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Unemployed professionals turn to the web for jobs
Rich Pearson on a new report citing an increase in online freelance earnings. Could you work form home?
Dec 14, 2012
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It's today but we will start our guest lineup like going straight out west to San Francisco where we have this CMO of you -- rates.
Pearson -- rich.
Standing IR SI and good nice to see you -- so -- that they don't know what is he -- tells a little bit about it.
-- is a place for and businesses of any size to you find freelance talent and get instant access so if you wanted to build.
A -- -- you could post a job and get five or ten bids from people all over the world all over the country.
You would actually do the job for you paid them through our service once you are happy with the work.
-- and -- online freedom and work is it seems to be the new job creator for -- look now but especially for the new year right you're seeing astronomical.
-- Abs absolutely and it's really knows no real surprise when you've begun on the freelancers side of your work final word.
I would be much more comfortable rather than going into a corporate job going to all that.
The meetings instead now I can go to work from anywhere and get access to jobs that will pay might might pay my salary that I pattern in the in the full time environment -- to -- business side ahead.
And visit on the business side the benefits there are really clear yet you have people working for you and hours not weeks or -- months.
Yeah a lot of medium entrepreneurs that we bring on the show especially in Wednesday's -- have a small business segments they say that they really do recruit a lot of people online.
For small jobs winning you website redesign or whatever it is at a small business -- it would need -- two questions for you though rich first one would be.
In what areas of the country is this popping up the most and also what kind of industries.
Is online freelance really booming -- So we're seeing growth and and a few areas and we have this this concept that we're seeing is kind of escaping your local economy so if you're -- -- a city like.
Fresno California that has unemployment of over 13%.
Your your options are pretty slim you can either go down to the local job board or maybe extend your commute.
To 90% so we're seeing a lot of freelancers in fact over a 100% growth in cities with high unemployment.
Who are earning -- line where they couldn't -- in their local cities.
On the other side if you're a city like San Francisco -- to get a user experience designer you've got to get maligned for weeks maybe even months.
You can go online and hire somebody from other areas of the country said these are really the pockets that we're seeing and actually play off each other -- It makes sense.
-- -- Fleiss is a look at some of the -- trends because there's a dangerous thing but I had to ask you the levels and in -- quote.
I just his carries it it was quarter over quarter growth or year over year but nearly 200 -- over.
Quarter over quarter very -- okay 220000.
New jobs were posted in the third quarter.
That was up for 41% from the second quarter and this is from online employment that is a big number -- -- -- ahead.
It's a huge number don't you think about it you know it we're we're almost at the cusp of being -- being recognized by the Bureau of Labor Statistics week.
By the end of 2013.
We think this is a sector that needs to be trapped.
And that's really interesting point to how how many not track you -- how what is the conversation in the discussion like to get them to attract you.
Well you know we're small scale but we're really -- fast as you said and you know that at certain points.
We are in discussions right now -- certain -- we believe will be tracked by the end of the -- Thanks okay I ended the FOK the other up parts of your survey showed that free -- earnings are hitting close to fifty million dollars.
Nice absolutely and we have and we're releasing any sectors that that that -- they the traditional economies have.
The jobs that are that are going on line are a -- mobile anything mobile is really hot right now so if -- wanted to.
Developers and iPhone and android app you can go online get this.
For you know maybe 101000 dollars in a few months depending on your needs and get that very quickly and really -- your your business mobile if you.
Yes makes cents.
And then on the business skills that seemed to the end and high demand for online work what what would they be sales and marketing -- imagine are some.
Yeah -- Absolutely so you got the technical secretary you know the technical jobs -- -- technical talent is still at a premium all over the country.
But also on the other side sales and marketing has really -- -- up over 60% and specifically those.
That if it were tapping and -- the moms working it at home they're able to work.
You know add their brainpower to whether it's marketing strategy -- copy.
Designers that this is really the sector that we're seeing the highest growth.
And then -- -- riding on there which is that's see you can live from anywhere right has.
And you can read from anywhere in in when you think about.
We're seeing interesting trends where the CEOs who who you know need to be online and participate in social media there are often getting -- rated content.
From folks online who are giving them the stories that they still write themselves.
But they're doing it in a -- where they're they're getting very highly efficient content sense about.
Quit -- CMOs are writing their own stories that the research is being done online.
-- -- -- -- And nobody has the time to spend 24 in a seven reading all the stories sourcing -- a lot of folks who are using.
Helpers to cure rate -- content in their sector to give them something that allows them.
To -- to say something Smart -- -- -- see those ten articles that they -- can't comment on for on that day.
