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97,659 | I have over 5000 items in my inventory. Dropping them one by one is going to take days. Is there anyway I can drop say all L1 resonators together? | 2012/12/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/97659",
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] | At the time when this question was asked there wasn't a practical way to drop multiple items at once. Now we have the capsules which we can use to drop multiple items at once.
You select a capsule from your items (preferably an empty one), press the "Load" button on the capsule actions screen, select the item(s) from your inventory (which is unfortunately listed alphabetically), select the number of items to transfer with the arrows on the upper side of each item and press the "Transfer" button at the bottom.
This way you fill a capsule with the items you want to drop. The downside of this action is that you have to drop this capsule on the ground loosing the capsule and giving your opponents an opportunity to find a treasure chest. So the capsules are more effective if you are passing your excessive items to another teammate. | In a hangout the Niantic devs said that bulk actions are on their todo list. But they are a small team, so it probably won't be soon. |
97,659 | I have over 5000 items in my inventory. Dropping them one by one is going to take days. Is there anyway I can drop say all L1 resonators together? | 2012/12/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/97659",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/37501/"
] | At the time when this question was asked there wasn't a practical way to drop multiple items at once. Now we have the capsules which we can use to drop multiple items at once.
You select a capsule from your items (preferably an empty one), press the "Load" button on the capsule actions screen, select the item(s) from your inventory (which is unfortunately listed alphabetically), select the number of items to transfer with the arrows on the upper side of each item and press the "Transfer" button at the bottom.
This way you fill a capsule with the items you want to drop. The downside of this action is that you have to drop this capsule on the ground loosing the capsule and giving your opponents an opportunity to find a treasure chest. So the capsules are more effective if you are passing your excessive items to another teammate. | Just press `CONTROL` aim the items and press drop button |
8,802 | Looking for locations near London Ontario Canada, within a 2 hour drive where I can hike in and set up camp. I'd prefer to not have to go past Toronto because of the heavy traffic, if I can avoid it.
So far, I haven't found anything except provincial parks, where they don't allow camping except at designated areas. I've only found places near Algonquin, and again, that's pretty far out and past Toronto. | 2015/07/16 | [
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] | First of all
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You might need to look into getting a new **impregnation** for your second hand tent. This can be done either yourself using sprays or wash-in-products (and in your case a probably huge washing machine) or by giving the tent for re-impregnation to professionals, i.e. your local outdoor/tent supplier (this can be expensive though). In any case it might be a good idea to get their professional opinion on if and how you could re-impregnate the tent.
As for the **tarp** idea
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This is totally feasible and also quite cheap. The main disadvantage is the added weight and packing space. But looking at the size of your tent it seems you're likely not carrying it for any significant distance, so the additional weight of a tarp (and the needed additional tent pegs/cords) shouldn't be much of a problem.
I's also possible to just directly tighten the tarp over your tent. This will actually make the entire construction quite a bit more stable I'd guess, as there will be less area of attack for wind. Just make sure to tie the entire thing down well enough and you should have no worries.
**Note:**
As correctly mentioned by @mattnz draping a tarp directly onto your fly sheet can lower its life expectancy, as friction between the two (cause by wind for example) can degrade the impregnation a bit. But seeing as your fly sheet is not currently rain-proof in the first place I think you'll still be better off with an additional tarp than without: that way at least you should have a working (read: rain-proof) construction for the time being. | Generally a tarp is a bad idea as a long term solution as it shortens the life of the tent. As they are not shaped to fit around the tent (like a rain fly), they tend to sag in the middle and touch the outer. this quickly wears of the water repellent, and rubs the water into the fabric. Before long, the tent is leaking very badly without a tarp. Most people doing this use a cheap tarp, which leaks fairly quickly and the worn tent fabric leaks, so you are back to square one. If you use a tarp, remove it as soon as possible after the rain has stopped to let the tent dry.
Experienced campers do not use tarps. Tents are maintained (as already suggested) with water proof treatment etc. Most of us have had water get in at some time, you have already learnt the importance of keeping stuff inside dry when it happens. Its possible (although difficult) to have dry sleeping bags and cloths even if the floor is awash with water. It starts with good water proof storage and putting things away.
A better, newer tent made of canvas based product is the best protection against heavy, long rain (the cotton swells when wet and seals small holes caused by stitching etc).
When tenting, there is nothing wrong with heading home early if weather and equipment conspire against you. |
8,802 | Looking for locations near London Ontario Canada, within a 2 hour drive where I can hike in and set up camp. I'd prefer to not have to go past Toronto because of the heavy traffic, if I can avoid it.
So far, I haven't found anything except provincial parks, where they don't allow camping except at designated areas. I've only found places near Algonquin, and again, that's pretty far out and past Toronto. | 2015/07/16 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/8802",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/6345/"
] | First of all
------------
You might need to look into getting a new **impregnation** for your second hand tent. This can be done either yourself using sprays or wash-in-products (and in your case a probably huge washing machine) or by giving the tent for re-impregnation to professionals, i.e. your local outdoor/tent supplier (this can be expensive though). In any case it might be a good idea to get their professional opinion on if and how you could re-impregnate the tent.
As for the **tarp** idea
------------------------
This is totally feasible and also quite cheap. The main disadvantage is the added weight and packing space. But looking at the size of your tent it seems you're likely not carrying it for any significant distance, so the additional weight of a tarp (and the needed additional tent pegs/cords) shouldn't be much of a problem.
I's also possible to just directly tighten the tarp over your tent. This will actually make the entire construction quite a bit more stable I'd guess, as there will be less area of attack for wind. Just make sure to tie the entire thing down well enough and you should have no worries.
**Note:**
As correctly mentioned by @mattnz draping a tarp directly onto your fly sheet can lower its life expectancy, as friction between the two (cause by wind for example) can degrade the impregnation a bit. But seeing as your fly sheet is not currently rain-proof in the first place I think you'll still be better off with an additional tarp than without: that way at least you should have a working (read: rain-proof) construction for the time being. | I agree that tarps may be good for a short term sloution, but not for the long term. Depending on the Season or regardless of the season, I prefer a tent with a good fly and tent location is key. Higher ground, with ground sheet, and tent fly should be more of a longer term solution.
You can always treat the tent for water reproofing and then there would not be any real reason for the tarp. |
12,243,208 | It's not all together clear to me, so I am hoping someone here knows the answer. I am using the C# Json.Net and the C# HtmlAgilityPack both built from sources for "Any CPU". I've noticed that both of these include using directives that reference assemblies that don't seem to be available in Metro yet they both build fine.
If I reference them, does this mean my app will thunk to unmanaged code?
What exactly causes thunking to unmanged code?
Why are DLLs allowed to reference assemblies that are not available to WinRT and my app is not?
Will this fail the windows store approval process?
What are the general rules for DLLs I include with my app that I need to worry about?
Thanks in advance! | 2012/09/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12243208",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1621364/"
] | When developing apps that target WinRT, the app should only use the API's available in Windows 8 WinRT. The API's are defined in WinMD files. If the app used the desktop API's, then it will be rejected during the Windows store approval process.
Imagine this scenaio. You developed a WinRT app that uses .NET DLL's from desktop mode (client profile). The app is deployed in Windows store and user downloads it on ARM tablet. The application will crash as it does not have the desktop (client) .NET DLL's on the ARM devices.
so this brings us to the question on what .NET classes we can use while developing apps for WinRT. The article <http://kishore1021.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/what-is-portable-class-library-project-in-visual-studio-2012-net-4-5/> lists the .NET classes available for WinRT application development. | Change all open source projects dependencies to target WinRT. See if some methods / classes in WinRT are missing so the code does not compile. Try to find the alternative methods/classes.
Such as List.FindAll(), change to Linq Where() |
267,037 | *Star Trek: The Motion Picture* opens with a long pull back from a field of stars, for almost three minutes, with music playing. The first time I saw it, I kept expecting something to happen, but nothing does. It eventually just fades to black, then we get the opening credits and another field of stars.
Why did they put that part at the start of the movie? | 2022/08/25 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/267037",
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] | It's called an [Overture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overture#Film), in this case a piece of music called [Ilia's Theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj4z2Y1y2Ak).
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The overture is a piece of music, usually containing the main themes of a production's score, that plays prior to the actual production but after the audience has been seated, to help set the mood.
Originally they were part of ballets, operas, et cetera but were adapted to film once the medium took off.
You don't see them very much anymore but as you can see from the list in the link, a lot of the older epic films from the 1950s and 1960s (like *Spartacus*, *Ben-Hur*, *The Ten Commandments*, and *Lawrence of Arabia*) had them. *Star Trek: The Motion Picture* is on the [list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_overtures) in the “After 1970” section. | In addition to SpaceWolf1701’s details [in their answer](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/267040/14850), a film overture like this had a more practical reason as explained in this [2018 Atlantic article](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/10/why-filmmakers-should-bring-back-musical-overtures/572560/) that focuses on overtures in film; bold emphasis is mine:
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> “The movie overture—music set against a blank screen or still images before the drama unfolds—all but disappeared from film sometime in the 1970s. Once a Hollywood mainstay, **overtures evolved naturally from their use in opera and road shows, giving moviegoers time to find their seats and settle in before the main feature.** But these musical pastiches also served an important cinematic function: They allowed audiences a chance to put aside their thoughts of the outside world. With curtains drawn and house lights dimmed, overtures drew moviegoers in, and inward, toward a space of anticipation.”
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You need to think back to 1979 when *Star Trek: The Motion Picture* came out: Cable wasn’t as pervasive and easily accessible as it now is and video tape players were not as common-place either.
Unless you were located in an area where cable was common-place — or you were financially well off — video tape sales/rentals and cable were not the normal ways the vast majority of people watched movies. And yes, movies were broadcast on plain-old broadcast TV. But if you wanted to intentionally see a new film that was not on TV — and not interrupted by commercials — chances are you had to go to a movie theater.
For the vast majority of people, if they wanted watch a movie in 1979, they simply had to go to an actual movie theater and sit down in a seat and wait for the film to start.
So the purpose of an overture in this case was to allow the expected crowds of people swarming in to see the highly anticipated first Star Trek film on screen find a seat and sit down. And it would also serve as s signal for anyone in the lobby to come into the theater because the movie was about to start.
Flash forward to now, and this overture seems incredibly tedious and ponderous. But in my humble opinion, the whole of *Star Trek: The Motion Picture* is incredibly tedious and ponderous. With pacing and long shots that bored me as a kid and make little sense as an adult.
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### Warning: Slight tangent ahead.
#### Minimized to avoid overwhelming the core answer above.
As cool as some of the special effects were, the storytelling in this film is truly a chore to watch and while it made back its investment at the box office, it was a critical failure.
And in retrospect, the seemingly never-ending overture coupled with similarly seemingly never-ending effects shots make me think reflects the delusion (arrogance?) of the studio — and Gene Roddenberry himself — that somehow *Star Wars* was an aberration and what the world was waiting for was a grand, new *Star Trek* film.
Remember, while Gene Roddenberry was trying to get *Star Trek* back on TV in the 1970s via [*Star Trek: Phase II*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Phase_II), *Star Wars* came along in 1977 and not only changed the film game but also dethroned *Star Trek* as the best known science-fiction property in pop culture. So suddenly *Star Trek: Phase II* was reworked and reimagined into the film known as… *Star Trek: The Motion Picture*.
I can imagine Gene Roddenberry himself thinking, “Wow! So many people will be clamoring to get into the theater to see this masterpiece that I *must* pad the front of the film with a few minutes of nothing to give them time to get a seat and enjoy the greatest science-fiction film ever!” |
7,463 | How can I generate a Gaussian wavelet (time domain) with a given central frequency.
I mean if I take the Fourier Transform then its spectrum should be around that given central frequency instead of zero. For example the peak of spectrum is 20Hz and its side lobes becomes nearly zero around $20\pm 10$.
I carried out a few coding exercise which I tried are here.
[Link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35211841/gaussian-wave-generation-with-a-given-central-frequency) | 2016/02/05 | [
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] | If I understand the question, I don't think you can do what you want to do. The spectrum of a Gaussian time series must contain frequencies [down to DC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_bias), i.e. very low frequencies (Python code [from scipy.org](http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.16.1/reference/generated/scipy.signal.gaussian.html)):
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5naUK.png)
A wavelet whose *spectrum* is a Gaussian is called a [Ricker wavelet](http://subsurfwiki.org/wiki/Ricker_wavelet), or sometimes Mexican Hat wavelet. I often use this wavelet to model [seismic reflection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_seismology) data. It has a central frequency, and is bandlimited. As such, the wavelet oscillates around zero amplitude — it does not have a DC component:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ugW58.png) | (Sorry for the double post, got an image limit)
Also, as you make that Gaussian window (in time) skinnier and skinnier (by changing that "1" in the window function), you will make the Gaussian in the frequency domain wider and wider, as per the Fourier uncertainty principle.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iJDaf.png)
Finally, I just wanted to point out that a Ricker wavelet does not have a Gaussian amplitude spectrum. It's close but not quite. The Ricker amplitude spectrum is slightly skewed. And they do seem to be using Ricker wavelets in the paper you cited.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OtfCp.png)
Ok now I'm done. Good luck!
Antonio |
7,190,423 | Is it possible to disable "Multiple touches" through out the application, instead of setting this for every control? | 2011/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7190423",
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] | I love so much [heroku](http://www.heroku.com/) because is easy to use and it offer a scalable environment.
But i use dedicated servers with apache+passenger to run my rails application so i can do what i wan't on my system.
Some hosters offers a console to manage your gems so you can run your application in any version of rails. | This website is good to choose Rails hosting <http://www.railshosting.org/> |
7,190,423 | Is it possible to disable "Multiple touches" through out the application, instead of setting this for every control? | 2011/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7190423",
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] | If you're Linux savvy, you could also go with a VPS solution such as Linode. A little more work on your end, but you have complete control and will know exactly what versions of what are being used. | This website is good to choose Rails hosting <http://www.railshosting.org/> |
7,190,423 | Is it possible to disable "Multiple touches" through out the application, instead of setting this for every control? | 2011/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7190423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/265341/"
] | I love so much [heroku](http://www.heroku.com/) because is easy to use and it offer a scalable environment.
But i use dedicated servers with apache+passenger to run my rails application so i can do what i wan't on my system.
Some hosters offers a console to manage your gems so you can run your application in any version of rails. | If you're Linux savvy, you could also go with a VPS solution such as Linode. A little more work on your end, but you have complete control and will know exactly what versions of what are being used. |
7,190,423 | Is it possible to disable "Multiple touches" through out the application, instead of setting this for every control? | 2011/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7190423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/265341/"
] | I love so much [heroku](http://www.heroku.com/) because is easy to use and it offer a scalable environment.
But i use dedicated servers with apache+passenger to run my rails application so i can do what i wan't on my system.
Some hosters offers a console to manage your gems so you can run your application in any version of rails. | i am working for a startup and they are currently hosting at [heroku](http://www.heroku.com). Its built for rails and very good in terms of customer support.
the name "[engineyard](http://www.engineyard.com/)" is being heard these days a lot..you can probably give that a try.. |
7,190,423 | Is it possible to disable "Multiple touches" through out the application, instead of setting this for every control? | 2011/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7190423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/265341/"
] | If you're Linux savvy, you could also go with a VPS solution such as Linode. A little more work on your end, but you have complete control and will know exactly what versions of what are being used. | i am working for a startup and they are currently hosting at [heroku](http://www.heroku.com). Its built for rails and very good in terms of customer support.
the name "[engineyard](http://www.engineyard.com/)" is being heard these days a lot..you can probably give that a try.. |
122,776 | When I found a colony in sword of the stars, I'm presented with two sliders: one for terraforming, and one for infrastructure. I can allocate different amounts of industrial output to each of them, and the total amount of infrastructure/terraforming I can do increases from turn to turn. How should I allocate my resources to terraforming and infrastructure to get my colonies up and running as quickly as possible? | 2013/07/04 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/122776",
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] | The question's almost a year old, but I'll take a shot at it in case someone comes looking in the future: In the original game and Born of Blood expansion, allocate all production to infrastructure until that's capped out. Your industrial output is a percentage of the resource level of the planet equal to your infrastructure. At 50 infrastructure, you get half the resource value of the planet in industrial output. So, infrastructure first, then terraforming. You also get a production bonus for population, but by the time this makes a difference you'll be past the colonization stage.
In Murder of Crows and Argos Naval Yard, your industrial output is still a percentage of your infrastructure level, except that it has an additional cap based on your population which is used if your population is too low. A planet with a hundred people (instead of hundreds of millions) will have basically no production even with 100 infrastructure, which is a major change from the original game. The formula is a little complex, so a good rule of thumb is to look at the industrial output of the planet. If it's lower than what you would expect from the infrastructure and resource levels, then your production is capped by lack of population. Terraform first to help your population grow faster, which also has the benefit of reducing colony maintenance costs. As your industrial output approaches the point where you are capped by infrastructure instead of population, switch your production to infrastructure until it is complete and then finish terraforming.
