use of it to allow communication things to be seen in final application. For example, your amarok will still be that amarok and not become an application for chatting, you got kopete for that. But amarok can use decibel to easily program a new function that allows you to msg someone on MSN messenger as soon as a certain new song is playing for example.
Well I hope I made my point that it's on service level and not application level.
> But amarok can use decibel to easily program a new function that allows you to msg someone
> on MSN messenger as soon as a certain new song is playing for example.
That's something I'd welcome a lot! Currently Kopete and my client (KMess) need to poll the DCOP calls of Amarok/Kaffeine/Noatun/.. every 4 seconds to get the "now listening to.." information. If the media application can notify the IM-clients instead it would avoid a lot of unneeded DCOP calls (and in the end CPU usage).
Couldn't Amarok/Kaffeine/Noatun/.. just emit a DCOP signal that you could connect to, and save all that polling?
If that was possible.. that would be really sweet! This is currently not the case. There is no way to register for some signal (Observer pattern). The DCOP interfaces of the various applications are not consistent either.
But taking this even further.. IM-clients shouldn't have to know Amarok/Kaffeine/... are media applications. What if an other media player joins the scene? Instead I hope Decibel can offer some generic centralized signal. So when MPlayer/Banshee/xmms/etc.. implement that it could automatically work too.
Currently Kopete and KMess have hard-coded list of calls to make for all different applications. The second part of this source file reveals that: http://kmess.cvs.sourceforge.net/kmess/kmess/kmess/nowlisteningclient.cp...
"There is no way to register for some signal"
This is wrong, you can do this with DCOP. You can even register for a signal with a certain signature (like "started playing of") from any emitter. See http://api.kde.org/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/dcop/html/classDCOPClient.htm...
Or did you mean that Amarok isn't emitting a proper one? Filed a bug/wish report? :)
And a standard DCOP/D-bus interface for media players would be nice, agreed.
The media player should obey to the observer pattern, and just send a signal on it's state changes. It doesn't need to know that it is talking to IM programs :) Loose coupling, no hardcoding.
I think this should be already possible without polling. I only wrote a Lyrics plugin for amarok so far, but I think other plugins work similar. A plugin is a script/program that gets messages from stdin, e.g. the line 'trackChange' to indicate the start of a new track.
So your script reads lines from stdin and waits for that line. When it encounters that line it asks amarok the name and artist of the song by: 'dcop amarok player title' and 'dcop amarok player artist' (or 'dcop amarok player nowPlaying' if you prefer) and send the information to kopete by 'dcop kopete KopeteIface messageContact "$user" "$song"'.
Now put this script into e.g.: ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts/
and make this file executable.
Instead of using KopeteIface you could use KIMIface and be able to adapt to a different IM app by changing the DCOP name (as long as the other application also implements KIMIface)
So, basically, Decibel is for software what HAL/DBUS is for hardware?
Is it only for audio or are there more applications for it?
No, Decibel is a framework (API) for integrating Communication protocols with KDE applications. Instead of having to program the protocols for every application, you'd have one API that would use DBUS to talk to the Application and back so they can establish connections, start chats, etc....
If we're talking about Amarok here, another thing that would be cool with Decibel is sharing of music directly from amarok to instant messaging. Some sort of Social Network...
I think the name "Decibal" is misleading you into thinking "audio." It seems to be more about instant messaging, e-mail, VoIP and things like that. Probably a better name would be "Kollab" but I think that is taken. Perhaps "Communicate" would be a good name....or should I say "kommunicate"?
ok... i was generally absolutely for all of those changes in KDE4, they sounded ok and practical... but this time i just don't think this is gonna be ok for me. i strongly recommend allowing the user to totally turn off the usage of Decibel by apps.