So that begs this follow up question how does one insure that that freelancers being that it has the appropriate skills what's the job recruiting process like in the online -- It's a great question what what we do you prefer for every freelance -- that you see -- Lance.
You see they're complete profiles that includes their -- in skills that they want to bring them in.
You can see all their reviews that they've done in the past and comments from previous businesses like you.
That -- that have hired them finally can see their rate and any comments as -- their portfolio as any of their previous work they've done online.
OK yes you know there's a study out -- career builder that shows seven out of ten buses say that they hired a bad and we'll -- in the past year.
And that bad employee cost 25% of those businesses at least.
151000 dollars and one of the reasons is they're not being properly vetted so that's what made me think of the question because you know then people make -- company.
You know so when you make mistakes like that negative attitudes and basically.
Lost productivity lost time lost money.
-- -- and when you're doing it online you can maybe start with a little project and that's what we recommend if you're a business first going be -- start with a little project you can put it as an hourly job.
And -- money aside or a fixed price job.
You get the work done and before you pay and this is key.
You have to prove -- work so if you're not approving -- you don't have to pay so there's there's a try a trial process -- -- that's really effective.
-- it honestly it sounds innovative genius and also really simple I'm glad it's working and we have -- a chat where we had viewers right and and sometimes ask.
Folks question so we have can anyone read this that this the -- my guess he wants to know what is the difference between inland San.
And linked -- what would you say -- average.
Well really when you think of Lincoln it's a great way to find people eight in your profession aren't other prepared professions.
What are UN says it's not only in marketplace that we match people on talent.
But it's also -- workplace silly on UNC actually the person does the work and you pay for the work during.
Three -- so you can do it as I said on a fixed price basis are hourly.
However on Linkedin is just really a matchmaking process where you think of that online dating -- like online dating so we care what happens after the match.
Which Pearson thank you so much for coming on today.
He -- dot com on the screen right now thanks rich.
Thanks a lot lord -- in our question of the day.
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NASA's balloon-carried BLAST sub-millimeter telescope is hoisted into launch position on Dec. 25, 2012, at McMurdo Station in Antarctica on a mission to peer into the cosmos.
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A giant helium balloon is slowly drifting above Antarctica, about 22 miles (36 kilometers) up. Launched on Tuesday (Dec. 25) from the National Science Foundation's Long Duration Balloon (LDB) facility on Earth's southernmost continent, it carries a sensitive telescope that measures submillimeter light waves from stellar nurseries in our Milky Way.
"Christmas launch!" wrote officials with NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, which oversees the agency's balloon research program, in a Twitter post yesterday. "BLAST launched today from McMurdo Station, Antarctica."
This is the fifth and final mission for BLAST, short for the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, and mission designers hope it will reveal why so few stars are born in our galaxy.
On Dec. 12, BLAST was still in one of the two giant Payload Assembly Buildings at the LDB facility, a short distance from the U.S. research center McMurdo Station. Principal investigator Mark Devlin of the University of Pennsylvania and a group of graduate students were mounting a giant sunshade on the telescope, to ensure that the ultra-cold detectors won't heat up during the flight.
"The detectors are cooled to 0.3 degrees aboven absolute zero, using liquid helium," said Devlin. "If they were any warmer, they wouldn't be able to register the faint submillimeter radiation of cold interstellar dust clouds at just 30 degrees above absolute zero."
Star mystery
After test flights in 2003 in New Mexico and in 2005 in Sweden, BLAST's third flight, in 2006 from Antarctica, was a "mind-boggling" success, Devlin said. The instrument revealed beyond doubt that in most distant galaxies, new stars are born at a prolific rate. By measuring the star formation rate in galaxies more than 7 billion light-years away, the researchers determined that over half of the stars in the uuniverse were born within the first 5 billion years after the Big Bang.
"But there's an unsolved problem," added co-principal investifator Barth Netterfield of the University of Toronto, Canada, who was assisting the BLAST team with the launch preparations. "BLAST found lots of so-called dark cores in our ownMilky Way — dense clouds of cold dust that are supposed to be stars-in-the-making. Based on the number of dark cores, you would expect our galaxy to spawn dozens of new stars each year on average. Yet, the galactic star formation rate is only some four solar masses per year."