Other good things to keep in mind when colonizing are to use a lot of colony ships (10-20 per planet is a good idea) and to overharvest planets for a few turns after colonizing them. If you're overharvesting more than -10 resources per turn it's a good time to scale it back to normal production only so you don't hurt your long term productivity too much. | Actually I just ran a test for this. Using the hivers and NO research in any way for my colonies. The planet was size 5 with 7193 resource and a hazard of 365.88. I started on turn 25 for all tests and saved prior to starting this. When I prioritized terraforming it took 61 turns to fully finish the planet (0 hazard and 100 infrastructure). 37 turns when I prioritized infrastructure, and also 37 turns when I left it 50/50. I hope this helps any one in deciding. (note: I'm not saying that the guy prior to me has his intel wrong, just saying that I went through and went solely based on raw ingame playable data) |
156,378 | I witnessed the birth of a Spider Queen ridiculously close to my base. I managed to come back later and she'd wandered off, but then she wandered back a few days later so I ran off again. Does she stay in a given area? Wander the whole map at random? Will she vanish after a while or stay on the map permanently? (I died before seeing her a third time) | 2014/02/16 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/156378",
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] | She should despawn into a tier 1 nest after a day and a half, according to the wiki. Based on my observations, it seems like she just picks a direction and continues on that general path unless there's something to attack. | In the newer version (from what I have experienced) the queen doesn't despawn and will stay around were the nest was and wander in a proximity of it, she will also hatch spiders. |
45,630 | I'm working on a survival analysis project. In part of the project, I'm asked to "identify factors that may contribute to an increased risk of death". I have difficult time understanding what I'm asked for. Could anyone help me understand this? How should I identify those factors? Is this an example of building exploratory model? If so, should I only pick variables that increase the risk?
Thanks for your help. | 2012/12/11 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/45630",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
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] | Doesn't this just mean to put your available covariates into your model and test for significant effects? Of course it depends on whether you have an accelerated failure time or proportional hazard model, as to the direction of the significant effects, but that's how I read it. | I think @CoreySparks is essentially right here. The key is that either your instructor wants you to conduct one-tailed tests, or just report back the variables that are both 'significant' (via a two-tailed test), *and* tend to increase death rates. |
12,937 | I've recently been told that gnocchi is technically a dumpling, not a noodle. What about it causes gnocchi to fall under the dumpling category? | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12937",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
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] | Noodles are thin and elongated.
Dumplings are not.
Both are unleavened dough cooked (frequently) in boiling water, but generally the distinction tends to fall along shape-based lines. | Perhaps because gnocchi is cooked in the same way to a dumpling, by boiling in something like hot water/stock or steamed. |
12,937 | I've recently been told that gnocchi is technically a dumpling, not a noodle. What about it causes gnocchi to fall under the dumpling category? | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12937",
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] | Perhaps because gnocchi is cooked in the same way to a dumpling, by boiling in something like hot water/stock or steamed. | Gnocchi can have potatoes in them; I don't think noodles ever do. |
12,937 | I've recently been told that gnocchi is technically a dumpling, not a noodle. What about it causes gnocchi to fall under the dumpling category? | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12937",
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] | Possibly because they aren't normally dried out.
It's probably just 'one of those things' - I don't think there is an ISO committee of food naming | Gnocchi can have potatoes in them; I don't think noodles ever do. |
12,937 | I've recently been told that gnocchi is technically a dumpling, not a noodle. What about it causes gnocchi to fall under the dumpling category? | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12937",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
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] | The primary difference between a dumpling and a noodle, besides shape, is leavening. Dumplings usually have either egg or baking powder to make them lighter.
There's considerable bleedover in terminology here. It's reminiscent of the difficulty of defining "chowder". You're always finding a counterexample. I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with something called gnocchi, gnochs, gnocchetti, that has no leavening. I can think of two myself.
Gnocchetti alla romana are semolina "dumplings" sometimes leavened with egg, particularly when they contain spinach, but more often not. Gnocchetti sardi are dry pasta shapes that kind of look like thin potato gnocchi. | Gnocchi can have potatoes in them; I don't think noodles ever do. |
12,937 | I've recently been told that gnocchi is technically a dumpling, not a noodle. What about it causes gnocchi to fall under the dumpling category? | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12937",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
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] | There are in general two main classes of dumplings. Potato based and leavened dough based.
Gnocchi generally fall under the first category along with traditional central-european potato dumplings, some sorts of German "spatzle", Slovak "halusky" etc.
Second sort of dumplings is based ond dough, sometimes strictly flour/egg based, sometimes enriched with buns, but almost always leavened.
Other generally sorting rule that apply is the dough thickness. All the pasta/noodles are made of THIN plates of dough, whether dumplings are boiled either as balls, droppings of fresh dough directly into boiling water, or long cylinders, that are sliced upon serving. | Gnocchi can have potatoes in them; I don't think noodles ever do. |
12,937 | I've recently been told that gnocchi is technically a dumpling, not a noodle. What about it causes gnocchi to fall under the dumpling category? | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12937",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/3096/"
] | The primary difference between a dumpling and a noodle, besides shape, is leavening. Dumplings usually have either egg or baking powder to make them lighter.
There's considerable bleedover in terminology here. It's reminiscent of the difficulty of defining "chowder". You're always finding a counterexample. I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with something called gnocchi, gnochs, gnocchetti, that has no leavening. I can think of two myself.
Gnocchetti alla romana are semolina "dumplings" sometimes leavened with egg, particularly when they contain spinach, but more often not. Gnocchetti sardi are dry pasta shapes that kind of look like thin potato gnocchi. | Perhaps because gnocchi is cooked in the same way to a dumpling, by boiling in something like hot water/stock or steamed. |
12,937 | I've recently been told that gnocchi is technically a dumpling, not a noodle. What about it causes gnocchi to fall under the dumpling category? | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12937",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/3096/"
] | Noodles are thin and elongated.
Dumplings are not.
Both are unleavened dough cooked (frequently) in boiling water, but generally the distinction tends to fall along shape-based lines. | There are in general two main classes of dumplings. Potato based and leavened dough based.
Gnocchi generally fall under the first category along with traditional central-european potato dumplings, some sorts of German "spatzle", Slovak "halusky" etc.
Second sort of dumplings is based ond dough, sometimes strictly flour/egg based, sometimes enriched with buns, but almost always leavened.
Other generally sorting rule that apply is the dough thickness. All the pasta/noodles are made of THIN plates of dough, whether dumplings are boiled either as balls, droppings of fresh dough directly into boiling water, or long cylinders, that are sliced upon serving. |
12,937 | I've recently been told that gnocchi is technically a dumpling, not a noodle. What about it causes gnocchi to fall under the dumpling category? | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12937",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/3096/"
] | Noodles are thin and elongated.
Dumplings are not.
Both are unleavened dough cooked (frequently) in boiling water, but generally the distinction tends to fall along shape-based lines. | Possibly because they aren't normally dried out.
It's probably just 'one of those things' - I don't think there is an ISO committee of food naming |
12,937 | I've recently been told that gnocchi is technically a dumpling, not a noodle. What about it causes gnocchi to fall under the dumpling category? | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12937",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/3096/"
] | The primary difference between a dumpling and a noodle, besides shape, is leavening. Dumplings usually have either egg or baking powder to make them lighter.
There's considerable bleedover in terminology here. It's reminiscent of the difficulty of defining "chowder". You're always finding a counterexample. I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with something called gnocchi, gnochs, gnocchetti, that has no leavening. I can think of two myself.
Gnocchetti alla romana are semolina "dumplings" sometimes leavened with egg, particularly when they contain spinach, but more often not. Gnocchetti sardi are dry pasta shapes that kind of look like thin potato gnocchi. | There are in general two main classes of dumplings. Potato based and leavened dough based.
Gnocchi generally fall under the first category along with traditional central-european potato dumplings, some sorts of German "spatzle", Slovak "halusky" etc.
Second sort of dumplings is based ond dough, sometimes strictly flour/egg based, sometimes enriched with buns, but almost always leavened.
Other generally sorting rule that apply is the dough thickness. All the pasta/noodles are made of THIN plates of dough, whether dumplings are boiled either as balls, droppings of fresh dough directly into boiling water, or long cylinders, that are sliced upon serving. |
12,937 | I've recently been told that gnocchi is technically a dumpling, not a noodle. What about it causes gnocchi to fall under the dumpling category? | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12937",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/3096/"
] | The primary difference between a dumpling and a noodle, besides shape, is leavening. Dumplings usually have either egg or baking powder to make them lighter.
There's considerable bleedover in terminology here. It's reminiscent of the difficulty of defining "chowder". You're always finding a counterexample. I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with something called gnocchi, gnochs, gnocchetti, that has no leavening. I can think of two myself.
Gnocchetti alla romana are semolina "dumplings" sometimes leavened with egg, particularly when they contain spinach, but more often not. Gnocchetti sardi are dry pasta shapes that kind of look like thin potato gnocchi. | Possibly because they aren't normally dried out.
It's probably just 'one of those things' - I don't think there is an ISO committee of food naming |
63,835 | I'm having trouble understanding writing out a proof. The proof I'm trying to work with is :
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/s4k9t.png)
How do I reach this goal? Which rules do I use and with which support steps to each rule (proofs to prove each step?) Using only inference rules, reit, quantifier rules. | 2019/06/05 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/63835",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | This is only a description of the justifications for the steps. How you describe the justifications in the proof checker will depend on that tool.
Lines 5 and 6 used universal elimination to replace the variable *x* with the name *a*. You will likely need to reference which lines were used.
Line 8 used conditional elimination which should reference the conditional on line 6 and its antecedent on line 7. This gives you the consequent.
Similarly line 9 used conditional elimination which should reference the conditional on line 5 and its antecedent on line 8. This allows you to derive the consequent.
Line 10 derives the contradiction between lines 9 and 4. This is contradiction introduction.
Line 11 derives the negation of the assumption on line 7 discharging the subproof on lines 7 to 10. This is negation introduction.
Line 12 uses existential introduction. This is copied to the last line where existential elimination was used. This existential elimination began with the assumption on line 4 replacing the variable *x* in line 3 with the name *a*. This subproof was able to be closed when a line was derived that did not use the name *a*. That happened on line 12. | Here is a complete proof with all steps justified in the Fitch program. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/boYNU.png) |
45,088,547 | I'm new to github and programming in general. As I updated and improved on my code, I realized that every "commit change" was added to my total commits. With that being said, I have now ended up with an embarrassing 119 commits and counting.
Being new to coding and programming, can someone tell me if there is anyway to clean out my commits? If so, please explain! | 2017/07/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/45088547",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8299231/"
] | Don't be embarrassed! Instead, be proud you are version controlling your code so you keep track of changes and allow for a more maintainable system.
Perhaps, get even more efficient by adding clever commit messages on the way, explaining what version introduces what new feature or fix. | As far as deleting old commits, there really is no reason to do so. If you are talking about having stored commits, then you can delete those. I recommend looking [here](https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html) for more info. Best of luck! |
45,088,547 | I'm new to github and programming in general. As I updated and improved on my code, I realized that every "commit change" was added to my total commits. With that being said, I have now ended up with an embarrassing 119 commits and counting.
Being new to coding and programming, can someone tell me if there is anyway to clean out my commits? If so, please explain! | 2017/07/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/45088547",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8299231/"
] | Don't be embarrassed! Instead, be proud you are version controlling your code so you keep track of changes and allow for a more maintainable system.
Perhaps, get even more efficient by adding clever commit messages on the way, explaining what version introduces what new feature or fix. | This is how you can delete a git commit. Using the command line.( you can simply run git reset --hard HEAD^ If you are removing multiple commits from the top, you can run git reset --hard HEAD~2) |
70,831 | I'm trying to make a cylinder with one end beveled and the other end sharp edged, like a bullet shape. But whatever I do blender alway bevels both ends. I tried creating a vertex group with all the edges around one end, no dice, blender still bevels the other end. | 2017/01/08 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/70831",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/34398/"
] | Using vertex groups should work. First select the top edges and add a vertex group, then click on "Assign". Then in the "Bevel" modifier set the "Limit Method" to "Vertex Group" and then select the vertex group you created.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c85mF.gif) | 1. Edit mode.
2. Edge.
3. Alt select (loop).
4. Ctrl B (bevel).
5. Left click.
6. F6 or bottom of tool panel.
.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kOzKK.png) |
25,029,652 | gsutil has a really neat feature called '[rsync](https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/rsync)' that synchronises 2 buckets/directories in GCS. I've searched the [JSON API](https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/) and the [Java Client library](https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/json-api-java-samples) but I can't see anything that supports this type of functionality out-of-the-box.
Does anyone know how to achieve the same functionality of 'rsync' via the Java Client (without actually writing the diff logic between the 2 buckets)? | 2014/07/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/25029652",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2877278/"
] | There is not. gsutil's rsync functionality is implemented using the JSON API, but the JSON API itself does not have any inherent support for syncing between buckets or directories. You could certainly implement syncing in the same manner, or you could call out to gsutil itself, but those are pretty much your main two choices. | The official tool now has RSYNC as of May, 2014 details can be found here:
<http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-new-and-improved-gsutil-now-with-rsync.html>
gsutil rsync : The rsync command automates the synchronization of a local file system directory with the contents of a Google Cloud Storage bucket, or across cloud storage buckets or providers. |
2,038 | I am new here and very interested in computer networks. From a book, I have some questions, for which I need help.
**question1**: Can there be only one working DHCP server in one VLAN?
**question2**: Can there be only one subnet in one VLAN?
I know that a VLAN can have ports which belongs to several different subnets. So, why can't a VLAN have more than one DHCP server and more than one subnet? | 2013/06/24 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2038",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1837/"
] | Assuming the servers can ping each other:
* You need to check that the Optimization Service is enabled globally and for your inpath interface otherwise the Riverbed will not interact with network traffic at all.
* As soon as Optimization is enabled you can check under "Reports / Connected Appliances" if the Riverbeds can see each other. | I know in my environment the use of crossover cables is necessary for optimization between router and simulator in this case. |
207,468 | I would like to enable 3D in Ubuntu 12.04.
I recently tried to install ubuntu on a new computer. When the installation was complete and I rebooted the machine, I could only see a blank screen.
After some searching, I followed [this tutorial](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132) which instructed me to boot with "nomodeset" enabled. I choose this on the USB I was installing ubuntu 12.04 from.
Fortunately, the ubuntu installation on the new computer was successful. When I tried to change the size of the unity launcher icons, I did not see that option (as I see on my other computer running ubuntu 12.04).
I tried installing MyUnity and it told me that the computer I had just installed 12.04 to was running in 2D.
To my knowledge. all the software is up to date (as I ran the Software Updater). In addition, when I look for Additional Drivers, I see a message that says "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system".
When I look under System Details > Graphics, I see the Driver as "VESA:Intel Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics.
When I hold the shift key on when my machine boots up, and type "e" on the Grub menu, I see the following towards the end, "nomodeset quiet splash $vt\_handoff".
Does this have anything to do with the plain 2D ubuntu 12.04 experience? Again, what I'd like to do now is get the 3D experience on my new machine running 12.04.
Please let me know if you need more information. | 2012/10/28 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/207468",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/60869/"
] | I tried updating from 12.04 to 12.10 and it turns out that my hardware does not have 3D support for running the unity environment.
Here is the [**link**](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/UpdateManagerWarningForUnity3D) I was directed to around the Unity 3D issue. | One more update. I went through the other kernel boot options **[in the same post](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132)**, however, this time, I choose acpi=off (when I reinstalled ubuntu 12.04), and this time Unity 3D successfully launched. |
158,705 | I am using a random forest for a 2 class classification problem. But eventually using probability of class "1" returned by the model for my task and not the label. I get AUC of about 70%
Then I compare the probability with the real world value and measure the difference (residual). Then I build a regression random forest model to predict the residual given the same features! This seems to be a weird idea but I tried it. Then I correct the probabilities returned by the first model with the output of the 2nd model and this improved performance in the "test set" Significantly! The 2nd model explains 85% of the variability.
What does this mean? Why is the first model not accurate enough? Even those the same features are used in the 2nd model, it improves performance.
Somehow, the model the predict the residual of the classification model has a higher performance compared to the classification model itself. And both models use the same features. | 2015/06/25 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/158705",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/52410/"
] | It means you're over-fitting the training data without assessing the generalization error using e.g. cross-validation.
You can avoid using cross validation when using random forests because of the way it estimates the out-of-bag (OOB) error as it goes. However, once you use those OOB prediction residuals as the inputs to the second random forest model in your pipeline this is no longer true. In order to get an estimate of the generalization error you need to think about this two stage process as components of a new model that needs to be assessed via cross validation. Build your model on a training sample then assess its accuracy on a test set and I guarantee your results will not look as good.
Another way to look at this is see what happens is instead of stopping at 2 random forest models you now built a third model to predict the residuals of the second. You'll get an even better result. Chain enough of these together and you'll predict the test set perfectly. | What you did is very smart.
While both models have the same features as input, they don't have
the same target values.
One possible explanation (just a wild guess):
Maybe, your second model is able to learn about the sparse and dense
regions of your data-set.
In sparse regions, predictions are inaccurate; while in dense regions they are good.
Just for fun, you should try to push further your edge:
train a third model on the output of your second model, to see if you
can correct the output of the second model.
If that still improves performance, build a fourth model, etc.
Then, tell us how many models allow to have a significant performance improvement.
I guess, a total of three models could work.
I trust you to test the performance on a test set, i.e. a data-set that was never used during training of any model. |
1,094,940 | All of my office products popup error messages frequently saying "The background task activation is spurious" and I have to click out of it and it is annoying.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/riWHA.png)
[The Microsoft help page for this problem](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3097938) is audacious enough to list the "Work Around" as 'clicking the ok button.'
Has anyone else encountered this and found an actual solution?
