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What educators, educationalists and pundits have said about Twitter
(This is getting updated quite regularly.)
What was that performance art on the South Bank? What do people think about last night's presentation? TV programme? Your research publication? Exhibition? What is happening with the G20 protests? The aftermath of the contested Iranian election? Twitter has become something unexpectedly important: a way of communicating what you are doing or thinking and, by extension, a search engine for finding out, and filtering, what's people are saying now, or at a previous time.
Below are excerpts from Twitter users, with links.
"Jeff Tietz demonstrates why this unlikely form of communication, which I once derided, acquired a kind of poetic narrative through time. He takes persiankiwi and lays it out in one day. That's what we've tried to do with our collective, constantly up-dated tweet-file. It reads like a stream of constantly shifting consciousness. It is a kind of journalistic pointillism. And from a distance, it gains heft. It is history rendered in the collective, scattered mind, and it has never happened before – millions upon millions of tiny telegram messages sent to the entire world."
"Generally speaking, those of us working in education have the most use for Twitter as a way of building a network (sometimes referred to as a personal learning network or PLN).
A PLN, simply defined, is a community which shares interests and information. In her recent PLN survey, Sue Waters found a 'microblogging tool e.g. Twitter' was cited by her respondents as their most useful PLN tool. A PLN acts as a filter, selecting what they regard as useful and interesting information. Of course at times there can be too much information – as with feed readers and mailing lists, as the flow of information increases, there is no room for reader's guilt. There are already enough things in life that have to be read – emails and assignments, for example. The joy of your PLN stream is that you can dip your toes in as and when."
Leo Havemann, Birkbeck, University of London, June 09
"Returning to my use of the word literacy to describe both a set of skills for encoding and decoding as well as the community to which those skills provide entrance, I see that the use of Twitter to build personal learning networks, communities of practice, tuned information radars involves more than one literacy. The business about tuning and feeding, trust and reciprocity, and social capital is a form of network literacy that we discuss in my classes. Knowing that Twitter is a flow, not a queue like your email inbox, to be sampled judiciously is only one part of the attention literacy I started to blog about – knowing that it takes ten to twenty minutes to regain full focus when returning to a task that requires concentrated attention, learning to recognize what to pluck from the flow right now because it is valuable enough to pay attention to now, what to open in a new tab for later today, what to bookmark and get out of my way, and what to pass over with no more than a glance, are all other aspects of attention literacy that effective use of Twitter requires. My students who learn about the presentation of self and construction of identity in the psychology and sociology literature see the theories they are reading come to life on the Twitter stage every day – an essential foundation for participatory media literacy."
"Twitter is quickly becoming a global faculty lounge. Sure, it's easy to waste a lot of time on the Internet-based microblogging service reading mundane details about people's days. But you can also pick up some great higher-education gossip, track down colleagues to collaborate with, or get advice on how to improve your teaching or research.
It is difficult to grasp what Twitter does without trying it firsthand. The service lets you share short quips (or links to information on other Web sites) with people who sign up as your followers, and lets you see updates from people whom you follow. The free service can be found on the Web at http://twitter.com, but it is also possible to use Twitter via cellphone. Once you find a few interesting people to follow, you can order up Twitter anytime and dip into a rich soup of thought."
Chronicle of Higher Education (April 09)
"A good way to start making Twitter more than just a placeholder for what you're doing at a given moment is to shift focus away from self and realize, it's not all about me. It's about them. The translation of that idea into action is to add as many people as possible that you think would be interesting. I started by adding all the rhet/comp people I could find, and quite a few comm studies people too since we overlap so well. I've learned a lot about the rhythms of highly successful academics this way–how they track projects, how they guard their personal time, making time for exercise–all useful, mentoring things to know, but quite different and more convincing when shared in 140- characters interspersed throughout the day over an extended time. I don't think I really got how Twitter could work until I followed more than fifty people. I follow a bit more than 140 now, and it works fine–no overload. I don't think 1000+ would work for me, but I do think that in order to get the most from Twitter, you need to follow more than the people you see every day in person.
Finally, instead of thinking of Twitter as a status indicator, think of it as a place, a hallway perhaps. There are a lot of doors with some pretty smart people behind some of them as well as a few jerks here and there. Every once in a while when you're doing your research or just finished teaching or saw Watchmen and feel a duty to prevent others from making the same mistake, you pop out of your office and say something brief about it. Not too much–after all, we all do things and don't have a lot of time, but under 140 characters is enough to cover the eureka moment. It's enough to share the new thing you tried while teaching that turned out to be awesome. It's enough."
Lanette on Techsophist (April 09)
In his talk, Pat Kane also highlighted some obvious uses of Twitter for trraditional journalism.
- Beat reporting, including geo-location where the tweets can be mapped.
However, there are some tough questions that have to be asked.
- Who verifies these sources of information? Is it the traditional media or the 'truth community'? He talked about the 'balkanisation of truth'. Who sorts through the chaos? Who has the authority?
Pat is keen to get away from "churnalism" which he said was 50% of the journalism he saw in the 1990s. Will the 'Darwinian acid' that new media is throwing on traditional media add more authenticity? Will fewer journalists be better journalists?
"I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way that they too easily lead to increasingly short space and time for conversation, cutting off nuance and conversation, and what is often worse how these conversations often reduce to self-centered statements … Then I read an article by Clive Thompson at Wired. Clive's article convinced me that perhaps it was worth giving Twitter a try. At this point I have to say, I am so glad that I did. Although I am still beginning to wrap my head around all of its varied uses—I think for the most part Twitter users themselves are still figuring this out—I have been using it for over six months now and come up with some academic uses."
"There are two fears on Twitter: the fear that you will miss out on something because you're not following the right person; and the fear that you'll miss out on something because you're following too many people. I tend to lean towards the former.
The thing is, Twitter is not a permanent publication; it is a conversation, or a series of conversations. You dip in and out of it. I am not 'listening to 1000 voices' – I am listening to the few who happen to be tweeting at that particular time.
The more people you follow, the more chance you have of stumbling across something interesting.
The more diverse people you follow, the more chance of stumbling across something useful from outside of your immediate circles – and those for me are the most interesting things of all.
Stop worrying about what you're missing, and focus on what you do see. As for the quality…"
Twitter might not be formally launching its own TV programme, contrary to web gossip, but it is increasingly being explored as a tool for building conversation around shows – as witnessed last night by Channel 4's Surgery Live.
Surgery Live covers four operations, including brain surgery and heart surgery, and is fielding questions from the public through Twitter, with the best answered on air. At one point yesterday, #slive was the third most popular hashtag. Three more shows run tonight, Wednesday and Thursday, each presented by Twitter user Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
Channel 4's new media commissioner for factual Adam Gee said there has been some experimentation by the Bad Movie Club, for example, and Channel 4 News has also fielded viewers' questions from Twitter, but thinks this was the first time interaction through Twitter has guided the editorial of a TV show so strongly. Surgery Live is backed up by a Facebook group. The TV show and website were produced by Windfall Productions in association with the Wellcome Trust.
