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DealExtreme FM transmitter User Review
DealExtreme has a full range universal FM transmitter that will cost you $8.36 shipped anywhere in the world. At that price I had to give it a try, seeing how I still haven't found a FM transmitter I'm satisfied with
When this arrived, I was a bit startled, because the screen seemed misplaced. I opened it and saw that it was only the plate providing the background light, placed it correctly, and no it's all fine. Still, it should have arrived perfect, though factory errors do happen. Also, the "up" button is very slow/needs to be pushed hard.
The design is pretty standard for these kinds of transmitters. Shaped like a bean, with two power ports (car adapter is included) and room for batteries (2 AA's). It has an on/off button, up/down and three buttons on the front for setup and saved channels.
I'm not quite sure who needs a thermometer or a clock on a FM transmitter, but it's there nonetheless, and of course it doesnt hurt. The transmitter features full frequency range from 87 to 108.5 MHz with 0.1 MHz intervals. This way, you can always find a channel that's not used. The display shows the time and temperature when you turn it on, and if you hit the on/off button again it goes into transmitter mode and you can choose frequency. You can also browse and store 10 preset frequencies using the three buttons under the LCD, which is a very nice feature that allows you to quickly find the right setup if you use it several places. As I said it has two power ports, I haven't tried either the USB or the car adapter, but I'm sure it works It's nice to have several methods of running the thing depending on where you use it.
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I have tested a LOT of Fm transmitters and either they have SQ issues or they're too weak to give a decent signal. Now, FM transmitters will never come close to cable, but if you have a car with a radio or just want to play your music on anything with a radio, they're good enough. This one has a decent range. I tested it through brick wall, about 15 feet from the radio, worked fine. It all depends on how close any real radio channels are on the band, but 15 feet with not much signal loss isn't bad and more than enough for use in car etc. The sound quality was very good compared to others I've tried, even though there was still a noticeable amount of hiss, but that's to be expected. Bottom line is, that if you have a nice stereo either in your car or at home, then chances are there will be a line-in. If you don't, then you won't get hi-fi sound anyways, and in my opinion a FM transmitter works well enough in a car etc with background noise and all that.
The slow button and the misplaced background light plate wasn't the best thing, but for the price I'm glad it worked at all. Sound quality and range is more than good enough for my use, and for a little over $8 shipped, there is really not much to complain over with this thing. It works well, has nice features and it's cheap. Nice work
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Stereo or not?
Are they stereo or not?
I have now bought 3 FM-transmitters (2 on ebay), and none of them turned out to be real stereo.
The lates I bought is from DX (Dealextreme.com)
Neither this was real stereo (the STEREO lights on the FM-radio, but there is no left/right seperation off the signal).
I played a MP3 on the computer and moved the balance from middle to right to left ... you could hear changing in volum, but not that the sound comes just from the right or the left speaker!
Else it was the best/cheapest FM-transmitter I bought - it came with a 12V(car)->USB Power adapter and had a termometer build in the transmiter.
Else mine transmitter was really hard to read - very weak digits/display!
It's stereo, tested both with the D2 as reciever and it lit up as stereo, and played back a stereo tune thats has very clear left and right and no doubt its stereo
oh and you wont have troubles seeing the display on this xD
For that matter, every FM transmitter I have seen/experienced does broadcast in stereo. The trick, however, is getting good reception with these things. If your car's radio is not picking up a decently strong signal, the behavior for most car radios is to "mix" the left and right channels to suppress static noise. This isn't "mono" mode at this point, as the degree of mix depends on the strength of the signal. However, all FM stereo receivers, if the signal isn't strong enough, will not go into stereo mode (reception of the stereo pilot signal is poor or non-existant). So you will have to find a way to improve the reception from one of these transmitters, which can be very tricky if not futile - which is why the use of an FM transmitter for "connecting" a device to your car stereo is considered an absolute last-resort measure.
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I just stumbled upon this review, and am quite happy to have found it. I was looking for an FM transmitter to recommend to my brother, and this one fits the requirements perfectly. Thanks for the great review Andreas.
