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262,390 | In English, do you have a proverb like “big fish eats small fish” which means “justice belongs to the stronger”?
For example, suppose there is a successful new startup. Big companies start to eye the smaller one. Finally they acquire the small startup even though the startup wants to be independent. But the startup co... | 2015/07/26 | [
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] | We have an allied proverb sometimes referred to as "the New Golden Rule":
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> He who has the gold rules.
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Doyle, Mieder & Shapiro, *The [Yale] Dictionary of Modern Proverbs* (2012), expresses this saying somewhat differently:
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> He who has the gold makes the rules.
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> Whoever has the gold ... | In a larger sense, we can say "Survival of the fittest" which is Darwin's famous theory. It not a proverb, but a phrase that can be used.
This can be used in the context where a company is able to sustain in the volatile global market.
This can also be used in the above scenario of comparing the might of one company ag... |
262,390 | In English, do you have a proverb like “big fish eats small fish” which means “justice belongs to the stronger”?
For example, suppose there is a successful new startup. Big companies start to eye the smaller one. Finally they acquire the small startup even though the startup wants to be independent. But the startup co... | 2015/07/26 | [
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] | Another saying that can convey the concept you are referring to is:
***[The law of the jungle](http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+law+of+the+jungle):***
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> * the way in which only the strongest and cleverest people in a society stay alive or succeed.
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> + I was brought up on the streets where the law o... | An old proverb, **"The weakest go to the wall"** (or "...goes to the wall" as in Romeo and Juliet) looks like what you are looking for.
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> * "go to the wall" - Lose a conflict, be defeated [TFD](http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/go+to+the+wall)
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There is also **"The House always wins."**, an old proverb ... |
262,390 | In English, do you have a proverb like “big fish eats small fish” which means “justice belongs to the stronger”?
For example, suppose there is a successful new startup. Big companies start to eye the smaller one. Finally they acquire the small startup even though the startup wants to be independent. But the startup co... | 2015/07/26 | [
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] | In a larger sense, we can say "Survival of the fittest" which is Darwin's famous theory. It not a proverb, but a phrase that can be used.
This can be used in the context where a company is able to sustain in the volatile global market.
This can also be used in the above scenario of comparing the might of one company ag... | An old proverb, **"The weakest go to the wall"** (or "...goes to the wall" as in Romeo and Juliet) looks like what you are looking for.
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> * "go to the wall" - Lose a conflict, be defeated [TFD](http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/go+to+the+wall)
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There is also **"The House always wins."**, an old proverb ... |
262,390 | In English, do you have a proverb like “big fish eats small fish” which means “justice belongs to the stronger”?
For example, suppose there is a successful new startup. Big companies start to eye the smaller one. Finally they acquire the small startup even though the startup wants to be independent. But the startup co... | 2015/07/26 | [
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] | Another saying that can convey the concept you are referring to is:
***[The law of the jungle](http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+law+of+the+jungle):***
>
> * the way in which only the strongest and cleverest people in a society stay alive or succeed.
>
>
> + I was brought up on the streets where the law o... | In a larger sense, we can say "Survival of the fittest" which is Darwin's famous theory. It not a proverb, but a phrase that can be used.
This can be used in the context where a company is able to sustain in the volatile global market.
This can also be used in the above scenario of comparing the might of one company ag... |
285,196 | I have several PDF files in iBooks. I want to open them with the "PDF reader" App instead. How do I do this? | 2017/05/29 | [
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] | Another method, simpler, not involving clouds is as follows:
1. Touch and hold on book's icon in iBooks, and, from pop-up menu
choose "Print", see figure below:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BMHyW.png)
2. On the preview page, do inverse pinch (two fi... | Solution for MacOS (the question originally didn't specify OS)
To do this, just open the folder which contains your iBooks, right click on a particular book, go to "open with", and choose the program you want (say pdf reader).
This [post](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/259836/where-are-my-ibooks-stored-in... |
249,033 | I need an audio streaming setup that supports the following formats: WMA, AAC and MP3. The streams must be compatible both with desktop players like Winamp. Win Media Player and with Flash Player and devices like iPhone, Android, etc.
I'm looking for a single server solution and a single encoder solution that would me... | 2011/03/18 | [
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] | I believe that FFserver can do what you're looking for. It's a part of the open source cross-platform FFmpeg suite, available at <http://www.ffmpeg.org/> | A combination of [Digital Rapids](http://www.digital-rapids.com/) various products would do what you want but not for free, not sure of any open source equivalents. |
249,033 | I need an audio streaming setup that supports the following formats: WMA, AAC and MP3. The streams must be compatible both with desktop players like Winamp. Win Media Player and with Flash Player and devices like iPhone, Android, etc.
I'm looking for a single server solution and a single encoder solution that would me... | 2011/03/18 | [
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] | Try VLC: <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/>
The most important advantages are: CLI interface + GUI, nearly all OS, remote control over web interface | A combination of [Digital Rapids](http://www.digital-rapids.com/) various products would do what you want but not for free, not sure of any open source equivalents. |
249,033 | I need an audio streaming setup that supports the following formats: WMA, AAC and MP3. The streams must be compatible both with desktop players like Winamp. Win Media Player and with Flash Player and devices like iPhone, Android, etc.
I'm looking for a single server solution and a single encoder solution that would me... | 2011/03/18 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/249033",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/16330/"
] | I believe that FFserver can do what you're looking for. It's a part of the open source cross-platform FFmpeg suite, available at <http://www.ffmpeg.org/> | Try VLC: <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/>
The most important advantages are: CLI interface + GUI, nearly all OS, remote control over web interface |
6,387 | I have no problem with identifying whether a given molecule has geometrical isomerism if it's not cyclic. But cyclic compounds are confusing for me. For example, how to check whether the following molecule posses geometrical isomerism?
[![ 2,2,5,5‐tetramethyl‐4‐[(3Z)‐thiolan‐3‐ylidene]oxane](https://i.stack.imgur.com/... | 2013/10/02 | [
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] | I hope the statutes of limitation haven't run out. Structure **1** is a (*Z*)-alkene. Using Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP) protocol, the rings are deconstructed as shown in diagram **2**. The larger red arrow marks the higher priority carbon (C,C,C). The smaller red arrow points to the lower priority[carbon (C,H,H). For the ... | Two ways to think about it:
* Intuitively: Take one side of the double bond (say, the sulfur-containing one) and imagine rotating it by 180° (so what was up is now down, in your drawing). Is this molecule the same? If it is, then you don't have isomerism. If the procedure gives a new, different molecule, then you have... |
236,161 | Is this sentence correct: The teacher told every single one of the pupils rewrite their essays. | 2015/03/28 | [
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] | The other answer indicates correctly a "to" is missing in your formulation.
However, you can get rid of "to" in this recast using the subjunctive mood:
*The teacher **required** that every single one of the pupils **rewrite** their essays.*
*The teacher **required** that every single one of the pupils **should rewri... | It's fine, it's just missing the word "to":
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> The teacher told every single one of the pupils **to** rewrite their essays.
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It would also be fine to say:
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236,161 | Is this sentence correct: The teacher told every single one of the pupils rewrite their essays. | 2015/03/28 | [
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] | It's fine, it's just missing the word "to":
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> The teacher told every single one of the pupils **to** rewrite their essays.
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It would also be fine to say:
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> The teacher told all the pupils to rewrite their essays.
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> | 'Every single one / every single one of the pupils' takes [singular agreement](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/46311/is-each-and-every-one-of-you-singular-or-plural). So assuming there was one essay per pupil, and gender of the pupils was unknown or mixed , the correct version is
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236,161 | Is this sentence correct: The teacher told every single one of the pupils rewrite their essays. | 2015/03/28 | [
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] | The other answer indicates correctly a "to" is missing in your formulation.
However, you can get rid of "to" in this recast using the subjunctive mood:
*The teacher **required** that every single one of the pupils **rewrite** their essays.*
*The teacher **required** that every single one of the pupils **should rewri... | 'Every single one / every single one of the pupils' takes [singular agreement](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/46311/is-each-and-every-one-of-you-singular-or-plural). So assuming there was one essay per pupil, and gender of the pupils was unknown or mixed , the correct version is
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> The teacher told ever... |
18,890 | John 14:16 says:
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> And I will pray to God that he will send to you another *comforter*, who will abide with you for ever!
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Muslims claim that "another comforter" means Ahmad in Arabic, which means "Praised One"; and Muhammad also means "Praise One" hence, Ahmad and Muhammad are synonyms (same meaning).
... | 2013/09/07 | [
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] | This is an ancient custom which predates Christianity. Pliny (*Natural History* 28.5) records a custom among the Romans of greeting someone who sneezes:
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> Why is it that we salute a person when he sneezes, an observance which Tiberius Caesar, they say, the most unsociable of men, as we all know, used to exact, when... | The practice is not Christian, by doctrine, but became Christian by circumstance.
During the [Black Death](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death), a plague which killed approximately 25% of the Earth's population in 14th century, sneezing was thought to be a first symptom of the infected.
But the practice can be t... |
26,337 | I was recently reading an interlinear of this verse and realized that the Hebrew doesn't refer to any "us" as we see in the English versions. It appears to read:
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> and make man in image and likeness.
