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9,705 | I have security camera recordings which are 1 - 8 hours in duration and I need to be able to view them in a short period of time to review long periods of time.
Windows Media Player supports 8 seconds per second but this really doesn't do the job for me. I'd have to sit and wait a very long time to get through 8 hours of footage.
Is there any software that can do this? | 2014/07/10 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/9705",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/6320/"
] | You can try `VLC` from [videolan.org](https://www.videolan.org). It is free, but you should donate if you use it (especially in a business environment). :)
It supports up to 32x playback speed - 32 seconds real footage in 1 second - so, 8 hours in 15 minutes.
But you should ask yourself - you really can catch up something in that speed?
And the more important thing is: your processor and HDD speed.
At 32x playback the processor should decode 32 times faster than at normal speed and *your HDD should allows that big data rates*, especially if the video is in HD.
Try it on your HW.
Edit
====
To clarify (re: comment) based on the real world (read my own) experiences.
At 1080p resolution, H264 encoded video is 2GB per hour (common movie sizes are 3GB per 1.5 hour of movie). On extremely well encoded videos you can get 1 GB/hour. So 8 hours video is approx. 8-16GB size, depending on the encoding quality.
HDD speed. On my crap notebook I'm getting approx. 13 Mbytes/s read speed. The HDD is old and, honestly it was not defragmented. That means that simple reading a *1.25 Gbyte* file took 1 minute and 20 seconds. Reading (not copying) a 12 GB file took 16 minutes!
So, on my crap notebook I simply can't read an 12GB file sequentially in 15 minutes.
And about playback. On my notebook I can't get faster playback speed than 6.8x. ;( On my desktop (also not the best HW) my limit is 22-25x. Never got 32x.
Maybe, your experience is better, but remember: *In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.* :)
With good (current level) HW there should be "no problem" - therefore I said: *try it on your HW*. ;) | I'd recommend using Media Player Classic Home Cinema. Easy simple extremely well made application. Even ideal for ultra slow machines able to maintain perfect playback of 1080p video without hardware acceleration.
Anyway you can "Increase Rate" by use of CTRL + UP or "Decrease Rate" - CTRL + DOWN or "Reset Rate" - CTRL + R. The rate increase peaks at 4.0X and it doesn't seem impossible to over-ride this to as much as 64X. KMPlayer 4.9.3.1433 is also an alternative or the newest build may offer higher than 300% of original playback speed.
Another solution is to use ImToo HD Video Converter and actually re-encode the video files to desired frame rate. You could do as much as 10,000fps which would be if your source is 30.00fps then 10,000fps would be 333X speed. Then you could use MPC HC or KMPlayer to dial back the speed to your desired rate of speed. |
9,705 | I have security camera recordings which are 1 - 8 hours in duration and I need to be able to view them in a short period of time to review long periods of time.
Windows Media Player supports 8 seconds per second but this really doesn't do the job for me. I'd have to sit and wait a very long time to get through 8 hours of footage.
Is there any software that can do this? | 2014/07/10 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/9705",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/6320/"
] | You can use [smplayer](http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/), its a freeware, open-source project based on [mplayer](http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html), a very robust and fast media player. It's available for Windows and Linux.
You can configure the seek time through its configuration panel to whatever amount fits your needs.
Also, it's a very easy to use, fast, lightweight and configurable tool to watch videos. | Try [Virtualdub](http://www.virtualdub.org/) - it has 'next scene' button, maybe based on image analysis. But give it a test - how much change does it take to be 'next scene', does'nt it overlook your required changes.
Also take look at [iSpy](http://www.ispyconnect.com/) to either completely redo your system, or feed video to it in parallel, or feed old video to it for alarms. |
9,705 | I have security camera recordings which are 1 - 8 hours in duration and I need to be able to view them in a short period of time to review long periods of time.
Windows Media Player supports 8 seconds per second but this really doesn't do the job for me. I'd have to sit and wait a very long time to get through 8 hours of footage.
Is there any software that can do this? | 2014/07/10 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/9705",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/6320/"
] | You can use [smplayer](http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/), its a freeware, open-source project based on [mplayer](http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html), a very robust and fast media player. It's available for Windows and Linux.
You can configure the seek time through its configuration panel to whatever amount fits your needs.
Also, it's a very easy to use, fast, lightweight and configurable tool to watch videos. | I'd recommend using Media Player Classic Home Cinema. Easy simple extremely well made application. Even ideal for ultra slow machines able to maintain perfect playback of 1080p video without hardware acceleration.
Anyway you can "Increase Rate" by use of CTRL + UP or "Decrease Rate" - CTRL + DOWN or "Reset Rate" - CTRL + R. The rate increase peaks at 4.0X and it doesn't seem impossible to over-ride this to as much as 64X. KMPlayer 4.9.3.1433 is also an alternative or the newest build may offer higher than 300% of original playback speed.
Another solution is to use ImToo HD Video Converter and actually re-encode the video files to desired frame rate. You could do as much as 10,000fps which would be if your source is 30.00fps then 10,000fps would be 333X speed. Then you could use MPC HC or KMPlayer to dial back the speed to your desired rate of speed. |
153,669 | Since the days of Aristotle and Descartes, it has been known that under certain circumstances warm water freezes faster than cold water. This effect is now commonly known as the [Mpemba effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect), named after a student who rediscovered the effect in the sixties. Several theories have been proposed to explain the effect, but so far none of them seem to be generally accepted, see, e.g., this [discussion](https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/32989) on Physics SE. In 2012, the Royal Society of Chemistry offered £1000 to the person or team producing the best and most creative explanation of the phenomenon, the [Mpemba competition](http://www.rsc.org/mpemba-competition) ([Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20150327030926/http://www.rsc.org/mpemba-competition/)). One problem is that many factors might play a role. The theories that try to explain the effect involve, for example, evaporation, convection, gas dissolved in the water, or interactions on molecular level, and it is difficult to design experiments that allow to isolate these factors.
Are there any mathematical studies (exact solutions for special cases, numerical analysis, simulations, etc.) based on the equations proposed to describe or explain the Mpemba effect? Do they allow to isolate different influences and to compare them with experiments, e.g., by simulating heat flow with convection and/or evaporation?
Does anybody here know of any such work? Or does anybody have a reference on simulations of similarly complex thermodynamical systems like a heat flow with convection and/or evaporation?
**PS:** I discovered two papers by a group of Chinese chemical physicists, see [O:H-O Bond Anomalous Relaxation Resolving Mpemba Paradox](https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6514) and [Mpemba Paradox Revisited — Numerical Reinforcement](https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1014). The second uses a finite element method to solve a one-dimensional model. I am not an expert in numerical analysis, but I believe modern mathematics should be able to go further than this.
**PPS:** I changed the formulation of the second paragraph, following Theo Johnson-Freyd's remark. | 2014/01/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/153669",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/36090/"
] | Try this reference:
O:H-O Bond Anomalous Relaxation Resolving Mpemba Paradox, by Xi Zhang Yongli Huang, Zengsheng Ma and Chang Q Sun <https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6514>
P.S. I see you have already found this reference. Some useful information about Mpemba effect can be found here <https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html>
By the way it seems the competition already has a winner: <http://www.rsc.org/mpemba-competition/mpemba-winner.asp> ([Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20150203202503/http://www.rsc.org/mpemba-competition/mpemba-winner.asp)) | Try:
X. Zhang, Y. Huang, Z. Ma, Y. Zhou, J. Zhou, W. Zheng, Q. Jiang, and C.Q. Sun, Hydrogen-bond memory and water-skin supersolidity resolving the Mpemba paradox. PCCP, 2014. 16(42): 22995-23002.
X. Zhang, Y. Huang, Z. Ma, Y. Zhou, W. Zheng, J. Zhou, and C.Q. Sun, A common supersolid skin covering both water and ice. PCCP, 2014. 16(42): 22987-22994. |
2,738,493 | Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code? I am not worried about some getting access to my source but I am concerned in regards to someone decompiling my compiled silverlight XAP file. Is anybody 100% sure if the compiler strips off commented code. I would assume it does but I want to be sure.
Thanks! | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2738493",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323353/"
] | >
> Are comments compiled in to C# Silverlight Applications?
>
>
>
No.
>
> I am not worried about some getting access to my source
>
>
>
You should be.
>
> Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code?
>
>
>
Safe against what attack?
It is not safe against the attack of "a disgruntled employee copies the source code to their USB keychain and takes it home with them, so that they know your user names and passwords after you fire them", for example.
Nor is it safe in the scenario "you accidentally used some component that has a viral open source license and you are sued and legally required to release your source code to the public as-is, and you are now legally required to display your user names and passwords to the world".
Nor is it safe in the scenario "you decide to open-source your code and forget that somewhere in that hundred-thousand lines of code, there's a user name and password sitting right there."
Nor is it safe in the scenario "we gave a client a virtual machine with a trial version of the software but we forgot that a developer had been debugging the trial version on that virtual machine and she copied a bunch of the source code to the VM".
And so on.
It is a very, very bad idea to store user names and passwords in comments of source code. Too many people have access to source code. Save this information on a piece of paper in a locked filing cabinet behind a door that says "beware of the leopard".
And remember: *always state the attack when you ask "is it safe?"* [Safety is always in the context of a particular attack](http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2008/08/19/tasty-beverages.aspx). | Is it safe to store user names and passwords in comments?
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Probably not because IME too many people have access to your source code and likely someone you don't want reading them.
Are comments compiled into your application:
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No |
2,738,493 | Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code? I am not worried about some getting access to my source but I am concerned in regards to someone decompiling my compiled silverlight XAP file. Is anybody 100% sure if the compiler strips off commented code. I would assume it does but I want to be sure.
Thanks! | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2738493",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323353/"
] | Is it safe to store user names and passwords in comments?
---------------------------------------------------------
Probably not because IME too many people have access to your source code and likely someone you don't want reading them.
Are comments compiled into your application:
--------------------------------------------
No | Comments are ignored by the compiler. They will not be put into the output executable. |
2,738,493 | Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code? I am not worried about some getting access to my source but I am concerned in regards to someone decompiling my compiled silverlight XAP file. Is anybody 100% sure if the compiler strips off commented code. I would assume it does but I want to be sure.
Thanks! | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2738493",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323353/"
] | Is it safe to store user names and passwords in comments?
---------------------------------------------------------
Probably not because IME too many people have access to your source code and likely someone you don't want reading them.
Are comments compiled into your application:
--------------------------------------------
No | Since comments are ignored by the compiler it does not mean that you should add comments like username and password to your code. As a good coding practice you should not store such information in your code. |
2,738,493 | Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code? I am not worried about some getting access to my source but I am concerned in regards to someone decompiling my compiled silverlight XAP file. Is anybody 100% sure if the compiler strips off commented code. I would assume it does but I want to be sure.
Thanks! | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2738493",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323353/"
] | Is it safe to store user names and passwords in comments?
---------------------------------------------------------
Probably not because IME too many people have access to your source code and likely someone you don't want reading them.
Are comments compiled into your application:
--------------------------------------------
No | The answers have already covered it well however just in case it needs to be made clear but since this is a Silverlight question. Any comments you include in your Xaml **will** be included in the final XAP. |
2,738,493 | Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code? I am not worried about some getting access to my source but I am concerned in regards to someone decompiling my compiled silverlight XAP file. Is anybody 100% sure if the compiler strips off commented code. I would assume it does but I want to be sure.
Thanks! | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2738493",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323353/"
] | >
> Are comments compiled in to C# Silverlight Applications?
>
>
>
No.
>
> I am not worried about some getting access to my source
>
>
>
You should be.
>
> Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code?
>
>
>
Safe against what attack?
It is not safe against the attack of "a disgruntled employee copies the source code to their USB keychain and takes it home with them, so that they know your user names and passwords after you fire them", for example.
Nor is it safe in the scenario "you accidentally used some component that has a viral open source license and you are sued and legally required to release your source code to the public as-is, and you are now legally required to display your user names and passwords to the world".
Nor is it safe in the scenario "you decide to open-source your code and forget that somewhere in that hundred-thousand lines of code, there's a user name and password sitting right there."
Nor is it safe in the scenario "we gave a client a virtual machine with a trial version of the software but we forgot that a developer had been debugging the trial version on that virtual machine and she copied a bunch of the source code to the VM".
And so on.
It is a very, very bad idea to store user names and passwords in comments of source code. Too many people have access to source code. Save this information on a piece of paper in a locked filing cabinet behind a door that says "beware of the leopard".
And remember: *always state the attack when you ask "is it safe?"* [Safety is always in the context of a particular attack](http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2008/08/19/tasty-beverages.aspx). | Comments are ignored by the compiler. They will not be put into the output executable. |
2,738,493 | Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code? I am not worried about some getting access to my source but I am concerned in regards to someone decompiling my compiled silverlight XAP file. Is anybody 100% sure if the compiler strips off commented code. I would assume it does but I want to be sure.
Thanks! | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2738493",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323353/"
] | >
> Are comments compiled in to C# Silverlight Applications?
>
>
>
No.
>
> I am not worried about some getting access to my source
>
>
>
You should be.
>
> Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code?
>
>
>
Safe against what attack?
It is not safe against the attack of "a disgruntled employee copies the source code to their USB keychain and takes it home with them, so that they know your user names and passwords after you fire them", for example.
Nor is it safe in the scenario "you accidentally used some component that has a viral open source license and you are sued and legally required to release your source code to the public as-is, and you are now legally required to display your user names and passwords to the world".
Nor is it safe in the scenario "you decide to open-source your code and forget that somewhere in that hundred-thousand lines of code, there's a user name and password sitting right there."
Nor is it safe in the scenario "we gave a client a virtual machine with a trial version of the software but we forgot that a developer had been debugging the trial version on that virtual machine and she copied a bunch of the source code to the VM".
And so on.
It is a very, very bad idea to store user names and passwords in comments of source code. Too many people have access to source code. Save this information on a piece of paper in a locked filing cabinet behind a door that says "beware of the leopard".
And remember: *always state the attack when you ask "is it safe?"* [Safety is always in the context of a particular attack](http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2008/08/19/tasty-beverages.aspx). | Since comments are ignored by the compiler it does not mean that you should add comments like username and password to your code. As a good coding practice you should not store such information in your code. |
2,738,493 | Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code? I am not worried about some getting access to my source but I am concerned in regards to someone decompiling my compiled silverlight XAP file. Is anybody 100% sure if the compiler strips off commented code. I would assume it does but I want to be sure.
Thanks! | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2738493",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323353/"
] | >
> Are comments compiled in to C# Silverlight Applications?
>
>
>
No.
>
> I am not worried about some getting access to my source
>
>
>
You should be.
>
> Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code?
>
>
>
Safe against what attack?
It is not safe against the attack of "a disgruntled employee copies the source code to their USB keychain and takes it home with them, so that they know your user names and passwords after you fire them", for example.
Nor is it safe in the scenario "you accidentally used some component that has a viral open source license and you are sued and legally required to release your source code to the public as-is, and you are now legally required to display your user names and passwords to the world".
Nor is it safe in the scenario "you decide to open-source your code and forget that somewhere in that hundred-thousand lines of code, there's a user name and password sitting right there."
Nor is it safe in the scenario "we gave a client a virtual machine with a trial version of the software but we forgot that a developer had been debugging the trial version on that virtual machine and she copied a bunch of the source code to the VM".
And so on.
It is a very, very bad idea to store user names and passwords in comments of source code. Too many people have access to source code. Save this information on a piece of paper in a locked filing cabinet behind a door that says "beware of the leopard".
And remember: *always state the attack when you ask "is it safe?"* [Safety is always in the context of a particular attack](http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2008/08/19/tasty-beverages.aspx). | The answers have already covered it well however just in case it needs to be made clear but since this is a Silverlight question. Any comments you include in your Xaml **will** be included in the final XAP. |
2,738,493 | Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code? I am not worried about some getting access to my source but I am concerned in regards to someone decompiling my compiled silverlight XAP file. Is anybody 100% sure if the compiler strips off commented code. I would assume it does but I want to be sure.
Thanks! | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2738493",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323353/"
] | Comments are ignored by the compiler. They will not be put into the output executable. | The answers have already covered it well however just in case it needs to be made clear but since this is a Silverlight question. Any comments you include in your Xaml **will** be included in the final XAP. |
2,738,493 | Is it safe to store information such as usernames and passwords within comments in your source code? I am not worried about some getting access to my source but I am concerned in regards to someone decompiling my compiled silverlight XAP file. Is anybody 100% sure if the compiler strips off commented code. I would assume it does but I want to be sure.
Thanks! | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2738493",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323353/"
] | Since comments are ignored by the compiler it does not mean that you should add comments like username and password to your code. As a good coding practice you should not store such information in your code. | The answers have already covered it well however just in case it needs to be made clear but since this is a Silverlight question. Any comments you include in your Xaml **will** be included in the final XAP. |
193,327 | There is a complex live system - few vlans. In each of them there are linux servers, and on every server there are services. Services connect together - for example service http on host A connect to service mysql on host B to port 3306/tcp.
I would like to automated mapping this type of configuration to a database and create firewall rules for each server - to allow only necessary connections between hosts.
