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text: GLideN64 graphics pluginHistoryHey, everyone, I am Sergey Lipskiy. Fans of game console emulation know me as "Gonetz", the main developer of "Glide64", an open-source graphics plugin for N64 emulators. The Glide64 project was created in 2001 and was initially designed for exclusive use on 3dfx graphics hardware through its proprietary graphics API "Glide3X", thus the plugin's name. It was not until later when it got OpenGL support and became available to all PC users. I worked on that project for 10 years. The plugin became very popular thanks to its high compatibility and good support of high-resolution textures. I released the final official version in 2012, but thanks to its open-source nature the project is still not dead. It is included as main or secondary graphics plugin in distributions of many N64 emulators. Thus, if you are familiar with N64 emulation, you should know about Glide64's capabilities.The emulation level achieved by Glide64 is very high, but still far from complete. I could not push it forward due to primordial limitations of its architecture. In 2013 I started a new graphics plugin project. The goal of that experimental project is to convert Glide64 features using the power of modern OpenGL and to support features which were impossible to emulate before. The project has no intersection with Glide64 by source code, but it is not made from scratch either. Old open source OpenGL graphics plugin named "glN64" designed by developer with the nickname of "Orkin" was chosen as the basis for my new project. I named the project "GLideN64" to underline its origin and to emphasize the spiritual link with my previous project. Please visit my blog http://gliden64.blogspot.ru/ dedicated to the project. Here you will find technical details as well as screenshots and videos made with this new plugin.The GLideN64 project started as a hobby. I spent my free time on it and achieved results unreachable with other similar plugins. However, the project remains in alpha stage, unusable for end users. To bring it to the new level I need to spend much more time on it. I call you to support me and fund several months of full-time work on this project. The project aims to provide to the public free of charge the most advanced N64 graphics plugin, with the full source code available under GPL. This is purely a non-commercial, non-profit project. This crowdfunding will just allow me to spend the time to finish it.Working prototypeGLideN64 is currently compatible with all emulators which support Zilmar's plugins specification, that is present in all top N64 emulators. GLideN64 is also compatible with Mupen64Plus 2.0, which has its own plugin specification. Supported OSes are: MS Windows 7-8, Linux 32 and 64 bit. System requirements are: graphics card with support of OpenGL 4.2 or better. GLideN64 is also being ported to the Android OS, however the Android version is less functional. System requirements for Android: OS version 4.0 or above, OpenGL ES 2.0 support, fast CPU. The demo video shows desktop version of the plugin in action.Visual examplesAs I said, the plugin is in alpha stage and is inappropriate for public release. In this section I will show you some high-res screenshots, so you will be able to estimate its potential."Mario Tennis". A lot of frame buffer effects are used here, e.g. dynamic shadows for all characters, score board, ball's trace etc."Mario Tennis". Beautiful replay with motion blur effect."Beetle Adventure Racing!" Slide film effect."Beetle Adventure Racing!". Depth buffer based fog implemented using capabilities of modern hardware. Environmental reflection on the car: frame buffer effect."The Legend of Zelda, Majora's Mask" Correct emulation of Lens Of Truth, with snowflakes not cut outside the lens. Frame buffer and depth buffer emulation."Perfect Dark". Frame buffer effect: CamSpy."Extreme-G". Complex depth compare mode emulated."Banjo-Tooie" Frame buffer effects: dynamic shadow, reflection in the bubble.Plan for Project CompletionIf you love emulation you know how that an ideal graphics plugin must be: Stable Fast Support all games Provide perfect picture Have little-to-none settings Free to useThe goal is to bring GLideN64 as close to ideal as possible. I see the project ready for public release if the following conditions are met: It works as stable as the emulators which use it It has no performance problems It has a functional and easy-to-use user interface It has a compatibility level similar to the top N64 Graphics plugins It supports texture enhancement mechanisms, like SAE It supports load of high-resolution textures It supports Windows and Linux Plugin's unique features are well polished Source code is clean, free and open-source, licensed under the GPLAll of this needs to be implemented. Due to my experience in graphics plugins development I can quite precisely estimate the amount of time necessary to fulfill the requirements listed above. Three months of full-time (8-10 hours/day) work is the bare minimum. Also, I will not work alone. Another member of the project is Olivier Thacker. You may remember him as the main beta tester in Glide64 project. Olivier will play a role of beta test coordinator on a voluntary basis.The basic time-line for this process:October 2014: Fix stability issues Implement missing functionality to achieve compatibility equivalent to Glide64. glN64 was released 10 years ago and even then it was not the most compatible plugin. Lots of work here.November 2014: Add texture enhancement and hi-res texture load. I plan to rewrite the GlideHQ submodule from the Glide64 project to add OpenGL texture formats. Lots of work need to be done in the plugin to support all the features of GlideHQ.December 2014: Portable user interface Support for game specific profiles Establish a bug-list Rearrange support forum Bug fixes Writing docsJanuary 2015: Establish a GitHub repository for the source code. Go live!Everything mentioned above can be accomplished if necessary fund is collected. What if more is collected? In this case I will be able to continue the project with full efforts: If 8,000 USD are collected I will be able to complete the Android port. The current Android build works quite slow and has many glitches which desktop builds have not. Android debugging is a tedious process, plus some investment in Android devices with different graphics chips may be necessary. 10,000+ USD will allow me to spend time on experimental and user-demanded features like port to Apple Mac OS X, advanced Anti-aliasing, widescreen hack, rendering in native resolution and other nice features which I never had enough time to implement.Risks & ChallengesOf course, there is always the possibility for snags with any creative project. Things can go wrong, take longer to complete than expected, etc. But I promise that even if I get out of schedule and funds run out before I complete everything I planned the plugin will be released in functional state, because I will focus on the critical for release features first. The project will be released with sources and I will continue to work on it as on my favorite hobby.