Edit: This is Office 2016 | 2016/06/29 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1094940",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180213/"
] | In Outlook, go to File Tab, Office Account and Sign out. This was enough to solve my problem. I hope it works for you | In Excel (or other Office app), go to the File tab and click account;
Below the user information, click Exit and then enter again.
This was enough to solve my problem.
I hope it works for you. |
228,892 | I just moved into a house with a gas fired forced-air furnace. Whenever I'm in the basement and the furnace is running I can hear a whistling noise coming from the mechanical room. I traced this sound to a hot air outlet mounted directly onto the supply duct coming out of the top of the furnace.
If I put some tape over the outlet the whistling stops and the furnace runs fine. There is a fair amount of air coming out of this outlet and given that the mechanical room is in the centre of the house I don't think it needs to be heated. The only other theory I have for why the mechanical room needs air supplied to it is to provide air for combustion however the room already has a 5" duct coming directly from the side of the house for this purpose.
Can I permanently cover this outlet? | 2021/07/11 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/228892",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/134772/"
] | Based on experience it is quite likely that grill is unnecessary, however your local HVAC guy can check if there's any valid functional or code related reason to have it there. Having a large difference between duct restriction to different grills or improperly sized pipes can cause significant imbalance in air delivery between grills, and if it's tapped on to the main duct, it effectively has 0 duct length where as all your other grills are likely fed by 10 or 20 feet of 4-6" duct off the main. This can effectively waste a ton of your air movement capability per energy spent, making your blower motor work harder or longer than necessary in order to deliver heat to the extremities. within reason, this can be compensated by adjustable grills.
I think it's extremely unlikely that a professional would install a unit with a blower so overpowered that it required an extra vent as a massive static pressure relief. | If there is whistling then it tells you the ducts are too small ie the air is travelling too fast.
Solution provide larger ducts.
Possible way to kill yourself or others is to block existing ducts. |
228,892 | I just moved into a house with a gas fired forced-air furnace. Whenever I'm in the basement and the furnace is running I can hear a whistling noise coming from the mechanical room. I traced this sound to a hot air outlet mounted directly onto the supply duct coming out of the top of the furnace.
If I put some tape over the outlet the whistling stops and the furnace runs fine. There is a fair amount of air coming out of this outlet and given that the mechanical room is in the centre of the house I don't think it needs to be heated. The only other theory I have for why the mechanical room needs air supplied to it is to provide air for combustion however the room already has a 5" duct coming directly from the side of the house for this purpose.
Can I permanently cover this outlet? | 2021/07/11 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/228892",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/134772/"
] | Based on experience it is quite likely that grill is unnecessary, however your local HVAC guy can check if there's any valid functional or code related reason to have it there. Having a large difference between duct restriction to different grills or improperly sized pipes can cause significant imbalance in air delivery between grills, and if it's tapped on to the main duct, it effectively has 0 duct length where as all your other grills are likely fed by 10 or 20 feet of 4-6" duct off the main. This can effectively waste a ton of your air movement capability per energy spent, making your blower motor work harder or longer than necessary in order to deliver heat to the extremities. within reason, this can be compensated by adjustable grills.
I think it's extremely unlikely that a professional would install a unit with a blower so overpowered that it required an extra vent as a massive static pressure relief. | The register doesn't have an adjustable damper? Then I think it's called a grill.
Perhaps it's there to provide an 'outlet' if someone in the house shuts off the majority of the registers. With the extra register, the blower won't work too hard and eventually burn out. |
24,054,403 | In this link he mentioned the situtation that there is no need to write a permission in Manifest.xml to take photos from your gallery.
He wrote it in: 3/01/12
<http://gizmodo.com/5889742/android-apps-can-also-steal-your-photo-library>
Is this situation still the same? Can an app that I downloaded from Google Play Store steal my photos without any permission? | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/24054403",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3663680/"
] | In excel 2010 click on the "Data Ribbon". Select the "From Text". Choose you file and click through the text import wizard using settings you'd like. Finally on the "import data" windows click "properties...".
This is the key. Uncheck "Save Query Definition". Click "OK" to accept and then "ok" again on the import data window to import. To check that you didn't make a connection, or delete one that was accidently made, check the "connections" button under the "Data Ribbon". It's a tiny button next to the larger "Refresh All" button. | You can open a CSV file with "File -> Open" menu in excel. That doesn't open a data connection to CSV. |
24,054,403 | In this link he mentioned the situtation that there is no need to write a permission in Manifest.xml to take photos from your gallery.
He wrote it in: 3/01/12
<http://gizmodo.com/5889742/android-apps-can-also-steal-your-photo-library>
Is this situation still the same? Can an app that I downloaded from Google Play Store steal my photos without any permission? | 2014/06/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/24054403",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3663680/"
] | On Excel 2016 and 365, you just have to delete the connection once your import is completed. This will remove the refreshable possibilities, but not the data.
I find it simpler than doing copy-paste even if it is not a one-click operation.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4es1V.png) | You can open a CSV file with "File -> Open" menu in excel. That doesn't open a data connection to CSV. |
159,413 | I am Ph.D. candidate, and my advisor got his tenure about 9 months ago and called me on zoom and said no one could fire him anymore, and that was the last time we talked. Since then, he has completely ignored me as his only Ph.D. student. He does not read or comment on my papers(2 paper drafts were sent five months ago). My results get continuously beaten, and I have to make changes to keep my papers state-of-the-art constantly. He refuses to set up a zoom meeting since no one is going to school; that is the only way to meet him. He was active with fundings, papers, and proposals before he got tenure. He responds to my emails with irrelevant suggestions, or he says he will read my papers sometime next week(he expects 2-3 papers to graduate me). He is not supporting me financially anymore since his fundings are over, and I pay for my Ph.D. from pocket. School officials can not do anything, and changing my advisor after four years of hard work will result in a complete reboot. I'm an international student and can not just quit. My goal is to get my OPT and a job. It looks impossible to graduate with this advisor... What would be the best option to do in this situation. | 2020/11/29 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/159413",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/132197/"
] | I'm really sorry to hear about this situation.
>
> School officials can not do anything, and changing my advisor after four years of hard work will result in a complete reboot.
>
>
>
This surprises me. Every university differs, but in general you should bring these sorts of issues to your Associate Chair/Director, etc. of Graduate Studies in your department. If they aren't able to mediate with you and your supervisor, or aren't willing to, in most universities that I'm familiar with you should escalate your complaint. Perhaps you have an Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, or if there is a Faculty of Graduate Studies, there is somebody that you can consult there.
Barring this, you should seek advice from either your graduate students association. There may be informal avenues of support that you can pursue.
Most universities have policies around the change of supervisor, as this happens more commonly than you may think. | This is of course atrocious. I can show you a list as long as my arm of former PhD students who will all sing my praises in the "always being there for them" department. So I have a right to state what I think of such a supervisor. But I won't, as it is just a string of very bad words.
Now, a good PhD student should actually be able to produce a top-notch thesis with literally zero input from their supervisor. However, not all PhD students are *that* good (why it would seem that *most* of them aren't) and supervisors do have a duty of care toward their students.
Your department may have procedures that allow for a "no fault" ("least said soonest mended") supervisor switch. Discuss this option with the departmental senior academic tutor.
A kind word of warning: you are unlikely to get your own back with this supervisor. In the fullness of time "the system" will have its own way of dealing with this sort of attitude, but this will only happen many years after you have left the department. So please stop expending any further thoughts or emotional energy on this \*\*\*\* right NOW. |
115,018 | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBVWZ.png)
It starts Italian but it is not. What is the missing color?
**Improving puzzle thanks to @will's answer**
Why is Orange the missing color? | 2022/02/21 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/115018",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/51928/"
] | These are
>
> racing flags, so we’re missing black. Note that the question asks for the missing color not the missing flag, so the checkered flag is covered by black and white. The “move over” flag (blue with yellow stripe) is also covered by blue and yellow. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kDoOt.png) (Image from here: <https://www.parkerflags.com/product/auto-racing-flag-set-without-poles/>)
>
>
>
>
> “Starts Italian” is referring to the first three colors matching the italian flag but also to the history of Italy in racing.
>
>
>
Alternative partial answer (but not as clean):
>
> they’re countries. Italy is green-white-red. Romanian flag is red—yellow-blue. Ukrainian flag is yellow-blue. Columbia is yellow-blue-red, so the next one in the sequence could be another red. I think there are multiple possible flags that fit the sequence though. And I know a couple of those color sets are backwards but suppose the wind is blowing right to left.
>
>
>
I thought of another one! This is also not as clean as the first one, but it satisfies the new requirement for orange to be one of the colors. These are:
>
> standard colors for marking existing utilities prior to excavation. Green = Sewer, White = Excavation Limits, Red = Electric, Yellow = Gas, Blue = Water, Orange = Communications. This excludes survey (pink) because that's not part of the utility marking, and it excludes irrigation (purple) because the utility companies don't mark private lines.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ca3Te.png)
>
>
> | Three primary colors, a secondary color, and a missing color.
If the Green is any indication to the missing color, then the missing color is either orange OR purple.
While the original post edits the answer to be Orange, my argument for Purple is:
We have three primary and secondary colors. In Primary, there is Cool and Warm colors. While Blue is the Cool color, and Yellow is a Warm color, Red can technically fall between the two, but generally leans Warm. If you mix colors to get Orange, you are getting a more Warmer color than you would if you mixed Violet/Purple.
The Green mix is equal parts Warm and Cool.
The Orange would be one parts Warm to one parts Warm/Cool, giving you a slightly warmer color.
If you mixed Violet; which would be one parts Cool to one parts Warm, the color band would be a little more balanced. Neutral, Neutral, Warm, Warm, Cool.
Why the color could be Orange: (I will now bite my nose off to spite my face)
Every color vibrates at a certain frequency.
Orange at around ~610nm.
Violet at near ~380nm.
(nm = nanometer, one billionth of a meter(if you can fathom such a measurement)
Using Red as our visual fulcrum, at ~740nm, the Yellow(~585nm), and Blue (~445nm) are emanating ~1030nm.
The Green (~520nm) is a nice mid-range wavelength to start with on the left side of our Red.
If we make our missing color Orange (~610nm) our left side sits at ~1130nm (~100nm higher)
versus
Violet as our missing color(~380) making the left side ~900nm, (~130nm lower)
The numbers used to represent each colors' wavelength were obviously pushed so that the numbers made sense in the end (a balanced ledger of light, versus an unbalanced one) but the numbers used ARE within the limits of each color's possible wavelength output. (shades of blue can range from as low as 420nm to as high as 460nm before becoming a different color that we can perceive with our current eye. So my choice of 445nm works.) (visually speaking, also, the color portrayed on screen is near that wavelength as well)
I guess Mathematically speaking, it IS orange, as it balances the sides a bit more evenly.
But in the theory of color, I still consider the answer to be purple/violet. |
185,689 | I'm planning to mount acrylic shelves in front of a window. The shelves will be 10" deep and 39" long. I will be using brackets on both ends that run the full depth of the shelves. There will be no center support. I'd like to put about 20-30 lbs of plants on the shelves. What thickness does the acrylic need to be to avoid sagging and other structural problems? Would .5" thick acrylic work? .75" thick. The cost gets prohibitive quickly. Also happy to take suggestions of there is a stronger/cheaper plastic material (besides acrylic) that would also work. Thanks in advance. | 2020/02/29 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/185689",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/112895/"
] | Acrylic is not very resistant to bending. It is about 20 times weaker than tempered glass.
0.75 acrylic would be marginal. It would have enough bow to be visible to a sharp eye. And it scratches easily, as Ecnerwal mentioned.
I would recommend 3/8" *tempered* glass. Definitely tempered, much stronger and safer than plain glass.
And be aware that you cannot cut or drill tempered glass, it will shatter. Get the size right the first time.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EFPG6.png)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hxCAq.png) | Have a plastics company bend an edge (or both edges) along the length, it will increase the stiffness greatly. |
7,371 | **What's the story behind your username?**
If you are one of us folks whose username is not your actual name, what is the story behind it?
I'll go first. | 2015/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40294/"
] | Organic marble! It's gluten free, absolutely no BPAs, non allergenic, and crunchy! Contains only trace amounts of uranium! Accept no substitutes for this all natural product! | I can't go through all of the answers yet because I've burned through my votes and I want to be able to do them justice as I read them. But it's a fascinating thread and when my votes kick back in, I'll be back to reading everyone's reasons.
That having been said, my story is simple, if a little mushy. rosesunhill is my newish user name on a lot of sites. My name is Michael Hillel Roseman, I have two sons, so rose-sun-hill, allowing for a little mutation in the middle part. It's easy for me to remember and I've yet to find it taken on a site. I dread that day.
Now I'm thinking of painting a thumbnail that represents the handle. |
7,371 | **What's the story behind your username?**
If you are one of us folks whose username is not your actual name, what is the story behind it?
I'll go first. | 2015/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40294/"
] | Organic marble! It's gluten free, absolutely no BPAs, non allergenic, and crunchy! Contains only trace amounts of uranium! Accept no substitutes for this all natural product! | Back when I had to commute almost two hours to work it felt like I was riding with Zombies and I was becoming one. Thus the commuter became the Zommuter. Yeah, I'm sometimes zynical. Fortunately a friend drew me [a more optimistic avatar](https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12134/769).
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGX0mmmRccM)
Around minute 8:40 of [Shaun of the Dead](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shaun_of_the_dead/).
Fittingly enough, the music playing is [Zombie Nation's Kernkraft 400](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujhj7mfvIQk). |
7,371 | **What's the story behind your username?**
If you are one of us folks whose username is not your actual name, what is the story behind it?
I'll go first. | 2015/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40294/"
] | The first online community I heavily participated in was a Kingdom Hearts forum, and sometime after Kingdom Hearts 2 came out there was a thread where everyone posted their Organization XIII names. For those unfamiliar with the game, the Nobodies in Organization XIII created their names by taking the names they had back when they were human, rearranging the letters and adding an X. So my real life name of "Eric" became "Ixrec".
I quickly realized that this would make a good username as it was fairly short, distinctive and had essentially zero google hits, so I've been using it consistently on every other site and community I've joined since then. | I was playing a retro-futuristic/cyberpunk game. At some point, two Non-Player Characters (NPC) were interacting on a forum with a play of word. I liked the nickname so much that it stuck.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z27eD.png) |
7,371 | **What's the story behind your username?**
If you are one of us folks whose username is not your actual name, what is the story behind it?
I'll go first. | 2015/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40294/"
] | Like the pine trees lining the winding road,
I've got a name, I've got a name;
Like the singing bird and the croaking toad,
I've got a name, I've got a name.
And I carry it with me like my daddy did,
But I'm living the dream that he kept hid...
That's about it. | My user name, TheLethalCarrot, is taken from my [gaming name](http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheLethalCarrot/) used on all new communities I join.
It used to be TheLethalCoder which was an extension from the above as I had originally joined Stack Exchange on Stack Overflow and so wanted to change it a bit to be more appropriate, it still is that on most sites.
However, recently @Edlothiad informed me that there was a charcter in A Song of Ice and Fire called Carrot and so I updated back to the original:
>
> Carrot, you'll have charge of their chests and boxes.
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>
> |
7,371 | **What's the story behind your username?**
If you are one of us folks whose username is not your actual name, what is the story behind it?
I'll go first. | 2015/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40294/"
] | You might want to take a cup of coffee and sit down for this.
Well, it all started in 2007. The world was a much more innocent place, or was I younger and more innocent? Who's to tell?
Anyways, being on volunteer work in Haifa Israel, a bunch of my friends and I started calling each other "Freak", you know, in a cool way.
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> Hey **Freak**, how's it going?
>
> ...
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> Dude, you're such a **Freak**
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> ...
>
> etc.
>
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Now a bunch of the girls I knew started a mini clique of their own called "The Freaks". Being that it was now the most exclusive club, I *had* to be in it (even though I was a guy). But they hesitated, it was really harsh for me, I felt that I was one of the founding members because I had originally in on the "Freak" naming. I had even looked up a Hebrew phrasebook and found the meaning of the word "Freak" which was:
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> **Moozaroot** - פריק
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>
>
I was gutted, how could these girls exclude me in this little, random, meaningless but oh so exclusive club, when I was such a strong impetus of its creation? Yeah, na, I was having none of that.
So I spoke to my "sister" from the clique (who wasn't really my sister but looked exactly like me - weird huh, "freak"-y even, lol), so everyone called us siblings. After a long while we convinced them to let me into this clique (and I even owned my new moniker - "Freak Wannabe").
Now my sister and I started calling each other "Mooz" because it was just shorter and funnier sounding than "Moozaroot".
Since then, I've used Mooz, or a derivative of it, in:
* StackExchange
* Facebook
* Twitter
* Microsoft Live
* ASOIAF account
* And a myriad of online games
+ A few of my younger cousins and friends have taken the 'Mooz' post-fix to their usernames too. I've sort of got a mini clan going, tee hee.
And there you have it, a small narrative titled "Mooz".
so, the next time I act like a "freak", you will know that it's because I *am*.
---
**Why 'Möoz'?**
The '[umlaut mark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96)' doesn't actually mean anything to me, it just looks cool AF! | I've used Marakai for... it must be decades now. Heard it yoiks ago, when a tour guide gave it as the name of a huuuuuge saltwater croc up on the Catherine River in the Northern Territory. You can see why I thought it'd be a cool name. :D It's apparently a Melanesian/Micronesian word - not Aboriginal or of the people of Arnhem Land. Sounds good, though.
No, my profile age isn't real either. As Aragorn said "I'm older than I look." |
7,371 | **What's the story behind your username?**
If you are one of us folks whose username is not your actual name, what is the story behind it?
