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Location: still here
Posted: Sun 18 Oct 2009, 11:46
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Gerry, perhaps an older kernel version from the "special puppies" folder will work for you,
such as this one:
or this one:
the rest:
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Posts: 33
Posted: Sun 18 Oct 2009, 11:51
Post subject: about upgrading
for wuwei: there are big differences between 421 and 43/1
421 is from unleashed and new recompiled packages. sometimes even close versions don't always do well with upgrade.
43/1 was recompiled from 412 with woof.
if space isn't too much of a problem i would suggest using a new frugal for 43.
for gerry: similar to above. each version should be started with it's own save. they can be fine after update but sometimes not. to stop the new version from updating at start hit F2 and use puppy pfix=ram at boot. this will keep it from touching any savefiles.
also in 421 there is a stop to see what savefile you want to use.
in 43 it finds it's save and just starts up.
i say this from having about 6 savefiles from 301,421, 421bb, 43.
it's better to set up a small savefile for each version then blending. when we went through this between 2x,3 and 4 series it got ..interesting
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Posts: 366
Location: Tallahassee FL US
Posted: Sun 18 Oct 2009, 12:31
Post subject: Re: Alsamixer problem
mawebb88 wrote:
Still the same on 431 as previous 430 and earlier beta's. No master volume slider and volume on system tray is always showing muted at each reboot
Rgds Mike
same problem as above.
EeePC 900a
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Location: England
Posted: Sun 18 Oct 2009, 14:32
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The 18.104.22.168 kernel works fine.
Puppy 4.3.1 ignores existing pupsave files for other versions (ie 4.1.2), so "upgrade", whether intentional or accidental, is not possible. Bug??
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Posted: Sun 18 Oct 2009, 15:23
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gerry wrote:
Puppy 4.3.1 ignores existing pupsave files for other versions (ie 4.1.2), so "upgrade", whether intentional or accidental, is not possible. Bug??
It's the underscore in the older save file name, I think Puppy will grab it if you rename it, but maybe keep a backup copy of it, just in case it screwes it up
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Location: merriam, kansas
Posted: Sun 18 Oct 2009, 17:54
Post subject:
Gparted problem:
I've been trying to install various versions of 4.3.0-4.3.1 using
the Gparted on the cds, and universal installer.
Tried ext.2-3-and4, both full and frugal installs. When I try to
boot, always get "Error 2 bad file or directory".
If I make the partitions with any previous Puppy Gparted, going
back to 3.0, there is no problem at all.
Is there an older Gparted pet available that I can use on 4.3.1.
Mon. Oct. 26
Puppy 4.3> makes partitions with a 256 inode count which don't
boot from my previous grub.
Switching to 4.3> grub solves the problem and is backward
compatible with 128 inode partitions.
Other options:
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs
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Posted: Sun 18 Oct 2009, 18:00
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BTW, I like the new Package Manager and I've a suggestion:
it'd be useful if it also displayed package sizes (packed and extracted), and also if the Installed Packages list could be resizable.
Another one: being able to select multiple packages (say, thru Ctrl+click) would also be useful ..but this is "deluxe"
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Posts: 184
Location: vancouver island, canada
Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 02:43
Post subject: a bug??
Subject description: scan for wireless network takes 2 trys
very nice work gang
in 431 and 431 small, scan for wireless network, in network wizard, found nothing on first try, offered choice: retry/quit retry found lots, fine but what about having the scan run twice on the opening attempt, if the first pass is empty...
the little critter is so quick that time extra would be tiny......it was awhile before i tried the retry because in other utilities, apps the retry choice is not often so useful; in this case it seems required so why not combine the first two scans into one in the script, have a more useful first result.
cheers, mm
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Posts: 1748
Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 08:45
Post subject: Skype pet for 4.3.1
The Skype pet in the Puppy 3 repository fails on 4.3.1. The Skype 126.96.36.199 pet in the "bugs" directory at puppylinux.ca works. The only problem I experienced was a missing icon, now copied from a different installation.
Suggested Windows 7 message: "Found old hardware; install Puppy"
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Posts: 1123
Location: Vienna Austria
Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 09:34
Post subject: jwm shutdown not working
None of the shutdown menu items seem to work now in JWM
This has been the case since I re-sized the pupsave file to over 1G.
Anyone else seen this problem?
Life is too short to spend it in front of a computer
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Posts: 9
Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 12:40
Post subject: Re: ...crashing window blacks desktop
prehistoric wrote:
... I've had a problem of the desktop crashing, while using Puppy to examine a Windows system partition, when there are too many files in a directory. (You know what a mess you find in a Windows system folder.) I may have just been lucky using Puppy for this before, but now I've had the problem happen twice in a few minutes. The panel remains on the screen, but everything else is black. I've been restarting the window manager to get the desktop back.
--edit for clarity--
I can confirm this issue, using ROX to browse "x:\WINDOWS\\system32" folder, with additional details.
(All tests run from LiveCDs with pfix=ram.)
I reproduced this issue on two computers, but not a third:
1. (pup431-184.108.40.206) a Dell Dim9100 Pentium D 3GHz w/ 3G RAM and no swapspace.
2. (pup431-188.8.131.52-intel-modems) a Thinkpad T20 PIII w/ 512MB RAM and 512MB swap.
Browsing to the directory in ROX: ROX starts processing the icons for the files (default settings, no thumbnails), then the window closes and the wallpaper goes black; all icons are gone. My other open app window was still open, and the toolbar & start menu @ bottom still work fine... in fact everything seems to work. No anomalies in 'top', X still running. The mounted drive is still mounted. No problem using console to 'ls /mnt/sda1/WINDOWS/system32' .
I could _not_ cause this blackscreen in puppy431 on a Dell Dimension E310, Pentium 4 2.8GHz 1GB RAM no swap, on either kernel, whether I used Xorg or Xvesa.
But! I then reproduced this from the puppy 4.1.2-126.96.36.199 LiveCD on the Thinkpad T20.
On the other hand, on the puppy 2.17.1 liveCD, the Thinkpad was snappy (much faster than the Dell E310 on the new puppies) at opening & scrolling through the files.
(The mounted "system32" folders on the E310 and the Thinkpad were both NTFS WinXP folders with 50+ subfolders & 2000+ files, so presumably reasonably similar.)
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Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 13:25
Post subject:
I have a 8132 Atheros Ethernet network adapter, Puppy while the network adapter to configure it or fails to make it work because not connected in any way. Also at the next restart even windows recognizes most ethernet adapter until not out nutrition for 5 or 6 seconds. It is as if linux disattivasse somehow tab. is a problem I have seen of the atl1c module and also with arc and ubuntu has happened to others! Is there a way to resolve? Thanks a lot!
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Posts: 9
Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:33
Post subject: Re: ...crashing window blacks desktop
(All tests run from LiveCDs with pfix=ram.)
OK, three more details re the Rox blackscreen when mounting & browsing a Windows system folder:
1. The blackscreen appears the same as if I manually kill the 'Rox-Filer' process.
2. "Restart JWM" from start menu does not fix the issue. "Restart X Server" does.
3. The blackscreen happens under both Xorg and Xvesa (greyscreen).
It doesn't happen every boot.
It feels like Rox generates a cache of the folder's icons, so if it is going to crash, it's the first (or first and second) time I access the folder (containing 2000+ files in my tests). After the first (or first and second) accesses/crashes, Rox is very responsive browsing that folder.
Again, I did reproduce this once on the 4.1.2 - 184.108.40.206 LiveCD as well.