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Is there anything in the grammar that suggests that we add "us" or is this merely a translational issue be... | 2016/12/25 | [
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] | The Hebrew word for 'make' is נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה, from the root עשׂה. The word has the following morphological parsing:
* Qal stem (also called the paˈʕal): this is the basic Hebrew active stem
* 1st person plural
* Imperfect conjugation: this is the normal future conjugation, but it also marks imperatives, especially for first... | I sympathize with your unease, but unfortunately we simply must translate it this way because of the limits of the English language. This has to do with the fact that English simply does not have the grammatical mood used in the Biblical Hebrew.
Languages signal the modality of a given verb based on the mood it is pl... |
26,337 | I was recently reading an interlinear of this verse and realized that the Hebrew doesn't refer to any "us" as we see in the English versions. It appears to read:
>
> and make man in image and likeness.
>
>
>
Is there anything in the grammar that suggests that we add "us" or is this merely a translational issue be... | 2016/12/25 | [
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] | I sympathize with your unease, but unfortunately we simply must translate it this way because of the limits of the English language. This has to do with the fact that English simply does not have the grammatical mood used in the Biblical Hebrew.
Languages signal the modality of a given verb based on the mood it is pl... | Simple answer: It's a twisting of scripture to promote the pagan concept of the trinity. "let us" is added to the verb "make" to complete a phrase but "us" is referring to H430 elohim which in 2,598 occurrences NEVER is used to represent a plural. Elohim IS ALWAYS SINGULAR. Trinitarians conveniently ignore this fact an... |
26,337 | I was recently reading an interlinear of this verse and realized that the Hebrew doesn't refer to any "us" as we see in the English versions. It appears to read:
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> and make man in image and likeness.
>
>
>
Is there anything in the grammar that suggests that we add "us" or is this merely a translational issue be... | 2016/12/25 | [
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] | The Hebrew word for 'make' is נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה, from the root עשׂה. The word has the following morphological parsing:
* Qal stem (also called the paˈʕal): this is the basic Hebrew active stem
* 1st person plural
* Imperfect conjugation: this is the normal future conjugation, but it also marks imperatives, especially for first... | Simple answer: It's a twisting of scripture to promote the pagan concept of the trinity. "let us" is added to the verb "make" to complete a phrase but "us" is referring to H430 elohim which in 2,598 occurrences NEVER is used to represent a plural. Elohim IS ALWAYS SINGULAR. Trinitarians conveniently ignore this fact an... |
16,414,939 | I don't know how search engine bots work, database entries for robots on my browser records are e.g. Googlebot, msnbot, BingBot, etc.
So I don't know if they have javascript enabled or anything.
Why I want to know if they have javascript enabled? Because I want to require Javascript on my site. What I did to do this ... | 2013/05/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16414939",
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] | Search robots can and will crawl your site, but they do not understand JavaScript, so they will ignore any JS. They should however have no issue crawling the page you described. | As far as I know search engines can parse content recognizing different content and behavior. They can also penalize specific hiding content. I suspect Google is a very smart search engine and has the ability to recognize some javascript but the internal behavior of their system is unknown to us. |
16,414,939 | I don't know how search engine bots work, database entries for robots on my browser records are e.g. Googlebot, msnbot, BingBot, etc.
So I don't know if they have javascript enabled or anything.
Why I want to know if they have javascript enabled? Because I want to require Javascript on my site. What I did to do this ... | 2013/05/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16414939",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | Yes, since 2010 at least googlebot was known for understanding not direct links created in (some) javascript, but they won't need your javascript to read links, as those are plainly visible in html. The same goes with people browsing with javascript turned off. | As far as I know search engines can parse content recognizing different content and behavior. They can also penalize specific hiding content. I suspect Google is a very smart search engine and has the ability to recognize some javascript but the internal behavior of their system is unknown to us. |
119,256 | At the top of a bottle of pop, there is a corkscrew pattern into which the plastic cap is twisted, tightened and sealed.
What is the name of this feature of the bottle? | 2013/07/15 | [
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] | The *fishbowl* is the fishbowl of public scrutiny.
The *one* in *one of someone* is the portrait.
So this is the portrait of a person unable to make the transition to a life wide-open to public scrutiny. | The image below (from *[fishbowl](http://images.yourdictionary.com/fishbowl)* at yourdictionary.com) shows a fishbowl, as often used stereotypically to portray how visible fish are when they live in a transparent glass bowl that anyone can see through. Saying that Governor McDonnell and his wife are in “the Richmond fi... |
119,256 | At the top of a bottle of pop, there is a corkscrew pattern into which the plastic cap is twisted, tightened and sealed.
What is the name of this feature of the bottle? | 2013/07/15 | [
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] | The *fishbowl* is the fishbowl of public scrutiny.
The *one* in *one of someone* is the portrait.
So this is the portrait of a person unable to make the transition to a life wide-open to public scrutiny. | A fishbowl is a highly visible way of housing a pet such as a goldfish, because they are on display 24/7.
Richmond is the state capital of Virginia, and the "Richmond fishbowl" is a reference to the fact that being a governor (or first lady) of Virginia in Richmond is like "living in a fishbowl."
The comment was that... |
119,256 | At the top of a bottle of pop, there is a corkscrew pattern into which the plastic cap is twisted, tightened and sealed.
What is the name of this feature of the bottle? | 2013/07/15 | [
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] | The image below (from *[fishbowl](http://images.yourdictionary.com/fishbowl)* at yourdictionary.com) shows a fishbowl, as often used stereotypically to portray how visible fish are when they live in a transparent glass bowl that anyone can see through. Saying that Governor McDonnell and his wife are in “the Richmond fi... | A fishbowl is a highly visible way of housing a pet such as a goldfish, because they are on display 24/7.
Richmond is the state capital of Virginia, and the "Richmond fishbowl" is a reference to the fact that being a governor (or first lady) of Virginia in Richmond is like "living in a fishbowl."
The comment was that... |
5,121 | what is the exact measurement of coffee ground for espresso, I bought a new machine, I don't use coffee pods just coffee grounds. | 2020/02/27 | [
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] | Your basket has a size that suits a certain amount of coffee. This can range anywhere between 8-10g to 22g. Check if there are any indicators of this. Failing that, overfill the basket and then sweep your finger across the excess over the top and see how much coffee that is, that's a ballpark figure for how much the ba... | Perfect changes per machine and per user. You will have to experiment. (What a horror! Think about all the coffee)
Pack the coffee; adjust the pressure and give it a go. Be methodical. Change one thing at time. If you're methodical you'll write down your results as you go along.
Have fun. |
5,121 | what is the exact measurement of coffee ground for espresso, I bought a new machine, I don't use coffee pods just coffee grounds. | 2020/02/27 | [
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] | Perfect changes per machine and per user. You will have to experiment. (What a horror! Think about all the coffee)
Pack the coffee; adjust the pressure and give it a go. Be methodical. Change one thing at time. If you're methodical you'll write down your results as you go along.
Have fun. | It's an art not a science. I personally don't hit my perfect very often. There are just too many variables: coffee freshness, coffee 'stickyness' aka how well it will compact, size of the grind, how much pressure used to compact into the portafilter, the temperature of the water, the pressure of the water, the length o... |
5,121 | what is the exact measurement of coffee ground for espresso, I bought a new machine, I don't use coffee pods just coffee grounds. | 2020/02/27 | [
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] | Your basket has a size that suits a certain amount of coffee. This can range anywhere between 8-10g to 22g. Check if there are any indicators of this. Failing that, overfill the basket and then sweep your finger across the excess over the top and see how much coffee that is, that's a ballpark figure for how much the ba... | It's an art not a science. I personally don't hit my perfect very often. There are just too many variables: coffee freshness, coffee 'stickyness' aka how well it will compact, size of the grind, how much pressure used to compact into the portafilter, the temperature of the water, the pressure of the water, the length o... |
759,706 | I want to import specific font in PowerPoint, but I don't know how...
The powerpoint file would be send to another computer, so, if possible, I want integrate the font directly in the powerpoint file.
Any help appreciate! Thank | 2014/05/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/759706",
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] | Only the Windows version of PPT can embed fonts and only the Windows version can use fonts that have been embedded. Mac is totally out of the loop here.
On Windows, only Truetype fonts can be embedded (ie, not Type1) and then only those that the manufacturer permits to be embedded.
PPT's warnings when you try to sa... | Go into File -> Options. Click the "Save" tab on the left. Tick the box for "Embed fonts in the file" (circled in the screenshot below.
So long as there's no need to edit the file on the other computer, this should allow text in any font to appear identical on both computers.
![enter image description here](https:/... |
759,706 | I want to import specific font in PowerPoint, but I don't know how...
The powerpoint file would be send to another computer, so, if possible, I want integrate the font directly in the powerpoint file.
Any help appreciate! Thank | 2014/05/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/759706",
"https://superuser.com",
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] | Go into File -> Options. Click the "Save" tab on the left. Tick the box for "Embed fonts in the file" (circled in the screenshot below.
So long as there's no need to edit the file on the other computer, this should allow text in any font to appear identical on both computers.
