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An experiment about static and dynamic type systems
If programming language design is to become a science, we need more experiments like this one.
The author measured time for 49 subjects to build a simple parser in Purity, a language similar to Smalltalk implemented for this experiment in two variants. Twenty-five subjects implemented the parser in the dynamically-typed variant, and 24 used the statically-typed variant. Two measurements were taken: the time at which the lexical scanner passed all its tests, and the percentage of tests passed by the parser after 27 hours; the tests were equally divided between accept and reject, so a random program would pass 50% of the tests.
- Subjects using the dynamically-typed language completed the scanner in an average of 5.2 hours, statically-typed in an average of 7.7 hours; the difference is statistically significant at level p=0.04.
- Fourteen subjects using the dynamically-typed language failed to complete the parser (that is, passed only 50% of tests), 11 subjects using the statically-typed language failed.
- Subjects using the dynamically-typed language passed an average of 60.2% of the tests, subjects using the statically-typed language passed an average of 64.5% of the tests; but the difference is not statistically significant at level p=0.40.
Any test of this kind is fraught with difficulties. One issue is that experimenter, to reduce variables such as familiarity or different IDEs, developed his own language, Purity, in two variants. One way around that problem would be to use Java to compare dynamically and statically typed programming: that is, compare subjects using Java 4 with Java 5, that is, Java with and without generics. In Java before generics, a collection would have type List, while in Java with generics a collection would have type List<Integer> or List<List<String>>. This would let one compare the effects of presence or absence of type information without the need to create an artificial language. It would fail to measure the benefits claimed for completely dynamic languages such as Javascript or Python, but perhaps it is ok to walk before we run. Anyone interested in collaborating on an empirical comparison of two versions of Java?
"It is not clear why Mann-Whitney's U-Test is used to assess significance rather than Student's T-Test."
I think the note in section 5.2 explains this (along with the Wikipedia pages for t-test and non-parametric statistics):
"At the current point, we cannot assume any underlying distribution for the measured data. Hence, it is necessary to apply a so-called non-parametric significance test"
The t-test assumes normally distributed data.
I'm a former student of yours currently working as a senior engineer.
I should say up front that I've not read the paper.
It's an interesting subject. Most of my work is in a statically typed language (C++) but my current project uses a lot of lua.
My concern with the results here is that the task assigned is pretty much nothing like a real world software project.
If I understand correctly, only one person was working on each parser, so this one person had the program's data structures already in their head.
Additionally the size of the project is so small, that there's not yet the code complexity where static checks really pay off.
Even in C++, static analysis (PC Lint, Visual Studio with /analyze) is a big win for catching bugs before they even get into source control.
There was some interesting discussion about it in John Carmack's QuakeCon 2011 keynote.
Best wishes,
As PeterM says, it sounds like the program is small enough and written in a short enough period of time that people can actually keep it all in their head.
I find static types and the relatively flat structure of Haskell (you got types and functions.. and not much else), really shine when you are doing things like:
1. writing a program that uses dozens independently designed and implemented libraries
2. making big changes to existing code
3. working on code that you wrote a long time ago
4. modifying code that someone else wrote
Why would it be interesting to compare a statically typed language to another (richer) statically typed language?
I work in web development. I started out with PHP -- the barriers are low, low, low whichever way you look.
At first it was great and I really, really liked PHP. But after a while I realised that PHP quickly became amazingly expensive for any non-trivial long-term project.
Once confronted with a serious project that would have to be built from scratch, I took a deep breath, explained the options to the client and we agreed to use Haskell.
To put it mildly, I have not regretted this decision!
I agree with the need for studies, but...
I'll be happy to design a different study with you. And I agree with many of the comments here regarding the importance of the long-term maintainability variable.
I *did* read the paper, and attended the talk.
There were some people in the audience who, even after listening to the talk, did not understand the purpose of the experiment. One person complained that they worked on aviation software and that building a parser is trivial to that, and another person complained that most specifications are ambiguous. Stefan's reply was polite, but I will paraphrase it intensely:
Stefan is not arguing that you should use this study to extrapolate to projects of 10 million lines of code. What he did do is re-visit an old study by Walter Tyche et al and see if slightly different conditions would change the result.
That's what you need to understand.
Disadvantages of any study measuring single programmer productivity:
* Does not measure typing speed during activity, as well as other input devices such as a mouse
* Does not measure how much the participant typed
* Does not compare the task duration to typing duration (e.g., notice that nobody appeared to finish sooner than X seconds, but suppose John Doe typed without stopping at 100 adjusted words per minute, what would his finish time have been?) In other words, I want to know how much time statically typed languages actually cost students. I don't care as much that statically typed was slower. I need a self-comparison baseline, and typing speed appears to be it.
I spoke with Stefan for what must have been 2-4 hours on the last day of the conference. His story about why he wants to do this stuff is just insanely inspiring. We exchanged a ton of ideas for future studies. Stefan's objective is to re-do classical experiments over and over and see if he can gradually improve scientific rigor.
Why not ask Stefan to collaborate? He mentioned to me some advantages to collaborating with him, but you are best hearing that from him rather than second hand from me!
I'm not convinced many researchers have argued that static types decrease development time (other than some ML or Haskell true believers) - the arguments have been in favour of increased execution speed and runtime error prevention, and reduced memory use. The received wisdom is that dynamically typed languages are generally implemented less efficiently, by provide quicker development time.
The question is: how large do programs have to be before static typing's benefits are manifest. Inasmuch as this paper has any results - those results suggest that a toy parser for a simple language is large enough to benefit from static types.
My main piece of advice to anyone thinking about working in this area is certainly to collaborate - but collaborate with an HCI researcher, or ideally an experimental psychologist. Researchers in these disciplines have much more experience in designing, conducting, and reporting on human studies than computer science / programming language people.
Regarding your proposed experiment, I don't think that "Java without generics" counts as dynamically typed.
It is my anecdote that most structural problems in real world software are due to functional decomposition, rather than problem decomposition. Functional decomposition decomposes problems into a tree data structure. Then re-use of subtrees is promoted, but this turns the overall tree data structure into a lattice. Therefore, I have never understood the argument that static typing in and of itself helps as system's grow larger (in KSLOC). Doing maintenance edits to a lattice has to be mathematically more complicated than doing maintenance edits to a tree, due to the seeming increase required in type judgments.
I am certainly not an expert as you, but would you say my argument above to Greg is (a) clear (b) correct?
[Tangent: There are whole classes of problems that "static type system" (as used in this discussion) do not necessarily solve, such as coordination. Fitness for a particular purpose is the raison d'etre of language design, and the sweet spot for a given domain should be based on (a) mathematical underpinnings (b) human factors (c) how b and a *interact*.]
The program is to be announced shortly.
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A reason for Hanenberg's results could also be that dynamically typed languages do indeed have advantages over statically typed languages
Sure. Unfortunately the conduct and results of this study don't really let us come to any firm conclusion.
Another approach to this problem is Capers-Jones style lines-per-function point metrics (see e.g. http://www.sigada.org/wg/cauwg/Expediting%20Commercial%20Ada%20Use%202.pdf). The old tables on the web have Smalltalk & Eiffel both rated around 15 - about the same as scripting languages, as good as it gets before DSLs. But again: would you rather program say a file archiver utility in Lisp1.5 or in Go?
Why would large programs benefit more from static typing than small programs?
A good question! Certainly quite small programs benefit from static types for memory layout --- while really small programs want to reuse memory at different types and are best done in assembly...
I think I said this was the received wisdom - it's certainly an hypothesis I've heard. Presumably because in a large program there will be many more "entities" (objects/functions/structures/whatever) that can be typed, and thus more opportunities for type errors. Static typing also makes some kinds of IDE support much easier to build, especially things like crossreferencers and autocomplete, and again it seems reasonable to surmise such features are more useful on larger programs.