On the system I couldn't reproduce the blackscreen on, it
reliably show an odd behavior after the "system32" folder loaded in Rox.
Dragging the scrollbar to scroll up and down in the Rox window would show a garbled icon list whenever I was scrolling through the icons in the middle of the alphabet. When I'd scrolled down about 800 files, the icons would mostly stop scrolling, in a garbled state of display. Once I got down to within ~800 files of the end, the icons would suddenly refresh and scroll reliably. Same during repeat scrolling. So scrolling the middle of the alphabet resulted in scrambled displays. However, the actual icons were invisibly keeping track of their positions: right-clicking a garbled display would refresh the display & show the correct icons.
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Posts: 9
Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:06
Post subject: hardinfo benchmark weirdness
Subject description: SEGFAULT & odd multiprocessor results
according to hardinfo, milestone marks for a Celeron M 1.5GHz:
lower is better for all tests:
CPU Blowfish 26, FPU Raytrace = 41.
Dell Dim9100, Pentium D (two Pentium 4s) 3.0GHz, 3 G Ram, no swap space:
puppy 423 184.108.40.206-SCSIl:
CPU Blowfish = 27
. FPU Raytrace 31
puppy 431 184.108.40.206:
Blowfish 13.7
. Raytrace 57
. FFT "Segmentation fault."
Dell DimE310, P4 2.8GHz w/ Hyperthreading on in BIOS, no swap.
blowfish 43
. raytrace 98
. FFT Segfault
(same in Xorg or Xvesa)
blowfish 29
. raytrace 34
Same Dell DimE310, but with hyperthreading OFF in BIOS:
EITHER puppy431 version ~= the previous result w/ hyperthreading on but older kernel:
blowfish 29, raytrace 34, FFT 8.2.
FWIW, here are the numbers from my Thinkpad T20 P3 512MB Ram & 512 MB swap:
same results in 4.3.1-184.108.40.206 and in 4.1.2-220.127.116.11:
blowfish 113, raytrace 132, FFT 96 .
(all tests from LiveCD with pfix=ram)
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Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:21
Post subject: JWM (or a Rox?) issues
Subject description: longstanding
two things:
1. if I go into JWM configuration GUI menu & try to change Alt+Tab to trigger the command 'nextstacked' instead of the default 'next', it works... but Alt doesn't work anymore in other contexts. (e.g. accessing a 'File' menu in an app by typing Alt-F).
I've experimented w/ every Puppy jwm config file w/o success. I've never known whether this was a puppy or jwm issue. Issue existed in 4.1.2 also.
2. yellow 'tooltips' pop up after hovering mouse cursor over toolbar app placeholders or over 'Show Desktop' or 'Menu' icons. The tooltips persist or reappear as long as you hover over the file icon area on lower left of desktop.
in 4.1.2, the tooltips were harder to get to persist after you left the toolbar area.
I noticed after the blackscreen rox-filer crashes, the tooltips weren't an issue anymore.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - doodles Log in to check your private messages Goto page 1, 2 Next Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "doodles" joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:34 am I doodle in MSPaint and some of the doodles evolve into larger pieces (you can see the expansion lines in some of these; more to follow). Didn't think I was ambitious enough to try colour (in a large canvas) but yesterday... Last edited by joemo on Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:16 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:54 pm This is MSPaint? OK..I will try that.. Did you mouse it or does MSPaint support a tablet? This simple, very fast sketch..because I am short of time these next/last few days..was 212 kb in bmp..I took it into another program, made a few small corrections(?) and saved it as jpg..18kb,,Did you save back in another program or leave it as bmp? I like MSPaint..I think the airbrush has a very rare calligraphic texture potential but the same problem as pen and ink..no mistakes..because corrections/effects are very limited.. I better label this because my drawings don't always look like what they are supposed to be..This is two figures..children .. I am still studying the perspective drawings you posted..A friend gave me a book..Descriptive Geometry which I am going to study when I have a few minutes..Curved Surfaces..Yes! Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:47 am FWIW I think the subject of your drawing is recognizable without the label. :) Yep, MSPaint, mouse. I use tif - or bmp; I don't think it matters - and resize/convert in anything other than MSPaint (resizing is not its strong point, heh). For corrections, maybe use the airbrush set to background colour (white); the leftover black (or gray) pixels sometimes suggest new forms - and on it goes. As always, depends on how much time you want (or have) to sink into it. Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:29 am Joemo.. Those are Beautiful..Thanks for the information... That is a texture I haven't been able to achieve in other programs ..You did a great job with it! OK..an edited update here..Under Image ..there are resize options but I still can't find Crop..which is my usual "resize" preference..and the "save" is a personal problem with this computer..MSPaint will save in many different formats..if the computer is functioning properly..The white out is better than eraser ..That was a good tip! Another quick sketch in MSPaint.. Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:05 pm OK..What you said..."The leftover black or gray pixels suggest new forms" That gave me this idea.. I painted a block (sort of) area with airbrush set to lt/dk grey ...Then I used airbrush set to white, a bit of grey pencil and a touch of eraser..I carved the image out of the solid block..rather than drawing outlines. more like sculptured in grey stone than "drawn." This is what I came up with..IT is faint but I think it can be seen.. Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:45 pm Nice proportions BC. Edit: Sorry, meant to add that the eyes could be lowered to about the middle of the canvas, they're a bit high. Options for cropping or resizing (also for anyone who's not familiar with MSPaint and might want to give it a go): 1. Image/Attributes (clips or expands canvas from bottom and right edges). 2. View/Tool Box (if the Tool Box isn't showing already): Select (button with dotted line). 3. Image/Stretch/Skew: resizes (by percentage) selected area or entire canvas. Having cooperative hardware helps, for sure. That's what got me into this to start with (a long line of "tin pot" computers). Even with a new muscle machine I keep coming back to this airbrush thing (in MSP), I guess because it's got all the basic qualities that make more 'sophisticated' painting what it is (randomness of splattered paint; high potential for creating accidental forms; etc.) - but in 'human scale' (as mentioned elsewhere): accessible to the majority. Cave painting with a twist? :)Last edited by joemo on Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:48 pm; edited 2 times in total Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:52 pm Oop, sorry BC, I was writing that last reply while you were posting your latest. Will be back... Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:09 pm BC I've been thinking of your previous comment "People make pictures if they have to use fire blackened sticks and mud smeared on cave walls by firelight.." Yeah! I'm all over that, count me IN. :) Understood re carved in stone (interesting effect). The greys seem to underscore the 'shyness' of the character... I tried using grey (example below) but decided to make all values manually (using only black and white). Though that's just me, I enjoy tedium? Ditto re canvases that are a couple thousand pixels across (as above). One of the 'rules' I follow (which usually applies to halftone images in traditional printing) is "no white areas without black dots and no black areas without white dots". 060325Last edited by joemo on Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:36 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:23 pm Ref applied to an earlier sketch from memory. Might enlarge this and add detail, but later. Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:08 am Joemo One thing I have not been able to learn on the computer..or find a useful technique for learning is SHADING That is learned with a pencil in traditional art and I haven't had much luck with pencils.. Computer shading is dodge/burn/ and push brush I learned more about shading... "sculpting" in grey and white while doing that little drawing than I have learned from studying "values" tutorials for years.. Calligraphy...is now possible for me because..The ink splatters are part of calligraphy and other computer programs will only simulate variable line widths..MSPaint is a revelation.. I am glad you have demonstrated with such a high level of craft and artistic ability the capabilities of this "airbrush" in MSPaint That fish is ..amazing..It glows... without effects /dodge/burn or any other computer quick tricks.. Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:18 am Something resembling architecture, for a change. I wonder if the tops of the other two passages should be rounded. Will add some figures... Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:09 am Brake Check, cheers. I'm glad you have a useful shading tool (at last). I wish everyone would keep trying until they find something that works for them. You set a good example. :) Thanks for appreciating the fish. I wasn't sure I could do it without desaturating MSP's default colours, which is a pain in the butt kind of tedious. Found a way around it and learned something too (including: simply trust that it can be done). Re ambition and colour (my first post in this topic) I forgot about my first experiments in MSP, which were often done pixel-by-pixel: '99 Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:40 pm Yeah....I have bumped head-on into the "desaturation" of MSPaint Palette..That Pink is really Paink...I am glad "desaturation" of the native hues in that program can be done..and with such stunning results I am an example?..>>>OK 1) There is a saying "Any one can learn to draw." 2) There is a saying "There is an exception to every rule." I am dead set on proving that one of those statements is false... So Far.. I am twice as good as I was...Now if that is true..then I am half way there..and if half way can be attained ...then all the way is very possible.. So I keep on keeping on I appreciate drawing along with you..I am starting to understand that shading ..half tone..that you did on the architecture..I am trying squares of "shading" to see if I can duplicate the tones and values.. Back to top FallDamagememberMember #Joined: 03 Nov 2003Posts: 474Location: Canada Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:53 pm Joe, that last spaceman image gives me some serious nostalgia for the old dos games. Your treatment of the stars and simplification seems drawn almost exactly from old school space quest. I like it. Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:47 pm I wanted to post something tonight and my hot candidate crapped out. Instead, the drawing of the two kids (above) reminded me of this (from earlier this year): 070313 Brake Check, LOL@"Paink", that colour is way too much, agreed. Interesting you mention several points that I decided not to mention earlier (today), because constant praise goes flat (reminded myself of that). I've been thinking of a book called "Drawing on the Right Side of Your Brain" (or something like that), of all the things I've heard that say likewise "any one can learn to draw". Obviously there are lots of ways to see - mass/volume, line/vector, value/hue - and lots of ways to do. Personally I don't care what mode it is (some people do care) I just know I'm happy doing and I'm happy if the result makes others happy (someone mentioned this recently in another thread; ditto for me). Most people seem to defeat themselves before they start (they want a shrink-wrapped DVD, not a blank canvas staring them in the face?). You're definitely "twice as good" as you were, I agree. All along I've been chuckling to myself and muttering things like BALLS, TENACITY, CHUTZPAH, because you haven't given up where others would. I know I've given up at times. So kudos. I appreciate drawing along with you as well, and I appreciate having this space - 'cave wall' (courtesy Sijun) - for us to plaster. That reminds me, I meant to do some knockoff 'cave paintings' (some of the originals were sprayed on, I think - LOL), need to dig up some references... FallDamage, I hope nostalgia is a good thing <grin>. I have big gaps in my knowledge of computer games so any resemblance is coincidental likely (I'm not familiar with "space quest"). Glad you like. :)Last edited by joemo on Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:33 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:10 am I made progress when I realized there isn't any "easy" or "quick" way to learn this.. Traditional techniques..perspective, shading and proportion.. Those are what I am learning..It is sometimes tedious, boring and the rewards are slow but Now I am starting to go forward..rather than kid myself about an "easy" way or that I might have some "latent talent" that will be suddenly evident or that an untrained brain and hand will become instruments of artistic genius ..because I have deigned (tra la) to finally meander a pencil around a piece of paper..All of these miracles and marvels will thus relieve me of having to learn..proportion, perspective and shading.. And Practicing Daily. Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:53 am Break Check, glad you've settled in for the long haul. :) I happen to know that native 'talent' is no guarantee of success either. I was born an artist (so to speak) but my family had other ideas: 'We'll have no artists in this family, thank you very much.' Tortured artist stereotype ensues. :P Love that quote from Georges Braque: "I never decided to become a painter any more than I decided to breathe." :) Large 'doeful' eyes aren't uncommon so I didn't see them as a problem (unless aiming for strict realism). In the same vein (ie. improvement), I realize now that working in MSP (no layers, limited undo) forces me to THINK about what I'm doing. I imagine thinking accelerates learning. :) Quotations... googling Space Quest got me into my own nostalgia kick. Here's one for you, Break Check, from a favourite book (Dreamers of Decadence; I don't agree with the heroism sentiment but 'fear' or something like it is often a problem, for me): "Artistic creation is an awe-inspiring commitment, a sort of silent, solemn duel in which the mind has to be concentrated in a fearless discipline." - Henry de Groux Now where was I... 1. Discovery draft (with lots of nice texture that I should have worked with instead of removing). My first thought was "crypt": 2. Repeat of earlier post/image (above). Unlike 1, the value of the facing wall (the lighter one) and of the doorway at the top of the stairs are too close. Like one of those 'trick' photographs/drawings, the inner (black) archway sometimes resembles a cardboard cutout with a hole in it: 3. Finally<!>, here's that "hot candidate" mentioned above, which is still way too "precious" (the word I'm using for overworked to the point of being stale). No references, will go as far as I can without them. 4. What's a "crypt" without a dead person. That's how the reclining figure got there. I guess there's also a metaphor in this, one that I didn't consciously apply. Before I get to that: I plan to add four more figures (two left, two right), and to somehow work out the stiffness of the figures (bad pun). The background figures are too dark (100% black outline), temporarily. I was happy I at least survived the fabric/drapery stuff (I didn't give up) - then realized that 'centre stage' crotch really needs fixing. 5. Speaking of parents, a little story (as promised). A couple weeks ago one of the neighbour's kids (under age) downed a 26 of vodka (his 'reward' from the person he was babysitting for; how do you spell stupidity). I helped carry "the body", as I thought at the time, up the stairs (200 lbs, big boy). His parents wanted to let him "sleep it off". I thought that was a really stupid idea and called an ambulance. At the hospital his blood alcohol was .62, about a sixty percent chance of death, in adults (fortunately he didn't die). Yep, yep, yep. So yeah, in retrospect there might be more to this pic than a spontaneous crypt. Or not. :)Last edited by joemo on Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:03 pm; edited 2 times in total Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:05 am Couldn't leave it alone (with the posture off kilter and all). Here's the fix: Man, I need a beer. ;)Last edited by joemo on Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:37 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:29 am Talent..I am not certain what that means..I would not want the training and skill of a cardiologist to be described in the terms often applied to artists....*..raw genius..natural talent..* Yeah..bloody witch doctor..Even with natural aptitude and talent..doctors and artists are in for the "long haul." Success..Ok..If you are a person who sits and stares at the first page of Jack Hamm' "Drawing the Head and Figure" and what really has you stumped is "page one, example one" ..The instruction says.."Draw an Oval"..and all of your ovals look like something mangled in a government shredder during a botched coverup.. Then here is how success is defined..(after drawing 10 pages of ovals) I looked at something ..I drew it and it looks like what I saw..That is Forward.. A writer is defined and judged by the term.."command of the language." An artist has a command of ...what...Line? Shading? Perspective? That is why the eyes are kewl..but not as a habit or lack of ...command..or skill (this post has been edited for clarity..several times..I think it is closer to what I meant to say..than what I originally wrote)Last edited by Brake Check on Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:53 pm; edited 7 times in total Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:29 pm BTW..That is a very ..moving..image of a crypt.. One of our friends in high school..there was some game, chug a lug ..or some variation of spin the bottle..with straight vodka I wasn't there but my brother was and one of the boys did die..after chug a lugging some large portion of a quart..My brother never said much about it..Just that the boy collapsed and the ambulance came..and he died.. Alcohol poisoning is what the doctor called it.. I am going to try a calligraphy (chinese ink drawing) tutorial in MSP..That is closer to real...no layers, limited undo and a fine texture for that art form.. I learn much from Chinese ink drawings... Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:24 pm Brake Check wrote: "An artist has a command of ...what...Line? Shading? Perspective?" I don't know what's 'right' and 'wrong' in all that's been said/written about art (I've read only a small portion, anyhow). I do know (beyond a doubt) that we can't say a person is more or less human, 'acceptable', by the quality of art they create (no more than by their grasp of mathematics, or whatever subject). I think an artist is a someone who produces, who generates his/her personal art, regardless. That's why I like the cave painting metaphor (partly as satire, partly as serious): "To represent and recognize a solid three-dimensional object by linear outline was already a huge inellectual leap to have made. A line does not in reality exist to mark the boundaries of an object against its surroundings or against other objects. Tone, colour, three-dimensional vision and movement tell us where the edges of objects are in real life. The linear outline is a translation, an invented language, or rather the first phrases of a language with which we have learned to represent the visual world." - John Raynes, Michael Beazley, Figure Drawing and Anatomy for the Artist I agree that art happens somewhere in the middle ground between art and language. By this, apparently some people see art as a stunted form of self-expression, a vagrant offense, a waste of time. If the rest of us are DOOMED by what we see and feel in drawing etc., well, so be it. :) Er, contradicting my earlier suggestion (re "treating shapes as volumes"), there are times when line comes charging to the rescue: Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:55 pm BC: Collecting the bits I meant to reply to but didn't (I'm railroaded too easily by these strings of letters, once started): Interesting re ovals, and that's an amazing result (your drawing), definitely a step forward. :) I used to draw circles, hundreds of them, maybe as an exercise recommended in a childhood 'art book', maybe just because the challenge in drawing a 'perfect circle' freehand seemed key to something (control, proportion - whatever). Re the crypt, cheers. If it's "moving" (of course I'm too involved in it to know) that's partly a result of something you said in another thread, "Intrigue is overlooked in painting subjects..". Thanks for the tip. :) Sorry to hear your school friend died of alcohol poisoning. Hard to comment on that kind of thing (words fail?). Misadventure happens; when adults fail the kids, that's another thing. BTW I don't mean to pick on parents (as above), lots of parents are really cool people. I'll stop now, before I get started (remind myself this is an arts forum). :) Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:45 am MSP...Chinese Ink studies last night..I practiced some monks and bamboo..but these are free hand..no reference I drew them after I shut down the Chinese paintings..sort of a post test....I like the results in MSP.. You said.."I drew pages of circles." That is my point..about an easy or quick way...Everybody has to pay them dues..and that may include drawing pages of circles/ovals and other basic shapes..and it can be boring tedious frustrating...*But I wanna draw stuff like people...what is this "oval" jive?" is where I was kidding myself..It ain't always easy but it can be done...I can draw ovals.. Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:10 pm Big grin here, Brake Check. That's great stuff, no references. Re Chinese Ink studies, I used to be into Oriental everything, though in a comparative religion context. Of course I noticed the art, in passing, and recall one term that I think sums it up: "restrained elegance". With the exception of some Tibetan tankas, and a lot of Indian sculpture, and... maybe I better reconsider that term. I agree (as mentioned in another thread) that studying bone structure is a good way to begin drawing people. If you're interested, here's one of the better (head and neck) reference pages (IMO), and some excellent photographs here.Last edited by joemo on Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:46 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:14 pm Thanks..and Yeah..I am really interested..I tried skulls / skeletons but ..at the time they were still somewhat beyond my meager understanding Those pictures are something I feel I can tackle ..no harder than drawing flowers The skull is very plainly marked..and easy to see how it all works Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:14 am Edit: This is going to be one of those every-time-I-look-I-see-something-else-needs-fixing things, I see. Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:02 pm Eyeballed (no point perspective). Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:09 pm Glad the skull page is useful. I tend to loiter when I see a skull (in details that have nothing to do with external form). Here's an earlier doodle (sketch?): 070303 Back to top Brake CheckmemberMember #Joined: 05 Dec 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:00 am A skull is a carved ball..I did draw skulls that were out lined only..and one was good enough that someone said I had "natural talent." LOL But I am working on shading the skull as a complex, 3 dimensional architectural structure..meanwhile..I am going to study hands..and ears... I am short of time this week..work schedule..won't have much time.. The tibetan tanka..That statement had me flummoxed for a moment This is Tanka Speed Tanka...Time: Split Second Within this slant rhyme, The melody of the line Seems as if by chance. Listen to the soft cadence To know the syllable's dance. Back to top joemomemberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2007Posts: 80 Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:03 pm LOL@"speed tanka". Thanks for the example. :) I wasn't certain so I checked the spelling in wiki (A "Thangka," also known as "Tangka", "Thanka" or "Tanka"), starting with the disambiguation page: "a genre of Japanese poetry", etc. I don't trust western spellings of eastern terms, best to double check. :) Natural talent or not, am looking forward to seeing some skulls, hands and ears (eventually; sigh). 070905 Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Work in Progress All times are GMT - 8 HoursGoto page 1, 2 Next Page 1 of 2 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group

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A large children's hospital in Durban, South Africa, is being rebuilt two decades after it closed owing to apartheid. It opened in 1931 as a facility for all races, but racial tensions in the 1980s forced its closure.
Now with Durban and the surrounding province of KwaZulu-Natal extremely hard hit by AIDS and tuberculosis, local leaders are hopeful they can begin reopening the hospital early in 2013.
If the rehabilitation project is successful, it could restore one woman's dream from almost a century ago of having a multiracial hospital in Durban by the sea.
While child mortality rates almost everywhere else in the world have been falling, this part of South Africa has seen the rate rise. At some maternity clinics in the region, 50 percent of pregnant women are testing positive for HIV.
"HIV contributes to almost 50 to 60 percent of deaths in children under the age of 5 [in South Africa]," Mohern Archary, a pediatrician at the King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, says.
This is why Arthi Ramkissoon, a public health director at the University of the Witwatersrand, is pushing to restore the boarded-up Children's Hospital in Durban.
"Children are a neglected part of the health system," she says, and a hospital dedicated exclusively to the needs of kids could help reduce the province's rising infant mortality.
The Durban Children's Hospital was the first facility in all of Africa dedicated exclusively to kids. It was built in 1928 by then-Durban Mayor Mary Siedle, who wanted to take a child of color for medical treatment but could not find a place.
The hospital had a mandate to serve kids of all races, but it sat on a prime, beachfront lot in a white neighborhood. Amid rising tension about the hospital attracting nonwhites into a white neighborhood, the apartheid regime shut it down in the 1980s.
Now the hospital's seven buildings have fallen into deep disrepair. Windows are shattered. Roofs have collapsed, and pigeons have taken up residence in the gutters.
Ramkissoon, who works with KwaZulu-Natal Children's Hospital Trust, is still trying to raise money to restore six of the seven buildings on the 3 1/2-acre site. The first building to be rebuilt is expected to open early in 2013. It will house a center for HIV-positive teenagers.
The focus of the new children's hospital, she says, will be broader than just HIV. There will be general pediatric medicine, psychological services and inpatient wards.
Ramkissoon hopes to take full advantage of the facility's prime location next to the Indian Ocean. "My vision is for children to have physical therapy on the beach," she says. "I'd like the wheelchairs and beds to be wheeled out there. I'm going to try to have a ramp or something out to the sand."