, you are going to have to use an app for this.
Currently, there is only one app on the Mac App Store that can do this for you (Please correct me if I’m wrong).
Presentation Font Embedder is a tool which will walk... |
759,706 | I want to import specific font in PowerPoint, but I don't know how...
The powerpoint file would be send to another computer, so, if possible, I want integrate the font directly in the powerpoint file.
Any help appreciate! Thank | 2014/05/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/759706",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/327270/"
] | Only the Windows version of PPT can embed fonts and only the Windows version can use fonts that have been embedded. Mac is totally out of the loop here.
On Windows, only Truetype fonts can be embedded (ie, not Type1) and then only those that the manufacturer permits to be embedded.
PPT's warnings when you try to sa... | Since Powerpoint for Mac doesn’t embed fonts into presentations (unlike Powerpoint for Microsoft Windows), you are going to have to use an app for this.
Currently, there is only one app on the Mac App Store that can do this for you (Please correct me if I’m wrong).
Presentation Font Embedder is a tool which will walk... |
34,792 | In an interview with an Ohio television station, [the 2016 Republican nominee for President said](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-my-position-on-keeping-terrorists-out-is-what-bothered?utm_term=.mePk0y2gW#.kfLrQGl9d):
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> when you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allow... | 2016/08/02 | [
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] | This is a claim that he has used multiple times and there has been [no evidence](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-us-letting-tens-thousands-terror/) to support his claim. As the article notes, "Trump is in the numerical ballpark if he’s referring to the numbe... | I'm not sure to what group of people he is referring - normal Muslim immigrants from non-war zones just relocating to the US? Refugees?
If he is referring to refugees, this is unlikely, as these are screened [extensively](https://www.state.gov/j/prm/releases/factsheets/2016/255967.htm) before admitted to the US:
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34,792 | In an interview with an Ohio television station, [the 2016 Republican nominee for President said](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-my-position-on-keeping-terrorists-out-is-what-bothered?utm_term=.mePk0y2gW#.kfLrQGl9d):
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> when you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allow... | 2016/08/02 | [
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] | This is a claim that he has used multiple times and there has been [no evidence](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-us-letting-tens-thousands-terror/) to support his claim. As the article notes, "Trump is in the numerical ballpark if he’s referring to the numbe... | Politifact: Pants on Fire
<http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-us-letting-tens-thousands-terror/>
>
> "Trump is certainly wrong on the facts here," said Daveed
> Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of
> Democracies. That said, Ga... |
34,792 | In an interview with an Ohio television station, [the 2016 Republican nominee for President said](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-my-position-on-keeping-terrorists-out-is-what-bothered?utm_term=.mePk0y2gW#.kfLrQGl9d):
>
> when you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allow... | 2016/08/02 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/34792",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/3837/"
] | This is a claim that he has used multiple times and there has been [no evidence](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-us-letting-tens-thousands-terror/) to support his claim. As the article notes, "Trump is in the numerical ballpark if he’s referring to the numbe... | In order to be a terrorist, a person must have committed an act of terrorism.
Since 2000, there have been 14,000 terrorist events committed. Assuming 10 terrorists per event, that leaves 140,000 potential terrorists in the world.
Lets assume that it is actually half of this in terms of unique people, as several terro... |
34,792 | In an interview with an Ohio television station, [the 2016 Republican nominee for President said](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-my-position-on-keeping-terrorists-out-is-what-bothered?utm_term=.mePk0y2gW#.kfLrQGl9d):
>
> when you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allow... | 2016/08/02 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/34792",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/3837/"
] | I'm not sure to what group of people he is referring - normal Muslim immigrants from non-war zones just relocating to the US? Refugees?
If he is referring to refugees, this is unlikely, as these are screened [extensively](https://www.state.gov/j/prm/releases/factsheets/2016/255967.htm) before admitted to the US:
>
... | Politifact: Pants on Fire
<http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-us-letting-tens-thousands-terror/>
>
> "Trump is certainly wrong on the facts here," said Daveed
> Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of
> Democracies. That said, Ga... |
34,792 | In an interview with an Ohio television station, [the 2016 Republican nominee for President said](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-my-position-on-keeping-terrorists-out-is-what-bothered?utm_term=.mePk0y2gW#.kfLrQGl9d):
>
> when you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allow... | 2016/08/02 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/34792",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/3837/"
] | I'm not sure to what group of people he is referring - normal Muslim immigrants from non-war zones just relocating to the US? Refugees?
If he is referring to refugees, this is unlikely, as these are screened [extensively](https://www.state.gov/j/prm/releases/factsheets/2016/255967.htm) before admitted to the US:
>
... | In order to be a terrorist, a person must have committed an act of terrorism.
Since 2000, there have been 14,000 terrorist events committed. Assuming 10 terrorists per event, that leaves 140,000 potential terrorists in the world.
Lets assume that it is actually half of this in terms of unique people, as several terro... |
193 | Should we assume a culture neutral perspective when asking a question or it's fine to assume Anime & Manga SE is written mainly from foreigners **and** consequently all question are asked in a non-Japanese cultural perspective?
This issue started to bugs me from [What differentiates anime from regular cartoons](https:... | 2012/12/15 | [
"https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/193",
"https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/users/98/"
] | In the particular case you have listed, I'd rather the title be changed to "What differentiates anime from other cartoons?" (changing "regular" to "other"), which I guess is the neutral perspective. It seems to me that it is best to use objective terms whenever possible.
However, I don't think we should change every q... | I think even Japanese actually use "Anime" to refer to Japanese-style cartoons only. And I doubt you'll ever see a Japanese calling a Disney cartoon "Anime".
I don't think there's an issue here. :) |
126,970 | I'm building a web app, but I'm not a designer, so I rely on a lightweight CSS framework to provide the basic styling and structure of different UI elements. However, I usually struggle with how to structure the web app to provide a good UX.
I googled "web app ux design" (and "ui design"), but most of the results talk... | 2019/07/21 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/126970",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/9838/"
] | Depending on technology is a lot of available libraries or visual systems,
for example:
1. Human Interface Guidelines -
<https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/>
2. Material Design - <https://material.io/design/>
You also have ready UI libraries - for start it's good idea to use it:
1. <https:... | I would also recommend checking out Steve Schoger's Refactoring UI work which could be really handy for you. <https://refactoringui.com/>
He has lots of interesting videos on youtube. |
113,592 | Is there any API to get the currently logged in user's name and password in Windows?
Thank you in advance. | 2008/09/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/113592",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20208/"
] | Password: No, this is not retained for security reasons - it's used, then discarded. You could retrieve the encrypted password for this user from the registry, given sufficient privileges, then decrypt it using something like [rainbow tables](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table), but that's extremely resource in... | Note sure how it is done, but "Network Password Recovery" tool from <http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_password_recovery.html> seems to get the password from some cache. |
113,592 | Is there any API to get the currently logged in user's name and password in Windows?
Thank you in advance. | 2008/09/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/113592",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20208/"
] | You can't get the password of a user since its encrypted (not to mention that its a standard practice not to store passwords in plaintext).
For getting the username, you can use [GetUserName](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724432.aspx) or [NPGetUser](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa378803(VS.85).a... | You can get the user name with GetUserName(), but you cannot get the password; this would violate security for dummies 101. |
113,592 | Is there any API to get the currently logged in user's name and password in Windows?
Thank you in advance. | 2008/09/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/113592",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20208/"
] | Full details of Authentication in the Windows API can be found on MSDN:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374735(VS.85).aspx> | You can get the user name with GetUserName(), but you cannot get the password; this would violate security for dummies 101. |
113,592 | Is there any API to get the currently logged in user's name and password in Windows?
Thank you in advance. | 2008/09/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/113592",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20208/"
] | GetUserName will get you the name, but the password you can't get. It's not even something Windows stores, AFAIK - only a hash of your password.
Depending on what you're trying to achieve (you can tell us a bit more..) it's possible to impersonate a logged on user and do stuff on his/her behalf. | re "Network Password Recovery" tool
Windows (upto XP) stores a copy of the passwd with a simpler easy to break encryption - for connecting to older style lanmanager network shares.
The tools generaly try all possible passwords against this, using rainbow tables (precaluted encrypted versions of dictionary words) s... |
113,592 | Is there any API to get the currently logged in user's name and password in Windows?
Thank you in advance. | 2008/09/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/113592",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20208/"
] | Password: No, this is not retained for security reasons - it's used, then discarded. You could retrieve the encrypted password for this user from the registry, given sufficient privileges, then decrypt it using something like [rainbow tables](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table), but that's extremely resource in... | You can't get the password of a user since its encrypted (not to mention that its a standard practice not to store passwords in plaintext).