But many of these effects can be difficult to disentangle. In CLOS, type specifiers can encode type information explicitly, but it is checked dynamically rather than statically. In Smalltalk, variable names by convention encode types - so text-based matching may do as well as type-based matching. In Smalltalk, again, the message syntax militates against parameter arity, position, and type errors, and then the spelling checker catches typos --- one (Bob Harper?) could argue Smalltalk programs are statically checked against a single interface of all the messages defined in the program. Certainly when I used to program Tcl, and now when I'm playing with the dynamically typed Grace prototypes, I think I make more arity, typo, parameter errors than I would in Smalltalk. But these errors are also almost always caught quickly.
On the other hand, many large programs do not have large test suites, and to take advantage of compile-time optimisation, statically typed languages can also take a long time to build (modulo Go and CERN's C++ interpreter), and then report any errors badly. Most dynamically-typed systems build quickly and (should!) report good error messages in terms of a straightforward operational model.
It is difficult to isolate all these factors in experiments, more so considering the variability of programmers, and even more so to support statistically valid claims. Empirical experiments on large programs are even more difficult to carry out well than experiments on small programs.
That doesn't mean there aren't experiments we can do: it just means we need to be careful about experimental design, and about how we report and interpret the results. This is not surprising: this is just "science" or "engineering" or "good practice".
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Speed= Stride length X Stride frequency
This simple equation is a staple in sprinting and biomechanics material. It simply means that to see a change in speed you've either got to increase the ground you cover (stride length) or increase your turnover (stride frequency) or some combination of the two. The bottom line is that something has to change. But what is it that changes when we go faster?
If you are a Chi Running proponent, your answer will be stride length, as Danny Dreyer says to keep the frequency constant while only changing length. In the real world though, the answer is that it depends and that limiting yourself to only being able to change one or the other is a mistake. Let's look at what the elites do.
One study looked at the stride length and frequency of the top 3 finishers in the 10k at the 2007 world championships. This included Bekele (1st) Sihine (2nd) and Mathathi (3rd). They calculated their individual speed, frequency, and length for every 400m lap of the 25 lap race. The graph below depicts their speed, stride length, and stride frequency:
The first thing you notice is that these three different athletes ran the same speed until the last 2 laps or so. That's to be expected, but what is interesting is that they had different strategies to do it. Bekele had a low stride frequency with a long stride length for the first 9,000m. On the other hand, Mathathi had a small stride length and a very high frequency to run the same speed. Sihine was somewhere in between these two. What is also interesting is that Mathathi who is 1.67m tall and Sihine who is 1.71m tall both had considerably smaller stride lengths than Bekele who is only 1.60m tall. So, all you shorter runners complaining about how your height keeps you from having a long stride, just look towards Bekele. The point is though that we have three runners all employing different strategies to run the same speed.
It gets even more interesting when we look at the last 1km when the pace changed dramatically. For reference they went from hitting around 2:42-2:45 for each km to final km of 2:30, 2:33, and 2:36 respectively, and had last laps of 55.51, 58.66, and 62.16 so the pace picked up considerably. The question is how did these athletes do it?
Bekele did it by changing his stride frequency from roughly 190 strides per minute to an astonishing ~216 strides per minute, all while keeping his stride length about the same. So he went from having the lowest stride rate to the highest by far, thus using an increase in stride rate to increase his speed, while maintaining stride length. On the other hand, Sihine showed an interesting pattern. On the 3rd to last lap, he picked up his pace slightly with an increase in stride frequency. But then on the last lap, he increased his speed dramatically with an increase in stride length. The exact opposite approach of Bekele. Lastly, Mathathi, who had the shortest stride length, increased his stride length on the 3rd to last lap to increase his speed. What is really interesting is that on the last two laps, Mathathi's stride frequency, which was the highest during the race, decreased slightly, while he increased his stride length significantly on the last lap. What this tells me is that he was suffering from the most fatigue and to compensate for the drop in stride rate, he tried to increase his stride length. The net result on the last lap was a maintenance of speed, not the giant increase like in the other two.
What does this all mean? Three different runners all had different ways of running at there race speed and then chose different methods of increasing speed when it was time to do. Interestingly, they seemed to increase the one factor that was lowest during most of the race. In Bekele's case he had a low stride rate, so he increased that dramatically. Mathathi who had a small stride length tried to increase that during the final kilometer. And Sihine who was in between both during the race in terms of rate and length, did a little bit of an increase in both. It's almost as if the runners subconsciously chose to rely more on rate or length for most of the race, to "rest" the other factor, and then went to the other factor when it was time to increase the speed.
This opens up a lot of questions, but before delving into those let's look at one more study.
Sprinting- Stride length and Frequency
The above examples showed that there are several different ways to maintain a steady pace and different ways to increase the pace. But what about during maximum speed? Obviously when we sprint all out we are trying to maximally optimize the rate/length combination. Rate and length have an interesting relationship in that at max speed increasing one will lead to a decrease of the other, so it's balance between the two that matter.
Which brings us to a study Salo et al. (2010) entitled: "Elite Sprinting: Are Athletes Individually Step Frequency or Step Length Reliant?"
In this study they looked at world class 100m dash competitions and calculated the individuals stride length and rate to see what the best athletes did. What they found was very interesting.
Individual athletes seemed to favor either longer strides or higher cadence. Just as we saw in the earlier study where Bekele versus Sihine and Mathathi adopted a different combination of length and frequency, it seems to occur in sprinters too. In the study, they found that individual athletes differed in their reliance on stride length. Some were very heavily reliant on having a large stride length, while others trended more towards relying on both, and even one athlete being reliant on stride frequency.
What's interesting about this is that the author's speculate that perhaps differences in the nervous system or power generation explains why some athletes rely on a longer stride or higher frequencies. For sprinters who are powerful athletes and can generate a large amount of force through their stride, they are more likely to cover more ground with each stride, thus being stride length dependent. On the other hand, some sprinters seem to rely on the nervous system's ability to rapidly turn the legs over and contract and relax the muscles extremely quickly, thus making them more reliant on stride frequency. Driving this point home, the author's stated that "Thus, it is possible to reach the absolute top level of sprinting in the world (run under 10.00 s) with widely varying pattern of SF and SL reliance."
In recent years there has been a trend towards focusing solely on maximum force production as a way to train sprinters. It was fostered by Weyend et al.'s early 2000's study that showed sprint speed was partially determined by vertical Ground reaction forces. Some coaches took this to mean that the only way to increase speed was to increase force production. In the Salo et al. (2010) study they mention that increased ability to produce force has been shown to be a determinant of stride length in animal models. What the current study shows us though is that for some athletes the limiter is not force production, but how quickly an athlete can contract and relax the muscles and ultimately turn the legs over faster. The author's conclude by saying:
"Overall it is reasonable to conclude that SL is related more to increased force production, and SF is associated with faster force production during the contact and quick leg turnover requiring neural adaptations. Higher SF requires cross-bridges within the muscles to be built at high rates, and thus these need a high rate of neural activation.
Consequently, it is proposed that the SF reliant athletes are required to concentrate on neural activation in their final preparations for the major races and have a nervous system ready such that they can produce the quick turnover of the legs. On the other hand, the SL reliant athletes need to keep their strength levels up throughout the season and have the required flexibility in the hip area to produce long steps. Naturally, athletes cannot totally forget the non-reliant variable, as any disproportionate reductions in one variable cannot be generally compensated for by the other variable."
Another interesting fact, which we saw in the 10k study too, is that the height of the athlete did not impact whether or not they would take longer strides or have a higher cadence.
Putting it all together
The point of this is to show you that there are many roads to running the same speed, whether it is sprinting or running a 10k. What the above studies show is that perhaps it is highly individual. Runner's like Bekele may have adaptations that lead to him being able to hold a massive stride length for a long time, and then switch and be able to hold a large stride rate during the latter stages of the race.