"… by using Twitter as a simple notification system I can drive as many users to my new blog posts as I used to get by wrangling links from other bloggers and aggregators. This is because the people who follow me have selected for what I 'cast about, as you can see here.
The act of building an editorial presence in Twitter by filtering, processing and structuring the flow of information that moves through the medium using one's follow list, journalistic sensibilities and individual right to publish updates.
- Account title to the discretion of the owner
- Follow list used as an editorial filter
- Three content layers: established, daily and one-off themes that interact dialectically
- Posts, done 15-20 times per day at different intervals
- Professionally written tone
- Direct interaction with audience/readership
- Liberal, sensible use of hyperlinks
- Fully articulated thoughts
- No retweets (instead use the via @GrammarGirl convention for crediting the source, then reword the post to sharpen, comment or otherwise add personal value. — JR)
"Author Tim Collins, whose book The Little Book of Twitter is published this week by Michael O'Mara, said the site opens up new possibilities for art and education. He said: "It's very easy to knock Twitter as something you use to tell the world what you ordered in Starbucks this morning, but it's more than that.
"What it is really good for is live-blogging events as they take place, and that can work for historical events too. Over Easter a church in the US re-created the death and Resurrection of Christ through tweets".
He said that the "hashtag" feature of the site, which allows users to engage all their friends in a mass brainstorm, was particularly useful for creative collaboration. "Maybe we are only just beginning to appreciate the potential of Twitter as an art form," he said."
"Conference organisers are beginning to use micro-blogs as a tool for direct, real time feedback during keynotes. There is a danger that the stream of updates becomes the 'star attraction', but it can form a way for the audience to engage with the topic, to ask for clarification, to expand on the point or to supplement it with relevant internet links.
Ira Socol refers to this as the 'back channel' and argues that it is better to have it explicitly recognised rather than secreted behind seats as students whisper or text each other or, worse, drift off into unrelated online activities. While recognising that such feedback could be threatening to the teacher, he also considers the opportunities afforded to the more hesitant student, to the one who has trouble speaking good English, or to the reflective type who wants to consider an answer before contributing. The tool he used was Today's Meet."
"Many educators are now stressing the importance of their personal learning networks (PLNs) – contact webs drawn from a range of offline gatherings and social tools – who act as peer mentors and information repositories related to that professional's work. Faced by a pedagogical, research or technical issue, a quick 'shout' brings back a set of immediate answers or starting points.
Micro-blogging can be used to create 'crowd-sourced' wisdom. While the crowd may not always be correct, it can often contribute to a process of knowledge co-construction, which may be formalised using other tools such as wikis."
"I use Twitter Search to keep track of certain keywords relevant to my work. I use a search for 'McSweeney's' to investigate what Twitter users are saying about the American magazine that I'm researching. I archive the search in an RSS reader, so I don't have to constantly check it manually. I'm lucky in that McSweeney's has a fairly unique title, so there isn't much work to be done in filtering out irrelevant results. At first I was just keeping track of it for curiousity's sake, but I've noticed a few trends developing that are going to be useful for my thesis, such as negative response and the transmission of their work through word-of-mouth. I was using Twitter for a long time before I decided to try it out as a research tool, and now it's proved productive. I haven't used it yet to contact Twitter users about McSweeney's, and I probably won't. This aspect of the service is useful to me as a way of investigating "natural" response from readers without the danger of replies being biased by a respondant's awareness of the questioning process."
Kevin O'Neill, researcher in Goldsmiths English and Comparative Literature department, Mar 09.
"We cyberjunkies need a new thrill, and what better than a service that combines social networking, blogging and texting? Dozens of other companies are trying to do the same thing with services like VelvetPuffin and Google's Dodgeball. But only Twitter has figured out how to make it easy.
I know, it's totally silly and shallow, but that's precisely why Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app. And if you don't like it, well, in the words of one Twit from San Francisco, "I'm so sick to death of Twitter-haters. If you don't like it, why waste your time writing, reading, or talking about it? Sheesh.""
"The 'noise' argument holds little water.
Whenever I discuss my reasoning for following everyone who follows me on Twitter, I invariably receive the same response from those who disagree: "following everyone is too much trouble and you can't find all the conversations you actually want to engage in."
I currently follow over 2,400 people on Twitter and I've never had an issue finding really interesting and relevant information. Sure, some of it has nothing to do with me–discussions about grilled cheese sandwiches, for one–but there's quite a bit that my followers discuss that I'm interested in. I'd say that more than 80 percent of all the updates that flow through my stream are worthy of discussion. And I don't think I'm unique.
I simply don't see how users get more value out of Twitter by following a select group of people. I've tried it and it was disastrous. More often than not, that grouping is filled with co-workers and friends that probably share many of the same interests. If you ask me, that sounds more like a big, private chat room than a social network where you can communicate and interact with people from all over the world.
Call me crazy, but Twitter, to me, is an international community where interesting tidbits of information flows constantly. It's not a big party where my friends and I can enjoy each others' company. That's what bars are for."
"… quasi equivalents of talking at the water cooler or wandering around to someone's desk for a chat … social networks aren't all playful banter and can facilitate meaningful conversation and knowledge creation."
"The more powerful argument is that we are now moving beyond blogging – from the blogosphere to the Twitterverse. In other words, short-form social networking is proving a more useful way of communicating than the more long-winded and less intimate form of the blog. It follows on from the recent "Google is making us stupid" argument, that our attention span is now so short that we can't read more than the 140 characters in a Tweet or the one line status update you see on Facebook.
I do think that there is evidence that early adopters from the tech crowd have moved on, perhaps disappointed that their blogs are not reaching a mass audience – or discovering that it's easier to have a conversation in a smaller space, where the madding crowd doesn't keep butting in."
"I see Twitter's artificial limit on post size as an important factor in classroom success. First, it keeps the information space managable, meaning information is economized and easily retrievable. Second, and this is pure speculation, but I see Twitter's short form as a communication equalizer."
"Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination."
"Anyone willing to 'adopt' a journalism student on Twitter and answer their questions about it?
The response (especially on a Sunday afternoon) was heartwarming – within less than an hour I had more than one 'Twentor' (thanks to Scott Keegan for that word) per student – responses below. Two days later and the effect has been noticeable – the majority of students had started chatting to their mentors and you could see the lights switching on.
Needless to say the Twentoring idea itself makes two very strong points about Twitter: firstly, how it can be used as a source of support; and secondly, how easy it is to make professional contacts."