Isn't it a bit early to be judging this?
because i definitely prefer simplicity over all-in-one's. for example i don't like Superkaramba even though i am aware of its functionality - maybe it adds some functionality but intereferes with a native role of a desktop so i don't like it. for me it is easier to navigate in an environment where every program has its own and separate role and i expect my KDE to enable me to switch on/off each function easily. that's why, in a few words. i do not say that this is a bad technology (maybe i just don't realize its advantages) - what i do is just mentioning that i don't think it would be useful _for me personally_. however, it is of course a very early stage of development (or even less: just a description) and surely i will give it a try and then decide what to do. best wishes!
If I understand this right, Decibel is not much more than DCOP/D-BUS. Just a bit of a framework around D-BUS? And KDE3 already uses DCOP heavily, so if you don't want such a functionality, don't use KDE (and don't use GNOME, because those guys already use similar technology).
decibel is more than the communication protocol, it has a daemon (houston) which stores information about on/offline presence and coordinates & communicates settings concerning communation between applications using decibel's protocols.
also, like phonon, decibel will offer some easy-to-use widgets to quickly enable applications to have embedded communicationtools.
decibel sounds simple, but don't underestimate it... :D
I think this has been mentioned before, but I still find it odd: why "Decibel"?
To me it sounds like something to do with sound. Well, you might say that it is; you communicate by talking right? However, what I mean with "sound" is for example music.
If I've understood Decibel right, then something with both connection/communicating would be a more fitting name. Am I wrong?
By the way, thank you for the article.
It is a fitting name. From Wikipedia:
decibel is also considered to be a dimensionless quantity
The bel (symbol B)is mostly used in telecommunication, electronics, and acoustics. Invented by engineers of the Bell Telephone Laboratory to quantify the reduction in audio level over a 1 mile (1.6 km) length of standard telephone cable, it was originally called the transmission unit or TU, but was renamed in 1923 or 1924 in honor of the laboratory's founder and telecommunications pioneer Alexander Graham Bell.
sorry to sound snarky, but if the feature is as "fitting" to KDE, I don't think I really want it :)
Anyway, to me it sounds like Yet Another Communication Layer. What you describe here is an "easier DCOP", another interface that developers will have to add to their programs. Why not spending the effort making DCOP easier...?
1) KDE4 will not use DCOP.
2) DCOP (and D-Bus) is meant for programs on one computer to talk to each other. Decibel is about allowing users on different computers to communicate. That is a pretty different use case! I guess you would not want to communicate with your friends by using predefined "method calls" only;-)
D-BUS is designed to be able to communicate over any kind of socket. Why not make D-BUS able to communicate over a (SSL-)TCP/IP-socket (instead of just over a UNIX-socket)? Or is this what Decibel dose?
decibel doesn't communicate, it uses chatprotocols like msn, irc, voip, email for that. the app just tells decibel 'i want to talk to this user', then decibel looks if that person has a phone, and is available on voip -> calls the user. no phone or not available? let's try chatting. no chatting? mail. etcetera.
it can also tell you if a user is available so the apps don't have to try and figure that out themselves (compare this to phonon), and it can manage meta-settings (like phonon, which can set policies like 'when the phone goes, lower music volume').
> the app just tells decibel 'i want to talk to this user', then decibel looks if that person has a phone, and is available on voip -> calls the user. no phone or not available? let's try chatting. no chatting? mail. etcetera.
I hope you mean giving the user the choice to choose between a number of options to contact someone else. The software can't know about the context. Depending on whom you want when to contact for what reason, you might try possible ways to do so in a different order or even decide to shove it to somewhat later.
There's a helluva lot of reasons to choose between asynchronus/syncronus and voice/video/textual contact methods. SMS has not become so popular for no reason.
A software might well guess, but that's it about it.
well, i think some sane defaults would be nice. the ability to have (configurable) policies like the ones i stated would be nice.
If you really mean the software should decide for the user, I can tell you the software will be pita and you'll earn nothing but complaints.
From a geek pov this is true, from the remaining 98% of users, this is not always true (I mean, that self-deciding software is a pita).
Although I strongly believe that as in usual KDE tradition (almost) everything will be configurable in some way by the end user.
SMS is actually an extremely popular medium in my country. I find it incredibly useful to send an SMS to someone and not interrupt him on what he was doing. He can text back with a reply when he is done.