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Good looking sweater that is sized well. However, it is not soft and is quite itchy. One needs to wear a substantial shirt underneath. After purchasing this I learned that there are at least seven different grades of Alpaca. My sweater must have come from the low end or cheaper wool. The advertisement did not specify the quality of wool, which is the reason for my low rating. Since this purchase I have acquired other Alpaca products that are soft and itch free.
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Bought this as a gift for my husband who is not typically a "sweater person." However, he wanted something warm he could wear to the office during cold weather, and he loves this! Pattern and colors are stylish yet conservative enough to wear to work and fibers are soft and of good quality. Fit is good too. My husband usually wears Large Tall as he has a longer torso, and the XL fits him well.
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At first glance I almost didn't buy this sweater as a gift for my husband but I'm glad I did. It's one of his favorite sweaters and is perfect for cold days. Looks and feels great.
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It was beautiful but, was a poor fit in the arms. Returned it.
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Mr. Bemer has a cobbler's shop in Oltrarno. The streets south of the Arno have always been the home of craftsmen, at least since the 12th century, when Florence's population mushroomed and the city's ancient Roman buildings no longer offered sufficient living space. Oltrarno, comprising San Frediano, Santo Spirito, and San Niccolò, became a small town in its own right, an area where newly rich merchants found the space to build gaudy palaces while artisans could go about their ordinary trade.
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One of the founding families was that of the Marchesi Pucci di Barsento. Its perhaps most famous member, the fashion designer Emilio Pucci, took over the business much later and his widow, Cristina, still owns and manages the historical enterprise. "Keeping the silk weavery going is a moral obligation for me," says the marchesa.
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Giuliano Ricchi prefers to frequent the quaint family-run restaurant La Casalinga near the lovely Piazza Santo Spirito. "They still cook traditional Florentine fare here, like ribollita, a kind of cabbage stew," he says. Mr. Ricchi grew up in this quarter. His cousin runs the Ricchi cafe and restaurant on the piazza, and his sister manages his father's grocery shop. He himself started out, age 14, in Carlo Cecchi's metal workshop and later took the business over.
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Enrico Giannini also works in charming Santo Spirito. Five generations of Gianninis have bound books in leather, but the personable craftsman's claim to fame is his rediscovery of marbled paper some 30 years ago. "The technique originated in the Orient," he explains, "and came to Italy in the 16th century, when the paper was used in bookbinding." Mr. Giannini started using marbled paper for other objects, like boxes, picture frames and cases. Many have emulated him, and his handicraft is now considered typically Florentine. "The colorful sheets of paper used to be called French paper," he says, "but today they are known everywhere as carta fiorentina."


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Thus the world is facing increasing global challenges with increasingly weak national governments and the central international response mechanism to global challenges - the United Nations - not being equipped with resources on an adequate level. In addition to the resource problem there comes the inadequacy of many sustainable development governance processes based on sectoral ministries (often SD issues are assigned to ministries of environment) not able to integrate the environmental, economic and social dimension of sustainable development and not able to reach out to the many other public and private stakeholders who have great potentials to contribute substantially to sustainable development governance.
Rio+20 therefore stands for a window of opportunity of humankind not only to move towards sustainable global socio-economic resource allocation systems which respect planetary boundaries (?green economy?) but Rio+20 is also a window of opportunity for systemic innovation of United Nations system towards being connected more directly with global citizens and their resources (financial, intellectual, emotional, etc.) through ambitious and innovative redesign of the institutional framework for sustainable development (IFSD) towards multi-stakeholder and multilevel governance.
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a. What are the expectations for the outcome of Rio+20, and what are the concrete proposals in this regard, including views on a possible structure of the Outcome document?