For getting the username, you can use [GetUserName](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724432.aspx) or [NPGetUser](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa378803(VS.85).a... |
108,630 | Ungoliant and Morgoth formed an alliance temporarily and came to Valinor, while Morgoth cast a dark shadow covering them, Ungoliant sucked the light from the Two Trees and darkened Aman, hence why it fell back into darkness. Meanwhile Morgoth and Ungoliant made their escape across the Helcaraxe, once they returned to M... | 2015/11/24 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/108630",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/53038/"
] | At the moment of their confrontation, obviously yes. In general, perhaps not; there were some extenuating circumstances at the time:
>
> But Ungoliant had grown great, and he less by the power that had gone out of him
>
>
> *The Silmarillion* III *Quenta Silmarillion* Chapter 9: "Of the Flight of the Noldor"
>
>
... | We don't know whether Ungoliant was a Maia or some other kind of being. Just like Tom Bombadil, she was left an enigma by Tolkien. Tolkien's early version of the legends (The Book of Lost Tales) calls her a primeval spirit, believed to be a creature bred of the darkness of the Void. It is possible that she was a physic... |
108,630 | Ungoliant and Morgoth formed an alliance temporarily and came to Valinor, while Morgoth cast a dark shadow covering them, Ungoliant sucked the light from the Two Trees and darkened Aman, hence why it fell back into darkness. Meanwhile Morgoth and Ungoliant made their escape across the Helcaraxe, once they returned to M... | 2015/11/24 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/108630",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/53038/"
] | At the moment of their confrontation, obviously yes. In general, perhaps not; there were some extenuating circumstances at the time:
>
> But Ungoliant had grown great, and he less by the power that had gone out of him
>
>
> *The Silmarillion* III *Quenta Silmarillion* Chapter 9: "Of the Flight of the Noldor"
>
>
... | Ungoliant was basically a result of the evil made in the songs of the Ainur by Melkor. So originally Morgoth was stronger than her. But after drinking the light and power of the Two Trees, she became a match for Morgoth. |
108,630 | Ungoliant and Morgoth formed an alliance temporarily and came to Valinor, while Morgoth cast a dark shadow covering them, Ungoliant sucked the light from the Two Trees and darkened Aman, hence why it fell back into darkness. Meanwhile Morgoth and Ungoliant made their escape across the Helcaraxe, once they returned to M... | 2015/11/24 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/108630",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/53038/"
] | We don't know whether Ungoliant was a Maia or some other kind of being. Just like Tom Bombadil, she was left an enigma by Tolkien. Tolkien's early version of the legends (The Book of Lost Tales) calls her a primeval spirit, believed to be a creature bred of the darkness of the Void. It is possible that she was a physic... | Ungoliant was basically a result of the evil made in the songs of the Ainur by Melkor. So originally Morgoth was stronger than her. But after drinking the light and power of the Two Trees, she became a match for Morgoth. |
568,081 | this is an example circuit in this [PDF from TI](https://www.ti.com/lit/slyy168). (page 19, inrush current stuff)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7H1Mm.jpg)
Description :
>
> In steady-state operation, Q1 is fully turned on and load current
> flo... | 2021/06/02 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/568081",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/276459/"
] | Yes, there is a standard way to mount rocker and toggle switches. Unfortunately, that standard is different between the USA and the UK. USA is on up, UK is on down.
I don't know about the rest of the world, it would interesting if locals of other countries/continents would add in comments what their local standard is. | Generally you want the ON to be at the top or up and the OFF to be at the bottom or down. This makes sense from a human factors perspective but there is no hard and fast rule that says you must do it one way or another.
Personally I find it frustrating when power switches are installed with ON in the bottom or down po... |
568,081 | this is an example circuit in this [PDF from TI](https://www.ti.com/lit/slyy168). (page 19, inrush current stuff)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7H1Mm.jpg)
Description :
>
> In steady-state operation, Q1 is fully turned on and load current
> flo... | 2021/06/02 | [
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"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
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] | From a safety perspective, should the device normally be off or on? Because it seems like with on up, the user has to intentionally turn the device on, and accidentally turning it on would be unlikely. While anything brushing against the switch or falling on it would tend to turn it off. | Generally you want the ON to be at the top or up and the OFF to be at the bottom or down. This makes sense from a human factors perspective but there is no hard and fast rule that says you must do it one way or another.
Personally I find it frustrating when power switches are installed with ON in the bottom or down po... |
568,081 | this is an example circuit in this [PDF from TI](https://www.ti.com/lit/slyy168). (page 19, inrush current stuff)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7H1Mm.jpg)
Description :
>
> In steady-state operation, Q1 is fully turned on and load current
> flo... | 2021/06/02 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/568081",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/276459/"
] | Yes, there is a standard way to mount rocker and toggle switches. Unfortunately, that standard is different between the USA and the UK. USA is on up, UK is on down.
I don't know about the rest of the world, it would interesting if locals of other countries/continents would add in comments what their local standard is. | From a safety perspective, should the device normally be off or on? Because it seems like with on up, the user has to intentionally turn the device on, and accidentally turning it on would be unlikely. While anything brushing against the switch or falling on it would tend to turn it off. |
207,834 | we are running a program which creates 4-5 processes on our MS SQL Server per instance. When the number of processes surpasses 230 the program stops working and crashes every few minutes(The sql server logs say "All schedulers on node0 appear to be deadlocked due to a large number of worker threads waiting on ASYNC\_NE... | 2010/12/01 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/207834",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/62150/"
] | edit here /etc/ssh/sshd\_config and change or add UseDNS no
After that restart service ssh demon
then tray again if problem is some
Tray to change or add /etc/ssh/ssh\_config
in the host \* section
CheckHostIP no | mysql service should be started with --skip-name-resolve or you can set the option in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. For ssh you should make sure UseDNS is set to "no" in /etc/ssh/sshd\_config |
134,216 | Many processors / µCs / dev-platforms (BeagleBoard, Arduino,...) use interrupts.
These can be triggered by the detection of:
* HIGH level
* RISING edge
* CHANGING level (either FALLING or RISING edge)
* FALLING edge
* LOW level
Now either of two things must be true:
1. FALLING and LOW (/ RISING and HIGH) are vir... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/134216",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/35490/"
] | Level triggered (high or low) can allow the source to say "nevermind" or to keep the trigger active until the ISR gets around to it. Interrupt latency is not guaranteed on a single core with multiple triggers, though it's usually pretty fast. Generally, the signal for a level-triggered interrupt is itself edge-triggere... | Level triggering is useful when a continuous action requires firing off repeated events, e.g. ringing a bell while an alarm is active. In this case the ISR would be responsible for energizing and deenergizing a solenoid only once; the fact that the interrupt trigger is still present would be responsible for extending t... |
134,216 | Many processors / µCs / dev-platforms (BeagleBoard, Arduino,...) use interrupts.
These can be triggered by the detection of:
* HIGH level
* RISING edge
* CHANGING level (either FALLING or RISING edge)
* FALLING edge
* LOW level
Now either of two things must be true:
1. FALLING and LOW (/ RISING and HIGH) are vir... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/134216",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/35490/"
] | As an addition to the other answers, another look from a practical perspective:
The level triggered interrupt is an indication that a device needs attention. As long as it needs attention, the line is asserted. A device may want the master to clock data out of the devices buffer. It may need immediate attention to pre... | Level triggering is useful when a continuous action requires firing off repeated events, e.g. ringing a bell while an alarm is active. In this case the ISR would be responsible for energizing and deenergizing a solenoid only once; the fact that the interrupt trigger is still present would be responsible for extending t... |
134,216 | Many processors / µCs / dev-platforms (BeagleBoard, Arduino,...) use interrupts.
These can be triggered by the detection of:
* HIGH level
* RISING edge
* CHANGING level (either FALLING or RISING edge)
* FALLING edge
* LOW level
Now either of two things must be true:
1. FALLING and LOW (/ RISING and HIGH) are vir... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/134216",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/35490/"
] | Level triggered (high or low) can allow the source to say "nevermind" or to keep the trigger active until the ISR gets around to it. Interrupt latency is not guaranteed on a single core with multiple triggers, though it's usually pretty fast. Generally, the signal for a level-triggered interrupt is itself edge-triggere... | Edge sensitive interrupt only fires when it detects appropriate edge. That means, only single interrupt will happen. If interrupt is enabled AFTER transition it will not react and message ia lost. Usable when certain event must be captured.
Level sensitive interrupt will happen whenever it will be enabled and appropri... |
134,216 | Many processors / µCs / dev-platforms (BeagleBoard, Arduino,...) use interrupts.
These can be triggered by the detection of:
* HIGH level
* RISING edge
* CHANGING level (either FALLING or RISING edge)
* FALLING edge
* LOW level
Now either of two things must be true:
1. FALLING and LOW (/ RISING and HIGH) are vir... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/134216",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/35490/"
] | As an addition to the other answers, another look from a practical perspective:
The level triggered interrupt is an indication that a device needs attention. As long as it needs attention, the line is asserted. A device may want the master to clock data out of the devices buffer. It may need immediate attention to pre... | Edge sensitive interrupt only fires when it detects appropriate edge. That means, only single interrupt will happen. If interrupt is enabled AFTER transition it will not react and message ia lost. Usable when certain event must be captured.
Level sensitive interrupt will happen whenever it will be enabled and appropri... |
44,684 | Personal computers today are usually hundreds of times faster, and have thousands of times more memory then the computers in the time when operating systems with graphical user interface started to become common.