I thought about:
* getting list of connections using netstat on each server (or logging connections from iptables?), and then putting it into database,
* visualise it using graphvis or something like it,
* create firewall rules based on rules from database
* create iptables rule to log connections which doesn't fit to previous rules and warn about them.
Is something what can be do better/faster/more automate way? Maybe there is no need to reinventing the wheel?
update: "hard" part is not creating firewall rules, but automated creating , and then manager list of needed connections. | 2015/03/30 | [
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/193327",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/85895/"
] | In my opinion your best bet will be to use a [configuration management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_configuration_management) tool like [Puppet](https://puppetlabs.com/), [Chef](https://www.chef.io/chef/), [CFEngine](http://cfengine.com/) or [Ansible](http://www.ansible.com/home) so you can define your policies based on the host type and apply it to any new host. | Consider to use fwbuilder (<http://www.fwbuilder.org/>). It's an opensource tool that manage a sort of kinds of firewall. |
193,327 | There is a complex live system - few vlans. In each of them there are linux servers, and on every server there are services. Services connect together - for example service http on host A connect to service mysql on host B to port 3306/tcp.
I would like to automated mapping this type of configuration to a database and create firewall rules for each server - to allow only necessary connections between hosts.
I thought about:
* getting list of connections using netstat on each server (or logging connections from iptables?), and then putting it into database,
* visualise it using graphvis or something like it,
* create firewall rules based on rules from database
* create iptables rule to log connections which doesn't fit to previous rules and warn about them.
Is something what can be do better/faster/more automate way? Maybe there is no need to reinventing the wheel?
update: "hard" part is not creating firewall rules, but automated creating , and then manager list of needed connections. | 2015/03/30 | [
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/193327",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/85895/"
] | Some time ago I used [ferm](http://ferm.foo-projects.org/) and a custom and simple bash script to generate rulesets and insert it in the correct order vía "include" directive in **ferm.**
If you want logging connections, etc... you can use **ulog-mysql**, and save specific data matched with a specific iptables rule in mysql and graph whatever you want from this point forward.
Another possibility is use a [iptables role in ansible](https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles), probably you'll find the better role for your scenary. | Consider to use fwbuilder (<http://www.fwbuilder.org/>). It's an opensource tool that manage a sort of kinds of firewall. |
63,056 | I just posed this [question](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14119/3804) on sci-fi.stackexchange and had my wording corrected from *reveal* to *revelation*.
>
> I realise that to have said that too early in the film would have ruined the big **reveal**. Is there some in-universe reason for Palpatine to refer to Luke's father as Anakin? Some kind of psychological game that Palpatine is playing with Vader, perhaps?
>
>
>
I thought *reveal* was the correct word but I wanted to check the difference with experts. | 2012/04/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/63056",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/15661/"
] | *[Reveal](http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/reveal)* is used as a noun to mean a final revelation previously kept from the characters or viewers in a film or television show. | *Reveal* is fine; in this context it is synonymous with *revelation*. *Reveal* is more commonly a verb than a noun, so this is probably a case of overcorrection; it's probably more common than alternatives like *divulgence*, for example. |
63,056 | I just posed this [question](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14119/3804) on sci-fi.stackexchange and had my wording corrected from *reveal* to *revelation*.
>
> I realise that to have said that too early in the film would have ruined the big **reveal**. Is there some in-universe reason for Palpatine to refer to Luke's father as Anakin? Some kind of psychological game that Palpatine is playing with Vader, perhaps?
>
>
>
I thought *reveal* was the correct word but I wanted to check the difference with experts. | 2012/04/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/63056",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/15661/"
] | Not only is it fine: it's [in Oxford Dictionaries](http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/reveal?q=reveal).
>
> (In a film or television programme) A final revelation of information that has previously been kept from the characters or viewers:
>
>
> *The big reveal at the end of the movie answers all questions*
>
>
> | *Reveal* is fine; in this context it is synonymous with *revelation*. *Reveal* is more commonly a verb than a noun, so this is probably a case of overcorrection; it's probably more common than alternatives like *divulgence*, for example. |
63,056 | I just posed this [question](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14119/3804) on sci-fi.stackexchange and had my wording corrected from *reveal* to *revelation*.
>
> I realise that to have said that too early in the film would have ruined the big **reveal**. Is there some in-universe reason for Palpatine to refer to Luke's father as Anakin? Some kind of psychological game that Palpatine is playing with Vader, perhaps?
>
>
>
I thought *reveal* was the correct word but I wanted to check the difference with experts. | 2012/04/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/63056",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/15661/"
] | According to the OED this use of reveal as a noun was common until the 18th century, after that it was considered obsolete. But it came into use again with the predecessors of reality TV in the 1950s (think Candid Camera). I suspect it has gained in usage as an alternative to "revelation" because of the religious or connotations of the latter. | *Reveal* is fine; in this context it is synonymous with *revelation*. *Reveal* is more commonly a verb than a noun, so this is probably a case of overcorrection; it's probably more common than alternatives like *divulgence*, for example. |
63,056 | I just posed this [question](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14119/3804) on sci-fi.stackexchange and had my wording corrected from *reveal* to *revelation*.
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> I realise that to have said that too early in the film would have ruined the big **reveal**. Is there some in-universe reason for Palpatine to refer to Luke's father as Anakin? Some kind of psychological game that Palpatine is playing with Vader, perhaps?
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I thought *reveal* was the correct word but I wanted to check the difference with experts. | 2012/04/02 | [
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] | *[Reveal](http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/reveal)* is used as a noun to mean a final revelation previously kept from the characters or viewers in a film or television show. | Not only is it fine: it's [in Oxford Dictionaries](http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/reveal?q=reveal).
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> (In a film or television programme) A final revelation of information that has previously been kept from the characters or viewers:
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> *The big reveal at the end of the movie answers all questions*
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63,056 | I just posed this [question](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14119/3804) on sci-fi.stackexchange and had my wording corrected from *reveal* to *revelation*.
>
> I realise that to have said that too early in the film would have ruined the big **reveal**. Is there some in-universe reason for Palpatine to refer to Luke's father as Anakin? Some kind of psychological game that Palpatine is playing with Vader, perhaps?
>
>
>
I thought *reveal* was the correct word but I wanted to check the difference with experts. | 2012/04/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/63056",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/15661/"
] | *[Reveal](http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/reveal)* is used as a noun to mean a final revelation previously kept from the characters or viewers in a film or television show. | According to the OED this use of reveal as a noun was common until the 18th century, after that it was considered obsolete. But it came into use again with the predecessors of reality TV in the 1950s (think Candid Camera). I suspect it has gained in usage as an alternative to "revelation" because of the religious or connotations of the latter. |
100,048 | For example: another player, 'Player A', currently has the highest bounty, and the [pirates](http://sinsofasolarempire.wikia.com/wiki/Pirates) are now raiding a planet or asteroid controlled by them.
If I also attack and send my ships to the planet or asteroid controlled by 'Player A' that the pirates are raiding, will the pirate ships there be hostile to me or will they not attack my ships, and only proceed to attack 'Player A'? What if I also have a bounty (but not the highest)?
Also, how do pirate ships or structures behave towards a player's ships or structures if that player has no bounty and is not being raided?
Note: I'm playing the *[Rebellion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire#Rebellion_2)* expansion. | 2013/01/10 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/100048",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/4797/"
] | Here is what happens when a pirate bounty is set:
1. A pirate fleet jumps/appears into the pirate system.
2. They select one of the closer planets (not guarenteed though) of the target race that has the bounty.
3. Their fleet then heads for that sector.
If you or your ships are along their flight path, they'll exchange potshots as they fly past each other. However, if your ships are outside of their flight path, they'll be completely ignored even if they're in the same sector.
Once the fleet reaches the sector, they'll start destroying anything in that sector and their various ships will prioritize depending on their functionality (i.e. pillagers will start the bombardment right away over everything else). At this point, if your ships just happen to be in the sector, they may become targeted by pirates.
As for pirate structures, the only pirate structures that exist are in pirate bases, and they are hostile to everything. Expect to be targeted immediately when you jump into a pirate base. | If you're not the current target of their raiding, they should leave you alone right up until you either start shooting at them (note that your ships will automatically open fire on pirates by default as they're always flagged hostile).
It's been a while since I last played, however; things may have changed in the interim. |
32,641 | Suppose you are playing a game against an opponent whom you know only uses pure strategies. My question is, is there any such game in which using a mixed strategy in response is better than all the pure strategies you have at your disposal? | 2019/11/08 | [
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/32641",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com",
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] | Fixing the strategy of the opponent, a mixed strategy never yields a strictly higher utility if you are expected utility-maximizing.
The reason is that the expected utility from a mixed strategy is at most as high as the highest utility from the pure strategies which this mixed strategy plays with positive probability.
That is not to say that a mixed strategy cannot be a best response, though.
Consider for example rock-paper-scissors and a imagine your opponent playing each of the three actions with equal probability.
This leaves you indifferent between all three actions and hence any mixed strategy is a best response.
Things can be different when players are not expected-utility maximizers. If that's what you're interested in, you could take a look at the paper "Equilibrium without independence" by V. Crawford, 1990, as well as some of the references therein. | Yes. For example, consider the rather trivial game
\begin{array}{|c|c|}\hline
&A&B\\\hline
A&0,0&0,0\\\hline
B&0,0&0,0&\\\hline
\end{array}
Clearly, playing a mixed strategy is a best response to either of the pure strategies (since all strategies, mixed or otherwise, yield a payoff of 0).
Of course, as pointed out by a previous commenter, playing a mixed strategy can never be *strictly* better than playing a pure strategy: mixed strategies can only be weakly better than pure strategies.
Finally, it seems plausible (to me) that if all payoff entries in a (two player) game are distinct, the game will never have an equilibrium in which one player mixes but the other does not. However, I won't try to prove this here. |
32,641 | Suppose you are playing a game against an opponent whom you know only uses pure strategies. My question is, is there any such game in which using a mixed strategy in response is better than all the pure strategies you have at your disposal? | 2019/11/08 | [
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/32641",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/users/4447/"
] | Fixing the strategy of the opponent, a mixed strategy never yields a strictly higher utility if you are expected utility-maximizing.
The reason is that the expected utility from a mixed strategy is at most as high as the highest utility from the pure strategies which this mixed strategy plays with positive probability.
That is not to say that a mixed strategy cannot be a best response, though.
Consider for example rock-paper-scissors and a imagine your opponent playing each of the three actions with equal probability.
This leaves you indifferent between all three actions and hence any mixed strategy is a best response.
Things can be different when players are not expected-utility maximizers. If that's what you're interested in, you could take a look at the paper "Equilibrium without independence" by V. Crawford, 1990, as well as some of the references therein. | Repeated games and nonlinear utility
------------------------------------
Let's assume a trivial two-player game where each player has two options A and B; and the payout is +1/-1 if players pick the same and -1/+1 if players pick differently.
Let's assume that the game is repeated 100 times with the strategies chosen and committed to beforehand. This means that if your opponent picks a fixed strategy, and you choose a fixed strategy, then the expected result is 50% chance of +100 and 50% chance of -100, depending on what strategy they've chosen. However, if you choose a 50/50 mixed strategy (random), then the expected result is close to 0 - between -10 and +10 with a ~95% probability or so, and if you choose a 50/50 mixed strategy that's strictly alternating, then you get an expected result of exactly 0 with absolute certainty.
Thing is, many theories of utility (and behavioral economics experiments) expect that it can be nonlinear, and that "50% chance of +100 and 50% chance of -100" and "certain 0" are *not* equivalent, there can be a strong preference for one or the other depending on circumstances. So, if the utility of one player "prefers" reducing variance and avoiding the risk of a large loss, then a mixed strategy is strongly preferrable. |
164,934 | While setting up my Eclipse IDE it seems that I don't know how to change the background color of this Java-assisted search:
How can I do that? | 2010/07/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/164934",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/43297/"
] | That's a tricky one!
These are the marked occurrences. You change them in the preferences, under General → Editors → Text Editors → Annotations, and select Occurrences from the list.
 | This thread might help you <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/96981/color-themes-for-eclipse> |
153,700 | I am trying to use Post Man for SOAP Calls. I am having issues finding where the Auth URL is for salesforce marketing cloud/ exacttarget. Please refer to the pic below:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xXEaR.png)
I will appreciate help with this. | 2016/12/25 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/153700",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/31726/"
] | From what I can tell from the documentation there is no Auth URL. At least none mentioned in the documentation. You simply use your Client Id and Secret to request a token
Maybe this collection of calls will help you get started in getting a token via rest them making your SOAP call from postman with payload:
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> You must call the Auth/RequestToken REST API to get a 60 minute accessToken before making subsequent token based SOAP API calls.
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<https://github.com/salesforce-marketingcloud/postman> | I would like to suggest to get the SOAP Request and Response and call it using APEX code. Before that use the SOAPUI free version to test the request and response with the endpoint URL. The SOAPUI Link - <https://www.soapui.org/>
POSTMAN is very much helpful for the RESTFull services. |
2,190 | I keep accidentally pressing the button on the earbuds when it's in my pocket.
Any of these would be great for me:
1. Disable the button only when the device is locked
2. Disable the button always | 2010/10/15 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/2190",
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] | [Headset blocker](http://www.appbrain.com/app/headset-blocker/com.idunnolol.headsetblocker) will disable those buttons. It's a widget, not an app. | Try [Galaxy Music [Button Disabler]](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rltmultimedia.serviceMusicButtonDisabler). It is the best solution for locking the music button.
It **costs** .99 cent though.
 |
10,277 | Specifically, how can decoherence explain the appearance of flecks of metallic silver on a photographic plate when exposed to the very weak light of a distant star?
EDIT: Perhaps the advocates of decoherence need some context for this question. There is a certain definite quantity of energy on the order of one or two eV to drive the chemical reaction
2AgBr -> 2Ag + Br2
This is the reaction responsible for the fleck of silver on the photographic plate. The amount of energy is far greater than can be accounted for in any realistic time frame by the classical e-m wave energy of the light of a distant star.
Any explanation must explain where this energy comes from. How does "decoherence" claim to do this? I have heard over and over again that there is a matrix which is diagonalized, but no one has so much as volunteered to say just what matrix they are talking about. Is it, for example, the matrix of position states of the photon? Or perhaps it is the oxidation states of the silver atom? And I would really like a better explanation of how the matrix is "diagonalized" than to simply repeat that it is in "thermal contact with the environment."
EDIT: I have reviewed the comments again and I find that no one has come close to dealing with the question. I cannot find anything wrong in the way I have asked it so far, so I am posting this edit as my only means to prompt people to attempt an answer. | 2011/05/23 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10277",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/3253/"
] | Almost phenomenologically, "the appearance of flecks of metallic silver on a photographic plate" is a thermodynamic transition that happens at different rates depending on the details of how the plate is prepared and on details of the exposure of the photographic plate. Such thermodynamic transitions are often correlated in nontrivial ways. All QM has to do to be Useful is to model or describe the statistics of the thermodynamic transitions. [Note that my introduction of the idea of a *thermodynamic transition* makes my claim here "theory-laden", not quite phenomenological, at least to that extent.]
*Explanation* is not *necessary* for Usefulness. One topic of research in Philosophy of Physics has been to try to determine what makes a model "explanatory", which IMO has been rather inconclusive. Models may be more or less Useful for many different reasons, including tractability and directness of reference between elements of the theory and elements of experimental signal data. Note that a class of models may *seem* explanatory for 50 years even if it is the phlogiston theory, if the model is superficially nice in whatever ways.
Which brings me to my Answer, which I'm pretty sure you won't find Useful, which is that Decoherence doesn't explain particularly well, whatever that means, partly because it's not a very tractable approach. Decoherence seems to have fairly direct referents, which perhaps is what makes it appeal to some people quite strongly. The same is true of "wave function collapse": it's possible to structure experimental data taking wave function collapse as a fundamental modeling strategy, but so far no-one has produced a mathematization that is enough more Useful than just dealing with the statistics of thermodynamic events. There are people who think it illuminates what we're doing with QM in ways that might lead to a better mathematical formulation of the whole theory, but, I think, nothing yet.
In a similar vein, you may notice that Particle Physics is more often called High Energy Physics than it used to be, which seems to me to reflect the realization, not uniformly acknowledged, that the explanation of tracks of obviously related thermodynamic events in detectors as "caused by particles" is weakened by the many low-energy experiments that show that the concept of a particle cannot be that simple. As of now, Quantum fields are as likely to be the locus of descriptions of experiments.
I'm curious whether you can knock down this argument, such as it is. I think you're looking at this all wrong, but of course it may be me. That I've worked on this for a long time doesn't guarantee much.
EDIT (a long comment, in response to Marty's comment that first mentions "Quantum Siphoning"): *I* take the Wave Function and operators to be a good way to generate probability measures. The empirical success comes from the probabilities being able to be good models for (or descriptions of) statistics of raw experimental data. I take it that probabilities do *not* cause individual events, they describe *sets* of events (propensity interpretations of probability notwithstanding). [*If* we go the Wigner function route --which I *don't*, except as a mathematical equivalence, because I think it obscures the relationship to empirical data-- the wave function is just a generalized probability function that sometimes has negative values.] If one wants to change probability distributions as a result of experience, instead of taking other approaches to statistics, then one should use something like Bayes' rule, which in general doesn't just change the probability from 0.615802 to 0 or to 1. "collapse" of the wave function adds an extra level of structure to the concept of a probability distribution that I think just doesn't fit well, as Mathematics. If people want to use "collapse", I think it has to be done somehow differently. It's possible that a propensity interpretation could work for you, but I think we would then quite quickly get far enough apart that we can't talk to each other.