Let's go next to South Africa, to the city of Durban, where efforts are underway to rebuild a historic children's hospital that was shut down in the later days of white minority rule in South Africa. This hospital originally opened in 1931 with a mandate to serve children of all races, but it was hard to keep it open during apartheid times because of its location. It was sitting on a prime beachfront lot in a white neighborhood. Now, with local hospitals strained by the AIDS epidemic, city leaders are trying to reopen the children's facility. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.
JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE: The Durban Children's Hospital was designed in the 1920s with stately porches and huge windows facing the Indian Ocean. But now the porches are crumbling, the glass is shattered, and red clay tiles of the roof have slipped out of place or fallen away completely.
ARTHI RAMKISSOON: And down here you can see original stained glass from the 1920s, which was put in at child height.
BEAUBIEN: Arthi Ramkissoon with the KwaZulu Natal Children's Hospital Trust is one of the people pushing to restore this institution to its former glory.
RAMKISSOON: There's one more here which is a bit damaged. We'll have to fix that.
BEAUBIEN: This project is more than just the restoration of a cool old building. It's a project entwined with apartheid, the historical inequities of South Africa, and AIDS.
RAMKISSOON: This was formerly known as the Addington Children's Hospital, built in 1928 by a woman who wanted to take a child of color for medical treatment and could not find a place.
BEAUBIEN: That woman was Mary Siedle, a white philanthropist from a prominent mercantile family. In the 1980s, amidst rising tension over the hospital attracting non-whites in to a white neighborhood, the apartheid regime shut down the Durban Children's Hospital. If the rehabilitation project is successful, it could restore one woman's dream from almost a century ago of having a multi-racial hospital in Durban by the sea.
Now, as South Africa grapples with AIDS instead of apartheid, this province has the highest rate of HIV in the country. At some maternity clinics in KwaZulu Natal, nearly half the women are HIV positive. AIDS has put significant new strains on the public health care system in South Africa and Ramkissoon says the medical needs of young people have often been pushed to the back burner.
RAMKISSOON: We have a population who almost half of which are under 24 years of age. We also have an increasing under five mortality. So together with the burden of HIV, children are a neglected part of the health system.
BEAUBIEN: On the other side of town, Dr. Mohern Archary a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the King Edward the Eighth Hospital, says HIV is also affecting kids directly.
DR. MOHERN ARCHARY: HIV contributes to almost 50 to 60 percent of deaths in children under the age of five.
BEAUBIEN: That's across all of South Africa, and he says the problem is even worse here in KwaZulu Natal. The new provincially-run hospital won't focus exclusively on HIV, but also offer general medicine as well as psychological and social services for children. That's the goal, anyway. Arthi Ramkissoon is still trying to raise money to restore the other six buildings on the three-and-a-half-acre site.
BEAUBIEN: Amidst the bustle of construction workers working in one corner of the compound, Ramkissoon says she can already picture the finished ocean front hospital.
RAMKISSOON: We are going to have rehabilitation here as well as everything else, and my vision is for children to have their physiotherapy and other therapy on the beach. I would like the wheelchairs and the beds to be wheeled out there, so I'm going to try and have some sort of ramp or other access to the sand.
BEAUBIEN: The first building on the complex is scheduled to re-open early next year. It will house a center for HIV positive teenagers who've been on AIDS treatment since birth. Jason Beaubien, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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So what do you do if you come up to a bear in the woods? Walk the other way…What if he/she follows? I have not had to deal with this, and I suspect that it is due to the fact that prevention is usually the best bet. Bear spray is designed to be sprayed into the eyes of a bear, and the theory is that they will run away. Here are a few better ideas:
Don't sneak through the woods. Talk normally, to let the bears know you are there.
Don't sleep in the same clothes you eat or cook in.
Put all "smellables" in a bear bag up in the trees. This includes all food, trash, and clothing that has food on it. Also, any water bottles that had anything other than water in them. First Aid kits, toilet kits also go up. When in doubt, put it up. Practice the "Bearmuta triangle". Form a triangle at about 50' per side. Cook and eat at one point, keep your packs at another point, and sleep at the third. If a bear comes he/she will likely move between the cooking and pack areas, leaving you blissfully unaware.
Bill's ChoiceIn addition to the above items, I carry a bottle of bear spray. I never give this to the boys to use as we all know that boys need to test things out, and this is not something that should be tested. The cost is about $30 per bottle. I have had mine for over 4 years, and it has never been used.I also keep my hiking poles in my tent, just in case I get a night time visitor…..A bible does not hurt either!
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Eclipse DemoCamps November 2010/Portland
Lucky Labrador Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby
Portland, OR 97209
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Date and Time
Monday, November 8th 2010, 6 - 9pm. Talks start at 6:30pm.
Elias Volanakis (503 929 5537), EclipseSource
Agenda: Eclipse for Mobile Developers
1. Android Development with Eclipse
Michael Galpin is an engineer at eBay in its Architecture group. He has been working in software engineering and web development for 10+ years. He is also a freelance writer and has written for IBM developerWorks, TheServerSide.com, and the Java Developer's Journal. He is a regular on developerWorks and has written numerous articles about using Eclipse for developing in Java, C++, PHP, Python, and Ruby. He has spoken at technical conferences such as Eclipse Day at Google, Flex Camp, AjaxWorld, and EclipseWorld.
2. BlackBerry Application Development Options
Research In Motion is a longtime contributor and consumer of several Eclipse projects as a Enterprise Member of the Eclipse Foundation. From Java to Web (as well as Flash/AIR and native C/C++ on the BlackBerry Playbook), Eclipse plays an integral role in enabling developers on the BlackBerry platform. This talk discusses these options for BlackBerry Application development and demonstrates the Eclipse tooling.
3. iPad development with Eclipse
Eclipse RAP is a mature framework for writing multi-platform applications with Java. We are now adding the iPad as an additional platform. This talk will introduce the technology and demo a single-source / triple-platform app (Java client / PC web-client / iPad web-client).
Elias Volanakis (@evolanakis) is an Eclipse RAP committer and mobile development enthusiast. At EclipseSource he helps customers write Eclipse-based software. When not coding he enjoys running and the art of cooking.
Who Is Attending
If you plan to attend please add your name and company to the list below. This will help us plan food & seating. If you have any trouble with the wiki, just send an email. Thanks!
- Elias Volanakis (@evolanakis), EclipseSource
- Kai Zhang, IBM
- Bryan Lee, Axian
- Michael Galpin, eBay
- Seth Shikora
- Martin Hald
- John Thomas, RIM
- Troy Acott, Critical Path
- Mark Dopheide
- Bob Brehm
- Daniel Kranowski, Business Algorithms
- Bryan Fox, Cloud Four
- Dwarakanath Mysore
- Ben Acker, Yesmail
- Gera Shegalov, Oracle
- Chad Riddle, SoftSource
- Nilesh K., Logicues
- Todd Davis, Northwest Evaluation Association
- Dave Shanley, CrowdCompass
- Rhett Savage, Critical Path
- Richard Johnson, Chrome Systems
- Sean Dargen, Azad
- Patrick Timlick, Timlick & Associates.
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- Brendan Joyce, Tryon Creek
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Puerto Rico to consider anti-discrimination bill
Puerto Rico's legislature is expected to approve a long sought-after bill that would make it a crime to discriminate against people based on their gender or sexual orientation.
The bill was submitted Tuesday by Senator Ramon Luis Nieves of the Popular Democratic Party, which gained control of the Senate and House of Representatives after November's general election.