I'll go first. | 2015/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40294/"
] | Way back when, when xbox live was first becoming a thing. Me and my older brother wanted to play online. We spent the night setting up the router and such (Old model even for 2005-7 or whenever it was) so we didn't actually get online that night. I go to school the next day and just come home to him playing online on some random named account and i ask why it isn't with my account.
It was my account but my name was taken and so he decided in his infinite wisdom to random name generate a new account name for me. Needless to say I wasn't happen but it has long since grown on me and spread to every corner of my internet ID. Crazy. It's actually really good considering how unique it is, it has only ever previously existed once. Stupid twitter.
Also I'm apparently some fruit with a seed in the center or something, who knew! | My real name, Stefano, has Greek origins and means "crown".
Sekhemty is the name of the ancient Egyptian double crown; I always had an interest in history, ancient and medieval in particular, and I chose an username that reflected these two things.
I used this nickname on the Internet since, well, always.
It is often misspelled as Sekh*empty*, a somewhat annoying accusation of being a hollow person. |
7,371 | **What's the story behind your username?**
If you are one of us folks whose username is not your actual name, what is the story behind it?
I'll go first. | 2015/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40294/"
] | From the English nursery rhyme.
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> Jack be nimble,
>
> Jack be quick,
>
> Jack jump over
>
> The candlestick.
>
>
>
I made the decision to abbreviate my middle name. | When I was a kid, I use to write video game guides, and I was pretty good. When I started playing World of Warcraft, I wanted a more universal name to use for everything, especially my contributions to Wowhead.
My main character was a Warlock, and I specialised in Gnome Engineering. My creative mind came up with GNome ENgineer warLOCK, but Gnemlock just sounded a lot better.
I pretty much use this name, everywhere, now. |
7,371 | **What's the story behind your username?**
If you are one of us folks whose username is not your actual name, what is the story behind it?
I'll go first. | 2015/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40294/"
] | I wanted to promote an [Area 51](http://area51.stackexchange.com) initiative I created about wikis, first called *"Wikis and Wikipedia"* and then "*Wikispeedia"*. We weren't getting enough people interested so I changed my user name to *"Wikis at Area 51"*, an initiative which delivered zero impact.
When our Area 51 proposal died, I shortened it. I might change it again; searching for *"Wikis"* (eg in [Mos Eisley](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley) or even [here on meta](https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=Wikis)) is pretty hopeless: most of the time people are talking about Wikipedia. :) | My name is Niffler. You want to know why? Well it's because they're so darn cute!
If that isn't adorable I don't know what kind of ~~person~~ creature you are. |
7,371 | **What's the story behind your username?**
If you are one of us folks whose username is not your actual name, what is the story behind it?
I'll go first. | 2015/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40294/"
] | Scooby-Doo → Scooby → skooby → SQB | My username is "Stormblessed", from the name people in his squad called Kaladin in *The Way of Kings*, "Kaladin Stormblessed". Goes with my avatar because he is forced to fight in the same war as House Kholinar’s troops and (*The Way of Kings* major spoilers)
>
> joins them, eventually
>
>
> |
3,516,346 | I have a stored procedure that returns a rowset that I'd like to pass into a CLR stored procedure to do some advanced calculations.
How would I set this up? Take the input? Iterate the rowset within the CLR procedure? | 2010/08/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3516346",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/335036/"
] | The best would be to have the CLR procedure execute the stored procedure itself, with an ordinary SqlCommand and iterate over the result as an ordinary SqlDataReader. This is the best way, since you avoid the extra copy of the result. | Another option would be to set up a [SQLCLR Aggregate function](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/91e6taax(v=VS.100).aspx). Depending on the structure of your formula, this might be a more natural syntax. |
73,236 | I am 28 years old and did my PhD last year at an applied math institute and left. However, I am still in good contact with my old working group and my PhD adviser told me I should come back.
At the moment I am a self-employed programmer. Although I really like my current job, I sometimes wonder if I should give the academic career another try. The main reason why I left was that I did not feel integrated in research society.
To be more precise, most articles I read where between 1950-1960. Most of my focus area are was out of scope from my adviser (he is an expert in numerical optimization, I was doing measure theory and Markov operator theory combined with numerical optimization). I had a lot of fun to modernize old theorems and try to apply them to numeric problems. Although I enjoyed the freedom of doing research on my own, I often was wondering if the results that I found are already known. My advisor was often surprised about my fundamental results, but he could not tell me if they are actual new. In fact, after searching persistent for one of my main theorems, I found it in a booklet from 1960 written with a typewriter - with a much shorter and genial proof. Although most of my other theorems have been peer-reviewed and published in B journals, I am still waiting for someone contacting me: "Hello, your result X in journal Y is known for a long time".
The author of this typewritten book is actually still alive (85 years old), on facebook and on top of that even accepted my friend-request. However, lives in New York and I live in Germany, so I can't easily visit for a short talk. I did send a text message, but never received a reply, I am not sure if it was because they do not want to talk about math anymore or if they just did not receive it, because facebook sometimes hides messages.
I was searching the web for professors doing similar research to what I am interested (by entering some keywords together with university into google). However, when I scanned their recent publications, I had no idea what they are doing.
I think I might missed the opportunity to connect to other working groups. I love teaching and doing research, but I also hate doing isolated research and having no defined task.
Is there any specific way of finding people who do similar research that I am not aware of? | 2016/07/25 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/73236",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/21266/"
] | MathSciNet is a pretty powerful tool for finding things in math, and some parts of applied math (from the question, I think it cover your areas). (There's also Zentralblatt--I'm less familiar with that, but I think MSN will have more relevant tools for you.) See about getting access to that as a guest at a local university.
Then here are some things you can do:
1. Starting with papers you know that are close to your area, look them up in MathSciNet and look at the papers citing them or citing their reviews (of course you can do the first with Google scholar also, for papers that are available online). Read the reviews to see if they are of interest. For the ones that look interesting, repeat. You can similarly look up all publications by a given author.
2. You can also search in MathSciNet by [Math. Subject Classification](http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/msc/) codes to look for papers in certain subareas of applied math.
3. Without MathSciNet access, you can search for things on the arXiv or Google Scholar with keywords/authors/etc. I guess this is what you have been doing. Note, unlike Google Scholar, arXiv has subject classifications and anyone can read any paper listed there.
4. The subject has probably advanced a lot in 50-60 years, so it's may not be strange if most of the stuff going on now doesn't seem (at least on the surface) too close to the papers you were reading from the '50s and '60s. So you might try looking for and reading some survey papers/lecture notes/textbooks to get a better sense of the area first.
5. If possible, try going to some conferences/local seminars and talking to people. | Your search for researchers on given topics is very similar to a literature search. May I suggest you identify the authors of related papers? There is a [question tag on this site](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/literature-review) covering such issues. |
38,183 | I created one software which written in c#.net and when i created setup file .exe file will be the output but in this .exe file is ex tractable by some software and easy to access the codes.How to prevent this? | 2013/06/29 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/38183",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/27772/"
] | No matter what you do, no matter what you use, somebody will be able to extract/infer the source code of your application from the binary. There's just no way around it. In the worst case they can run the application through a debugger and with assembly knowledge it could be possible to infer the source code.
Having that said, there *are* many good obfuscatory for .Net. They make it a bit more difficult to extract the source code from the binary. [Here's a list of some of them on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obfuscators_for_.NET). | You could run your project through an obsfucator tool like [Eazfuscator.NET](http://www.gapotchenko.com/eazfuscator.net).
This should make it a lot more difficult to recover the original source code given the .NET binary file. Of course, this is not 100% foolproof. With enough time and effort, an attacker would probably have a high chance of deobsfucating the binary file. |
117,224 | Are there any existing research on what types of environmental factors impact on mobile device design that gives some strategies or information on how to make design decisions based on mobile device usage in uncontrolled environmental conditions?
A common example is the implementation of dark & light themes introduced to mobile application interfaces to cater for strong light conditions (e.g. full sunlight) or dim light (e.g. night time). Another example might be the use of mobile devices in very cold or dusty conditions (and how it affects touchscreen sensitivity).
Even just a general summary of environmental factors in outdoor environments that impact on user interface design would be a good starting point. | 2018/04/10 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/117224",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/27659/"
] | First of all, you should really consider the context of use as a whole when designing. In addition to physical properties, context has human factor and temporal dimensions.
For my (yet unreleased) master's thesis I did research on how context affects on usability, especially on how architectural space affects usability. There were some existing research on the subject.
In general about computing in context and context-awareness, there are [Abowd et al.'s Towards a better understanding of context and context-awareness](https://link.springer.com/10.1007/3-540-48157-5_29) ([PDF](https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/3389/99-22.pdf;)) and [Schmidt's Ubiquitous Computing – Computing in Context](http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/12221/1/Albrecht_Schmidt_PhD-Thesis_Ubiquitous-Computing_print1.pdf).
Kim et al have studied how visual and auditory distractions affect on discovering usability problems.
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> First, people do not use Mobile Internet evenly in every possible context . Instead, their usage is heavily clustered around a few critical contexts, such as when they are not moving with only one hand available. Second, the type of goals that people have in their mind, the availability of hands, the movement of legs, and the level of auditory distraction have a significant impact on the usage of Mobile Internet. Finally, different usability problems are experienced more often according to different use contexts. Especially, availability of hands, movement of legs and the number of people around the user are found to have significant impacts on the kinds of usability problems.
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[Kim et al: An empirical study of the use contexts and usability problems in mobile Internet.](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/994090/) ([PDF](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98.7561&rep=rep1&type=pdf))
Barnard et al studied how amount of lighting among other things affects on task completion.
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> This indicates that changes in lighting affected users in a fundamentally different manner than changes in motion. Apparently, lighting affected users in a slightly more superficial way, leading to decreased reading efficiency (noted by more instances of scrolling) and response selection speed, but not accuracy. It is important to note that all noteworthy differences were significant and not highly significant, indicating that the changes in motion are able to influence user behavior in a more dramatic way than changes in lighting.
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[Barnard et al: Capturing the effects of context on human performance in mobile computing systems](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00779-006-0063-x) ([PDF](http://gtubicomp2015grad.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/94784696/Capturing%20the%20effects%20of%20context%20on%20human%20performance%20in%20mobile%20computing%20systems.pdf))
Tsiaousis and Giaglis have evaluated environmental effects on usability.
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> The analysis showed that the most significant effect is that of visual motion (p =.001) whereas sound variance displayed the least significant effect. The effects of luminosity (p =.023) and sound semantics (p =.009) were also found to have a direct effect on usability.
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[Tsiaousis and Giaglis: Evaluating the effects of the environmental context-of-use on mobile website usability.](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4570191/) | I am not sure but I think this might be of some help a few years back i watched this video from cta conference and he has a slide for environment factors i think like considering a situation when people are accessing an app while waiting at a subway or standing in a train.
Here are some links -<https://calltoactionconference.unbounce.com/speakers/2015-timash/>
<https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/sotirios.terzis/classes/52.504/2010/GuidelinesGongTarase.pdf> |
100,472 | We have a DELL laptop running Windows XP.
When I try and start it, the screen is blank.
When I try it in diagnostic mode the screen works fine. I have ran the diagnostics, including testing the harddisk no errors. Have also connected an external screen with the same result.
Have tried to start it in safe mode with the same result.
I am wondering if it could be due to the harddisk being full? If this could be causing the problem, how can I delete files to get it to start.
Anybody have any idea what it could be?
**EDIT**
I have now tried taking out the HD and mounting it in an external case and accessing it, the disk worked ok and it was not full. | 2010/01/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/100472",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/8690/"
] | My guess (and it is a guess) would be a bad graphics card or video driver. I'm assuming that since you said you tried it in safe mode, you can get to the point that you can select the boot type. To verify this, try using a Linux Live boot disk. If you can boot into Linux, it's the drver, otherwise it's likely the card. | The HDD may be problematic - I had a similar issue last week and had to replace the drive.
Have you tried booting from a bootable CD or DVD? Such as a Windows disk or a Linux live CD? Being able to do that would suggest that the problem is indeed the HDD.
Edit: you mention the diagnostic mode. Are you able to get into the system's BIOS? If so, is the HDD listed there? |
100,472 | We have a DELL laptop running Windows XP.
When I try and start it, the screen is blank.
When I try it in diagnostic mode the screen works fine. I have ran the diagnostics, including testing the harddisk no errors. Have also connected an external screen with the same result.
Have tried to start it in safe mode with the same result.
I am wondering if it could be due to the harddisk being full? If this could be causing the problem, how can I delete files to get it to start.
Anybody have any idea what it could be?
**EDIT**
I have now tried taking out the HD and mounting it in an external case and accessing it, the disk worked ok and it was not full. | 2010/01/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/100472",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/8690/"
] | My guess (and it is a guess) would be a bad graphics card or video driver. I'm assuming that since you said you tried it in safe mode, you can get to the point that you can select the boot type. To verify this, try using a Linux Live boot disk. If you can boot into Linux, it's the drver, otherwise it's likely the card. | Does it work if you connect it to an external monitor? Normally I have said it was an issue with your video driver, but in safe mode you should get a vanilla VGA display no matter what your settings. The fact you can get the set up and diagnostics indicates screen does work. Have you checked to see if there is any video set up info in your CMOS settings? |
3,523,083 | When we try to save msword doc file as html file we get "wmz" files for the math equation objects.
I tried decompressing the wmz file and saving the content as jpg.
I can open this jpg file in the "Microsoft Picture manager" properly. But trying to open the file in browser displays the error message "The image cannot be displayed, because it contain errors".
What is the procedure to decompress this wmz file and convert it to jpg.
What will be the extension of decompressed file? | 2010/08/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3523083",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/210297/"
] | When you save your Word documents as "Web Page, filtered" you won't get these WMZ files but just PNG files.
Set the "Web Options" to target to a low version of IE (i.e. 4.0) and check "allow PNG files" and "disable features not supported by these browsers".
Added advantage is that the webpage will display better in different browsers.
However, you should do all of this after you first make a copy of your document (and associated files) using Explorer into another location. Open this copy with Word and then Save as "Web Page, filtered". The original you keep for editing. (Don't save the original as a "web page, filtered" or you will loose the ability to edit the equation objects). | .WMZ seems to be a zipped .[WMF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile) file.
You can open the unzipped file with a picture view/editor (just tried IrfanView) and save as .jpg. |
3,523,083 | When we try to save msword doc file as html file we get "wmz" files for the math equation objects.
I tried decompressing the wmz file and saving the content as jpg.
I can open this jpg file in the "Microsoft Picture manager" properly. But trying to open the file in browser displays the error message "The image cannot be displayed, because it contain errors".
What is the procedure to decompress this wmz file and convert it to jpg.
What will be the extension of decompressed file? | 2010/08/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3523083",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/210297/"
] | When you save your Word documents as "Web Page, filtered" you won't get these WMZ files but just PNG files.
Set the "Web Options" to target to a low version of IE (i.e. 4.0) and check "allow PNG files" and "disable features not supported by these browsers".
Added advantage is that the webpage will display better in different browsers.
However, you should do all of this after you first make a copy of your document (and associated files) using Explorer into another location. Open this copy with Word and then Save as "Web Page, filtered". The original you keep for editing. (Don't save the original as a "web page, filtered" or you will loose the ability to edit the equation objects). | Thanks for the help.
Finally i could not remove the black background from the image file.
So using the round about approach for now
1)Decompress the wmz file to byte array(wmf).
2)Open a new word document
3)Paste the byte array into word document.(this document should only contain this data, and no other extra information)
4)Save the doc as html file (WdSaveFormat.wdFormatFilteredHTML)
5)open the "\_files" directory created for the html output
6)Find the only "gif" file created inside the directory |
3,523,083 | When we try to save msword doc file as html file we get "wmz" files for the math equation objects.
I tried decompressing the wmz file and saving the content as jpg.
I can open this jpg file in the "Microsoft Picture manager" properly. But trying to open the file in browser displays the error message "The image cannot be displayed, because it contain errors".
What is the procedure to decompress this wmz file and convert it to jpg.
What will be the extension of decompressed file? | 2010/08/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3523083",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/210297/"
] | .WMZ seems to be a zipped .[WMF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile) file.
You can open the unzipped file with a picture view/editor (just tried IrfanView) and save as .jpg. | Thanks for the help.
Finally i could not remove the black background from the image file.
So using the round about approach for now
1)Decompress the wmz file to byte array(wmf).
2)Open a new word document
3)Paste the byte array into word document.(this document should only contain this data, and no other extra information)
4)Save the doc as html file (WdSaveFormat.wdFormatFilteredHTML)
5)open the "\_files" directory created for the html output
6)Find the only "gif" file created inside the directory |
8,581 | What is the difference between: a fund manager, a portfolio manager and a trader? | 2011/05/23 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/8581",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/2991/"
] | In most companies, a fund and a portfolio mean the same thing; therefore a fund manager and portfolio manager are the same role.
The difference between a portfolio manager and a trader (where exists) is as follows:
* Portfolio manager's job is to decide on the best contents (holdings) in the portfolio that would accomplish the portfolio's stated objective within stated constraints (e.g. make the best possible return while keeping the risk under a specified level).
* Trader's job **at a buy-side** institution is to basically execute the trades necessary to change the portfolio holdings from their current state to whatever state portfolio managers decided to achieve.