I think I prefer my description of individual events (and we may just have to accept that this is a sticking point)-- that we should say that the individual events are "thermodynamic transitions", whatever that means, leaving a causal account of how that happens for the future. The concept of thermodynamic transitions is the historical concept from Physics that I think fits the case. A thermodynamic event implicitly invokes at least a large number, perhaps an infinite number of degrees of freedom, to explain what happens when there is an apparent discontinuity, it introduces a degree of complexity that is hard to manage mathematically, which definitely has its problems. Decoherence also introduces an infinite number of degrees of freedom, but I think by introducing the environment in the way it does it doesn't adequately embrace the complexity of the photographic plate. I think your description of what happens in a photographic plate accepts that complexity, but then looks to make "collapse" of a quantum state, which has nowhere near as much structure as the photographic plate, be an explanation of what is happening. It's important that it not be brushed under the table, but we can measure where and when thermodynamic events happen without knowing how they happen.
I hope *that*'s helpful. I expect no-one else is listening! | The answer is simple: Decoherence doesn't explain wavefunction collapse and it couldn't possibly do such a thing. Decoherence and collapse are complementary phenomenons, but they are fundamentally different
Decoherence at most will make all interference terms to have essentially random phases, which will average out to zero, leaving only squared-positive probabilities on the diagonal. This mixed-state is usually compared with a classical probability distribution in microstates, and people usually like to make the judgement jump to say that decoherence 'produced' a classical limit. But the truth is that decoherence didn't do such a thing. The probabilities, even if they can be interpreted as a classical distribution, their uncertainties are inherently quantum. Individual measurements (in the example you used, a specific point in a silver photographic plate) will still be individual collapses. Only after having a statistically significant sample of eigenstates, you recover a classical probability distribution that will match the Density matrix (either decohered with the environment, or not) |
10,277 | Specifically, how can decoherence explain the appearance of flecks of metallic silver on a photographic plate when exposed to the very weak light of a distant star?
EDIT: Perhaps the advocates of decoherence need some context for this question. There is a certain definite quantity of energy on the order of one or two eV to drive the chemical reaction
2AgBr -> 2Ag + Br2
This is the reaction responsible for the fleck of silver on the photographic plate. The amount of energy is far greater than can be accounted for in any realistic time frame by the classical e-m wave energy of the light of a distant star.
Any explanation must explain where this energy comes from. How does "decoherence" claim to do this? I have heard over and over again that there is a matrix which is diagonalized, but no one has so much as volunteered to say just what matrix they are talking about. Is it, for example, the matrix of position states of the photon? Or perhaps it is the oxidation states of the silver atom? And I would really like a better explanation of how the matrix is "diagonalized" than to simply repeat that it is in "thermal contact with the environment."
EDIT: I have reviewed the comments again and I find that no one has come close to dealing with the question. I cannot find anything wrong in the way I have asked it so far, so I am posting this edit as my only means to prompt people to attempt an answer. | 2011/05/23 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10277",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/3253/"
] | Almost phenomenologically, "the appearance of flecks of metallic silver on a photographic plate" is a thermodynamic transition that happens at different rates depending on the details of how the plate is prepared and on details of the exposure of the photographic plate. Such thermodynamic transitions are often correlated in nontrivial ways. All QM has to do to be Useful is to model or describe the statistics of the thermodynamic transitions. [Note that my introduction of the idea of a *thermodynamic transition* makes my claim here "theory-laden", not quite phenomenological, at least to that extent.]
*Explanation* is not *necessary* for Usefulness. One topic of research in Philosophy of Physics has been to try to determine what makes a model "explanatory", which IMO has been rather inconclusive. Models may be more or less Useful for many different reasons, including tractability and directness of reference between elements of the theory and elements of experimental signal data. Note that a class of models may *seem* explanatory for 50 years even if it is the phlogiston theory, if the model is superficially nice in whatever ways.
Which brings me to my Answer, which I'm pretty sure you won't find Useful, which is that Decoherence doesn't explain particularly well, whatever that means, partly because it's not a very tractable approach. Decoherence seems to have fairly direct referents, which perhaps is what makes it appeal to some people quite strongly. The same is true of "wave function collapse": it's possible to structure experimental data taking wave function collapse as a fundamental modeling strategy, but so far no-one has produced a mathematization that is enough more Useful than just dealing with the statistics of thermodynamic events. There are people who think it illuminates what we're doing with QM in ways that might lead to a better mathematical formulation of the whole theory, but, I think, nothing yet.
In a similar vein, you may notice that Particle Physics is more often called High Energy Physics than it used to be, which seems to me to reflect the realization, not uniformly acknowledged, that the explanation of tracks of obviously related thermodynamic events in detectors as "caused by particles" is weakened by the many low-energy experiments that show that the concept of a particle cannot be that simple. As of now, Quantum fields are as likely to be the locus of descriptions of experiments.
I'm curious whether you can knock down this argument, such as it is. I think you're looking at this all wrong, but of course it may be me. That I've worked on this for a long time doesn't guarantee much.
EDIT (a long comment, in response to Marty's comment that first mentions "Quantum Siphoning"): *I* take the Wave Function and operators to be a good way to generate probability measures. The empirical success comes from the probabilities being able to be good models for (or descriptions of) statistics of raw experimental data. I take it that probabilities do *not* cause individual events, they describe *sets* of events (propensity interpretations of probability notwithstanding). [*If* we go the Wigner function route --which I *don't*, except as a mathematical equivalence, because I think it obscures the relationship to empirical data-- the wave function is just a generalized probability function that sometimes has negative values.] If one wants to change probability distributions as a result of experience, instead of taking other approaches to statistics, then one should use something like Bayes' rule, which in general doesn't just change the probability from 0.615802 to 0 or to 1. "collapse" of the wave function adds an extra level of structure to the concept of a probability distribution that I think just doesn't fit well, as Mathematics. If people want to use "collapse", I think it has to be done somehow differently. It's possible that a propensity interpretation could work for you, but I think we would then quite quickly get far enough apart that we can't talk to each other.
I think I prefer my description of individual events (and we may just have to accept that this is a sticking point)-- that we should say that the individual events are "thermodynamic transitions", whatever that means, leaving a causal account of how that happens for the future. The concept of thermodynamic transitions is the historical concept from Physics that I think fits the case. A thermodynamic event implicitly invokes at least a large number, perhaps an infinite number of degrees of freedom, to explain what happens when there is an apparent discontinuity, it introduces a degree of complexity that is hard to manage mathematically, which definitely has its problems. Decoherence also introduces an infinite number of degrees of freedom, but I think by introducing the environment in the way it does it doesn't adequately embrace the complexity of the photographic plate. I think your description of what happens in a photographic plate accepts that complexity, but then looks to make "collapse" of a quantum state, which has nowhere near as much structure as the photographic plate, be an explanation of what is happening. It's important that it not be brushed under the table, but we can measure where and when thermodynamic events happen without knowing how they happen.
I hope *that*'s helpful. I expect no-one else is listening! | >
> Any explanation must explain where this energy comes from.
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The energy comes from the energy of a single photon that has come all that way from a distant star. E=h\*nu , nu the frequency.
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> How does "decoherence" claim to do this?
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Decoherence has little to do with single photons or particles. It mainly has to do with a many particle system where the particles are coherent, i.e . are the complete solution of a quantum mechanical equation for a many body system, a single state function, where all the phases are defined by the boundary conditions of the creation of this state function.
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> I have heard over and over again that there is a matrix which is diagonalized, but no one has so much as volunteered to say just what matrix they are talking about. Is it, for example, the matrix of position states of the photon?
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A laser beam for example is coherent, which means that each photon represented by a vector in a matrix representation will have off diagonal elements with the other photons, well defined, i.e. the phases are fixed and well defined. When the beam decoheres the off diagonal elements tend to zero and there is only the individual photon in the diagonal.
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[The density matrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_matrix) as far as the photon is concerned is irrelevant int this situation. As far as the reactions initiated with the silver atoms it may be formulated since they are a many body state, but simple chemistry is sufficient.
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> And I would really like a better explanation of how the matrix is "diagonalized" than to simply repeat that it is in "thermal contact with the environment."
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Well, [here is a blog entry](http://motls.blogspot.gr/2011/06/density-matrix-and-its-classical.html) that treats the density matrix classically and quantum mechanically. I will read it myself, to nail down how the phases tend to zero exactly. Up to now it seemed a reasonable guess for a many body randomizes system.
The photons hitting the silver from a star is a single photon. Its energy, transmitted to the molecular system initiates a chemical reaction, which can be studied quantum mechanically and with a density matrix formalism, but is irrelevant to the photon's history.
Now if we assume that the photon from a de-excitation of an atom in the star light years away has not interacted on the way, and this is probable, as we do see absorption spectra from stars, then the state function atom-photon "collapses" when the photon hits the silver, i.e. when it interacts the first time. "Collapse" is a way of saying "interacts", The probability function (which is the state function squared,) tells us how the photon was created and where it comes from etc. The silver spec gives one hit in building up experimentally the probability distribution. |
10,277 | Specifically, how can decoherence explain the appearance of flecks of metallic silver on a photographic plate when exposed to the very weak light of a distant star?
EDIT: Perhaps the advocates of decoherence need some context for this question. There is a certain definite quantity of energy on the order of one or two eV to drive the chemical reaction
2AgBr -> 2Ag + Br2
This is the reaction responsible for the fleck of silver on the photographic plate. The amount of energy is far greater than can be accounted for in any realistic time frame by the classical e-m wave energy of the light of a distant star.
Any explanation must explain where this energy comes from. How does "decoherence" claim to do this? I have heard over and over again that there is a matrix which is diagonalized, but no one has so much as volunteered to say just what matrix they are talking about. Is it, for example, the matrix of position states of the photon? Or perhaps it is the oxidation states of the silver atom? And I would really like a better explanation of how the matrix is "diagonalized" than to simply repeat that it is in "thermal contact with the environment."
EDIT: I have reviewed the comments again and I find that no one has come close to dealing with the question. I cannot find anything wrong in the way I have asked it so far, so I am posting this edit as my only means to prompt people to attempt an answer. | 2011/05/23 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10277",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/3253/"
] | The answer is simple: Decoherence doesn't explain wavefunction collapse and it couldn't possibly do such a thing. Decoherence and collapse are complementary phenomenons, but they are fundamentally different
Decoherence at most will make all interference terms to have essentially random phases, which will average out to zero, leaving only squared-positive probabilities on the diagonal. This mixed-state is usually compared with a classical probability distribution in microstates, and people usually like to make the judgement jump to say that decoherence 'produced' a classical limit. But the truth is that decoherence didn't do such a thing. The probabilities, even if they can be interpreted as a classical distribution, their uncertainties are inherently quantum. Individual measurements (in the example you used, a specific point in a silver photographic plate) will still be individual collapses. Only after having a statistically significant sample of eigenstates, you recover a classical probability distribution that will match the Density matrix (either decohered with the environment, or not) | >
> Any explanation must explain where this energy comes from.
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The energy comes from the energy of a single photon that has come all that way from a distant star. E=h\*nu , nu the frequency.
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> How does "decoherence" claim to do this?
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Decoherence has little to do with single photons or particles. It mainly has to do with a many particle system where the particles are coherent, i.e . are the complete solution of a quantum mechanical equation for a many body system, a single state function, where all the phases are defined by the boundary conditions of the creation of this state function.
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> I have heard over and over again that there is a matrix which is diagonalized, but no one has so much as volunteered to say just what matrix they are talking about. Is it, for example, the matrix of position states of the photon?
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A laser beam for example is coherent, which means that each photon represented by a vector in a matrix representation will have off diagonal elements with the other photons, well defined, i.e. the phases are fixed and well defined. When the beam decoheres the off diagonal elements tend to zero and there is only the individual photon in the diagonal.
>
> Or perhaps it is the oxidation states of the silver atom?
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[The density matrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_matrix) as far as the photon is concerned is irrelevant int this situation. As far as the reactions initiated with the silver atoms it may be formulated since they are a many body state, but simple chemistry is sufficient.
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> And I would really like a better explanation of how the matrix is "diagonalized" than to simply repeat that it is in "thermal contact with the environment."
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>
>
Well, [here is a blog entry](http://motls.blogspot.gr/2011/06/density-matrix-and-its-classical.html) that treats the density matrix classically and quantum mechanically. I will read it myself, to nail down how the phases tend to zero exactly. Up to now it seemed a reasonable guess for a many body randomizes system.
The photons hitting the silver from a star is a single photon. Its energy, transmitted to the molecular system initiates a chemical reaction, which can be studied quantum mechanically and with a density matrix formalism, but is irrelevant to the photon's history.
Now if we assume that the photon from a de-excitation of an atom in the star light years away has not interacted on the way, and this is probable, as we do see absorption spectra from stars, then the state function atom-photon "collapses" when the photon hits the silver, i.e. when it interacts the first time. "Collapse" is a way of saying "interacts", The probability function (which is the state function squared,) tells us how the photon was created and where it comes from etc. The silver spec gives one hit in building up experimentally the probability distribution. |
42,232 | My brother is being refused admission to a school that I attended for 9 years. This is because when I was in school, the teachers traumatised me and we complained about it in a feedback form. The principal of the school called me to her office and gave me a earful for "not being grateful" to the school for all the opportunities they gave me.
This year, my brother applied to the school (because they have good facilities and provide the subjects that he wants). But the principal refused to give him a place in the school because of how "disrespectful" I was even though he has the marks to get in. Is this legal and if not what can I do against it? | 2019/06/19 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/42232",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/26292/"
] | Because the contract is between the creator and the backer
----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Kickstarter is not a part of this contract — the contract is a direct legal agreement between creators and their backers. Here are the terms that govern that agreement:
>
>
>
Kickstarter has separate agreements with creators and backers but the creators and backers have their own contract. | >
> how a backer can sue a creator who fails to deliver a promised functionality for a product?
>
>
>
"*Legal action on behalf of your backers*" means that Kickstarter (not the backers) will sue the creator. It will do that after the backers complain — to honor its contract with them and/or as a goodwill gesture. |
67,935,120 | I'm trying to let an api send a mail on behalf of a user.
I have an UWP application (Azure AD App "A") that posts some data to the API (Azure AD App "B")
The API are then going to collect some more data and send a mail as the user that posted that data.
When the post is received by the API the bearer token has "AUD" and "SCP" for the API, now I do a request to Azure AD and swaps the token for a new one with "AUD" and "SCP" for MS Graph API. This works pretty good, until there is a guest user that sends the data. Then I get an "Unauthorized" result back from Graph API.
I assume the reason is because I get the first token as the guest user and then tries to send mail with an account in another tenant.
What can I do to bypass this? | 2021/06/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/67935120",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5962462/"
] | We can't send mail on\_behalf\_of with a guest user account because a guest user doesn't have O365 Exchange Online license in this tenant.
Although maybe the guest user has O365 Exchange Online license in its own tenant, it is not allowed to send mail from this tenant.
It is expected.
>
> What can I do to bypass this?
>
>
>
If you want the guest user to send the mail from this tenant, it's impossible.
But I think sending mail from its own tenant is not what you want and it will require you to create app registration in that tenant or use multi-tenant app. You need admin permission of that tenant to do that. So it's impossible neither. | Thanks Allen!
Now when I cooled of a bit (I have extremely hot in my work area) I realized what I tried to do and why it didnt work ;)
I'm solving the problem by looking at the bearertoken and see if it is a Guest user who uses the app and send from an "no-reply" account in those cases. |
152,893 | I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software? | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152893",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/97564/"
] | You will need to go to Store->Sign Out, then sign in with your own account.
After that, delete the software that is asking for the old account password, and reinstall it under your account. If the software is not free, you will need to buy the software again. You do not have a license to use the software, unfortunately.
In your case, there’s only keynote needing an update so you know keynote had that account tied to it. | Go to System Preferneces
Check the box next to Allow user to reset password using Apple ID.
This will let you change the locked Apple ID |
152,893 | I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software? | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152893",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/97564/"
] | You will need to go to Store->Sign Out, then sign in with your own account.
After that, delete the software that is asking for the old account password, and reinstall it under your account. If the software is not free, you will need to buy the software again. You do not have a license to use the software, unfortunately.
In your case, there’s only keynote needing an update so you know keynote had that account tied to it. | The reason why app prompt the old user account is because the app was installed by the old user, and the purchase/install history (App Store called it purchase even the app is free) was made by the old user.
To solve this, you need to delete the app first (move to bin) than reinstall it again. Reinstall the app will update the app as well. |
152,893 | I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software? | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152893",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/97564/"
] | Since you do not know the previous user Apple ID, unfortunately you will have to start from scratch.