So why is the stellar birth rate in our Milky Way so low? Astronomers can think of two ways in which a dense cloud of dust is prevented from further contracting into a star: turbulence in the dust, or the collapse-impeding effects of magnetic fields. On its new mission, BLAST should find out which process is to blame. [Images: Life at Antarctica's Concordia Station]
The idea is straightforward: magnetic fields tend to align electrically charged, elongated dust particles. If dust particles have a preferred orientation, they will slightly polarize the submillimeter radiation from the cloud. Using polarimeters, BLAST can detect if the radiation is indeed polarized, and if it is, determine the direction of the magnetic field. "If there's no polarization present," said Netterfield, "turbulence must be the reason" why so few dark cores collapse into new stars.


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The words came about eight minutes before the conclusion of the vice-presidential debate. They were spoken not by either of the candidates, but by the moderator, Martha Raddatz.
She prefaced her thoughts by saying she knew that both men had great respect for the people who serve in the military. And then she said:
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The answers given by Joe Biden and Paul Ryan -- serious in tenor -- were not as stirring as the question itself, because unless you are a professional political operative whose job it is to attack the other side, you recognize the wisdom in that soldier's words. Raddatz did not mention what the soldier's political allegiance was, and it would have been beside the point. What mattered is that he is an American, and he believes that much of the tone of the campaign has been beneath the dignity of what Americans should expect.
Biden repeatedly referred to Ryan as "my friend"; Ryan, at the end of the proceedings, thanked Biden -- he referred to him as "Joe" -- and said it had been an honor to debate him.
People tend to accord each other that kind of courtesy when they have to look each other in the eye. Friday morning, though, the ad wars will resume, like bombing raids conducted from two miles in the air. The truth of that is undebatable.
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Joe Biden proved tonight that vice presidential debates can -- and should - matter. And Martha Raddatz proved that moderators can -- and should -- moderate. Paul Ryan showed that talking points, an engaging personality and a few personal anecdotes can't mask bad policy, misinformation and ignorance.
Paul Ryan attempted to dominate the conversation -- a bullying tactic he took from Romney's playbook and that clearly irritated Biden. He rattled off misleading information, half-truths and cooked-up numbers. He made unsubstantiated claims about President Obama, the effects of his policies, both here and abroad, and ignored the context of the last four years: the "Great Recession" and Republican congressional obstructionism. Biden successfully challenged them all.
Raddatz pressed both candidates for specifics and would not be bulldozed. She kept the debate moving, didn't let it deteriorate (too much), and asked hard questions. At various points, both candidates were uncomfortable; both Biden and Ryan had "I don't want to answer that" moments. That's a sign the moderator was doing her job. For the most part, she let them debate, but acted as guide and, well, moderator. It's a tough line moderators have to walk, but Martha Raddatz did it as well as anybody.
Joe Biden came prepared to argue, to debate and to be Joe. He didn't allow the "less than candid" Republican claims to go unchallenged. When Ryan brought up "values," Biden brought up "responsibility," and the disdain Romney and Ryan have for 47% (or 30%) of the American people. He even countered Ryan's reference to his "gaffes," replying, "I always say what I mean."
Ryan was salesman smooth and knew his talking points. Biden was passionate and "fired up." Ryan talked; Biden shared experience. Both men could argue, but only Biden was intense -- because he spoke -- and frowned and gestured and smiled - from his heart as well as his mind.
A young woman, in her early twenties, wrote me after the debate that Joe Biden inspired her with his fervor and honesty to register and to vote.
Yes, this debate mattered. A lot.
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Bottom line -- this debate will amount to a draw.
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This split screen captured the contrast in visions of the two vice presidential candidates on fiscal policy. Appropriately on the left, older Joe Biden, defending big government and modern liberalism's spending and fiscal denial with a grinning fresh face offering new ideas for fiscal reform and longevity from the right.
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We're at the point of the season where someone typically establishes themselves as the favorite to be the number one pick in the draft. This year Kentucky Wildcats forward Anthony Davis is looking like the best available in the 2012 class. He's firmly at the top of just about every mock draft board. The second-ranked prospect varies, but the one thing they all have in common is that they've got a lot of ground to make up in order to pass Davis.
Is he the real deal? Or is he just another over-hyped collegiate player who will struggle to make the transition to the NBA?
Davis' game is not without weaknesses. His base is not where it needs to be yet from a strength standpoint. On the offensive end he gets bodied into some tough looks and will sometimes settle for shots going away from the basket. It also prevents him from getting deep position at times. He plays on a team littered with first round picks, though, and is very unselfish. He isn't overly aggressive in creating his own offense, rather focusing on finishing the high-percentage opportunities that come his way off of his teammates' creativity and offensive rebounds.