The question is should we individualize based on our preferred method of running? Stride length dependent athletes might need to do more strength/power work, while stride frequency athletes might need to do more turnover work/neuromuscular work. Or should we work on our weaker side of the equation? The ultimate answer for us distance runners may be that we should be like Bekele and be able to run submaximally with one strategy and then be able to switch strategies when fatigued. Maybe this is why he can kick so well? He's able to run both ways.
The great Hungarian coach Mihali Igloi was a big fan of what Bekele seems to have done in the 10k. Igloi believed that runners had a natural stride they preferred, but then should use their "unnatural" stride during heavy fatigue. He called them short swing and long swing strides. Short Swing would be equivalent to a shorter stride length with a high frequency, while long swing would be a long stride with a reduced frequency. His contention was that you needed to work on going back and forth between these two stride types during practice. If you could become adept at using both strides, then you could run the majority of your race in your preferred stride style, but when fatigue started to happen, you'd switch to the other stride style. His contention was that by switching, you are changing the muscle fibers that are recruited slightly, and you are also changing how they work (powerful as in a long swing stride, or rapidly as in a short swing stride). In essence, this is what Bekele did. He went from a long swing to a short swing style in the final kilometer.
Hopefully this mini stride frequency versus length topic makes you think a little bit. In particular it should be obvious that there is no magic stride frequency that everyone should run. It depends on the athlete and their speed. Some rely more on stride length, while others will rely more on frequency like Mathathi. But you have to be able to change but frequency and length throughout the spectrum of running speeds. If you, like Chi running advocates, try to hold one constant, you'll reach your limit in increasing the opposite one before you should, and thus will be slower. In an ideal world, you should train to be able to do both when needed. Perhaps that's what makes Bekele the man to beat on the kick?
Salo et al. (2010) Elite Sprinting: Are Athletes Individually Step Frequency or Step Length Reliant? Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise
Enomoto et al. (2008). Biomechanical analysis of the medalists in the 10,000 metres at the 2007 World
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I am a hybrid freak. Although I don't drive one, I do drive a 2000 Ford Focus ZX3 that gets 32 mpg highway/ 27mpg city. As a hybrid freak, I search the web looking for hybrid announcements.
From our own HybridCars.com and other car websites:
-- Volkswagen will start making hybrids by 2008. The European automaker is working with a Chinese automaker to introduce 500 VW Touran cars as people-carriers in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
-- On a Detroit newspaper site, Frankfurt coverage included the Audi Q7, which the newspaper reported could be released with an optional hybrid powertrain. I have not found any supporting information on other sites, so this may just be a rumor.
-- Hyundai has lent the Korean government several Hyundai Verna hybrid cars for real-world testing.
-- Suzuki may release a hybrid Grand Vitara by 2010. Suzuki has had a hybrid out for some time, the Suzuki Twin. However, being a minicar with a hybrid premium on top of the car's going price was thought to be too expensive in the eyes of the Japanese citizenry, and the car flopped.
With more ways of saving gas (such as cylinder deactivation, belt-alternator hybrids, amongst others), it could be possible to get even more mileage out of hybrids. For example, consider a Honda Odyssey hybrid minivan with cylinder deactivation. When the engine is in use, especially during cruising, the cylinder deactivation could help get those highway mileage figures higher than they are, and when the vehicle is in city traffic, the electric motors come online and do what they do in standard hybrids.
I wouldn't be surprised if Honda does make an Odyssey hybrid, but I would be surprised if the hybrid Odyssey also had cylinder deactivation.
Anyway, just thought you would like to know about the new hybrids rumored to get the "green" light!
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Oh, yeah. more news:
Ford has a test fleet of Transit vans that run on diesel and electric motors.
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Also, watch Ford of Europe to consider mating an electric motor to its Land Rover diesel engine. I've not heard anything about this being true, but if the plan was given the go-ahead, Land Rover could be the first diesel-electric hybrid in the world. And with clean diesel heading to the United States, this technology may help get rid of diesels' sooty image.
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Confirmed that the Audi Q7 hybrid is indeed out there. It's a concept shown at Frankfurt obviously, but Audi may put it into production a year or so after the standard version hits US showrooms.
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When Morell first began experimenting with the camera obscura process in 1991, he would cover with black plastic all of the windows in the room where he was working, then cut a small hole into the wall to allow light into the room. The view of what lay beyond the room would be projected, inverted, onto its inner walls. In the subsequent two decades, Morell has pushed this ancient process by using color film, various lenses, and a prism to make the projection appear right side up.
Morell says of his camera obscura work, "Over time, this project has taken me from my living room to all sorts of interiors around the world. One of the satisfactions I get from making this imagery comes from my seeing the weird and yet natural marriage of the inside and outside."
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Ben Livingston on how the US government has manipulated the environment for over four decades
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Veteran weather modification expert Ben Livingston is a former Navy Physicist who briefed President Lyndon B. Johnson on the effectiveness of weather control back in the 1960's during the Vietnam era, when he was involved in cloud seeding programs that worked to slow down the advance of Vietnamese and Korean troops. Livingston asserts that asserts that hurricane control was a national priority of the government more than 40 years ago and that the technology was fully operational to control the weather at the time.
In this exclusive interview for Prison Planet.tv subscribers, Livingston explains how for decades the US government has had the power to both lessen and increase the severity of adverse weather for their own purposes.
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Dr Livingston was assigned in 1966 from the Naval weapons research Laboratory to a marine fighter squadron in Vietnam. Instead of guns, the aircraft under Livingston's control were fitted with cloud seeding equipment. "My mission was to find clouds and seed them for maximum precipitation value" he stated.
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I can make a tank (or a butterfly), then blow it up with lightning? I think DayZ just got topped in the pantheon of "reasons to own ArmA". Check out this short trailer that shows off some of the features.
Update: The developers livestreamed about an hour of gameplay, and it looks great. Check it out here.
ArmA 3: Zeus is coming soon as a free DLC for the game, and it looks incredible. It lets one player become Zeus and create new objects, events, and objectives for other players to experience. It's basically Sleep Is Death with guns, and what more could you want?
The developers will be streaming gameplay live on Saturday on Twitch, check out the site for more info.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
I've had a lot of discussion recently about remakes (because there are so many of them) and any remake you can name that was actually good, you have to go back about 20 years or more to find. They were made because someone thought they could make a great movie out of the concept. They weren't made during a time of total creative bankrupcy and cynical lowest-common-denominator film financing.
Oh, but what about Dawn of the...
That wasn't a remake. It shared the name of a movie and one location - a shopping mall. That's it. No characters were brought over. Not the story. It didn't even have zombies in it. Wasn't a remake.
The use of the title there was little more than a symptom of the problem. Slap a name on it that people will recognise and hope that will sell it. Do you think The Thing really had any value in its name? Wasn't even the full title of the original movie. Was a whole different time when Carpenter made that movie.
Modern remakes are not made with love. They are dead. Soulless. Especially those that are remakes of current movies that just happen to be made in a language other than English.
They're shit.
And that's why I don't watch them.
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- Andy Latham said...
I don't get how there can be so many remakes these days. Why do audiences stand for it? How can a film that has all the creativity of a breeze-block command huge audiences? I know there are some idiots around but is the cinema-going public as a whole really that stupid? Surely not.
I guess maybe it's something to do with the economy....? People have been going to the cinema more during the recession, apparently to escape (although how that works, I don't know, given how expensive a cinema trip is). So if they are desperate to go, they'll see any old crap that gets put on rather than going because of a desire to see a particular film.
I dunno, I'm clutching at straws there, but I hope something changes soon, because my 'worst film I've ever seen' is changing on a weekly basis!
- May 18, 2010 at 1:08 PM
- susan said...