You will have to rebuild your computer OS and all Apple applications under your user ID in order to keep it up to date with software updates in the future.
Here are the detailed instructions how to do that.
[Changing ownership of a used Mac](https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5641)
I highly recommend the total wipe procedure to remove any possible software remains and modifications from previous user that you do not want.
The Operating Software and many app from Apple are FREE anyway. | Yes this process of removing the installed app by moving it to trash and downloading again from store needs to be done for each app individually.
Is there any way to do it for all the installed apps that need updates? |
152,893 | I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software? | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152893",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/97564/"
] | Go to System Preferences > App Store and change the first drop-down menu in the last section of the window (Purchases and In-App Purchases). This should be enough to force the system re-asking your credentials. If you already set up your account somewhere else, aka iCloud than the username will be automatically filled for you. | Yes this process of removing the installed app by moving it to trash and downloading again from store needs to be done for each app individually.
Is there any way to do it for all the installed apps that need updates? |
152,893 | I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software? | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152893",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/97564/"
] | You will need to go to Store->Sign Out, then sign in with your own account.
After that, delete the software that is asking for the old account password, and reinstall it under your account. If the software is not free, you will need to buy the software again. You do not have a license to use the software, unfortunately.
In your case, there’s only keynote needing an update so you know keynote had that account tied to it. | Since you do not know the previous user Apple ID, unfortunately you will have to start from scratch.
You will have to rebuild your computer OS and all Apple applications under your user ID in order to keep it up to date with software updates in the future.
Here are the detailed instructions how to do that.
[Changing ownership of a used Mac](https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5641)
I highly recommend the total wipe procedure to remove any possible software remains and modifications from previous user that you do not want.
The Operating Software and many app from Apple are FREE anyway. |
152,893 | I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software? | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152893",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/97564/"
] | You will need to go to Store->Sign Out, then sign in with your own account.
After that, delete the software that is asking for the old account password, and reinstall it under your account. If the software is not free, you will need to buy the software again. You do not have a license to use the software, unfortunately.
In your case, there’s only keynote needing an update so you know keynote had that account tied to it. | Go to System Preferences > App Store and change the first drop-down menu in the last section of the window (Purchases and In-App Purchases). This should be enough to force the system re-asking your credentials. If you already set up your account somewhere else, aka iCloud than the username will be automatically filled for you. |
152,893 | I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software? | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152893",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/97564/"
] | To switch Appstore user you can go to 'Featured' tab -- there link named as "Welcome " is clickable and open the window with the button "Log out". | Go to System Preferences > App Store and change the first drop-down menu in the last section of the window (Purchases and In-App Purchases). This should be enough to force the system re-asking your credentials. If you already set up your account somewhere else, aka iCloud than the username will be automatically filled for you. |
152,893 | I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software? | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152893",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/97564/"
] | To switch Appstore user you can go to 'Featured' tab -- there link named as "Welcome " is clickable and open the window with the button "Log out". | Yes this process of removing the installed app by moving it to trash and downloading again from store needs to be done for each app individually.
Is there any way to do it for all the installed apps that need updates? |
152,893 | I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software? | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152893",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/97564/"
] | Go to System Preferences > App Store and change the first drop-down menu in the last section of the window (Purchases and In-App Purchases). This should be enough to force the system re-asking your credentials. If you already set up your account somewhere else, aka iCloud than the username will be automatically filled for you. | On Mojave(10.14.4). This is how I tried and changed it.
1. Open App Store app and click on "Discover" option on the left hand side bar.
2. Scroll down and click on "Add Funds to Apple ID"
3. Which then prompts you to add you Apple ID and Password, fill them
4. After successful login, it prompts you with account details
By then, the user name and previous Apple Id would get removed and refreshes App Store app and shows the currently signed in user at the bottom on left-hand side bar. |
152,893 | I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software. When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:
How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software? | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152893",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/97564/"
] | Since you do not know the previous user Apple ID, unfortunately you will have to start from scratch.
You will have to rebuild your computer OS and all Apple applications under your user ID in order to keep it up to date with software updates in the future.
Here are the detailed instructions how to do that.
[Changing ownership of a used Mac](https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5641)
I highly recommend the total wipe procedure to remove any possible software remains and modifications from previous user that you do not want.
The Operating Software and many app from Apple are FREE anyway. | On Mojave(10.14.4). This is how I tried and changed it.
1. Open App Store app and click on "Discover" option on the left hand side bar.
2. Scroll down and click on "Add Funds to Apple ID"
3. Which then prompts you to add you Apple ID and Password, fill them
4. After successful login, it prompts you with account details
By then, the user name and previous Apple Id would get removed and refreshes App Store app and shows the currently signed in user at the bottom on left-hand side bar. |
43,952 | I recently finished watching the two seasons of Owari no Seraph. A new season seems unlikely to happen, so I want to pick up the manga.
Where does the story continue in the manga, after the 12th episode in the anime (second season)? | 2017/12/26 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/43952",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/31538/"
] | According to [Japanese Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B5%82%E3%82%8F%E3%82%8A%E3%81%AE%E3%82%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95#%E5%90%84%E8%A9%B1%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88), [Wikia](http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Seraph_of_the_End_(Episode)) and many Reddit threads (e.g. [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/OwarinoSeraph/comments/4deslg/where_does_the_manga_connect_with_the_end_of/)), **the anime ends at chapter 41 (volume 11).**
For the sake of completeness: season 1 ends at chapter 25 and season 2 ends at chapter 41.
However, as it has been mentioned on Reddit and explained on Wikia, the anime adaptation has some differences compared to the original work (manga). | Other than the ending of Ch. 41 and the ending of Season 2, The Manga (Ch. 1-41) and Anime (Seasons 1 and 2) are, for all intensive purposes, pretty much identical. |
323,536 | In my actual Asteroid, I have a huge amount of polluted water.
What is the best way to destroy it (free the space) or use it in large amounts to get the space quickly?
(I don't need to purify it, because I can use several [Steam Geysers](https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Steam_Geyser). Do you have any other ideas?) | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/323536",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/54377/"
] | I would use it in the fertilizer synthesizer.
1) This produces natural gas, which can be used with the natural gas generator to make power. (The N.G. generator also produces more polluted water, but much less than the fertilizer generators consume).
2) You'll get a lot of fertilizer that you don't need, but storage seems to be unlimited if you just leave solid items on the ground. | I believe you can boil polluted water to get steam and it will drop polluted dirt. Then you can compost the polluted dirt and do whatever you want with the steam |
121,963 | I mistakenly deleted my compositing layout. I've tried to open the file without the Load UI and I've also restored the settings to default but still can't find the layout. Although if I open a new file entirely, the layout is back but not on the saved project. How can I bring the compositing layout back? | 2018/11/04 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/121963",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/64297/"
] | The custom screen layouts are saved in a blend file but they don't show up when we append data from another file. This leaves two choices, recreate the layout that is missing, or open the file without the screen layouts and replace all of the screens in the file.
To create a new screen layout click the `+` next to the screen list and give it a useful name. Now adjust the layout so that the editors are where you want them and save your blend file.
If you start with a file (maybe your default startup) that has the layouts you want to use, turn off load UI when you open your blend file so you keep the existing layouts, then resave the blend file with these layouts. Not that this removes any cutsom screen layouts you may have had in your file. | Go to top left corner there you will see a box with up and down arrows click on that for drop menu there find (i) info click on that you will get back compositing layout. |
11,259,175 | I need to choose a Database for storing data remotely from a big number (thousands to tens of thousands) of sensors that would generate around one entry per minute each.
The said data needs to be queried in a variety of ways from counting data with certain characteristics for statistics to simple outputting for plotting.
I am looking around for the right tool, I started with MySQL but I feel like it lacks the scalability needed for this project, and this lead me to noSQL databases which I don't know much about.
Which Database, either relational or not would be a good choice?
Thanks. | 2012/06/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11259175",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1490721/"
] | There is usually no "best" database since they all involve trade-offs of one kind or another. Your question is also very vague because you don't say anything about your performance needs other than the number of inserts per minute (how much data per insert?) and that you need "scalability".
It also looks like a case of premature optimization because you say you "**feel** like [MySQL] lacks the scalability needed for this project", but it doesn't sound like you've run any tests to confirm whether this is a real problem. It's always better to get real data rather than base an important architectural decision on "feelings".
Here's a suggestion:
1. Write a simple test program that inserts 10,000 rows of sample data per minute
2. Run the program for a decent length of time (a few days or more) to generate a sizable chunk of test data
3. Run your queries to see if they meet your performance needs (which you haven't specified -- how fast do they need to be? how often will they run? how complex are they?)
You're testing at least two things here: whether your database can handle 10,000 inserts per minute and whether your queries will run quickly enough once you have a huge amount of data. With large datasets these will become competing priorities since you need indexes for fast queries, but indexes will start to slow down your inserts over time. At some point you'll need to think about data archival as well (or purging, if historical data isn't needed) both for performance and for practical reasons (finite storage space).
These will be concerns no matter what database you select. From what little you've told us about your retrieval needs ("counting data with certain characteristics" and "simple outputting for plotting") it sounds like any type of database will do. It may be that other concerns are more important, such as ease of development (what languages and tools are you using?), deployment, management, code maintainability, etc.
Since this is sensor data we're talking about, you may also want to look at a round robin database (RRD) such as [RRDTool](http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/) to see if that approach better serves your needs. | you can try to use Redis noSQL database |
11,259,175 | I need to choose a Database for storing data remotely from a big number (thousands to tens of thousands) of sensors that would generate around one entry per minute each.
The said data needs to be queried in a variety of ways from counting data with certain characteristics for statistics to simple outputting for plotting.
I am looking around for the right tool, I started with MySQL but I feel like it lacks the scalability needed for this project, and this lead me to noSQL databases which I don't know much about.
Which Database, either relational or not would be a good choice?
Thanks. | 2012/06/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11259175",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1490721/"
] | Found this question while googling for "database for sensor data"
One of very helpful search-results (along with this SO question) was this [blog](http://tinkerman.eldiariblau.net/storing-and-publishing-sensor-data/):
Actually I've started a similar project (<http://reatha.de>) but realized too late, that I'm using not the best technologies available. My approach was similar MySQL + PHP. Finally I realized that this is not scalable and stopped the project.
Additionally, a good starting point is looking at the [list of data-bases in Heroku](https://addons.heroku.com/):
If they use one, then it should be not the worst one.
I hope this helps. | you can try to use Redis noSQL database |
11,259,175 | I need to choose a Database for storing data remotely from a big number (thousands to tens of thousands) of sensors that would generate around one entry per minute each.
The said data needs to be queried in a variety of ways from counting data with certain characteristics for statistics to simple outputting for plotting.
I am looking around for the right tool, I started with MySQL but I feel like it lacks the scalability needed for this project, and this lead me to noSQL databases which I don't know much about.
Which Database, either relational or not would be a good choice?
Thanks. | 2012/06/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11259175",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1490721/"
] | There is usually no "best" database since they all involve trade-offs of one kind or another. Your question is also very vague because you don't say anything about your performance needs other than the number of inserts per minute (how much data per insert?) and that you need "scalability".
It also looks like a case of premature optimization because you say you "**feel** like [MySQL] lacks the scalability needed for this project", but it doesn't sound like you've run any tests to confirm whether this is a real problem. It's always better to get real data rather than base an important architectural decision on "feelings".
Here's a suggestion:
1. Write a simple test program that inserts 10,000 rows of sample data per minute
2. Run the program for a decent length of time (a few days or more) to generate a sizable chunk of test data
3. Run your queries to see if they meet your performance needs (which you haven't specified -- how fast do they need to be? how often will they run? how complex are they?)
You're testing at least two things here: whether your database can handle 10,000 inserts per minute and whether your queries will run quickly enough once you have a huge amount of data. With large datasets these will become competing priorities since you need indexes for fast queries, but indexes will start to slow down your inserts over time. At some point you'll need to think about data archival as well (or purging, if historical data isn't needed) both for performance and for practical reasons (finite storage space).
These will be concerns no matter what database you select. From what little you've told us about your retrieval needs ("counting data with certain characteristics" and "simple outputting for plotting") it sounds like any type of database will do. It may be that other concerns are more important, such as ease of development (what languages and tools are you using?), deployment, management, code maintainability, etc.
Since this is sensor data we're talking about, you may also want to look at a round robin database (RRD) such as [RRDTool](http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/) to see if that approach better serves your needs. | Found this question while googling for "database for sensor data"
One of very helpful search-results (along with this SO question) was this [blog](http://tinkerman.eldiariblau.net/storing-and-publishing-sensor-data/):
Actually I've started a similar project (<http://reatha.de>) but realized too late, that I'm using not the best technologies available. My approach was similar MySQL + PHP. Finally I realized that this is not scalable and stopped the project.
Additionally, a good starting point is looking at the [list of data-bases in Heroku](https://addons.heroku.com/):
If they use one, then it should be not the worst one.
I hope this helps. |
1,714,513 | I am what I would consider a very experienced web developer, not to mention programmer in general. One area I have never seriously moved into is winforms development. Could someone recommend some resources that would be assist me in getting familiar with winforms? Many of the resources I have found are less than desirable in that they either cater too much towards beginners or they lack good software design principles. | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1714513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208591/"
] | First off, I would probably recommend you to dive into WPF rather than winforms these days. Winforms is the "old" way of doing .NET windows applications, and WPF is the way of the (at least near) future. That said, [windowsclient.net](http://windowsclient.net/) seems to be the official MS information outlet regarding these technologies. | Look also into WPF, which is winform successor... |
1,714,513 | I am what I would consider a very experienced web developer, not to mention programmer in general. One area I have never seriously moved into is winforms development. Could someone recommend some resources that would be assist me in getting familiar with winforms? Many of the resources I have found are less than desirable in that they either cater too much towards beginners or they lack good software design principles. | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1714513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208591/"
] | Look also into WPF, which is winform successor... | Hahahahaha. Well in my opinion pretty much every single example of Winforms lacks good software design principles. This is due to the "form first" development style that visual studio uses by default.
In most demonstrations and samples there is no benefit in producing a more pleasing design as you're trying to demonstrate just one thing and redoing the architecture would be overboard. |
1,714,513 | I am what I would consider a very experienced web developer, not to mention programmer in general. One area I have never seriously moved into is winforms development. Could someone recommend some resources that would be assist me in getting familiar with winforms? Many of the resources I have found are less than desirable in that they either cater too much towards beginners or they lack good software design principles. | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1714513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208591/"
] | Actually, coming from a web background will probably help you write thick-client software (WinForms or WPF; I can think of many reasons to continue work on WinForms), because many of the pittfalls of winform development are simply not possible in a web environment (such as keeping connections open between units-of-work/interactions and in general holding on to [a large number of] various resources).
Some tips:
* Vigorously apply separation of concerns/single responsibility concepts and keep your "form code" as thin as you can.
* Automate boring stuff like validations, data binding, etc, as much as you can.
* Try to implement good presentation patterns like MVP, look at stuff like Prism from the P&P guys at Microsoft. The [presentation patterns wiki](http://www.jeremydmiller.com/ppatterns/MainPage.ashx) by Jeremy D. Miller contains some gems already in this area.
* make up your mind on the UI style (page-like, MDI, tabbed, etc) and try to stick with it. Come up with a policy on when to open and close views and when to put which ones in a "main" window as opposed to popups; this can offer new degrees of freedom that web devs are not always familiar with. | Look also into WPF, which is winform successor... |
1,714,513 | I am what I would consider a very experienced web developer, not to mention programmer in general. One area I have never seriously moved into is winforms development. Could someone recommend some resources that would be assist me in getting familiar with winforms? Many of the resources I have found are less than desirable in that they either cater too much towards beginners or they lack good software design principles. | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1714513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208591/"
] | **Windows Forms 2.0 Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)**
by Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt
**Programming WPF**
by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
**Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Pro - Developer)**
by Charles Petzold
If you're looking to build enterprise desktop applications and are familiar with OO Design Patterns, I'd recommend [SCSF and CAB](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480482.aspx) as a backbone and [Clickonce](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t71a733d%28VS.80%29.aspx) as the deployment mechanism. | Look also into WPF, which is winform successor... |
1,714,513 | I am what I would consider a very experienced web developer, not to mention programmer in general. One area I have never seriously moved into is winforms development. Could someone recommend some resources that would be assist me in getting familiar with winforms? Many of the resources I have found are less than desirable in that they either cater too much towards beginners or they lack good software design principles. | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1714513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208591/"
] | First off, I would probably recommend you to dive into WPF rather than winforms these days. Winforms is the "old" way of doing .NET windows applications, and WPF is the way of the (at least near) future. That said, [windowsclient.net](http://windowsclient.net/) seems to be the official MS information outlet regarding these technologies. | Hahahahaha. Well in my opinion pretty much every single example of Winforms lacks good software design principles. This is due to the "form first" development style that visual studio uses by default.