As far as post moves are concerned, Davis actually possesses a nice set. He's comfortable attacking in each direction on both blocks with his back to the basket. He already has confidence in his left hand and will go to it around the basket. He attacks the baseline most regularly, looking to utilize his incredible quickness for someone who is 6'10. Once he improves his lower body strength, he'll be someone a team can run plays for in the post. His speed also comes in handy on the screen-and-roll, where he is very effective going towards the basket. If he gets it anywhere around the key, he's liable to explode and finish.
Davis' jump shot is good enough at this point of his career to where it's safe enough to expect it to become a reliable weapon with more work. He doesn't need to get set up as a spot up shooter either, he can also rise up and score off of the dribble. He's shooting just under 70% from the free throw line this year. After going 4-10 against LSU on January 28, he's made 13 of his last 15. So, while not immune from the occasional off night, Davis can be counted on at the charity stripe.
Defensively Davis' lack of lower body strength comes into play too. Stronger players can establish deep position on him. However, by virtue of being ridiculously long, explosive and possessing great timing, Davis is difficult to score on no matter how far you back him down. He leads the nation with 4.8 blocks a night. He's blocked five or more shots 12 times this year and recorded a career-best eight twice.
He's active as an offensive rebounder, but prioritizes grabbing defensive boards, which is almost as important as his shot blocking.
Out on the perimeter Davis holds his own on the pick-and-roll. He's quick footed enough to pick up the ball handler on the switch or get back to his man if he hedges. His length is just as troublesome away from the basket, where he uses it to get deflections and steals.
Obviously, the positive aspects of Davis' game greatly outweigh the few negatives, none of which appear to be of any serious long-term concern. One positive that hasn't even been mentioned yet is his youth. Although he doesn't look like it and never plays like it, Davis is only 18 years old.
It's almost scary to think about how good he'll be when he's 21. By then he'll have two years of NBA coaching under his belt, a significantly stronger physique and a more polished offensive game.
There are a few NBA players who Davis will remind you of. The first one is Portland Trail Blazers center Marcus Camby. They have similar builds, great shot blocking instincts, and the ability to hit the mid-range jumper. His all-around game will also give flashbacks to a young Boston Celtics power forward Kevin Garnett. There was a time and period where Garnett was almost a mirror image of Davis now. We never got to see Garnett play collegiately, but he too lacked strength at 18 and was much more of an impressive athlete than finished project back then.
It's not really fair to compare any freshmen to a Hall of Famer, but if there's anyone worthy of it it's Davis. Nothing against North Carolina's Harrison Barnes, UConn's Andre Drummond or even his teammate Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. Davis is the number one pick regardless of the winner of the draft lottery. If the season ended tonight, the Charlotte Bobcats, New Orleans Hornets, Washington Wizards, Detroit Pistons and New Jersey Nets would have the best odds to land the top pick. Not only would they each take Davis, he'd play big minutes for them immediately as a rookie.
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Type: Improvement
Status: Closed
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 2.7
Fix Version/s: 2.8
Environment:Oracle WebLogic
Testcase included:yes
Patch Submitted:Yes
Number of attachments :5
The current handling of defaultLibBundleDir leads to some issues on Oracle Weblogic 10+. The Ear plugin currently sets library-directory to the value of defaultLibBundleDir in the application.xml for EARs v5+. Some of Oracle's classloading features break (specifically "Generic File Loading") when this element is set. defaultLibBundleDir has to be set to APP-INF/lib since this is the magic library folder for WebLogic.
The patch adds a parameter to prevent setting library-directory for cases like this.
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I am confused. library-directory is only written if you set the defaultLibDirectory. If I understand you well, you're saying you must use it (to use the magic APP-INF/lib thing) but we should not write the value in that case?
I believe you're asking here to workaround a bug in Weblogic, right. Has this been reported by any chance?
You've got it exactly. Definitely a bug in WebLogic. I am working on putting together a bug report with Oracle, but from past experience, if they don't first tell me this is intended behavior, they won't release a fix to others since it's not a security flaw.
In that case, I prefer a weblogic configuration option, like we've done for JBoss. Your patch is a too wide option that sole purpose is to workaround a bug.
Something like
<configuration> <weblogic> <write-library-directory>false</write-library-directory> </weblogic> </configuration>
Well, fair enough, I'm not too happy about an option just for working around a bug.
But you did bring up the point that library-directory would only get written if defaultLibDirectory is set. Can I ask, is there a reason why JARs are written to the root by default? From http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_5.xsd:
"If this element [library-directory] isn't specified, the directory named "lib" is searched."
