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Nepal RPCV Mike Stadler presses the cause of Tibet
Read and comment on this story from the Times of Tibet about Nepal RPCV Mike Stadler who takes part in fighting for freedom for a place he has never visited and a boy he has never met. He supports the release of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, known as the Panchen Lama, a most revered religious leader and in the eyes of his countrymen, second only to the Dalai Lama who is allegedly held by the government of China. Read the story at:
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Local freedom fighters press the cause of Tibet
By The Orange County Register
May 5, 2003, 09:50
I am not in the habit of signing petitions but just felt compelled to do so – in support of the release of a boy allegedly held by the government of China.
Tibet's stolen child. His name is Gedhun Choekyi Nyima.
More importantly, he is known as the Panchen Lama, a most revered religious leader and in the eyes of his countrymen, second only to the Dalai Lama.
Now 14, he was abducted and taken to live with the Chinese at age 6, according to activists campaigning for his cause. He remains the world's youngest political prisoner.
Mike Stadler and his wife, Lamu, have followed his plight since 1995. They gave me a stack of papers detailing the story. Then I logged onto the Internet for hours to learn more. Meeting the couple, I hear about how they turned their Los Alamitos home into a factory, painting posters, making T-shirts, organizing rallies to push for a Land of Snows that would be free from Chinese rule. "We live in such an amazing society with all of our rights that we cannot forget those who have no rights," said Stadler, fresh from a stint as president of Los Angeles Friends of Tibet.
He met his future bride after some months in the Peace Corps in Nepal. She was raised in India, the child of Tibetans. Their worlds melt together in a way that I admire. There are no boundaries when they work. And the entire family takes part in fighting for freedom for a place they have never visited, for a boy they have never met.
It all started in the '90s when Lamu, during a trip to Asia, came upon a pile of bodies lying on top of one another, bodies of Tibetan refugees fleeing to Nepal, bodies "that looked like dead, but within minutes, I could see an arm moving here, moving there.
"The people had crossed the mountains, and they had frostbite. Many would have to cut their legs off."
That night she couldn't sleep. The next morning she began asking questions: What would happen to these men and women? How can we help others desperate like them?
What must be done for those who cannot choose the religion they want to worship, living under a government that never stops repressing them?
The Stadlers started researching politics and Buddhism. Daughter Laura, a high school senior, spent her summers doing a Walk for Tibet, going from San Diego to Los Angeles, selling native crafts, camping out in the nation's capital to boost awareness. Her older sister, Nima, a college student in Santa Cruz, flew to Dharamsala, India, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, to teach orphans in a children's village.
Nima did not want to come back home. "Can I stay?" she asked her parents. "I want to stay, please. There is beauty and pain and generosity. If you want to know real life, Mom, live here."
People like to think of the crisis of Tibetans "as something in the past. It's history. It's done," says Laura, 18. "But it's not. People are still suffering.
"That's why we do it. We fight because it's still going on."
What's going on is the violation of human and religious freedom in a country where Chinese leaders have destroyed more than 6,000 monasteries, stealing and murdering throughout their brutal occupation of more than 50 years - then kidnapping the Panchen Lama within days of his recognition by the Dalai Lama in 1995.
He is believed to be under house arrest near Beijing.
And the supposedly atheistic Chinese government chose its own Panchen Lama, forcing Tibetan monks and nuns to help enthrone him, sparking more protests in Orange County's population of more than 500 Tibetans.
So one recent Friday, the Stadlers found themselves actors in a street theater outside the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles, protesting. They circulated petitions and went with the crowd to deliver thousands of them, like mine, to show that the Panchen Lama is not forgotten. Supporters around them set up a display of China's "Great Wall of Shame."
They are used to bypassers gawking. A lot of them say: "Where is Tibet? Wow, we didn't know about this situation with Tibet. What can we do?" recalls Lamu, 46. Every event, every movie, every demonstration depicting the horror in the country of her parents' birth, she tries to connect to. There are fliers to distribute, marches to join, former political prisoners to listen to, fund-raisers to host.
"I never like to push people, but I try to share my point," she says. "Look at all the voices speaking out. Look at his holiness, the Dalai Lama. All of them could sit back in the monastery and be comfortable.
"They're old, compared to us, but they're out, making noise.
"We have to do that, too. We'll do as much as we can," she says in her altar room, surrounded by symbols of compassion and peace. "Until I die I will fight for the people."
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Another game using the Zelda DS game engine, I presume - a bit like Dillon's Rolling Western.
Anyone else on Cubed3 tried this?
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Another game using the Zelda DS game engine, I presume - a bit like Dillon's Rolling Western.
Anyone else on Cubed3 tried this?
This is supposed to be using the Zelda DS game engine? How did you get that idea? I've also never heard of this developer before. When I saw the tags, I was really confused what 'Grounding" was for until I noticed it was the studio that developed this game. I can't seem to find anything on Google about them though.
