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Homily #120911 ( 05min) Play- Fr. Bonaventure explains how Jesus appointed the Apostles and their successors to lead the Church, and how we must keep the Pope and his bishops primary in our prayers so they can keep doing the works of Christ. Ave Maria! Mass: Tuesday in the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time - Wkdy - Form:ĀOF Readings:Ā 1st: 1co 6:1-11 Resp: psa 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 9 Gsp: luk 6:12-19 To Download Audio go to http://airmaria.com?p=30367
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London: Video-sharing website YouTube has signed a deal with studios including Warner Bros and Universal, which would allow people in the UK to watch full length films for the first time for just 2.49 pounds per movie.
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When he entered his first NBA game in 10 months since he tore his ACL, Lou Williams did pretty much exactly what he did when the injury occurred — he used his quickness to drive the lane to the right, finishing it off the glass over the defender.
It was a very good sign.
The Atlanta Hawks got a lot more scoring punch off the bench Wednesday night when Lou Williams returned to his first NBA game since last January. He went 3-of-8 from the floor, 1-of-3 from three (a nice pull up jumper was the make) and had seven points on the night.
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Williams was happy to be back.
For now Williams will come off the bench behind Kyle Korver and the sixth man spark plug role that could fit him well. What the Hawks really need is the Sweet Lou of the Philadelphia years — the one in Atlanta the first half of last season didn't get to the line as often and turned the ball over more than the younger version. If Williams can return to his form of a couple years ago Atlanta just got a very nice pickup.
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BOSTON—What Dougie Hamilton is supposed to be doing through the Stanley Cup final, as a rookie and a healthy scratch, is watching and learning.
What has he learned?
"I've learned that it's not fun not playing," said Hamilton, smiling.
It might befuddle some players when, after playing 42 of 48 games in the regular season like Hamilton did, you can't buy your way into the lineup in the playoffs. But this is how coach Claude Julien and the Boston Bruins work: Rookie, you've got to earn it.
Tyler Seguin remembers. He played 74 games in his rookie season, then was a healthy scratch in the opening round of the 2011 playoffs when Boston was begging for offence against Montreal.
"I think there's so much more that surrounds getting close to the Stanley Cup than what's on the ice," said Seguin. "You can learn so much from up top (in the pressbox). You learn so much from hearing the guys in the dressing room, seeing everything away from the game, the preparation, the sacrifice of individual guys to make the team better.
"That's the process of being in your first year and being lucky enough to be here."
Seguin eventually got into the playoffs and didn't look out of place. Hamilton played a bit against the Maple Leafs, but only when the Bruins ran into injury trouble on the blue line. He's been surpassed on the depth chart — for now, anyway — by 22-year-old Torey Krug, a smallish, skilled rookie who, at three years older than Hamilton, has a more complete, trustworthy game.
So, Hamilton watches and learns. He sits close to Zdeno Chara in the Bruins dressing room.
"It stands out how he warms up and works out," Hamilton said of Chara. "It might be a little bit different now that he's older. I'll ask him after the season what he did when he was 20, be able to pick his brain.
"I know he has a routine. I've seen him doing it."
Chara, the Bruins' captain, is probably the best role model possible for Hamilton.
"He sets the bar for himself pretty high," said Hamilton. "Everybody knows that and follows that, partially leading by example. When he speaks up, everybody listens. He cares about his teammates. He's our protector."
At 19, the Toronto native and former Niagara IceDog also welcomes Seguin's advice.
"When I was younger, I don't know if I would have thought I'd be in the NHL as a teenager," said Hamilton. "You look at what I would be doing instead. You have to remember how lucky you are. . . . You have to look at it that way and enjoy it."
After all, he started the season in major junior, playing 32 games with the IceDogs before getting the call to join Team Canada for the world junior championship in Ufa, Russia. The Canadian team headed home, disappointed without a medal, the day the lockout ended. He reported to Bruins camp and made the team after a shortened pre-season.
"It's been kind of tough in ways," said Hamilton. "At the same time, (you) kind of have fun and enjoy it. It's a pretty exciting opportunity, to start the year in junior hockey and you're two games away from the Stanley Cup.