In most demonstrations and samples there is no benefit in producing a more pleasing design as you're trying to demonstrate just one thing and redoing the architecture would be overboard. |
1,714,513 | I am what I would consider a very experienced web developer, not to mention programmer in general. One area I have never seriously moved into is winforms development. Could someone recommend some resources that would be assist me in getting familiar with winforms? Many of the resources I have found are less than desirable in that they either cater too much towards beginners or they lack good software design principles. | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1714513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208591/"
] | First off, I would probably recommend you to dive into WPF rather than winforms these days. Winforms is the "old" way of doing .NET windows applications, and WPF is the way of the (at least near) future. That said, [windowsclient.net](http://windowsclient.net/) seems to be the official MS information outlet regarding these technologies. | **Windows Forms 2.0 Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)**
by Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt
**Programming WPF**
by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
**Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Pro - Developer)**
by Charles Petzold
If you're looking to build enterprise desktop applications and are familiar with OO Design Patterns, I'd recommend [SCSF and CAB](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480482.aspx) as a backbone and [Clickonce](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t71a733d%28VS.80%29.aspx) as the deployment mechanism. |
1,714,513 | I am what I would consider a very experienced web developer, not to mention programmer in general. One area I have never seriously moved into is winforms development. Could someone recommend some resources that would be assist me in getting familiar with winforms? Many of the resources I have found are less than desirable in that they either cater too much towards beginners or they lack good software design principles. | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1714513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208591/"
] | Actually, coming from a web background will probably help you write thick-client software (WinForms or WPF; I can think of many reasons to continue work on WinForms), because many of the pittfalls of winform development are simply not possible in a web environment (such as keeping connections open between units-of-work/interactions and in general holding on to [a large number of] various resources).
Some tips:
* Vigorously apply separation of concerns/single responsibility concepts and keep your "form code" as thin as you can.
* Automate boring stuff like validations, data binding, etc, as much as you can.
* Try to implement good presentation patterns like MVP, look at stuff like Prism from the P&P guys at Microsoft. The [presentation patterns wiki](http://www.jeremydmiller.com/ppatterns/MainPage.ashx) by Jeremy D. Miller contains some gems already in this area.
* make up your mind on the UI style (page-like, MDI, tabbed, etc) and try to stick with it. Come up with a policy on when to open and close views and when to put which ones in a "main" window as opposed to popups; this can offer new degrees of freedom that web devs are not always familiar with. | Hahahahaha. Well in my opinion pretty much every single example of Winforms lacks good software design principles. This is due to the "form first" development style that visual studio uses by default.
In most demonstrations and samples there is no benefit in producing a more pleasing design as you're trying to demonstrate just one thing and redoing the architecture would be overboard. |
1,714,513 | I am what I would consider a very experienced web developer, not to mention programmer in general. One area I have never seriously moved into is winforms development. Could someone recommend some resources that would be assist me in getting familiar with winforms? Many of the resources I have found are less than desirable in that they either cater too much towards beginners or they lack good software design principles. | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1714513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208591/"
] | **Windows Forms 2.0 Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)**
by Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt
**Programming WPF**
by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
**Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Pro - Developer)**
by Charles Petzold
If you're looking to build enterprise desktop applications and are familiar with OO Design Patterns, I'd recommend [SCSF and CAB](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480482.aspx) as a backbone and [Clickonce](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t71a733d%28VS.80%29.aspx) as the deployment mechanism. | Hahahahaha. Well in my opinion pretty much every single example of Winforms lacks good software design principles. This is due to the "form first" development style that visual studio uses by default.
In most demonstrations and samples there is no benefit in producing a more pleasing design as you're trying to demonstrate just one thing and redoing the architecture would be overboard. |
1,714,513 | I am what I would consider a very experienced web developer, not to mention programmer in general. One area I have never seriously moved into is winforms development. Could someone recommend some resources that would be assist me in getting familiar with winforms? Many of the resources I have found are less than desirable in that they either cater too much towards beginners or they lack good software design principles. | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1714513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208591/"
] | Actually, coming from a web background will probably help you write thick-client software (WinForms or WPF; I can think of many reasons to continue work on WinForms), because many of the pittfalls of winform development are simply not possible in a web environment (such as keeping connections open between units-of-work/interactions and in general holding on to [a large number of] various resources).
Some tips:
* Vigorously apply separation of concerns/single responsibility concepts and keep your "form code" as thin as you can.
* Automate boring stuff like validations, data binding, etc, as much as you can.
* Try to implement good presentation patterns like MVP, look at stuff like Prism from the P&P guys at Microsoft. The [presentation patterns wiki](http://www.jeremydmiller.com/ppatterns/MainPage.ashx) by Jeremy D. Miller contains some gems already in this area.
* make up your mind on the UI style (page-like, MDI, tabbed, etc) and try to stick with it. Come up with a policy on when to open and close views and when to put which ones in a "main" window as opposed to popups; this can offer new degrees of freedom that web devs are not always familiar with. | **Windows Forms 2.0 Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)**
by Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt
**Programming WPF**
by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
**Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Pro - Developer)**
by Charles Petzold
If you're looking to build enterprise desktop applications and are familiar with OO Design Patterns, I'd recommend [SCSF and CAB](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480482.aspx) as a backbone and [Clickonce](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t71a733d%28VS.80%29.aspx) as the deployment mechanism. |
3,150 | I have seen 'Muslim' and 'Islamic' both used as adjectives to describe things relating to Islam. Is there a nuanced difference between the two words?
I know that 'Muslim' can also be used as a noun, as in:
>
> Muslims as the people who practice Islam.
>
>
>
But, are the following sentences both correct? Are they equivalent?
>
> The Quran is the Muslim holy book.
>
>
> The Quran is the Islamic holy book.
>
>
>
Now that I have written this question, and tried to think of examples, perhaps Islamic is only an adverb?
Would both of these sentences be correct?
>
> Islamic people practice Islam.
>
>
> Muslim people practice Islam.
>
>
> | 2010/09/17 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3150",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/433/"
] | *Muslim* or *Moslem* is always referring to [a man](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim), meaning "one who submits", with a female form *Muslima*, while *Islamic* denotes "belonging to Islam".
Therefore, instead of saying
>
> Muslim people practice Islam.
>
>
>
one can also say
>
> Muslims practice Islam.
>
>
>
but not
>
> Islamics practice Islam.
>
>
>
and it would be more correct to say
>
> The Quran is the Muslim's holy book.
>
>
>
In Arabic, *Muslim* is the participle of the verb with the infinitive *Islam*.
Muslim - male
Muslima - female
Islamic person/people - plural non gender | They are roughly equivalent in meaning when used adjectivally, although I find people who respect Muslims calling them "Muslim" and people who don't respect Muslims calling them "Islamic." |
148,748 | I have some money in an IRA account with NEW YORK LIFE. I would like to transfer this money into a Fedelity brokerage account since I can buy individual stocks there. Who do I contact to arrange the transfer NEW YORK LIFE agent or Fidelity customer support? My NEW YORK LIFE agent said she is not able to help me and I would have to ask Fidelity but I don't know if she is bull shitting. | 2022/01/22 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/148748",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/114846/"
] | The easiest way to do move money from one IRA account to another IRA account is by a trustee-to-trustee transfer where the money goes directly from one custodian (New York Life in this case) to the other custodian (Fidelity in this case). The easiest way of accomplishing this is to call Fidelity or go online on their website, tell them that you are wanting to establish an IRA with them, and that you want to fund it by transferring money held in the IRA (of the same type) with New York Life. Give Fidelity the account number of your existing New York Life IRA, tell them how much you want to transfer over -- $1000 or $20,000 or the entire balance as the case may be -- and tell Fidelity to go get the money. In a few days' time, the money will appear in your new Fidelity IRA and the New York Life IRA will have a smaller balance, possibly a zero balance, or might even be closed if you told Fidelity to collect the entire balance. Alternatively, *you* will receive a check *payable to Fidelity FBO naiva's IRA* with instructions to send the check on to the correct address at Fidelity. *You* cannot cash this check or deposit it into your personal account because it is not payable to you; it is payable to your IRA at Fidelity, and you should send it on to Fidelity right away. This makes it a trustee-to-trustee transfer (via your mailbox) and does not raise any issues about you having taken a premature distribution from your IRA etc. which would have arisen if you had cashed the check.
DO NOT approach New York Life and tell them that you want to transfer money to a new IRA with Fidelity: they will bitch and moan and drag their heels about doing so because they are unhappy to lose your business, and will probably screw up the transfer. Talk to Fidelity only. They are eager to get their hands on your IRA money and will gladly take care of the whole thing for you at no charge to you.
Now, one reason why all this might not work easily is if the New York Life IRA is invested in an annuity contract or guaranteed income contract (as many IRAs from insurance companies are) and there are lots of surrender charges that you agreed to pay (you did read the fine print, didn't you?) if you ever decided to transfer the money elsewhere. Annuity surrender charges can include recomputing the growth at a lower rate than specified in the annuity document, as well as other fees. | You should to talk to both. The receiving company will be happy to get your money. The sending company will wish you weren't leaving. The methods they use might clash.
While a seamless electronic transfer would be ideal, what you want to avoid is them sending you a check made out to you. If they have to do it by check the receiving company will tell you who the check should be be made out to. The last time I did this the sending company made out the check using the words specified by the receiving company. The check was mailed to me. I took the check, without endorsing it, completed a form and mailed the check and the form to the specified address. It was straight forward and easy.
Even if they can do the direct transfer, you will need to know information from both companies before doing the transfer. Thus expect to visit both websites before staring the process. |
56,504,754 | So basically I want to create charts with server-side blazor, I was searching around for some packages which would allow me to create charts. The problem being that they are all pretty expensive:
1. [telerik](https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/chart/overview)
2. [syncfusion](https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components/blazor-charts)
The only free alternative which is also pretty good I found was ofc. [ChartJs](https://www.chartjs.org/), but it uses obviusly js which is not really the direction I wanted to go for.
So are there any 'good' Blazor chart libraries which are free and let me create the normal hand full of chart types e.g. area-charts, line charts, bar charts ... ? | 2019/06/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56504754",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10070647/"
] | There is also a specific ChartJS.Blazor package available for free, just a small NuGet package. And compatible with client-side and server-side Blazor applications.
* [ChartJS.Blazor](https://www.nuget.org/packages/ChartJs.Blazor/) package by Marius Muntean
* Or search for "ChartJS.Blazor" in NuGet Package manager in Visual Studio
*Note: The . is after ChartJS and before Blazor, not after Chart directly. Otherwise you won't find this package but all the other variations.* | There is also [Blazly](https://github.com/lqdev/Blazly) even though it doesn't seem to be much activity lately it is quite easy to adapt to specific needs. |
56,504,754 | So basically I want to create charts with server-side blazor, I was searching around for some packages which would allow me to create charts. The problem being that they are all pretty expensive:
1. [telerik](https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/chart/overview)
2. [syncfusion](https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components/blazor-charts)
The only free alternative which is also pretty good I found was ofc. [ChartJs](https://www.chartjs.org/), but it uses obviusly js which is not really the direction I wanted to go for.
So are there any 'good' Blazor chart libraries which are free and let me create the normal hand full of chart types e.g. area-charts, line charts, bar charts ... ? | 2019/06/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56504754",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10070647/"
] | [Plotly.Blazor](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Plotly.Blazor) is now another option.
>
> Plotly.Blazor is a wrapper for plotly.js.
> Built on top of d3.js and stack.gl, plotly.js is a high-level, declarative charting library. It ships with over 40 chart types, including 3D charts, statistical graphs, and SVG maps.
> plotly.js is free and open source and you can view the source, report issues or contribute on GitHub.
>
>
> | There are beautiful charts available on Blazorise.com. Please check them and give a try:
<https://bootstrapdemo.blazorise.com/tests/charts> |
56,504,754 | So basically I want to create charts with server-side blazor, I was searching around for some packages which would allow me to create charts. The problem being that they are all pretty expensive:
1. [telerik](https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/chart/overview)
2. [syncfusion](https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components/blazor-charts)
The only free alternative which is also pretty good I found was ofc. [ChartJs](https://www.chartjs.org/), but it uses obviusly js which is not really the direction I wanted to go for.
So are there any 'good' Blazor chart libraries which are free and let me create the normal hand full of chart types e.g. area-charts, line charts, bar charts ... ? | 2019/06/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56504754",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10070647/"
] | To answer the question myself, [this](https://github.com/stsrki/Blazorise) is the library which looks the most promising and it is also free. | You can find the library for bar chart, and lot of other components here:
[radzen.com](https://blazor.radzen.com/bar-chart) |
56,504,754 | So basically I want to create charts with server-side blazor, I was searching around for some packages which would allow me to create charts. The problem being that they are all pretty expensive:
1. [telerik](https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/chart/overview)
2. [syncfusion](https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components/blazor-charts)
The only free alternative which is also pretty good I found was ofc. [ChartJs](https://www.chartjs.org/), but it uses obviusly js which is not really the direction I wanted to go for.
So are there any 'good' Blazor chart libraries which are free and let me create the normal hand full of chart types e.g. area-charts, line charts, bar charts ... ? | 2019/06/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56504754",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10070647/"
] | There is also a specific ChartJS.Blazor package available for free, just a small NuGet package. And compatible with client-side and server-side Blazor applications.
* [ChartJS.Blazor](https://www.nuget.org/packages/ChartJs.Blazor/) package by Marius Muntean
* Or search for "ChartJS.Blazor" in NuGet Package manager in Visual Studio
*Note: The . is after ChartJS and before Blazor, not after Chart directly. Otherwise you won't find this package but all the other variations.* | You can find the library for bar chart, and lot of other components here:
[radzen.com](https://blazor.radzen.com/bar-chart) |
56,504,754 | So basically I want to create charts with server-side blazor, I was searching around for some packages which would allow me to create charts. The problem being that they are all pretty expensive:
1. [telerik](https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/chart/overview)
2. [syncfusion](https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components/blazor-charts)
The only free alternative which is also pretty good I found was ofc. [ChartJs](https://www.chartjs.org/), but it uses obviusly js which is not really the direction I wanted to go for.
So are there any 'good' Blazor chart libraries which are free and let me create the normal hand full of chart types e.g. area-charts, line charts, bar charts ... ? | 2019/06/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56504754",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10070647/"
] | [Plotly.Blazor](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Plotly.Blazor) is now another option.
>
> Plotly.Blazor is a wrapper for plotly.js.
> Built on top of d3.js and stack.gl, plotly.js is a high-level, declarative charting library. It ships with over 40 chart types, including 3D charts, statistical graphs, and SVG maps.
> plotly.js is free and open source and you can view the source, report issues or contribute on GitHub.
>
>
> | There is also [Blazly](https://github.com/lqdev/Blazly) even though it doesn't seem to be much activity lately it is quite easy to adapt to specific needs. |
56,504,754 | So basically I want to create charts with server-side blazor, I was searching around for some packages which would allow me to create charts. The problem being that they are all pretty expensive:
1. [telerik](https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/chart/overview)
2. [syncfusion](https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components/blazor-charts)
The only free alternative which is also pretty good I found was ofc. [ChartJs](https://www.chartjs.org/), but it uses obviusly js which is not really the direction I wanted to go for.
So are there any 'good' Blazor chart libraries which are free and let me create the normal hand full of chart types e.g. area-charts, line charts, bar charts ... ? | 2019/06/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56504754",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10070647/"
] | [Plotly.Blazor](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Plotly.Blazor) is now another option.
>
> Plotly.Blazor is a wrapper for plotly.js.
> Built on top of d3.js and stack.gl, plotly.js is a high-level, declarative charting library. It ships with over 40 chart types, including 3D charts, statistical graphs, and SVG maps.
> plotly.js is free and open source and you can view the source, report issues or contribute on GitHub.
>
>
> | You can find the library for bar chart, and lot of other components here:
[radzen.com](https://blazor.radzen.com/bar-chart) |
56,504,754 | So basically I want to create charts with server-side blazor, I was searching around for some packages which would allow me to create charts. The problem being that they are all pretty expensive:
1. [telerik](https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/chart/overview)
2. [syncfusion](https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components/blazor-charts)
The only free alternative which is also pretty good I found was ofc. [ChartJs](https://www.chartjs.org/), but it uses obviusly js which is not really the direction I wanted to go for.
So are there any 'good' Blazor chart libraries which are free and let me create the normal hand full of chart types e.g. area-charts, line charts, bar charts ... ? | 2019/06/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56504754",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10070647/"
] | There are beautiful charts available on Blazorise.com. Please check them and give a try:
<https://bootstrapdemo.blazorise.com/tests/charts> | You can find the library for bar chart, and lot of other components here:
[radzen.com](https://blazor.radzen.com/bar-chart) |
56,504,754 | So basically I want to create charts with server-side blazor, I was searching around for some packages which would allow me to create charts. The problem being that they are all pretty expensive:
1. [telerik](https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/chart/overview)
2. [syncfusion](https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components/blazor-charts)
The only free alternative which is also pretty good I found was ofc. [ChartJs](https://www.chartjs.org/), but it uses obviusly js which is not really the direction I wanted to go for.