"Hashtags are great for conferences and featured heavily at ALT-C 2008. #altc2008 on twitter: 300+ tweets before, during and after the event. And of course it's not just twitter and hashtags. The altc2008 tag was used on flickr, blog posts, delicious and no doubt elsewhere. See my conference page for examples."
"Twitter — which limits each text-only post to 140 characters — is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004"
"Anyway, I think Twitter is blogging. When I go back and look at my blog back in 2004, for instance, it looks a whole lot like Twitter. Short item with a link. So some of that content behavior has moved elsewhere. Big whoop.
But now that I've done 18,000 tweets I find I'm getting bored there and want to play around with longer blog posts again. Mostly because I find I'm having something to say."
"Recently I've found that for me, the right way to use twitter is to uninstall any client, and instead open the twitter site for a limited time when I choose to. That allows me to modulate both the time drain and the emotional / cognitive impact. It might be that such a tactic allows me to experience the joy of "twitter-induced pseudo-hypomania" without suffering the consecuences. I simply bail out before I do something stupid. Granted, I'm probably less of a party star this way. Perhaps there's a pattern here."
"Was slumbering early this morning and heard news from CNN (I always go asleep with the TV on) that a plane had crashed in Amsterdam Schiphol airport. I grabed my laptop and went direct to twitter, twitter search and tweettags. Sure enough the tweets were rolling in, and had been rolling in for about 15 minutes. Later it seemed twitter was reporting on this around 10 minutes before mainstream news which is pretty normal these days. First and foremost it is being reported that there are no reports of any deaths, which of course is the most important thing here. Hopefully that is still the case once the news gets sorted and laid down as fact (although even now as I'm reviewing this post that figure is growing – that's sad !
A few interesting things picked up
- CNN got it wrong, initially reported many dead onboard an Airbus A380 !
- CNN took pictures from twitter and actually quoted it's original source
- Twitter gets it wrong, but it would seem gets itself corrected quicker than mainstream news
- Twitter source provided a high res picture, which now I've seen has gone live on the mainstream news.
- Times like this are a perfect opportunity for hackers, crackers and the bad people out there to take advantage of people wanting to grab the news first. I always pass any tiny-urls through a preview window first and check to see where it's taking me.
It does look as though the main news sources have contacts following twitter as the BBC, CNN and SkyNews have all quoted from twitter this morning. The internet continues to amaze me at times like this – here is the ATC shortly after the crash."
Nigel Cooke, Monkeynuts, Feb 09
The most common way to filter the gazillion messages being relentlessly posted to Twitter is to follow people. But what if I want to follow a lot of people but for a short time? And what if I don't even know their Twitter names? Or what if I'm more interested in the kind of content being posted than the author who is posting it?
In the case of the Drupal conference, some folks put out the word, and it spread virally, that folks wanting to Twitter conference participants should include "#Drupalcon" in their tweets. And then, using search.twitter.com or any one of the mobile phone Twitter applications like Tweetie or Twitelator, one can filter all those tweets down to the ones that include, "#DrupalCon." By applying a hash symbol (#) to a fitting category word, the 1400 conference attendees could promote sessions, informal meet-ups, drinking expeditions, real time commenting on sessions…
So I wondered, is anybody using "#Torah" to filter Torah related content on Twitter? Yes, one Rabbi Moshe Goldberger, who daily tweets with a hyperlink to his "Gems of Torah" where he provides a few Torah trivia questions. So this is fairly unclaimed space in Twitter world. Of course, different than an Internet domain name, which you claim and pay for, a hashtag name space is taken up by people who use it at any given time. There is no controlling authority.
So in addition to writing my own 133 character Torah comments (140 characters including the 7 that are used up in "#Torah"), I'm campaigning to get other people to write Torah comments on Twitter and include "#Torah." It seems like one of the simplest ways for folks, Jewish and not Jewish, to engage in real-time shared Torah associations that are tied to the weekly readings. No moderation, no control… no guarantee of anything interesting coming out of it. But I think it is worth a try.
Here are some of the key lessons I learned from the WebWise experience:
- If you don't engage in multiple back channels, you may not see multiple use cases. Different tools are best for different types of interaction. Just because post-it notes didn't work at WebWise doesn't mean they don't work in galleries… as we know from the success of many talkback boards.
- If you ask visitors/participants to try a new tool, make sure it has as low a barrier to entry as possible. I have yet to see a museum set something up that is as simple to use as Today'sMeet.
- If discussion is the goal, you don't need user profiles – you just need a way to talk. If building up a personal profile/relationship with the institution is a goal, people need to uniquely identify themselves.
- Think about the possibility for asynchronous back channels that allow visitors (and staff) to share deep content with each other over time. Consider, for example, the rich conversation on Flickr about this image from the Chicago World's Fair. You could imagine a comparable conversation available to visitors onsite alongside exhibits or artifacts in the galleries.
- If possible, find ways to show the real-time location of people who are engaging in the back channel. The Mattress Factory's new SCREENtxt application uses a location-based system so that visitors can identify whether other participants are onsite at the museum or not.
- Make allowance for emergent back channels that visitors/users "bring with them" to the experience. These tools are particularly valuable for the "portal to the world" back channel use case. Every time I see a kid take a cellphone photo in an exhibit, I know that photo will immediately travel to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, etc. How can your system capture that activity?
From a very good post at Museum 2.0 from March 09 – Educational Uses of Back Channels at Conferences, Museums and Informal Learning Spaces – comparing the use of different back-channels – one of which was Twitter – at a conference.
[An analsysis of mutual conversations using Top Twitter Friends]:
Twitter exposes conversations that can show us who's in anyone's inner circle because conversations there are public and programatically accessible. In the following post we look at the data and find out who has the most reciprocal conversations on Twitter with 10 geek heroes – from the founders of big sites like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon to nonprofit geeks working to challenge injustices.
There's something a little uncomfortable about being able to see this information. Fact is, though, it's part of the nature of this powerful new system of communication. We expect that data parsing like this is only the beginning.
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb (2009)
"…during the panel we invited questions via Twitter, the microblogging service, that were projected at the front of the room. More good questions rolled in than we could handle, so the panelists decided to tackle a few of them via e-mail to keep the discussion going."
The Higher Educational Chronicle, April 09
But recently – over the past six months – I've noticed a new trend: fewer blogs with links, and fewer with any contextual comment. (I'm defining a blog here as an individual site, whether on Blogger or WordPress or an individual domain, with regular entries.) Some weeks, apart from the splogs, there would be hardly anything. I didn't think we'd suddenly become dull. Nor was it for want of searching: mining for blog comments, I use Icerocket.com. Technorati.com and Google's Blogsearch.