Should jars be written to lib/ by default instead of the root? It seems to be the expected location according to the spec and would seem to eliminate the need for defining defaultLibDirectory in most cases.
Well, I think you got it wrong or I am missing something. Your request IS about working around a bug!
The answer is backward compatibility. This option was present way before JavaEE5 came out (actually it was mostly used on old weblogic version and the magic APP-INF/lib thing). Changing the behavior of an existing option according the version of the spec you use is a bit tricky.
The other reason is that users (for mysterious reasons) keep on willing to put libs in the root. If you change the default, it's harder to justify the behavior breakage.
I was agreeing with you about it being a workaround for a bug; I'm fine with rewriting the patch to make it be listed as for WebLogic only. I think I should just wait for Oracle to get back to me about this before I do, in case they have a more appropriate fix.
I have the response back from Oracle:
You can either use AppFileOverrides directory (and let the container do the classloading discovery), or you can use <library-directory> and you decide where you want the files to come from. You should not use both.
By default, library-directory will be loaded from APP-INF/lib of the EAR anyways, rendering the explicit <library-directory> inside the application.xml is redundant.
When no <library-directory>, you're delegating the classloading to the container (ie. WLS), and the documented behavior below will suffix :
However, if you explicitly define <library-directory> in application.xml, this would take precedence, and since you specify the following -
in which you have the following file in APP-INF/lib in classloader-ear-libdir.ear -
In such case, you're essentially overriding the AppFileOverrides directory.So you can either use <library-directory> or AppFileOverrides, but not both. If both are specified, <library-directory> will take precedence.
So in their opinion, this is not a bug, but intended behavior and always defining <library-directory> to the default EAR lib folder has side-effects. However, unless there's another product that has special classloading overrides like this, it's almost certainly still WebLogic-specific.
St�phane, in light of Oracle confirming this being intentional behavior for the foreseeable future, do you still think it makes sense to modify this to have a specific WebLogic section for this option?
I feel like introducing a PlexusConfiguration just to nest a parameter is going to make invoking this option unnecessarily complex. For example, the ear:ear goal documentation is not going to list this flag if it's nested under a Configuration class. Also, unlike the JBoss options, this does not modify a separate file, but has consequences for application.xml.
FYI, the library-directory entry in application.xml causes WebLogic 12.1.1 to throw a "weblogic.deployment.EnvironmentException: duplicate persistence units with name" when using local development mode and copying EAR to autodeploy directory. (Not certain of outcome when deploying through AdminServer using WebLogic's deployer tool.) This problem isn't present under WebLogic 10.3.x even with the same EAR structure, i.e. packaging libs under APP-INF/lib per spec. Removing the library-directory entry manually from the application.xml makes the app work normally under WebLogic 12. I've been watching this issue, hoping to get an alternative workaround in case WebLogic decided this was a "feature" in their app server.
The specific problem with the library-directory entry is that, under WebLogic 12, the server attempts to load persistence.xml out of the autodeploy folder as well as under the <server>/tmp/_WL_user (working area for the deployment). It's actually the same persistence.xml file, just placed in the tmp work space by WebLogic.
PS: Our application doesn't care about custom classloading. I understand our issues are unrelated, but this fix would solve my problem.
So yes we can do that. A patch would obviously help integrating this feature (the one attached provides a general parameter, I don't think we should go that way. Starting weblogic specific options is probably the best option).
That would work and be clear. BTW, I mentioned this side-effect to an Architect at Oracle during a sales meeting. She said that she would pass along the issue to the team. I have not heard back from anyone or have seen a new version of WebLogic, yet. Thanks for providing a workaround!
The jars need to be placed under APP-INF/lib of the EAR for newer versions of WebLogic to pick up libraries shared between WAR and EJB JAR, within the same application. The defaultLibBundleDir configuration option in Maven EAR plugin allows for putting all common libs under this specified directory. It also has the side effect of adding the library-directory element to the application.xml.
An empty library-directory element would mean an empty defaultLibBundleDir argument, which would not package the common JARs where they need to be for WebLogic. Or do you have something else in mind?
An alternative would be to provide an argument that works the same as "<defaultLibBundleDir>APP-INF/lib</defaultLibBundleDir>", but does not add the library-directory entry. Or an additional argument to override adding library-directory to the application.xml when using defaultLibBundleDir. The WebLogic-specific argument is certainly not the only approach to accomplish this.
no that's no what I meant. Look at MEAR-151. Everything works as of now but the only difference is that we add an option to generate an empty library-directory element.