So are there any 'good' Blazor chart libraries which are free and let me create the normal hand full of chart types e.g. area-charts, line charts, bar charts ... ? | 2019/06/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56504754",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10070647/"
] | To answer the question myself, [this](https://github.com/stsrki/Blazorise) is the library which looks the most promising and it is also free. | There are beautiful charts available on Blazorise.com. Please check them and give a try:
<https://bootstrapdemo.blazorise.com/tests/charts> |
56,504,754 | So basically I want to create charts with server-side blazor, I was searching around for some packages which would allow me to create charts. The problem being that they are all pretty expensive:
1. [telerik](https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/chart/overview)
2. [syncfusion](https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components/blazor-charts)
The only free alternative which is also pretty good I found was ofc. [ChartJs](https://www.chartjs.org/), but it uses obviusly js which is not really the direction I wanted to go for.
So are there any 'good' Blazor chart libraries which are free and let me create the normal hand full of chart types e.g. area-charts, line charts, bar charts ... ? | 2019/06/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56504754",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10070647/"
] | To answer the question myself, [this](https://github.com/stsrki/Blazorise) is the library which looks the most promising and it is also free. | There is also [Blazly](https://github.com/lqdev/Blazly) even though it doesn't seem to be much activity lately it is quite easy to adapt to specific needs. |
56,504,754 | So basically I want to create charts with server-side blazor, I was searching around for some packages which would allow me to create charts. The problem being that they are all pretty expensive:
1. [telerik](https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/chart/overview)
2. [syncfusion](https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components/blazor-charts)
The only free alternative which is also pretty good I found was ofc. [ChartJs](https://www.chartjs.org/), but it uses obviusly js which is not really the direction I wanted to go for.
So are there any 'good' Blazor chart libraries which are free and let me create the normal hand full of chart types e.g. area-charts, line charts, bar charts ... ? | 2019/06/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56504754",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10070647/"
] | There is also [Blazly](https://github.com/lqdev/Blazly) even though it doesn't seem to be much activity lately it is quite easy to adapt to specific needs. | You can find the library for bar chart, and lot of other components here:
[radzen.com](https://blazor.radzen.com/bar-chart) |
105,130 | I'm a non-EU citizen with Palestinian nationality, married to a Spanish citizen. We got married a few weeks ago in Palestine (we both live in Palestine). She travels to Spain regularly to visit her family there.
We're in contact with the Spanish consulate in Palestine to get our marriage recognized and get the Libro de Familia.
How can we visit Spain? Do I need a visa and, if so, which type?
The purpose is just travel, to visit the country, at least for now. | 2017/11/11 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/105130",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/70222/"
] | Yes, you need a visa.
You may be able to get it free of charge because Spain apparently extends to family of its own citizens rights similar to those extended to the family of European Union citizens.
You say you are already in contact with the Spanish consulate. You should ask there to apply for a visa as the spouse of a Spanish citizen. | I visited the Spanish consulate. They asked for minimum info, no finances etc. They just asked for international health insurance. I will get the insurance and send them my passport by mail. I'll keep the post updated. |
13,746,824 | I would like to ask if you know any opensource java implemented lemmatizer.
Or if not opensource, at least any java implemented lemmatizer that can be used without having to pay for the licence. | 2012/12/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13746824",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1866291/"
] | Have you tried GATE? Its written in Java. Much of it is pure Java, and some parts are just Java wrappers around other stuff. It probably has a plugin for the language or text-type your want to lemmatize.
<http://gate.ac.uk/gate/doc/plugins.html>
Its should be considered research quality, but its highly featured. I used it on my NLP course a few years ago for a question answering system.
(Also made by my alma mater, the University of Sheffield! :D) | The Stanford NLP package performs lemmatization.
It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
See the [Stanford NLP site](http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/corenlp.shtml) for more specific information. |
13,014,481 | I have recently switched to Coda 2 on Mac (OSX 10.8.2) and under site definitions the host, username and all other information save fine. It will not, however save my passwords. I DO NOT have "ask each time" checked (preemptive answer). Any help would be greatly appreciated. | 2012/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13014481",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/845308/"
] | Found a solution for this. If you open up Keychain Access, find the key that is named after your site so for example ftp.sitename.com. Double click it and go to access. Make it so that any program can use it. Then if you go back to Coda, enter the password once and d/c. It should be saved when you re-open the program :) | Great! But the only thing is missing, that you didn't mention how or from where to open KeyChain access. I used mac spotlight to find it.
Actual location to open Keychain access: under Applications > Utility > KeychainAccess
Just select the ftp.yourwebsiteurl.com
Doubleclick on it
There will be two tabs. Click on AccessControl tab
Select the radio button option : Allow all applications to access this item.
It will ask your system admin password to allow.
Go back to Coda > right click on your website > click Disconnect
Now reenter your password > Connect.
That's it. Your password will be remembered for further connections. |
13,014,481 | I have recently switched to Coda 2 on Mac (OSX 10.8.2) and under site definitions the host, username and all other information save fine. It will not, however save my passwords. I DO NOT have "ask each time" checked (preemptive answer). Any help would be greatly appreciated. | 2012/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13014481",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/845308/"
] | Found a solution for this. If you open up Keychain Access, find the key that is named after your site so for example ftp.sitename.com. Double click it and go to access. Make it so that any program can use it. Then if you go back to Coda, enter the password once and d/c. It should be saved when you re-open the program :) | Coda 2.x has built in FTP, git, SSH, and more.
Coda's way of dealing with FTP is to have you set up your files as a "Site"
Once you set it up this way, it saves FTP logins, git logins, ssh logins, etc for all aspects of that site.
Do this:
1. Open Coda - Coda should automatically open at the 'sites' page. If not, press Command-1 to go to sites.
2. Right-click, and select 'add site'.
3. Fill out the details for the site, and save.
4. Whenever you open that site, Coda will automatically connect to the server.
It's pretty easy to walk thru the dialog options. |
13,014,481 | I have recently switched to Coda 2 on Mac (OSX 10.8.2) and under site definitions the host, username and all other information save fine. It will not, however save my passwords. I DO NOT have "ask each time" checked (preemptive answer). Any help would be greatly appreciated. | 2012/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13014481",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/845308/"
] | Great! But the only thing is missing, that you didn't mention how or from where to open KeyChain access. I used mac spotlight to find it.
Actual location to open Keychain access: under Applications > Utility > KeychainAccess
Just select the ftp.yourwebsiteurl.com
Doubleclick on it
There will be two tabs. Click on AccessControl tab
Select the radio button option : Allow all applications to access this item.
It will ask your system admin password to allow.
Go back to Coda > right click on your website > click Disconnect
Now reenter your password > Connect.
That's it. Your password will be remembered for further connections. | Coda 2.x has built in FTP, git, SSH, and more.
Coda's way of dealing with FTP is to have you set up your files as a "Site"
Once you set it up this way, it saves FTP logins, git logins, ssh logins, etc for all aspects of that site.
Do this:
1. Open Coda - Coda should automatically open at the 'sites' page. If not, press Command-1 to go to sites.
2. Right-click, and select 'add site'.
3. Fill out the details for the site, and save.
4. Whenever you open that site, Coda will automatically connect to the server.
It's pretty easy to walk thru the dialog options. |
110,585 | In *A New Hope*, the Death Star is only referred to as such (in dialogue) on four separate occasions; three of which are the intercom at the rebel base on Yavin 4, so I'm not sure they count as truly separate. It does appear in writing in the opening crawl and, likewise, in *The Empire Strikes Back* (where it is obviously not verbally mentioned at all). In *Return of the Jedi*, it appears again in the crawl and in dialogue -- to my count -- five times (more, but not by much given the plot). I haven't had a look through the scripts of the prequels; however, I would assume it's hardly mentioned, as it's still in the planning phase.
Anyway, it seems the only time it is referred to as the "Death Star" by an agent of the Empire is that one non-intercom-time in *A New Hope* and again by Darth Vader in *Return of the Jedi*. Was the "Death Star" therefore an informal name used by the Rebellion -- albeit sparingly -- that caught on with the Empire as time went on and, if so, did it have an official designation? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110585",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57245/"
] | Palpatine himself refers to it as a "battle station":
>
> **The Emperor**: [In the throne room, Luke is watching the Imperial fleet attack the Rebels from the huge throne room window] As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!
>
>
> [Source](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086190/quotes/qt0447258)
>
>
>
General Tagge:
>
> **General Tagge**: What of the Rebellion? If the Rebels have obtained a complete technical reading of this **station**, it is possible, however unlikely, they might find a weakness and exploit it.
>
>
> [Source](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/quotes/qt0440638) (*Emphasis mine*)
>
>
>
Would this thing even *need* a number?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eNcYf.jpg)
---
I'm tending to dismiss Wikia on this one, they are using the *Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition* and I'm not convinced that's canon. | ### It had a few, more official sounding, names:
* Death Star I
* First Death Star
* DS-1 platform
* Ultimate Weapon
* Sentinel Base
>
> [The Death Star](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Star), also known as the **Death Star I, First Death Star, DS-1 platform** and previously known as the **Ultimate Weapon and Sentinel Base**, was a moon-sized deep space mobile battle station constructed by the Galactic Empire after the defeat of the Separatists in the Clone Wars. It boasted a primary weapon with sufficient firepower to destroy an entire planet with a single shot.
>
>
> |
110,585 | In *A New Hope*, the Death Star is only referred to as such (in dialogue) on four separate occasions; three of which are the intercom at the rebel base on Yavin 4, so I'm not sure they count as truly separate. It does appear in writing in the opening crawl and, likewise, in *The Empire Strikes Back* (where it is obviously not verbally mentioned at all). In *Return of the Jedi*, it appears again in the crawl and in dialogue -- to my count -- five times (more, but not by much given the plot). I haven't had a look through the scripts of the prequels; however, I would assume it's hardly mentioned, as it's still in the planning phase.
Anyway, it seems the only time it is referred to as the "Death Star" by an agent of the Empire is that one non-intercom-time in *A New Hope* and again by Darth Vader in *Return of the Jedi*. Was the "Death Star" therefore an informal name used by the Rebellion -- albeit sparingly -- that caught on with the Empire as time went on and, if so, did it have an official designation? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110585",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57245/"
] | Canon
-----
According to *Rogue One*:
>
> Galen Erso, the lead engineer on the Death Star project, says in a hologram to his daughter Jyn that "We call it the Death Star... there's no better name for it." This seems to indicate that the name originated with the engineering team.
>
>
>
Legends
-------
Here's what the novel *Death Star* (2007) says on the matter:
>
> Incredible to think about. And if he kept racking up missions like the one just completed, there was a very good chance that he would be assigned as unit commander on board the new station.
>
>
> He led his squad back to the equatorial launching bay. Looking at the awe-inspiring base, he felt a surge of pride in the Empire, and a feeling of gratitude at being a part of the Tarkin Doctrine's glorious mission. **There was no official appellation or designation, other than *battle station*, but there was a name for it that everybody he knew, officers and enlisted alike, used.**
>
>
> **They called it the Death Star.**
>
>
>
(end of Chapter 1, emphasis mine)
So at the very least, in Legends, it seems like it was an unofficial nickname in the absence of anything official other than "battle station". Note that it still doesn't say where the nickname came from; it could have just as likely been from among the Imperial troops as from Palpatine's original plans for the station, but we do know that it didn't come from the Rebellion since the book starts before the Rebels knew about it. | In *Rogue One* and in the book *Thrawn: Treason* by Timothy Zahn, both of which are Disney Canon, have numerous references to the Death Star, but it is mostly referred to as "Project Stardust," named after Galen Erso's nickname for Jyn Erso. The Death Star was the more common name for the battle station, as it was used by everyone except for Director Krennic himself and Assistant Director Ronan.
Granted, you may be asking for Original Trilogy answers, but based on all of Disney's Canon, I would say the designated name was Stardust, which was mainly used to prevent people from realizing it was a superweapon that could provide death to the largest planet. |
110,585 | In *A New Hope*, the Death Star is only referred to as such (in dialogue) on four separate occasions; three of which are the intercom at the rebel base on Yavin 4, so I'm not sure they count as truly separate. It does appear in writing in the opening crawl and, likewise, in *The Empire Strikes Back* (where it is obviously not verbally mentioned at all). In *Return of the Jedi*, it appears again in the crawl and in dialogue -- to my count -- five times (more, but not by much given the plot). I haven't had a look through the scripts of the prequels; however, I would assume it's hardly mentioned, as it's still in the planning phase.
Anyway, it seems the only time it is referred to as the "Death Star" by an agent of the Empire is that one non-intercom-time in *A New Hope* and again by Darth Vader in *Return of the Jedi*. Was the "Death Star" therefore an informal name used by the Rebellion -- albeit sparingly -- that caught on with the Empire as time went on and, if so, did it have an official designation? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110585",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57245/"
] | Canon
-----
According to *Rogue One*:
>
> Galen Erso, the lead engineer on the Death Star project, says in a hologram to his daughter Jyn that "We call it the Death Star... there's no better name for it." This seems to indicate that the name originated with the engineering team.
>
>
>
Legends
-------
Here's what the novel *Death Star* (2007) says on the matter:
>
> Incredible to think about. And if he kept racking up missions like the one just completed, there was a very good chance that he would be assigned as unit commander on board the new station.
>
>
> He led his squad back to the equatorial launching bay. Looking at the awe-inspiring base, he felt a surge of pride in the Empire, and a feeling of gratitude at being a part of the Tarkin Doctrine's glorious mission. **There was no official appellation or designation, other than *battle station*, but there was a name for it that everybody he knew, officers and enlisted alike, used.**
>
>
> **They called it the Death Star.**
>
>
>
(end of Chapter 1, emphasis mine)
So at the very least, in Legends, it seems like it was an unofficial nickname in the absence of anything official other than "battle station". Note that it still doesn't say where the nickname came from; it could have just as likely been from among the Imperial troops as from Palpatine's original plans for the station, but we do know that it didn't come from the Rebellion since the book starts before the Rebels knew about it. | A stormtrooper in *A New Hope*, when searching the *Tantive IV*, says to Darth Vader:
>
> "The Death Star plans are not in the main computer."
>
>
>
This may indicate that the name is official or may have been a slip on that trooper's part. |
110,585 | In *A New Hope*, the Death Star is only referred to as such (in dialogue) on four separate occasions; three of which are the intercom at the rebel base on Yavin 4, so I'm not sure they count as truly separate. It does appear in writing in the opening crawl and, likewise, in *The Empire Strikes Back* (where it is obviously not verbally mentioned at all). In *Return of the Jedi*, it appears again in the crawl and in dialogue -- to my count -- five times (more, but not by much given the plot). I haven't had a look through the scripts of the prequels; however, I would assume it's hardly mentioned, as it's still in the planning phase.
Anyway, it seems the only time it is referred to as the "Death Star" by an agent of the Empire is that one non-intercom-time in *A New Hope* and again by Darth Vader in *Return of the Jedi*. Was the "Death Star" therefore an informal name used by the Rebellion -- albeit sparingly -- that caught on with the Empire as time went on and, if so, did it have an official designation? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110585",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57245/"
] | Palpatine himself refers to it as a "battle station":
>
> **The Emperor**: [In the throne room, Luke is watching the Imperial fleet attack the Rebels from the huge throne room window] As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!
>
>
> [Source](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086190/quotes/qt0447258)
>
>
>
General Tagge:
>
> **General Tagge**: What of the Rebellion? If the Rebels have obtained a complete technical reading of this **station**, it is possible, however unlikely, they might find a weakness and exploit it.
>
>
> [Source](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/quotes/qt0440638) (*Emphasis mine*)
>
>
>
Would this thing even *need* a number?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eNcYf.jpg)
---
I'm tending to dismiss Wikia on this one, they are using the *Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition* and I'm not convinced that's canon. | A stormtrooper in *A New Hope*, when searching the *Tantive IV*, says to Darth Vader:
>
> "The Death Star plans are not in the main computer."
>
>
>
This may indicate that the name is official or may have been a slip on that trooper's part. |
110,585 | In *A New Hope*, the Death Star is only referred to as such (in dialogue) on four separate occasions; three of which are the intercom at the rebel base on Yavin 4, so I'm not sure they count as truly separate. It does appear in writing in the opening crawl and, likewise, in *The Empire Strikes Back* (where it is obviously not verbally mentioned at all). In *Return of the Jedi*, it appears again in the crawl and in dialogue -- to my count -- five times (more, but not by much given the plot). I haven't had a look through the scripts of the prequels; however, I would assume it's hardly mentioned, as it's still in the planning phase.
Anyway, it seems the only time it is referred to as the "Death Star" by an agent of the Empire is that one non-intercom-time in *A New Hope* and again by Darth Vader in *Return of the Jedi*. Was the "Death Star" therefore an informal name used by the Rebellion -- albeit sparingly -- that caught on with the Empire as time went on and, if so, did it have an official designation? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110585",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57245/"
] | **Yes**; in the radio dramatization of *A New Hope* we hear a conversation between Leia and Captain Antilles (not Wedge Antilles who later flew the Death Star mission with Luke, but rather the Captain of the *Tantive IV*) where she asks him:
>
> "Have you ever heard of an Imperial base code-named 'Death Star'?"
>
>
>
Which means that it was the official designation. Of course if that doesn't convince you, (and since it was Leia who said this then the point could be made that she wouldn't know the official designation) well earlier in the dramatization Leia has been told of the Death Star by her father.