The bill aims to protect people in the U.S. territory from being discriminated at work, in public places, and during transactions including renting or selling property.
"A human being's dignity cannot be violated," said Nieves, who was flanked by supporters including Pedro Peters Maldonado, a San Juan legislator who is Puerto Rico's first openly gay elected official.
A similar proposal was approved by the House of Representatives in recent years, but was rejected by the Senate, which was then controlled by the pro-statehood New Progressive Party.
Human rights organizations have long demanded such a bill, saying that many gay, lesbian and transgender people in the conservative U.S. territory are at the mercy of homophobic attitudes. Most government departments already have their own anti-discriminatory policies, but human rights activists say they are often not enforced.
The bill comes a week after another legislator submitted a bill demanding that all partners, regardless of their sexual orientation or civil status, be covered by domestic violence laws.
Legislators are expected to debate both bills in upcoming weeks.


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This is an informal overview of the major library enhancements in Java SE 8 to take advantage of new language features, primarily lambda expressions and default methods, specified by JSR 335 and implemented in the OpenJDK Lambda Project. The new language features for Java SE8 are described in Lambda Expression in Java 8, which should be read first.
Had lambda expressions (closures) been part of the Java language from
the beginning, our Collections APIs would certainly look different
than they do today. As the Java language acquires lambda expressions
as part of JSR 335, this has the unfortunate side effect of making
Collections interfaces look even more out of date! While it might
be tempting to start from scratch and build a replacement collections
framework ("Collections II"), replacing the collections framework
would be a major task, as
Collections interfaces permeate the entire
Java ecosystem, and the adoption lag would be many years. Instead, we
pursue an evolutionary strategy of adding extension methods to
existing interfaces (such as
List, or
Iterable), and
adding a stream abstraction (for example,
java.util.stream.Stream) for
performing aggregate operations on datasets, and
retrofitting existing classes to provide stream views, enabling many
of the desired idioms without making people trade in their trusty
ArrayLists and
HashMaps. (This is not to say that
Collections will never be replaced; clearly, there are limitations beyond simply
not being designed for lambdas. A more modern collections framework
may be considered for a future version of the JDK.)
A key driver for this work is making parallelism more accessible to developers. While the Java platform provides strong support for concurrency and parallelism already, developers face unnecessary impediments in migrating their code from sequential to parallel as needed. Therefore, it is important to encourage idioms that are both sequential- and parallel-friendly. This is facilitated by shifting the focus towards describing what computation should be performed, rather than how it should be performed. It is also important to strike the balance between making parallelism easier but not going so far as to make it invisible; our goal is explicit but unobtrusive parallelism. (Making parallelism transparent would introduce nondeterminism and the possibility of data races where users might not expect it.)
Internal vs. External Iteration
The collections framework relies on the concept of external
iteration, where a
Collection provides, by implementing
a means to enumerate its elements, and clients use this to step
sequentially through the elements of a collection. For example, if we
wanted to set the color of every shape in a collection of shapes to
red, we would write:
for (Shape s : shapes) { s.setColor(RED); }
This example illustrates external iteration; the
for-each loop calls
iterator() method of
shapes, and steps through the collection
one by one. External iteration is straightforward enough, but it has
several problems:
- Java's
for-eachloop is inherently sequential, and must process the elements in the order specified by the collection.
- It deprives the
librarymethod of the opportunity to manage the control flow, which might be able to provide better performance by exploiting reordering of the data, parallelism, short-circuiting, or laziness.
Sometimes the strong guarantees of the
for-each loop (sequential,
in-order) are desirable, but often are just an impediment to
performance. The alternative to external iteration is internal iteration, where
instead of controlling the iteration, the client delegates that to the
library and passes in snippets of code to execute at various points in
the computation.
The internal-iteration equivalent of the previous example is:
shapes.forEach(s -> s.setColor(RED));
This may appear to be a small syntactic change, but the difference is
significant. The control of the operation has been handed off from
the client code to the library code, allowing the libraries not only
to abstract over common control flow operations, but also enabling
them to potentially use laziness, parallelism, and out-of-order
execution to improve performance. (Whether an implementation of
forEach actually does any of these things is for the
implementation to determine; but with internal iteration, they
are at least possible, whereas with external iteration, they are not.)
Where external iteration mixes the what (color the shapes red) and
the how (get an
Iterator and iterate it sequentially), internal
iteration lets the client dictate the what but lets the library
control the how. This offers several potential benefits: client code
can be clearer because it need only focus on stating the problem, not
the details of how to go about solving it, and we can move complex
optimization code into libraries where it can benefit all users.
The key new library abstraction introduced in Java SE 8 is a stream,
defined in package
java.util.stream. (There are
several stream types;
Stream<T> represents a
stream of object references, and there are specializations such as
IntStream to describe streams of primitives.)
A stream represents a sequence of values, and exposes a set of
aggregate operations that allow us to express common manipulations on
those values easily and clearly. The libraries provide convenient
ways to obtain stream views of collections, arrays, and other data
Stream operations are chained together into pipelines. For example, if we wanted to color only the blue shapes red, we could say:
shapes.stream() .filter(s -> s.getColor() == BLUE) .forEach(s -> s.setColor(RED));
stream() method on
Collection produces a stream view of the
elements of that collection; the
filter() operation then produces a
stream containing the shapes that are blue, and these elements are
then made red by
If we wanted to collect the blue shapes into a new
List, we could
List<Shape> blue = shapes.stream() .filter(s -> s.getColor() == BLUE) .collect(Collectors.toList());
collect() operation collects the input elements into an
aggregate (such as a
List) or a summary description; the argument to
collect() is a recipe for how to do this aggregation. In this case,
we use
toList(), which is a simple recipe that accumulates the
elements into a
List. (More detail on
collect() will be discussed shortly.)
If each shape were contained in a
Box, and we wanted to know which
boxes contained at least one blue shape, we could say:
Set<Box> hasBlueShape = shapes.stream() .filter(s -> s.getColor() == BLUE) .map(s -> s.getContainingBox()) .collect(Collectors.toSet());
map() operation produces a stream whose values are the result of
applying a mapping function (here, one that takes a shape and returns
its containing box) to each element in its input stream.
If we wanted to add up the total weight of the blue shapes, we could express that as:
int sum = shapes.stream() .filter(s -> s.getColor() == BLUE) .mapToInt(s -> s.getWeight()) .sum();
So far, we haven't provided much detail about the specific signatures
of the
Stream operations shown; these examples simply illustrate the
types of problems that the streams framework is designed to address.
Streams vs. Collections
Collections and streams, while bearing some superficial similarities, have different goals. Collections are primarily concerned with the efficient management of, and access to, their elements. By contrast, streams do not provide a means to directly access or manipulate their elements, and are instead concerned with declaratively describing the computational operations which will be performed in aggregate on that source. Accordingly, streams differ from collections in several ways:
- No storage. Streams don't have storage for values; they carry values from a source (which could be a data structure, a generating function, an I/O channel, etc) through a pipeline of computational steps.
- Functional in nature. Operations on a stream produce a result, but do not modify its underlying data source.
- Laziness-seeking. Many stream operations, such as filtering, mapping, sorting, or duplicate removal) can be implemented lazily. This facilitates efficient single-pass execution of entire pipelines, as well as facilitating efficient implementation of short-circuiting operations.