"It's just really more exciting now. That's all you can really hope for. Come to the rink and work as hard as you can.
So what else has he learned?
"I now know what it's like to go this far in the Stanley Cup finals and see what it's like, the schedule, how guys play. I think it will only help me. Obviously I learned a lot this year. Right now it's just working as hard as I can in case something happens.
"Also, I'm looking forward to coming in next year and not being a rookie anymore."
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Girlfriend and co-star Lea Michele has supported Monteith`s decision to enter rehab, E! News reported.
"Cory Monteith has voluntarily admitted himself into a treatment facility for substance addiction. He graciously asks for your respect and privacy as he takes the necessary steps towards recovery," his representative said.
Monteith opened up about his substance problems in 2011, telling Parade magazine that he was lucky to be alive. The TV star`s life went out of control after he dropped quit high school at the age of 16.
Michele, who rocks a 'Cory' necklace, tweeted, "Feeling so grateful today."
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Liberty Alliance Project Digital Identity Defined The LIBERTY View of Digital Identity Jose-Luis Mariz Liberty Alliance Services Group. Geo-Location team. Chair Ericsson. Strategic Product Manager. Digital Identity Business Solutions Liberty and Identity in a Nutshell The Importance of Identity The most basic element in a high-value relationship with customers, employees, citizens or business partners Has to be managed with great care to avoid financial losses Secure solutions are essential User consent must be supported Common mechanisms to handle Identities are required: Technically, to enable interoperability and seamless user experiences Legally, to enable a business relationship between different entities in a distributed environment Liberty Value Proposition and Members Value Proposition Businesses and consumers want benefits of being connected anytime, anyplace - without compromising security or control of personal information. The Liberty Alliance provides the technology, knowledge and certifications to build identity into the foundation of mobile and web-based communications and transactions. Over 150 diverse member companies and organizations Government organizations End-user companies System integrators Software and hardware vendors Activities Technical Specifications and Implementation Guidelines Interoperability and public conformance testing Business guidelines and case studies Policy guidelines Developer resources and User Groups Adoption and evangelism Liaison and collaboration with other organizations Management Board Board Sponsor members Responsible for overall governance, legal, finances, and operations Final voting authority for specifications Business Technology Services Public Policy Conformance Marketing Expert Group Expert Group Expert Group Expert Group Group Gathers market Defines Technical Focuses on the Advises on privacy, Oversees the requirements architecture creation of new security and global conformance and use cases Develops services policy issues testing program Publishes technical Collaborates with Works with privacy Organizes Business specifications organizations advocacy groups conformance templates and Drives focused on and government testing events guidelines interoperability specific areas of agencies Manages the Drives Market an industry Publishes privacy Liberty Adoption Drives the and policy licensing through deployment of guidelines program evangelism and new services PR All members provide feedback on early drafts Membership Categories Sponsors Associates Affiliates • Full participation and • Access to draft • For government voting rights in all specifications prior to agencies, educational expert groups. pubic release institutions, and non- • Eligible for • May attend All Participant profit organizations Management Board Meetings only • May attend all Liberty • May participate in one • Same privileges as member meetings Services track Associate members • May participate in unlimited number of Services tracks The Liberty Advantage Open specifications—allows different systems to interoperate Federated model—no central point of failure, no intermediation between you and customer Built on standards—works with legacy systems Liberty Alliance Key Concepts Federation Federation – The act of establishing a relationship between two entities, an association comprising any number of Service Providers and Identity Providers Principal – a person or "user", a system entity whose identity can be authenticated IdP, Identity Provider – a service which authenticates and asserts a Principal's identity Single Sign-On (SSO) – the Principal's ability to authenticate with one system entity (Identity Provider) and have that authentication honored by other system entities, often Service Providers Identity Services Circle of Trust – a group of service providers and identity providers that have business relationships based on Liberty architecture and operational agreements and with whom users can transact business in a secure and apparently seamless environment. Circles of Trust represent the second wave of identity federation, after SSO and federated account linking. DS – Discovery Service – a service