In line with what has been said above that Rio+20 should aim at ambitious and innovative redesign of the institutional framework for sustainable development (IFSD) towards multi-stakeholder and multilevel governance, the expected outcome should include
- legally binding outcome document(s) with ambitious global standards and public administration instruments that reflect intergovernmental agreement on green economy and IFSD with appropriate provision on monitoring and enforcement of implementation (standard UN document) and
- a shared vision document of UN system leadership, national governments, local and regional communities, private sector and leading global civil society organizations/networks for multi-stakeholder and multilevel sustainable development (SD) governance/partnership including
o global citizens? sustainable development resource mobilization programs (see point d) below)
o an integrated global multilevel and multi-stakeholder SD efforts documentation system based on integration of different types of sustainable development resources (natural, intellectual, financial, social, emotional, etc.) as new measures of wealth (e.g. based on the IAAI/GloCha ?collaborative global commons growth? concept as presented at Annual Meeting of Academic Council on the United Nations System 2011 http://www.glocha.info/index.php/latest-news/138-reportiaaiacuns2011 and UN DPI NGO conference 2011 in Bonn http://www.glocha.info/index.php/latest-news/149-bonn-2)
o outline of processes and institutions for future political participation of global citizens in global SD governance that harnesses the full potentials of modern informational and communication technologies
o reference to a ?Charter of Shared Social responsibility for Global Commons? as central global volunteering reference point for civic engagement in UN lead multi-stakeholder engagement in multilevel SD efforts. Such a charter has to be developed based on a UN ? civil society dialogue process and which would link up on a voluntary basis global citizens SD efforts with UN system based on above mentioned shared vision and integrated global documentation system (those who would endorse the Charter would be asked on an annual basis to report their contributions to global commons growth/sustainable development in multilevel governance perspective)
With outcomes of Rio+20 that go beyond intergovernmental consensus towards partnering with global citizens, that reach the so called ?man and woman on the street?, linking conceptually global SD efforts with individual everyday lifestyle, consumption and resource sharing decisions of 7 billion global citizens would make Rio+20 a landmark event in United Nations Intellectual History (see www.unhistory.org/ for more info about the intellectual history of the UN system, the evolution of UN ideas, concepts and institutions over time).
b) What are the comments, if any, on existing proposals: e.g., a green economy roadmap, framework for action, sustainable development goals, a revitalized global partnership for sustainable development, or others? Although we at IAAI did not study all existing proposals in depth, our impression in general is that the ongoing Rio+20 preparatory debate on green economy and IFSD does not focus sufficiently on systemic innovation and substantial correction of market failures, governance failures and systems engineering towards delivery of environmental, social and intergenerational justice.
It has to be noted here that the highly participatory design of UNCSD/Rio+20 preparatory process (online consultation regarding outcome document, minutes of all preparatory meetings online, ?donate? button, ?) and the way in which Rio+20 secretariat works with civil society and other stakeholders reflects in many ways already this modern ?spirit of time? of a new level of partnership of UN system with global citizens and we (IAAI) herewith express our thanks and appreciation for these efforts of UN system in general and UNCSD secretariat staff especially.
c) What are the views on implementation and on how to close the implementation gap, which relevant actors are envisaged as being involved (Governments, specific Major Groups, UN system, IFIs, etc.); Global citizens can be very valuable partners in implementation monitoring by using Web 2.0 technologies, Geographical Information Systems etc. (interesting lessons for innovative SD implementation monitoring can be drawn from ?The International Network of Crisis Mappers? http://crisismappers.net/ and already existing international law implementation monitoring systems of civil society in the field of human rights, etc.)
d) What specific cooperation mechanisms, partnership arrangements or other implementation tools are envisaged and what is the relevant time frame for the proposed decisions to be reached and actions to be implemented? International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges (IAAI) has developed in cooperation with partners like e.g. the Academic Council on the United Nations System, UNESCO, UN DPI/UNIS Vienna, UNEP Vienna office, UN Academic Impact initiative, UN Alliance of Civilizations, several UN Associations, IPCC, Earth Charter International, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change research initiative "Knowledge, Learning, and Societal Change: Finding paths to a sustainable future", Regional Cooperation Council for Southeast Europe, youth organizations and individuals from around the world etc. over the last 4 years several concepts and outlines of initiatives for systemic and cultural change towards strengthened civil society participation in global governance:
- Blueprint for a Knowledge and Philanthropy/Ethics driven Global Civil Society Reform http://www.glocha.info/index.php/glocha-initiatives/iaaiinitiatives/126-cpwc & http://www.glocha.info/conferenceindex.html
- Global Citizenship Ethics for Effective Global Governance ? The Rio+20 Window of Opportunity http://www.glocha.info/index.php/glocha-initiatives/iaaiinitiatives/98-gce/139-rio2012
- Collaborative Global Commons Wealth Generation (basic rationale: framing all resources that are needed by present and future generations for sustainable development as ?global commons?)