I am talking about a separate option. If that works, then we can meet both requests with a single option (yours and MEAR-151). And I also think that "do not write library-directory", "write empty library-directory" and "write library directory with defaultLibBundleDir value" are too many options. It will be confusing.
Defining a defaultLibBundleDir path for packaged libs and using a separate option to set the library-directory empty will work. Thanks.
I checked that empty library directory works for my use case with WebLogic too. But only in a way that worries me that these two scenarios don't entirely match up.
Remember that /APP-INF/lib is the older WebLogic-specific magic library classpath and /lib is supposed to be the standardized location since EAR v5.
These are the three scenarios defined according to the Sun XSD:
- Element not present - search in /lib
- WebLogic searches /lib and in /APP-INF/lib and some other special external directories (exploded EARs, generic file overrides, etc.)
- Element empty - disable searching
- WebLogic still searches in /APP-INF/lib and the external directories, but fails to search /lib.
- Element defined - search in given directory
- WebLogic exclusively searches in this directory and ignores all others.
So I think in Sean and my cases an empty element works, but only so long as we stick to the WebLogic specific APP-INF/lib defaultLibBundleDir.
Patch to try to cover all library-directory scenarios from this and MEAR-151.
I don't want to make this any more confusing, but I've now uploaded a patch with a general string parameter to cover any possible required scenarios for library-directory, rather than having to do this in 2 or more boolean parameters.
This defaults to the existing behavior of writing the same value as defaultLibBundleDir, should that be set. It can also be overriden to cover the empty string of MEAR-151, the "not set" of MEAR-146, and the as-yet hypothetical scenario where it has to be some other value.
The use of special magic values is necessary because Mojo parameters unfortunately combine the empty, null and default scenarios for strings. Hopefully it's relatively clear in the generated site doc.
Thanks for the patch Alex. I have changed it slightly to:
- Use libraryDirectoryMode instead of libraryDirectory. I don't like the idea of mixing magic strings with the actual value for the library directory,
- Rename the option to make them shorter and easier to read (DEFAULT_LIB_BUNDLE_DIR is not really easy to put in a pom file): the new values are now "DEFAULT", "EMPTY" and "NONE" (and the case does not matter so you can write this lower-case as well),
- Move the parameter to the right mojo (the main mojo does not need this parameter).
I also added the ITs for the 3 options.
I just deployed a snapshot (2.8-20120827.200901-277). Can you try this out and let me know if that fixes your issue?
Thanks a lot for your assistance, for the details and the patch. This really helped.


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Equivalent to AlignBottom for ListView?
Hi, there is this ListView nurtured by a dynamic model that, ideally, should start placing the items in the bottom, piling them up as soon as there is more. In the ListView docs there is a mention to ListView.Vertical, but apparently it is assumed that the list will always grow from top to bottom. Looking at Flickable or Item docs I couldn't find anything either.
Is there a way to obtain a behavior similar to Text's "verticalAlignment: Text.AlignBottom"?
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Wow, I hadn't thought of solving this problem this way. Thank you!
Now… I'm still stuck in the implementation since I'm quite new to applying methods. The header is fine, but I must be doing something with the function because the items still are listed from top to bottom. This is the basic structure of the code, see the attempts of adding the function at the end:
- Page {
- id: ficsSeekGame
- ...
- Rectangle {
- id: seekListWindow
- ...
- ListView {
- id: seekList
- header: seekListHeader
- model: gameAdvertisements
- delegate:
- Item {
- id: listItem
- Rectangle {
- id: gameData
- ...
- }
- MouseArea {
- id: mouseArea
- anchors.fill: parent
- onClicked: {
- confirmGame.open();
- }
- ...
- }
- }
- }
- }
- }
- Component {
- id: seekListHeader
- }
- ...
- // Component.onCompleted: positionViewAtEnd() why this doesn't work?
- // Component.onCompleted: positionViewAtIndex(count - 1, ListView.Beginning) this doesn't work either?
- ...
- }
fwiw you can see this code in context at http://gitorious.org/miniature/miniature/blobs/master/src/frontend/SeekGame.qml
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<mikhas> hey, having a problem with ListView's
appending items to it, and the moment the items are out of the visible area, the signal handlers such as ListView.onAdd dont get called any more
<special> mikhas: that's expected; ListView only creates delegates for visible items (and a small buffer that might be visible soon).
<mikhas> …
<special> If you want to react to additions, connect to the signals of the model
<mikhas> ok
<mikhas> special, hm, and how? I mean, what is the type of a model in a ListView?
<special> is your model a QAbstactItemModel?