which provides Identity based Discovery of Web Service Providers IS – Identity Service – a service invoked through or with a user's identity Privacy The ability to control my identity on your network Who I am What you know about me When you know it How you can use it Liberty Alliance – a Technology Overview Specifications Liberty Identity Liberty Identity Federation Services Interface Framework Specifications (ID-FF) (ID-SIS) SPECIFICATION WORK IN OASIS SSTC Liberty Identity CONFORMANCE Web Services Framework TESTING IN LIBERTY (ID-WSF) ALLIANCE Liberty specifications build on existing standards, such as SAML, SOAP, WSS, XML Identity Federation Framework Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF) Enables Identity federation and management through features such as identity/account linkage, simplified sign on, and simple session management SAML HTTP WAP XML SSL/TLS Liberty Federation Privacy-oriented identity federation and SSO Defines a method of exchanging name identifiers that allows two providers to speak about a "subject" in a common language – the federated name identifier – whilst allowing that identifier to be hidden from third parties (opaque identifier) Extends the SAML authentication statement, adding the concepts of session, and authentication context Creates an authentication Request/Response protocol Additional protocols to provide global single logout, "de- federation", name identifier registration and mapping Specifies various profiles for requesting and sending SAML assertions in a web SSO environment, with intermediaries present Provides a foundation for identity-based services Liberty Identity Federation Framework and SAML Liberty ID-FF 1.1 extended SAML 1.0 SAML 1.1 copied some enhancements from ID-FF 1.1 Liberty ID-FF 1.2 was based on SAML 1.1 Are you confused yet? The market for SSO/federation technology certainly is! The answer: converge Liberty Federation and SAML into SAML 2.0 SAML 2 contains equivalent technology to ID-FF 1.2, with some enhancements Identity Web Services Framework Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF) Enables Identity federation and management through features such as Identity Web Services Framework identity/account (ID-WSF) linkage, simplified sign on, and Provides the framework for building simple session interoperable identity-based web management services. Discovery, Interaction WS- XML SAML HTTP WSDL Security Enc XML WAP XML SSL/TLS SOAP Sig What is ID-WSF? Framework for locating and invoking identity based Web services Identity Web services: Associated with a Principal's Identity Can be Invoked using a Principal's Identity Permissions-based Attribute Sharing Invoking Services under control of user At the DS and at the WSP ID-WSF – New Concepts Web Services Client (WSC): typically, the invoker/consumer of an identity service Web Services Provider (WSP): typically, the provider of an identity service Data Services Template (DST): provides an extensible framework to produce new Identity Services above the protocol stack, allowing interoperability e.g.: ID-Personal Profile and ID- Employee Profile Core Components – ID-WSF Authentication Service Identity based Service Discovery Service Invocation (SOAP Binding) User Interaction Service Service Interfaces Service Interfaces (ID-SIS) Identity Federation Employee Profile Business Profile Personal Profile (ID-FF) Contact Book Geolocation Notification Interface and data Availability • Presence Calendar Payment Gaming schema Wallet Enables Identity Alert federation and management • Will be defined in through features such as Identity Web Services parallel identity/account (ID-WSF) linkage, simplified sign on, and Provides the framework for building • First service tracks: simple session interoperable identity-based web • Contact Book management services. • Geolocation Discovery, Interaction • Presence • Gaming WS- XML SAML HTTP WSDL Security Enc XML WAP XML SSL/TLS SOAP Sig Identity Services Use Case It's Jane ID-FF: The SP interacts with the IdP through Jane's browser to obtain the identity credential for Jane. SP/WSC WSP WSP Jane using a ID-WSF: The SP (acting as browser a WSC) interacts with the IdP DS DS and Jane's WSPs in order to invoke services at the WSPs on Jane's behalf.. ID-FF ID-WSF Liberty's Focus on Privacy • A fundamental objective of Liberty is to improve privacy through the federated model • The Alliance addresses privacy within its specification development process. Public Policy Expert Group exerted influence from day 1 on privacy issues Liberty invites input from policy makers and privacy advocates Technology decisions are made to enhance privacy and make it easier to implement good privacy practices Privacy and Security Best Practices were developed to promote privacy-friendly implementations and deployments Security & Privacy Overview provides technical guidance on security and privacy ramifications of ID-WSF implementations Privacy Handling Components Pseudonymous Access Anonymous Access Usage Directives Authentication Context Comparison Consumer Consent Header XML Signatures Interaction Service Thank You! You may want to contact me for further discussions: Jose-Luis Mariz firstname.lastname@example.com +34629219279 You may want to get more information from: http://www.projectliberty.org