- Building the Knowledge Base for Global Governance www.investsciencesee.info/ccandun/ , www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&type=13&nr=372&menu=27 and Multilevel Climate Change/SD Governance from an Innovation System perspective http://www.glocha.info/images/stories/news2011/acuns2011/acunspresentationpolzer.pdf
- Global Challenges Song World Cup ? Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest http://www.glocha.info/index.php/glocha-initiatives/gcsw , http://www.glocha.info/index.php/latest-news/137-rio-2012-youth-song (report on Rio+20 GYMC presentation at UN High level Meeting on Youth) and (formal and informal) Global Citizenship Education and Global Community building by means of music and arts http://www.glocha.info/index.php/glocha-initiatives/globalkcanin
- Establishing a global network of ?Global Challenges (GloCha) centers? that facilitate sustainable development multi-stakeholder partnerships on local level (including foresight/ shared vision building, needs and capacities assessments, ?think global ? act local? action plans and resource mobilization) linked globally with UN system by a shared vision, a transparent global financial transaction documentation system and a collaborative/participative global commons growth assessment and documentation system http://www.glocha.info/index.php/latest-news/149-bonn-2 & www.glocha.info/index.php/events/upcomingevents/sarajevo-workshop1
All these elements of innovative sustainable development governance can be brought together and boosted in Rio+20 with a ?15/15/15 UN ? Civil Society Partnership? formula as cooperation mechanism/target, meaning:
That Civil Society sets itself the target to mobilize in support of the work of UN system
- 15 billion Euros of financial resources for centrally documented global multi-stakeholder multilevel governance sustainable development efforts and
- 15 million volunteers (documented in cooperation with UN Volunteers and CIVICUS including local feed-back and assessment based on web2.0 technologies)
- by the year 2015
The details of the cooperation mechanism/partnership arrangement shall be adopted at a joint event of UNCSD and ?People?s Summit of Rio+20 for Social and Environmental Justice? in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 (IAAI can offer to facilitate the process).
Tools for implementation of this cooperation partnership and for resource mobilizations and allocation:
- a shared vision document of UN system leadership, national governments, local and regional communities, private sector and leading global civil society organizations/networks for multi-stakeholder and multilevel SD governance/partnership including (see point a) above)
- a ?Charter of Shared Social responsibility for Global Commons? which has to be developed based on a UN ? civil society dialogue process and which would link up on a voluntary basis global citizens SD efforts with UN system. Such a Charter should be systemically linked with Earth Charter and UNESCO?s efforts for a ?Universal Declaration on Ethical Principles related to Climate Change? http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/science-and-technology/climate-change/
- Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest http://www.glocha.info/index.php/glocha-initiatives/gcsw for public awareness building, youth participation and fund raising facilitation (globally broadcasted ?Rio+20 Global Challenges Song World Cup Gala Night? with the finalists from all continents and supporting pop stars to inform about Rio+20 outcomes and to promote and achieve the 15/15/15 objective, charity concerts on regional, national and local level (in cooperation with GloCha centers) shall follow)
- a ?Global Youth Call for Sharing of Resources? (to be prepared in cooperation with UN CSD Major group ?Children and Youth?, UN Youth program et al.)
- a High Level Fund Raising event with leading global philanthropists http://www.efc.be/Networking/InterestGroupsAndFora/Global/Documents/201105_GPLI_OnePager.pdf, The Giving Pledge http://givingpledge.org/, the global umbrella organization of foundations/philanthropy networks WINGS www.wingsweb.org and UN Office for Partnerships www.un.org/partnerships/ & many (web 2.0) micro-philanthropy activities (combined with Global Challenges Song World Cup concerts)
- a Global Forum on Social Investment (Philanthropy) and Research, Education and Innovation Funding (see http://www.glocha.info./gce.html for more info)
- Global Citizenship Ethics standard setting based on Article 29 (1) of Universal Declaration on Human Rights (?Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible?)