***As a matter of fact, at some smaller buy-side firms (especially fixed income), there ARE no separate trader positions, and portfolio managers do both jobs.***
A trader's job is to execute the required trades so that the transaction costs are minimized and the PnL is maximized by buying as low as possible and selling as high as possible (e.g. for a simple example dumping a large chunk of a certain stock all at once would depress the stock price so you would make less money as your average sell price goes down).
* Trader's job **at a sell-side** institution is more involved, as the trader is also responsible for making money for the firm via his trades, e.g. he may trade securities specifically for the purpose of making the money off the trade as opposed to the purpose of achieving desired portfolio composition. | I have always been trader, prop trader and/or market maker in various options and derivatives markets. I have managed my own portfolio with a P&L target under Var & stop loss constraint. But I never called my self PM.
The only difference I will see between PM and Trader like I am is that a PM seems not to be executing his own orders on the markets.
The role of the broker is to execute orders and advise their clients. I'd like to know more in detail the difference between a trader and a PM myself. |
208,341 | I'd like to create an ePub book formatted to the iPhone's screen specs. Can you point me to resources??
Note that CALIBRE doesn't have iPhone resolution presets and does a straight convert. I'd like to be able to mark up and work out formatting issues. | 2010/11/08 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/208341",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/47548/"
] | Check out [Calibre](http://calibre-ebook.com/). It allows you to convert to ePub from a wide range of formats.
See the full list of supported formats [here](http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/faq.html#what-formats-does-app-support-conversion-to-from). | EPub files shouldn't need re-formatting for anything. The whole aim of the standard is that the content is "reflowable" meaning that it can be re-formatted to suit the device displaying it.
In short, content (supplied by the ePub) is separated from the format (determined by the reader on the device).
If you want better control over what is displayed (you have something that needs specific formatting, such as a technical manual), convert to a less flexible format, like PDF. |
208,341 | I'd like to create an ePub book formatted to the iPhone's screen specs. Can you point me to resources??
Note that CALIBRE doesn't have iPhone resolution presets and does a straight convert. I'd like to be able to mark up and work out formatting issues. | 2010/11/08 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/208341",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/47548/"
] | Check out [Calibre](http://calibre-ebook.com/). It allows you to convert to ePub from a wide range of formats.
See the full list of supported formats [here](http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/faq.html#what-formats-does-app-support-conversion-to-from). | if you are working on a Mac, Apple's own software Pages which is part of the iLife suite can export to ePub now. |
208,341 | I'd like to create an ePub book formatted to the iPhone's screen specs. Can you point me to resources??
Note that CALIBRE doesn't have iPhone resolution presets and does a straight convert. I'd like to be able to mark up and work out formatting issues. | 2010/11/08 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/208341",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/47548/"
] | EPub files shouldn't need re-formatting for anything. The whole aim of the standard is that the content is "reflowable" meaning that it can be re-formatted to suit the device displaying it.
In short, content (supplied by the ePub) is separated from the format (determined by the reader on the device).
If you want better control over what is displayed (you have something that needs specific formatting, such as a technical manual), convert to a less flexible format, like PDF. | if you are working on a Mac, Apple's own software Pages which is part of the iLife suite can export to ePub now. |
3,591,971 | I finding a php template engine allow user defined function only or it allow white-list functions only. My problem is I will let my user edit their templates. So I need a safe template engine. | 2010/08/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3591971",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/44533/"
] | The twig project ( <http://www.twig-project.org/> ) has a sandbox mode. | Rain implements the sandbox with black\_list, if you ask they might add the white list as well
<http://www.raintpl.com/> |
3,591,971 | I finding a php template engine allow user defined function only or it allow white-list functions only. My problem is I will let my user edit their templates. So I need a safe template engine. | 2010/08/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3591971",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/44533/"
] | The twig project ( <http://www.twig-project.org/> ) has a sandbox mode. | If you just need conditions(if), loops(for) and filters maybe my minimal Text-Template class could do the job: <https://github.com/dermatthes/text-template>
It's pure regular expressions without the need for filesystem access nor eval()'d code. So it should be quite secure. And it'll parse 50kB of template within <3ms. |
16,855 | Using the current discussion regarding the Johnson Act as an example *(unless there are more relevant examples)*:
Can the Executive branch instruct an administrative agency to not enforce or ignore a law that was enacted by Congress?
>
> The Johnson amendment is part of the tax code, so to remove it would
> take an act of Congress. But President Trump can direct the IRS not to enforce that portion of the law, Herzig said. “Yes, technically, the only way to get rid of the Johnson Amendment is to have Congress repeal that portion of
> 501(c)3. It doesn’t mean the executive branch doesn’t have tremendous
> power in the ability to decide whether they’re going to enforce the
> Johnson amendment.” *[Trump said he’ll ‘totally destroy’ the Johnson Amendment. What is it and why should people care? - The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/02/02/trump-said-hell-totally-destroy-the-johnson-amendment-what-is-it-and-why-do-people-care/?utm_term=.f23125057ae0)* and *[AP Explains: The fuss over Trump and the Johnson Amendment](https://apnews.com/9a239dae7022473fb0b0b58709504c05)*
>
>
>
If a law is on the books, how can there be discretion in enforcing it?
Is there a difference in federal or state laws that are legislated?
Or in common law statutes? | 2017/02/02 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/16855",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/3025/"
] | He is probably guilty of negligent homicide or involuntary manslaughter, at most (a minor felony), and is possibly not guilty of a crime at all.
The primary distinction between classes of homicide is *mens rea* (i.e. intent).
The only affirmative act he took was to move the pillow. He did so both without intending to or knowing that he would kill Jane (the intent necessary for murder), and also, without clear actual knowledge that he would be creating a risk that Jane would die (a reckless state of mind that would support a conviction for manslaughter).
Also, note that Walter himself, at this time, is not engaged in a felony, so he is not guilty of felony murder. We can presume he is present with the consent previously given of the owner of the property and did not mean anyone any harm. Likewise, this is not what is meant by "extreme indifference" for purposes of a murder statute, the paradigm of which is shooting randomly into a crowd knowing that someone will almost certainly be killed without knowing or intending that any particular person will die.
The mental state necessary for negligent homicide is the equivalent of "gross negligence" in a civil case and is called "criminal negligence" in a criminal case. To be criminally negligent a person must fail to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a certain result will occur, and the risk must be of such a nature that the defendant's failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from a reasonable person's standard of care. If a jury found that a reasonable person ought should clearly know that moving a pillow put Jane at risk of dying, then he might be guilty of criminal negligence. But, if a jury found that a reasonable person would not know that moving the pillow put Jane at grave risk of death, his action would not be criminally negligent.
There are also at least three questions of causation which is not entirely independent of the question of negligence.
1. First, generally an act is only considered a cause of a consequence if it is a foreseeable result of the action. If Jane's vomit caused death is not a foreseeable result of moving the pillow, then her death might not be legally caused by moving the pillow.
2. Second, how likely is it that she would have died even if Walter had never entered the room. There are lots of ways that the pillow could have been jostled during the night leading to the same result. If it likely would have happened anyway, Walter's involvement might not be the legal cause of the death.
3. Third, how much fault should be attributed to Jane? This is closely related to the second question. If her death was primarily caused by her getting dangerously high and placing herself in a vulnerable position, perhaps Walter's involvement is not a meaningful cause of the death.
A New Mexico court has held that the defense that the victim was negligent has value only if it establishes that the victim's negligence was the sole cause of the accident. *State v. Maddox*, 99 N.M. 490, 660 P.2d 132 (Ct. App. 1983). But, what about Jesse's negligence? Under a relevant standard criminal jury instruction in New Mexico:
>
> The State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant's
> act was a significant cause of the death of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (name
> of victim). Evidence has been presented that the negligence of a
> person other than the defendant may have contributed to the cause of
> death. Such contributing negligence does not relieve the defendant of
> responsibility for an act that significantly contributed to the cause
> of the death so long as the death was a foreseeable result of the
> defendant's actions. However, if you find the negligence of a person
> other than the defendant was the only significant cause of death, then
> the defendant is not guilty of the offense of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (name
> of offense).
>
>
>
Caveat: A number of states impose strict criminal liability on drug dealers, often for murder, if someone died from using a drug sold by them, but often it has to be a child, and often the drug has to be the proximate cause of death, e.g. due to an overdose or impurity in the drug. I would presume that Jesse and not Walter supplied the drugs to Jane, that Jane is an adult, and it is not obvious that the drug itself (as opposed to the vomiting due to the manner in which the drugs were used) was the proximate cause of death, so a statute like this might not apply in any case.
This brings us to the hard part of the question:
>
> Without the pillow Jane rotates on her back and starts to vomit and
> cough, still sleeping. At first Walter tries to react, running to the
> other side of the bed to help her, but then he stops and decides to do
> nothing as she dies.
>
>
>
Note that if Walter had moved the pillow without knowing that he was creating a risk, left the room ignorant, and then this happened, surely Walter would have no legal liability for Jane's death.
If Walter develops the necessary intent for criminal liability, this probably doesn't happen until he observes that she is starting to choke on her vomit and might die. Even then, he does not intend for Jane to die and probably doesn't even know for certain that she will die from his inaction, so he is probably, at most reckless, if he has a duty to rescue for criminal law purposes.
Generally, under both civil and criminal law, there is no duty to rescue, even if you can do so without any risk of harm to yourself.
But, there is an exception, at least in civil liability, for a duty to rescue that arises from the fact that you put the person at risk of peril through your affirmative actions.
Does this apply here, at all, or in a criminal case?
The first question is the exact language of the homicide statute. Some homicide offenses require affirmative acts, while others can arise from acts or omissions where there is a legal duty to act.
Every crime requires some voluntary act or omission, and the voluntary act itself was not a crime and perhaps was not even a tort, at the moment it was taken, because Walter did not realize that his act created a risk of harm. He create a peril, but he did so innocently.
A pretty standard formulation is that an omission is [only a crime when the law creates a legal duty to act](http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1896&context=californialawreview), but this is, of course, a question begging standard as it doesn't clarify whether there is a legal duty to act, which is at issue here. As the previous link notes, creation of a peril can give rise to a legal duty to act, but only sometimes.
>
> (4) Duty arising from creation of peril. If a person acts culpably to
> imperil another, he or she has a legal duty to rescue the victim.
> The cases are split on whether a duty to rescue arises if someone
> innocently or accidentally imperils another.
>
>
>
This case would fall in the category of someone who innocently or accidentally imperils another, in which the cases are split, which which the linked article cites the following authority:
>
> *Compare Commonwealth v. Cali*, 247 Mass. 20, 24-25, 141 N.E. 510, 511
> (1923) (defendant under duty to try to extinguish a fire that he
> accidentally set to his house and thus was guilty of arson when he did
> not) with *King v. Commonwealth*, 285 Ky. 654, 659, 148 S.W.2d 1044,
> 1047 (1941) (defendant who, in lawful defense of a third person, shot
> and wounded an attacker was under no duty to seek medical attention
> for the wounded assailant).
>
>
>
A commentary that is part of [a California standard jury instruction](https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/calcrim/500/582.html) (for involuntary manslaughter, not murder for which this kind of liability is presumably not available) makes the following observation:
>
> A legal duty to act may also exist where the defendant's behavior
> created or substantially increased the risk of harm to the victim,
> either by creating the dangerous situation or by preventing others
> from rendering aid. (People v. Oliver (1989) 210 Cal.App.3d 138,
> 147-148 [258 Cal.Rptr. 138] [defendant had duty to act where she drove
> victim to her home knowing he was drunk, knowingly allowed him to use
> her bathroom to ingest additional drugs, and watched him collapse on
> the floor]; Sea Horse Ranch, Inc. v. Superior Court (1994) 24
> Cal.App.4th 446, 456 [30 Cal.Rptr.2d 681] [defendant had duty to
> prevent horses from running onto adjacent freeway creating risk].)
>
>
>
These examples would suggest that an innocently or accidentally created risk is sufficient to create a duty sufficient to support involuntary manslaughter liability for an omission under California law, and would probably lead to involuntary manslaughter liability in the case in the question as well, under California law.
New Mexico, unlike California, does not have a standard criminal jury instruction or really definitive section of its criminal code that clearly resolves this question, although the fact that California which uses a murder, voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter distinction in the same way that New Mexico does, limits criminal liability for omissions to involuntary manslaughter suggests that New Mexico would as well.
The New Mexico case *State v. Greenwood*, 2012 -NMCA- 017, 271 P.3d 753 (N.M. App. 2011), touches on the issue, suggesting that there may be liability only for involuntary manslaughter (or certain specialized crimes based upon a relationship such as that of a nursing home to a resident of a nursing home) based upon an omission, and that the liability for an omission can only arise when there is a legal duty, but almost implies that only contactual duties are sufficient. It does so at paragraph 35 which says:
>
> Importantly, even if the LINKS contract relating to Jared were to have
> been renewed and to have been in force at the time of Jared's death,
> we are not convinced that it would be the sole basis or even a
> controlling factor in determining Defendant's legal responsibility
> under the Act. Defendant's criminal liability must exist solely based
> on an omission— a failure to act when she had a legal responsibility
> to act. See Deborah A. Goodall, Penal Code Section 22.04: A Duty to
> Care for the Elderly, 35 Baylor L.Rev. 589, 594 (1983) (stating that "
> authorities have long agreed that before an omission can constitute an
> offense[,] there must first be a duty to act" ); see also People v.
> Beardsley, 150 Mich. 206, 113 N.W. 1128, 1129 (1907) (" The law
> recognizes that under some circumstances the omission of a duty owed
> by one individual to another, where such omission results in the death
> of the one to whom the duty is owing, will make the other chargeable
> with manslaughter. This rule of law is always based upon the
> proposition that the duty neglected must be a legal duty, and not a
> mere moral obligation. It must be a duty imposed by law or by
> contract, and the omission to perform the duty must be the immediate
> and direct cause of death." (citation omitted)).
>
>
>
But, this could be dicta because it was a case where any legal duty would arise under contract rather than for another reason, and as is the case in many smaller states, there is simply no case that has ever been decided in New Mexico which is squarely on point.
Under British criminal law, [in similar circumstances](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_(law)#Duty_to_act_when_the_defendant_has_created_the_danger), a homicide conviction was vacated:
>
> R v Khan & Khan (1998) CLR 830, confirmed that there is no separate
> category of manslaughter by omission unless the omission constitutes a
> breach of duty to act. The defendants supplied a 15-year-old
> prostitute with twice the amount of heroin likely to be taken by a
> regular user. The defendants left her unconscious in the flat,
> returning the next day to find that she had died of the overdose. Had
> medical assistance been called, the girl would probably not have died.
> The unlawful act was supplying the drug but the death was caused by
> the quantity injected by the victim. The trial judge invited jury to
> consider liability on the basis of the defendants' failure to summon
> medical assistance. On appeal, the conviction was quashed because the
> brothers had not accepted a duty to act before she took the heroin.
>
>
>
A dissertation on when criminal liability is imposed for omissions in Scottish law can be found [here](http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3877/1/2012dunbarLLM.pdf).
New Mexico, whose laws really should govern, has just two homicide statutes:
>
> § 30-2-1. Murder
>
>
> A. Murder in the first degree is the killing of one human being by
> another without lawful justification or excuse, by any of the means
> with which death may be caused: (1) by any kind of willful, deliberate
> and premeditated killing; (2) in the commission of or attempt to
> commit any felony; or (3) by any act greatly dangerous to the lives of
> others, indicating a depraved mind regardless of human life. Whoever
> commits murder in the first degree is guilty of a capital felony.
>
>
> B. Unless he is acting upon sufficient provocation, upon a sudden
> quarrel or in the heat of passion, a person who kills another human
> being without lawful justification or excuse commits murder in the
> second degree if in performing the acts which cause the death he knows
> that such acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily
> harm to that individual or another. Murder in the second degree is a
> lesser included offense of the crime of murder in the first degree.
>
>
> Whoever commits murder in the second degree is guilty of a second
> degree felony resulting in the death of a human being.
>
>
>
Walter doesn't qualify for any of these prongs of the statute.
>
> § 30-2-3. Manslaughter
>
>
> Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice.
>
>
> A. Voluntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter committed upon a
> sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion.
>
>
> Whoever commits voluntary manslaughter is guilty of a third degree
> felony resulting in the death of a human being.
>
>
> B. Involuntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter committed in the
> commission of an unlawful act not amounting to felony, or in the
> commission of a lawful act which might produce death in an unlawful
> manner or without due caution and circumspection.
>
>
> Whoever commits involuntary manslaughter is guilty of a fourth degree
> felony.
>
>
>
Clearly, Walter also does not qualify as guilty of voluntary manslaughter. There is no quarrel or heat of passion.
So, either Walter is guilty in New Mexico of involuntary manslaughter, or he is not guilty of homicide at all.
New Mexico also has an unusual, and rather merciful "excusable homicide" provision at New Mexico Statutes § 30-2-5, that should also be considered:
>
> Homicide is excusable in the following cases:
>
>
> A. when committed by accident or misfortune in doing any lawful act,
> by lawful means, with usual and ordinary caution and without any
> unlawful intent; or
>
>
> B. when committed by accident or misfortune in the heat of passion,
> upon any sudden and sufficient provocation, or upon a sudden combat,
> if no undue advantage is taken, nor any dangerous weapon used and the
> killing is not done in a cruel or unusual manner.
>
>
>
Arguably, Walter falls under "excusable homicide" part A, as moving the pillow was a lawful act done without unlawful intent and that is what caused the death. | Before dealing with criminal matters, he committed a tort by failing to discharge his [duty to rescue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue) - having created the hazardous situation he was legally obliged to attempt to rescue Jesse.
