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Casio Exilim EX-FS10 digital camera
The Exilim EX-FS10 is a stylishly smooth and slim line model yet with a tough aluminium casing with a highly lacquered finish available in a range of of blue, gray, red and white colours for those wanting a slightly different slant to the camera.
So, what kit do we find on-board such a camera that is just 16.3mm thin by 97.1mm wide and 59.4mm high and that weighs in at just 121g with both battery and SD storage card safely slotted home in the camera's base?
Casio's new 9.1MP, high speed CMOS sensor starts the ball rolling allows for some pretty amazing snapping trick and was technology first introduced by the companies groundbreaking EX-F1. For a start there's 720p HD movie capability and this is dovetailed to the cameras 30fps burst shooting mode, though that's limited to (a still respectable) 6-megapixel maximum.
Add to this the camera's ability to shoot at 1000fps giving ultra slow speed movies and the clever kittery of the new model starts to look very interesting indeed. However, in the 1000fps mode, the movie resolution is limiting to say the least, since the resolution drops to 224 x 64-pixels, so very tiny indeed. It lacks sound too and will inevitably look terrible - even if used on YouTube.
Yes, it's great to have the ability to shoot ultra slow motion movies and as a proof of technology, it works, but what can you do with a silent movie that's so small it is almost unusable? Even if it is a slow motion movie of, say, a popping balloon or your granny bouncing on a trampoline! No matter how novel, it'll still be almost unusable.
However, there is another slow motion shooting mode on the EX-FS10 that comes as a result of the high-speed sensor and that is the slow motion pre-capture mode. Here at a separate button on the top of the camera, helpfully marked "slow", the camera starts to preview the action before the lens in slow-motion, you watch the action and press the shutter button at the point you want to take a shot.
Now that's useful, you can (almost) control the capture point in fast action scenes as needed - it's like slowing down time in the camera, very clever and simple to use too. In terms of controls the camera looks rather complex for a ultra compact having a set of four shooting button for stills, 30fps burst, slow and movie recording, the latter on the back of the camera denoted by a red dot.
You have the lens zoom control surrounding the "normal" shutter button and a tiny on/off sliver of a switch that's just usable with a fingernail. On the back you have a jog button set and central set button for scrolling and selecting menu options with playback and shooting direct buttons then a menu control and finally the Casio Best Shot button.
There are a range of 21 scene modes that make up for the lack of any manual control options apart from exposure compensation to +/-2EV activated along with other key settings from the on-screen active display on the camera's 2.5-inch LCD and activated by pressing down on the jog button in single shot mode.
Here you can adjust resolution, ISO, white balance time and date and adjust the slow motion view between 1-second for 30fps, 2-seconds for 15fps or 3-seconds 10fps. The slow motion view speed can be tweaked here to with a one to eight range of adjustment, one being the slowest.
The camera's lens is quite limiting in terms of its focal length of 38-114mm, this is not wide enough for larger vistas and not long enough to get really close; the 10cm macro is not that impressive either. And so what you have here is a camera that while full of technical innovation in terms of its high speed shooting, starts to look a little less exiting when you get back to its main still shooting capability.
Image noise suppression seems to be overly aggressive, for example, meaning images lack detail even at lower ISO settings and it just gets worse the higher the ISO goes, as does the image noise, even with the over processing.
The camera's dynamic range (the amount of detail from black to white that can be successfully captured) is rather disappointing with highlight and shadow detail dropping away far to quickly in a shot, again exacerbated by higher ISO settings.
Colour leaches as the ISO rises too but otherwise natural and the white balance control is okay. Focus control is very good and quickly latches onto the main subject and the metering is rather impressive too and that goes for the flash metering too, which, although very underpowered, can shoot close to a subject without bleaching out highlights.
Looked at as a whole, the Casio Exilim EX-FS10 is a technical marvel on the one hand, while on the other, it would seem to be an overpriced mediocre ultra compact.
Still image quality is not good enough; other makers' similar models can produce better still image quality at a more affordable price; the movie and high speed systems, while clever and neat to have, just might not be worth the premium price.
The Casio Exilim EX-FS10 is an attractive, well made and technologically advanced ultra compact but the prominence given to that high-speed technology seems to have been at the price of the final still image quality and its price point.