I was talking to a friend of mine this weekend, and told him they had just finished a remake of Logan's Run. I was pretty gutted about it. He was looking forward to it. I said I wouldn't watch it, I don't like remakes- other than the one I told you I liked Bitter
I hate hate hate remakes of songs. Original artist only. Unless it's your kid.I even hate when original artists re do their songs. Why did Clapton redo Layla? Stupid! Dunno how I feel about Britcoms that get re- made to American Comedies. For some reason that works. Dunno why.
Did you hear they wanted to do remake Wizard of Oz and color the beginning? Take me in the back yard and shoot me like Old Yeller, I'm done.
- May 18, 2010 at 1:17 PM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
Um... you did watch BSG, amigo :-P
- May 18, 2010 at 3:21 PM
- Dorseytunes said...
Soon we'll see what they've been doing to music for a while now. Take a bunch of great movies scenes and mix them in with some crap and you've got rap ala film.
Hollywood is too scared to do much of anything new. Like I tell my kids when a new CG remake (ex. Underdog, Marmaduke, etc.) comes out. "They keep destroying what little precious memories I have of my childhood."
- May 18, 2010 at 11:31 PM
- susan said...
U guys know they just started filming a live action version of the Smurfs 2 weeks ago in Manhattan?
Vomitorium stage left....
- May 19, 2010 at 12:37 AM
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- May 19, 2010 at 4:01 AM
- Matthew said...
Remakes are an apathetic approach to film making.
You have a limited time on this earth, so why spend that time simply rehashing something that has already been done, without even giving it any thought of your own?
From putting "a new spin" on an old franchise to doing and unnecessary sequel, or just a straight remake of something, probably from the 80's, it seems that everything old is being revamped or re-made. If grave robbery were a crime… which I thought it was… Hollywood would have countless sentences to serve.
You don't get any of your time back. The point being that while churning out those rehashes of whatever you lose the opportunity to make something that has your voice to it, that hasn't existed before. Re-makes (even good ones) don't make me angry, they make me sad.
My problem with them certainly isn't the perceived quality of the "new" version / product. The originals were probably done over a decade or more ago, if they can't make them "better" or at least on par with the originals then they really are hopeless money wasters. And executives can't stand the thought of wasting money. Many hands are involved in the process of making a feature, and just because it's easier or more sellable to remake or expand upon something done previously, I think that for the sake of all those involved, including yourself if you are a director, you should always attempt to create something from the ground up.
I think many people misinterpret, or selectively intemperate that fabulous quote by Jim Jarmusch on Authenticity. Google Images "Jim Jarmusch quote" if you don't remember it. To me, a large part of it simply says that we all draw from the same pot creatively. That pot being this planet and our lives, comprehension of and experiences while on it. As fellow human beings many of those experiences and basic comprehensions are shared ones. Personally, I find that an amazing and comforting thought. Drawing upon ideas from those fundamental experiences isn't stealing simply because others have probably written or expressed something likewise at another point in time, perhaps in a similar way. It simply reiterates our interconnectivity as a society and as the same biological creatures. Yet even with all those shared elements, experiences and ideas, there is still an immense wealth to be explored and expressed as long as you attempt to explore it, and always attempt to build your creations from the ground up.
- May 19, 2010 at 4:09 AM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
Of course, a Hollywood producer might justify remakes by comparing them with Theater stage plays —was Lawrence Olivier the ONLY actor in the history of mankind with the right to perform Hamlet?
Hey, someone has to play devil's advocate once in a while >:)
- May 19, 2010 at 4:42 AM
- Matthew said...
@ Red Pill:
There are always two sides of the coin.
I think the point is to see the coin as a whole, not just one of the two sides.
You can't say everything in a single post somewhere on the internet, there will always be stuff that you'll leave out. As long as those reading that post understand that and don't simply assume that just because the post expressed sentiments for one particular thing, that it means you're clearly 110% against the other. Conversations, discussions & even arguments should always start from a position of middle ground, with each participant able to take a step in a particular direction to express their current opinion, but with the knowledge that any other opinion is just as valid a step in another direction.
- May 19, 2010 at 5:22 AM
- Matthew said...
Again @ Red Pill:
On that note, I forgot to add previously. Good point.
- May 19, 2010 at 5:47 AM
- Matthew said...
Apologies for trolling B.A's entertaining, honest and insightful blog, but my words became somewhat muddled in a section of my main post. I'd like to amend that one section:
Many hands are involved in the process of making a feature. Unfortunately remakes seem to be made purely because it's easier or more sellable to simply remake or expand upon something done previously, but I think that for the sake of all those involved in the process, including yourself if you are a director, you should always put in the effort and attempt to create something from the ground up.
- May 19, 2010 at 11:48 AM
- Bitter Animator said...
That Hamlet is a stage play makes it entirely different - it was written to be performed live. And, while different people play Hamlet, it's rare they rewrite it and cast pretty twenty-somethings (as teenagers) straight out of The Hills (though I'm sure not unheard of).
Modern remakes love to 'reimagine', which means lose the essence and point of the movie while recycling some key scenes and doing them worse than they were done the first time around.
As Matt says, they are an apathetic approach to filmmaking and it shows. They don't have to be - as some of the classic remake examples show. But that's what they have become.
- May 19, 2010 at 2:00 PM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
I think we should make a distinction between movies that allow themselves to be re-played again and again, as long as you have a great cast of actors/actresses —e.g. Twelve Angry Men, Inherit the Wind, Les Miserables, etc— and flicks that are re-made because the producers want to add a whole new set of CGI candy-eye and it's cheaper than to pay for an original script.
I believe a mildly educated film fan can see that difference.
So maybe what I'm saying is the only movies worth re-made are those that are based on literature classics or famous stage plays, but that's just my 2 pop corns ;)
- May 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM
- Bitter Animator said...
Unfortunately, with your distinction, it's the latter that currently fills our cinemas as has been for five years or more.
If someone is to remake a movie, it should be a bad movie. Take a really godawful movie that had a good idea behind it and turn it into something better. Give it a second chance.
But even if someone is going to do that, they should wait until (hopefully) this creative bankruptcy is over so it doesn't get lost in the CG sea of cack.
- May 19, 2010 at 4:26 PM
- susan said...
I wonder what Bitter thinks of sequels and prequels.
- May 19, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Bitter Animator said...
I have no beef with sequels. They aren't always needed and certainly aren't always good but I have no problem with them as a concept. There are loads of good sequels.
But prequels? If there's a prequel out there that didn't turn out to be utterly pointless, I can't think of it. You know the end of the story - by it's very nature, it's filler. Thing is, the film it's a prequel to would have started at the very point the story became interesting.
- May 19, 2010 at 5:16 PM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
"But prequels? If there's a prequel out there that didn't turn out to be utterly pointless, I can't think of it."
Have faith on Guillermo ;)
- May 19, 2010 at 5:55 PM
- Bitter Animator said...
Well The Hobbit isn't really a prequel in the usual sense. It's that Lord Of The Rings is its sequel. Though, there is actually a prequel, isn't there? Can't quite remember.
But I do think, as a movie, The Hobbit will suffer from coming after LotR rather than before it. Especially given the simplicity of the book - it's not just a children's book, for the most part it's just a bunch of stuff that happens. Why he'd stretch it out to two movies is baffling to me.
- May 19, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
"Why he'd stretch it out to two movies is baffling to me."
I think he wants to tell the story of some of the LoTR characters prior to Fellowship, aside from the Bilbo story joining the dwarves and defeating Smaug and all that —Aragorn when he met Arwyn, maybe?
Nobody is safe from failure, of course. Still, Del Toros is so committed to his vision that I'm really excited of what he will do with Tolkien's universe.
I'm sure he would be the kind of guy who could make a brilliant remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space :)
- May 19, 2010 at 6:26 PM
- susan said...