Where is everybody? Anecdotally and experimentally, they've all gone to Facebook, and especially Twitter. At least with Twitter, one can search for comments via backtweets.com – though it's still quite rare for people to make a comment on a piece in a tweet; more usually it's a "retweet", echoing the headline. The New York Times also noticed this trend, with a piece on 9 June about "Blogs Falling In An Empty Forest", which pointed to Technorati's 2008 survey of the state of the blogosphere, which found that only 7.4m out of the 133m blogs it tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. As the New York Times put it, "that translates to 95% of blogs being essentially abandoned.
I see it: NetNewsWire, my RSS feed reader, has nearly 500 feeds. When one of them hasn't been updated for 60 days, it turns brown, like a plant dying for lack of water. More and more of the feeds I follow are turning brown. Why? Because blogging isn't easy. More precisely, other things are easier – and it's to easier things that people are turning. Facebook's success is built on the ease of doing everything in one place. (Search tools can't index it to see who's talking about what, which may be a benefit or a failing.) Twitter offers instant content and reaction. Writing a blog post is a lot harder than posting a status update, putting a funny link on someone's Wall, or tweeting. People are still reading blogs, and other content. But for the creation of amateur content, their heyday for the wider population has, I think, already passed. The short head of blogging thrives. Its long tail, though, has lapsed into desuetude."
Charles Arthur, Technology Editor, The Guardian, June 09
Written by Mira Vogel
February 26, 2009 at 18:39
Posted in Media and Coms, social networking, technologies, web 2.0
Tagged with back channel, backchannel, e-learning, education, eLearning, punditry, Twitter


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The GlassFish Server provides the following features to enhance performance or allow more fine-grained data checking. These features are supported only for entity beans with container managed persistence.
Use of any of these features results in a non-portable application.
The version consistency feature saves the bean state at first transactional access and caches it between transactions. The state is copied from the cache instead of being read from the database. The bean state is verified by primary key and version column values at flush for custom queries (for dirty instances only) and at commit (for clean and dirty instances).
Create the version column in the primary table.
Give the version column a numeric data type.
Provide appropriate update triggers on the version column.
These triggers must increment the version column on each update of the specified row.
Specify the version column.
This is specified in the check-version-of-accessed-instances subelement of the consistency element in the sun-cmp-mappings.xml file. See consistency in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide.
Map the CMP bean to an existing schema.
Automatic schema generation is not supported for beans with version column consistency checking. Instead, work with your database administrator to create the schema and add the required triggers.
In many cases when an entity bean's state is fetched from the database, its relationship fields are always accessed in the same transaction. Relationship prefetching saves database round trips by fetching data for an entity bean and those beans referenced by its CMR fields in a single database round trip.
To enable relationship prefetching for a CMR field, use the default subelement of the fetched-with element in the sun-cmp-mappings.xml file. By default, these CMR fields are prefetched whenever findByPrimaryKey or a custom finder is executed for the entity, or when the entity is navigated to from a relationship. (Recursive prefetching is not supported, because it does not usually enhance performance.) See fetched-with in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide.
To disable prefetching for specific custom finders, use the prefetch-disabled element in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file. See prefetch-disabled in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide.
Multilevel relationship prefetching is supported for CMP 2.1 entity beans. To enable multilevel relationship prefetching, set the following property using the asadmin create-jvm-options command:
asadmin create-jvm-options -Dcom.sun.jdo.spi.persistence.support.sqlstore.MULTILEVEL_PREFETCH=true
Another feature that the GlassFish Server provides is the read-only bean, an entity bean that is never modified by an EJB client. Read-only beans avoid database updates completely.
Read-only beans are specific to the GlassFish Server and are not part of the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, v2.1. Use of this feature for an EJB 2.1 bean results in a non-portable application.
A read-only bean can be used to cache a database entry that is frequently accessed but rarely updated (externally by other beans). When the data that is cached by a read-only bean is updated by another bean, the read-only bean can be notified to refresh its cached data.
The GlassFish Server provides a number of ways by which a read-only bean's state can be refreshed. By setting the refresh-period-in-seconds element in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file and the trans-attribute element (or @TransactionAttribute annotation) in the ejb-jar.xml file, it is easy to configure a read-only bean that is one of the following:
Always refreshed
Periodically refreshed
Never refreshed
Programmatically refreshed
Access to CMR fields of read-only beans is not supported. Deployment will succeed, but an exception will be thrown at runtime if a get or set method is invoked.
Read-only beans are best suited for situations where the underlying data never changes, or changes infrequently. For further information and usage guidelines, see Using Read-Only Beans.

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I use DAVID-LASERSCANNER v.3.10.4, and I want to buy a new camera. I was using a Thorlabs 1645c camera, wich was working well in a 32 bit computer, but it is giving me some problems when using David software 64 bit (in another computer). In the last case it doesn not detect my camera at all. So I tried the 32 bit version (but in this 64 bit computer) and it is detected, but the problem is that it can only acquire images at 10 and 15 fps.
So, I am thinking that the problem is the driver of this camera, which has compatibility issues.
That's why I want to buy another camera, and I want to make sure that my new camera will be detected by DAVID-LASERSCANNER v.3.10.4, and with high resolution and high fps.
So, which camera would you reccommend me? Is it better to be monocrome or color? I prefer to have better meshes than having bad colored meshes.


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Flickr Faves on Fridays: Maximizing Space on a Modern Balcony
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Yesterday I gave you a peek at some of my friend Lucas's clever artwork tricks. Today I thought I'd show you his balcony, which is in this flickr set. This loft is right around the corner from The King Center in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward. Lucas has really made the most of his balcony. It overlooks Freedom Parkway, Downtown, and Midtown. I was at a party at Casa Luca last week and at one point there were at least seven of us seated comfortably out there.
He has softened modern pieces with pillows, plants, and a rug. At night, he brings out his rechargeable lanterns from Vessel (on the chair in the top photo). Once you lounge on this daybed, you NEVER want to get up. The fabric is weather-resistant, and he also has a cover for it.
Lucas likes to take some time out to enjoy The View. And when he turns his head sideways, he gets this view. Not too shabby!
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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What you need to know about the Best Telehealth Organization.
Telehealth organizations are basically institutions that are using the telehealth technology to make sure that everyone is getting the health care wherever they are at an affordable price. The technology and the internet has made it possible for the telehealth to be integrated in almost all the health care facilities from the ongoing hospital operations to the consumer's homes and work place. This is why it is an industry that has grown so much because it is what the health care systems are using to re-invent and transform the health care systems. The only way that you are going to get the best of the services in an industry that is so full I is if you have an idea of what you are supposed to be looking for.
It is your job to choose the best professional so that you can be sure that the job will be in good hands. This is to means that the kind of training that they have and the amount of time that they have been in the industry is something that you might want to check before you can make that final decision. Most of the expertise will come from a lot of doing the same thing over and over again with the right training. The more the facilities and the more the level of technology their facilities are, the more the chances that they will deliver the best of the services. Quality is the most important thing here.