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A galaxy's worth of nihilism buried under a '70s Velveeta topping, the Planet of the Apes series stands today as a dark marvel of pop cinema, a group of wildly variable films that combine to form a giant inescapable kiss-off to the human race. (That said message was able to withstand such distractions as ever-cheapening makeup and Charlton Heston loudly pounding sand makes its achievements even more impressive, really.) Boasting a keen awareness of its predecessors' particular charms and a gem of a central CGI performance by Andy Serkis, Rise of the Planet of the Apes makes for a rather miraculous summer movie: a big-budget special effects extravaganza that also delivers a killer backhand. Sort of redoing 1972's Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the film follows the events set in motion when a bereaved scientist (James Franco) attempts to create a cure for Alzheimer's, resulting in a supernaturally intelligent chimp named Caesar. The old bit about science tampering in God's domain quickly applies. Director Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist) displays an admirable sense of pacing, deftly levying the escalating action scenes with small character moments from the likes of John Lithgow and Brian Cox. That said, the film belongs to Caesar, whose path from wide-eyed innocent to reluctant revolutionary generates the ironic pulp empathy that gave the original series such a kick. Watching the climactic confrontation on the Golden Gate Bridge, it's distressingly easy to figure out which side to root for. Chuck Heston would no doubt grit his teeth in approval. Note: Those skeptical that this revamp could wholly retain the original's doomy backbeat would do well to stick around during the end credits. --Andrew Wright
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I'm trying to avoid giving away any spoilers!
It's pretty obvious where the film is heading if you know anything about the previous Planet of the Apes films. As an origin story, this film really sets up the stage. Apes are the good guys. Humans are the very bad guys. But you knew that already!
This is a good movie for men and women. Snuggle up during this holiday season, get a lot of popcorn and enjoy one of the best films of the year.
Having seen the first POTA with Charlton Heston, the fish out of water, topsy turvy, apes rule the planet is hard to emulate and surpass from a storytelling point of view, as is the mythology of the original story, with the enlightened though cruel apes having their own spin on the evolution of the planet.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes begins the mythology, shifting west from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge. Scientists have a positive intention, such as finding a cure for cancer or alzheimers, and making money in the process, yet exploiting innocent creatures to do so. When this gets out of control we have unintended consequences.
The mythology of the birth of Caesar under unusual circumstance, to a mother dosed with performance enhancing drugs parallels the birth of Moses, who would grow up to lead his people out of Egypt (San Francisco) to the promised land (Muir Woods). Human hubris, leads to the fall of humanity and the rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Following the purging of the 12, Caesar as a baby, is discovered not in the rushes but in a cage, and secretly raised by a scientist (James Franco, and his girlfriend (Freida Pinto). We know that he has extraordinary abilities, that must be kept under wraps. Nevertheless Caesar has to contend with his own instinctive nature, and acting with the intention to protect gets into serious trouble. Caesar observes, and learns from his mistakes. When we see a recurrence of a similar situation he handles it differently.Read more ›
The plot is deceptively and predictably simple: The hunt for a cure for the Next Big Thing (in this case, the cure for Alzheimer's) leads to an unexpected Obviously Dangerous Thing (here, really smart apes).
But the plot is just the foundation upon which a well-designed, satisfying story is built. The relationships between Caesar the super ape (Andy Serkis), Will Rodman the kind but misguided scientist (James Franco), and Will's ailing father (John Lithgow), are engaging and lend the movie its emotional core.
The prison scenes are harrowing and punctuate Caesar's character arc from not-quite-human-but-pretty-damn-close to revolutionary leader for the voiceless uber-minority. These Shawshank-like scenes also serve to imbue the ape characters with humanity their keepers lack.
The escape and take-over scenes are suitably rousing, bringing to mind such films as Gladiator, Braveheart, and Cobra Verde.
It is no surprise that PETA gave the film its dubious thumbs up, given the above-mentioned Save the Animals theme. But its approval was officially given in recognition of the fact that no living breathing apes were used in the filming of the movie. At all.Read more ›
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One of my all time favourite movies. The plot, soundtrack, casting choices, dialogue are very well done.Published 9 months ago by yvonne
Excellent movie i really enjoyed it I realize everyone has their own taste in movies I give it a 10 rating.Published 10 months ago by Dennis Hercus
DID NOT KEEP ME ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT BUT NOW I TRULY BELIEVE MAN CAME FROM THE APES.(OR SOMETHING LOWER ON THE FOOD CHAIN).Published 12 months ago by Byron Freeman
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The Aggies are currently slated to face SMU at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas on Sept. 15. That date could change depending on the new SEC schedule.
With Arkansas now a conference foe, Texas A&M is in need of two additional non-conference games to complete their 2012 football schedule.
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No no no Texas A&M, SEC vs 1-AA games are supposed to be in November but easy OOC games are half the equation of SEC scheduling, you'll catch on in a few years.
I highly doubt this game was scheduled after A&M knew it would be leaving the Big XII. Good try though, Dave. Thanks for playing.