- UN- Civil Society Joint Task Force or Commission for institutional engineering towards integration of public and private resources for sustainable development in the context of a renewed UN system. Basic idea: if global citizens succeed to mobilize 15 billion ? of financial resources and 15 million + volunteers for global sustainable development governance than global citizens should also be provided with adequate global governance participation possibilities. United Nations is and will stay the central and universal global response mechanism to global challenges but it needs to systemically integrate resources of global civil society to be effective.
Specific Elementsa) Objective of the Conference: To secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assessing the progress to date and remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development and addressing new and emerging challenges. Contributions could include possible sectoral priorities (e.g., (e.g., energy, food security and sustainable agriculture, technology transfer, water, oceans, sustainable urbanization, sustainable consumption and production, natural disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation, biodiversity, etc.) and sectoral initiatives that contribute to integrate the three pillars of sustainable development could be launched and endorsed at Rio+20. N/A
b) Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication: views regarding how green economy can be a means to achieve sustainable development in its three dimensions, and poverty eradication; what is its potential added value; experience to date, including what has worked and how to build upon success, what are the challenges and opportunities and how to address the challenges and seize opportunities, and possible elements of an agreement in outcome document on a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication N/A
c) Institutional framework for sustainable development: Priorities and proposals for strengthening individual pillars of sustainable development, as well as those for strengthening integration of the three pillars, at multiple levels; local, national, regional and international. N/A
d) Any proposals for refinement of the two themes. Recall that Resolution 64/236 describes the focus of the Conference: "The focus of the Conference will include the following themes to be discussed and refined during the preparatory process: a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and the institutional framework for sustainable development". N/A
Full SubmissionAbout ?International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI? www.glocha.info is a not-for profit private association, which has been established under Austrian law of associations by an international group of scientists, science managers and futures studies experts in April 2007. IAAI main objective is to explore and promote systemic innovation regarding resource mobilization of global civil society for effective global governance in support of the work of United Nation System. IAAI is a United Nations Department for Public Information (UN DPI) associated NGO and member of United Nations Academic Impact Initiative. Since IAAI General Assembly 2011 global youth representatives constitute the majority of IAAI membership and Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest is the most important IAAI flagship initiative www.glocha.info/index.php/glocha-initiatives/gcsw. Contact: Miroslav Polzer Secretary general of International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges www.glocha.info Member of Academic Council on the United Nations System www.acuns.org Address: Dunajska 104, SI 1000 Ljubljana/Slovenia, tel.: +43 664 4203648, email: email@example.com


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I believe that sharing tools and ideas will help everyone. For me this contest is about finding an algorithm, not how to spend a week figuring out how to mmap files in C. There have been many posts here asking how to deal with that. One by one, it looks like many of you have already spent time and effort making a basic framework (many seemed to know C++, so that is what I have written this in). I spent the first week trying as hard as I could not to look at this problem as a programing task, but as a more interesting, fun, math problem. I hacked up several ideas in scripting languages the first week. It ran slow, but it was fast enough to "code" (and easy enough to toss out) for me to spend my time worrying about the algorithm and not the data. Reading the boards here and blogs elsewhere I saw a lot of people looking for answers on how to parse the data and mostly just fit it all into memory. The horrible part was that by the time they figured it out they were not excited to work on the real problem! So I took aside a week and wrote a small framework that anyone can use if they want (or at the bare minimum an example of one possible way to do it for people to read). The framework will generate binary files the first time they are run so there is (almost) no startup delay from then on. There are two binary blobs, the first is a list of all the movies (~400MB) and the second is a list of users (~200MB). The average algorithm takes around 1/2 a second for the entire probe set to run. You are of course free to change or improve any of this to fit your algorithms. The package includes example implementations that you can immediately open in your favorite editor and start modifying. And last but not least there are a few tools that you can use on the database. I do not include my current algorithm, but as I find different algorithms that do not work I wont toss them out, but will be including them with future releases for everyone to learn from. All the code is licensed under the BSD license.
Enjoy and good luck!