<mikhas> yes
otherwise, I cant dynamically append things
<special> right; then you can use something like Connections { target: view.model; onRowsInserted: console.log(start, end) }
<mikhas> ok
would be nice if that was to be found in the docs
current ListView doc doesnt mention those details
like, a ListView signal not being emitted because of delegates only being created for visible range
<special> technically, it's not a ListView signal; it's an attached signal on the delegate from ListView
<mikhas> special, works
really, this should be in docs
it was not clear to me why such useful looking function such as ListView.positionAtEnd wouldnt work
For reference, there is a suggestion for official support for this in the system (and it's something we'd like to implement), at QTBUG-16376 [bugreports.qt.nokia.com]
really, this should be in docs it was not clear to me why such useful looking function such as ListView.positionAtEnd wouldnt work
A little contribution to the solution of this problem: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.7/qml-listview.html#comments
This is my first note ever to the docs and I'm the non-expert in this thread. :) I just copy-pasted from the posts above thinking that anybody could edit the notes to improve them, like in a wiki (is this true or is this only limited to admins?). Sorry, I'm doing my best here. Thanks for your comments!
I did not mean to discourage you from contributing to the docs. However, if you have not come further than the code you posted yet, then perhaps the route will not even work. If I now just read the comment, I don't really see a solution, just a possible beginning of one.
I think that others can modify and improve on your comment. However, I would like to encourage you to further develop the comment as your solution becomes more complete.
Thanks for contributing your insights to the documentation!
I posted [developer.qt.nokia.com] better example showing the code structure to follow and a link to the only real example [gitorious.org] I have at hand today. I was able to test it today and see it working in our MeeGo Harmattan project and the N9. I guess a clean example without external dependencies would run just anywhere with Qt Quick.
Andre, thank you for your encouragement – and I mean this. :)
[EDIT: fixed link, Volker]
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"and a 192-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 1.5 GB of memory, according to the report. The new GPU could capture a crucial sub-$300 price-point" Ahuh.... So theoretically how will this fare with a 256-bit 7870 (more or less of the same price) or even with a 256-bit 7850 (which is of course cheaper)?
It might spank them, or it might be the same speed. But I can guarantee that the series is aimed at the 7870 and 7850 so it definitely won't be slower.
I agree it can be nearly anything. But unless they use some absurdingly low clocks, I can't think of it being more than 25% slower than the 680 since it'll have exactly 25% of the chip disabled and it never scales linearly with this kind of architecture, I mean the 670 shows exactly the opposite. How much of that non-linearity is shared by the 660 is impossible to determine right now, but common sense says an architecture doesn't go from a situation where linearity is completely lacking to absolute linearity in just one more disabled cluster. So if I had to say something, I'd say it will offer 80% the performance of the 680.
Speculating about "profit margins" based on die size is pointless to say the least. Fact is the market demands mid-range competition to see higher sales for both companies. PERIOD!!
People on this forum seem to be disconnected from reality. A $400 GTX 670 is NOT a mid-range card. Neither is a $400 GTS 630 or $400 GT 610. It's still a $400 rose by any other name. Releasing a $1000 EXTREME!! card months before there midrange is the real show of competence. :shadedshu
Hope it beats the 7870 or at least be at par with it but more power efficient then this will be winner... Otherwise, it's going to be a matter of brand loyalty I guess...
GTX 670 is not a mid-range card considering its performance, but it uses mid-range kepler GPU since 104 means nvidia's mid-range chip. About my post that saying mid end graphics card, I'm sorry, it's my bad. What I mean is mid-end gpu.
That is all just speculation The fact that there is no GK100 but a GK110 suggests that it is meant for the GTX700 series from the beginning That or it is simply a matter of fact that the 28nm process is simply not ready for a GK100 so they scraped it. Regardless the GK104 is the highest end Kepler nVidia has right now and that is a fact.
yes you're right, it's just my speculation based on anandtech's review that comparing GK104 with the GF104, which I think they try to compare it with same level chip from previous generation.
The market might demand whatever it wants, it cannot get it regardless. Mid-range and low-end are demanded by the largest amount of people and as such are usually the largest markets by revenue, especially mid-range, because nice ASP meets high volumes of sales. Flash news, there's a wafer start shortage!! They cannot sell 1 million cards of any type even if there is a market demand for them. They are going to sell a limited amount of cards whether these cost $500 or $100 and because of that they only offered the $500 card first. Bussiness wise Nvidia made the best thing for Nvidia. And I hope your comment about die size was not related to my post, because I didn't say such a thing. I said quite the opposite in fact. The thing is GK104 cards are way cheaper to produce based on everything, simpler PCB, less memory modules, simpler PWM, components... especially the 670. And of course die size. Whoever thinks that a sub-300 mm^2 chip (15% smaller than GF104!!!), in a cheap 256 bit card, was Nvidia's biggest contender this round, is completely deluded.