However, even on today's fastest machines and modern operating systems one can encounter situations when t... | 2013/09/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/44684",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/15142/"
] | Reserving resources for the GUI would not help if other resources of the computer are occupied. Modern computers balance the need for resources themselves following a predetermined priority list, where the GUI is one among others.
Would it make you feel better about your computer if you could move the mouse around on ... | ### Because the OS can just help, applications get it wrong and users get it wronger
*(notice: this answer is mostly windows-focused, although the general concepts apply to most GUI systems)*
The key is that UI operations are just "regular" operations run by the code of the program.
All the UI actions done in respo... |
44,684 | Personal computers today are usually hundreds of times faster, and have thousands of times more memory then the computers in the time when operating systems with graphical user interface started to become common.
However, even on today's fastest machines and modern operating systems one can encounter situations when t... | 2013/09/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/44684",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/15142/"
] | Reserving resources for the GUI would not help if other resources of the computer are occupied. Modern computers balance the need for resources themselves following a predetermined priority list, where the GUI is one among others.
Would it make you feel better about your computer if you could move the mouse around on ... | Many, possibly most, things stemming from user input must be performed synchronously. This is by design. A user action, e.g. button click, invokes an action which often causes an internal state change and then the display to update to reflect that change. To accept input before display is updated, upon a view that is b... |
229,490 | How can one alphabetically sort the contacts on the WhatsApp chat list? Right now, the list is completely random, making it difficult to locate a specific chat by its author (contact name) | 2020/09/16 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/229490",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/332499/"
] | There doesn't seem to be any way to sort them alphabetically in the chat list. Currently the Whatsapp chat list is by chat date, meaning the most recent ones will come up.
If you click on the bottom right green button you can access the contacts list, and those contacts are sorted alphabetically.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1DMyh.jpg)
I... |
418,426 | I have a server that's currently running SQL Server 2005 Express, and I need to restore a database backup that a developer has modified using SQL Server 2008 R2 [I *think* the full version, but still waiting to hear back on whether it's a full edition or Express].
I know that I can't restore a database from SQL Serve... | 2012/08/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/418426",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/129132/"
] | Yes.
It's the database version that matters and is what gets attached to the database, not the edition of MSSQL used. As long as the database version is the same, you can move it between the free (Express) and paid versions to your heart's content... not that it's a process I'd recommend for recreational purposes.
ED... | It depends. If your database includes features that are not supported by the edition you are restoring to the restore will fail. For example, enterprise edition features like data compression and transparent encryption. This is in addition to the physical resource limitations that exist in Express.
If your database fa... |
16,713,914 | I am not sure if this is a **bug** with the **new Android GeoFence sample code** or my understanding of what it is supposed to do is wrong. The sample app creates geofences but does not alert when geofence is breached. If anyone would like to give this a try and confirm, you can download the sample code from here :
<h... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16713914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/720954/"
] | First of all, your understanding of the app's functionality is correct. Whenever you enter/leave one of your geofences it shows you that in a notification (it's always updating the same notification btw, so keep an eye out for it or you might miss one of the events).
Second, be careful because Geofence 1, by default, ... | Initially I thought the same. It is because the radius is in Meters, and I thought it would be in KMS / Miles. So I had entered very small values. Then after few experiments I found that out. Entered bigger values and it worked like charm on my Nexus 5 |
16,713,914 | I am not sure if this is a **bug** with the **new Android GeoFence sample code** or my understanding of what it is supposed to do is wrong. The sample app creates geofences but does not alert when geofence is breached. If anyone would like to give this a try and confirm, you can download the sample code from here :
<h... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16713914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/720954/"
] | Initially I thought the same. It is because the radius is in Meters, and I thought it would be in KMS / Miles. So I had entered very small values. Then after few experiments I found that out. Entered bigger values and it worked like charm on my Nexus 5 | I wrote a test app that used both the Google Play Services Location and Geofence APIs. I used the location API to get current location at a 1-second rate. When I set my geofence I displayed the distance from current location to the geofence center, updated whenever the position updated.
Right after the geofence is set... |
16,713,914 | I am not sure if this is a **bug** with the **new Android GeoFence sample code** or my understanding of what it is supposed to do is wrong. The sample app creates geofences but does not alert when geofence is breached. If anyone would like to give this a try and confirm, you can download the sample code from here :
<h... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16713914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/720954/"
] | The API will never "turn on" GPS. You have to start GPS yourself. | I wrote a test app that used both the Google Play Services Location and Geofence APIs. I used the location API to get current location at a 1-second rate. When I set my geofence I displayed the distance from current location to the geofence center, updated whenever the position updated.
Right after the geofence is set... |
16,713,914 | I am not sure if this is a **bug** with the **new Android GeoFence sample code** or my understanding of what it is supposed to do is wrong. The sample app creates geofences but does not alert when geofence is breached. If anyone would like to give this a try and confirm, you can download the sample code from here :
<h... | 2013/05/23 | [
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"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/720954/"
] | The API will never "turn on" GPS. You have to start GPS yourself. | also make sure you have set your radius big enough. I woudl sugget making it 1000 just to see if it works. I'm still playing around with it but the sample code here does work fine:
[How do I use the Android Geofencing API?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16769653/how-to-use-android-geofencing-api) |
16,713,914 | I am not sure if this is a **bug** with the **new Android GeoFence sample code** or my understanding of what it is supposed to do is wrong. The sample app creates geofences but does not alert when geofence is breached. If anyone would like to give this a try and confirm, you can download the sample code from here :
<h... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16713914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/720954/"
] | also make sure you have set your radius big enough. I woudl sugget making it 1000 just to see if it works. I'm still playing around with it but the sample code here does work fine:
[How do I use the Android Geofencing API?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16769653/how-to-use-android-geofencing-api) | I wrote a test app that used both the Google Play Services Location and Geofence APIs. I used the location API to get current location at a 1-second rate. When I set my geofence I displayed the distance from current location to the geofence center, updated whenever the position updated.
Right after the geofence is set... |
16,713,914 | I am not sure if this is a **bug** with the **new Android GeoFence sample code** or my understanding of what it is supposed to do is wrong. The sample app creates geofences but does not alert when geofence is breached. If anyone would like to give this a try and confirm, you can download the sample code from here :
<h... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16713914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/720954/"
] | First of all, your understanding of the app's functionality is correct. Whenever you enter/leave one of your geofences it shows you that in a notification (it's always updating the same notification btw, so keep an eye out for it or you might miss one of the events).
Second, be careful because Geofence 1, by default, ... | also make sure you have set your radius big enough. I woudl sugget making it 1000 just to see if it works. I'm still playing around with it but the sample code here does work fine:
[How do I use the Android Geofencing API?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16769653/how-to-use-android-geofencing-api) |
16,713,914 | I am not sure if this is a **bug** with the **new Android GeoFence sample code** or my understanding of what it is supposed to do is wrong. The sample app creates geofences but does not alert when geofence is breached. If anyone would like to give this a try and confirm, you can download the sample code from here :
<h... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16713914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/720954/"
] | First of all, your understanding of the app's functionality is correct. Whenever you enter/leave one of your geofences it shows you that in a notification (it's always updating the same notification btw, so keep an eye out for it or you might miss one of the events).
Second, be careful because Geofence 1, by default, ... | I wrote a test app that used both the Google Play Services Location and Geofence APIs. I used the location API to get current location at a 1-second rate. When I set my geofence I displayed the distance from current location to the geofence center, updated whenever the position updated.
Right after the geofence is set... |
16,713,914 | I am not sure if this is a **bug** with the **new Android GeoFence sample code** or my understanding of what it is supposed to do is wrong. The sample app creates geofences but does not alert when geofence is breached. If anyone would like to give this a try and confirm, you can download the sample code from here :
<h... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16713914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/720954/"
] | First of all, your understanding of the app's functionality is correct. Whenever you enter/leave one of your geofences it shows you that in a notification (it's always updating the same notification btw, so keep an eye out for it or you might miss one of the events).
Second, be careful because Geofence 1, by default, ... | The API will never "turn on" GPS. You have to start GPS yourself. |
16,713,914 | I am not sure if this is a **bug** with the **new Android GeoFence sample code** or my understanding of what it is supposed to do is wrong. The sample app creates geofences but does not alert when geofence is breached. If anyone would like to give this a try and confirm, you can download the sample code from here :
<h... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16713914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/720954/"
] | Initially I thought the same. It is because the radius is in Meters, and I thought it would be in KMS / Miles. So I had entered very small values. Then after few experiments I found that out. Entered bigger values and it worked like charm on my Nexus 5 | I tried the GeofenceDetection sample code and it is working.
I am using only Wifi and GPS, and set my radius to be 15 meters.
When i walked to the region, it is not immediately show the notification.
After a few seconds, i got "enter" notification.
Also, even if i am standing still in the region, sometimes i got notifi... |
16,713,914 | I am not sure if this is a **bug** with the **new Android GeoFence sample code** or my understanding of what it is supposed to do is wrong. The sample app creates geofences but does not alert when geofence is breached. If anyone would like to give this a try and confirm, you can download the sample code from here :
<h... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16713914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/720954/"
] | First of all, your understanding of the app's functionality is correct. Whenever you enter/leave one of your geofences it shows you that in a notification (it's always updating the same notification btw, so keep an eye out for it or you might miss one of the events).