Benjamin Meyer
P.S. If you win I am in need of a new laptop
Netflix Recommender Framework
http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program … rFramework
A small C++ framework that lets you hopefully think about the algorithm and not how to fit the database in your memory. For more information about the netflix prize visit: http://www.netflixprize.com/
If you find this useful I would appreciate getting a book off my Amazon wish list (doesn't need to be new, used is fine by me) http://www.amazon.com/o/registry/FYDMD50IC8E3
Quick Start Instructions
Move this into the download/ directory after-which it should look like this
Run "qmake -recursive" to generate the Makefiles and then Go into the algorithms/average directory and run make (On debian you need to run qmake-qt4, qmake points to qmake-qt3).
cd download/netflixresultsgenerator
qmake -recursive
cd algorithms/average
It makes a binary file called "average".
The first time it runs it will read in the entire training data and create a several binary files that is then mmap'd in future runs for the training set and probe data. On a 32bit system the training set will be 384MB. The average example implements the average algorithm. Once the database is created it should take about five seconds when in debug mode and half a second in release for the entire probe data set.
Now that you have seen it working open up main.cpp in your favorite editor and modify the determine() function with your algorithm idea.
If an algorithm you try isn't good enough and you are going to toss it out, if you e-mail it to me I will include it in future releases for everyone to learn from.
There is a doubleaverage algorithm for you to look at that show some usage of the User class.
Included Tools
scrubprobedata will remove the probe data from the training files and generate a new probe file containing the answers.
explorer is a small GUI application that lets you explore the data.
movie pass it a movie id and it will output all the votes for the movie in "user,vote" format
user pass it a user id and it will output all the votes by that user in "movie,vote" format
The Code
The cross platform toolkit Qt version 4 is used for the build system, test system, and basic file operations. This allows for the code to be used on Windows, OS X, and Linux. You can download the GPL version of their library at http://www.trolltech.com/ if you do not already have it on your system. Feel free to use the existing build system or replace it with your own preferred.
This code is licensed under the BSD license.
The code for the framework is located in the src/ directory. There are autotests for the included classes in the autotests directory. There are five main classes in the framework.
DataBase - creates, loads, and holds the pointers the mmaped arrays
Movie - Class for working with a movie, how many votes it has, etc
User - Class for working with a single user, how many votes it made, etc
Probe - Class that loads the probe data and runs it through the Algorithm
RMSE - Class to keep track of the current rmse score (used by the probe)
If you find bugs and report them please include a modified autotests file that can reproduce the bug.
I have done my development in Linux and OS X so please report any Windows compiler errors you get.
Explorer GUI tool screenshot:
Last edited by icefox (2006-10-28 13:56:46)
You rock. I'll certainly be contributing some code and eventually some sort of donation to you
very helpful, thanks.
now we just need to throw some distributed computing in the mix
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..\..\src\database.cpp:36:22: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory
Hmmm, I guess this isn't compiling as easily as I thought.
* Note, I am trying to compile and run on Windows XP.
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RudeDude wrote:
..\..\src\database.cpp:36:22: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory
Hmmm, I guess this isn't compiling as easily as I thought.
* Note, I am trying to compile and run on Windows XP.
Hit the first page that google gave me and found this:
http://www.genesys-e.de/jwalter/mix4win.htm Let me know if it works and I will add it in.
Q_OS_WIN is already defined so you can do
#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
... copy the above stuff in the link
#include <sys/mman.h>
..\..\src\database.cpp:36:22: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory
Hmmm, I guess this isn't compiling as easily as I thought.
* Note, I am trying to compile and run on Windows XP.
Quick and dirty way: grab winmmap.{c,h} from here and add the appropriate include and such.
This framework looks pretty nice. Cleaner than my code, at least
Thanks, I did a bunch of searching last night and didn't find these two links.
I'm trying the emulation code from imagemagik now and having some trouble so I might have to read the "Emulating Unix Memory". Or it's somethign wrong with the resultant Make files I'm not sure.
after including the files and movifing the includes add the following to netflixresultsgenerator.pri and then re-run qmake-qt4
win32 {
SOURCES += $$PWD/winmmap.c
HEADERS += $$PWD/winmmap.h
I did change the PRI file when I realized it wouldn't make it into the MAKE file otherwise. winmmap.c is compiling into the .o file but it looks like I'm getting linker problems in the end.