Dunno why people are so concerned about only 1.5GB VRAM on a 192-bit bus. My GTX 470 has a 320-bit bus, and only achieves 136GB/s @ 850MHz. If nVidia were to clock the GTX 660's memory at, at least 1250MHz on 192-bit (maybe approaching 125-130GB/s with 1500MHz), I'm sure it will have more than enough bandwidth. What I am trying to get at, is that, even with a higher memory clock providing more bandwidth, my frame rate didn't show much of an improvement - as I'm sure bandwidth ain't everything (well, at least it isn't for me, at 1920x1080). And as for the VRAM capacity, 1.5GB should satisfy the card just fine. My 1280MB does just fine, and I can run pretty much every game maxed out.
I think the GTX 660 is arriving late due to overabundance of unsold 560 series variants and nvidia's hope to clear the channels as much as possible. I am eager to learn how it shapes up against the 7800 series.
http://videocardz.com/33874/geforce-gts-650-is-3-faster-than-gts-550-ti I'm starting to believe that the 660 might be based on GK106 after all, but it's not what everyone thought it was. That or GK106 was scrapped altogether which makes very little sense to me. My little new theory is that GK106 took longer because it was slightly redesigned when GK100 was scrapped and GK104 took the high-end card position, in order to be able to compete in the performance class*. Early rumors speculated about GK106 being a 768 SP card, basically 2 clusters where GK104 has 4, with 2 SMX each. And it was always rumored to be a 192 bit part. Basically folowing the tradition set with fermi cards, fair enough, it made sense. But now I think that GK106 might use the same clusters as GK110, with 3 SMX each for a total of 6, which would turn it into a 1152 SP, 192 bit chip. Exactly what rumors say for GTX660. Like I said the alternative is that GK106 won't be released and that makes no sense to me. But with GK107 + GDDR5 taking the GTS650 name, it looks very very unlikely for it to exist if GTX660 is based on GK104 too. Yeah non Ti 660 being GK106, but only 1 SKu based on the chip is unlikely too: the non-ti 660 theory has always been supported by harvested GK106 being the 650. Well at least August will be interesting I guess. * You just cannot compete if your mid-range/performace GPU is half the size of your high-end. It's been half a decade since the second chip offers at least 2/3 the performance, often time 3/4. Going straight to 1/2 is suicide. Of course GK104 was THAT chip, just like GF104 and G94 senved that purpose, but since GK104 became the one to go in high-end cards a new such chip is required. IMO a 6 SMX GK106 would be it. It's good balanced, it doen't require a lot of reworking because the 3 SMX designed was already tested for GK100/110 and packing them in just 2 clusters saves a lot of space. Only "sacrifice" is geometry/tesselation compared to GK104, but that's irrelevant for mid-range because of this: It would still beat a GTX580 on pure tesselation.
Is it is better then GTX 560ti 448 or hd 7850 EDIT: Wait i thought the GTX 660ti is going to release in the mid-august not the GTX 660+ Well i think the GTX 660 is better then HD 7850 and the GTX 660ti is better then hd 7870 and some where below the hd 7950
Why would you want a Heatspreader on a GPU? One of the worst ideas Nvidia has thought of doing. Without a heat spreader you get better heat transfer and direct cooling of the die. And if your afraid of crushing a die, you should definitely look into laying off the roids.
I bet it's going to be a sweet card.. 1.5 gig is a nice place to be in memory for a "mid range" card..
GTX680/670 should have 4GB and then the GTX660ti etc should have 2GB. that sounds a bit better i think
Hmm Maybe Nvidia is going to wait till they drop prices of the 680 and 670 before they come out with the 660 so they can lessen the gap in the price range and sell the 660 at a 200-250 price range because a 560ti still cost $200+ they might drop price of 560 ti and replace the 560ti price range with the 660 and that opens a gapp to slap a 660ti in for 50-100 dollars more. Just a theory
Did you even look at that graph?? How in the hell am I expected to believe a 7870 has better tessellation than a 7970?? Kinda calls the rest of that graphs accuracy into question...
Because the HD7870 has the exact same dual engine as the HD7970 and runs nearly 100 mhz higher. The benchmark is accurate.


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