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Graphics Formats Explained Bit depth: describes the unique number of colors that are available in an image's color palette in terms of the number of 0's and 1's, or "bits," which are used to specify each color. This does not mean that the image necessarily uses all of these colors, but that it can instead specify colors with that level of precision. For a grayscale image, the bit depth quantifies how many unique shades are available. Images with higher bit depths can encode more shades or colors since there are more combinations of 0's and 1's available. The most common depths are 8 bit (256 colours) and 24 bit (16.8 million colours). Bit depths higher than 24 provide a wider colour "gamut", so image manipulation software can pull out otherwise invisible detail out of the image. ADI - AutoCAD's Device-Independent Binary Plotter Format, a vector format generated by AutoCAD. AI - Adobe Illustrator's metafile format, which is actually a flavour of Encapsulated Postscript. AWD - Microsoft Fax At Work format, a black-and-white (one bitplane) format for storing fax images. BMP - This is the Microsoft Windows bitmap format, also used in OS/2. It's a fairly compact (compression is optional, but usually turned on) format for images up to 24 bit. BMP is the native bitmap format for the Windows environment. CALS - Computer Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support Raster Format; a longwinded, seldom-seen military-spec two colour document storage format. Used in Pentagon archives, and that sort of thing. CAM - Casio Camera, the native file format of Casio's QV-series digital cameras. CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile, an American National Standards Institute/International Standards Organization metafile format for images of pretty much any kind. CLP - This is the format you get when you save a file from the Windows 3.x Clipboard. It is very, very large, and very very, inefficient - and, what's more, you can only view a CLP file if you're in the same resolution as the person who made it, and are using the same number of colours. CLP is an image format that should never be allowed to touch a disk. Do not use it. CT - The most popular of the Scitex image formats, Scitex Continuous Tone images are very large and intended for use with Scitex's professional film-printing units, which produce high-grade output for publication. CUT - The orphaned 256 colour format used by the old Doctor Halo paint program. DIB - This is an orphaned Windows image format. It stands for Device Independent Bitmap and was part of Microsoft's Great Plan for Windows 95; the DIB code in Win 95 is designed to simplify the creation of display drivers for new video cards by doing most of the grunt work in the operating system instead of in the driver. DIB never really took off. DLG - Digital Line Graph, a vector format for storing geographical data. EPS - Encapsulated Postscript is a flavour of Postscript (see below) which can be included in other documents - if your software supports it. FPX - The FlashPix format, codeveloped by Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Microsoft and LivePicture Corporation and now an open format administered by the Digital Imaging Group. Kodak uses it in all of their digital cameras from the DC200 onwards. Flashpix's chief claim to fame is that it stores images in multiple resolutions, so a huge, high resolution image can be quickly displayed in miniature on-screen and changes made rapidly to the displayed data only, saving the CPU-grinding full processing for whenever you actually view or output the high resolution version. Of course, this only works if your image editing program supports it, and is not useful for small images. FlashPix images can also be used for Web graphics, because the server only has to send the data being viewed (which seems to the browser like an ordinary JFIF), but since FlashPix doesn't support progressive display like JFIF or GIF or PNG, it hasn't achieved much popularity. FlashPix also has no zero-loss compression option - it either uses no compression at all, and makes a vast file, or uses medium-loss JPEG-type encoding. This makes it a clumsy format for professional use, since lossy compression is a no-no for image editing. GIF - Graphics Interchange Format (the acronym's officially pronounced "JIF", by decree of the format's creator) is a very efficient, and still quite popular picture format. There are two "flavours" of GIF, the old 87 and the newer 89a. 89a adds several extra features like transparency (so background graphics can "show through" the GIF in places) and animation. GIF animations are a very - some would say excessively - popular form of Web multimedia, because they're small and display on all current graphical browsers without needing a special plug-in or taking up much CPU time. Unfortunately, GIF pictures can only have 256 colours, or 256 shades of grey. 256 greys is photo quality so GIF is fine for any monochrome image, and 256 colour looks OK for many pictures, but it's no use for professional imaging. GIF images can also be interlaced, so that you can see a low resolution version of the picture before downloading very much of it. GIF interlacing has four passes, which show one out of every eight lines, then another eighth of the image, then another quarter, then the remaining half. GIF is a data-stream type format, like JFIF, so you can