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This new biography of Carroll by leading international authority, Edward Wakeling, presents a fresh appraisal of the man based upon his social circle. Contrary to the claims of many previous authors, Carroll's circle was not child centered: his correspondence was enormous, numbering almost 100,000 items at the time of his death, and included royalty and many of the leading artists, illustrators, publishers, academics, musicians and composers of the Victorian era. Edward Wakeling draws upon his personal database of nearly 6,000 letters, mostly never before published, to fill the gaps left by earlier biographies and resolve some of the key myths that surround Lewis Carroll, such as his friendships with children and his drug-taking. Essential reading for scholars and admirers of one of the key authors of the Victorian age.
About the Author
Edward Wakeling, a mathematician, is a former chairman of the Lewis Carroll Society in the United Kingdom and has been an active member for some forty years. He is also a member of various Lewis Carroll societies around the world. Wakeling has published many books and articles about Lewis Carroll, including Lewis Carroll, Photographer and the first complete unabridged edition of Lewis Carroll's Diaries, which he edited in ten volumes.


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1.1.1. This standard applies to web browsers that are being used on desktop versions of Windows, Mac OS and Linux/Unix. This does not cover PDAs, mobiles, and other mobile devices.
1.2.1. The BBC accepts that the nature of the web medium is such that web pages cannot be produced in such a way as to be uniformly rendered in all browsers, so as to provide a consistent experience for all users. We accept that small variations in this experience are acceptable within the 'Levels of Support'. (See appendix 1 for details)
1.2.2. Web browsers are assigned a 'Level of Support' by the BBC Browser Support Standards Work Group. These levels of support are summarised in the Browser Support Table. (See appendix 2 for details of how these levels of support are decided).
1.2.3. There's nothing wrong with using all the latest bells and whistles to support funky features of newer browsers, but try to do it in a way that still allows users not supporting (or intentionally disabling) these features to access your basic content.
2.1.1. All content MUST be readable and usable and all functionality MUST work.
2.1.2. Variations to presentation of content MUST be minimised.
2.1.3. Where CSS layout is used, the CSS MUST be rendered by supported web browsers, so that a fully-styled version of the page is presented to the user.
2.1.4. Variations between browsers are inevitable. In these situations, when deciding which browsers should offer a better experience than other browsers (i.e. which would be the closest to the original design), you MUST base your decision on which outcome would maximise the 'Objectives of Web Browser Support'.
2.1.5. Pages SHOULD be developed to maximise the user experience for users of the web browser with the highest proportion of users (IE7 PC at this time) UNLESS this would greatly compromise the 'Objectives of Web Browser Support'.
2.2.1. All core content MUST be readable and usable and navigation MUST work.
2.2.2. Any degradation to (client-side) application functionality MUST be graceful degradation.
2.2.3. Any degradation to presentation MUST NOT obscure content.
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2 Chrome Versions autoupdate without user intervention, so the supported version is the most recent non-beta version.
Pre v1.0, Alpha, Beta and Release Candidate builds are not supported.
Web pages are available to viewers across the internet, anywhere in the world, using a wide variety of web browsers. These web browsers are developed by a number of different organisations with a variety of motives (some commercial), each of which interpret the source code used to produce web pages slightly differently. As a result, any single web page will not be uniformly rendered by all web browsers, to produce a consistent user experience as intended by the producer.
While this has improved over time, standardisation of web browsers is still to be achieved. The quest for standardising source code and the manner in which web browsers interpret it, has been led by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), an organisation whose stated role is to try to "lead the Web to its full potential". The support amongst the community of web developers for standardisation has come to be known as the 'Web Standards' movement.
This BBC standard exists so as to produce web pages that can be viewed (as consistently as can reasonably be achieved) by the greatest number of people possible.
Because of the lack of web standards in the past, the only way to provide a consistent user experience was to use only the small range of source code features which worked across all web browsers. Specifically, the inconsistent rendering of CSS meant that CSS was not used much. HTML, which was more consistent, was used for both meaning and presentation; although its intended purpose was semantic rather than presentational.
With the advance of web standards, this has changed. HTML should thus be used to mark-up web content, to give it semantic meaning; while CSS should be used to define the presentation of content.
Not only is this how HTML and CSS are intended to be used (as outlined by the W3C), but it brings a wealth of advantages that considerably improve the potential to improve public value at the BBC; especially in terms of reducing costs and improving usability, e.g. accessibility. The use of HTML and CSS in this manner is often referred to as 'standards compliant code'.
Web browsers employ varying degrees of compliance to W3C recommendations (web standards) and consequently we often employ hacks and work-arounds* to meet the BBC's remit to provide content to the widest possible audience, while providing the optimum user experience. However, these hacks and work-arounds cost time and money, for supporting older, less standards-compliant browsers.
This BBC standard defines which web browsers are supported by the BBC, based on these and other contributory factors, to optimise value for users of the BBC website.
When considering which 'Level of Support' a web browser should be assigned, the following are some of the issues that are considered.