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There it is. The City of Bellingham last night passed another resolution on a Federal matter, thus continuing to assert themselves as one of our strong local Political Action Committees (PAC's). It's one thing for a city council to pass resolutions regarding how they will and won't conduct city affairs, but it is a PAC who resolves to oppose specific legislation or rulings on legislation such as the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC . As I've said in the past, each person in this nation has elected representation in these Federal Issues and Bellingham City Council members are not them. Even so, many people and groups know that the Bellingham City Council is ready, willing and able to be used as a tool for most any progressive cause. In this case the progressive cause is beyond just the court decision and is both clearly pro-union and clearly anti-capitalism, which should read as socialism.
The basic Citizens United decision can be summarized as this:
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC on Jan. 21, 2010, is having a profound effect on the laws governing corporate political activity in nearly half the states. The court ruled that the federal government may not prohibit direct corporate and union spending on advertising for candidates' elections. www.ncsl.org
My personal position on this matter would have me going against this ruling which most say is conservative. In a purest sense, I'd get behind an effort to allow only limited personal donations to campaigns and campaign advertising. I think that would be even, fair, encourage candidates to stand on their own merit and I don't really mind so much if that position carries a conservative or progressive label. The problem with my position is that it is not supported by either the progressive or conservative camps.
The conservative camps seem to be rallying in favor of this ruling which would allow more wide open high dollar candidate support while the progressive camp is rallying against the "evil" corporate financial influence and holding their breath hoping that nobody notices that the ruling was aimed at unions as much as corporations. And the progressive camp is right where the City of Bellingham has pitched their tent and is unrolling their sleeping bag.
"WHEREAS, several proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States are being considered by the United States Congress that would allow the American people, by and through their democratically elected government, to limit the rights of corporations to unfairly influence elections.
That the City Council of the City of Bellingham hereby supports amending the United States Constitution to declare that corporations are not entitled to the constitutional rights of natural persons, and further to ensure that the expenditure of corporate money to influence the electoral process is no longer a form of constitutionally protected speech and may be subject to justifiable regulation for the common good, and the City Council calls on Congress to begin the process of amending the United States Constitution"
I know! Where is the progressive COBPAC's resolve that unions not "unfairly influence elections" and where is their declaration against union expenditures or unions assuming the rights of natural persons? If the Citizens United ruling was so amazingly wrong, why is the COBPAC resolving to be outraged against corporations, but not unions? Well you won't hear an anti-union argument from progressives, because the outrage against the Citizens United decision is not about the rights of groups vs. individuals it's about progressives silencing capitalist corporations leaving only unions to unfairly influence elections.
As I said above, I'd get behind an effort to allow only personal donations to campaigns. But I'd only get behind that effort if the effort attacked unions, especially government unions, with the same vigor that they attack corporations. Unions don't qualify as people anymore than corporations.
Oh, and by the way City of Bellingham, when the Citizens United ruling refers to corporations they are referring to both non-profit as well as for profit corporations and so…well since 1904 you've actually been a corporation. So I think, you as a corporation, by passing this resolution, you've actually violated the spirit of your own resolution against corporate influence in elections and right about now your head should be exploding from circular logic.
Take home points:
- If you are anything but a raging progressive you should be outraged at the City of Bellingham.
- City of Bellingham is again acting as a de facto Political Action Committee.
- The City of Bellingham is again acting as de facto idiots.


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Jim's first job was a paper route at 8 years old. He was also a boy scout, a member of the chess club and an avid reader. He collected over 10,000 comic books and over 1000 novels, most of which he has read and still has today. At the age of 14, he started working in restaurants half-time while still attending high school.
After high-school, he joined the Air Force and started a family. After the Air Force, finding no jobs in Ohio, like the pioneers of old, he packed up his car and his family and headed west to San Francisco, California. When he arrived, he had no job, no money, and no place to live. He called the local police department to ask for suggestions and they referred him to the Hamilton Family Shelter near Golden Gate Park.
He and his family lived there for six months while he attended the Computer Learning Center in downtown SF, but it was not easy. During the day, many of the shelter's residents would go out and return at night high on drugs and alcohol. On one such occasion Jim was attacked by another man who in a drunken stupor, thought Jim was telling him to go to bed, when in fact Jim was talking to his children. The man later apologized.
Jim also applied for unemployment and public assistance while in the shelter, but was told by the agency that his family could not get benefits as long as he remained with them, but if he was willing to separate from his family, they could get the temporary assistance he was requesting. Jim refused and instead called a public radio station to tell his story on the air. The next day, the agency called Jim and said his request had been approved.
As soon as Jim finished his classes, the Computer Learning Center helped Jim to secure his first job in California. Although Jim notified the welfare agency that he was now employed and no longer needed or wanted assistance, they still kept sending him checks. Jim tore up and threw the checks away until they stopped coming.
In a few years, Jim obtained jobs with increasing responsibility and started taking classes at Merritt College in Oakland. One of the classes taught him how to build computers and before long, Jim started his own business building and selling computers to supplement his income. However, during that time, prices for hardware varied wildly as shortages of components occurred on an almost monthly basis for items such as hard drives and memory. This in addition to the difficulty of being a one person operation trying to comply with all the regulatory and paperwork requirements, and the fact that the taxes on his small business were more than his profits, led him to close it down.
Jim has held many jobs in the computer industry, but like many other people, he was subject to the Tech booms and busts during the 23 years he has lived here. There were a few lean times that saw him divorced and living on the street or in his car until the next job came along, but he never gave up hope and never stopped trying to improve things for himself and his family.