She then lets it slip accidentally in front of a high ranking Imperial Official. He says and I quote:
>
> "Death Star!? Where did you hear that, that is a classified ongoing Imperial project."
>
>
>
So to answer your question yes "Death Star" is an Official Designation. | In *Rogue One* and in the book *Thrawn: Treason* by Timothy Zahn, both of which are Disney Canon, have numerous references to the Death Star, but it is mostly referred to as "Project Stardust," named after Galen Erso's nickname for Jyn Erso. The Death Star was the more common name for the battle station, as it was used by everyone except for Director Krennic himself and Assistant Director Ronan.
Granted, you may be asking for Original Trilogy answers, but based on all of Disney's Canon, I would say the designated name was Stardust, which was mainly used to prevent people from realizing it was a superweapon that could provide death to the largest planet. |
110,585 | In *A New Hope*, the Death Star is only referred to as such (in dialogue) on four separate occasions; three of which are the intercom at the rebel base on Yavin 4, so I'm not sure they count as truly separate. It does appear in writing in the opening crawl and, likewise, in *The Empire Strikes Back* (where it is obviously not verbally mentioned at all). In *Return of the Jedi*, it appears again in the crawl and in dialogue -- to my count -- five times (more, but not by much given the plot). I haven't had a look through the scripts of the prequels; however, I would assume it's hardly mentioned, as it's still in the planning phase.
Anyway, it seems the only time it is referred to as the "Death Star" by an agent of the Empire is that one non-intercom-time in *A New Hope* and again by Darth Vader in *Return of the Jedi*. Was the "Death Star" therefore an informal name used by the Rebellion -- albeit sparingly -- that caught on with the Empire as time went on and, if so, did it have an official designation? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110585",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57245/"
] | According to the new (Disney Canon) junior novel, [*Star Wars: The Princess, the Scoundrel and the Farm Boy*](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/A_New_Hope:_The_Princess,_the_Scoundrel,_and_the_Farm_Boy), the Station was ***codenamed* the Death Star**;
>
> But the system had been swarming with Imperials. They’d caught on to Leia’s bogus tale about her ship’s breaking down, but the cover had helped her stall long enough to download the technical plans for something code-named “Death Star.”
>
>
>
In [*Star Wars: A New Hope*](https://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope.html), it's referred to as the Death Star ***by the Imperials themselves***:
>
> **IMPERIAL OFFICER:** *The Death Star plans are not in the main computer.*
>
>
>
and in the film's [Junior Novelisation](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope_(junior_novelization)) we get the following internal monologue from Vader
>
> Darth Vader regained control of his damaged TIE fighter. As he headed
> for the nearest Imperial outpost, **he was not preoccupied about how he
> would explain the loss of the Death Star to the Emperor.**
>
>
>
Notably, we also learn that the team tasked with the creation of the Death Star was the
>
> ***Death Star Project***
>
>
>
---
While it's by no means certain that the *official* name for the station is "The Death Star", it's certainly called that by both the Rebels and the Empire. | In *Rogue One* and in the book *Thrawn: Treason* by Timothy Zahn, both of which are Disney Canon, have numerous references to the Death Star, but it is mostly referred to as "Project Stardust," named after Galen Erso's nickname for Jyn Erso. The Death Star was the more common name for the battle station, as it was used by everyone except for Director Krennic himself and Assistant Director Ronan.
Granted, you may be asking for Original Trilogy answers, but based on all of Disney's Canon, I would say the designated name was Stardust, which was mainly used to prevent people from realizing it was a superweapon that could provide death to the largest planet. |
110,585 | In *A New Hope*, the Death Star is only referred to as such (in dialogue) on four separate occasions; three of which are the intercom at the rebel base on Yavin 4, so I'm not sure they count as truly separate. It does appear in writing in the opening crawl and, likewise, in *The Empire Strikes Back* (where it is obviously not verbally mentioned at all). In *Return of the Jedi*, it appears again in the crawl and in dialogue -- to my count -- five times (more, but not by much given the plot). I haven't had a look through the scripts of the prequels; however, I would assume it's hardly mentioned, as it's still in the planning phase.
Anyway, it seems the only time it is referred to as the "Death Star" by an agent of the Empire is that one non-intercom-time in *A New Hope* and again by Darth Vader in *Return of the Jedi*. Was the "Death Star" therefore an informal name used by the Rebellion -- albeit sparingly -- that caught on with the Empire as time went on and, if so, did it have an official designation? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110585",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57245/"
] | Canon
-----
According to *Rogue One*:
>
> Galen Erso, the lead engineer on the Death Star project, says in a hologram to his daughter Jyn that "We call it the Death Star... there's no better name for it." This seems to indicate that the name originated with the engineering team.
>
>
>
Legends
-------
Here's what the novel *Death Star* (2007) says on the matter:
>
> Incredible to think about. And if he kept racking up missions like the one just completed, there was a very good chance that he would be assigned as unit commander on board the new station.
>
>
> He led his squad back to the equatorial launching bay. Looking at the awe-inspiring base, he felt a surge of pride in the Empire, and a feeling of gratitude at being a part of the Tarkin Doctrine's glorious mission. **There was no official appellation or designation, other than *battle station*, but there was a name for it that everybody he knew, officers and enlisted alike, used.**
>
>
> **They called it the Death Star.**
>
>
>
(end of Chapter 1, emphasis mine)
So at the very least, in Legends, it seems like it was an unofficial nickname in the absence of anything official other than "battle station". Note that it still doesn't say where the nickname came from; it could have just as likely been from among the Imperial troops as from Palpatine's original plans for the station, but we do know that it didn't come from the Rebellion since the book starts before the Rebels knew about it. | **Yes**; in the radio dramatization of *A New Hope* we hear a conversation between Leia and Captain Antilles (not Wedge Antilles who later flew the Death Star mission with Luke, but rather the Captain of the *Tantive IV*) where she asks him:
>
> "Have you ever heard of an Imperial base code-named 'Death Star'?"
>
>
>
Which means that it was the official designation. Of course if that doesn't convince you, (and since it was Leia who said this then the point could be made that she wouldn't know the official designation) well earlier in the dramatization Leia has been told of the Death Star by her father.
She then lets it slip accidentally in front of a high ranking Imperial Official. He says and I quote:
>
> "Death Star!? Where did you hear that, that is a classified ongoing Imperial project."
>
>
>
So to answer your question yes "Death Star" is an Official Designation. |
110,585 | In *A New Hope*, the Death Star is only referred to as such (in dialogue) on four separate occasions; three of which are the intercom at the rebel base on Yavin 4, so I'm not sure they count as truly separate. It does appear in writing in the opening crawl and, likewise, in *The Empire Strikes Back* (where it is obviously not verbally mentioned at all). In *Return of the Jedi*, it appears again in the crawl and in dialogue -- to my count -- five times (more, but not by much given the plot). I haven't had a look through the scripts of the prequels; however, I would assume it's hardly mentioned, as it's still in the planning phase.
Anyway, it seems the only time it is referred to as the "Death Star" by an agent of the Empire is that one non-intercom-time in *A New Hope* and again by Darth Vader in *Return of the Jedi*. Was the "Death Star" therefore an informal name used by the Rebellion -- albeit sparingly -- that caught on with the Empire as time went on and, if so, did it have an official designation? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110585",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57245/"
] | According to the new (Disney Canon) junior novel, [*Star Wars: The Princess, the Scoundrel and the Farm Boy*](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/A_New_Hope:_The_Princess,_the_Scoundrel,_and_the_Farm_Boy), the Station was ***codenamed* the Death Star**;
>
> But the system had been swarming with Imperials. They’d caught on to Leia’s bogus tale about her ship’s breaking down, but the cover had helped her stall long enough to download the technical plans for something code-named “Death Star.”
>
>
>
In [*Star Wars: A New Hope*](https://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope.html), it's referred to as the Death Star ***by the Imperials themselves***:
>
> **IMPERIAL OFFICER:** *The Death Star plans are not in the main computer.*
>
>
>
and in the film's [Junior Novelisation](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope_(junior_novelization)) we get the following internal monologue from Vader
>
> Darth Vader regained control of his damaged TIE fighter. As he headed
> for the nearest Imperial outpost, **he was not preoccupied about how he
> would explain the loss of the Death Star to the Emperor.**
>
>
>
Notably, we also learn that the team tasked with the creation of the Death Star was the
>
> ***Death Star Project***
>
>
>
---
While it's by no means certain that the *official* name for the station is "The Death Star", it's certainly called that by both the Rebels and the Empire. | ### It had a few, more official sounding, names:
* Death Star I
* First Death Star
* DS-1 platform
* Ultimate Weapon
* Sentinel Base
>
> [The Death Star](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Star), also known as the **Death Star I, First Death Star, DS-1 platform** and previously known as the **Ultimate Weapon and Sentinel Base**, was a moon-sized deep space mobile battle station constructed by the Galactic Empire after the defeat of the Separatists in the Clone Wars. It boasted a primary weapon with sufficient firepower to destroy an entire planet with a single shot.
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110,585 | In *A New Hope*, the Death Star is only referred to as such (in dialogue) on four separate occasions; three of which are the intercom at the rebel base on Yavin 4, so I'm not sure they count as truly separate. It does appear in writing in the opening crawl and, likewise, in *The Empire Strikes Back* (where it is obviously not verbally mentioned at all). In *Return of the Jedi*, it appears again in the crawl and in dialogue -- to my count -- five times (more, but not by much given the plot). I haven't had a look through the scripts of the prequels; however, I would assume it's hardly mentioned, as it's still in the planning phase.
Anyway, it seems the only time it is referred to as the "Death Star" by an agent of the Empire is that one non-intercom-time in *A New Hope* and again by Darth Vader in *Return of the Jedi*. Was the "Death Star" therefore an informal name used by the Rebellion -- albeit sparingly -- that caught on with the Empire as time went on and, if so, did it have an official designation? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110585",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57245/"
] | Palpatine himself refers to it as a "battle station":
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> **The Emperor**: [In the throne room, Luke is watching the Imperial fleet attack the Rebels from the huge throne room window] As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!
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> [Source](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086190/quotes/qt0447258)
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General Tagge:
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> **General Tagge**: What of the Rebellion? If the Rebels have obtained a complete technical reading of this **station**, it is possible, however unlikely, they might find a weakness and exploit it.
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> [Source](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/quotes/qt0440638) (*Emphasis mine*)
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Would this thing even *need* a number?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eNcYf.jpg)
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I'm tending to dismiss Wikia on this one, they are using the *Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition* and I'm not convinced that's canon. | Canon
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According to *Rogue One*:
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> Galen Erso, the lead engineer on the Death Star project, says in a hologram to his daughter Jyn that "We call it the Death Star... there's no better name for it." This seems to indicate that the name originated with the engineering team.
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Legends
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Here's what the novel *Death Star* (2007) says on the matter:
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> Incredible to think about. And if he kept racking up missions like the one just completed, there was a very good chance that he would be assigned as unit commander on board the new station.
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> He led his squad back to the equatorial launching bay. Looking at the awe-inspiring base, he felt a surge of pride in the Empire, and a feeling of gratitude at being a part of the Tarkin Doctrine's glorious mission. **There was no official appellation or designation, other than *battle station*, but there was a name for it that everybody he knew, officers and enlisted alike, used.**
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(end of Chapter 1, emphasis mine)
So at the very least, in Legends, it seems like it was an unofficial nickname in the absence of anything official other than "battle station". Note that it still doesn't say where the nickname came from; it could have just as likely been from among the Imperial troops as from Palpatine's original plans for the station, but we do know that it didn't come from the Rebellion since the book starts before the Rebels knew about it. |
110,585 | In *A New Hope*, the Death Star is only referred to as such (in dialogue) on four separate occasions; three of which are the intercom at the rebel base on Yavin 4, so I'm not sure they count as truly separate. It does appear in writing in the opening crawl and, likewise, in *The Empire Strikes Back* (where it is obviously not verbally mentioned at all). In *Return of the Jedi*, it appears again in the crawl and in dialogue -- to my count -- five times (more, but not by much given the plot). I haven't had a look through the scripts of the prequels; however, I would assume it's hardly mentioned, as it's still in the planning phase.
Anyway, it seems the only time it is referred to as the "Death Star" by an agent of the Empire is that one non-intercom-time in *A New Hope* and again by Darth Vader in *Return of the Jedi*. Was the "Death Star" therefore an informal name used by the Rebellion -- albeit sparingly -- that caught on with the Empire as time went on and, if so, did it have an official designation? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110585",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57245/"
] | According to the new (Disney Canon) junior novel, [*Star Wars: The Princess, the Scoundrel and the Farm Boy*](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/A_New_Hope:_The_Princess,_the_Scoundrel,_and_the_Farm_Boy), the Station was ***codenamed* the Death Star**;
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> But the system had been swarming with Imperials. They’d caught on to Leia’s bogus tale about her ship’s breaking down, but the cover had helped her stall long enough to download the technical plans for something code-named “Death Star.”
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In [*Star Wars: A New Hope*](https://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope.html), it's referred to as the Death Star ***by the Imperials themselves***:
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> **IMPERIAL OFFICER:** *The Death Star plans are not in the main computer.*
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and in the film's [Junior Novelisation](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope_(junior_novelization)) we get the following internal monologue from Vader
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> Darth Vader regained control of his damaged TIE fighter. As he headed
> for the nearest Imperial outpost, **he was not preoccupied about how he
> would explain the loss of the Death Star to the Emperor.**
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While it's by no means certain that the *official* name for the station is "The Death Star", it's certainly called that by both the Rebels and the Empire. | A stormtrooper in *A New Hope*, when searching the *Tantive IV*, says to Darth Vader:
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This may indicate that the name is official or may have been a slip on that trooper's part. |
133,326 | I want to know the exact difference between Recession, Depression and Financial Crisis. | 2020/12/01 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/133326",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/103000/"
] | A [recession](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_depression) *was* defined by a drop in GDP over two consecutive quarters. Now it has a more nebulous definition:
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> In the United States, it is defined as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales".
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A [depression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_depression) does not have a strict definition, but a proposed definition is a recession that lasts 2 or more years or a drop in GDP of 10% or more.
There is no strict definition for a [financial crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis). It could be a stock market crash, a housing bubble, or sudden high inflation.
One differentiator between these is that recession/depression are determined by the production of the national economy as a whole (generally measured by GDP), but a financial crisis is specific to the value of financial instruments, but can *affect* the economy through secondary effects (e.g. businesses cannot borrow money affordably so their production decreases) | There are **absolutely no** firm, defined, "scientific" meanings of these words.
You can use them any way you want.
They are simply descriptive.
It is absolutely commonplace that (say, on a talk show) people will disagree about whether or not "it is a recession".
Some particular bodies may have some written definition that that body uses. In which case you would have to ask about that specific entity.
(But note that all numbers in economics are made up, or a guess. "Inflation," say, is just a changing list of items one can buy [anyone can write a different list and get a different number], "unemployment" has dozens of different possible meanings, and so on.) |
4,788,152 | Is there any plotting control/library for Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight? I want to plot a signal, ideally with the ability to pinch zoom it and pan it (but thats too much to expect probably :)? | 2011/01/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4788152",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/309588/"
] | Here's a free one, and if you're only plotting one set of data, it's great. Pinch-Zoom on the horizontal axis.
<http://touchgraphwp7.codeplex.com/> | I have played around with the tools here: <http://www.visifire.com/>
They have a 30 day trial, but you have to buy the full version if you want to actually use it for your apps. It is pretty nice, and it supports zooming and scrolling. I didn't end up using it very much in the app I was making though, so I don't really know how comprehensive or useful it will end up being.
Hope that helps! |
4,788,152 | Is there any plotting control/library for Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight? I want to plot a signal, ideally with the ability to pinch zoom it and pan it (but thats too much to expect probably :)? | 2011/01/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4788152",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/309588/"
] | Here's a free one, and if you're only plotting one set of data, it's great. Pinch-Zoom on the horizontal axis.
<http://touchgraphwp7.codeplex.com/> | You should check out Quick Charts by amCharts. It's a set of free controls that might be able to do the job. Check out their website [here](http://wpf.amcharts.com/quick) |
2,412,997 | I may be asking a bit much here but I have faith in the community so it's worth trying. I'm making a game and I'm trying to pick the connection type to use for communicating between a Java mobile client and a Java server backend.
Socket programing in Java is easy - there's a [lovely tutorial](http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/sockets/index.html) on the subject and two way communication is trivial.
Trouble is that on a mobile client (Android) it's not guaranteed that the cellular network will let you make TCP connections. That makes me think using an HTTP connection is the way to go.
HTTP connections are request based but I need a way to push notifications from the server to the client. It seems the solution to this problem is to use 'long polling' I have read a bit about it but have yet to see a simple example for what I'm trying to achieve.
Again I might be asking a lot but this seems like a fairly common problem, is there a library or framework I can import / use to wrap a Http connection and provide a two way long standing connection (That reconnects automatically etc). I read a bit about cometD but it doesn't seem to have a Java library that I can just pick up.
The communication I need is not heavy, not constant two way streams of data just occasional updates either way to keep the game going.