That is a totally different use case. Same thing goes for IM and chat. Some people prefer an asynchronous communication. Some prefer synchronous ones to make sure they have total attention of the other party.
As already mentioned: DCOP & DBUS are NOT voice nor sound nor voip implementations...
Dbus & Dcop are message bus system for APPLICATIONS --> NOT FOR HUMANS!! xD.
from what I unerstand the layers will be something likde this:
DECIBEL: Which is a service architecture to make chat and phone communication universally available to desktop applications. This part allows you to be creative with the final FUNCTIONALITY of your Product and stop missing time imagining how to do this or this.. in other words --> Think how to USE the PHONE not how to reinvent it.
Phonon: Configurate your sound and multimedia devices easily. Decibel will use it to make the HUMAN <--> Computer interaction.
DBUS for IPC. When programming your app. you might never touch or need to know how to program the Dbus API, everything will be easier and faster. Dbus communication will be Decibel job.
In resume, This framework / API's will accelerate the development of many many new high end class state of the art applications. xD
That's all.. I think xD
> What you describe here is an "easier DCOP", another interface that developers
> will have to add to their programs. Why not spending the effort making DCOP easier...?
That's like saying.. protocols like SMTP / HTTP / FTP are just "easier TCP". Why not spending to effort making TCP easier?
DBus is the communication channel, just like TCP in my example. Over this channel you need to define some message formats. That's one part of what Decibel is going here, defining the messages! Just like SMTP / HTTP / FTP define what messages to send over TCP. Just like Telepathy is doing, like KIMIface does.
Ok, so I think I understand the idea of Decibel, and I think I understand Phonon, so I'll lay out what I think would be a neat scenario, and people who know better than me can say if it will or won't work.
Let's say Phonon and Decibel become relatively well integrated, with the idea that there is a coherent connection between your identity as someone who is communication, and the sounds you are listening to.
Could you:
- Use Decibel as an output for Phonon, allowing any audio application to stream music to any of your "contacts"?
- Use Decibel as an input for Phonon, allowing your contacts to effect what you are listening to?
(There is a gray area of authentication that would need to be addressed for these to become a reality)
In both of these cases, these are things that can be done today, but it seems to me that this would enable them to be done at a much higher level. So rather than audio applications having to deal with network protocols, or network applications having to deal with sound formats, you could have it all helpfully abstracted through Decibel and Phonon). If you wanted to have your audio networked, all you would need is this integration, rather than a plugin for your specific audio program.
I'm sure this isn't the primary focus of these libraries, but I would be very interested to hear how possible this would be.
I don't think it will work quite like that. I think it would be more like
Friend (sends MP3) --> Kopete --> Phonon --> backend of choice (say Gstreamer) --> ALSA --> speakers
However Decibel Amarok Devs may be able to use Decible to give Amarok internal functions for streaming MP3's over VOIP or Instant messenging. I'm not sure about that though.
So KDE4 will integrate firefly and other streaming servers?
well, aside from decibel not really being input to phonon (it's more like it tells phonon to do stuff, and asks for stuff) i guess those things would be possible, yes.
the first example would go more like this (i think):
amarok uses decibel to ask for contacts it can stream music to. decibel only returns those who have the right technology (eg msn can't stream music, so msn-only contacts won't show up. and someone who is offline won't show up either...).
remember phonon doesn't do anything, apps use it. the same with decibel.
and the second:
amarok could have a plugin, which asks decibel to return the 'orders' from the contacts, and amarok will play it (through phonon, indeed).
When will development versions of the next KDE be available?
They are already.
http://developer.kde.org/source/anonsvn.html shows how to get the latest code.
I don't think he wants to know about 3.80.2, but rather about the NEXT release. I think many want to know... besides a roadmap would be nice.
A tip for the next articles about KDE4 applications/pillars/etc is to mention how far these applications are in the development process.
How is Decibel related to Telepathy. Do these technologies compete or can they use each other?
Decibel uses Telepathy over Qt/DBUS interface.