view partially downloaded images whether or not they're interlaced - without interlacing, a 25% downloaded picture gives you the first 25% of the lines, starting at the top. HRF - Hitachi Raster Format, an obscure, proprietary, one bitplane format used for storing scanner data. IFF - This is Electronic Arts' Interchange File Format, and is the image format used by Amiga and Atari ST personal computers. There are multiple IFF formats, but by far the most popular are the image and sound file ones. A file with the .IFF suffix may, therefore, be a sound, not a picture - and it might be any one of a number of other types of data. IFF images may also, uncommonly, have the suffix .ILBM, for InterLeaved BitMap, or just .LBM on DOS-based systems. IFF pictures are not at all efficient, spacewise, but they're fast to display, which was important for poor little Amigas with a 0.7 million instruction per second (MIPS) processor. With current PCs steaming along at hundreds and hundreds of MIPS, this no longer matters at all. IFF is peculiar in that it has two odd variants - HAM and HAM8. HAM stands for Hold And Modify, and is a technique the original Amiga designers came up with for getting 4096 colours from hardware which, traditionally, can only display 32 at once. HAM8 is the updated version, which displays 262,144 colours on 256 colour hardware. No non-Amiga computer can display HAM images exactly as they're meant to be seen, but some conversion programs can display them as 256 or higher colour images. If your display program isn't smart enough to do this, it'll assume it's loading an ordinary 32 or 256 colour image and give you a distinctive multicoloured porridge on screen. There are some very strange IFF variants which use whole different palettes on every line; pray you never meet one. All IFF images can be compressed or uncompressed; just about all are compressed. The compression, like the whole format, is built for speed, not efficiency, and so doesn't reduce the size much. ILBM - See IFF. IMG - This is the format used by the old GEM Paint program; it only works in 256 shades of grey. IMG - See "PIC". IMJ - A proprietary variant of the JFIF format created by Pegasus Image Corporation. JBG - Also suffixed JBIG, this is the Joint Bilevel Image Group's data compression and transmission format. JBG is a way of sending one-bitplane document images so that a low resolution version arrives first, then extra data to "fill in" more and more detail. Not an image format as such - a JBG "file" is just a JBG data stream dumped to disk. JFIF - The JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) File Interchange Format, commonly called JPEG and with the filename suffix .JPG, can be the most efficient image storage method of all - at a price. First to the name. Everybody might call these images JPEG, but that just describes the type of compression used for the data; it doesn't describe how the compressed data is sorted and stored. Calling JFIF "JPEG" is like calling a Ford Falcon "internal combustion". The idea of JPEG is that as it compresses the data it throws some of it away - technically, this is called "lossy compression". You can configure how lossy you want your JFIFs to be (well, you can if you're using even a slightly well written JFIF saver); 100% quality gives you almost exactly the same result as the original picture but also gives you a gigantic, uncompressible file. 10% quality takes up much less space but looks dodgy. You have to strike a balance. JFIF can store up to 24 bit colour, so it's suitable for professional use, and it can do interlaced display like GIF (called "progressive" JFIF), which along with its small file sizes makes it the standard format for Web graphics. Like GIF, JFIF is a data-stream format - you can view images before you've got all of the data. Also like GIF, JFIF supports interlacing. The JFIF format also supports CMYK (process colour - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK in a subtractive colour model, as against the additive Red, Green and Blue more commonly used) images, which makes it suitable for use in publishing applications. CMYK this support was added in a later version of the standard, though. This means that quite a few JFIF display applications, including Web browsers, do peculiar things when fed CMYK images. There's no reason to use CMYK JFIFs unless you're sending the image to a CMYK output device, which a monitor definitely isn't. Usually, CMYK ones get through because someone's converted a CMYK image of some other format, like TIFF, without changing the colour model. JFIF quality comparison Reasonably high quality 9 kilobyte version Highly compressed 2 kilobyte version JPG - See JFIF and SPF. LBM - See IFF. MacPaint (3k) - Usually suffixed .MAC, this is the format used by the ancient original black and white Macintosh paint program. Two colours only, 576x720 resolution only, thankfully rare. MNG - The proposed Multiple Network Graphics (pronounced "ming") format is a multi-image extension of the existing PNG format - or it will be, if it ever makes it out of the design stage. MSP - Microsoft Paint was the early PC answer to MacPaint, and its format is just as boring. Two colours only. PCC - see PCX. PCD - Kodak's PhotoCD was going to set the world alight, with happy snappers having their film scanned and the high-resolution images written to