Over the last 10 years, he has attended NDNU off and on and managed to complete his Bachelors Degree and is only 2 classes shy of completing his Masters.
3 years ago, he met his wife Lina (short for Pasqualina) on FaceBook while playing Mafia Wars. They began chatting first through texts, then through Skype so they could see each other and talk in real time. With the 9 hour time difference between Mountain View and Invorio (a small town near Milan, Italy where Lina was living and working) it made sleeping difficult for both of them because they talked every day for hours at a time. It didn't take long before they fell madly in love with each other.
They decided to meet 6 months later in Los Angeles during the Christmas break and the sparks flew. Just before Lina was to return to Italy, Jim asked her to marry him and she accepted. They spent a 6 months trying to navigate the myriad rules and regulations to ensure that they could be married and that Lina could legally remain in the US.
They wanted to marry as soon as possible, so they met again in Los Angeles in August and made an appointment with the INS. The INS agent was so helpful that Jim and Lina were married in Las Vegas less than four months later, just before Christmas, and Lina had her green card by July.
Jim has only recently become active in politics because he has spent the last 23 years providing for himself and his family and pursuing his dreams. But with the advent of recent decisions where Government seems to be determined to subject people to projects, laws, and regulations that they do not want or need such as High Speed Rail, telling businesses how much to charge for paper bags, and banning things based on their personal preferences, he did not see how he could possibly remain silent and uninvolved anymore.
It would take too long to go through Jim's positions on all the topics that affect Mountain View here, so the link to his campaign website is provided below. The site has videos of Jim addressing the City Council on the subjects covered here and more. Hopefully reading this has given you an insight into this candidate. His unique life experiences allow him to bring a fresh perspective and practical solutions to the issues facing our great city. Please vote for Neal on Nov 6th!
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For millennia, farmers in Bolivia's breathtaking Yungas Valley terraced their steep mountainsides for coca. They grew just enough of the leaf, which is sacred to the indigenous peoples of South America's Andes region, to make tea and chew to combat high-altitude exhaustion. That changed in the 20th century, when the U.S. and European appetite for cocaine created an equally insatiable demand for the drug's key ingredient. Coca harvests exploded, and the plant went from a side crop to an unrivaled source of farmers' livelihoods. Getting those cocaleros to stop cultivating coca, in fact, seemed as difficult as getting addicts to stop consuming cocaine. "There's always a market for coca," says Yungas farmer Lucio Copa.
But a new outlet is brewing. In the Yungas, coffee is suddenly supplanting coca, thanks in part to a U.S.-funded drug-war program and economic luck. The valley, whose altitude ranges from 760 m (2,500 ft.) to 1,100 m (3,600 ft.) above sea level, is ideal for growing coffee beans. "My father grew coffee," says Ever Choquehuanca, who heads a farmers' association that includes the Yungas. Still, when international coffee prices were as low as 10¢ per lb. in the 1980s and '90s, the choice to grow coca which could bring a poor family a respectable $2,000 a year was a no-brainer. Then, two years ago, global panic over a possible coffee-bean shortage sent futures prices soaring, and Yungas farmers saw their coffee income nearly double overnight. Now the Bolivian government estimates 23,000 hectares (57,500 acres) of coffee cultivation in the Yungas 3,000 more than what's being planted for coca. "We have less need to plant coca," says Choquehuanca.
That Bolivian turnaround is one of the more impressive reminders that, finally, one of Washington's most frustrated drug-war priorities alternative development, or the effort to get Latin America's legions of coca-, cannabis- and poppy-dependent farmers to plant non-drug-related crops is starting to bear fruit. "It is important to establish real competitive incomes," a Bolivia-based official at the U.S. development agency USAID, which headed the coffee crusade there in tandem with the Bolivian government, tells TIME. And in Bolivia's case, that meant nothing less than reviving age-old coffee-farming practices while at the same time introducing modern techniques to create a top new export.
In 2004, USAID introduced the idea of "specialty" or gourmet coffee to the Yungas. At that time, Bolivia's exported "green bean" (the coffee-bush fruit that is washed and shelled but not yet roasted) was among Latin America's worst. "We had no idea how to grow good coffee," says Choquehuanca, whose Federation of Intercultural Communities represents 30,000 Yungas coffee growers. But USAID started working with 9,000 Yungas families, teaching them how to cultivate organic shade-grown beans while providing them with key equipment like drying beds and shelling machines. The agency also drummed up interest among potential U.S., European and Japanese importers by organizing annual Cup of Excellence competitions that invited international coffee experts to Bolivia to taste its reborn bean.
USAID's timing turned out to be impeccable. By 2009, quality among Bolivia's more than 80 coffee cooperatives had improved so much that the experts were scoring the country's bean above 90 out of 100. That year, prices had also risen from just over $1 per lb. in 2004 to $2.30. But the real turning point came the following year. Because of the Yungas Valley's altitude, its coffee was spared the ruin of the 201011 devastatingly hot temperatures that wiped out coffee crops across Latin America. Prices for Yungas beans as a result shot up to between $4 and $4.50 per lb. which triggered the decisive pivot from coca to coffee in the valley. Farmers could now earn $6,000 more per hectare of coffee than per hectare of coca, prodding them to increase coffee production by 8% in 2010. The Bolivian Federation of Coffee Exporters (FECAFEB) estimates 2011 will show similar growth.