Second, be careful because Geofence 1, by default, ... | I tried the GeofenceDetection sample code and it is working.
I am using only Wifi and GPS, and set my radius to be 15 meters.
When i walked to the region, it is not immediately show the notification.
After a few seconds, i got "enter" notification.
Also, even if i am standing still in the region, sometimes i got notifi... |
75,895 | I am doing out some flow charts and am wondering if I am approaching this correctly. In essence, I have several method calls and I am flowcharting each separately. However, several of these methods make a method call for some info and then continue. See this example:
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.img... | 2011/05/12 | [
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] | Use a [subroutine symbol](http://www.breezetree.com/article-excel-flowchart-shapes.htm) for the method call (predefined process)
 | I've recently done some flow-charting and struggled with the same issue, how to present subroutine calls, or perhaps method- and function -calls as you might call them these days.
I settled on a convention that I separate subroutine CALLS from subroutine REFERENCES. For the former I use an ordinary rectangle showing t... |
66,559 | In short: there are a few servers in a small server room. Being cheap general not-really-business-oriented machines, they did not necessarily have good safety features from the beginning, and what's more, they could be arbitrarily modified before being brought to the room and installed there. **How could such a server ... | 2017/01/02 | [
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] | Not too long ago I had smoke come out of the vent on my computer. It was due to the power connector on an optical drive. It was continuing to burn the plastic, but would not “catch” to burn without the heat source.
I recall when Li-ion batteries were first appearing, an early adopter (because of the low weight to powe... | Yes, computer chips can explode, but it's a question of scale.
Cooling fans are controlled by the operating system to keep temperatures within specified limits, starting/speeding them up if more cooling is needed, slowing/stopping them to reduce power consumption and noise when not needed. Also, CPUs will slow themse... |
66,559 | In short: there are a few servers in a small server room. Being cheap general not-really-business-oriented machines, they did not necessarily have good safety features from the beginning, and what's more, they could be arbitrarily modified before being brought to the room and installed there. **How could such a server ... | 2017/01/02 | [
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] | Your server banks are cooled by massive quantities of a [flammable refrigerant](https://www.racplus.com/news/safety-concerns-grow-over-surge-in-use-of-flammable-refrigerants/8620789.article) which ends up getting ignited by a spark from faulty (or sabotaged) electrical wiring. | Yes, computer chips can explode, but it's a question of scale.
Cooling fans are controlled by the operating system to keep temperatures within specified limits, starting/speeding them up if more cooling is needed, slowing/stopping them to reduce power consumption and noise when not needed. Also, CPUs will slow themse... |
66,559 | In short: there are a few servers in a small server room. Being cheap general not-really-business-oriented machines, they did not necessarily have good safety features from the beginning, and what's more, they could be arbitrarily modified before being brought to the room and installed there. **How could such a server ... | 2017/01/02 | [
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] | Yes, computer chips can explode, but it's a question of scale.
Cooling fans are controlled by the operating system to keep temperatures within specified limits, starting/speeding them up if more cooling is needed, slowing/stopping them to reduce power consumption and noise when not needed. Also, CPUs will slow themse... | Besides turning cooling of and overcharging the batteries you could also try to spin the harddrives over their max speed maby, you can get them to shatter. The harddrive shards could also make some big damage allthoug this is very unlikely to happen. |
66,559 | In short: there are a few servers in a small server room. Being cheap general not-really-business-oriented machines, they did not necessarily have good safety features from the beginning, and what's more, they could be arbitrarily modified before being brought to the room and installed there. **How could such a server ... | 2017/01/02 | [
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] | Backup battery bank failure
===========================
As you've noted, it would be difficult to get computer chips to fail - they simply don't contain anything all that explosive. About the best you can do is an electrical fire resulting in exploding capacitors, but they're more like popcorn than an all-out fireball... | The server / computer has none or very few flammable parts
The small batteries are very small and would be hard to over charge
Can get a capacitor to pop but that is far from an explosion
Memory and CPU is mostly sand and it is not going to explode or catch on fire.
A fan might heat up and have a short electric... |
66,559 | In short: there are a few servers in a small server room. Being cheap general not-really-business-oriented machines, they did not necessarily have good safety features from the beginning, and what's more, they could be arbitrarily modified before being brought to the room and installed there. **How could such a server ... | 2017/01/02 | [
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] | Backup battery bank failure
===========================
As you've noted, it would be difficult to get computer chips to fail - they simply don't contain anything all that explosive. About the best you can do is an electrical fire resulting in exploding capacitors, but they're more like popcorn than an all-out fireball... | Not too long ago I had smoke come out of the vent on my computer. It was due to the power connector on an optical drive. It was continuing to burn the plastic, but would not “catch” to burn without the heat source.
I recall when Li-ion batteries were first appearing, an early adopter (because of the low weight to powe... |
66,559 | In short: there are a few servers in a small server room. Being cheap general not-really-business-oriented machines, they did not necessarily have good safety features from the beginning, and what's more, they could be arbitrarily modified before being brought to the room and installed there. **How could such a server ... | 2017/01/02 | [
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] | Backup battery bank failure
===========================
As you've noted, it would be difficult to get computer chips to fail - they simply don't contain anything all that explosive. About the best you can do is an electrical fire resulting in exploding capacitors, but they're more like popcorn than an all-out fireball... | Yes, computer chips can explode, but it's a question of scale.
Cooling fans are controlled by the operating system to keep temperatures within specified limits, starting/speeding them up if more cooling is needed, slowing/stopping them to reduce power consumption and noise when not needed. Also, CPUs will slow themse... |
66,559 | In short: there are a few servers in a small server room. Being cheap general not-really-business-oriented machines, they did not necessarily have good safety features from the beginning, and what's more, they could be arbitrarily modified before being brought to the room and installed there. **How could such a server ... | 2017/01/02 | [
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] | You'd be surprised how much stuff is handled in software these days. For example, one fellow [discovered](http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/how-charlie-miller-discovered-the-apple-battery-hackhow-a-security-researcher-discovered-the-apple-battery-hack/) that a Macbook with a compromised kernel could actually break i... | Besides turning cooling of and overcharging the batteries you could also try to spin the harddrives over their max speed maby, you can get them to shatter. The harddrive shards could also make some big damage allthoug this is very unlikely to happen. |
66,559 | In short: there are a few servers in a small server room. Being cheap general not-really-business-oriented machines, they did not necessarily have good safety features from the beginning, and what's more, they could be arbitrarily modified before being brought to the room and installed there. **How could such a server ... | 2017/01/02 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/66559",
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] | The problem you have with having anything dramatic happen is everything is isolated.
For example, a power supply under the right conditions might catch fire for a bit, but is encased in a metal shell that would limit or prevent its spread. The following is about the best you can get.
Let's pretend the servers were pu... | You'd be surprised how much stuff is handled in software these days. For example, one fellow [discovered](http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/how-charlie-miller-discovered-the-apple-battery-hackhow-a-security-researcher-discovered-the-apple-battery-hack/) that a Macbook with a compromised kernel could actually break i... |
66,559 | In short: there are a few servers in a small server room. Being cheap general not-really-business-oriented machines, they did not necessarily have good safety features from the beginning, and what's more, they could be arbitrarily modified before being brought to the room and installed there. **How could such a server ... | 2017/01/02 | [
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] | Backup battery bank failure
===========================
As you've noted, it would be difficult to get computer chips to fail - they simply don't contain anything all that explosive. About the best you can do is an electrical fire resulting in exploding capacitors, but they're more like popcorn than an all-out fireball... | Your server banks are cooled by massive quantities of a [flammable refrigerant](https://www.racplus.com/news/safety-concerns-grow-over-surge-in-use-of-flammable-refrigerants/8620789.article) which ends up getting ignited by a spark from faulty (or sabotaged) electrical wiring. |
66,559 | In short: there are a few servers in a small server room. Being cheap general not-really-business-oriented machines, they did not necessarily have good safety features from the beginning, and what's more, they could be arbitrarily modified before being brought to the room and installed there. **How could such a server ... | 2017/01/02 | [
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] | Not too long ago I had smoke come out of the vent on my computer. It was due to the power connector on an optical drive. It was continuing to burn the plastic, but would not “catch” to burn without the heat source.
I recall when Li-ion batteries were first appearing, an early adopter (because of the low weight to powe... | You'd be surprised how much stuff is handled in software these days. For example, one fellow [discovered](http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/how-charlie-miller-discovered-the-apple-battery-hackhow-a-security-researcher-discovered-the-apple-battery-hack/) that a Macbook with a compromised kernel could actually break i... |
371,059 | I often see the word 'nuance' used when describing a politicians views. One example of this in a sentence is that "This person lacks nuance." I'm having trouble understanding this in the context of the main definition which is "a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound." Is there a separate meani... | 2017/01/31 | [
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] | Though it's not a single word and it doesn't have the meaning of "on the basis of rules," **out of hand** best fits your frame sentence, implying from the context that applicants from a particular group/class are being denied entry across the board as opposed to "case by case."