4.3.1 See the figure below for a visual explanation of the decision making process taken by the BBC Browser Support Standards Work Group when deciding upon the deprecation of browser versions.
|New additions: FF 3.5.x, Opera 9.6x, Safari 4.x. Downgraded from Level 1 to Level 2: Opera 9.x, Safari 2.x. Downgraded from Level 2 to Level 3: IE 5, FF 1.5.x, Opera 8, Safari 1.3, Linux 3 (and below). New additions for testing, 'must test': FF 3.5.2 (PC), Chrome (latest version), Safari 4.0.3 (Mac). Downgrades for testing (from 'must test' to 'should test'): FF 3.0.13 (PC), Safari 3.2.1 (Mac). Also addition of Appendix 3 'Decision Tree for Degradation of Browser Versions' and minor editorial corrections. IE for Mac support dropped.
|Ed Lee
|Internet Explorer 8 added, Firefox 1.0.x moved to level 3 support, testing must be done on Firefox 3.0.6 for PC only, recommended to test on Firefox 3.0.6 for Mac and additionally 2.0.16 for PC, Chrome 1.0.x added, sites now must be tested on Opera 9.64 for PC. Testing must be done for Safari 3.2.1 on Mac and should be done for Safari 3.2.1 and 2. x on PC.
|Ed Lee
|FF3 added, Chrome added, 9.52 Opera added, discrete testing versions added, Netscape column retired from table, exception to 'no beta support' rule given to Chrome, following review by the Browser Support Working Group.
|Nick Holmes
|IE on a Mac is now moved to level 3 support, following review by the Browser Support Working Group.
|Victoria Jolliffe
|Revisions after quarterly review of browser use on bbc.co.uk
|Nick Holmes
|Completely revisited
|Nick Holmes, Nat Darke
|Deprecated Mac IE 5.x Family to 'partially supported'
|Tred Magill
|Removed all sensitive sections for public release
|Jonathan Hassell
|Final alteration (removal of date; for next revision, thinking clearer) required by Standards Exec
|Jonathan Hassell
|Alterations required for approval by Tech Forum on 03/12/2004
|Jonathan Hassell
|Revisions after quarterly review Q4-04 - Firefox becomes supported
|Browser Support WG
|Revisions after quarterly reviews up to Q2-04
|Browser Support WG
|2 minor revisions from MattB of Standards Exec
|Jonathan Hassell
|Revisions required by Tech Forum for approving the standard: QNX typo; explicit comment on test browsers; % of browsers excluded in 6.3; language sites requiring non- latin character sets; clarification of linux support thru Mozilla ; info re larger test benches
|Jonathan Hassell
|Final edits after comments from WillG
|Jonathan Hassell
|More edits after comments from NickH and MattC
|Jonathan Hassell, Paul Hammond
|More edits after feedback from PH's coding team
|Jonathan Hassell
|More edits by JH and PH
|Jonathan Hassell, Paul Hammond
|Document created from bolting together v1.2 of the Browser Support v2 straw man and the browser support table from the minutes of meeting on 09/05/2003
|Jonathan Hassell, Paul Hammond
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I hope you print this. A lot of people read your column, and I'm one of the faithful. You do a great service providing information to your readers. This information could very well save some lives. It is very terrible and frightening when your throat closes and you cannot breath.
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Editor's note: This article introduces a series of articles on composite applications to be published on developerWorks Lotus over the next few months. This article describes a sample composite application that is now available on developerWorks Lotus and previews some of the soon-to-be-published companion articles.
IBM Lotus Notes V8 brings the power and benefits of composite applications to the Lotus Notes user community. These composite applications, called business style mashups by some, can be accessed from the local Lotus Notes data directory, the IBM Lotus Domino V8 server, or even a server running IBM WebSphere Portal, allowing users to work anywhere, anytime. Using new functionality and runtime capabilities, you can combine multiple Lotus Notes applications and other technologies giving users a unified interface in which to conduct their business more effectively and to supply innovative business solutions.
Components are the reusable building blocks of composite applications. They can expose an application's data or process and, when combined with other components, can enable the on-the-glass integration of multiple systems. Taken together, components create a business application by integrating multiple backend IT applications.
In the Lead Manager composite application sample, the goal is to combine several existing Lotus Notes applications into one application that is more productive and integrated. The application is described here both before and after, and the process used to create the application is described in a series of articles previewed here.
The Lead Manager application
At ZetaBank, a fictional enterprise, the account sales team uses an application called Lead Manager that consists of four Lotus Notes applications containing information they need to track leads and make sales. Figure 1 shows a view from each of the following applications:
- Lead Manager Core. This application contains information about sales leads, including the business name, contact information, financial information, and other useful data.
- Lead Manager Discussion. This application allows the sales team to track conversations about any company or item. They find it useful to exchange information about past success at companies, to discuss the best sales approach, and to look through sales presentations used previously.