- Bounds optional. There are many problems that are sensible to
express as infinite streams, letting clients consume values until
they are satisfied. (If we were enumerating perfect numbers, it is
easy to express this as a filtering operation on the stream of all
integers.) While a
Collectionis constrained to be finite, a stream is not. (To terminate in finite time, a stream pipeline with an infinite source can use short-circuiting operations; alternately, you can request an
Iteratorfrom a
Streamand traverse it manually.)
As an API,
Streams is completely independent from
Collections. While
it is easy to use a collection as the source for a stream
Collection has
stream() and
parallelStream() methods) or to
dump the elements of a stream into a collection (using the
operation as shown earlier), aggregates other than
Collection can be
used as sources for streams as well. Many JDK classes, such as
Random, and
BitSet, have been retrofitted to act
as sources for streams, and
Arrays.stream() provides stream view of
arrays. In fact, anything that can be described with an
can be used as a stream source, though if more information is
available (such as size or metadata about stream contents like
"sortedness"), the library can provide an optimized execution.
Operations such as filtering or mapping can be performed eagerly
(where the filtering is performed on all elements before the
method returns), or lazily (where the
Stream representing the
filtered result only applies the filter to elements from its source as
needed.) Performing computations lazily, where practical, can be
beneficial. For example, if we perform filtering lazily, we can fuse
the filtering with other operations later in the pipeline, so as not
to require multiple passes on the data. Similarly, if we are
searching a large collection for the first element that matches a
given criteria, we can stop once we find one, rather than processing
the entire collection. (This is especially important for infinite
sources; laziness is merely an optimization for finite
sources, it makes operations on infinite sources possible, whereas an
eager approach would never terminate.)
Operations such as filtering and mapping can be thought of as naturally
lazy, whether or not they are implemented as such. On the other hand,
value-producing operations such as
sum(), or side-effect-producing
operations such as
forEach(), are "naturally eager," because they
must produce a concrete result.
In a pipeline such as:
int sum = shapes.stream() .filter(s -> s.getColor() == BLUE) .mapToInt(s -> s.getWeight()) .sum();
the filtering and mapping operations are lazy. This means that we
don't start drawing elements from the source until we start the
operation, and when we do perform the
sum operation, we fuse
filtering, mapping, and addition into a single pass on the data. This
minimizes the bookkeeping costs required to manage intermediate
Many loops can be restated as aggregate operations drawing from a data
source (array, collection, generator function, I/O channel), doing a
series of lazy operations (filtering, mapping, etc), and then doing a
single eager operation (
collect, etc), giving us filter-map-accumulate, filter-map-sort-foreach, etc. The naturally
lazy operations tend to be used to compute temporary intermediate
results, and we exploit this property in our API design. Rather than
have the
filter and
map return a collection, we instead have them
return a new stream. In the Streams API, operations that return a
stream are lazy, and operations that return a non-stream result (or
return no result, such as
forEach()) are eager. In most cases where
potentially lazy operations are being applied to aggregates, this
turns out to be exactly what we want each stage takes a stream of
input values, performs some transformation on it, and passes the
values to the next stage in the pipeline.


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Eric asks:
"While you've talked about death in all of your books I can only remember you mentioning the fear of death once and it was to say in effect: Buddhism can't do anything about our fear of death. And wouldn't life kind of suck without it anyway? I disagree. If I could live the rest of my life without the bone-chilling fear of non-existence then I would be MUCH happier. When I read that I supposed that you were referring to the biological fear hard-wired into us by evolution that makes most of us avoid things like playing chicken with trains and drinking Draino on bets with our friends. If that's what you mean I totally agree. But what about the more 'existential' fear-- angst I guess, or Nausea in Sartre's formulation-- that arises upon the contemplation of our death. When I squarely face the fact that my awareness will be annihilated in just a few short decades-- six or seven at the most-- it is enough to 1) keep me from sleeping and 2) make me really depressed. Now, I know that Buddhism says we die all the time. I know that there is no essential self that coheres through the years of a person's life. But it is still scary as hell to contemplate nothingness. So does zazen remedy that? If it does, great. But if it doesn't then why do zazen as opposed to obliterating yourself with video games, wild sex, and booze? Or whatever. Saying the practice is its own reward is all fine and dandy but if it is still going to leave us blanched with terror and sadness at the omnipresence of death then what's the point?"
Brad says:
Zazen will not get rid of your fear of death. Or maybe it will. But booze, wild sex and video games won't. At least not that I've ever heard. Though I've never really played video games and I don't like being drunk* and as for wild sex, I'll leave that to other bloggers to speculate about.
But I'm guessing you mean more generally distractions that help you forget about serious stuff. So maybe in my case it'd be Gamera movies, pad thai and... uh... wild sex (as if...). And you're wondering if Zen practice will blot out your fear of death permanently in a way these temporary fixes do not.
I can't tell you what it will do for you. I won't make any guarantees or even promises. I can only say how it's worked for me.
Like you, I found myself terrified of death. When I was a teenager I realized there was a horrifying hereditary disease in our family that often crippled and/or killed people before they reached the age that I am now. I didn't think I had long to live and I was scared shitless.
But for whatever reasons I didn't do my searching the way most people seem to. I didn't look for an escape from life. When I looked into religions it was all about escape. They offered ways by which they said you could escape from this life into a life in Heaven or Krishna Loka or a variety of other places. They didn't deny death. They were obsessed with death. But they denied life. What they said translated to me as something like, "Trade your life now for a chance at something amazing after you die."
They made the trade sound reasonable. I only get to live in this world a few decades. But the afterlife, they said, is eternal. So I was supposed to live a bland, boring , restricted, white bread and mayonnaise life now in the hopes of a really super terrific future in the afterlife that would last forever.
Problem was, I couldn't believe in the afterlife. The evidence for its existence was not convincing at all.
But I knew I was living this life. So my quest became about how to make this life better. It seems like most people when they search for a way to make this life better turn to the pursuit of hedonistic pleasure. Drugs, sex, money, material goods... these things seem to be the way to Earthly happiness without regard to any belief in life after death.
This didn't work for me either, for much the same reasons. There isn't a whole lot of evidence that money, power, sex and all that really lead to happiness. I was already well aware of the excessive lives of people like Elvis Presley or Howard Hughes who had all they could possibly want and were still miserable. Later on there was Kurt Cobain who did exactly what I'd been hoping I could do, parlay a shitty paying career as an indie rocker into superstardom. What did it get him? Then I started working in the movie industry and routinely associating with famous people who were absolutely loaded with cash and I saw that they were also just as unhappy as anyone else.
Zen practice was all about this life and how to make it better. It didn't offer any magic solutions, which was appealing because I didn't believe in those. It never got into questions of the afterlife, which was great because I didn't believe in that either. It demanded a moderate degree of austerity but not because you were trading austerity today for a future of wonders in Paradise. It recommended a certain degree of austerity because it said that chasing after money, fame, sex, material goods and power just added unnecessary stress to your life that would not be rewarded when you got those things. I knew this was true. I could see it for myself.
But what about the fear of death, then? What of the fear of future oblivion?
I came to understand this fear better through my practice. I began to see that the root of this fear was a projection of myself into an imaginary future. I started seeing it was a fear of things that were not real right here and right now.
This doesn't really erase the fear of death. When I think about the possibility of Brad Warner disappearing forever, I don't really like it. But I also understand that this fear is completely unreasonable. It's as unreasonable as fearing Godzilla or some other imaginary terror.