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Sourced from Lindquist's archival papers, the Lindquist online image collection depicts the people, places, and practices of Native American communities from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. These photographs were taken by Lindquist, an ordained home missions administrator, as he traveled to reservations from 1909 to 1953 as part of his work with the Home Mission Council of the Federal Council of Churches.
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In respect to the Rural Housing Incentive District policy that passed at the July 11 Hays City Commission meeting, I complimented Commissioner Shaun Musil after the meeting that he and the whole commission have their hearts in the right place.
We should always respect that majority rules, but sometimes the majority doesn't always get it right in ruling to emotional appeal in contrast to taking more time for logical thought. Once again, lack of exercising an option to postpone can lead one to think that the special interests of one might be guiding this issue.
This policy. while making some people feel good, does little to nothing in truly addressing the concerns of the disabled. The only person missing in the commission chambers was a Nancy Pelosi of sorts to encourage passage before thoroughly reading the content in Section C.
Section C, as was addressed to in a letter to commissioners, by me on the side, highlighted the 10 points in the revision that should surely be given a second look by any investors out there looking to cash in on an opportunity. Here are the condensed carrots to which they can feed upon: acquisition of property within the RHID, payment of relocation assistance, site preparation, sanitary and storm sewers and lift stations, drainage conduits, channels and levees, street grading, paving, curbs and gutters, street lighting, underground public and limited private utilities, all located within the public right of way, sidewalks, water mains and extensions.
An investor wanting to erect 32 units, couldn't have written a more self-serving policy except, now knowing that a concern in the public has taken on a focus to address the disabled. A developer will want to adjust the application submitted by adding in a few token units to address that wanted attention and to do no more than a minimal amount of these units in an attempt to passive those interests. To do more would substantially affect the bottom line profits to be gained in the short term, though subsidized by other property taxpayers, and you can bet will be adjusted upward after 15 years of abatements in the long term, recouping the losses at the expense of the tenants at that time.
Since the attitude is to "get the ball rolling," we should be reminded that "haste makes waste."
No reason to limit Section 3 to 10 carrots, as a dozen has more appeal. Amend the policy now to include No. 11, city to provide management of the complex for them, and No. 12, (an old-time practice) give honorary keys from the city to our saviors.
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U.N. accuses Israel of violating international law in Gaza school shelling
Israeli shelling killed at least 15 Palestinians who'd sought shelter from fighting in a UN school and 17 more died in an airstrike on a street market on Wednesday, the Gaza health ministry said, in a day of bloodshed that prompted criticism from the White House and expressions of outrage from the United Nations.
Defying international calls for a cease-fire, the Israeli security cabinet authorized the army to press ahead with its offensive against the militant Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, even as officials worked to arrange an end to more than three weeks of fighting.
An Israeli team held brief talks in Cairo, Egyptian officials said, and a Palestinian delegation was expected to travel to Egypt later in the week. But efforts to negotiate a cease-fire have been complicated by disputes over the terms and the absence of a mediator trusted by both sides.
The United States has pressed Israel during previous offensives in Lebanon and Gaza to end hostilities after incidents in which there were high numbers of civilian casualties, but the United States appears to have less influence with both sides this time.
The shelling of the school, operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, prompted the White House's harshest criticism of Israeli actions to date.
"The United States condemns the shelling of a UNRWA school in Gaza, which reportedly killed and injured innocent Palestinians – including children – and U.N. humanitarian workers," National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said. "We are extremely concerned that thousands of internally displaced Palestinians who have been called on by the Israeli military to evacuate their homes are not safe in U.N.-designated shelters in Gaza."
The U.N. agency's director, Pierre Krahenbuhl, accused the Israelis of violating international law by shelling the school. He said that on 17 occasions, most recently Tuesday night, the agency had given the Israeli army the precise location of the school and notified it that thousands were sheltering there. He said that agency staff had visited the site, analyzed fragments and craters left by the shells, and concluded that Israeli artillery had hit the school.
"I condemn in the strongest possible terms this serious violation of international law by Israeli forces," Krahenbuhl said.
Witnesses at the school in the Jabalya refugee camp said that shells struck the compound, which had been sheltering hundreds of families who had fled their homes, before dawn as many slept. The shells blew out the front wall of one classroom and crashed through the ceiling of another on the second floor. More than 100 people were wounded.
"People were martyred before our eyes. They were dismembered," Abdel Karim Masamha, 27, whose family had fled fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, told the Reuters news agency.
"No place is safe, neither homes nor schools," said Haleem Ghabin, who was holding her baby son. "What shall I say to the world? Find us a solution, we are defenseless civilians and children."
The Israeli army, which had warned hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to leave their homes for their own safety, said that "militants fired mortar shells at soldiers from the vicinity of the UNRWA school, and the soldiers responded by firing toward the sources of fire." The military said that the incident was "still being investigated."
With the Gaza Strip's borders shut and areas of combat gradually expanding, Palestinians in the densely populated territory say they have nowhere to escape the bombardments and shelling, and that heeding the army's warnings to leave their homes has brought no protection.
"Where will we go next?," Aishe Abu Drabeh, 56, told the Associated Press at the school compound after the shelling. "We fled and they are following us."
The 3,300 Palestinians at the school were among the more than 240,000 Gaza residents who the United Nations says have been displaced by the fighting, sheltering in U.N. facilities or with host families.
Overcrowding at U.N. shelters is raising concerns about the outbreak of epidemics.
"UNRWA is overwhelmed," said Chris Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA, which assists Palestinian refugees. "Our shelters are overflowing, and tens of thousands may soon be in the streets without food or shelter if the attacks continue."
Krahenbuhl said the conflict had "moved beyond the realm of humanitarian action alone. We are in the realm of accountability. I call on the international community to take deliberate international political action to put an immediate end to the continuing carnage."
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Costa Rica, condemned the shelling of the school, the second deadly strike on a U.N. shelter in a week after 16 Palestinians were killed in another school on Thursday.
"It is outrageous," Ban said. "It is unjustifiable. And it demands accountability and justice."
There were also condemnations for Hamas. On Tuesday UNRWA said that rockets had been found hidden in one of its schools, the third such incident during the conflict. Gunness called it a "flagrant violation of the neutrality of our premises," adding that it had "endangered civilians."
"We also condemn those responsible for hiding weapons in United Nations facilities in Gaza," NSC spokeswoman Meehan said in Washington. "All of these actions, and similar ones earlier in the conflict, are inconsistent with the U.N.'s neutrality. This violence underscores the need to achieve a cease-fire as soon as possible."
In another lethal incident Wednesday, an air strike on a market area in the devastated Shuja'iya neighborhood of Gaza City killed 17 people and wounded 150, health officials said. Witnesses said residents had ventured onto the streets during a four-hour halt in hostilities announced in some areas by the Israeli army, believing that the area was safe.