My cat could make a brilliant remake of Plan 9!!! Seriously. She could.
- May 19, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
Dibs giving the Criswell intro!
- May 19, 2010 at 7:32 PM
I say if they're going to remake a movie, they should cast it entirely with chimpanzees. How awesome would The Thing be if it was recast with chimpanzees?!!
- May 20, 2010 at 4:24 AM
- Bitter Animator said...
Some films would be great with chimps, like Jaws or Die Hard 3, but others I wouldn't be so keen on. Like Basic Instinct.
I did think of one worthy prequel but it barely counts because its status as a prequel is no more than a technicality - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- May 20, 2010 at 8:44 AM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."
Because of the year? Hmmm. Last Crusade's first part works more like a prequel, I think.
Titanic with chimps would be pretty cool, too —"I'm the king of the world! *beats his chest* :-P
- May 20, 2010 at 4:24 PM
- susan said...
Does Star Wars count as a prequel? If it does, does that mess up your theory? Cause it was never really made as a prequel?
- May 20, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
I think Bitter was thinking EXACTLY of Ep. 1-3 when he gave his opinion against prequels. And I wouldn't be in a position to disagree much :-/
I just thought of another movie that could be considered a prequel, and it's pretty damn good IMO: Casino Royale.
PS: The last Star Trek movie was also worth watching, even though I'm aware that His Shatneriness wasn't required for a cameo ;)
- May 20, 2010 at 4:58 PM
- susan said...
RPJ- the Casino Royale with Peter Sellers? Or the remake with Daniel Craig? I did not see the latter though he is dishier. Sorry guys, I forget I am like the only girl who comments here. in the all boys clubhouse. Forgive me.
- May 20, 2010 at 5:15 PM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
Well, my sister kind of dragged me to see the movie with Craig, and I admit I enjoyed it —maybe not as much as her, specially with the part when he appears with those tight swimming trunks :-P
The bad guy was pretty good, too.
- May 20, 2010 at 6:02 PM
- Bitter Animator said...
More of a reboot than a prequel though. I don't see this man becoming Roger Moore in the '80s.
And the most recent Star Trek movie could be seen as another sequel rather than prequel, given the events that lead to the story.
Star Wars prequels, yes. Prime example. But not the only ones. There was that Hannibal prequel. And... what else? There must be more. Ring 0? Any others?
- May 20, 2010 at 10:35 PM


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Vodafone loses a million customers in a year
Vodafone Hutchison Australia lost over a million subscribers in the past 12 months and now has fewer than 5 million users.
Vodafone Australia is the nation's third largest mobile telecommunications company and a joint-venture between the UK's Vodafone Group and Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa limited.
According to Vodafone Group's global results its Australian venture lost 44,000 customers in the three months ending March 31, 2014 to hit 4.96 million customers.
This was down from the 6 million customers Vodafone Australia had a year earlier.
By comparison, the number of customers using Telstra mobile services grew by 739,000 in the first half of 2013-14 alone to hit 15.8 million subscribers. Optus had 9.59 million mobile customers in the three months ending March last year, but this number dropped by 160,000 to 9.43 million in the three months ending March 2014.
The rate of subscriber decline over the past three months has also accelerated despite a series of promotions aimed at doubling the amount of data being given to new customers.
However, this could be partly due to seasonality with the Christmas period attracting a relatively large number of new customers at all telcos.
The fall in subscribers has slowed compared to the bloodletting seen at the company in 2013.
It lost 600,000 customers in the three months ending September 30, 2013 alone.
The decline in Australian subscribers was accompanied by a strong increase in earnings despite a 9 per cent fall in service revenue.
Vodafone Australia is more than two years into a three year turnaround strategy that was launched by former chief executive Bill Morrow, who left to lead NBN Co in December before it was completed.
"Australia service revenue declined 9 per cent as a result of a lower customer base stemming from service issues in prior year," Vodafone Group said. "The turnaround plan remains on track, yielding improved levels of network performance, net promoter score and customer base management.
"The earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation [EBITDA] margin was improved by 14.8 per cent as a result of restructuring and stronger cost discipline."
The continuing fall in subscribers comes despite Mr Morrow publicly stating that he expected Vodafone Australia's customer base to start growing by mid-2014.
His replacement Iñaki Berroeta refused to re-commit to the target when asked by journalists at his first press conference in April.


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Residents are cleaning up Thursday after a tornado ripped through the Montowese section of North Haven, Connecticut, Wednesday afternoon, knocking down trees and powerlines.
The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado, ranked as an EF0, touched down in a two-mile stretch of the town around 1:30 p.m. Video captured dramatic images of the destructive vortex sucking up debris into a rotation and the downed trees left in the wake of the storm.
North Haven Fire Chief Paul Januszweski said the tornado started at Interstate 91, near the Montowese Avenue exit and traveled east toward Route 22, ripping up trees in its path.
U.S. & World
There were reports of damage between I-91 and Barberry Road, including to one house and one car.
Downed trees blocked two roads, but have since been removed.
Residents who witnessed the storm reported seeing clouds spinning and videos showed rotating clouds and strong winds.
And doppler radar detected debris in the clouds, possible leaves or twigs, and there was also a possible waterspout over Long Island Sound, south of New Haven.
There have been no reports of injuries or significant property damage.
"The North Haven Police Department will continue with high visibility patrols in the affected area. Although it is tempting to explore the affected neighborhoods, we ask that residents remain home for their safety, and the safety of emergency crews," North Haven Police posted on Facebook.
Crews from the Red Cross are sending a team to North Haven to assess damage and the National Weather Service has contacted town officials.


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Global Drug Control System
The present global drug control system is now 100 years old. It was inspired by the realisation that no country could regulate drug use in isolation, since these commodities were so readily bought and sold across borders and jurisdictions. Effective control would require states to work together as an international community.
Three conventions make up the instruments of international drug law:
- The 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs which draws together previous drug control legislation and forms the unified legal bedrock of the current system;
- The 1971 UN Convention on Psychotropic Drugs; and
- The 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
The overall objective of the conventions remains as it was specified a century ago - to limit the production, distribution and use of drugs to scientific and medical purposes. The three conventions provide the mandate and underpin the functioning of the UN agencies most involved in drug control:
- The Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- The International Narcotic Control Board
The three drug control conventions are not 'self-executing' – they require signatory states to enact and enforce national legislation in order to comply with their treaty obligations. However, the international system provides the overarching regulatory framework, and its agencies assist national governments in meeting their requirements under the treaties.
Only a few governments have not signed up to the treaties underpinning the global drug control system, which has been viewed for many years as exemplifying the spirit of international co-operation in the name of humanity. Recently, however, there has been a growing realisation that the system is far from perfect, and needs to be fundamentally reviewed. This insight was supposed to have guided the UNGASS review of drug control in 2009, which ended by largely reaffirming the current arrangements, thereby representing a missed opportunity of considerable proportions.


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Posted: Thu 23 May 2013, 16:35
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I use grub-booted frugal Slacko55PAE and Puppy431 on a DELL Latitude D630 Laptop with 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz processors, 2GB RAM & (nominal)150G harddrive.which came with 1 bootable ntfs partition with WinXP Pro installed.
I defragged, resized and repartitioned the drive & made it grub-bootable for WinXP on the sda1/ntfs & frugal slacko55PAE and pup431 installations on the sda3/ext2 partition; a sda2/ntfs partition is for files available to WinXP & Linux :-
sda1 30G ntfs bootable with WinXP
sda2 107G fat32 for misc files available to Puppy & WinXP
sda3 11G ext2 for frugal pup430
sda4 700M Linux-swap
Video resolution is 1440x900 pixels and it has a built-in microphone but no web-cam.
It has 4 USB2 connectors and a CDRW/DVDR optical drive.