- Lead Manager Legal. The contracts that are in place for companies reside here, and new contracts can be requested. Sales agents can track the progress of requests here.
- Lead Manager NAB Plus. This is a directory that contains extensive contacts for each prospective company.
When a sales lead is identified, the account representative checks to see if the company is listed already in the Core application. A quick check of the Discussion application is done by using a bookmark to launch the application and to search on the company name or to find the appropriate category. If the account representative cannot find a customer name in the Core application, still another bookmark is used to open the contacts application, known as the NAB Plus. Later when a contract is needed, the Legal application is used to request it. The information needed to request the contract is copied from the Core application and pasted (or retyped) into the contract request form. The sales team is accustomed to the process, but its members find that they spend a lot of time cutting and pasting and training new employees in this process.
Figure 1. A view of the four original applications
Creating a new solution
The account sales team asked the application developers to revamp the entire process and to build a new application that helps them to be more efficient and to focus on their work instead of constantly jumping between four applications. Because Lotus Notes and Domino V8 are being rolled out at ZetaBank, the developers decided to create a composite application that uses the existing applications in a cohesive application that allows the sales team to be more productive immediately with no training.
Now, when a sales representative opens the Lead Manager application, all the information is easily accessible. Figure 2 shows the new Lead Manager application. A list of companies is shown on the left with the lead information for the selected company front and center with tabs for Pending Leads and Closed Leads. In the two panes shown in figure 2, there are summaries of the company information and the lead selected.
Figure 2. The Lead Manager application
When you double-click a lead, a new page opens and the details appear in the center of the screen. A section below has tabs for Contracts, Discussions, Sales Lead Company Detail, and Contacts as shown in figure 3.
Figure 3. Lead Manager details
These tabs open the applications directly; previously, the sales team members had to use bookmarks to access the applications. Furthermore, these applications open with the correct context displaying the appropriate information. Figure 4 illustrates this.
Figure 4. Lead Manager detail open to correct context
The sales representative can also focus on managing companies or shared contacts using the navigator at the top of the page. The user moves to a new context without leaving the composite application or starting another application. The user can also navigate back to the Sales Lead context at any time using the navigator.
In the next phase of the application, the sales representatives can prefill or select information from another domain. For example, they want the Contract application to prefill the company information, and a new Sales Lead document to prefill information from the Contacts application. The developers agreed that this is relatively easy to add, and they are pleased that the sales representatives are using the new application so efficiently.
The sales team enjoys the easier navigation and the time savings. In addition, they started using it immediately with no additional training classes required. It looked like (and used) the existing Lotus Notes applications and processes, but the integration on-the-glass, information flow, and navigation were much easier. The sales team has started listing new requirements that the developers will address by adding new components.
Download the Sales Lead composite application sample and documentation. This sample helps you become more familiar with composite applications in Lotus Notes V8 and provides context to your review of the related articles.
How they did it
The ZetaBank development team decided to use new features and functionality in Lotus Notes V8. They turned to various sources of information, including the information found in these developerWorks articles, some of which are still to be published, to guide their work.
First, the ZetaBank developers researched composite applications, determined that they could create one, and discussed which components to consider domain-centric, domain-contexual, or utility components. The article, "Designing composite applications: Component design," is useful in determining the directions to take in design. Architects and developers will find this article useful.
Next, the developers modified the existing Lotus Notes applications to make them useful as components in the final composite application. The article, "Developing composite applications: IBM Lotus Notes components," to be published later on developerWorks Lotus describes the process and steps for evaluating current Lotus Notes applications, determining the appropriate components to expose, and choosing properties and actions. This article covers ideas to make the components reusable in future composite applications as well. Architects and developers will find this article useful.
The ZetaBank team needed to have a solution quickly and wanted to understand how other components and solutions have been created. For this, they reviewed the concepts covered in the future article, "Designing composite applications: Composite application design patterns," and learned about component patterns, layout patterns, and application patterns. This helped them to determine the best layout of the components for optimum productivity and to design the application with components to do the work needed. Architects, developers, and those who assemble composite applications will find this article helpful.
The topics covered in a future article, "Developing composite applications: Debugging and developing composite applications - unit testing," helped the developers create a test component designed to test each part of the new application to ensure each component worked properly before assembling. This allowed the line-of-business user to focus on assembling and wiring the composite application because each component had already been tested. Developers and architects will find this information vital in ensuring robust solutions.
During the process of designing the application and components, the team determined that two new IBM Lotus Expeditor components were needed. One component was a navigator to replace the navigator provided by the default composite application framework. The other component was a Sales Lead browser that provided a different user experience than that exposed with a Lotus Notes View component. The future article, "Developing composite applications: IBM Lotus Expeditor components," provides suggestions for designing components that interact with the property broker. The two new components were developed quickly because they use the property broker helper classes. Architects and developers will find this article helpful.