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Same developer that did Picturebook Games for Nintendo: http://www.g-rounding.com/en/product/
As for the visuals, many thought Dillon's Rolling Western clearly used the same game engine as Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks, and I reckon this also looks similar. Maybe not, but that's what I think


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I can't believe the events of the last 48 hours...I am stunned. This franchise has done EVERYTHING wrong from its inception. I screamed don't draft David Carr...take Julius Peppers. It made no sense to draft a QB with the offensive line of an expansion team. It made perfect sense to draft a DE with speed that was a can't miss product. Now, you are stuck with Carr because we renewed his deal.
So...no Vince....fine. So you say you can't sign Reggie Bush...fine. Then trade the stinking pick or draft D'Brickashaw Ferguson at your real point of need, which is OL. Don't take a guy that would have slid to 5 or 6 at #1 in the whole draft. That is just asanine.
I cannot believe that this franchise continues to be this inept....except for one thing. Ineptitude starts at the top, brothers and sisters, and it is obvious that Bobby Mac is way in over bald head. I never thought I would see the day that someone dethroned Uncle Drayton as the chief of all cheapskates and $7 beers...but it has happened. King Bob is in the house, and I, for one, will not be joining him this year. As a season ticket holder from the beginning, I made the call to my ticket rep on Friday night and left them a message similar to hundreds they will be receiving over the next couple of weeks - "Please cancel my account..."
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By Kate Morris. Filed in Pay Per Click, PPC, Search Engine Optimization, SEO |After reviewing why you should be paying for traffic rather than just relying on organic results, the team at New Edge Media want to take it a step further. One of the reasons to use paid search was to balance your online campaigns. But we are sure people (and clients) want to know how a paid search campaign can improve the performance of an organic campaign? Basically how do they balance each other … well here we go, how to use PPC for SEO purposes.
Keyword Research
There are a plethora of tools available to SEOs when it comes to keyword research. Google made us all happy when they added numbers to the AdWords Keyword Tool. But none of that is worth a thing without knowing what actually converts visitors. There are keywords that are traffic builders but not converters. Running a paid search campaign allows you to see within the first few months exactly which words convert to your company's end result, be it sales or form fills. That allows your SEO team to see which keywords they should be optimizing for before the others in their campaigns. Internet marketing is and should be about conversion first, not traffic.
Share of Market
Your analytics program will only let you see the traffic that is hitting your site. There is no way with pure SEO tools to see total market share. Even the numbers that Google publishes are spot on. Really, none can be, all numbers are inherently just a bit off, but running a PPC campaign can give you a better idea of how many people are searching for the products you offer. Using that number and the number of clicks, paid and natural to that keyword for a certain time period can give you a good idea of market share. One metric that all marketing and business people understand.
Conversion and Trust
There has been a large amount of research done to prove that running paid search along side naturally high ranking keywords results in not only a higher click through rate on the organic side, but also increases conversion rates. This is because searchers trust the business that is ranking organically and paying for advertising, it's a sign of relevance and stability.
The take away here is that for most companies the balance is what you should be going for. Use all sides of marketing to do your best. There is no one set combination of mediums that will work best for you because it's different for everyone. But for the 80% of companies out there that paid search works for, utilize it for your SEO campaigns too. Just as social works to increase SEO, paid search impacts it too.
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China's government is led by a "progressive, selfless, and united ruling group," according to a teaching booklet sent to all Hong Kong-government schools that's stirring controversy in the city, and that's led critics to brand it "brainwashing."
"The China Model," a 34-page color booklet, pays homage to China's one-party system and says multiparty systems, such as those in the U.S., set up a "malignant party struggle."
It was produced by the Hong Kong National Education Services Center, a government-funded organization that seeks to promote greater knowledge and exposure to mainland Chinese culture and history to Hong Kong's youth.
"The book is just a reference for teachers to help students better understand China," said Wong Chi Ming, who directs the center. Between 2008 and 2011, the center received roughly $8 million Hong Kong dollars (US$1 million) from Hong Kong's government, including HK$2.3 million (US$297,000) for the production of educational materials.
The controversy over the "China Model" booklet comes at a sensitive time for Hong Kong's relationship with mainland China. Though the former British colony returned to Chinese control in 1997, it continues to operate with its own independent political system and freedoms. On July 1, tens of thousands of protestors flooded Hong Kong's streets in a rally criticizing Beijing's interference in local politics, and calling for the resignation of newly sworn-in Leung Chun-ying, whom the city's pro-democracy camp sees as being too close to Beijing.
"We should seek truth, we should not close our eyes and wipe out all the bad things about our country," said lawmaker Wong Chi-sing, who was among a number of other lawmakers who criticized the government's support for the biased education materials in a recent legislative hearing. "This sort of approach, which was used in the Cultural Revolution, is totally unacceptable because it's brainwashing."