Virtually all Slacko55 worked out of the box; Barry's Simple Network setup used the Broadcom B43 driver for the BCM4311 802.11a/b/g wireless card. Screen-brightness buttons & vol-up/dwn/mute buttons all work.
Libreoffice4 and Gimp282 sfs pks are excellent. Firefox works well & fast - I reduced the cache to 20Mb to avoid filling the savefile.
The CPU freq scaling keeps the laptop nice and cool. The Sleep & Hibernate modes work & I can just close the lid & resume next day.
CUPS detected and printed with my Canon S520 colour printer via parallel and USB cables.
Slacko55PAE is a fast and reliable system on this laptop.
The Dell-630 replaces my old Dell-610 which recently lost its power supply (symptoms were vanishing desktop usb-drive icons); at $180 the refurbished 630 (with docking station) cost less than the repair estimate for the 610.
Gparted shot of the Dell-630 drive partitions
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--- quad booting Slacko57NPAE, Slacko56NPAE, Slacko55PAE (with OO4, devx, Gimp) & WXP on DELL Dimension 2400 PC & DELL Latitude 630 Laptop using grub.
---USB-Flash booting same on Samsung N110 WXP Netbook and Lenovo q100 WXP netPC.
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Posted: Thu 23 May 2013, 18:04
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You can upgrade to gimp 284 using Slacko 5.5
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Posted: Sun 02 Jun 2013, 22:46
Post subject: Medion Akoya P7624 Puppies 5XXX OK
Medion Akoya P7624 Puppies 5XXX OK
Harder with series 4XXXX because of lack of updated firmware and drivers,
Medion is sold in low cost shops (ALDI in France)
-PCI Devices-
Host bridge : Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Communication controller : Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
USB Controller : Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Audio device : Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b5) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
USB Controller : Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
ISA bridge : Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05)
SATA controller : Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
SMBus : Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation Device 0de9 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Network controller : Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 (rev 34)
Ethernet controller : Atheros Communications AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)
USB Controller : Texas Instruments Device 8241 (rev 02) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
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Posted: Mon 03 Jun 2013, 02:12
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Acer Aspire V5 Core i3. Clickpad took a little setting up, otherwise runs Slacko like a dream. So fast I now run it from a USB instead of the hard drive. Hard drive has W8 but I dont know if it works as I have never booted it
Spup Frugal HD and USB
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Posted: Thu 27 Jun 2013, 07:43
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I have retired the Toshiba A200 as it was getting noisy and I was worried it might fail altogether. I bought a HP Pavilion (dm1 4108au) laptop a few months ago as a modest replacement. briefly the specs are:
cpu : AMD E-450
graphics : AMD Radeon HD 6320
wifi : Broadcom (can't remember which one but it is troublesome for puppy)
sound : (see note below)
4Gb RAM, 320Gb HDD, no built in optical drive (but I have an external one)
I have tried 3 or 4 puppies on this - mainly Slacko until recently. I always set up the newest versions as they became available. I have also tried the 64bit pups, and found Fatdog64 easier to manage. I could not get everything to work in Lighthouse64. I now have Precise 5.6.1 as my regular puppy.
None of these puppies work perfectly straight off, and I'll explain what I did (afair) to get everything working.
In all cases the wifi needs the Broadcom wl driver - there are plenty of posts here describing the method of getting it to work. I think I used a 'Puppy Network Wizard' and then went through the 'Load Module' button, blacklisted the default module and loaded the wl module, and all was well after that. Sounds simple, but it took quite a bit of trial and error to sort it out.
Likewise with the sound:
The Multiple Sound Card Wizard finds two cards, and picks the first one (generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0...), which does not work. The second card ( SB(HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAX92xx Analogue ...) seems to be the one to pick. In the Retrovol Configuration app (Right-click on the speaker button in the right hand tray, the pick 'Config Window') I changed the Sound Card to hw:1 and then all the appropriate choices for sliders appeared, and all was good, again, after quite a bit of fiddling around.
I run puppy as a live system off a usb stick with the save file on the HDD. To get it to work like this edit syslinux.cfg on the usb: change pmedia=usbflash to pmedia=cd
Hope this helps others trying to use puppy on this nice inexpensive little laptop.
btw puppy mounts 3 hidden partitions holding recovery stuff and windows drivers etc
Mounted partitions
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Posted: Thu 27 Jun 2013, 19:36
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I've had Puppy running on some really old machines.
I have a 333MHz Compaq Armada running Retro 5.25 as a frugal (256MB RAM, 4GB HDD, 500MB swap). It's a dog -- I need to find a less intensive browser (FF is too much for it).
My 1.6GHz Dell with 1GB RAM works fine under 5.20, 5.25 -- need to put on 5.28 next (or maybe Slacko)...
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Location: USA
Posted: Sat 03 Aug 2013, 14:30
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New laptop...
I gave in and bought a refurb laptop: HP 6530b.
It's a Windows 7 machine, with 4 GB RAM.
I inserted a 4GB SD card in the slot on the side, and installed Lupu 5.28.005 on it. It installed and identified all hardware flawlessly...
Using it as I write... Still default boots to Win7 (my old, used XP machine is getting rather decrepit).
SInce 5.28 is 32 bit, it only shows 3 GB RAM. I think that should be plenty.
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Posted: Wed 07 Aug 2013, 11:39
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Toshiba T115D on Precise 5.7.1, everything works!
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Posted: Thu 29 Aug 2013, 10:54
Post subject: Couldn't find this thread
Hi All,
When I couldn't find this thread, I posted elsewhere asking for information. So some information, current as of August 2013, can be found here:
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Posted: Thu 29 Aug 2013, 13:15
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One thing I have found that is interesting is that a laptop with limited memory can run a version of Puppy without problems till one adds applications or data.
I have an old Compaq laptop with 150 megs of memory.
I created a swap partition and did a frugal install of Lupu 520.
When run with pfix=ram, everything is displayed and works properly.
But after creating a pupsave file and adding a few programs, the desktop icons start displaying as generic icons and a lot of the built in applications fail to run.
I assume that with the heavy use of a swap partition, changes to the pupsave file are not taking into account what might be in the swap partition and corruption of the pupsave file results.
So what I am getting at is a frugal install to a laptop that has limited memory will give problems even when used with a swap partition.
I have not tried doing a full install to a partition on the laptop and that is next.
It would slow up the speed of the laptop, but the applications and data would be stored on the hard drive partition instead of memory and thus have less chance of corruption.
What is your take on this?
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Posted: Thu 29 Aug 2013, 14:04
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Hi 8-bit, I recall having seen some posts which discuss the use of a 'swapfile' rather than a 'swap partition' for machines with lower memory capacity. I haven't yet delved into this myself but maybe there is some benefit in researching this difference.
(If memory serves me correctly I think either jpeps or dewbie may have a thread on this topic??)
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Posted: Thu 29 Aug 2013, 18:30
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If one looks at versions of windows and the memory requirements of them, they seem to take less memory as they have all applications and data on the hard drive.
To have windows run similar to Puppy, one would have to create a startup batch file that would in effect set up a large ram disk, copy all applications and supporting software to it, and then specify that windows was to use the newly created ramdisk as a home drive.
I saw an article by someone that did that.
They stated that windows absolutely flew when ran from a ram disk.
But there again, having the memory for a ram disk of sufficient size was required.
That makes me wonder if a full install of Puppy would be in line with the very low memory requirements of windows 98SE that seemed to be in the area of 16 megs of ram for it and even WinXP was set at 64 megs of memory.
Frugal Puppy installs to a ram disk that is seen as its file system and with low memory on a PC, corruption is more likely to occur.
First, one goes for stability.
Then one goes for speed of execution.
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Posted: Thu 29 Aug 2013, 22:31
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Full install is the way to go on anything 256MB when I ran Puppy 4.0 Dingo on my IBM A22M laptop. Even after I upgraded ram to 512MB. Full install is the way I would go.