Of course, not everyone can make the switch. Some lack land: Yungas plots are often less than a quarter hectare, which is fine for getting by with coca, but coffee requires more space. Still, the fact that specialty-coffee production has taken hold in the Yungas delights the coffee-house crowd in the U.S., especially importers like Keith Tomlinson, outgoing coffee director at Minneapolis-based Peace Coffee, which has sold Bolivia's unique "high altitude" variety for the past two years. The Yungas bean, says Tomlinson, is still relatively inexpensive, has a good nutty flavor and is versatile enough to be roasted alone or in a blend.
Currently, coffee exports by Bolivia, South America's poorest nation, are only a fraction of those produced by heavyweights like Colombia or Guatemala. But experts like Tomlinson say that Bolivia could become a major player since its wealth of high-altitude soil provides perfect refuge for beans as global warming forces crops to higher ground.
The trend toward coffee is also welcome news for Bolivian President Evo Morales, who before his 2005 election rose to political prominence as head of the country's largest cocalero union (a post he still holds today). Since 2008 the year Morales expelled U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration personnel Bolivia has been on Washington's drug-war blacklist for "failing demonstrably" to meet its commitment to combat drug production and trafficking. Still, the leftist and anti-U.S. Morales may have trouble stomaching a thank-you to USAID for its role in promoting Yungas' coffee renaissance, especially since he has long criticized alternative agricultural development as a U.S.-government sham to infiltrate coca-growing regions.
Even if that conspiracy claim is unfounded, Morales' frustration underscores alternative development's poor track record: after almost 20 years, the USAID program had never achieved a sustainable decline in Bolivia's coca crop. And a big reason for that failure, says Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network, a Bolivia-based drug-war watchdog group, is that such programs rarely "take into account the reality on the ground." For example, in Bolivia's other coca-growing region, the Chapare, USAID pushed the cultivation of pineapple, much of which rotted for lack of markets, and then sustainable forest management, which left families with scant, if any, income for a decade as they waited for trees to mature. In each case, farmers simply returned to coca.
What's more, U.S. counterdrug officials hardly helped the effort with imperious demands that the Bolivian government quash all coca growing even though almost half of the country's 36,000-hectare (89,000 acres) coca crop gets used in tea and other benign, legitimate products. The U.N.'s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has been just as high-handed: this week, the INCB scolded Bolivia for defending the traditional, nonnarcotic uses of coca. Bolivia is South America's third largest coca producer behind Colombia and Peru, but much less of its harvest ends up getting snorted as cocaine.
The good news about the coffee success, says Ledebur, is that it "cuts through the myth that coca farmers are inherently invested in the drug trade. They are simply pragmatic business people looking to sustain their families." But that pragmatism works both ways. "We are totally susceptible to the New York Stock Exchange," notes FECAFEB president Eustaquio Huiza which is why Choquehuanca admits that his fellow coffee farmers leave a little coca in the ground. Should coffee-bean prices crash, they can always fall back on their former staple crop. The one that always has a market.


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The officers of the Director's Council request the pleasure of your company for a
Celebrating ten years of the FOCUS Series and benefitting Future Acquisitions and Programming for the Director's Council FOCUS Exhibition Series
Saturday, May 10, 2014; 6:30 pm
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Silent Auction begins at 6:30 pm
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Admission to this event is by reservation only. Tickets are limited, so please reserve early. Buy your tickets online or call 817.840.2115.
$425 non-member, $325 member, $225 Director's Council members
Preview the auction objects here.
Join us for a SNEAK PEEK in Cafe Modern, April 28, 4-6 pm (for ticket holders only).
Pre-bidding on select items here.
Bidding on all other items will begin at the event on May 10.
Artworks confirmed to date include donations from the following artists who have participated in museum programs over the last 25 years.
David Bates, Ed Blackburn, Dennis Blagg, Nigel Cooke, Rosson Crow, Teresita Fernandez, Vernon Fisher, Barnaby Furnas, Nancy Graves, Terry Haggerty, KAWS, Robert Lazzarini, Vera Lutter, Barry McGee, Cornelia Parker, Erik Parker, Katie Paterson, Ged Quinn, Ranjani Shettar, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Donald Sultan, Fred Tomaselli, Kehinde Wiley, Michael Zwack
Estimates for artworks currently range from $1,000 to $80,000.
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Hey. Newby here. Was wondering if anyone has some pointers on solving my programming dilemna. Here is the assignment.
Here is my code belowInheritance
Method Overriding
Write a program that will compute and display the final grades for a list of students. A student's final grade is determined from the scores obtained in the class exams. Each student in the class may be given a different number of exams as determined by the instructor. The final grade is determined by the average of the scores in all the exams given.
This program is an enhancement of a previous exercise that did the same. However, this exercise will additionally provide for assigning a CR or NCR (Credit or No Credit) grade.
For each student, the program will input student id, name, the number of exams given and scores in each of the exams.
Additionally, it will input the grade type: "Letter" or "Credit". The grade type of "Letter" will indicate that student will receive a grade of "A", "B", "C", "D", or "F". The grade type of "Credit" will indicate that the student will receive a grade of "CR" or "NCR".
The scores in each of the exams will vary from 0 to 100. Each exam will carry the same weight. The final grade will be computed by taking the average of the scores in all the exams given (i.e. by adding the scores in all the exams and dividing it with the number of exams given). The final grade will be assigned depending upon the percentage of total points in the exams given as follows:
A – 90 to 100%
B – 80 to 89%
C – 70 to 79%
D – 60 to 69%
F – 0 to 59%
Additionally, for a grade type of Credit, the grade will be determined as follows:
If the student qualifies for a C or better grade, the student will be assigned a CR (Credit) grade. Otherwise, the student will be assigned an NCR (No Credit) grade.
Use a String variable for keeping final grade.
Use a String variable for keeping grade type.
Comparing Strings
For comparing two Strings for equality, use one of the following two String methods:
For this assignment create the following classes.