An airstrike hit a warehouse on the edge of the neighborhood, and a second strike hit about 500 meters away, where people had gone out, many of them women and children. Among the victims was a Palestinian news photographer who was wearing a press vest at the time.
"The area is now like a bloodbath, everyone is wounded and killed," Salim Qadoum, 26, told the Associated Press. "People lost their limbs and were screaming for help. It's a massacre."
In earlier shellings across the Gaza Strip, multiple members of several families were reported killed in several areas after their homes were struck.
More than 1,300 Palestinians have died in the Israeli offensive and more than 7,000 have been injured, according to health officials. The U.N. says three quarters of the dead were civilians, including more than 240 children.
The Israeli army said it lost three soldiers Wednesday as they worked to uncover a Hamas tunnel with an opening inside a house. Explosive devices detonated in the tunnel and in the building, causing it to collapse, the military said.
The army also acknowledged that five soldiers who were killed Monday had been surprised by Hamas gunmen who'd tunneled into Israel and attacked an army lookout post, entering it from behind through a gate that was left open.
The military had initially said the soldiers died in an anti-tank missile strike, but after Hamas circulated video footage from the attack showing the gunmen entering the outpost, shooting a soldier and trying to make off with his body, the chief army spokesman conceded that the undetected infiltration in broad daylight had exposed a "vulnerability" in army defenses.
A total of 56 soldiers have died in the Gaza offensive, along with two Israeli civilians and a Thai worker killed in Israel by rocket strikes.


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There's a reason the Grizz are looking to move Gay.Tying up that much of your cap in a player like Rudy Gay just doesn't make that much sense.


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The US economy added 163,000 jobs, which was 100,000 more than the prior month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent from 8.2 percent in June.
For the first seven months of the year, the economy has averaged a gain of 150,000 jobs. This is just enough to find jobs for new people entering the labor market but not enough to give a boost to the millions of people who have been out of work for an extended period of time.
"This kind of job growth would be totally fine if we were at full employment," says Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank in Washington. "But it is not what we need given the jobs deficit we have."
The jobs numbers are a flash point in the fall election campaign. The Republicans immediately pointed to the 8.3 percent unemployment report as an indication that the Obama economic policies are not working. The Democrats said the numbers indicate that the economy is starting to shake off its second-quarter malaise. They blamed Republicans for obstructing legislation that might aid the economy.
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Although the better numbers were relatively modest, Wall Street traders were buoyed. As of 11:40 a.m., the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 244 points to 13122, or up almost 2 percent on the day.
"The rally started in Europe, where investors interpreted comments from Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank, in a positive way," says Fred Dickson, chief investment strategist at D.A. Davidson & Co. in Lake Oswego, Ore. "Then, the jobs numbers helped to sustain it. Wall Street had lower expectations for the numbers."
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From the consumer standpoint, relatively low-cost auto loans are available, he notes. "Interest rates for auto loans are very low," he says.
The improvement in hiring in the restaurant and bar business, which added 29,000 jobs in July, might also be a good omen for the economy, says Mr. Dickson. "If people are eating out more, that's a good sign," he says.
Dickson says he and his wife were eating out recently at a Macaroni Grill, a national chain. "The manager told me that business was up about 6 percent year over year," he says. "But [customers] are spending less per visit – ordering fewer desserts."
In Atlanta, the Olmstead Restaurant, a new fine-dining Southern establishment opening this fall, is now looking to fill between 20 and 40 jobs, ranging from cooks to front-of-house managers.
"Our take on the market is that it is fairly strong here in Atlanta," says Hunter Jefferson, one of the principal owners. He says they "feel very optimistic about the economy right now."
July also brought an increase of 49,000 jobs for professional and business services. Within that group, temp services added 14,000 jobs. Sometimes an improvement in temp hiring is a prelude to businesses getting ready to hire more people full-time.
However, employment of government officials continued to decline, as it has all year. According to the BLS, there was a decline of 9,000 government jobs in July.
Mr. Brown says the overall jobs numbers, while better, need to be sustained.
"It's only one month," he cautions. "We need to see the trend continue."


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Perfect for breakfast with some fruit and toast or perfect for dinner with a larger sized piece and a salad!
serves 8 ( 4 points +) or serves 6 ( larger piece 1/6 of frittata = 5 points+)
- ½ c. thinly sliced onion
- 1 red bell pepper, seeded and sliced thinly
- 1 lb. russet potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 T. olive oil, divided
- 8 eggs, beaten
- ½ c. reduced-fat shredded cheddar
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Heat an ovenproof cast iron skillet over medium heat. Spray pan with nonstick spray. Add 1 tsp. oil and swirl to coat. Add onions and peppers and cook until onions are tender. Remove onion mixture and place in a bowl. Add remaining 2 tsp. oil to the pan. Add potatoes and season with salt and pepper. Cook until potatoes are browned and tender, stirring often. Remove potatoes from pan and combine with onion mixture. Return potato mixture to pan and press down.
Season eggs with salt and pepper and pour over potato mixture. Sprinkle with Swiss cheese.
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I do not care if the Chewie episodes are great they wasted too much time on politics and long winded episodes.When we think of CW season 3 we do not think of "Secrets Revealed" we think of tainted soft drinks in the Mandalorian public school system.
Personally I felt the Force Wielders episodes were kind of lame, i thought obviously the stuff with Mandalore was incredibly lame... I liked this last episode arc, and Kamino. Other than those two storylines, Season 3 is definitely the weakest season of the series.
The biggest disappointment to me from this season (besides the political trash) was that the Savage Opress arc was too rushed, in many respects. And if you think about it, he was in really only 2 of the 3 episodes.I wonder what the theme will be for Season 4. Is it true that Season 5 is slated to be the last season, or is that a rumor? I recall from somewhere that Filoni was aiming for around 100 episodes, give or take a few. 5 seasons x 24 episodes each season (right?) = 120 episodes. Getting there.
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The human system will begin to disorganize and die
after several minutes without oxygen. It is a logical
progression of thought that leads to the possibility that
altering oxygen metabolism might be curative for diseases
that have an oxygen deficiency component to their etiology.