Thats my 2 cents on that.
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Posted: Thu 29 Aug 2013, 23:53
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8-bit wrote:
If one looks at versions of windows and the memory requirements of them, they seem to take less memory as they have all applications and data on the hard drive.
Well, the Windows OSes seem to underestimate the real memory requirements for a functioning machine.
That being said, I do think that most versions of Puppy need more power/RAM than say, Win98. A Win98 with 128MB RAM would generally be pretty usable (who knows how the modern browsers would clobber it though).
That makes me wonder if a full install of Puppy would be in line with the very low memory requirements of windows 98SE that seemed to be in the area of 16 megs of ram for it and even WinXP was set at 64 megs of memory.
I've found a general rule of thumb that Win95 needed 64 MB, Win98 needed 128MB, and every generation doubles... So extending that rule, ME needs 256MB, Win2k needs 512, XP 1GB, Vista 2GB, Win7 4GB...
The extrapolation isn't perfect, but not far off. XP will run fine in 1GB, but with Service Pack 3, probably 1.5-2GB is a better idea... Win7 (32 bit) seems to work fine at 2GB (I've used machines with 1 GB, and they are dogs). Vista was a pig, and probably ought to have 2+. Win7-64 ought to have 4GB...
I would like to see some versions of the newer Puppies have a lower hardware load. My old Compaq 333 laptop runs Win98 pretty good (I stuffed 256MB RAM in it -- it ran fine at 128MB). Puppy 5.20 is pretty heavy for it, but runs.
I recently rolled it back to 4.12 Retro, which shows a Mem load of substantially under 64MB (without loading the .SFS). I have been running 5.20 Retro, and found that at about 64MB. The newer Puppies seem to eat 128+ MB of RAM, with nothing running...
I generally prevent the .SFS from loading, as some packages (e.g. FF) really gobble up memory. On my main desktop (2.2 GHz, with 1 GB RAM), I regularly find things stop working, as FF consumes virtually every bit of available RAM... I flush the RAM cache, and free some of it, and it works for a while, then continues "leaking" to fill the RAM again. It only seems to do this with FF, not other programs that I run (I haven't experimented with other browsers, but probably should). Curiously, I don't think that I have that problem with my 2nd desktop, which has 2 GB RAM (and has no swap). FF creates a heavy load, but doesn't seem to eat all of the 2GB (or only when something "goes wrong")...
Oh, BTW, I run Frugal on everything...
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Asian-Americans were once an afterthought, but the events surrounding controversial Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 5 is an example of why they should not be ignored when it comes to politics and policy decisions, an expert said.
Karthick Ramakrishnan, director of the National Asian American Survey, said the recent defeat of a proposal that would have brought affirmative action back into higher education could be a watershed moment. But it all depends on how different networks such as Democrats, Republicans, large interest cliques and Asians themselves react.
"The Asian-American community in the past has not been large enough to get much attention. And even as they grew bigger, political organizations statewide — including both party organizations as well as interest groups pushing policy — had Asian-Americans as an afterthought," Ramakrishnan said. "Meg Whitman had Asian ads two weeks before the end of the campaign. Prop 30 did not engage significantly with the Asian community and left it up to Asian-American organizations to do that work."
SCA 5 passed along party lines on Jan. 30, but state Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, withdrew the proposal on Monday. Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, said he didn't have enough support to put the constitutional amendment before voters in November.
Asians make up about 14 percent of California's population, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. They are about 8 percent of the California Senate and Assembly as well as the U.S. House of Representatives. But because Asian-Americans represent 10 percent of California's voters, the gap between Asian voters and their representation is small, Ramakrishnan said.
Sens. Carol Liu, D-Glendale; Leland Yee, D-San Francisco; and Ted Lieu, D-Redondo Beach, all voted in favor of SCA 5 two months ago but stated reservations about their votes after receiving a barrage of negative correspondence from constituents.
S.B. Woo, president of 80-20, a national Asian political action committee, said he and others in the group were surprised to hear that Asian politicians voted in favor of the amendment.
"Some Asian-Americans are so eager to become Americans that they are quite willing to deny their own heritage and deny their own people equal opportunity … Why would an affirmative action on college admissions require Asians to score 140 points more than whites (in a 1600-point SAT), 270 points higher than Hispanics and 450 more points than blacks?" Woo said, citing a 2009 study co-authored by Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade.
Woo said he sent a call to action to some 350,000 people on the 80-20 email list about six days after the controversial amendment passed in the Senate. Most of his organization's anti-SCA 5 supporters are Chinese-Americans, but he said he also had some support from Korean-, Vietnamese- and Indian-Americans.
The widespread anti-SCA 5 sentiment isn't shared among all Asians.
In a 2012 National Asian American Survey, 80 percent of Asians in California supported affirmative action in both jobs and education, Ramakrishnan said.
"The kind of mobilization we've seen in the last month, it's been selective," Ramakrishnan said. "It's been a concerted effort — specifically Chinese-American groups mobilized before other groups in the Asian-American community could think about it let alone mobilize."
On Tuesday, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles sent a letter to Perez, Hernandez and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. The letter thanked Hernandez for raising awareness about lack of access in higher education and asked for "a broad, bold and inclusive solution to this problem — one that must necessarily expand the pie for all California students."
Then on Friday, Steinberg emailed a press release that included comments showing Asian-American support for SCA 5.
Tong Thao, spokesman for advocacy group Hmong Innovating Politics, said Prop. 209 masked the "immense diversity and significant educational disparities" among Asian-Americans.
Winifred Kao, spokesman for Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, said Prop 209 was a giant step backward. AAAJ-ALC is the nation's oldest legal and civil rights organization for Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
"Affirmative action, diversity and anti-discrimination programs in higher education and other sectors of public life have been critical to securing equal opportunities for racial minorities and women, and have been crucial to building a more just and equitable society," Kao said in a statement.
Spokeswoman Janet Gilmore said UC Berkeley, arguably the most prestigious UC in the system, seeks to recruit and admit a diversified class. It considers how students take advantage of opportunities and how they overcame obstacles, she said in an email.
"We value having a student population that represents a cross-section of communities, incomes, socio-economic backgrounds and interests," Gilmore said. "As a public institution, this is a critically important value for us."
Regardless of how people interpret the mobilization around SCA 5, Ramakrishnan said the future challenge Asians have is how to focus their mobilization and enthusiasm for other issues.
"I think the defeat of SCA 5 is serving as a cautionary tale for Democrats to not take things for granted and to make sure that they are reaching out to the Asian-American community when they are making policies," Ramakrishnan said.


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Arundhati Subodh Sathe-Depiction Reception Stage
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Interview with Arundhati Subodh Sathe : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : Depicting Roman Architecture was the basic idea behind the design. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : Actual replication of Fontana di Trevi was the intention. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : i would like to improve more if again i got the chance design the set. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : I took 10 days to finalise this concept. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : It was client's need to have roman architectural monument as a theme. Earlier we suggested colosseum as a main structure, but later on the focus was shifted to fontana di trevi. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : No plans in future. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : The desire to do in limited time span. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : No. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : NA .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : Grandness .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : Its a replica of the existing structure. so we depict the same. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : Auto cad, 3d max .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : Detailing .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : we took help of artisan and skilled labour, they were not aware of, what the style is? .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : Not specific .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : We did research on the style. how the columns were designed and what are the elements which make the design so unique. Also we did lots of research on material. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : nil .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : Many a times a heard of model made in small scale of existing famous buildings but never seen it. Making this huge scene nearly as it is encourage me to show case in international platform. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : Practical experience is the only way to learn many things, so did i. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Arundhati Subodh Sathe : No. .
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Yahoo is greenlighting two original, TV-length comedy series exclusive to its site and mobile apps, according to reports.