Assembling the Lead Manager application involved some new concepts such as wiring, layout, and navigation so the process took two articles to explain all the steps and concepts. The future articles, "Designing composite applications: Composite application assembly, parts 1 and 2," explain all you need to know about assembling a composite application and making it easier to extend. Architects as well as assemblers who may be in lines of business can benefit from reading these articles.
Managing the process for composite application design is new for many organizations. The article, "Designing composite applications: Managing the process," will help you learn the best practices for developing reusable components across departments in an organization and for utilizing them in composite applications. Other development and IT teams at ZetaBank are investigating Lotus Notes and Domino 8 as well. This process supports rapid development by implementing reusable components. Managers and architects need to be familiar with the ideas in this article.
Finally, the ZetaBank development team needed to determine how to deploy the application. After researching the information covered in the future article "Deploying composite applications" and doing more research in the Lotus Domino 8 Administration Help, they developed a plan that supported a phased deployment approach including development, test, and production phases. Administrators and developers who will deploy composite applications need this information.
The Lead Manager sample is one example of what can be done with existing Lotus Notes applications to make them easier to use and more efficient in an existing process. The articles and the sample are intended to provide a complete description for developing one style of composite application. There are many other types of components and composite applications.
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- Read the developerWorks article, "Designing composite applications: Component design."
- Read the developerWorks article, "Designing composite applications: Design patterns."
- Read the developerWorks article, "Designing composite applications: Unit testing."
- Read the developerWorks article, "Designing composite applications: Writing an Eclipse component for IBM Lotus Notes."
- Read the developerWorks article, "Designing composite applications: IBM Lotus Notes components."
- Read the developerWorks article, "Designing composite applications: Composite application assembly, part 1."
- Read the developerWorks article, "Designing composite applications: Composite application assembly, part 2."
- Read the developerWorks article, "What's new in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8."
- Read the developerWorks article, "Extending the IBM Lotus Notes V8 mail with Eclipse."
- Read the developerWorks article, "Integrating IBM Lotus Notes data into the Lotus Notes V8 sidebar and toolbar."
- Read the developerWorks article, "Extending the IBM Lotus Notes V8 sidebar and toolbar."
- Read the developerWorks article, "Leveraging user context in the IBM Lotus Notes V8 sidebar and toolbar."
- Refer to the Lotus Domino Designer 8 Help, Composite Application Design and Management.
- Refer to the developerWorks Lotus Composite Applications page.
- Read the "Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Reviewer's Guide."
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Fidelity, Franklin and Wells funds hold 1/3 of this company. Will provide contact information in post later in the week.
By the looks of the exercises from the last year, one can assume that of the 25% of SALES of stock-
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in 2012), a large majority is being paid by the directors and senior management
to just themselves.
The last instance I can remember even remotely close to BSFT's pillaging is a company called DemandTec.
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The stock was sold at a fire sale price in late-2011. Instant replay with BSFT?
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It was worth the trip to check the Grand Geneva out. However I do not plan on returning until I have children.
The hill has some very good bunny hills for small children. They have the magic carpet lifts on them. One of the bunny hills is almost flat. Which is good for teaching a small child how to snow-plow, turn and stop. The staff was very friendly and tolerant towards children. The management appeared to be very group and family conscious and hospitable.
I was not impressed with the downhill terrain. Nothing was groomed. Everything from beginner to intermediate level was skier-packed chop. Anything difficult was just accumalating real and artificial snow (about 6 inches deep). The runs were very short. Typical for Wisconsin. My biggest problem was when I went to the far right of the hill. All of the runs were not planned to feed skiers back and forth between lifts. Once you go to the far right you have to walk or nordic it back to the middle lift.
It was snowing at a very good rate while I was at the Grand Geneva. None of the low visibility/night lights were turned on.
I felt that the lifts were being ran abnormally slow. There were only double lifts. The staff was not making a real effort to tell skiers or riders to pair up when the lift lines backed up.
I don't have a helmet right now so I stayed out of the terrain park. From what I could see from the lifts and skiing past it. It looked well planned. I would say that it was designed for novice to intermediate skilled people.
I did not go into the bar. However there was a fairly good eatery on the second floor of the ski lodge. The hill is also part of the Grand Geneva Resort. So there are many things to do. I even saw people taking a sleigh ride.
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#4811789 What is the most immersive game you have played?
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Also I tend to think that immersion kind of depends on the state of the player as much as the game itself too. I remember back in my younger days I would play Asheron's Call for a long time, it totally gripped me for a couple years of my youth. I think that has something to do with the age I was at the time and the fact that it was the first really persistent open world game that I played. I think if I picked it up again now I might not be as impressed anymore, but it had a magical quality at the time.