In addition to discussing the merits of China's political system, the book—some 30,000 copies of which were distributed in the past two months—also contains photos of smiling Chinese president Hu Jintao visiting farmers in Henan and a uniformed People's Liberation Army member offering medicine to recipients in Africa. Teachers were free to use the booklet at their own discretion.
While Hong Konghad initially planned to institute compulsory "moral and national education" classes in all government schools this September, popular outrage prompted the government to postpone implementation of such curriculum until 2015. According to University of Hong Kong polling, just 37% of Hong Kongers say they are proud of having become Chinese citizens after the 1997 handover, the lowest figure recorded since 2001.
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Children's fruit and vegetable intake: associations with the neighbourhood food environment. | |
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OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between availability of different types of food outlets and children's fruit and vegetable intake. METHOD: Parents of 340 5-6 and 461 10-12 year-old Australian children reported how frequently their child ate 14 fruits and 13 vegetables in the last week in 2002/3. A geographic information system (GIS) was used to determine the availability of the following types of food outlets near home: greengrocers; supermarkets; convenience stores; fast food outlets; restaurants, cafés and takeaway outlets. Logistic regression analyses examined the likelihood of consuming fruit >or=2 times/day and vegetables >or=3 times/day, according to access to food outlets. RESULTS: Overall, 62.5% of children ate fruit >or=2 times/day and 46.4% ate vegetables >or=3 times/day. The more fast food outlets (OR=0.82, 95%CI=0.67-0.99) and convenience stores (OR=0.84, 95%CI=0.73-0.98) close to home, the lower the likelihood of consuming fruit >or=2 times/day. There was also an inverse association between density of convenience stores and the likelihood of consuming vegetables >or=3 times/day (OR=0.84, 95%CI=0.74-0.95). The likelihood of consuming vegetables >or=3 times/day was greater the farther children lived from a supermarket (OR=1.27, 95%CI=1.07-1.51) or a fast food outlet (OR=1.19, 95%CI=1.06-1.35). CONCLUSION: Availability of fast food outlets and convenience stores close to home may have a negative effect on children's fruit and vegetable intake. |
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Hip-Hop Artist Shwayze Will Keep the Crowd 'Buzzin" With a New Years Eve Performance at Christian Audigier The Nightclub
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Nightlife and entertainment leader PURE Management Group (PMG) today announced that hip-hop artist Shwayze will celebrate New Year's Eve with a very special performance for clubgoers at Christian Audigier The Nightclub.
"We are thrilled to welcome Shwayze to Christian Audigier The Nightclub for this very special occasion," said Michael Gilmartin, director of public relations for PURE Management Group. "Shwayze's fun and eclectic music pairs perfectly with the vibe of Christian Audigier and we look forward to an unforgettable New Year's Eve celebration."
Tickets to this special event are available on Vegas.com starting Monday, November 2, 2009. Ticket prices will begin at $50. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.Vegas.com.
Born and raised in Malibu, California, Aaron Smith, better known as Shwayze, was discovered by Whitestarr front man Cisco Adler when he jumped on stage during one of Adler's performance at a local nightclub. Impressed by his free-styling abilities, Adler coaxed Shwayze into quitting his job at a local Starbucks and the duo immediately began making music together. Their first single, "Buzzin'," and popular follow-up "Corona and Lime," both made their marks on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and also became highly requested nightclub anthems. Shwayze also gave viewers a look inside his fabulous life with the 2008 MTV reality series "Buzzin'" which he filmed with Cisco Adler. Shwayze's new album, "Let it Beat," is set for release on November 8 and features the hit single, "Get U Home," which premiered on iTunes in July.
PURE Management Group and famed fashion designer Christian Audigier teamed up in 2008 to create the hottest and most fashionable new club on the strip. Christian Audigier The Nightclub at Treasure Island pairs fashion industry pioneer Christian Audigier's rock n' roll glam with PURE Management Group's impeccable VIP service, creating one of the most unique and over-the-top nightlife experiences in the country. Anchored by a black pebble stone bar, Christian Audigier The Nightclub boasts vibrant red velvet walls, black glass chandeliers and black crocodile embossed leather banquettes with the crown jewel of the venue being a pair of massive jellyfish tanks. On any given night the club features an eclectic mix of music from rock 'n' roll to progressive house music, making it an appealing spot for all club-goers.
Over the past eight years, PMG has grown to become one of Las Vegas' top nightlife companies and has built a reputation of excellence with the undeniable success of its venues including Christian Audigier The Nightclub, PURE Nightclub and LAX Nightclub. With the popularity of recent musical performances at its venues including the B-52s, Daughtry and N.E.R.D., PMG continues to expand its portfolio while providing the very best in nightlife and entertainment to its patrons.
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Between 1912 and 1916, Hans Wittwer completed his architecture studies at ETH Zurich under Friedrich Bluntschli and Karl Moser. He then worked until 1919 in Karl Moser's architecture office in Zurich and had completed his subsequent internship in Basel by 1924. Wittwer then studied the history of urban development at the University of London in 1925 and joined a group of architects that, alongside other projects, published the magazine ABC – Beiträge zum Bauen (ABC – contributions to building). At the same time, Wittwer founded his own office in Basel, which he co-directed with Hannes Meyer in 1926/27.