CD, to access via PC or special PhotoCD players. Amazingly, it turned out that nobody was very interested in viewing their photos on their TV, and PhotoCD flopped miserably in the consumer market. It survives as a somewhat popular professional image storage format; a genuine PhotoCD has a particular directory structure containing the images, stored in five resolutions. An ordinary PCD file can be read by any application that can read the format, but unless it's on a CD with the right structure, a PhotoCD player won't recognise it. The PhotoCD storage process is proprietary to Kodak, who no longer sell the software to make full multi-resolution images. PCX - The ZSoft Paint format, occasionally suffixed .PCC, is ancient but still fairly widely used, simply because everybody understands it. There are three common versions, 0, 2 and 5; 0 is the original two colour one (small but not useful), 2 only does 16 colours and is hence also of little interest to owners of rather old video cards, and 5 does 24 bit. All are large for what they do, but fast to load on elderly computers. PCX is the IBM equivalent of Amiga IFF. The size listed is for v5, at full 24 bit; v2 scored 216k and v0 48.1k. PIC - A few proprietary (one company makes software that supports them, and nobody else does) image formats use this suffix. They are not interchangeable. Some programmers need a good slapping. PIC is most likely to be the 256 colour format of the old PC Paint program, but it might also be a Micrografx Draw! vector file, a Lotus vector file, a Pegasus Imaging Corporation image file or an image file for General Parametrics' Video Show Film Recorder. PICT - Pict is the all-in-one Apple Quickdraw metaformat. It can include bitmapped or vector images, and can use different compression schemes. PNG - The Portable Network Graphics format, pronounced "ping", was created as a free replacement for GIF, whose LZW compression is owned by Unisys and which can't be included in commercial software without paying license fees to the owners. It handles 1 to 48 bit images, and is a lossless, well-compressed format like GIF. It still isn't very popular, though. PS - Adobe Systems' Postscript isn't an image format, per se - it's a page description language, originally conceived so computers could send very accurate page descriptions to the then-new high resolution laser printers. You can save black and white or even colour pictures as Postscript, but you'll end up with a very large file. Postscript is not a very efficient format, but its advantage is it's all plain text - you can modify a Postscript file with any text editor, if you know what you're doing. PSD - Adobe Photoshop's native format, which stores all of its layer and selection and miscellaneous other image data. RAS - This is SUN Raster format, the default image format for monster SUN workstations. Only lighhtly compressed and so a rather large format, but it supports up to 36 bit images. RAW - This may be a Photoshop RAW file, which is a PSD file with no identifying header. Or it may be a minimally formatted image data dump - see PIC. RGB - See "PIC". RIX - The orphaned bitmap format of the old DOS ColoRIX paint program. RLE - This is an antique CompuServe or Windows Run Length Encoded compressed image format, which only support 256 x 192 black and white images. RTF - Microsoft's Rich Text Format, which is normally used as a well-understood cross-platform word processing document format, but which can store pictures as well as text. As image storage formats go, though, this one's as bloated as Postscript. SPF - SPIFF, Still Picture Interchange File Format, the "official" International Standards Organisation Joint Photographic Experts Group (ISO JPEG) image format defined in the recent Part 3 extensions to the JPEG standard. SPIFF offers more features than the current JPEG standard and is backwards compatible (a JFIF decoder can understand most SPIFF images), but has not yet achieved much popularity. SPIFF files may also be suffixed .JPG. TGA - The real name for this format is just plain "TGA" or "Truevision File Format", but a lot of people call it "Targa", after the Truevision video card that first used it. There's a lot of this name confusion in image file formats. It supports 1 to 32 bit images and professional features like an alpha (mask) channel, gamma settings and a built-in thumbnail image. TIF - TIFF (to give the full acronym) stands for Tag Image File Format; many people say Tagged for the first word, which is technically incorrect but minimally important. TIFF was a large, unwieldy, 24 bit format until version 6 came out, which supported compression and made it less painful. Mind you, the fact that its compression was somewhat broken and might or might not be compatible with different programs on different computers somewhat reduced the bonus, and the further fact that the compression is LZW and thus owned and licensed out by Unisys (see GIF) is another pain. TIFF is, nonetheless, a very popular professional graphics format. WMF - This is Windows Metafile format, which is an intermediate vector format for Windows programs to use when interchanging data and, generally speaking, should never be seen anywhere else. WPG - This is the WordPerfect metafile format, used by WordPerfect software on various platforms. It supports bitmapped, vector and Encapsulated Postscript data.