Slightly paraphrased definition from the... | **Jurisprudence ?**
**1**. The philosophy or science of law.
**2**. A division, type, or particular body of law: modern jurisprudence;
federal jurisprudence; bankruptcy jurisprudence. |
83,949 | Beside the fact that maximum parsimony is computationally cheap, what other good arguments are there for it? Is there any model behind this principle? Why would one expect this principle to provide right phylogeny in any situation at all ? | 2019/04/24 | [
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] | The idea of parsimony is that when constructing **[phylogenetic trees](https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-evolution/hs-phylogeny/a/phylogenetic-trees)** a simple hypothesis (*e.g.*, four evolutionary changes are necessary to connect two taxa) is more likely to be true than a more complex hypothe... | Generally speaking, parsimony consists in not making unnecessary [ad hoc hypotheses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_hypotheses).
In the case of phylogeny, parsimony can be used at two stages: when inferring the number of character changes for a given topology and then when choosing among topologies.
One does no... |
8,694,534 | while in graduate school for biomedical eng I developed a device we called a "vein finder". It was a simple device that was good enough for our eng school to patent.
I think it would be very very easy to use the iphone camera to develop an iphone app whereby MD's/ nurses/EMT's could use the app to easily identify peri... | 2012/01/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8694534",
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] | I don't think you have any control over the flash light that illuminates images. You can only turn it on and off. I also doubt you would be able to get the specific wavelengths you need.
My suggestion would be to look into building a peripheral light device which plugs in to the headphone jack for power and has the ne... | Do you mean overlaying veins over the picture on the camera? It would be easy if the veins are always in the same place... What would your imagined procedure be for using this app?
EDIT: You can not manipulate the iPhone light for different frequencies; you can only turn it on and off. You would need to get a separate... |
8,694,534 | while in graduate school for biomedical eng I developed a device we called a "vein finder". It was a simple device that was good enough for our eng school to patent.
I think it would be very very easy to use the iphone camera to develop an iphone app whereby MD's/ nurses/EMT's could use the app to easily identify peri... | 2012/01/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8694534",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1125270/"
] | Do you mean overlaying veins over the picture on the camera? It would be easy if the veins are always in the same place... What would your imagined procedure be for using this app?
EDIT: You can not manipulate the iPhone light for different frequencies; you can only turn it on and off. You would need to get a separate... | Apologies for massive necro!
The LED light of the iPhone is not the problem - most white light sources contain IR or near-IR (in fact they are made up from the entire visible spectrum). Daylight works very well too.
The problem is the receiver. Most camera lenses, including smartphones, have an IR filter - thus cutti... |
8,694,534 | while in graduate school for biomedical eng I developed a device we called a "vein finder". It was a simple device that was good enough for our eng school to patent.
I think it would be very very easy to use the iphone camera to develop an iphone app whereby MD's/ nurses/EMT's could use the app to easily identify peri... | 2012/01/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8694534",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1125270/"
] | I don't think you have any control over the flash light that illuminates images. You can only turn it on and off. I also doubt you would be able to get the specific wavelengths you need.
My suggestion would be to look into building a peripheral light device which plugs in to the headphone jack for power and has the ne... | To work around the fact that you can't set the wavelength of the built in light, you should use an external light along with the iOS device. |
8,694,534 | while in graduate school for biomedical eng I developed a device we called a "vein finder". It was a simple device that was good enough for our eng school to patent.
I think it would be very very easy to use the iphone camera to develop an iphone app whereby MD's/ nurses/EMT's could use the app to easily identify peri... | 2012/01/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8694534",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1125270/"
] | I don't think you have any control over the flash light that illuminates images. You can only turn it on and off. I also doubt you would be able to get the specific wavelengths you need.
My suggestion would be to look into building a peripheral light device which plugs in to the headphone jack for power and has the ne... | Apologies for massive necro!
The LED light of the iPhone is not the problem - most white light sources contain IR or near-IR (in fact they are made up from the entire visible spectrum). Daylight works very well too.
The problem is the receiver. Most camera lenses, including smartphones, have an IR filter - thus cutti... |
8,694,534 | while in graduate school for biomedical eng I developed a device we called a "vein finder". It was a simple device that was good enough for our eng school to patent.
I think it would be very very easy to use the iphone camera to develop an iphone app whereby MD's/ nurses/EMT's could use the app to easily identify peri... | 2012/01/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8694534",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1125270/"
] | To work around the fact that you can't set the wavelength of the built in light, you should use an external light along with the iOS device. | Apologies for massive necro!
The LED light of the iPhone is not the problem - most white light sources contain IR or near-IR (in fact they are made up from the entire visible spectrum). Daylight works very well too.
The problem is the receiver. Most camera lenses, including smartphones, have an IR filter - thus cutti... |
8,776 | I have some questions about creating an Object Repository for a selenium project:
1) What are the main reasons that we create an Object Repository, as opposed to hard coding the element IDs in our page classes?
2) What is the best approach to do this? I have seen people use an OR class with public static strings, and... | 2014/06/03 | [
"https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/8776",
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] | The correct approach is to
* have the locators in each page object class as By variables or
* use page factory which declares the web elements and their locators together
In my opinion, using object repositories in Selenium projects is a bad practice.
The object repository concept comes from record-and-playback too... | I am not sure what is your definition of "Object Repository". I am going to assume it is some kind of central place for locators of page elements (by id, name, link text, css, or even xpath). If i am wrong, we can just kill the answer.
In few places I've seen suggesting one central file for all locators, but it can gr... |
8,776 | I have some questions about creating an Object Repository for a selenium project:
1) What are the main reasons that we create an Object Repository, as opposed to hard coding the element IDs in our page classes?
2) What is the best approach to do this? I have seen people use an OR class with public static strings, and... | 2014/06/03 | [
"https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/8776",
"https://sqa.stackexchange.com",
"https://sqa.stackexchange.com/users/7266/"
] | The correct approach is to
* have the locators in each page object class as By variables or
* use page factory which declares the web elements and their locators together
In my opinion, using object repositories in Selenium projects is a bad practice.
The object repository concept comes from record-and-playback too... | As to how:
Define things that belong to the page at the page level, like title and url.
Then locators as a sub or extension of the page.
A webelement can have multiple locators, getting the locators out of a defined webelement is a pain (reflection only) and usually is needed when you need to wait for a webelement to ... |
157,852 | My laptop came presupplied with a Vista Professional installation and no Vista installation DVD. It has now stopped booting, stuck in a cycle of failing startup repairs.
I have a Windows 7 Ultimate DVD, but when I boot from it and select the option to upgrade an existing Windows installation, it states that the upgrad... | 2010/06/28 | [
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] | Have you tried recovering your Vista installation using the Vista recovery disk? Download it [here](http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/), burn it and boot from it. | You will have to repair the Vista installation to do an Upgrade to preserve your accounts and settings. Here is a link to the advanced methods of boot repair, it will require the recovery disc mentioned by BloodPhilia, or borrow a Vista Install disc from someone to repair. Or try the W7 disc you have to repair the boot... |
28,632,922 | I am probably missing something basic here, but I'm playing around with the Git version of TFS.
I am using Visual Studio 2015 preview (maybe that is my problem), so from a solution I created a master and I made a branch from this master; I'll call it version2.
I made changes to version 2, but I did not commit merge s... | 2015/02/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28632922",
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"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2744722/"
] | Git's model is fundamentally different than TFVC. You need to commit the file to your branch (you don't necessarily need to push the change or the branch to the remote server). Once you commit the change, switching branches will behave in the fashion you're expecting.
Git is based on the model of committing changes t... | By default in Git if you have pending changes that you have not committed and you switch branch the changes are moved to the new branch. Git is assuming that this is what you want.
If you want to leave the changes on v2 you need to commit the changes with that branch checkout. You can then switch to the v1 branch and ... |
102,157 | The Remorhaz (page 258 MM) has an ability called Heated Body:
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> **Heated Body.** A creature that touches the remorhaz or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 10 (3d6) fire damage.
>
>
>
How often does this damage occur, and what exactly is the scope of qualifying scenarios where this woul... | 2017/06/23 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/102157",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/27023/"
] | ***Rhemorhaz Trait: Heated Body*** MM Pg.258
>
> Heated Body: A creature that touches the remorhaz or hits it with a
> melee Attack while within 5 feet of it takes 10 (3d6) fire damage.
>
>
>
***Special Traits*** MM pg.11
>
> Special traits (which appear after a monster’s challenge rating but
> before any act... | In general, within any area effect and persistent damage, you suffer the damage once per round. Meanwhile, with any touch or contact based attack form, such as a monk touching a lava monster or a fencing bard stabbing a lightning creature, the opportunity to suffer damage is proportionate to the number of attacks.
if... |
2,952,353 | Can anyone please help me?
I am having bunch of .sql files. I want to parse (validate) those files before executing them on server.
I have many online sites which parse the code. But I want to parse the code using C#.
So please can you guide. If there is any tool, dll I need to use.
I just want to parse the file an... | 2010/06/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2952353",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317255/"
] | You can have procedure which can get the query as input and
in SQL Server side you can have a [SET PARSEONLY ON](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178629.aspx) statement and then "run" the
query. The query won't actually run, but any errors will be reported. | You should ask yourself twice (or maybe even three times :-)) if you really want to do this.