In 1927/28, Wittwer began working as an adjunct teacher for installation theory and technical design in the building studies department at the Bauhaus Dessau. From March 1928 to February 1929, he also headed the construction office of the building department directed by Hannes Meyer. During his period as a teacher at the Bauhaus Dessau (1927–1929), he introduced new teaching modules such as methods for calculating the position of the sun that opened up new areas of knowledge for the design process.
After his departure from the Bauhaus Dessau, Wittwer moved to the workshops of the city of Halle, the Staatliche-Städtische Kunstgewerbeschule Burg Giebichenstein (Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle). Wittwer worked there as head of the architecture class and creative director of the studio for construction and interior design until 1933. During this period, Wittwer also held a job as an architect for the company Flughafengesellschaft Halle/Leipzig m.b.H. In addition, he worked as a creative consultant for the municipal council of Merseburg. Wittwer lived as a self-employed architect in Halle (Saale) until 1934. That same year, he returned to Basel to work in the family business.
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Okay, well, this group is basically for people to introduce others to a new group or band you've heard about or liked for a long time. This group is also for other bands you know that already have a huge fan base too. Talk about whatever you want, post whatever you want (nothing bad though) and be yourselves!
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Hi there. Rob Huyett here again. I'm an SDET on the VC Libraries team. One of the things I've been working on lately is the new TR1 add-on for Visual Studio 2008. When VS 2008 TR1 support was announced about a month ago, I'm sure that the reaction varied from "Woo-hoo! I can't wait!" to "Huh? What's TR1? Do I care about this?" and all sorts of things in between.
This post is mostly aimed at that second category of folks – the ones who hadn't heard about TR1, and who maybe haven't found the time or inspiration to seek out what it's all about. I'll talk briefly here about just what TR1 is, and I'll describe just a few of the TR1 features that I think are particularly nifty. This isn't going to be an in-depth discussion or how-to manual, but it will hopefully inspire someone out there to take a closer look at what's in TR1 and see if it can help you in your projects.
So what is TR1? Well, TR1 ("Technical Report 1") is a set of proposed additions to the C++0x standard. Most of it will likely find its way into the new standard, but in the meantime it provides a useful stepping stone toward C++0x. TR1 is full of very useful new utilities such as new types of smart pointers (called "shared_ptr" and "weak_ptr"), new containers (tuples, unordered maps, unordered sets, and a neat STL-like array), reference wrappers, regular expression support, and function wrappers. You might look at that list and think that much of it sounds familiar. Smart pointers and function wrappers, for instance, already exist. This is true, but TR1's versions try to be easier to use and more useful than the existing stuff… sort of like the next iteration based on a few years of experience finding out what works and what doesn't work.
Alright, on to some specifics! First, I'd like to mention the new TR1 tuple and array classes. Then I'll talk just a bit about shared_ptr. I'll finish up with some information about regex, TR1's regular expression utility. Again, people who are familiar with TR1 probably won't get much out of this, but it will hopefully whet the appetite of those who are new to TR1.
Tuple is very much like the existing pair class, except that it can hold up to ten items instead of just two. Just like you can have pair<INT, char> p;, you can have something like tuple<INT, char, int, double, char*> t;. Handy, no?
TR1's array class is very much like a fixed-length STL vector. Vector is a very useful class, and it is probably sufficient (even preferable) for most array-type needs. However, there are some situations where the developer is absolutely positive that the array needed will always be a particular size… no more, no less. In these cases, the variable-size feature of vector is not needed and just adds extra overhead. While you could just use a regular old C-style "square-bracket" array, the TR1 array class lets you use all of the STL-type iterators and algorithms. While it lacks some of the flexibility of a vector, it opens up more options than are available with a C-style array.
Shared_ptr is a very easy-to-use tool that greatly simplifies memory management. It all but makes new/delete combinations obsolete. Shared_ptr is a smart pointer class that is pretty easy to use. The syntax is fairly simple… shared_ptr<STRING> sp(new string("foo")); creates a shared_ptr called sp to a string containing "foo". This shared_ptr will act almost just like any "normal" pointer, except that you don't need to remember to delete it when you're done. And unlike some older smart pointers, you don't need to modify the target class (in this case, string) to include reference counting or anything like that… nearly any class you want will work with shared_ptr as-is. Speaking of reference counting, shared_ptr takes care of that (hence the "shared" in the name). If I were to make another shared_ptr that points to the same thing (like shared_ptr<STRING> sp2 = sp;), then shared_ptr's reference counting is smart enough to only free up the memory when BOTH sp and sp2 are gone. Of course, this barely scratches the surface of what shared_ptr is all about, but it's a start.