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I have a question on "isolation a Reference" discussed in kathy and Bert' book on Garbage Collection
The code example:
public class Island{ Island i; public static void main(String args[]){ Island i2 =new Island(); Island i3 =new Island(); Island i4 =new Island(); i2.i = i3; i3.i = i4; i4.i = i2; i2 = null; i3 = null; i4 = null; } }
My question is
After i4.i = i2; i3, i4 and i2 are formed as Island Objects so they are already eligible for garbage collection, is that right? So why they have to be nulled to be garbage collected?
Vivek Bansal
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Dec 15, 2004 23:20:00
The nature of automatic garbage collection has an important consequence:
You can still get memory leaks. If you allow live, accessible references to
unneeded objects to persist in your programs, then those objects cannot be
garbage collected. Therefore, it may be a good idea to explicitly assign null into a variable when you have finished with it. This issue is particularly noticeable if you are implementing a collection of some kind.
Thanks<br />Vivek Bansal
Richard Vagner
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Dec 15, 2004 23:37:00
Thanks for your reply. Here I am refering to the idea of islands of isolation. So if Island objects are formed, they are elibible for garbage collection.
1. I understand assigning null is a good practice. But is there a difference as to assigning null to them and not assigning null to them?
2. If asked after which line of code, i3, i4 and i2 will be eligible for garbage collection, can I say after the line "i4.i = i2;"?
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Dec 16, 2004 02:42:00
The answer is that as long as the objects are accessable from your main() method using i2, i3, or i4, the objects cannot be garbage collected. If you can reach one object, you can reach them all because they form a ring of references.
So you must set i2, i3, and i4 all to null before any of the three objects can be garbage collected.
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Dec 16, 2004 03:03:00
'can I say after the line "i4.i = i2;"?'
No. If you can picture it, at this point you have a ring of three joined together kites each with a
attached to your hand. As Mike explained, you must let go of all those strings for the kites to be blown away. Even though they stay connected to each other.
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Dec 16, 2004 13:17:00
Thanks a lot! I am clear.
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The current Tomorrowland is a shadow of it's former self.
The current Tomorrowland is a shadow of it's former self.
I would say the PeopleMover was the Tomorrowland version of the Disneyland Railroad or the Mark Twain Riverboat. That is, a scenic ride through Tomorrowland.
As others have said, the best part of the ride was being able to easily sit down, relax, and enjoy the view for 15 minutes. Something that seems harder and harder to do at the parks now.
Most definitely not a thrill ride, but I seem to remember it did pick up a bit of speed as it circled around Autopia. A similar ride (Tomorrowland Transit Authority) still exists at WDW. However, what was great on the DLR version was that is had a very open air feeling. The cars were covered, but you had a great view on all sides (except some of the tunnels). The WDW ride feels much more cramped to me since the entire route is covered.