gcc -c -g -g -Wall -DUNICODE -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -DQT_DLL -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_ NEEDS_QMAIN -I"C:/Dev/Qt/4.2.1/include/QtCore" -I"C:/Dev/Qt/4.2.1/include/QtCore" -I"C:/Dev/Qt/4.2.1 /include" -I"." -I"C:/djr7m/netflix/download/netflixrecommenderframework/src" -I"C:/Dev/Qt/4.2.1/inc lude/ActiveQt" -I"debug" -I"." -I"c:\Dev\Qt\4.2.1\mkspecs\win32-g++" -o debug\winmmap.o ..\..\src\wi nmmap.c g++ -mthreads -Wl,-enable-stdcall-fixup -Wl,-enable-auto-import -Wl,-enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc -Wl ,-subsystem,windows -o "debug\average.exe" debug\winmmap.o debug\database.o debug\movie.o debug\prob e.o debug\user.o debug\main.o -L"c:\Dev\Qt\4.2.1\lib" -lmingw32 -lqtmaind -lQtCored4 debug\database.o(.text+0xc62): In function `ZN8DataBaseD2Ev': C:/djr7m/netflix/download/netflixrecommenderframework/algorithms/average/../../src/database.cpp:64: undefined reference to `munmap(void*, unsigned int)'
It looks like I needed to name my "winmmap.c" as "winmmap.cpp" to get the .o file in the right format or something?? Well average.exe is now crunching so we'll see what happens.
--- later ---
I'm getting movie.dat generated but something crashes after calculations run for a while on the movie.index (which ends up at 69.4KB and no more). I'm going to try and debug.
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Excellent contributions. I think you're an example of a special category of member, perhaps we say "Mensch", for those who make significant contributions to the community.
By the way, on your Amazon wishlist, I recommend dropping the Norvig & Russell book and replace it with Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman.
thanks alot for this
if anyone convertes it to pure c++ (no qt) and feel like sharing it'll help greatly - i'm having lots of problems with qt
CS1 wrote:
Excellent contributions. I think you're an example of a special category of member, perhaps we say "Mensch", for those who make significant contributions to the community.
By the way, on your Amazon wishlist, I recommend dropping the Norvig & Russell book and replace it with Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman.
Thanks for the recommendation, it looks good and I have added it to my list. The Norvig & Russel book, did you find it covered a lot of the same material or just a not very good book?
asafdav2 wrote:
thanks alot for this
if anyone convertes it to pure c++ (no qt) and feel like sharing it'll help greatly - i'm having lots of problems with qt
What problems are you having with Qt? Are you using Qt version 4? If you use version 3 it will probably not work. On the Linux side even Debian ships qt4 packages so you shouldn't have any problems and on the mac there are nice install package and on windows the same thing, their installer even installed mingw for me (don't own a copy of visual C++ at home). Note that on Debian at least the qmake that you need to run is qmake-qt4, qmake by default is aliased to qmake-qt3.
Qt provides a nice framework for cross platform development. I have an Apple laptop, a Linux desktop and can dual boot into Windows. I can work on my software and use it in all three (granted I don't spend much time in Windows these days). For me the fact that they will provide all of this in a GPL toolkit is fantastic as it lets me spend my time not figuring out each build system or quirks with vs6's compiler, but hacking on my projects.
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i'm trying to compile under debian. when running
qmake - recursive
i'm getting the error msg -
QMAKESPEC has not been set, so configuration cannot be deduced.
when trying -
i'm getting -
Command not found.
and when trying
qmake -qt4
i'm getting -
***Unknown option -qt4
Last edited by asafdav2 (2006-11-01 14:37:02)
So what version of Qt is installed then? You want your CWD to be the "algorithms/average" directory when you run the qmake recursive.
QMAKESPEC is simply an environmental variable that indicates if your in windows or unix etc. I believe you can get around the variable by using the option "-unix", so try "qmake -unix -recursive" or just define the variable (I believe you need it to be "linux-g++" )
"QMAKESPEC=linux-g++ qmake -recurive"
I hope this helps.
thanks for the reply
looks like it doesnt help -
qmake -unix -recursive
gives the same error msg
set QMAKESPEC=linux-g++
qmake -recursive
same error msg again
i'm not really sure what version of qt is installed (i'm using debian in my university), how do you see it ?
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So, what version of Qt?