Regex is a class that lets you write complex regular expressions like those commonly used in Perl. While C++ has always had some amount of support for regular expressions, TR1's regex utilities simplify things by building in the mechanics for parsing, matching, and capture groups. The regex class holds the actual regular expression, and algorithms such as regex_search(), regex_match(), and regex_replace() make it easy to apply that expression to a string. As you can probably deduce from the algorithm names, regex_search() tells the developer if the string contains any substrings that conform to the expression, regex_match() tells if the entire string conforms to the expression, and regex_replace() provides an easy way to change the string to fit a particular format. Regex can do quite a bit more than I've outlined here, but this should give you an idea of what regex is all about.
Well, that's about all I wanted to say here. If any of this kindles some new interest in TR1 in any of the vcblog readers, great! Of course, any comments or questions that you might have will be appreciated.
Rob Huyett, VC Libraries Team
> I wish compiler diagnostic and debugger support for tr1 will be also on high level.
Diagnostics: The compiler errors you'll get from misusing TR1 will be more or less equivalent to those you'll get from misusing Boost. (In the cases where compiler errors are triggered at the TR1 interface, e.g. trying to construct a shared_ptr implicitly from a raw pointer, you'll get identical diagnostics modulo namespaces. Compiler errors that are triggered within the implementation may vary. Without concepts, there is little that can be done at the library level to make template error messages less hideous-looking.)
Debugger: VC9 TR1 will come with extensive IDE debugger visualizers for almost all TR1 types, including some new visualizers for STL types that should be helpful for TR1 users (e.g. plus<T>() will be visualized as "plus", to make bound functors easier to look at).
> I don't want to land in the middle of some macro expansion during debugging some tr1:function/bind code.
> Does the tr1 in vc9 use the same preprocessor tricks as boost does?
Without looking at the Boost implementation, I can't perform a direct comparison (you can, when the VC9 TR1 beta is released very soon). I would characterize VC9 TR1 as using "some" but not "a whole lot" of macros. Most of TR1's implementation is similar to the STL macro-wise. The exception to this is those parts of TR1 that have to simulate variadic templates; this requires lots of preprocessor machinery (the only thing worse than lots of macros here would be no macros). In particular, tuple, bind, and the other functional stuff are powered by non-idempotent headers and the like.
> Coupling factor - meaning if I want to store a templated type,
> which has a template parameter, in a class as member, I have
> to make the class containing this type templated too.
Only if you want to propagate the generality to the containing class. stack<T> contains a deque<T> (by default), but you can also have an Image containing a vector<unsigned char>.
This particular case is special because TR1 leaves some types unspecified. Usually, you can look at a function (even a function template) and easily figure out what it's going to return.
> Don't think so. For Intellisense to function constraints are needed.
Okay - let's call it a consequence of how Intellisense and templates interact (in the absence of concepts).
> Or can you give me an illustrative example - for the code below.
decltype allows you to say "give me the type of this expression", where the expression can be something like a + b, or a function call. This is something that C++03 can't do, and it's exactly what you're wanting to do here.
I don't have a decltype-supporting compiler, but you can read the decltype papers for more details.
auto allows you to say something similar, "give this thing the same type as its initializer".
> By replacing boost::function with auto or decltype and without converting the class CallbackHolder to a templated one.
That's asking for type forgetting without any overhead, which can't be done. Functors in C++ can contain arbitrary state. Even pointers to member functions have to be invoked differently depending on whether the inheritance is virtual or not, etc.
According to my extremely limited understanding of managed delegates, they work by restricting themselves to binding only "pointers to member functions" (even if that's not what they call them) to "pointers to objects" (also even if that's not what they call them), and they've restricted inheritance so that you can call everything in a uniform way. That way, branches can be avoided. I might be completely wrong about that.
C++ works in a different way - it allows great diversity in functors (pointers to member functions with no inheritance, single inheritance, virtual inheritance, or pointers to data members, or pointers to functions, or full-fledged function objects, stateless or stateful), and relys on inlining being done through templates to produce efficiency equivalent to handwritten C. If you demand that something be a non-template, yet cope with so many different functors, you're going to introduce overheads.
> What would be a proper comparison ? I want to use the style boost::function allows me to use.
boost::function is extremely simple to use, and permits separate compilation in cases where it was previously difficult or impossible. It does, however, involve small overheads. Here, you are looking at the overheads to the exclusion of everything else, which is why it appears to be a big deal.
By "handwritten binder", I mean a functor that is templated on class type, parameter types, and return type, which stores a pointer to member function, an object, and an argument (you can make the object free, or the argument free, or neither for full binding). You can't use this for type forgetting - the bound functor type depends on the class type - but it also doesn't propagate templateness (something storing a bound functor need not be a template).
Stephan T. Lavavej
Visual C++ Libraries Developer
[(in the absence of concepts)]
O.k. C++ names them concepts. Sorry get always confused with C++/CLI, C# and C++.
[decltype allows you to say ...]