Even if you find a solution, that seems to work for the files you have now, there will probably be all sorts of corner cases that wont be covered. The suggestion of having a local database engine parse it, is sort-of workable,... |
2,952,353 | Can anyone please help me?
I am having bunch of .sql files. I want to parse (validate) those files before executing them on server.
I have many online sites which parse the code. But I want to parse the code using C#.
So please can you guide. If there is any tool, dll I need to use.
I just want to parse the file an... | 2010/06/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2952353",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317255/"
] | The [DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit](http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html) has SQL parsers, used to build many SQL-based tools.
One such tool is a [Formatter](http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/Formatters)Formatter, which parses the source text and formats the result nicely. If the form... | A quick google threw up <http://www.antlr.org/> with a [plugin for ms sql](http://www.antlr.org/grammar/1062280680642/MS_SQL_SELECT.html) or one of the [other sql dialects](http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list) |
2,952,353 | Can anyone please help me?
I am having bunch of .sql files. I want to parse (validate) those files before executing them on server.
I have many online sites which parse the code. But I want to parse the code using C#.
So please can you guide. If there is any tool, dll I need to use.
I just want to parse the file an... | 2010/06/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2952353",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317255/"
] | A way to do it is to execute it on the server, except with [SET PARSEONLY ON](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178629.aspx) (so that it's parsed but not executed): I think that's how the MS Query Analyzer does it. | A quick google threw up <http://www.antlr.org/> with a [plugin for ms sql](http://www.antlr.org/grammar/1062280680642/MS_SQL_SELECT.html) or one of the [other sql dialects](http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list) |
2,952,353 | Can anyone please help me?
I am having bunch of .sql files. I want to parse (validate) those files before executing them on server.
I have many online sites which parse the code. But I want to parse the code using C#.
So please can you guide. If there is any tool, dll I need to use.
I just want to parse the file an... | 2010/06/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2952353",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317255/"
] | You should ask yourself twice (or maybe even three times :-)) if you really want to do this.
Even if you find a solution, that seems to work for the files you have now, there will probably be all sorts of corner cases that wont be covered. The suggestion of having a local database engine parse it, is sort-of workable,... | A quick google threw up <http://www.antlr.org/> with a [plugin for ms sql](http://www.antlr.org/grammar/1062280680642/MS_SQL_SELECT.html) or one of the [other sql dialects](http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list) |
2,952,353 | Can anyone please help me?
I am having bunch of .sql files. I want to parse (validate) those files before executing them on server.
I have many online sites which parse the code. But I want to parse the code using C#.
So please can you guide. If there is any tool, dll I need to use.
I just want to parse the file an... | 2010/06/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2952353",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317255/"
] | A way to do it is to execute it on the server, except with [SET PARSEONLY ON](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178629.aspx) (so that it's parsed but not executed): I think that's how the MS Query Analyzer does it. | You should ask yourself twice (or maybe even three times :-)) if you really want to do this.
Even if you find a solution, that seems to work for the files you have now, there will probably be all sorts of corner cases that wont be covered. The suggestion of having a local database engine parse it, is sort-of workable,... |
2,952,353 | Can anyone please help me?
I am having bunch of .sql files. I want to parse (validate) those files before executing them on server.
I have many online sites which parse the code. But I want to parse the code using C#.
So please can you guide. If there is any tool, dll I need to use.
I just want to parse the file an... | 2010/06/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2952353",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317255/"
] | You can have procedure which can get the query as input and
in SQL Server side you can have a [SET PARSEONLY ON](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178629.aspx) statement and then "run" the
query. The query won't actually run, but any errors will be reported. | The [DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit](http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html) has SQL parsers, used to build many SQL-based tools.
One such tool is a [Formatter](http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/Formatters)Formatter, which parses the source text and formats the result nicely. If the form... |
2,952,353 | Can anyone please help me?
I am having bunch of .sql files. I want to parse (validate) those files before executing them on server.
I have many online sites which parse the code. But I want to parse the code using C#.
So please can you guide. If there is any tool, dll I need to use.
I just want to parse the file an... | 2010/06/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2952353",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317255/"
] | [Antler Parser Generator](http://www.antlr.org/) is your best bet. There might be a pre-defined grammar for the version of SQL you want to parse already. | A quick google threw up <http://www.antlr.org/> with a [plugin for ms sql](http://www.antlr.org/grammar/1062280680642/MS_SQL_SELECT.html) or one of the [other sql dialects](http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list) |
2,952,353 | Can anyone please help me?
I am having bunch of .sql files. I want to parse (validate) those files before executing them on server.
I have many online sites which parse the code. But I want to parse the code using C#.
So please can you guide. If there is any tool, dll I need to use.
I just want to parse the file an... | 2010/06/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2952353",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317255/"
] | [Antler Parser Generator](http://www.antlr.org/) is your best bet. There might be a pre-defined grammar for the version of SQL you want to parse already. | Visual Studio used to have something called Visual Studio for Database Professionals. It was later rolled into Team Developer.
Anyway, they "compiled" the sql code by executing it in a database and testing the results. I imagine if that's how they were verifying it worked, it's probably the best way for you to do as w... |
2,952,353 | Can anyone please help me?
I am having bunch of .sql files. I want to parse (validate) those files before executing them on server.
I have many online sites which parse the code. But I want to parse the code using C#.
So please can you guide. If there is any tool, dll I need to use.
I just want to parse the file an... | 2010/06/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2952353",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317255/"
] | You can have procedure which can get the query as input and
in SQL Server side you can have a [SET PARSEONLY ON](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178629.aspx) statement and then "run" the
query. The query won't actually run, but any errors will be reported. | A quick google threw up <http://www.antlr.org/> with a [plugin for ms sql](http://www.antlr.org/grammar/1062280680642/MS_SQL_SELECT.html) or one of the [other sql dialects](http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list) |
2,952,353 | Can anyone please help me?
I am having bunch of .sql files. I want to parse (validate) those files before executing them on server.
I have many online sites which parse the code. But I want to parse the code using C#.
So please can you guide. If there is any tool, dll I need to use.
I just want to parse the file an... | 2010/06/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2952353",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/317255/"
] | You can have procedure which can get the query as input and
in SQL Server side you can have a [SET PARSEONLY ON](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178629.aspx) statement and then "run" the
query. The query won't actually run, but any errors will be reported. | Visual Studio used to have something called Visual Studio for Database Professionals. It was later rolled into Team Developer.
Anyway, they "compiled" the sql code by executing it in a database and testing the results. I imagine if that's how they were verifying it worked, it's probably the best way for you to do as w... |
1,533,276 | I have a instance of Oracle Access Manager set up on Server A and a copy of WebGate set up on Apache on Server B which should be working but isn't. When I try to access http(s)://hostname:port/access/oblix/apps/ webgate/bin/webgate.cgi?progid=1 as specified in the [directions](http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28196_... | 2009/10/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1533276",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/466/"
] | Ah the joy of the webgate install. Here are the usual questions I ask myself:
Does the apache user also own the directory where webgate is installed?
Are you running this on an OS and Apache version verified by Oracle?
Is your httpd.conf correctly setup with the WebGate configs?
Did you put
LD\_ASSUME\_KERNEL=2.4.1... | Reinstalling Webgate fixed the problem. Not sure what screwed it up. |
1,533,276 | I have a instance of Oracle Access Manager set up on Server A and a copy of WebGate set up on Apache on Server B which should be working but isn't. When I try to access http(s)://hostname:port/access/oblix/apps/ webgate/bin/webgate.cgi?progid=1 as specified in the [directions](http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28196_... | 2009/10/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1533276",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/466/"
] | Ah the joy of the webgate install. Here are the usual questions I ask myself:
Does the apache user also own the directory where webgate is installed?
Are you running this on an OS and Apache version verified by Oracle?
Is your httpd.conf correctly setup with the WebGate configs?
Did you put
LD\_ASSUME\_KERNEL=2.4.1... | i got
>
> [2014-03-27T04:41:51.2101+05:30] [OHS] [NOTIFICATION:16] [OHS-9999] [core.c] [pid: 14931] [tid: 139749613860672] [user: root] [VirtualHost: main] child pid 14952 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
>
>
>
along with
>
> Directory does not exist for read/write [.../oracle/middleware/Oracle\_WT1/log] [... |
1,533,276 | I have a instance of Oracle Access Manager set up on Server A and a copy of WebGate set up on Apache on Server B which should be working but isn't. When I try to access http(s)://hostname:port/access/oblix/apps/ webgate/bin/webgate.cgi?progid=1 as specified in the [directions](http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28196_... | 2009/10/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1533276",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/466/"
] | Reinstalling Webgate fixed the problem. Not sure what screwed it up. | i got
>
> [2014-03-27T04:41:51.2101+05:30] [OHS] [NOTIFICATION:16] [OHS-9999] [core.c] [pid: 14931] [tid: 139749613860672] [user: root] [VirtualHost: main] child pid 14952 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
>
>
>
along with
>
> Directory does not exist for read/write [.../oracle/middleware/Oracle\_WT1/log] [... |
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