Student class
Create a class Student that provides the following:
· Private instance variables for holding student id (int), name (String), exam scores (an int array).
· A public constructor with parameters for initializing student id (int), name (String) and exam scores. The exam scores are passed as an array of int.
· A public method for returning the final grade.
· Accessor (getter) methods for getting student id, name, exam scores .
Instead of rewriting this class, you may copy the contents of the same class from a previous exercise.
StudentExt class.
Create a class StudentExt that extends the class Student above. This class will extend the class Student in order to provide additional functionality for assigning a CR or NCR grade.
The class will provide the following:
· A private String instance variable gradeType for indicating the grade type (Letter or Credit). The variable gradeType will record "Letter" for a letter grade type and "Credit" for Credit/No Credit grade type.
· A public constructor for initializing student id (int), name (String), exam scores (an int array) and grade type (String). This constructor will call the parent class constructor for initializing student id, name and exam scores. It will initialize the grade type itself directly.
· A public method for returning the final grade. This method will over ride the parent class method used for computing the grade. This method will have the same name and the same parameter profile as the parent class method. This new method will call the parent class method (of the same name) to compute the student letter grade. After return from the parent class method, in the case of grade type "Credit", it will change the letter grade returned by the parent class method to either CR or NCR.
TestStudentExt class
Write a class TestStudentExt containing the main method. The method main will do the following:
· Prompt the user to enter the total number of students (say n).
· Create an array of n references (for holding n StudentExt object references). (The StudentExt objects will be created in the next step).
· Create n StudentExt objects. Do this by setting up an n count loop. In each pass through the loop, do the following:
a. Ask the user to enter data for one student.
b. Create a StudentExt object and initialize it with data provided by the user. Store the object reference in the array of StudentExt references created above.
· Display the student results by grade type. First display students receiving grade A, followed by those receiving B, followed by those receiving C, followed by those receiving D, followed by those receiving F, followed by those receiving Cr, followed by those receiving NCR.
You may do this in a number of ways including the following:
Method I.
Create seven empty Strings, outA, outB, outC, outD, outF, outCr, outNcr. Use the String outA for storing output relating to A students; use String outB for storing output relating to B students; etc. Use the object accessor methods to access object values as needed. At the end, prepare a String out that concatenates all the above seven Strings. Then display the String out.
Method II.
Create a String array out of 7 Strings. Use out [0] for accumulating output relating to A students, out[1] for B students etc. Write a static method displayRestult to display output. Call the static method displayResult and pass it the array out.
For method II above, write a static method displayResult. This method will receive a String array and display the contents of all elements of the String array one by one. Here is a proposed header for the method:
public static void displayResult (String [ ] s)
It is suggested that you use method II.
You may use the class TestStudent from a previous exercise and modify it to create this class TestStudentExt.
Method Over-riding
When a child class defines a method having the same name and profile (parameter type list) as a method in the parent (ancestor) class. The child's method is said to over ride the parent method.
When a user creates an object of the child class and calls it's (over riding) method, it is the child class's over riding method that gets called (and not the parent's over ridden method).
However, the child's over riding method may internally call the parent's over ridden method (when it's protected and public) using the word super and a dot in front of its name.
Sample Code
The method findGrade below over rides the parent method findGrade. Internally, it also calls the parent method findGrade for finding the student's letter grade. On return from the parent method, in the case of a gradeType of "CR", it reassigns the grade to be "CR" or "NCR" depending upon the student's letter grade as described below:
For a gradeType of "Credit", if the student's letter grade is "A", "B", or "C", it reassigns the grade to be "CR" and otherwise (for a letter grade of "D" or "F") it reassigns it to be "NCR".
public String findGrade ( )
String grade = super.findGrade ( );
if (gradeType.equalsIgnoreCase ("Credit"))
if ( (grade.equalsIgnoreCase ("A")) ||
(grade.equalsIgnoreCase ("B")) ||
(grade.equalsIgnoreCase ("C")))
grade = "CR";
grade = "NCR";
return grade;
Method Overloading
When two methods have the same name but different profiles (parameter type list), the two methods are said to be overloaded.
The compiler treats overloaded methods as distinctly separate methods. From a method call to an overloaded method, the compiler can distinguish without ambiguity which of the overloaded method is being called by observing the types of the parameters being passed to the called method.
Converting a String to a boolean.
This is not needed to do the assignment but is presented here for discussion.
If a String is assigned a value "true" or "false", it can be converted into a boolean true or false as shown in the code below:
String s = "true";
boolean b = Boolean.valueOf (s.trim() ).booleanValue ( );
The following method does NOT work. Don't use it.
String s = "true";
boolean b = Boolean.getBoolean ( );
Converting a boolean to a String
This is not needed to do the assignment but is presented here for discussion.
//The code below converts a a boolean value true or false
//to a string value "true" of "false"
boolean b = true;
String s = "" + b;
Use the following test data for input.
1, John Adam, 3, 93, 91, 100, Letter
2, Raymond Woo, 3, 65, 68, 63, Letter
3, Rick Smith, 3, 50, 58, 53, Letter
4, Ray Bartlett, 3, 62, 64, 69, Letter
5, Mary Russell, 3, 93, 90, 98, Letter
6, Andy Wong, 3, 89,88,84, Letter
7, Jay Russell, 3, 71,73,78, Letter
8, Jimmie Wong, 3, 70,77,72, Letter
9, Jackie Chan, 3, 85,89,84, Letter
10, Susan Wu, 3, 80,88,84, Letter
11, Bruce Lee, 4, 74, 79, 72, 75, Credit
12, Chuck Norris, 5, 63, 64, 62, 60, 68, Credit
13, Jet Li, 3, 85, 83, 89, Credit
14, Jessica Lauser, 3, 82, 84, 87, Letter
15, Mahnoosh Nik-Ahd, 2, 98, 99, Letter
In the above data, for the first entry, id is 1, name is John Adam, exam scores are 93, 91, 100 and grade type is letter grade.