Notwithstanding, he is quite likely guilty of [Murder](http://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/2011/chapter30/article2/section30-2-1):
>
> **30-2-1. Murder.**
>
>
> A. Murder in the first degree is the killing of one human being by another without lawful justification or excuse, by any of the means with which death may be caused:
>
>
> (1) by any kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing;
>
>
> (2) in the commission of or attempt to commit any felony; or
>
>
> (3) by any act greatly dangerous to the lives of others, indicating a depraved mind regardless of human life.
>
>
> Whoever commits murder in the first degree is guilty of a capital felony.
>
>
> B. Unless he is acting upon sufficient provocation, upon a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion, a person who kills another human being without lawful justification or excuse commits murder in the second degree if in performing the acts which cause the death he knows that such acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to that individual or another.
>
>
> Murder in the second degree is a lesser included offense of the crime of murder in the first degree.
>
>
> Whoever commits murder in the second degree is guilty of a second degree felony resulting in the death of a human being.
>
>
>
Second-degree murder is almost certain: "in performing the acts which cause the death he knows that such acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to that individual". He knew or should have known that removing the support would do this. Notwithstanding, even if he had forgotten this, the fact that she began to choke while he was still present would make conviction almost certain.
There is a strong possibility of a first degree conviction too under any or all of sub-clauses. For 1, even though the killing was opportunistic, that doesn't mean that it was not premeditated. For 2, this was in the context of a criminal enterprise which was committing multiple felonies. For 3, a conscious decision to allow her to die after committing the act seems to indicate "a depraved mind regardless of human life". |
22,240,569 | If an android tablet (Nexus 7) is plugged into a power source, does the GPS stay on and therefore provide more accuracy?
I am thinking of when a tablet is in a vehicle, mounted and always plugged in. | 2014/03/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/22240569",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/72514/"
] | Whether GPS stays on depends on the Application.
GPS accuracy is not dependent whether power source is plugged in or not.
(But some application could decide to switch off GPS if battery is under a specifc threshold)
Technically there is no half power GPS chip mode.
The GPS chip always uses the power it needs. | Plugging into a power source doesn't make the GPS stay on. It's up to the developers whether their apps will use GPS for a moment (to locate user's current position only) or until the app is closed (for navigation).
Counter-example: even if it's not charged, Google Maps can use GPS with accuracy as good as usual until the device runs out of power due to GPS usage.
So, the conclusion is: not really, plugging in the device doesn't make the GPS to power-up and have better accuracy than usual. |
32,258 | <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ee#English>:
>
> 1. Added to verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the object of that verb
> 2. Less commonly added to verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the subject of that verb (ie, who or that [acts]), especially where **a passive sense of the verb is implied**.
>
>
>
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-or#Suffix>:
>
> 1. Suffix appended to words to create an [agent noun](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agent_noun), indicating a person who does something.
>
>
>
1. Does definition 2 of -ee, equal, definition 1 of -or? So there's no difference between -ee and -or?
2. Based on these suffixes, my goal is to infer instantly (on sight) whether a noun refers to the doer or receiver of an action. What are the general lessons or tips?
3. Would someone please explain **a passive sense of the verb is implied**? Does this define the less common cases in which Definition 2 of -ee applies?
Source: p 67, *The English Legal System 2012-2013*, Gary Slapper | 2014/08/26 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/32258",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The nouns ending in -or are traditional Latin words. Nouns in -ee are new formations formed with the French suffix -é, written in English as -ee. Nouns in -ee came up in legal language. | >
> 1 Does definition 2 of -ee, equal, definition 1 of -or? So there's no difference between -ee and -or?
>
>
>
In some very very very specific cases, indeed, there seems no difference. Well, between -ee and -er, as in *responder* and *respondee*, which mean the same.
>
> 2 Based on these suffixes, my goal is to infer instantly (on sight) whether a noun refers to the doer or receiver of an action. What are the general lessons or tips?
>
>
>
Rule: -ee is the receiver (subject of the action). Unfortunately, there are exceptions (of which *absentee* is probably the most common).
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> 3 Would someone please explain a passive sense of the verb is implied? Does this define the less common cases in which Definition 2 of -ee applies?
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>
>
I can see that in *absentee*, but it is vague at best. I can imagine interpreting an *absence* as something happing to the person that is absent.
As for standee (never saw it, but [google](https://www.google.com/search?q=define+standee&oq=define+standee&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.2728j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8) tells me it means "a person who stands, especially in a passenger vehicle when all the seats are occupied or at a performance or sporting event" could be seen as derived from [*being stood somewhere*](http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=215544) as opposed to *standing somewhere*, which yields *stander* (as in *bystander*). |
32,258 | <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ee#English>:
>
> 1. Added to verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the object of that verb
> 2. Less commonly added to verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the subject of that verb (ie, who or that [acts]), especially where **a passive sense of the verb is implied**.
>
>
>
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-or#Suffix>:
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> 1. Suffix appended to words to create an [agent noun](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agent_noun), indicating a person who does something.
>
>
>
1. Does definition 2 of -ee, equal, definition 1 of -or? So there's no difference between -ee and -or?
2. Based on these suffixes, my goal is to infer instantly (on sight) whether a noun refers to the doer or receiver of an action. What are the general lessons or tips?
3. Would someone please explain **a passive sense of the verb is implied**? Does this define the less common cases in which Definition 2 of -ee applies?
Source: p 67, *The English Legal System 2012-2013*, Gary Slapper | 2014/08/26 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/32258",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
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] | Both suffixes create a noun from a verb. Only an active verb can use -er/-or, and it denotes the person or thing causing the activity, or, in some cases, the thing/device/tool whose primary purpose is to perform an action.
Example: A scrubber can be a person who scrubs or a tool for scrubbing.
The -ee suffix is the recipient of an action. It may also be a person or inanimate object. It's not technically incorrect to use it with any active verb, but it will usually sound weird to most people, so be aware of that.
Example: Jill attacks Jim. Jill is the attacker; Jim is the attackee.
Passive voice got you confused? Let's reword the example.
Jim was attacked by Jill. Jill is still the attacker, even though Jim is now in the subject position of the sentence!
In the instance of absentee, the root word is absent, which is an adjective, and thus an exception to the normal usage. Just remember there is no such thing as an "absenter." | >
> 1 Does definition 2 of -ee, equal, definition 1 of -or? So there's no difference between -ee and -or?
>
>
>
In some very very very specific cases, indeed, there seems no difference. Well, between -ee and -er, as in *responder* and *respondee*, which mean the same.
>
> 2 Based on these suffixes, my goal is to infer instantly (on sight) whether a noun refers to the doer or receiver of an action. What are the general lessons or tips?
>
>
>
Rule: -ee is the receiver (subject of the action). Unfortunately, there are exceptions (of which *absentee* is probably the most common).
>
> 3 Would someone please explain a passive sense of the verb is implied? Does this define the less common cases in which Definition 2 of -ee applies?
>
>
>
I can see that in *absentee*, but it is vague at best. I can imagine interpreting an *absence* as something happing to the person that is absent.
As for standee (never saw it, but [google](https://www.google.com/search?q=define+standee&oq=define+standee&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.2728j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8) tells me it means "a person who stands, especially in a passenger vehicle when all the seats are occupied or at a performance or sporting event" could be seen as derived from [*being stood somewhere*](http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=215544) as opposed to *standing somewhere*, which yields *stander* (as in *bystander*). |
32,258 | <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ee#English>:
>
> 1. Added to verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the object of that verb
> 2. Less commonly added to verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the subject of that verb (ie, who or that [acts]), especially where **a passive sense of the verb is implied**.
>
>
>
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-or#Suffix>:
>
> 1. Suffix appended to words to create an [agent noun](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agent_noun), indicating a person who does something.
>
>
>
1. Does definition 2 of -ee, equal, definition 1 of -or? So there's no difference between -ee and -or?
2. Based on these suffixes, my goal is to infer instantly (on sight) whether a noun refers to the doer or receiver of an action. What are the general lessons or tips?
3. Would someone please explain **a passive sense of the verb is implied**? Does this define the less common cases in which Definition 2 of -ee applies?
Source: p 67, *The English Legal System 2012-2013*, Gary Slapper | 2014/08/26 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/32258",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Both suffixes create a noun from a verb. Only an active verb can use -er/-or, and it denotes the person or thing causing the activity, or, in some cases, the thing/device/tool whose primary purpose is to perform an action.
Example: A scrubber can be a person who scrubs or a tool for scrubbing.
The -ee suffix is the recipient of an action. It may also be a person or inanimate object. It's not technically incorrect to use it with any active verb, but it will usually sound weird to most people, so be aware of that.
Example: Jill attacks Jim. Jill is the attacker; Jim is the attackee.
Passive voice got you confused? Let's reword the example.
Jim was attacked by Jill. Jill is still the attacker, even though Jim is now in the subject position of the sentence!
In the instance of absentee, the root word is absent, which is an adjective, and thus an exception to the normal usage. Just remember there is no such thing as an "absenter." | The nouns ending in -or are traditional Latin words. Nouns in -ee are new formations formed with the French suffix -é, written in English as -ee. Nouns in -ee came up in legal language. |
622,804 | My new Ultrabook comes with three screen resolutions:
* 1920x1080
* 1280x1024
* 1024x768.
1920x1080 is ridiculous on a 13.3" monitor and it's hurting my eyes trying to read small text. The other two resolutions are 4:3, meaning they only use up half of the screen (and look far too zoomed in). Ideally I'd like to be able to use 1366x768. Is there any way I can "unlock" this resolution somehow?
The GPU is Intel HD Graphics 4000, if that helps!
**Update:** I'm able to get it to 1360x768 by plugging in another monitor through HDMI. If I select "Duplicate These Displays" the 1360x768 of the monitor becomes available on the ultrabook.
However this is the only option I'm able to select which allows for this, meaning I can never have dual monitors set up on it. | 2013/07/22 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/622804",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/224201/"
] | Why get a laptop with a nice high-resolution screen and then make it scale up the image? It seems like a waste of a very nice screen.
Rather than scaling the resolution, you could just [change Windows' DPI settings](http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/make-screen-text-larger-smaller#make-screen-text-larger-smaller=windows-7). In the display properties window, and then click on "Make text and other items larger or smaller". From there, you can scale up to 125% or 150% of the normal size. This will render fonts and windows at a larger size, without blurring the screen the way decreasing the resolution does.
Once Windows 8.1 is released this fall, you'll get even better high-DPI display support. This is one of the major changes that is coming in Windows 8.1, and should make support for large text on a high-res display much simpler. | Do you have installed the graphics cards driver?
Often more screen resolutions are detected when you install it. |
1,288,624 | HI, I am new to iPhone especially the Graphics part, I want to develop a Image Rotators just like the UIPickerView. but with my own custom design, It will look like something like the Casino Slot Machine, Can anybody guide me to some resources to do the Task in hand. | 2009/08/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1288624",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/85498/"
] | The UIPickerView allows for custom images to be used in the delegate. You can create your own custom UIView and add an image to it. Look at the documentation.
* (UIView \*)pickerView:(UIPickerView \*)pickerView viewForRow:(NSInteger)row forComponent:(NSInteger)component reusingView:(UIView \*)view | To be able to rotate views in general you should take a look at transforms, here is a guide to transforms in the apple s ite <http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Conceptual/drawingwithquartz2d/dq_affine/dq_affine.html> |
119,295 | In other words, if Certificate Authority goes down, does this mean that all HTTPS sites that purchased SSL certs from this CA will also become unavailable? | 2016/04/02 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/119295",
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"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/39769/"
] | Kinda. The browser verifies the certificate was issued by the CA without contacting the CA. But the certificate might have been revoked since then, for example because the site's private key leaked. To verify the certificate has not been revoked, the browser needs to contact the CA's CRL or OCSP site. If those are down, there is no way to know whether the certificate is revoked. In practice, because keeping those sites up is expensive, they are often down and modern browsers either don't check or try to check but don't fail the connection if the CA is unreachable. So a certificate will keep working if its CA is down. If the CA goes down permanently, you can't revoke the certificate, which is a problem.
To solve the scalability issues with CRL and OCSP, OCSP stapling was invented. Your site itself contacts the CA once a day to get a signed note that says "at this time, the certificate has not been revoked" and passes this signed note to the browser. This leaves a window of a day during which the certificate might have been revoked and your browser won't suspect a thing, which is better than what we have now. | No. The CA's root certificate is usually installed in the client's certificate store. When the client makes a handshake request, they receive the cert from the site (which I'll refer to as example.com). The cert for example.com will include a root cert and possibly an intermediate cert, and the client (in this case, the browser) will check its cert store to see if it contains the root cert.
Basically, if the CA's website goes down, it has no effect on sites that purchased certs from the CA. |
2,528 | Let us asume that one person makes a question, and it is inmediatly answered by another user.
Probably it is not the best answer, but it is marked inmediatly as "solved".
Sometimes that prevent other person to write a better answer, or prenvents the asker to have a better understanding of the topic.
Can that option have a timer to be available lets say some 24 hours after the question is asked, and not before? | 2015/04/08 | [
"https://graphicdesign.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2528",
"https://graphicdesign.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | Anyone posing a question is absolutely free to change what answer is the accepted answer at *any* time. You can return 2 years from now and change the answer marked correct. There is an initial delay on marking something correct. I don't remember what it is. @Ryan state's its 15 minutes in the comment above. That sounds about right.
If you are *not* posting answers because you see one is already marked, then you should start. If you have, what you believe is a better answer, by all means share it. Even if the one person who asked the question doesn't mark it correct, you can still help many, many users.
If your concern is just the reputation gained from marked answers, well, I sort of think that's the wrong reason to post any answer. But you can often gain MORE rep with a great answer even if it's never marked as the "selected" answer. | An accepted answer is not permenatly set in stone and if any feel like giving a better answer they are encouraged to do so and the OP will be pinged that their question has another answer.
That said the principal of our system is a question that in fact gets an answer that the OP is after. You can always encourage the OP to review the new answer and change their mind but id rather have a question with an accepted answer in less than a few minutes than a question with five answers and no accepted answer whatsoever.
Also, i have never seen an answer thst wasnt better not be upvoted with rep which should be an indication that the other answer with higher rep would help someone in the future. |
1,109 | I see a lot of sites that focus on apps, but where are the sites that focus on widgets?
For example, I'm trying to find an agenda widget that doesn't hurt my eyes, but it's really hard trying to sort out everything from a Google search. A widget gallery type of site would be nice. | 2010/09/17 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/1109",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/169/"
] | Maybe not entirely what you're asking for, but have you tried using [AppBrain](http://www.appbrain.com)? It usually does the trick for me in finding any sort of app, widgets included. The screenshots are helpful.
To the secondary (not quite asked) question, I find [Android Agenda Widget](http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.roflharrison.agenda.plus) to be very easy on the eyes and highly themeable. | You might try [My Color Screen](http://mycolorscreen.com/). It's a customization site, so it focuses on launchers, themes, and widgets. Because of that focus, you might find it's too much about the appearance of the widget instead of the functionality, but it might be just what you're looking for. |
34,238,012 | Is it possible to use **Android Studio in full Screen** for example only that field where we code should show on the whole screen.
like this : [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQO23.png) | 2015/12/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/34238012",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5588523/"
] | You can use "distraction free mode":
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1xrp9.png) | Yes, it's very easy. Just double click your class.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/316gn.png) |
82 | I am wondering if bike tires have a weight limit. I have to admit, I am a large guy at 6'3" 250lb (190 cm, 113,5 kg), and I have always had issues with my road bike's tires getting pinch flats. I could never seem to put enough air in the tire to keep the rim off the road on bumps, etc. I ride a mountain bike now and I haven't had the same issues. Though of course they are a lot knobbier/thicker.
The tires are 27 x 1.25 | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/82",
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] | Pinch flats are due to under-inflation of tires. On a road bike you should be inflating your tires to 120-130 lbs.
Also, you need to check and re-inflate your tires every time you ride. I just keep my pump right next to my bike, and wind up adding air every 2nd or 3rd day.
*I see you added tire size* - those are older bike tires, they don't inflate as high as road bike tires, I'd try pumping them to 65 lbs, and if you are still getting pinch flats, go up 5 lbs at a time until it stops.
You can tell a pinch flat because it will look like a snake bit, 2 small holes close together.
If you do not get any pinch flats at 65 lbs, you can try going down 5 lbs at a time until they return, then you know the range your tires need to be at to be properly inflated.
The most important thing is to check tire pressure every time you ride, as bike tires can lose up to 5/lbs a week from just sitting. These are high pressure tires, so they lose air much faster than low pressure car tires.
Cheers,
Mike | My girlfriend and I inflate the tires on our touring tandem to 90 psi. The bike carries both of us plus two fully loaded panniers in the back. At 90 psi in the tire with what probably ends up being over 350 lbs on the bike, we have never had a pinch flat. That said, I drive the bike *very* carefully to avoid hitting anything with a sharp edge (lots of driveways have a nasty edge on them). I wouldn't recommend over-inflating your tires (they're rated for a reason), but if you're getting a lot of pinch flats, you might consider riding a little more conservatively. A little caution can go a long way toward making things last. |
82 | I am wondering if bike tires have a weight limit. I have to admit, I am a large guy at 6'3" 250lb (190 cm, 113,5 kg), and I have always had issues with my road bike's tires getting pinch flats. I could never seem to put enough air in the tire to keep the rim off the road on bumps, etc. I ride a mountain bike now and I haven't had the same issues. Though of course they are a lot knobbier/thicker.