Again, as others have mentioned it added a great feeling of movement to the area. Especially seeing the cars pass through the queues of other attractions. It provided a feeling that there is more to see and do, just around the corner. Similar to how the Riverboat adds a depth to Rivers of America -- not only indicating the river "goes some where", but also a chance to experience it first hand. Seeing the PeopleMover go by always made me wonder, "what's back there?". And it gave me a chance to do that.
Kinda like a sampler platter of DL.
Mmm. Samples.
I wish it would come back, but who knows. The Magic Kingdom Version I rode three times when I was their this past April was a great trip!
Ah, The PeopleMover. It was an optimistic and kinetic attraction - colorful, always moving, with great views and great relaxation.
As for thrills, anyone remember when it dipped down to parallel the Monorail? Bumpy!! I used to joke that it was the most violent attraction at Disneyland - that little section definitely was!
It was popular because it was a great attraction. If they brought it back, it would still be a great attraction.
This has been a Filmways presentation dahling.
Having the tracks just sit there, idle, for so long is pretty sad. Having worked Tomorrowland attractions when I first hired in to the park, I can attest that it did have the ever-present potential for going 101. But so does everything at the park, pretty much.
It ended up being a mistake closing it, in my opinion. And had the powers that be had the power of foresight to see what was going to happen to the Rods ride, they probably wouldn't have. The attraction that followed didn't work, but because of the changes to the track that had been made, going back to the PM was not going to happen. Would have been too much work to go back to something that many considered "outdated" or whatever they called it. I had no problem with it, but going back to something that was already there is not a popular idea with many, both park honchos and guests.
I still hope they do, but I doubt it. We shall see.
I have memories of the ride dating back into the early seventies. The first incarnation I was able to remember (too young before) was under sponsorship of Goodyear. The series of conveyor ramps as you ascended the ride tower had a series of simple animated displays of families on the move, etc. (of course emphasizing how wonderful tires made it all). The "World of Speed" tunnel was still there - you would be running through Tomorrowland and all the sudden Monaco speedway. Um, OK . It was still awesome though.
The later incarnations eventually stripped away the little animated vignettes in the line (I *believe* even before the sponsorship ran out), and the World of Speed became the Gamegrid of Tron. Little choppy in the transitions between scenes they used, but still probably better themed for what Tomorrowland was becoming.
From the first times I was able to start forcing... er... "convincing" my family to let me pick the first ride until they took it out, the Peoplemover was my first ride of the morning. In addition to the "ride" aspects, it also gave you a quick look at the waits on everything in Tomorrowland, the Matterhorn and even over into Small World.
I do miss it.
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The PeopleMover symbolized Walt's idea of the future more than any other attraction. A single ride that allowed you to take in more of Tomorrowland than any other attraction. It was the heart and soul of Tomorrowland. It wasn't a thrill ride, but neither is the Disneyland Railroad.
Essentially Tomorrowlands Railroad has been fragmentarily removed with the tracks left to rot.
I agree it really wasn't a "big deal." But I enjoyed it as a kid. Mainly for the reasons already posted here. If I had the choice I guess I'd rather have something bigger, better, and thrilling put in where the track is now. But I'd rather have the original PM, untouched and as it was, rather than an empty, deteriorating elevated track.
Capacity was also massive in that ride - as other posters said, even at heaviest useage the lines wouldn't last too long. The loading system meant that as long as the ride was operational it was boarding at close to maximum capacity. The upside meant that if the ride was running 850 people an hour the ride would be a walk-on. That's not to be dismissed. The downside would be anything less than maximum useage looked like wasted resources.
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The Peoplemover was more than just a ride.
Walt Disney intended the Peoplemover to be a demonstration of a new type of transportation - a transportation system of the future. He envisioned Peoplemovers being built all over the World - in downtown corridors, airports, shopping malls, etc.
The Peoplemover was one of the most iconic attractions of the old Tomorrowland when that land really was about "tomorrow."
As I remember in some of Walt's films describing his original vision for EPCOT, the Monorails would bring people from outside the city and into the hub or downtown area. The WED Way Peoplemover would then take them to the suburban type areas of EPCOT. Walt was trying to show that this could be a future form of mass transit and unfortunately, it's still being viewed as an attraction. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much electricity the PM at WDW and DL consumed per hour?
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