What I'm about to say might seem like mysticism, but here goes anyhow. Once you start seeing this moment for what this moment really is, you start to understand that you can never really be annihilated in the ways that you previously imagined could happen. What I think of as "Brad Warner" is a construct in my mind. It isn't real. Yet there is a real something upon which that mental construct I've called "Brad Warner" is based. This something can't really die because it was never really born. At least not in the sense we commonly think of things being born and dying. Yes, Brad Warner was born and yes Brad Warner will die. And yet he is not just an individual entity. He is also a temporary manifestation of something vast and unknowable that has no beginning and no end.
Weird shit, huh? Sorry about that.
So OK. I still fear death. But not very much.
I forget if it was Shunryu Suzuki or Dainin Katagiri, but both of these Zen teachers died of cancer. One or the other of them said, toward the end of his life, "I don't want to die."
I've heard that this statement freaked a lot of their followers out. It implied that either a) an Enlightened master still fears death or b) the master was not actually Enlightened because an Enlightened master can't possibly fear death. Neither possibility was very attractive to those who had put their faith in a master they thought was enlightened and therefore would deliver them from the fear of death.
But I don't think the statement implies a fear of death. It implies that the teacher simply would rather have lived longer. That's not really the same thing. And even if it does mean he feared death, what's wrong with that? I fear dentist appointments. But that doesn't mean I'm scared that I will cease to exist after them.
I used to lose sleep over the fear of death. It used to bug the shit out of me. Nowadays death is about as scary as, say, the idea of a a root canal. It's something I don't want to go through, but it doesn't keep me awake nights.
You have to understand, though, that whatever degree I have achieved of overcoming the fear of death I owe to years of often difficult practice. You don't overcome the fear of death by simply deciding you don't want to be afraid of death. It's not that easy. If it was, everyone would do it.
* Am I the only person in the world who finds being drunk a very unpleasant feeling? I don't mind the effect of a glass of wine or a beer, but actually being drunk feels awful to me, like being sick.


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That wasn't Brad Pitt cruising from JFK Airport in a white stretch limousine with a sunroof and tinted windows. It was actually an eight-year-old beagle named Jasper, who officially retired from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) after six years of service protecting the country.
The rescue dog-turned-four-legged hero had spent most of his days sniffing through the baggage claim at JFK, trying to find fruits, vegetables, meats, plants, animals, and other contraband that passengers may smuggle into the U.S.
On an average day, JFK Airport receives roughly 250 international flights, so Jasper — along with K-9 Specialist handler Amanda Tripple — comb through thousands of pieces of luggage to safeguard America against various forms of agroterrorism.
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Germany: looted Matisse belongs to Jewish family
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The German task force investigating a huge trove of art recovered from a Munich apartment says one of the paintings — Henri Matisse's 1921 "Woman Sitting in an Armchair" — was looted from Jews by the Nazis and rightly belongs to the descendants of Paris art dealer Paul Rosenberg.
The painting depicts a dark-haired woman, seated with a fan in her lap and wearing a necklace and loose headscarf.
It was one of more than a thousand works found in the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, who inherited them from his father, art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, who was known to have worked with the Nazis.
The art was found in 2011 and became known to the public in in 2013. Cornelius Gurlitt died aged 81 in May, a month after agreeing to a deal with the German government under which the works he owned would be checked for Nazi-era links.
Initially, Gurlitt had insisted that all of the art belonged to him and nobody else.
"Even if it could not be documented with certainty under what circumstances Hildebrand Gurlitt came into the possession of the work, the task force comes to the conclusion that it is Nazi-looted art from the rightful property of the collection of Paul Rosenberg," said the task force's head, Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel, in a statement.
Lawyer Chris Marinello, who represents the Rosenberg family, said heirs had not been informed of the task force's finding before Wednesday's announcement, and it is not completely clear the work will be returned — though he expects it eventually will.
Berggreen-Merkel said that in terms of restitution, the "final decision lies exclusively in the hands of the heir or legal successor of Cornelius Gurlitt." But at the same time, she noted that Gurlitt declared that he would abide by international agreements to return looted art before he died, and said in her opinion, "this obligation also binds his heirs."
Marinello said he has been frustrated by a lack of communication from the task force.
Wednesday's decision "continues the vein of disregard for due process and compassion that we have seen since the discovery of the Gurlitt hoard," he said.
"It is an unfortunate but entirely expected case of bureaucracy trumping empathy."
The Rosenberg family includes journalist Anne Sinclair, the ex-wife of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Associated Press correspondent David Rising contributed to this story from Berlin.


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The US House of Representatives passed a controversial bill this morning that would grant 55,000 new visas to foreigners who graduate from US universities with science, technology, engineering or math degrees (so-called STEM graduates). The vote comes just two days after the Obama administration said it was opposed to the bill.
The bill, called the STEM Jobs Act, passed on a 245-139 vote mostly along party lines, with about two dozen Democrats joining Republicans in supporting the bill, according to a report from the blog The Hill. Most Democrats opposed the bill, though, because the STEM Jobs Act adds the 55,000 new visas at the cost of a diversity-visa program that grants the same number of visas to countries with historically low levels of immigration to the US.
About half of the diversity visas would go to African immigrants, and some minority Democratic representatives today accused the bill of being shortsighted or even racist. Shutting down the main program that provides visas to African immigrants "is racist, if not in its intent, then certainly in its effect," said Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), according to The Hill report. "Republicans have just received a historically low vote from minorities in the past election, yet they want to create an immigration system that gives visas with one hand while taking visas away from minorities with the other."
Republican advocates of the bill have presented it as a straightforward jobs program. "For each person we welcome to America with one of these high degrees, we create jobs, net jobs," said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). "We create opportunity for expansion of the kinds of businesses that in fact Americans are prepared to work in, but often we do not have enough engineers, scientists, or math professionals."
As for the racism charge, Issa said he was "personally insulted" that it had come up, and said that STEM graduates are a diverse group. More than 12,000 African citizens are now studying in STEM fields in US schools that could benefit from the program, he noted. When opponents noted that would still result in far fewer visas going to Africans, Issa accused Democrats of "looking at the numbers rather than the merit."
In any case, the bill doesn't have much chance of passing. It might not even come up for debate in the Democrat-controlled Senate.


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knives of ice wrote:malksby8771 wrote:pens#1 wrote:malksby8771 wrote:Can we bury Martin in the AHL to save cap space next season or is his NMC going to prevent that?
He will be traded, there are plenty of teams that cant get FA's
He has a NMC, I'm asking if we're stuck with him bc of the NMC. Does anyone know??
he'll either accept a trade or get sent to the minors. take your pick
HE HAS A NMC! NO MOVEMENT = CANT BE SENT TO THE MINORS, RIGHT?? SOMEONE ANSWER THAT lol im angry now


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At the age of 22, it's probably been a while since Kristen Stewart played with a slingshot. So it's surprising to see the Twilight star carrying one as she arrived at her family's home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Perhaps the slingshot was a gift for a young relative, or maybe she wanted to arm herself from an over-aggressive fan or paparazzo.
The film star did her best Just William impression as she visited family in Hollywood on Wednesday. Clearly enjoying the sunshine, she wore a pair of cut-off denim shorts, T-shirt, cardigan and baseball cap. Nowhere to be seen was her on/off boyfriend Robert Pattinson, who is believed to have spent Christmas with his family in England.


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Causes of Inattention (Poor attention span): See detailed list of causes below.
Inattention (medical symptom): Lack of attention or reduced attention span.
The list of medical condition causes of Inattention (Poor attention span) includes:
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For a medical symptom description of 'Poor attention span', the following symptom information may be relevant to the symptoms: Inattention (symptom). However, note that other causes of the symptom 'Poor attention span' may be possible.
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