The output may appear as below:
1 John Adam (A)
5 Mary Russell (A)
15 Mahnoosh Nik-Ahd (A)
6 Andy Wong (B)
9 Jackie Chan (B)
10 Susan Wu (B)
14 Jessica Lauser (B)
7 Jay Russell (C)
8 Jimmie Wong (C)
2 Raymond Woo (D)
4 Ray Bartlett (D)
3 Rick Smith (F)
11 Bruce Lee (CR)
13 Jet Li (CR)
12 Chuck Norris (NCR)
Submit a printed copy of the source code and final output only.
//TestfinalGradeExt.java import java.util.StringTokenizer; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class TestfinalGradeExt { public static void main(String[] args) { String in,out; int id, examCount,stCount; double [] examScores; String name,grade; in = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter student count"); stCount = Integer.parseInt(in); //Create an array of student references finalGradeExt [] ste = new finalGradeExt[stCount]; //populate the array references String delim = ","; String token; for(int i=0;i<ste.length;i++){ in = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter one student data"); StringTokenizer stk= new StringTokenizer(in,delim); token = stk.nextToken(); token = token.trim(); token = stk.nextToken().trim(); id = Integer.parseInt(token); name = stk.nextToken().trim(); token = stk.nextToken().trim(); examCount = Integer.parseInt(token); //create an exam array examScores = new double [examCount]; //populate the exam array for (int j=0;j<examScores.length;j++){ token = stk.nextToken().trim(); examScores[j]=Integer.parseInt(token); id = Integer.parseInt(in); name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter name"); in = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter exam count"); examCount = Integer.parseInt(in); examScores = new double[examCount]; //populate examScores array in=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter exam score"); examScores[j] = Double.parseDouble(in); } //Create one student object ste[i] = new finalGradeExt (int id, String n,double [] s, String gt); } String gradeType = stk.nextToken().trim(); ste [i] = new finalGradeExt (id, name, examScores,gradeType); } //call findGrade on each student String outA="",outB="",outC="",outD="",outF="",outAll="", outCR="", outNCR=""; for(int i=0;i<ste.length;i++){ grade = ste[i].findGrade(); } if (grade.equalsIgnoreCase("A")){ outA=outA + ste[i].getId()+" " + ste[i].getName() + "("+grade+")"+"\n"; } else if (grade.equalsIgnoreCase("B")){ outB=outB + ste[i].getId()+" " + ste[i].getName() + "("+grade+")"+"\n"; } else if (grade.equalsIgnoreCase("C")){ outC=outC + ste[i].getId()+" " + ste[i].getName() + "("+grade+")"+"\n"; } else if (grade.equalsIgnoreCase("D")){ outD=outD + ste[i].getId()+" " + ste[i].getName() + "("+grade+")"+"\n"; } else outF=outF + ste[i].getId()+" " + ste[i].getName() + "("+grade+")" +"\n"; } { outAll= outA+outB+outC+outD+outF+outCR+outNCR; JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, outAll); System.exit(0); } { } }
followed by the blue print code below
public class finalGradeExt extends finalGrade{ private String gradeType; public finalGradeExt (int id, String n,double [] s, String gt){ super (id,n,s); gradeType=gt; } public String getGradeType(){ return gradeType; } public String findGrade(){ String grade=super.findGrade(); if (gradeType.equalsIgnoreCase("Credit")){ if (grade.equalsIgnoreCase("A") || grade.equalsIgnoreCase("B") || grade.equalsIgnoreCase("C")){ grade = "CR"; } else{ grade = "NCR"; } } return grade; } }
Any pointers or help on what I may be doing wrong. I know I'm over my head in this, as my community college never offered a beginning java programming class, so I'm heavy into objects and arrays without knowing fully the basics!!!


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Posted: Thu 29 Oct 2009, 03:01
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seamonkey 2 should be an easy addition, this evening i had it installed in usr/lib just like the old one. the first things i noticed are the ugly fonts like default firefox. also when i try to run composer from the menu, it puts up a dialog that says to start it from a running mozilla window. both of these issues can be resolved with minimal effort.
tonight i built a pet for xz and netpkg with a little pinstall script, but when i installed it for a quick test, it didn't quite work right. ill fix it tomorow.
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Posted: Thu 29 Oct 2009, 10:05
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The spup-460 build didn't boot, kernel panic. I'll try to rebuild it. About the scripts, I'm still working on it, I used the Woof fixes I uploaded previously.
The ISO was built without all modules, so maybe that's the reason it didn't boot, if I remember right 4.3 had the same problem without the zdrv, so I'll make another 460 with all modules, in the main SFS.
For some reason I don't believe we'll get Slack 13 to work ...
I got it to extract all packages, and the ./3builddistro step was smooth, but things like kernel panics are too much for my limited knowledge. I really really hope I'll be able to find the cause for this issue. If I don't, I'll try to get the Slackware kernel package and maybe even recompile it for Puppy with sfs support, it's 2.6.29.
Regarding applications, etc', I agree with you, it's better to keep spup closer to Puppy by including all default applications and replacing only problematic or outdated ones, and maybe even some applications that we find inferior to other alternatives. You're right about SM2, 1.1.18 is better, we should follow the "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" rule and keep it until 2 is proved to be stable.
And last thing, I think the 120 MB barrier will be very hard to avoid.