#4811775 Why doesn't my Inverse DFT work correctly?
Posted by karwosts on 16 May 2011 - 10:54 PM
I plotted your result and it looks like what I'd expect to see given the parameters you've used. Original signal is in red, the result is in blue.
There's nothing wrong with your code, you just need to brush up on theory a little bit.
#4811130 Porting Existing Game
Posted by karwosts on 15 May 2011 - 10:47 AM
#4810552 Doubts about strategy of rendering
Posted by karwosts on 13 May 2011 - 10:46 PM
I'll have some problem with using GLSL or VBO VertexArray? I still have no idea how to bump map with GLSL and afraid to take issue withthe method of rendering.
Nope, you won't have any problem using GLSL with VBOs, they work together perfectly. Shaders are a whole other beast entirely, but when you're ready for them you should be able to integrate them into your VBO renderer without too much trouble.
#4810545 Doubts about strategy of rendering
Posted by karwosts on 13 May 2011 - 10:26 PM
The rest of your question I don't quite understand, but maybe this is enough help to get you started. What is "several instances of the class" referring to?
#4808397 Multiple Mesh World Transformation help
Posted by karwosts on 09 May 2011 - 12:08 AM
First, some abbrebiations to make things simpler:
Mb: body matrix
Ma: arm matrix
Sb: body scale
Rb: body rotation
Tb: body translation
Sa: arm scale
Ra: arm rotation
Ta: arm translation
If your body matrix is defined like this:
Mb = Sb * Rb * Tb,
then your arm matrix would be defined like this:
Ma = Sa * Ra * Ta * Mb
Ma = Sa * Ra * Ta * Sb * Rb * Tb
Basically everything that you put on the left hand side adds to the chain of transforms. In this case the arm translation is only the offset from the center of the body to the arm position, it has nothing to do with the arm's global position. Because you're chaining it together with the body translation, you can say that the arm translation is defined in "body space", instead of "world space", where you would supply the actual coordinate of it. Again the arm rotation is only the rotation of the arm in its own local space, it doesn't have anything to do with the rotation of the body.
You could do a similar thing with a hand mesh, by defining its rotation and translation relative to the position of the arm.
Mh = Sh * Rh * Th * Sa * Ra * Ta * Sb * Rb * Tb.
This concept comes up a lot when doing animation, basically in the simplest explanation is that when you have an object whose transform is a derivative of some parent, then you want to define the position of the sub object relative to the coordinate space of the parent, don't try to compute it directly in the world space. Its the same concept whether you're dealing with hands on arms on torsos or moons orbiting planets orbiting stars.
#4808211 Help with *you guessed it!* shaders..
Posted by karwosts on 08 May 2011 - 01:31 PM
What confuses me is what they are actually supposed to do, I've read so many descriptions but many of them never actually tell me what shaders are actually used for. Many say effects, but is that all? I could make effects using point sprites, and they are a hell of a lot easier to use. What kind of effect are they used for?
The second thing is how they work. I understand that a vertex shader takes a vertex and does.. something to it. And I understand that a pixel shader takes a pixel and does... something else to it. But my problem is, do shaders go through every single vertex/pixel in-game/on the screen?
Shaders are a replacement for a large chunk of the existing graphics pipeline that used to be fixed purpose. This makes rendering much more flexible and powerful than when you only have a few switches to toggle. If you want to get an idea of some things you can do with shaders, this is a pretty nice list from nvidia of some effects that you can achieve:
They are essentially small programs that you write that have somewhat fixed inputs and outputs. The inputs and outputs are different depending on which kind of shader you are referring to. A vertex shader generally takes an input vertex, and transforms it into screen space. After all the vertices of a primitive are transformed, it is then rasterized (converted into pixels) by the API, and then the fragment shader is executed on each pixel.
So if you draw a triangle that covers 200 pixels on the screen, your vertex shader will be run 3 times, and the fragment shader will be run 200 times.
This varies a little bit depending on the api you're using, but generally you bind a pair of vertex/pixel shaders, and then every draw call you make while they are bound is processed by the shaders instead of the normal pipeline. You can apply different shaders to different objects by changing the bound shader before rendering a particular object.
The third thing is how do I actually apply them? All the tutorials I've read never actually go into detail about applying Shaders to things other than pre-defined vertices that have been hard-coded, but what about when I load a model from a .x file, at what stage do the Vertex/Pixel shaders take action, and how do I make them take action on the model, or even the whole scene?