Well I want to express, store a member function pointer at this location to a function with the signature X.
[binding only "pointers to member functions"]
I've not discovered any restrictions of delegates yet. But anyways you are correct, managed code doesn't support multiple inheritance of classes. Only of abstract interfaces.
So they don't have the problems, introduced by C++ supporting multiple inheritance.
There are other proprietary delegate extensions of other compiler vendors, which also restrict multiple inheritance, to support delegates. VC also has extensions, though IMHO not directly comparable.
[...you're going to introduce overheads.]
Yes, at least the delegate would have to be large enough to store the largest member function pointer, which is larger as the most simple member function pointer: this + codeptr.
[of everything else, which is why it appears to be a big deal]
Yes, agreed, it's not that simple for a (C++) library - it would be rather hard to implement this for all possible cases.
And yet there are some implementations, which come quite near to an ideal C++ delegate implementation, which supports the syntax of boost::function, avoiding it's runtime overhead.
But they have to use dirty hacks, where a little compiler (C++ core) support could help. E.g. Don C. has written such an implementation and article on the codeproject web site - fast delegate.
Generally std::function will be sufficient for me most times. But, this is where the discussion started, I think with a little standard/compiler help it could be implemented more efficient.
Stephan T. Lavavej [MSFT],
Sorry for the late response.
I was on vacation for new years.
>> So, what exactly is the Microsoft VC
>> Libraries team doing?
> I'll expand on this with a VCBlog post soon,
> but here's a summary:
> 1. We're integrating TR1 into VC9, so that TR1's headers live next to the STL's headers, and TR1's separately compiled components go into msvcp90[d].dll next to the STL's separately compiled components. You won't need to do anything special to access TR1 features, and you won't need to ship a whole new DLL with your programs. You'll simply need to update the version of the CRT that's distributed with your program, just like for a VC service pack (you can think of VC9 TR1 as SP0).
As a developer, managing headers and libraries is one of the basic skills needed in our profession. It is not a difficult task. Hopefully you can accept that I can just as easily do that myself. Boost is just one major example.
> 2. We're making TR1 play nice with /clr and /clr:pure.
/clr is not C++ (ISO/IEC 14882:2003). Nor is it part of the forthcoming C++0x, which TR1 is being targeted for.
While I have given try implementations of C++/CLR a chance, customers continually ask me to do managed development in C#, and mixed interop is essentially non-existent (usually for reasons of portability).
> 3. We're ensuring that TR1 compiles warning-free at /W4, in all supported scenarios. This includes switches like /clr, /clr:pure, /Za, /Gz, and the like.
At least in regard to standard code (see above), that sounds like Dinkumware's job. I seriously hope that warnings are not merely being pragma-ed off.
4. We're ensuring that TR1 is /analyze-clean.
Sounds like Dinkumware's job.
> 5. We're identifying bugs in TR1 and working with Dinkumware to fix them. Dinkumware's code was very solid to begin with - but as ever, more eyes find more bugs. I've even found a couple of bugs in the TR1 spec itself.
Good, but again that sounds like Dinkumware's job.
> 7. We're identifying select C++0x features to backport into TR1 - for example, allocator support for shared_ptr and function. While not in TR1, this is important to many customers (including our own compiler).
As C++0x does not exist yet, I hope that you are limiting yourself to the currently accepted subset. However, key features such as export have existed in the standard for almost a decade now. Please implement the existing standards first.
>> If I really needed TR1, I could always
>> license it from Dinkumware myself.
> That would cost you money and time.
Yes, that is how business works.
However, while I *can* license Dinkumware's implementation as needed, no matter how many years I plead and beg for standard compliance, I can *not* get Microsoft to implement the existing C++ standard. The biggest issues for me are 1) export, 2) two-phase name lookup, and 3) exception specifications.
>> Or I even code it myself.
> Are you a world expert at library
> programming?
You make it sound so difficult to build C++ libraries... I am sufficiently confident in my skills to implement required types as necessary for jobs.
I have used VC++ for many, many years now. However, as more and more customers are beginning to use standard C++ features such as export (etc), increasingly I can no longer compiler existing code-bases with non-conformant Microsoft compilers. Perhaps we do not need some of these features, but people *are* using them (for whatever reasons), and they are part of the existing standard. Often when I try to get around this with #defines I am opposed by senior developers who point me to the ISO/IEC 14882:2003 standard and tell me to replace the compiler if it is incompatible with the standard.
I really, really want to continue using VC++. I beg and plead with you for years, but while you do not deny that it is part of the existing standard, you ignore it and implement future standards. You make it so incredibly difficult to support your products.
"""The biggest issues for me are 1) export, 2) two-phase name lookup, and 3) exception specifications."""
This is starting to sound like kid's quarrel[1], but i would change the order to: 1) two-phase name lookup, 2) exception specifications and 3) export. With export, one can always say: "so don't use it". Not so with two-phase name lookup (unless you avoid templates completely, it's hard to guess when it will happen, or when you forgot the keyword "typname", specially if you never use another compiler).