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Posted: Thu 29 Oct 2009, 14:27
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i have had a couple isos panic and refuse to boot. i thought is was the zdrv too. when i rebuilt them with no zdrv, all went well. i think your close. very close.
as for the 120 megs, when i built my fixed iso at 124megs, i included xine-libs. if i remember correctly, the package was 6 or 8 megs. when i was testing the stock spup, i ran xine and only tested it quickly with a movie i had on my local machine. it played the audio but no video, so i added the xine libs. a few days ago i noticed that i was testing it with a .mov file, not an avi. to make a long story short, i might be able to get away with cutting down that package a little, while providing the same functionality as a regular puppy, and get a little closer to the 120 megs. i also left in some abiword templates for other languages that were not in the offical puppy builds. they are not very big, but i can cut those out too.
im still trying to make myself an spup with a 29.6 kernel, but im still having problems with the kernel sources. actually, i tried one with 27.29 kernel, but it panicked and i couldn't be bothered to build it again because i couldn't find an sfs for its sources. i might try again and build my own kernel source sfs for it. i need smp, uniproc makes me feel crippled.
in the mean time, ive committed to a field trip at my kids school, and halloween is pretty big deal at my house, so life goes on.
i think we are doing a good job at pursuing spup, im also having a lot of fun doing it.
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Posted: Fri 30 Oct 2009, 02:33
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zpm, cli version of zendo. i built it for spup, but i dont see why it wont work for regular pup. now you can install tgz, txz and tlz from the zenwalk repos. it runs very quick and has detailed dependency checking. it downloads packages to /var/packages, installs them, leaves a list of installed files in /var/log/packages.
a good start is to query the mirror with -q, ex.
zpm -q zsnes
type "zpm --help" for more options.
more info at:
it includes all dependencies, pkgtools-13, xz-4.999.8b, & tar-1.22
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Posted: Fri 30 Oct 2009, 13:06
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I tried to make one without the zdrv, same result. It also has many defective symlinks and I've noticed that /usr/share/applications and /usr/share/pixmaps,icons have many missing files.
I'll try to fix it again ... this weekened I'm very busy with physics, I'll se what I can do. I'm also working on my own distro, so it's another time consumer.
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Posted: Fri 30 Oct 2009, 19:23
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in the high pressure, frozen gas fields of northern alberta we have an expression: the 36 hour day.
i think it fits into hacker culture quite nicely
sorry to here about your iso. im going to focus on my 12.2 version. ill call it #450, maybe 451 by the time im happy with it. i'll be shooting for the 120 meg threshold and trying to get icons in the menu. im a master of icewm, but the jwm menus have me a little baffled at this point.
im pretty happy with the pet i posted above, but i would be more happy if i could make zpm installed packages show up in puppys user installed packages file. i might have to learn some more advanced scripting techniques.
good luck with physics, its a heavy subject.
grub is broke in my puplet, one for the bug fix list. note to self.....
scratch that, i dont think grub is broken.....i think the click click gui is broken, some gtk problem. i think i discussed this with another forum member a few months ago. kinda makes me want to use lilo.
lilo is so easy...... as long as you can remember how to spell "L-I-L-O"
heres a lilo entry for a frugal puppy
# Puppy Linux
image = /boot/puppy/vmlinuz
root = /dev/ram0
label = Puppy
initrd = /boot/puppy/initrd.gz
append = "pfix=ram"
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Posted: Sun 08 Nov 2009, 00:11
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im stumped . i cant seem to get grub fixed. the quick and easy grub setup was the reason i downloaded puppy in the first place, back in 2.13. ive done a couple rebuilds and tried to strip my iso down, but im not loosing any weight. a couple kb here and there, but nothing substantial. so there it is... my iso is on the first page of this thread.
i ve had to take a low paying job. my high paying job has sort of gone the way of the dodo, having to work twice as much.... im not left with an abundance of terminal time. i will be hacking at this for a while, as it is the only puppy im running. any questions about the build can be posted here.
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Posted: Mon 09 Nov 2009, 15:07
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I'm very very busy ... no time for spup. If I find any free time, I'll see what I can do.
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Posted: Fri 13 Nov 2009, 14:42
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spup good idea i been working on my own version but keep failing short of geting everything i need for it to work
are we who we think we are? or is this all a lie thought up by people whom we can not see?
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Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009, 02:05
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im back at it
i got grub working, easy workaround.. i replaced bk's super hacked grubconfig with one i found on freshmeat from 2003. it works perfect. i tried editing the universal installer to to use it, but it's a little above my skill level, maybe ill look at it again on the weekend.
as is, the universal installer will get the kernel into /boot, but then exits after making an empty /boot/grub dir. ive been testing frugal and full installs. both work, you just have to unmount the target partition, and run the new grubconfig ( its in the menu, right where its always been).
other than that, im pretty happy with the iso. ill get it uploaded somewhere over the weekend.
i also need to decide on a version #, maybe 450, 460? i should use 486, lol get it .... spup_486 for i486 ...... lol , im going to bed, today at work, i kicked a piece of wire mesh (for concrete) and it pierced my boot and went in to my foot, yay .... gory boots of blood, it kinda ruined my day,
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Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009, 03:06
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i also need to decide on a version #, maybe 450, 460? i should use 486, lol get it .... spup_486 for i486 ...... lol , im going to bed, today at work,
I very much hope Spup based on a woof build
will join the Woofy Kennel
(that is the 5.x series
which will be a diverse series of breeds)
As for numbering . . .
Numbering is not a form of imprisonment
but of recognition.