Yes, fog could be something that you replicate in the shader. After you transform the primitive to screen space, you will know how far away it is from the eye (you get this as part of the transform process), so you get the depth as an input into the fragment shader. You then use this depth value in a function to determine how strong your fog should be. A little pseudocode snippet of a fog fragment shader would look like this:
The fourth thing, seen as Shaders can modify color values (including the Alpha channel), is this how a fog shader would me made? I get that somehow the vertex/triangle/scene/object's color is darkened/faded, but how do I actually tell how far away it is? Do I pass the camera's co-ordinates into the shader along with the vertex, and use that to calculate a distance? And another thing... what shader type would actually be used to do this!?!?
uniform float4 fogColor; in float4 fragDepth; in float4 vertexColor; out float4 fragColor; void FragShader() { fragColor = (1-fragDepth)*vertexColor + fragDepth * fogColor; }
The inputs are variables that vary per vertex, while uniforms are constant for the whole program (like what color you want the fog to be, be it gray fog or red fog or yellow fog, etc).
The fifth, and hopefully final thing, I've seen many of these tutorials talk about how lighting is applied with shaders, but this is completely different to how I create lighting. Instead, I use the D3DLIGHT9 structure to create its values and the SetRenderState function to apply them. Whats the difference??
Yes, once you move away from fixed pipeline you won't use the fixed light structures anymore. You will define your own shader uniforms for things like "lightDirection", and "lightIntensity", and then use these values in your pixel shader calculations to compute the lighting on a fragment. Instead of SetRenderState, you'll use an API command to set program uniforms instead.
#4807985 All objects being lit even though they are each being pushed to matrix stack?
Posted by karwosts on 08 May 2011 - 02:10 AM
If you want to push/pop things like glMaterial, you need to make use of glPushAttrib/glPopAttrib;
For lighting options, this would be done by:
glPushMatrix(); glPushAttrib(GL_LIGHTING_BIT); //<------------- glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_SPECULAR, whiteSpecularMaterial); glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_SHININESS, mShininess); glColor3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); glTranslatef(-0.6f, 0.7f, 0.0f); glRotatef(angle, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); glutSolidTeapot(0.15); glPopAttrib(); //<---------------- glPopMatrix();
Alternatively you could just disable the lighting options after you're done with them.
#4806031 I need to learn how to load a mesh in OpenGL...
Posted by karwosts on 03 May 2011 - 11:30 AM
However even though it is not part of the OpenGL API, there are many libraries out there that will assist with loading one type or another, such as Assimp. Or you can write the interpreter yourself. OBJ is a common format to use for beginners as it is pretty simple. But basically you can use any format, but you must parse it into arrays of vertices for OpenGL to understand.
#4804692 How to load a GLSL shader?
Posted by karwosts on 30 April 2011 - 01:52 AM
This type of question is exactly what these forums are for
No, these forums are not for "how do I do X I have no time to research anything myself".
Really sorry I bothered to answer your question, it won't happen again.
#4804671 How to load a GLSL shader?
Posted by karwosts on 30 April 2011 - 12:17 AM
You really ought to be able to find this stuff for yourself, that's what search engines are for.
#4804300 3rd Texture Ordinate
Posted by karwosts on 28 April 2011 - 11:31 PM
#4804243 3rd Texture Ordinate
Posted by karwosts on 28 April 2011 - 08:13 PM
Where did you get the obj from? Are you sure you understand the data correctly? You can post a snippet if you're not sure.
#4802881 Game Design
Posted by karwosts on 25 April 2011 - 06:40 PM
If every GameObject has an age, then put the age value inside of the GameObject class.
If every item in your vector is guaranteed to be a Rabbit (or derivative), then you can either cast the iterator, or change it to a vector of Rabbits instead of a vector of GameObjects
If GameObjects don't necessarily have an age, and your vector does not necessarily only contain rabbits, then why are you asking for the age of a gameobject?
These are the kinds of things you need to think about.
#4802874 How to draw "lines" in Op
Posted by karwosts on 25 April 2011 - 06:20 PM
That's true that my suggestion won't work when the line doubles over on top of itself, I didn't think of that. OR doesn't work because it's not the same thing as taking the max. (2'b10 | 2'b01) != max(2'b10, 2'b01).
The only other idea I can think of is to render the line just as a solid single line to a separate render target, and then try a bloom-like blur filter to the entire snake. Then throw down that image on top of the rest of your scene. Its not terribly elegant though. Sometimes the things you want to do with blending don't always fit nicely into what the hardware can achieve :-\


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I commited a wrong file, so I wanted to clean it up, but accidentally I overwrote all my files in the directory with last files committed to git.
Help please!
What I did:
git add fileIdidnotwanttoadd
git rm -r --cached .
git reset --hard HEAD
result: All my fixes are gone! I fixed 3 very hard bugs and it's all gone!
Thank you all. I used most of your suggestions, still had to redo a few things, but all is restored now. No more perfectionism, I learned my lesson!