The tires are 27 x 1.25 | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/82",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/56/"
] | Pinch flats are due to under-inflation of tires. On a road bike you should be inflating your tires to 120-130 lbs.
Also, you need to check and re-inflate your tires every time you ride. I just keep my pump right next to my bike, and wind up adding air every 2nd or 3rd day.
*I see you added tire size* - those are older bike tires, they don't inflate as high as road bike tires, I'd try pumping them to 65 lbs, and if you are still getting pinch flats, go up 5 lbs at a time until it stops.
You can tell a pinch flat because it will look like a snake bit, 2 small holes close together.
If you do not get any pinch flats at 65 lbs, you can try going down 5 lbs at a time until they return, then you know the range your tires need to be at to be properly inflated.
The most important thing is to check tire pressure every time you ride, as bike tires can lose up to 5/lbs a week from just sitting. These are high pressure tires, so they lose air much faster than low pressure car tires.
Cheers,
Mike | Fear not.
A 32mm wide tire can perfectly well carry your weight. I weigh about as much as you do. My bike has 28mm wide tires. I don't get constant pinch flats.
The trick is to fill the 28mm tire to 100psi / 7bar with a floor pump and do so weekly. Air diffuses rapidly out of even butyl tubes. Two weeks without pumping and the tires have lost so much air there's a risk for pinch flats.
For 32mm tires, pump to 90psi / 6 bar or so.
Use the largest and thickest butyl tube you can find that fits to your tires to prevent air from diffusing too quickly. I use Continental 32-47 / 622 inner tubes even though they are not officially "supported" for 28mm wide tires. They work if you know how to install them.
If you use a thin or small butyl tube, you may need to pump as often as twice per week. The thinner and smaller the tube, the faster the air diffusion.
Also, riding technique matters. Use your arms and legs as suspension. If you sit on the saddle and support part of your weight by straight arms and then encounter a bump, you will get a pinch flat.
Also, you need a strategy for pumping up the tires on the road after getting a flat. A good pump will help, but where to get such a pump nowadays when Quickex Quicker Pro is no longer for sale? I don't know. Most mini pumps require over 200 strokes to get any reasonable pressure. A CO2 inflator kit could help, but 25g CO2 cartridges are heavy (the 25 grams is the weight of CO2 not the weight of the whole cartridge) and limit how many times you can repair a flat. Also, CO2 diffuses out of the tires faster than air, so when having to use CO2, it is a good idea on the same day to let out the CO2 and replace it with true air with a floor pump. |
82 | I am wondering if bike tires have a weight limit. I have to admit, I am a large guy at 6'3" 250lb (190 cm, 113,5 kg), and I have always had issues with my road bike's tires getting pinch flats. I could never seem to put enough air in the tire to keep the rim off the road on bumps, etc. I ride a mountain bike now and I haven't had the same issues. Though of course they are a lot knobbier/thicker.
The tires are 27 x 1.25 | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/82",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/56/"
] | My girlfriend and I inflate the tires on our touring tandem to 90 psi. The bike carries both of us plus two fully loaded panniers in the back. At 90 psi in the tire with what probably ends up being over 350 lbs on the bike, we have never had a pinch flat. That said, I drive the bike *very* carefully to avoid hitting anything with a sharp edge (lots of driveways have a nasty edge on them). I wouldn't recommend over-inflating your tires (they're rated for a reason), but if you're getting a lot of pinch flats, you might consider riding a little more conservatively. A little caution can go a long way toward making things last. | Fear not.
A 32mm wide tire can perfectly well carry your weight. I weigh about as much as you do. My bike has 28mm wide tires. I don't get constant pinch flats.
The trick is to fill the 28mm tire to 100psi / 7bar with a floor pump and do so weekly. Air diffuses rapidly out of even butyl tubes. Two weeks without pumping and the tires have lost so much air there's a risk for pinch flats.
For 32mm tires, pump to 90psi / 6 bar or so.
Use the largest and thickest butyl tube you can find that fits to your tires to prevent air from diffusing too quickly. I use Continental 32-47 / 622 inner tubes even though they are not officially "supported" for 28mm wide tires. They work if you know how to install them.
If you use a thin or small butyl tube, you may need to pump as often as twice per week. The thinner and smaller the tube, the faster the air diffusion.
Also, riding technique matters. Use your arms and legs as suspension. If you sit on the saddle and support part of your weight by straight arms and then encounter a bump, you will get a pinch flat.
Also, you need a strategy for pumping up the tires on the road after getting a flat. A good pump will help, but where to get such a pump nowadays when Quickex Quicker Pro is no longer for sale? I don't know. Most mini pumps require over 200 strokes to get any reasonable pressure. A CO2 inflator kit could help, but 25g CO2 cartridges are heavy (the 25 grams is the weight of CO2 not the weight of the whole cartridge) and limit how many times you can repair a flat. Also, CO2 diffuses out of the tires faster than air, so when having to use CO2, it is a good idea on the same day to let out the CO2 and replace it with true air with a floor pump. |
82 | I am wondering if bike tires have a weight limit. I have to admit, I am a large guy at 6'3" 250lb (190 cm, 113,5 kg), and I have always had issues with my road bike's tires getting pinch flats. I could never seem to put enough air in the tire to keep the rim off the road on bumps, etc. I ride a mountain bike now and I haven't had the same issues. Though of course they are a lot knobbier/thicker.
The tires are 27 x 1.25 | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/82",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/56/"
] | I terms of the "am I too heavy for my tires?" question, you can look for the specs on the tire maker's site. [Schwalbe](http://schwalbetires.com) publishes a rated load for their tires, I'd expect that other reputable makers do as well.
As a point of reference their [Marathon Plus tire](http://www.schwalbetires.com/bike_tires/road_tires/Marathon_Plus_HS440) is rated for a load of up to 90 kg / 198 pounds in a 32-622 size (probably at 6.55 bar / 95 psi). Since there are two tires, you'd be good for 180 kg (almost 400 pounds) with a pair of those tires. | Fear not.
A 32mm wide tire can perfectly well carry your weight. I weigh about as much as you do. My bike has 28mm wide tires. I don't get constant pinch flats.
The trick is to fill the 28mm tire to 100psi / 7bar with a floor pump and do so weekly. Air diffuses rapidly out of even butyl tubes. Two weeks without pumping and the tires have lost so much air there's a risk for pinch flats.
For 32mm tires, pump to 90psi / 6 bar or so.
Use the largest and thickest butyl tube you can find that fits to your tires to prevent air from diffusing too quickly. I use Continental 32-47 / 622 inner tubes even though they are not officially "supported" for 28mm wide tires. They work if you know how to install them.
If you use a thin or small butyl tube, you may need to pump as often as twice per week. The thinner and smaller the tube, the faster the air diffusion.
Also, riding technique matters. Use your arms and legs as suspension. If you sit on the saddle and support part of your weight by straight arms and then encounter a bump, you will get a pinch flat.
Also, you need a strategy for pumping up the tires on the road after getting a flat. A good pump will help, but where to get such a pump nowadays when Quickex Quicker Pro is no longer for sale? I don't know. Most mini pumps require over 200 strokes to get any reasonable pressure. A CO2 inflator kit could help, but 25g CO2 cartridges are heavy (the 25 grams is the weight of CO2 not the weight of the whole cartridge) and limit how many times you can repair a flat. Also, CO2 diffuses out of the tires faster than air, so when having to use CO2, it is a good idea on the same day to let out the CO2 and replace it with true air with a floor pump. |
82 | I am wondering if bike tires have a weight limit. I have to admit, I am a large guy at 6'3" 250lb (190 cm, 113,5 kg), and I have always had issues with my road bike's tires getting pinch flats. I could never seem to put enough air in the tire to keep the rim off the road on bumps, etc. I ride a mountain bike now and I haven't had the same issues. Though of course they are a lot knobbier/thicker.
The tires are 27 x 1.25 | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/82",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
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] | You didn't tell us at what pressure did you inflate your tires and that's a important thing when it comes to pinching the tire.
Road bike tires can be easily inflated up to 7-8 bars (100-115 psi) and for your weight, I think this would be enough to protect your tire.
I ride a trekking bike and inflate the tires to 4.5 bars (65psi), similar weight as you and I don't have problems with pinched tires. Granted, the tire dimension is bigger, but the pressure is also half of what the road tire would have. | You are under inflating your tires. I am 6'8", 270 lbs and ride successfully on 23x700 at 120 lbs pressure. I had pinch flat problems with 23x700 on my tandem which were resolved by using 25x700. |
82 | I am wondering if bike tires have a weight limit. I have to admit, I am a large guy at 6'3" 250lb (190 cm, 113,5 kg), and I have always had issues with my road bike's tires getting pinch flats. I could never seem to put enough air in the tire to keep the rim off the road on bumps, etc. I ride a mountain bike now and I haven't had the same issues. Though of course they are a lot knobbier/thicker.
The tires are 27 x 1.25 | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/82",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
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] | I'm just a tiny bit smaller than you (~10 pounds lighter, depending on what I've eaten that week) and have ridden 700x25 tires/32 spoke rims with no problem. Granted, I keep my tire pressure high, and go over curbs like I'm carrying a baby inside a priceless ming vase, but still. | You are under inflating your tires. I am 6'8", 270 lbs and ride successfully on 23x700 at 120 lbs pressure. I had pinch flat problems with 23x700 on my tandem which were resolved by using 25x700. |
82 | I am wondering if bike tires have a weight limit. I have to admit, I am a large guy at 6'3" 250lb (190 cm, 113,5 kg), and I have always had issues with my road bike's tires getting pinch flats. I could never seem to put enough air in the tire to keep the rim off the road on bumps, etc. I ride a mountain bike now and I haven't had the same issues. Though of course they are a lot knobbier/thicker.
The tires are 27 x 1.25 | 2010/08/25 | [
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"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
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] | I raced 5 Ironman races (so 112 Mile / 180 Km) bike segments and did training for that for 5 years. I raced at 235 lbs and now I am riding 30 miles to work at 270 lbs (alas!) and I do not have an issue with pinch flats.
My road tires I run at 120 lbs or so of pressure. Though with the recent hot weather my pump was not getting the pressure that high due to over heating.
So I would say, no to your question. | I had this same question so I did some looking around.
Here's what I picked up --
The simple formula for figuring out which tire works for you. Take the amount of contact area of the tire on the ground and multiply by PSI you have in your tire.
So, the "area" (width times length) of the tire along the ground, multiplied by the psi.
So, 2" of tire down contacting the ground (when you're sitting on it), by 1" wide tires. 2 x 1 = 2 square inches. If your tire is pumped to 100 psi, your maximum weight for that tire would be 2 x 100 = 200 lbs. That's both your bike, the rider, and anything you are carrying. (try to get an idea of whether the area down is appropriate)
Also be aware that the weight is distributed between both tires. So technically, this bike's tires should be capable of 400 lbs if you have 2 tires with the same attributes and psi.
You probably should over-specify the weight carried. I would probably spec 25% extra at least.
So, rearranging the formula with algebra.
Area x psi = weight
area = weight / psi (weight divided by psi)
So .. if you and your bike and whatever was loaded on the tire of the bike were 200 lbs...
if your psi were 50
area = 200 / 50 = 4 sq inches
You'd probably not want the length of the tire's area on the ground to be very long.. so you'd want a fairly wide tire, say 2 or 2.5 inches wide (that's pretty wide..)
4 / 2 = 2 inches for the length. (2x2 sounds light to me)
Remember that's double capacity. 400 for the whole load on the tires.
So 300 lbs of man + bike + carried supplies with a 33% over spec. (1.33 x 300 = 400)
Other considerations --
The wheels need more spokes. The info I'm giving is by inference from someone stating that a "tandem bike" (with 2 or more riders) that had a 500lb load would have "more spokes in the wheels".
Common spoke counts are around 28, 32 or 36 for "normal" applications, and for a tandem wheel it's in the 40-48 spoke range. So more spokes for more weight. There are also wheels that are "mags". Rather than spokes, they have 3 or more solid pilars from the hub to the rim. If you're really concerned about weight / strength / durability, they might be a consideration.
Then, there's the question of tire width, and whether your wheel can hold the tire width you want.
And finally, whether the wheel is an appropriate size to fit on your bike.
There are of course other considerations -- quality / metal compositions / psi ranges of tires (low and high range)..
Note that new / old / current tech can vary in durability / functionality. Just because it's new tech doesn't necessarily help in an appreciable way. (most newer tech is marginally better, except I was impressed by high end hydraulic brakes - they appear to be more than twice as powerful.) If you're not already an accomplished rider don't worry about getting high end light weight bikes. (not to mention, if you are hefting 400 lbs.. trimming 5 lbs off the bike isn't going to benefit you much..)
And so, you are further armed with information.
Good luck! |
82 | I am wondering if bike tires have a weight limit. I have to admit, I am a large guy at 6'3" 250lb (190 cm, 113,5 kg), and I have always had issues with my road bike's tires getting pinch flats. I could never seem to put enough air in the tire to keep the rim off the road on bumps, etc. I ride a mountain bike now and I haven't had the same issues. Though of course they are a lot knobbier/thicker.
The tires are 27 x 1.25 | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/82",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/56/"
] | Pinch flats are due to under-inflation of tires. On a road bike you should be inflating your tires to 120-130 lbs.
Also, you need to check and re-inflate your tires every time you ride. I just keep my pump right next to my bike, and wind up adding air every 2nd or 3rd day.
*I see you added tire size* - those are older bike tires, they don't inflate as high as road bike tires, I'd try pumping them to 65 lbs, and if you are still getting pinch flats, go up 5 lbs at a time until it stops.
You can tell a pinch flat because it will look like a snake bit, 2 small holes close together.
If you do not get any pinch flats at 65 lbs, you can try going down 5 lbs at a time until they return, then you know the range your tires need to be at to be properly inflated.
The most important thing is to check tire pressure every time you ride, as bike tires can lose up to 5/lbs a week from just sitting. These are high pressure tires, so they lose air much faster than low pressure car tires.
Cheers,
Mike | I raced 5 Ironman races (so 112 Mile / 180 Km) bike segments and did training for that for 5 years. I raced at 235 lbs and now I am riding 30 miles to work at 270 lbs (alas!) and I do not have an issue with pinch flats.
My road tires I run at 120 lbs or so of pressure. Though with the recent hot weather my pump was not getting the pressure that high due to over heating.
So I would say, no to your question. |
82 | I am wondering if bike tires have a weight limit. I have to admit, I am a large guy at 6'3" 250lb (190 cm, 113,5 kg), and I have always had issues with my road bike's tires getting pinch flats. I could never seem to put enough air in the tire to keep the rim off the road on bumps, etc. I ride a mountain bike now and I haven't had the same issues. Though of course they are a lot knobbier/thicker.
The tires are 27 x 1.25 | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/82",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/56/"
] | I raced 5 Ironman races (so 112 Mile / 180 Km) bike segments and did training for that for 5 years. I raced at 235 lbs and now I am riding 30 miles to work at 270 lbs (alas!) and I do not have an issue with pinch flats.
My road tires I run at 120 lbs or so of pressure. Though with the recent hot weather my pump was not getting the pressure that high due to over heating.
So I would say, no to your question. | You are under inflating your tires. I am 6'8", 270 lbs and ride successfully on 23x700 at 120 lbs pressure. I had pinch flat problems with 23x700 on my tandem which were resolved by using 25x700. |
82 | I am wondering if bike tires have a weight limit. I have to admit, I am a large guy at 6'3" 250lb (190 cm, 113,5 kg), and I have always had issues with my road bike's tires getting pinch flats. I could never seem to put enough air in the tire to keep the rim off the road on bumps, etc. I ride a mountain bike now and I haven't had the same issues. Though of course they are a lot knobbier/thicker.
The tires are 27 x 1.25 | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/82",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/56/"
] | I'm just a tiny bit smaller than you (~10 pounds lighter, depending on what I've eaten that week) and have ridden 700x25 tires/32 spoke rims with no problem. Granted, I keep my tire pressure high, and go over curbs like I'm carrying a baby inside a priceless ming vase, but still. | Fear not.
A 32mm wide tire can perfectly well carry your weight. I weigh about as much as you do. My bike has 28mm wide tires. I don't get constant pinch flats.
The trick is to fill the 28mm tire to 100psi / 7bar with a floor pump and do so weekly. Air diffuses rapidly out of even butyl tubes. Two weeks without pumping and the tires have lost so much air there's a risk for pinch flats.
For 32mm tires, pump to 90psi / 6 bar or so.
Use the largest and thickest butyl tube you can find that fits to your tires to prevent air from diffusing too quickly. I use Continental 32-47 / 622 inner tubes even though they are not officially "supported" for 28mm wide tires. They work if you know how to install them.
If you use a thin or small butyl tube, you may need to pump as often as twice per week. The thinner and smaller the tube, the faster the air diffusion.
Also, riding technique matters. Use your arms and legs as suspension. If you sit on the saddle and support part of your weight by straight arms and then encounter a bump, you will get a pinch flat.