Both moderate and vigorous body movement and the
accompanying muscle work increase oxygen demand in the
cells. Evidence from research in exercise physiology
demonstrates that muscular activity accelerates the rate of
oxygen uptake from the blood(10,11,12,13). It has been shown
that training and practice increase ventilitory threshold,
anarobic threshold and mechanical efficiency.(14,15) This
suggests that regular body movement with increased breath
activity supports adaptation toward increased functional
efficiency in the uptake and utilization of oxygen from the
One early source (1896) suggests that just the
muscular activity of the breath mechanism itself is enough
to increase the uptake of oxygen from the blood.(16) This is
not a widely accepted idea. However, most traditional
systems of medicine include elaborate methods of breath
practice. Some exploration of this mechanism for the
absorption and utilization of oxygen is being
undertaken.(17) A recent animal study demonstrates that the
movement of the breathing apparatus alone may generate
oxygen demand(18). Both Qigong and Yoga/Pranayama include
breath practices where there is no body movement except of
the breathing apparatus itself. Such research suggests that
simple breathing techniques alone may increase the amount of
oxygen absorbed from the blood. Individuals who are
resricted in their movement due to health problems may have
access to some of the benefits that have traditonally been
reserved for those who do vigorous exercise.
Certain dynamic (active, moving) Qigong and Yoga
methods increase the oxygen uptake by virtue of the greater
requirement for chemical energy by the cells. Other more
quiescent (inactive, still) methods tend to decrease oxygen
uptake due to the the lowering of metabolic activity. It has
been found that some practitioners of these traditional
practices have refined their ability to the point where they
actually enter into altered states where the physiological
need for food, air or sleep have been almost completely
The Framingham Study on risk factors for cardiac
disease, completed in 1970 by the National Heart and Lung
Institute, found that decreased vital respiratory capacity
(breath volume in relation to tissue uptake) was directly
associated with increased mortality.(19) In Australia an
extensive 13 year study completed in 1983 which measured
similar parameters of long life, demonstrated that
respiratory capacity was "a powerful determining variable",
more significant in predicting longevity than tobacco use,
insulin metabolism or cholesterol levels. (20)
Recently there has been a tremendous amount of
activity in both research and clinical practice which
suggests that many deficiency disorders and degenerative
diseases are, at least partially, attributable to oxygen
metabolism dysfunction, oxygen deficiency or hypoxia.
(21,22,23). This view is supported by many of the great
names in research; Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Otto Warburg,
Emmanuel Revici and Linus Pauling. The Asian systems of self
applied health maintenance like Qigong and Yoga/Pranayama
proposed this view and developed specific methods for
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4-14-11 PNC Park
Unfortunately, I lost half of my pictures from the beginning of batting practice due to a malfunction of my camera. I must've left it on in my pocket, and when I went to take a picture half way through batting practice, it was in Chinese. The format option must've been pressed, and everything got erased from my camera.
So, ball #1 was a home run hit by Ryan Braun to the handicapped seats in left field. I jumped over a railing and picked it up for my first ball of the day.
My second ball was snagged in the ivy in center field.
Ryan Braun hit it there about 5:20, and I kept my eye on it the whole time, thinking it might be reachable. It was, and at 5:30 when the rest of the stadium opened, I ran over and grabbed it.
My third ball was pointed out to me by one of the ushers in center field. Both ushers in center field are really cool guys.
Ball #4 was fielded off the bat of Craig Counsell. I decided to head over to foul territory for a bit as there were three weak left handers up, and there was no screen protecting third base. I figured that they would try to go the other way a few times. The strategy paid off, as Counsell sliced a grounder right at me.
Ball #5 was a ground rule double off the bat of Wil Nieves. I chased it down and grabbed it with my barehand as the ball was rolling all over the place under the bleachers:
That was it for batting practice. Five baseballs. It was pretty disappointing, but the Brewers were focusing on a opposite field approach, perhaps expecting Paul Maholm to work them outside all night.
As for the game itself, I wandered around and took a picture from the upper deck during pregame.
Then I sat in the club section for a couple innings waiting for a foul ball that wouldn't come.
I then returned to the outfield areas hoping to snag a warm up ball.
I would get Andrew McCutchen's 7th inning warm up ball here.
It was my first McCutchen warm up ball of the year.
An inning later, I snagged Jose Tabata's 8th inning warm up ball for ball #7.
The ball was bobbled by these college aged kids in the front row.
I seized the opportunity by snatching it with my glove as it was being dropped by one of them.
Here are today's baseballs:
And the sweet spots:
Season: 54 balls (21 hit, 11 thrown, 14 device, 8 found)
Games: 8 games
Average: 6.75 balls per game
Career: 1,176 balls
Attendance: 10,517


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Having built the original Monarch Butcher Block for over 125 years, vintage blocks are great finds and often readily available for restoration. These solid maple legs are designed in the character of the originals and are essential for bringing the block back to its beautiful, functional condition. The only style available, this same leg currently outfits our brand new Monarch Butcher Blocks. Also available to accommodate the 12" thick Monarch Meat Blocks.
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Note:This is another post in what I hope will be a series leading up to my concurrency/distributed systems talk at PyCon. I'm steadily working through experimenting with and learning the various frameworks/libraries in the python ecosystem. I reserve the right (and probably will) to revise these entries based on feedback from people (mainly the author(s) of said tool(s)). I will also add additional bits and pieces as I learn and explore more./Note
Stackless python - here's another big one on the pile - is much more than a library, or a framework which runs on CPython - Stackless is actually a modified version of the CPython interpreter. It's much more than just a C-extension. Stackless is in use by various people and companies - most notably, it's in use by CCP Games, makers of Eve Online (see this pycon presentation). In fact, CCP Games is a large part of why Stackless is still around today.
I say that intentionally - quoting the readme in the Stackless/ directory of the distribution(here):
In 2003, the fabulous PyPy porject was started, which is still performing very well. I have implemented Stackless for PyPy (with lots of support from Armin), and it is so incredibly much nicer. No more fiddling with existing calling conventions, no compromizes, everything that needs to be stackless also is.
Unfortuantely, PyPy is still not fast and complete enough to take over. This means, my users are still whining for an update all the time CPython gets an update. And maintaining this code gets more and more a nightmare for me, since I have the nice PyPy version, and I hate hacking this clumsy C code again and again.
The original author, Christian Tismer largely moved onto PyPy, which is still largely in it infancy (although I read through bits of the code base frequently, it's pretty), and further development has largely been stalled minus the improvements Richard M. Tew (CCP Games) and others have done. There's still life in it.
Fundamentally, Stackless modifies the interpreter internals a bit to modify the way that the C call stack is manipulated/used as well as to add other other nice bits Stackless offers (call stack). Stackless simply doesn't use the C call stack - all told, each microthread only has a few kilobytes of overhead, which is awesome.
It adds something called microthreads and does other patching to python-core. Normal OS/Posix threads require a fair amount of resources to create and run - in the case of Python, each thread has to get its own stack, this costs memory. With Stackless' microthread support - you get "threads", but threads which cost a significantly less, and potentially execute faster due to context switching improvements (no need to go from user->kernel->user and so on).
Point of Order: Before I continue, I want to clear up a common misconception I've heard - Stackless, does not in any way, remove the Global Interpreter Lock. No sir. It's still there. Lurking. Waiting to steal your candy. Also, it still has a stack, so it's not truly "stackless".