"Users expect online content to be as good as, if not better than, TV," Mayer said at the company's annual presentation to advertisers at the Lincoln Center. The new announcement also said that Yahoo plans on a new digital travel magazine and a partnership with Live Nation, a concert ticketing and promotion agency, to also broadcast concerts.
The new comedies will each be eight episodes and likely cost millions ($400,000 to $1 million per episode) but the push seems to have some research behind it, according to the New York Times. "We are in an era of unprecedented change in video," Kathy Savitt, Yahoo's chief marketing officer, told the Times. "We believe we can be the connective tissue between creators and viewers."
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One of the new series will be "Other Space" about a spaceship crew in an alternate universe created by Paul Feig, creator of TV cult-favorite "Freaks and Geeks" and the film "Bridesmaids." The other will be "Sin City Saints" about a basketball team owned by a Silicon Valley billionaire.
The choices for programming are a little strange. While "Sin City Saints" hopes to cash in on Yahoo's thriving sports audience, it's not clear who "Other Space" is supposed to be courting. The other large segment on Yahoo is women -- a very large segment, which seem to thrive on beauty tips and information.
Yahoo has about 800 million monthly users, so it has the audience if it can lure them to watch. Its Yahoo Screen has been built up with a mobile app and more content, but there's been no evidence this will be a success for Yahoo. It has been a success for Google's YouTube, but it also has been streaming content for nine years. Still, perhaps the idea of Google having creative studios in Los Angeles seemed to galvanize Yahoo into crafting its own series.
Savitt said Yahoo saw ad dollar projections and decided to go forth with the project. It will also create two Katie Couric-anchored weekly shows and other lifestyle programs that are closely linked its digital magazines on travel, beauty, fashion and entertainment. All of the content will be free, but there will be video ads and sponsorships.


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Logan High School students Bruce Trinh (left) and DJ Madison use an iPad to record video of Sarah Wyatt's presentation about bioregenerative life support in Porter Hall.
Photographer: Gretchen Gregory
Student Matt Mutzner intently listens to Wyatt as she explains the amount of education needed to pursue a career in plant biology.
Photographer: Gretchen Gregory
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Photographer: Gretchen Gregory
Apr 11, 2014
By Gretchen Gregory
Fifty-five Logan High School students from Autum Barry and Alyssa Burns' biomedical science class and advanced placement biology class learned about plant biology and biomedical research at Ohio University during a recent visit to the Athens Campus.
Acid mine drainage mediation, photosynthesis and climate change, gravitropism, microgravity and genomics were some topics of discussion and afforded students an opportunity to learn more about each subject to find out if it sparked enough interest to start a career in a particular field.
"This experience gave students the opportunity to explore various science-related careers and to see real-world application of content and laboratory skills they have learned in the classroom," Barry explained.
The trip was made possible by a Duke Energy grant through the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio and also included a visit to the OHIO Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Students asked a variety of questions related to the education and experience needed to pursue a career in plant biology, and intently listened as Environmental and Plant Biology Professor Morgan Vis, Assistant Professor David Rosenthal, Professor Sarah Wyatt, and Graduate Student Ben Gahagen led a discussion about their latest research.
Wyatt was a first-generation college student who developed an interest in plants at a young age, she said, primarily because her parents were heavily involved in their farming community. Her interest in plants sparked an imagination that led her to seek a bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctoral degree, and later conduct research with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
"Think about all the science fiction movies you've ever seen," Wyatt told a group of eager LHS students. "In every one of them and in every science fiction drawing, they always have a greenhouse. Somehow the science fiction authors have figured out that we're going to have to take plants into space."
Plants are taken on long-term space flights in order to understand how they grow within micro-gravity, she noted.
"When you're doing a long-term space flight, how much stuff would it take for you to live for a year?" she asked the class. "All the food, all the water, and with all the stuff needed, the reason you need to take plants and we need to understand how plants grow in modified gravity is so we can take them along. They will provide us with medicines, food, clothing, and ultimately everything else we need, including air."
Wyatt detailed that experiments can be tested in microgravity on Earth inside a KC135 airplane during parabolic flight in order to replicate the conditions in space.
"We get about 40 seconds of microgravity to test equipment," she noted. "It's really fun to be in microgravity."
Wyatt's research is trying to determine how bioregenerative life support in space might work, and find the best mechanisms needed to support life. "We're trying to figure out how we can best utilize plans in a small environment, and find out how we can best manage our plans and manage the ones we want to use and not completely destroy all the land," she said.
Rosenthal told students about his work with photosynthesis and climate change, and detailed how undergraduate students have a unique opportunity to participate in research at Ohio University.
"I really enjoyed speaking to the Logan High School students," he said. "This was a unique opportunity to reach an audience I do not usually interact with. The sense I got from the students is that they were excited to be here."


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Spain May Reap Biggest Grain Crop in Decades After Spring Rains
Spain, Europe's biggest grain importer, may reap its largest cereal crop in more than two decades after a wet spring boosted soil moisture in a country where output can fall by half or double from year to year based on rainfall.
Spanish farmers may gather 23.9 million metric tons of grain this year, 1.64 million tons more than forecast in June and compared with a harvest of 15.5 million tons in 2012, farm-industry group Cooperatives Agro-Alimentarias wrote in an outlook today. That would be the most since at least 1990.
The country had its fifth-wettest spring this year since 1947, with 55 percent more rain that usual from March to May, according to the Madrid-based national weather office. That follows a drought last year that resulted in the smallest grain crop in seven years.
"These data will guarantee a regular supply of grains in our country throughout the season," Agro-Alimentarias wrote. "Barley continues to be the main grain produced."
Spain's barley production is forecast to climb to 9.83 million tons from 5.66 million tons last year, according to the group. That's up from a June outlook for 8.85 million tons.
The soft-wheat crop may rise to 6.92 million tons from 4.36 million tons, while production of the harder durum variety used in pasta may jump to 1.01 million tons from 404,457 tons. The forecasts were raised from 6.61 million tons for soft wheat and 941,899 tons for durum.
The country's corn harvest is seen advancing to 4.33 million tons from 3.81 million tons, compared with a June outlook for 4.01 million tons.
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- Saturday Brunch: 11:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m. / Sunday Brunch: 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
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1. Testing: Test your sensory preferences and skills:
2. Sensory richness: Imagine a waterfall in front of you. See the sunlight reflected in it, making it glitter like a fluid diamond; feel the pressure created by the water's force; hear the high and low pitches of a crescendo; taste the water droplets on your lips; smell the pungent, enriched air.
3. Sensory stimulation: Carry a sack of rice on your head for a moment. When you remove it, you can readily experience your head floating upward. Walk on all fours with the same sack on your back, moving your back up and down. When you remove the sack, you will find that your back is more flexible and snakelike.
4. Projection of a sensory experience: Knead a piece of clay and experience its malleability. Feel the clay in your hand, smell the clay, look at its color. Then focus on a spot in your body that needs to be more malleable and project your experience into that area. Next, hold a piece of wood in one hand and a piece of cotton in the other. Notice the difference in texture and quality. Shift your concentration from the hardness of the wood to the softness of the cotton. Project this experience onto a point in your body that needs to transform from hardness to softness.
5. Foot motion: Move one of your feet in many ways. Imagine it to be as malleable as a piece of clay. Wiggle it, shake it, circle it, tap it against the floor, pick up and release an imaginary towel with your toes. Then stand up and compare the feeling in your left foot and right foot and left leg and right leg. You may notice that your legs feel as though they are aligned differently. One leg may seem to have more volume or to be straighter than the other.
6. Balance: Stand with your weight equally distributed on both feet. Lift one foot off the floor and balance for a moment. Do the same with the other leg. Lift one leg again and imagine that a clone of that leg is still standing on the floor. Notice the difference between your ability to balance when using and not using this image.
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