Also, you need a strategy for pumping up the tires on the road after getting a flat. A good pump will help, but where to get such a pump nowadays when Quickex Quicker Pro is no longer for sale? I don't know. Most mini pumps require over 200 strokes to get any reasonable pressure. A CO2 inflator kit could help, but 25g CO2 cartridges are heavy (the 25 grams is the weight of CO2 not the weight of the whole cartridge) and limit how many times you can repair a flat. Also, CO2 diffuses out of the tires faster than air, so when having to use CO2, it is a good idea on the same day to let out the CO2 and replace it with true air with a floor pump. |
619,554 | The trackpad on my HP ProBook 4540s notebook worked perfectly on both Windows and Ubuntu 12.04.
Then suddenly it stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04 but it work perfectly on Windows 7.
How can I enable the trackpad on Ubuntu 12.04? | 2013/07/14 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/619554",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/237987/"
] | Just uninstall the ask toolbar from Control panel -> Programs -> Uninstall a Program
It will leave java installed so you can still play minecraft.
There are many kinds of bad software, and Ask Toolbar, while stupid, is not trying to steal your bank account info. It is a good idea to avoid installing software you don't need. Its a lot easier to keep a nice clean system free of the software that really IS trying to break into your bank account. | Yes uninstall ask toolbar from uninstall a program, and when downloading a program read the complete installation instructions and uncheck programs not wanted. Pay attention. There may be more unwanted programs installed at the same time. |
619,554 | The trackpad on my HP ProBook 4540s notebook worked perfectly on both Windows and Ubuntu 12.04.
Then suddenly it stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04 but it work perfectly on Windows 7.
How can I enable the trackpad on Ubuntu 12.04? | 2013/07/14 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/619554",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/237987/"
] | Just uninstall the ask toolbar from Control panel -> Programs -> Uninstall a Program
It will leave java installed so you can still play minecraft.
There are many kinds of bad software, and Ask Toolbar, while stupid, is not trying to steal your bank account info. It is a good idea to avoid installing software you don't need. Its a lot easier to keep a nice clean system free of the software that really IS trying to break into your bank account. | While AskToolbar is not a spyware it hijacks your browser's default homepage and search engines. Also many report that its removal is difficult (simply trying to uninstall it from Control Panel did not work for some people).
When Installing Java, make sure to clear the check box next to Install AskToolbar so that it doesn't install it.
There is a petition here to demand removal of AskToolbar from Java. Sign it here and pass it around:
<http://change.org/petitions/oracle-corporation-stop-bundling-ask-toolbar-with-the-java-installer> |
619,554 | The trackpad on my HP ProBook 4540s notebook worked perfectly on both Windows and Ubuntu 12.04.
Then suddenly it stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04 but it work perfectly on Windows 7.
How can I enable the trackpad on Ubuntu 12.04? | 2013/07/14 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/619554",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/237987/"
] | Just uninstall the ask toolbar from Control panel -> Programs -> Uninstall a Program
It will leave java installed so you can still play minecraft.
There are many kinds of bad software, and Ask Toolbar, while stupid, is not trying to steal your bank account info. It is a good idea to avoid installing software you don't need. Its a lot easier to keep a nice clean system free of the software that really IS trying to break into your bank account. | Looking online for a generally accepted standard on the behaviors of spyware is difficult. An example of one is [the "AntiSpyware Coalition"](http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/newsroom/index.htm) but their last "newsroom" update was in 2008.
Spyware generally attempts to install itself without your consent, and resists attempts to legitimately remove it.
The Java installer provides a check box allowing you to opt-out of Ask.com toolbar installation, and also, the uninstaller does cleanly remove the software (though I don't know if it resets default settings to the way they were before install). So by leaving the box checked and clicking Next in the installer you allowed the install.
I am not sure if the Ask.com toolbar collects personal information. It's possible that it does - I believe toolbars can collect things in relation to the browser, such as URLs you type, browsing history, etc. though you would have to study the provided APIs by Internet Explorer in regard to third-party browser extensions to be sure. *Please note I do not know for a fact that the Ask.com toolbar does this.* The [Ask.com EULA](http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/ask_eula.shtml) that you agree to by clicking on may permit it, and you should read it (I haven't).
**You just have to pay attention to the installer dialogs instead of blindly clicking through it.**
Anyway, as others have mentioned, you can just remove it from Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features and it is gone. |
619,554 | The trackpad on my HP ProBook 4540s notebook worked perfectly on both Windows and Ubuntu 12.04.
Then suddenly it stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04 but it work perfectly on Windows 7.
How can I enable the trackpad on Ubuntu 12.04? | 2013/07/14 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/619554",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/237987/"
] | Yes uninstall ask toolbar from uninstall a program, and when downloading a program read the complete installation instructions and uncheck programs not wanted. Pay attention. There may be more unwanted programs installed at the same time. | Looking online for a generally accepted standard on the behaviors of spyware is difficult. An example of one is [the "AntiSpyware Coalition"](http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/newsroom/index.htm) but their last "newsroom" update was in 2008.
Spyware generally attempts to install itself without your consent, and resists attempts to legitimately remove it.
The Java installer provides a check box allowing you to opt-out of Ask.com toolbar installation, and also, the uninstaller does cleanly remove the software (though I don't know if it resets default settings to the way they were before install). So by leaving the box checked and clicking Next in the installer you allowed the install.
I am not sure if the Ask.com toolbar collects personal information. It's possible that it does - I believe toolbars can collect things in relation to the browser, such as URLs you type, browsing history, etc. though you would have to study the provided APIs by Internet Explorer in regard to third-party browser extensions to be sure. *Please note I do not know for a fact that the Ask.com toolbar does this.* The [Ask.com EULA](http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/ask_eula.shtml) that you agree to by clicking on may permit it, and you should read it (I haven't).
**You just have to pay attention to the installer dialogs instead of blindly clicking through it.**
Anyway, as others have mentioned, you can just remove it from Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features and it is gone. |
619,554 | The trackpad on my HP ProBook 4540s notebook worked perfectly on both Windows and Ubuntu 12.04.
Then suddenly it stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04 but it work perfectly on Windows 7.
How can I enable the trackpad on Ubuntu 12.04? | 2013/07/14 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/619554",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/237987/"
] | While AskToolbar is not a spyware it hijacks your browser's default homepage and search engines. Also many report that its removal is difficult (simply trying to uninstall it from Control Panel did not work for some people).
When Installing Java, make sure to clear the check box next to Install AskToolbar so that it doesn't install it.
There is a petition here to demand removal of AskToolbar from Java. Sign it here and pass it around:
<http://change.org/petitions/oracle-corporation-stop-bundling-ask-toolbar-with-the-java-installer> | Looking online for a generally accepted standard on the behaviors of spyware is difficult. An example of one is [the "AntiSpyware Coalition"](http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/newsroom/index.htm) but their last "newsroom" update was in 2008.
Spyware generally attempts to install itself without your consent, and resists attempts to legitimately remove it.
The Java installer provides a check box allowing you to opt-out of Ask.com toolbar installation, and also, the uninstaller does cleanly remove the software (though I don't know if it resets default settings to the way they were before install). So by leaving the box checked and clicking Next in the installer you allowed the install.
I am not sure if the Ask.com toolbar collects personal information. It's possible that it does - I believe toolbars can collect things in relation to the browser, such as URLs you type, browsing history, etc. though you would have to study the provided APIs by Internet Explorer in regard to third-party browser extensions to be sure. *Please note I do not know for a fact that the Ask.com toolbar does this.* The [Ask.com EULA](http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/ask_eula.shtml) that you agree to by clicking on may permit it, and you should read it (I haven't).
**You just have to pay attention to the installer dialogs instead of blindly clicking through it.**
Anyway, as others have mentioned, you can just remove it from Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features and it is gone. |
8,373,383 | I'm using the [Facebook iOS SDK](https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk). In my code I have authorized my app with the default permissions, so my session is valid until the expiration date is reached. However, after the expiration date is reached, I attempt to reauthorize in order to "refresh my OAuth token", as [asked before](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3610682/how-to-refresh-an-oauth-token-when-using-the-facebook-iphone-sdk).
However, when I attempt to reauthorize, it displays a dialog saying I have already authorized my app, even though I expect it to just update my OAuth token without a dialog. According to facebook, [this is possible](http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/500/):
>
> When you redirect the user to the auth dialog, the user is not
> prompted for permissions if the user has already authorized your
> application. **Facebook will return you a valid access token without any
> user facing dialog**.
>
>
>
However, I do get a dialog and I'd like to know how I can refresh the access token **without** getting the dialog. | 2011/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8373383",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/887030/"
] | A recent [commit](https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/commit/4aa2a663b2b735cc736b4177a1947e176d9f4446) in the Facebook iOS SDK project included an "extend access token" method for extending an expired token.
More information about this and the deprecation of "offline\_access" is in Facebook Developer's [blog post](http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/640/). | A possible work around is to request offline\_access as a permission. Then the access token only expires when:
The user logs out of facebook
Changes their password
Revokes permissions for your app via the facebook website
If anyone has a better answer id like to know too. Requesting offline access for my app could look a bit suspicious (even though the only reason I need it is for non-expiring access token, I wont actually be accessing a users account when their not using my app). |
97,064 | I vaguely know that a good credit score is very important in the US (we do not have such concept in France for individuals).
I was wondering whether such credit score can be boosted through some kind of sponsorship?
A real life scenario would be a company absolutely willing to bring in a very senior employee from abroad who would certainly want to avoid being treated as a fresh graduate, credit-wise. | 2018/07/02 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/97064",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/29745/"
] | It depends on the clause of the Direct Deposit agreement.
Some Direct Deposit agreements include a clause including permission to make withdrawals, the actionary phrase may be as simple as 'I permit {organisation} to deposit and withdraw on my account'.
If there is no withdrawal authorization provided, such things as correcting overpayments or incorrect deposits are handled through normal banking procedures. | Personal: A company I had worked for erroneously posted two checks to my direct deposit. There was also a debit in my account, for correction. So I can not say if it is a withdrawal per se, or just a reversal of the electronic money transfer. |
97,064 | I vaguely know that a good credit score is very important in the US (we do not have such concept in France for individuals).
I was wondering whether such credit score can be boosted through some kind of sponsorship?
A real life scenario would be a company absolutely willing to bring in a very senior employee from abroad who would certainly want to avoid being treated as a fresh graduate, credit-wise. | 2018/07/02 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/97064",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/29745/"
] | Usually, when you sign up for direct deposit you have to sign a form giving your consent. This contains a clause which allows the company to make withdrawals up to the paycheck amount, in order to correct any errors.
In short, if you signed up for direct deposit then you have already given your consent for them to fix errors by withdrawing money.
If you do not consent (and therefore do not get direct deposit), they will usually require you to write a check to the company for the difference. | It depends on the clause of the Direct Deposit agreement.
Some Direct Deposit agreements include a clause including permission to make withdrawals, the actionary phrase may be as simple as 'I permit {organisation} to deposit and withdraw on my account'.
If there is no withdrawal authorization provided, such things as correcting overpayments or incorrect deposits are handled through normal banking procedures. |
97,064 | I vaguely know that a good credit score is very important in the US (we do not have such concept in France for individuals).
I was wondering whether such credit score can be boosted through some kind of sponsorship?
A real life scenario would be a company absolutely willing to bring in a very senior employee from abroad who would certainly want to avoid being treated as a fresh graduate, credit-wise. | 2018/07/02 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/97064",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/29745/"
] | Usually, when you sign up for direct deposit you have to sign a form giving your consent. This contains a clause which allows the company to make withdrawals up to the paycheck amount, in order to correct any errors.
In short, if you signed up for direct deposit then you have already given your consent for them to fix errors by withdrawing money.
If you do not consent (and therefore do not get direct deposit), they will usually require you to write a check to the company for the difference. | Note that many large companies don't offer any other payment methods, so you are bound to use direct deposit (or work for free or get another job).
I have never signed anything, and from the people in HR I know they would never do that (taking money back). If you owe them a correction, they (snail-)mail you about it, and give you thirty days or more to correct it. The assumption is that the moment money gets into your account, you trusted it's yours and spent it immediately.
Update: after some googling, it seems that such forms typically/often(?) *do* authorize 'appropriate corrections/debits'. See for example this Intuit template that comes with Quicken: <https://http-download.intuit.com/http.intuit/CMO/payroll/support/PDFs/Misc/DD_Form.pdf>.
Second update: many states have laws that allow the employer to enforce direct deposit. See for example <https://www.patriotsoftware.com/payroll/training/blog/can-employers-make-direct-deposit-mandatory/> for a map (scroll down one page). Overall, 82% of all employees use direct deposit. |
97,064 | I vaguely know that a good credit score is very important in the US (we do not have such concept in France for individuals).
I was wondering whether such credit score can be boosted through some kind of sponsorship?
A real life scenario would be a company absolutely willing to bring in a very senior employee from abroad who would certainly want to avoid being treated as a fresh graduate, credit-wise. | 2018/07/02 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/97064",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/29745/"
] | Usually, when you sign up for direct deposit you have to sign a form giving your consent. This contains a clause which allows the company to make withdrawals up to the paycheck amount, in order to correct any errors.
In short, if you signed up for direct deposit then you have already given your consent for them to fix errors by withdrawing money.
If you do not consent (and therefore do not get direct deposit), they will usually require you to write a check to the company for the difference. | While the company may be able to take money back from your account, they still have to pay your salary. For example if the company decided to lower their salary, they have no right to do that and take their money back from your account.
In an extreme case, if the company was going bankrupt and decided to take money from your account to pay someone else, I believe law.stackexchange.com would tell you they are in trouble. |
97,064 | I vaguely know that a good credit score is very important in the US (we do not have such concept in France for individuals).
I was wondering whether such credit score can be boosted through some kind of sponsorship?
A real life scenario would be a company absolutely willing to bring in a very senior employee from abroad who would certainly want to avoid being treated as a fresh graduate, credit-wise. | 2018/07/02 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/97064",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/29745/"
] | It depends on the clause of the Direct Deposit agreement.
Some Direct Deposit agreements include a clause including permission to make withdrawals, the actionary phrase may be as simple as 'I permit {organisation} to deposit and withdraw on my account'.
If there is no withdrawal authorization provided, such things as correcting overpayments or incorrect deposits are handled through normal banking procedures. | While the company may be able to take money back from your account, they still have to pay your salary. For example if the company decided to lower their salary, they have no right to do that and take their money back from your account.
In an extreme case, if the company was going bankrupt and decided to take money from your account to pay someone else, I believe law.stackexchange.com would tell you they are in trouble. |
97,064 | I vaguely know that a good credit score is very important in the US (we do not have such concept in France for individuals).
I was wondering whether such credit score can be boosted through some kind of sponsorship?
A real life scenario would be a company absolutely willing to bring in a very senior employee from abroad who would certainly want to avoid being treated as a fresh graduate, credit-wise. | 2018/07/02 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/97064",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/29745/"
] | Usually, when you sign up for direct deposit you have to sign a form giving your consent. This contains a clause which allows the company to make withdrawals up to the paycheck amount, in order to correct any errors.
In short, if you signed up for direct deposit then you have already given your consent for them to fix errors by withdrawing money.
If you do not consent (and therefore do not get direct deposit), they will usually require you to write a check to the company for the difference. | Personal: A company I had worked for erroneously posted two checks to my direct deposit. There was also a debit in my account, for correction. So I can not say if it is a withdrawal per se, or just a reversal of the electronic money transfer. |
97,064 | I vaguely know that a good credit score is very important in the US (we do not have such concept in France for individuals).
I was wondering whether such credit score can be boosted through some kind of sponsorship?
A real life scenario would be a company absolutely willing to bring in a very senior employee from abroad who would certainly want to avoid being treated as a fresh graduate, credit-wise. | 2018/07/02 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/97064",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/29745/"
] | Personal: A company I had worked for erroneously posted two checks to my direct deposit. There was also a debit in my account, for correction. So I can not say if it is a withdrawal per se, or just a reversal of the electronic money transfer. | While the company may be able to take money back from your account, they still have to pay your salary. For example if the company decided to lower their salary, they have no right to do that and take their money back from your account.
In an extreme case, if the company was going bankrupt and decided to take money from your account to pay someone else, I believe law.stackexchange.com would tell you they are in trouble. |
97,064 | I vaguely know that a good credit score is very important in the US (we do not have such concept in France for individuals).
I was wondering whether such credit score can be boosted through some kind of sponsorship?
A real life scenario would be a company absolutely willing to bring in a very senior employee from abroad who would certainly want to avoid being treated as a fresh graduate, credit-wise. | 2018/07/02 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/97064",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/29745/"
] | Note that many large companies don't offer any other payment methods, so you are bound to use direct deposit (or work for free or get another job).
I have never signed anything, and from the people in HR I know they would never do that (taking money back). If you owe them a correction, they (snail-)mail you about it, and give you thirty days or more to correct it. The assumption is that the moment money gets into your account, you trusted it's yours and spent it immediately.
Update: after some googling, it seems that such forms typically/often(?) *do* authorize 'appropriate corrections/debits'. See for example this Intuit template that comes with Quicken: <https://http-download.intuit.com/http.intuit/CMO/payroll/support/PDFs/Misc/DD_Form.pdf>.
Second update: many states have laws that allow the employer to enforce direct deposit. See for example <https://www.patriotsoftware.com/payroll/training/blog/can-employers-make-direct-deposit-mandatory/> for a map (scroll down one page). Overall, 82% of all employees use direct deposit. | While the company may be able to take money back from your account, they still have to pay your salary. For example if the company decided to lower their salary, they have no right to do that and take their money back from your account.
In an extreme case, if the company was going bankrupt and decided to take money from your account to pay someone else, I believe law.stackexchange.com would tell you they are in trouble. |
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