So, microthreads are smaller and require less OS hand holding for context switching, and ultimately can (and are) scheduled by the interpreter, rather than the operating system.
install note for os/x users: You need to pass the "--enable-stacklessfewerregisters" to configure, otherwise, make pukes on you.
Stackless is a basic implementation of these - for a simple resource example usage example, I wrote a simple script which spawns 2,000 threads (sorry windows) and 2,000 tasklets. I watched the memory usage of both:
import time
import threading
def func():
threads = [threading.Thread(target=func) for i in range(2000)]
for i in threads:
for i in threads:
For the threaded script - the resident size was 42M and the virtual size was 1037. Versus the stackless version:
import time
import stackless
def func():
for i in range(120):
for i in range(2000):
Stackless had a resident size of 3416K and a virtual size of 22M - virtually microscopic versus the heavier thread version. Obviously, they are not line for line comparisons - the Stackless version, like other cooperative multitasking systems requires that each tasklet be a good citizen, and not block execution forever, instead rescheduling itself or otherwise yielding to allow for others to run. If a tasklet blocks on a socket, everyone blocks on that tasklet.
Someone asked me to track the linear growth of the threaded numbers vs. the tasklet numbers. Since I'm a sucker, I thought I'd take him up on it (OS/X 10.5, 4GB of ram, Core 2 Duo):
|Num Threads
|Resident Size
|Virtual Size
|Num Tasklets
|Resident Size
|Virtual Size
One note - the Stackless numbers should be low, but not this low (from my understanding, and review from others), anyone have any ideas?
There's the numbers - lots of threads is going to consume lots of ram. With stackless, a given tasklet is only a few kilobytes in average size and therefore the memory footprint is small when you start raising the count. Additionally, note the two counts at the bottom of the tasklets table; you can't spawn that many threads (depending on your OS and configuration) and even if you could, the memory footprint would be costly.
Now, in the age of cheap-ass-ram, where you can trick out a desktop or server with 16GB sticks, people might argue "so what" - but on machines where memory is constrained, such as smaller notebooks, embedded devices, or game consoles - this is a critical thing to take into consideration.
If you look at the stackless code, there is another big thing to realize; Stackless like other frameworks or systems which use an scheduler built into the interpreter gives you the benefit/task of scheduling when your tasklets/components/etc execute. This gives you more control, but more responsibility. Stackless offers both cooperative and preemptive scheduling, however the preemptive scheduling doesn't feel right. more on scheduling here
So, we've determined that stackless tasklets are smaller, right? Pretty simple.
If you've read the other things I've written on Kamaelia/Twisted/etc, you'll recognize the concepts within Stackless pretty quickly - a tasklet is a component, a thread of work and tasklets intercommunicate via channels. For example, here's a little example of two tasklets communicating:
import stackless
def chicken(channel):
def egg(channel):
print channel.receive()
channel = stackless.channel()
Pretty easy, and a tiny amount of code. The concept of tasklets/microthreads isn't a new one - in fact, it's how Erlang gets it's groove on - Erlang doesn't use native OS threads, instead, it uses microthreads scheduled by the Erlang compiler. However, they are not directly comparable. Stackless isn't running across cores - Erlang does, stackless, due to the GIL, has to obey the same rules as the rest of python-core. For more on "erlang v. stackless", see this.
Oh, and you can share normal object via the channel too:
import stackless
def yes(channel):
x = channel.receive()
def no(channel):
x = channel.receive()
channel = stackless.channel()
print channel.receive()
Moving on, Stackless offers something else - the ability to pickle tasklets. This means you can pickle up a tasklet and send it over the wire to another machine and then unpickle it and continue running it - channels get pickled too. Locally, this means to can save it to disk, and then resume state easily.
You could use this to generate a tasklet which listened on a port for data on the local machine, and passed the data off the wire to the channel - when you pickled the channel or the tasklets with that channel in scope, and sent it over the wire, they would pick up listening on the same port number on the remote machine. You loose current sessions, yes, but you could also detect active sessions and handle those gracefully.
This is nice for say, a component you wanted to be able to easily send to other machines to help load balancing. In theory, you could auto-detect new servers being added to a cluster, and when that server came up into a "ready" state, send it the daemon it should handle - and the tasklets would pick up where they left off (minus the sessions).
Otherwise, pickling channels and tasklets could be used for a few things - you have to think of them in terms of coroutines (here) - you should be able to suspend processing state and then simply resume where you left off. If you've got python brains - picke-able generators. You could put them in a database; but the use of that escapes me at the moment.
Oh - and pickled tasklets and channels can be shared amongst different architectures too, as long as that architecture is running the same version of Stackless, and supports Stackless.
To continue on - if you wanted to add threads into the mix as well - Stackless tasklets can be run within Python threads, however those tasklets are local to that thread, and each thread gets it's own scheduler. Your main application thread has it's own scheduler, and so on.
Stackless' tasklet/channel system is quite nice, however note that I'm not saying Stackless is the only way into this magical world - it's not, especially with a plethora of coroutine/greenlet/etc packages for python today, and the continued work towards making generators more awesome. I'm just showing what Stackless can/could do.
The primitives within Stackless are nice - frankly, I'd like a light weight green thread implementation in python core on which we could build a nice Actor library, as well as support the lower memory footprint/etc. However, in order to use these primitives within Stackless - you'd find yourself building your own abstraction layer/framework (for example, concurrence) to really get a lot of mileage out of it. This is why people run twisted on top of it, CCP Games has the uthread library (which you can see here) and so on.
The cost of a deployment of Stackless can not be underestimated though - it's got some magic assembler code within it, which isn't the most portable of goods (versus OSes, compiler versions, compilers, etc). Some platforms simply aren't supported due to this. Not to mention, it's an entirely new interpreter, which has a cost much higher than that of an extension module.
A few people who I've been talking with asked me the simple question - "Why hasn't any of this been pushed into python-core". Well, in short - it was never really proposed (by Christian), and the changes within Stackless - the last serious discussion was from 2007 (see this).
With Stackless, it's difficult - I think there is a perceived complexity about the code and then there is real complexity. I suspect both of these are high in the case of Stackless due to the nature of the problem it is trying to solve; namely bolting a feature like this onto an interpreter not meant for it. I think that due to this, and due to Christian and others moving onto the greener pastures of PyPy - inclusion into core simply won't happen.
- http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/02/14/pythonnews.html
- http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0219/
- http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0255/
- http://muharem.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/erlang-vs-stackless-python-a-first-benchmark/
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pythrd.html
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-February/071037.html
- http://members.verizon.net/olsongt/stackless/why_stackless.html
- http://code.google.com/p/stacklessexamples/wiki/StacklessExamples
- http://islab.org/stackless/