Depending on the shell you are using the "set" command may not make the variable appear globally which is why I had put it on one line with qmake.
In windows Qt actually creates a "shell launcher" that sets environmental variables and library search paths. Perhaps the Qt installer in debian did something similar?
Sorry, but I'm out of ideas, I don't know Qt or qmake so well. You could always digress to manually calling g++ or making your own Makefile since there aren't too many files to compile.
asafdav2 wrote:
i'm trying to compile under debian. when running
qmake - recursive
i'm getting the error msg -
QMAKESPEC has not been set, so configuration cannot be deduced.
when trying -
i'm getting -
Command not found.
and when trying
qmake -qt4
i'm getting -
***Unknown option -qt4
not "qmake" with an argument "-qt4", but the executable "qmake-qt4". On Debian the qt4 package that contains qmake-qt4 is qt4-dev-tools I believe.
well as i said qmake-qt4 gives 'unknown command' error, but seems like qmake-qt3 works and even produces a Makefile. i guess i can deduce this is what we have installed. anyway when running make i'm getting a few error msgs with the first one saying that it cant locate probe.h (maybe because i didnt use qmake-qt3 -recursive? i tried but it said he doesnt know this option, or maybe because i cant compile it using qt3 - in that case i guess i'll have to install linux at home)
There are big differences between Qt3 and Qt4, so you do need to install Qt4 to compile and run. Looks like on Debian you need the package libqt4-dev (not dev tools) to get qmake-qt4.
Last edited by jml (2006-11-02 10:32:13)
In "void DataBase::generateUserDatabase()",
why your sort based on votes? qSort(userVotes.begin(), userVotes.end(), votelessthan)
How could I do not sort, just save in the order of moveid?
Thanks a lot,
mlearing wrote:
In "void DataBase::generateUserDatabase()",
why your sort based on votes? qSort(userVotes.begin(), userVotes.end(), votelessthan)
How could I do not sort, just save in the order of moveid?
Thanks a lot,
The user database is compressed, I implemented something similar to what was already mentioned by in5ane here: http://www.netflixprize.com/community/v … php?id=333
It lists the number of movies that are all ranked a 5 and then lists them, then lists the movies that are ranked a 4 and then lists them etc. (See above post for more details) This lets all the data fit into less memory and is very handy for those algorithms that want all the 5 votes quickly etc. It is this limitation that causes it to be in this order. It is debatable if the memory savings is worth it as you have to unpack the data. I have optimized the User class (and will release it this weekend), but it is still slower then direct array access, of course. It can be changed to be like the movie database and just be an uint array of movies and votes (or maybe even a database option?).
Right now my algorithms mostly deal with movies and not users so I haven't spent too much time on the Users. Feel free to come up with a different storage for users and I'll include it in the next release.
This is fantastic - just what I needed to get off the RDBMS, which was great for generating ideas, but Slooowww (on my laptop)
Has anyone gotten this to work on a Windows machine? I am able to compile it, generate the initial "cache" database, but I error out during the creation of the cleverly compressed User database. I notice the process hits about 1.1GB of memory before crashing.
Could this be a Windows problem? the drwtsn error log didn't help me, but all those movs, pushes and pops...in over my head.


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Once the test is created, there are several captions for delivery. They may be printed on paper—of course that option will not yield a test that is automatically corrected with results displayed in the previous section of this article. The other options, giving the test by computer, are required for data analysis. It offers a number of options for delivery via computer. You can have the students take the test on the computer itself, on the school's local network, on CosmicSoft's server, or on your own server. If you publish to CosmicSoft's server, they provide a unique url for the test.
CosmicSoft provides free access to their server for tests with up to 1 MB of resources. If you needs more space, you can subscribe to starQuiz Pro, allowing tests with resources up to 5 MB., for $5 per month. A text based 30 question quiz came in at just under 400 KB. If you use a lot of images, you might need the Pro service. Otherwise, you could upload your quizzes to your own server or an inexpensive shared server account.
You can configure the tests so that they may be taken on a web browser. My class took a test this way and it worked well except one student working on a Mac Lion laptop inadvertently made a gesture that made the test disappear. Using the free starQuiz NetClient would probably eliminate this hazard.
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