I appreciate the work that's being done for TR1, because it's the kind of library that should be included with compilers. If i were going to buy a library separately, i would forget TR1 and go directly to Qt, for example.
[1] Sorry, English is not my native language, but i think you'll get the point
>> 1. We're integrating TR1 into VC9
> Hopefully you can accept that I can just as easily do that myself.
You misunderstand - adding TR1 to the Visual Studio product, right next to the Standard Library, involves more work than a standalone library (like Boost). There's the Visual Studio build system to contend with (it took us a little while to get the TR1 separately compiled components exported from msvcp90[d].dll), and then the setup system (getting the new headers and sources picked up by the installer), etc. Unglamorous work, but work nevertheless.
>> 2. We're making TR1 play nice with /clr and /clr:pure.
> /clr is not C++ (ISO/IEC 14882:2003). Nor is it part of the forthcoming C++0x, which TR1 is being targeted for.
Certainly. I am personally uninterested in /clr[:pure]; however, it is a VC feature, so TR1 must support it. And this took an unbelievable amount of work.
>> 3. We're ensuring that TR1 compiles warning-free at /W4, in all supported scenarios. This includes switches like /clr, /clr:pure, /Za, /Gz, and the like.
>> 4. We're ensuring that TR1 is /analyze-clean.
> At least in regard to standard code (see above), that sounds like Dinkumware's job.
TR1 arrived mostly /W4-clean. However, Dinkumware hadn't yet thrown (to my knowledge) exotic options like /Za and especially /clr[:pure] at TR1. Our test matrix identified these warnings so Dinkumware could fix them. Similarly, /analyze exposed several warnings.
> I seriously hope that warnings are not merely being pragma-ed off.
Generally, no - we preferred true fixes to workarounds to pragmas, in that order. And as usual, we disable warnings only in the TR1 headers, not in user code.
>> 5. We're identifying bugs in TR1 and working with Dinkumware to fix them.
> Good, but again that sounds like Dinkumware's job.
As I said, more eyes find more bugs. It's our job to find bugs, and Dinkumware's job to fix them. (Independently, they also find and fix bugs.)
>> 7. We're identifying select C++0x features to backport into TR1
> As C++0x does not exist yet, I hope that you are limiting yourself to the currently accepted subset.
Anything that has been voted into the Working Paper is almost certainly going to make it into the C++0x standard.
> You make it sound so difficult to build C++ libraries... I am sufficiently
> confident in my skills to implement required types as necessary for jobs.
The more generic the library, the more skill it takes to implement. Application and OS developers aren't library developers, and they don't have the same skills. TR1 is an extremely generic library, and extremely difficult to implement.
(Within MS, I've seen a half-dozen smart pointer implementations, all deficient in one way or another. My hope is that shared_ptr will sweep them all away.)
> Not so with two-phase name lookup
It's actually "pretty hard" to trigger two-phase name lookup (such that it'll make a difference), if you follow a certain style of code organization. Yes, that's rather vague.
> or when you forgot the keyword "typname"
Requiring "typename" is completely unrelated to two-phase name lookup, and VC implements the "typename" rules pretty well. I'm sure that there are bugs that aren't coming to my mind right now, but VC definitely enforces this rule in most situations where it should be enforced.
Perhaps you're thinking of unqualified name lookup reaching into dependent base classes (it shouldn't, says the Standard) - this rule is related to two-phase name lookup, although not actually part of it. VC actually enforces this rule under /Za.
> With export, one can always say: "so don't use it".
Only if one owns all of the code themselves. However, when I work with various customer codebases, increasingly they are already--for whatever reasons--using export. Needless to say, this will not compile with any existing VC++ compiler. When I try to either 1) rewrite it without using export or 2) make a special VC++ version with #ifdef, I am often opposed by other developers who point me to the ISO/IEC 14882:2003 standard and tell me to replace the compiler if it is incompatible with the standard rather than replace good code. And that is precisely what I have had to do. More and more I am being forced to use Comeau. Comeau is a great compiler, but I would like to continue using VC++. However, it is less and less possible.
"so don't use it" is often not an option.
'''Requiring "typename" is completely unrelated to two-phase name lookup'''
'''Perhaps you're thinking of unqualified name lookup reaching into dependent base classes'''
'''VC actually enforces this rule under /Za'''
Sorry, i wasn't sure and mixed a few concepts (i wasn't very clear either, mainly because i didn't feel the need to be very specific).
But i did think about "unqualified name lookup reaching into dependent base classes" too.
Last time i tried /Za (a long time ago, under VC++.NET 2002), i triggered a documented bug and never tried /Za again.
If /Za is working OK (and if standard headers compile cleanly under /Za), i will give it a try again. Thanks for the info. :-)
> If /Za is working OK (and if standard headers compile
> cleanly under /Za), i will give it a try again.