What is clear to you and conveyed
will be fine.
i kicked a piece of wire mesh (for concrete) and it pierced my boot and went in to my foot, yay .... gory boots of blood, it kinda ruined my day,
Must continue my martial arts training now that
wire mesh is fighting back . . .
How are the boots?
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Posted: Sun 22 Nov 2009, 11:57
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As you can see, I'm not much into spup anymore, since I'm extremely busy these days.
I'm also working on my very own distro, that's another great time consumer.
If you really need my help with spup, I'll do whatever I can, but I think I'm done with the Woof-Slack-13 thing, it's too much for my limited skills. Yeah, I know, building a distro and fixing scripts ... I know.
I really think you should arrange some develoment team and create some ticket system to make development easier and more open.
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Posted: Sun 22 Nov 2009, 13:01
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Iguleder, your efforts are appreciated. the edited scripts for woof are posted for anyone who wishes to pick them up and try again. one of the great things about open source, you do a little work, i do a little work, we get board, and someone else comes along with new ideas and picks up where you left off. your input was enough to keep me intrested for the last month.
i started a new thread for my latest build, we will see what happens. i have my own selfish motives for building this puppy. i want spup. so i built an spup. now im aiming for a different kernel, maybe 126.96.36.199. the newest woof script has thet kernel in the specs list, but fails to find it. there are a few other pieces missing for the build, so i must get that sorted out as well.
spup hasnt generated that much interest, so im sort of doing this for myself. my latest build is doing everything i need it to. i guess the missing icons in the menu could get fixed, and i need to edit the universal installer, but im more concerned with kernels right now. after that ill build one with opera, wine, virtualbox, and some game console emulators. i will use it everyday, and if someone else likes it thy can use it too.
i looked at your katan site and will occasionally go back to see how your doing. good luck, see you around the forums.
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Posted: Fri 24 Jun 2011, 08:57
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I tried all the package tools reversions the only one that worked correctly on Lucid Pup 525 was zpm-1.3_pkgtools-13.0_zenwalk.pet.
Pkgtool works well if you have the packages in a directory on you computer that is accessible by puppy. But I remember from Vector Linux 5.8 that it had a better pkgtool pkgtools-tukaani-1.2 so I downloaded it after installing the Zpm Pkgtool and used Pkgtool then you have to exit and reload pkgtool and you have tukaani the difference is it will connect with repository's as well as directories that the user specifies it's all manual entry and installation that is what I hated about vector everything used manual setup.
But for puppy and packages that aren't available as Pets, it is worth the effort of a manual method.
The package I installed that worked is available at the vector repository http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/packages/base/ besides some Slackware packages require it along with pkgtool.
Another note is your packages need to have meta files with the package, or the Pkgtool will not know it's a package. If there isn't one already you can make one for any package or just make a text file. That may only apply to Vector Linux packages or those used with tukaani. I'm not sure. There should be a description file of some sort though for any package for manual install with pkgtool. Zenwalk packages use *.txt files.
I would rather do things the manual way than fool with installing Netpkg and that but I'm going to try install vlapt vectors package tool. Best Regards..
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News & Notes: Game 105
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 (1:05 p.m.) – Coca-Cola Field
TV: Time Warner Cable SportsNet (HD 713)
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com
Buffalo Bisons (43-61, 5th(-18.0), North)
RHP Chris Schwinden (6-5, 3.52)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees (55-47, 3rd(-5.0), North)
RHP Lance Pendleton (3-3, 2.95)
TODAY'S GAME: This afternoon, the Buffalo Bisons host the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees in the second game of a four-game series from Coca-Cola Field (1:05 p.m.). The Herd is just 1-4 so far on this eight-game homestand that started with a series loss to Pawtucket. The Bisons begin a season-long 10-game roadtrip on Saturday night in Lehigh Valley.
VS. THE YANKEES: The Bisons are 4-6 against the Yankees this season. The teams split a four-game set at Coca-Cola Field from May 9-12 in the Yanks only other trip to Western New York. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre has out-homered the Herd 13-8 in their season series this year.
SCHWING AND MISS: RHP CHRIS SCHWINDEN will make his team-high 19th start today. The Herd's All-Star has lost two straight since the break, including on July 22 against Pawtucket (4.1IP, 4R). Schwinden's last victory was July 6 in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre as he allowed four runs in six innings to the Yankees. Schwinden has struck out six or more in five straight starts.
FULL TANK: Last night, LHP TAYLOR TANKERSLEY became the first Bisons reliever to strike out six in an outing since LHP Mike O'Connor had that total in the first game of a doubleheader on August 21, 2010 vs. Pawtucket. The southpaw now has 58 strikeouts in only 44.0 innings of work. His 11.86 K/9.0IP ratio is second-best among all International League relievers.
Mr. VP: INF VALENTINO PASCUCCI leads the International League with 70RBI on the season. The slugger is on pace for 97RBI on the season. Only three Bisons players have every reached 100RBI in one year, most recently accomplished by OF Ernie Young in 2004. Pascucci also leads the IL in walks (57) and is 3rd with a .391 on-base percentage.
BISONS BITS: RHP CHRIS SCHWINDEN has a team-high 95 strikeouts. He could become the 16th Bisons pitcher in the modern era to fan 100 in a season today…Last night, OF MIKE BAXTER became the first Bisons player to homer in his first at-bat with the team since INF JAVIER VALENTIN on May 15, 2009. Baxter was claimed by the Mets off waivers (San Diego) on July 22.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (52-51) moved back above .500 with an 8-6 win in Cincinnati last night. OF CARLOS BELTRAN had a hit, two walks and three runs scored while former Bisons OF JASON PRIDIE had a two-run double that gave New York the lead. The Mets face the Reds again this afternoon at 12:35 p.m.