The Standard and TR1 headers should compile cleanly under /Za. If they don't, that's a bug. (Warnings and compiler errors occasionally creep in - the unqualified-name-lookup-reaching-into-dependent-base-classes thing is really easy to forget - but we now have pretty good test coverage.)
However, /Za is an obscure option. It doesn't get a whole lot of testing (on both the compiler and library sides), doesn't do a whole lot of stuff, and isn't really being actively developed. The front-end devs I know recommend against it, as it could do more harm than good.
For portable code, I simply suggest using multiple compilers regularly. Then you'll get the union of their conformance checks (of course, you'll also have to deal with the union of their bugs).
TR1 is a set of additions to the standard library of C++9x (not 0x as the article states) and should become part of C++0x (as the article states correctly).
TR1 is important as it brings new library features to C++ that don't require a language (and therefor a compiler) change. Thanks and kudos to Microsoft for being quick to bring TR1 to Visual C++.
However, I should like to add my voice to those clamouring for support for export. The fact that export offers an opportunity to increase separation between the definition and the declaration of code templates means that it is a valuable tool in enabling separation between compilation units and so in managing build times. Even if all the other benefits offered by export turn out to be illusory this one is worth every bit of the development effort that its implementation might require (a couple of lousy man-years is nothing to argue about, really). Yes, Daveed Vandevoorde's proposal for modules offers more, but we will have some years to wait before that is standardized, let alone available in the compilers on our desktop.
Exception specifications are another matter. The C++ syntax is such that checking of exception specifications at compile time is not possible (a pointer-to-function doesn't have an exception specification, for example, so a call through a pointer cannot be checked), and automatically checking at runtime violates the C++ convention that you should not pay for what you do not use. Exception specifications are essentially useless in C++ and should be removed from the standard.
> I'm still not convinced that a core implementation of a delegate type *and* the library extension in combination couldn't be more efficient.
"Delegates" (lambdas) will likely be in C++09, and from the looks of them they are going to be just as efficient as .NET delegates.
Stephen and others - we really do not need "export". Please reade complete N1426 to understand why. If I had a choice, I would vote to remove it entirely from the standard. Not only does not buy us anything, but also comes with difficult to understand problems related to names visibility and makes implementation of other C++ features (present or future) needlessly expensive. Yes, it's good to have another tool to improve code separation/decoupling, IF that tool works.
If I install this beta, will I be able to uninstall it / update it to final without problem??
PS: I agree with those that say that improving standards conformance -- particularly for straight C -- is more important to me than other new features. The workarounds in boost give a good indication of how far VC++ is away from standard C++. I am not particularly interested in .NET features.
> If I install this beta, will I be able to uninstall
> it / update it to final without problem??
I am told that uninstallation works, which will get you back to VC9 RTM so that you can apply the final patch. I would suggest NOT trying to apply the final patch over the beta patch.
> Are you a world expert at library programming? (If so, we're hiring!) We've *got* some of the world experts at library programming, namely Dinkumware, working on TR1 - and it's not easy. Take a look at TR1 mem_fn()/bind()/function's implementation when we release the TR1 beta, and then tell me that you could write that yourself. :-)
> I consider myself lucky to be able to *understand* what most of the TR1 implementation does -...
What an arrogance !!
A good indication why VC is not progressing further and letting the C# and all its peers take precedence.
Well, what if we ask the same thing? "if the world experts, namely the so called Dinkumware, are doing better things that you cannot barely even "understand" - what is Microsoft Doing? Why are you with Microsoft? Why do not you join the "World experts"??
Don't try to underestimate your readers, and in turn pull-down your own company. Remember that your company, Micrsoft, has its foundations built on top of those very people you are criticizing with questions such as "Are you a world expert at library programming"....
If we are not world experts at library programming, you are not either (because this is not "your" library) !! Let us all praise the Dinkumware !!
So much for an arrogant. Yuck.
Hello managers - what are you doing when one of your reports is criticizing your customers and bringing down your company values in public?? May be its a time you either give him a break or train him to be respectful. Seems he has forgotten the very core values of being open and respectful.
Reading this list, I do wonder what MS' priorities are.
While it is nice to have a performant IDE, it would be good to deepen standards conformance (for C as well as C++). For example, libsndfile does not compile with VC++.
It would also be good to update OMP support and improve vectorisation (with the advent of multi-core cpus). We're now on OMP 2.5 and 3.0, whereas VC++ is only 2.0.
More pertinently to this thread, the use of parallelism in the standard library would be most welcome. See what the gcc guys are up to.
Unless the strategy is to leave the parallel field to Intel?


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RAR recommended agency status 2007-2015.
We know what it takes to build a great website. We also know it requires time to develop a successful web project. It certainly doesn't happen overnight, which is why we set out exactly what we propose to do and what we know is necessary for a fit and proper website.
Depending on the package you choose - web design, logo design, graphic design or seo, we will carry out all the changes you want when you want them – for FREE.