Thanks in advance for sifting through my ignorance,
Gavin | 2010/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2412997",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/111734/"
] | Doing long polling on the device has some disadvantages on a mobile device.
* If the handset is moving your it will constantly loose the connection and you have to recognize this and reestablish it. Most of the time it will make your game unusable if the player is sitting in a train or car.
* The connection will cause the handset to constantly send and receive data and therefor use a higher antenna level. This could drain the whole battery in one hour of playing even if you don't need much energy for processing, graphics and illuminating the screen.
If you want to try a game that shows this problems try Parallel Kingdom Age of Emergence.
I would look into XMMP as proposed by alex. If you can't find a XMMP librarie on Android use [Smack](http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/smack/).
Or have a look at this [question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1243066/does-android-support-near-real-time-push-notification/). | As Jim Lewis mentions, TCP is entirely possible. Whatever transport you use, you're always going to end up having to deal with working on mobile — i.e. loss of service, reconnecting etc.
Check out this previous question along the same lines:
[Best approach to send data from a server to an Android device](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2078198/best-approach-to-send-data-from-a-server-to-an-android-device)
Also, you could try taking a look at Ericsson's Android push library, which may encapsulate some of the reconnection stuff you want (not that I've checked):
<https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-java-push/blog/first-version-push-android-available> |
2,412,997 | I may be asking a bit much here but I have faith in the community so it's worth trying. I'm making a game and I'm trying to pick the connection type to use for communicating between a Java mobile client and a Java server backend.
Socket programing in Java is easy - there's a [lovely tutorial](http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/sockets/index.html) on the subject and two way communication is trivial.
Trouble is that on a mobile client (Android) it's not guaranteed that the cellular network will let you make TCP connections. That makes me think using an HTTP connection is the way to go.
HTTP connections are request based but I need a way to push notifications from the server to the client. It seems the solution to this problem is to use 'long polling' I have read a bit about it but have yet to see a simple example for what I'm trying to achieve.
Again I might be asking a lot but this seems like a fairly common problem, is there a library or framework I can import / use to wrap a Http connection and provide a two way long standing connection (That reconnects automatically etc). I read a bit about cometD but it doesn't seem to have a Java library that I can just pick up.
The communication I need is not heavy, not constant two way streams of data just occasional updates either way to keep the game going.
Thanks in advance for sifting through my ignorance,
Gavin | 2010/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2412997",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/111734/"
] | Doing long polling on the device has some disadvantages on a mobile device.
* If the handset is moving your it will constantly loose the connection and you have to recognize this and reestablish it. Most of the time it will make your game unusable if the player is sitting in a train or car.
* The connection will cause the handset to constantly send and receive data and therefor use a higher antenna level. This could drain the whole battery in one hour of playing even if you don't need much energy for processing, graphics and illuminating the screen.
If you want to try a game that shows this problems try Parallel Kingdom Age of Emergence.
I would look into XMMP as proposed by alex. If you can't find a XMMP librarie on Android use [Smack](http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/smack/).
Or have a look at this [question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1243066/does-android-support-near-real-time-push-notification/). | The [Comet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)) model tries to solve this problem when using HTTP. There's some Java examples [here](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-cometjava/index.html).
You'll find examples/articles mostly talking about ajax/XMLHttpRequest on the client side, but all you really need to do is ensure you're using a client library utilizing http/1.1 and http keepalive, and "poll" the URL in a loop.
The idea is the server server blocks and doesn't send you a response until there's actually something worth noting, while http keepalive keeps the connection to the server up between the requests so you don't pay the price of setting up a new TCP connection for every request - I'm assuming android already has a standard http library which should handle all this for you, including reconnects.
On the server side, Tomcat suports Comet processing as mentioned in the developerworks article above - unless you want to do it "manually" in a servlet which is also pretty starightforward until you need to really scale the no.. of client.s, and there's frameworks such as [gwt-comet](http://code.google.com/p/gwt-comet/) |
70,822 | I have a code that I'd like to share, but I'd like to publish it using an open source license. But I don't know how you have to use that licenses.
How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files? What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right? Include a readme.txt in all the directories? I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
The second question is what it is the better license for this conditions:
* I don't care what people do with my code, educational purposes, to make money, I don't mind whatever they want to do with it.
* But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me. If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
* But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
What is the best license to that purposes? | 2011/04/22 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/70822",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/116230/"
] | >
> How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files?
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I don't know what the exact legal requirement is, but normal practice is to include a small header comment at the start of each file:
* that states who owns the copyright, and
* that states that the file is covered by such-and-such a license, telling the reader the name of the file that contains the text of the license, and telling them where to find the text if the file is missing.
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> What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right?
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No.
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No. A single README file in the root of the directory tree is a good idea, but not mandatory.
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> I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
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To be absolutely sure, talk to a lawyer.
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Concerning your licensing requirements.
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That is kind of a non-requirement. Very few licenses forbid people from making money, use in education, etc.
However "do what they like with it" literally contradicts some of your other requirements.
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> (2) If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
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The requirement that they provide the source code of any modifications that they make is present in GPL, LGPL, AGPL, but not in Apache, BSD, and other common licenses.
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> (3) But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me.
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Most licenses require attributions in the code to remain in the code.
However "force them to mention me" is difficult, and few if any licenses say that. Indeed the FSF position is that such a requirement makes your code non-free ...
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> (4) But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
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Few licenses force people to publish the code of their application as a matter of course. Even the most radical of the GPL family allows you to use and modify software for purely private purposes.
However GPL et al do force people to publish the source if people *distribute* an application based on yours. (The precise conditions depend on the license. For example, LGPL allows people to link their code with yours without forcing them to publish theirs. On the other hand GPL requires them to publish their code in those circumstances, and AGPL extends this to other areas.)
Note also, that requirement (2) and (4) are literally contradictory.
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In summary, you need to be able express your requirements for a license clearly. If you can't do that, then you've little chance in finding a license that matches your requirements.
Or maybe you should just talk to a lawyer. (He / she will obviously need to ask you a bunch of questions to elicit what your real requirements are.) | You can use whatever license you want (even make your own ) on the work which belongs to you (you have the copyright) this is usually done by including a copy of the license in the file `COPYING` along with the source code.
What you are looking for is [XFree86 1.1 styled License](http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE4.html) (It
which is a permissive non-copyleft license(no need to open the source if you use it but requires a acknowledgement) and satisfies all your requirements .
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> 1. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by The XFree86 Project, Inc (http://www.xfree86.org/) and its contributors", in the same place and form as other third-party acknowledgments. Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself, in the same form and location as other such third-party acknowledgments .
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You can replace the xfree86 name with your name and distribute it. |
70,822 | I have a code that I'd like to share, but I'd like to publish it using an open source license. But I don't know how you have to use that licenses.
How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files? What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right? Include a readme.txt in all the directories? I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
The second question is what it is the better license for this conditions:
* I don't care what people do with my code, educational purposes, to make money, I don't mind whatever they want to do with it.
* But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me. If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
* But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
What is the best license to that purposes? | 2011/04/22 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/70822",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/116230/"
] | The Free Software Foundation has been very successful in pursuing litigation against people who have violated the terms of their open source license. I remember an article from ~2006 showing they were 4 for 4 at that time; more recently they have settled lawsuits against Cisco, Skype, and Verizon, all resulting in payments to the FSF. In general, however, the lawsuit begins only after *repeated* attempts to inform the defendant of their obligations has been made. So just to save time, require the user to click an 'accept' button in a standard license dialog, save the license terms file in its own 'license' folder, and you should be all set.
As far as the particular license to use, it sounds very much like you want the LGPL, which does everything you ask except possibly the attribution part--you might have to make that a separate stipulation. | >
> How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files?
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I don't know what the exact legal requirement is, but normal practice is to include a small header comment at the start of each file:
* that states who owns the copyright, and
* that states that the file is covered by such-and-such a license, telling the reader the name of the file that contains the text of the license, and telling them where to find the text if the file is missing.
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> What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right?
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No.
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> Include a readme.txt in all the directories?
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No. A single README file in the root of the directory tree is a good idea, but not mandatory.
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> I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
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To be absolutely sure, talk to a lawyer.
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Concerning your licensing requirements.
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> (1) I don't care what people do with my code, educational purposes, to make money, I don't mind whatever they want to do with it.
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That is kind of a non-requirement. Very few licenses forbid people from making money, use in education, etc.
However "do what they like with it" literally contradicts some of your other requirements.
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> (2) If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
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The requirement that they provide the source code of any modifications that they make is present in GPL, LGPL, AGPL, but not in Apache, BSD, and other common licenses.
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> (3) But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me.
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Most licenses require attributions in the code to remain in the code.
However "force them to mention me" is difficult, and few if any licenses say that. Indeed the FSF position is that such a requirement makes your code non-free ...
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> (4) But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
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Few licenses force people to publish the code of their application as a matter of course. Even the most radical of the GPL family allows you to use and modify software for purely private purposes.
However GPL et al do force people to publish the source if people *distribute* an application based on yours. (The precise conditions depend on the license. For example, LGPL allows people to link their code with yours without forcing them to publish theirs. On the other hand GPL requires them to publish their code in those circumstances, and AGPL extends this to other areas.)
Note also, that requirement (2) and (4) are literally contradictory.
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In summary, you need to be able express your requirements for a license clearly. If you can't do that, then you've little chance in finding a license that matches your requirements.
Or maybe you should just talk to a lawyer. (He / she will obviously need to ask you a bunch of questions to elicit what your real requirements are.) |
70,822 | I have a code that I'd like to share, but I'd like to publish it using an open source license. But I don't know how you have to use that licenses.
How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files? What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right? Include a readme.txt in all the directories? I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
The second question is what it is the better license for this conditions:
* I don't care what people do with my code, educational purposes, to make money, I don't mind whatever they want to do with it.
* But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me. If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
* But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
What is the best license to that purposes? | 2011/04/22 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/70822",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/116230/"
] | Here's a handy guide:
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References to PDF and [Graffle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniGraffle "what's this") versions of above flowchart are available at [Karl Fogel's blog](http://www.rants.org/2011/04/06/open-source-license-flowchart/). | I don't think there is a license that exactly matches your requirements. It sounds like you want some kind of mixture of the AGPL and the LGPL. But the FSF has not yet got around to creating such a license! You can see their official response here: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3330792/why-isnt-there-a-lesser-affero-general-public-license/4419776#4419776> |
70,822 | I have a code that I'd like to share, but I'd like to publish it using an open source license. But I don't know how you have to use that licenses.
How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files? What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right? Include a readme.txt in all the directories? I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
The second question is what it is the better license for this conditions:
* I don't care what people do with my code, educational purposes, to make money, I don't mind whatever they want to do with it.
* But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me. If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
* But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
What is the best license to that purposes? | 2011/04/22 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/70822",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/116230/"
] | **I am not a lawyer** and the following is not legal advice, but what I've gathered about copyright law as a programmer.
If you author a piece of software, you have the copyright on it unless someone paid you to write it. You should state the copyright in the software or in a `README`, followed by the license terms or, if using a verbose license such as the GPL, a pointer to where the license can be found. If you now publish your software, it's covered by the license. You should inform the user of the license, e.g. in an installer or in the manual.
The kind of license you want sounds like a copyleft, but weaker than the GPL. Consider the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). | You can use whatever license you want (even make your own ) on the work which belongs to you (you have the copyright) this is usually done by including a copy of the license in the file `COPYING` along with the source code.
What you are looking for is [XFree86 1.1 styled License](http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE4.html) (It
which is a permissive non-copyleft license(no need to open the source if you use it but requires a acknowledgement) and satisfies all your requirements .
>
> 1. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by The XFree86 Project, Inc (http://www.xfree86.org/) and its contributors", in the same place and form as other third-party acknowledgments. Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself, in the same form and location as other such third-party acknowledgments .
>
>
>
You can replace the xfree86 name with your name and distribute it. |
70,822 | I have a code that I'd like to share, but I'd like to publish it using an open source license. But I don't know how you have to use that licenses.
How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files? What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right? Include a readme.txt in all the directories? I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
The second question is what it is the better license for this conditions:
* I don't care what people do with my code, educational purposes, to make money, I don't mind whatever they want to do with it.
* But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me. If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
* But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
What is the best license to that purposes? | 2011/04/22 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/70822",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/116230/"
] | Here's a handy guide:
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> 
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>
>
References to PDF and [Graffle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniGraffle "what's this") versions of above flowchart are available at [Karl Fogel's blog](http://www.rants.org/2011/04/06/open-source-license-flowchart/). | The Free Software Foundation has been very successful in pursuing litigation against people who have violated the terms of their open source license. I remember an article from ~2006 showing they were 4 for 4 at that time; more recently they have settled lawsuits against Cisco, Skype, and Verizon, all resulting in payments to the FSF. In general, however, the lawsuit begins only after *repeated* attempts to inform the defendant of their obligations has been made. So just to save time, require the user to click an 'accept' button in a standard license dialog, save the license terms file in its own 'license' folder, and you should be all set.
As far as the particular license to use, it sounds very much like you want the LGPL, which does everything you ask except possibly the attribution part--you might have to make that a separate stipulation. |
70,822 | I have a code that I'd like to share, but I'd like to publish it using an open source license. But I don't know how you have to use that licenses.
How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files? What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right? Include a readme.txt in all the directories? I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
The second question is what it is the better license for this conditions:
* I don't care what people do with my code, educational purposes, to make money, I don't mind whatever they want to do with it.
* But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me. If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
* But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
What is the best license to that purposes? | 2011/04/22 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/70822",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/116230/"
] | Here's a handy guide:
>
> 
>
>
>
References to PDF and [Graffle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniGraffle "what's this") versions of above flowchart are available at [Karl Fogel's blog](http://www.rants.org/2011/04/06/open-source-license-flowchart/). | **I am not a lawyer** and the following is not legal advice, but what I've gathered about copyright law as a programmer.
If you author a piece of software, you have the copyright on it unless someone paid you to write it. You should state the copyright in the software or in a `README`, followed by the license terms or, if using a verbose license such as the GPL, a pointer to where the license can be found. If you now publish your software, it's covered by the license. You should inform the user of the license, e.g. in an installer or in the manual.
The kind of license you want sounds like a copyleft, but weaker than the GPL. Consider the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). |
70,822 | I have a code that I'd like to share, but I'd like to publish it using an open source license. But I don't know how you have to use that licenses.
How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files? What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right? Include a readme.txt in all the directories? I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
The second question is what it is the better license for this conditions:
* I don't care what people do with my code, educational purposes, to make money, I don't mind whatever they want to do with it.
* But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me. If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
* But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
What is the best license to that purposes? | 2011/04/22 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/70822",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/116230/"
] | I don't think there is a license that exactly matches your requirements. It sounds like you want some kind of mixture of the AGPL and the LGPL. But the FSF has not yet got around to creating such a license! You can see their official response here: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3330792/why-isnt-there-a-lesser-affero-general-public-license/4419776#4419776> | >
> How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files?
>
>
>
I don't know what the exact legal requirement is, but normal practice is to include a small header comment at the start of each file:
* that states who owns the copyright, and
* that states that the file is covered by such-and-such a license, telling the reader the name of the file that contains the text of the license, and telling them where to find the text if the file is missing.
>
> What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right?
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>
>
No.
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> Include a readme.txt in all the directories?
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>
>
No. A single README file in the root of the directory tree is a good idea, but not mandatory.
>
> I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
>
>
>
To be absolutely sure, talk to a lawyer.
---
Concerning your licensing requirements.
>
> (1) I don't care what people do with my code, educational purposes, to make money, I don't mind whatever they want to do with it.
>
>
>
That is kind of a non-requirement. Very few licenses forbid people from making money, use in education, etc.
However "do what they like with it" literally contradicts some of your other requirements.
>
> (2) If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
>
>
>
The requirement that they provide the source code of any modifications that they make is present in GPL, LGPL, AGPL, but not in Apache, BSD, and other common licenses.
>
> (3) But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me.
>
>
>
Most licenses require attributions in the code to remain in the code.
However "force them to mention me" is difficult, and few if any licenses say that. Indeed the FSF position is that such a requirement makes your code non-free ...
>
> (4) But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
>
>
>
Few licenses force people to publish the code of their application as a matter of course. Even the most radical of the GPL family allows you to use and modify software for purely private purposes.
However GPL et al do force people to publish the source if people *distribute* an application based on yours. (The precise conditions depend on the license. For example, LGPL allows people to link their code with yours without forcing them to publish theirs. On the other hand GPL requires them to publish their code in those circumstances, and AGPL extends this to other areas.)
Note also, that requirement (2) and (4) are literally contradictory.
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In summary, you need to be able express your requirements for a license clearly. If you can't do that, then you've little chance in finding a license that matches your requirements.
Or maybe you should just talk to a lawyer. (He / she will obviously need to ask you a bunch of questions to elicit what your real requirements are.) |
70,822 | I have a code that I'd like to share, but I'd like to publish it using an open source license. But I don't know how you have to use that licenses.
How do you have to activate an open source license? Just including the text of the license in all files? What else do I have to do? Do I need to buy some right? Include a readme.txt in all the directories? I mean, what do I have to do if I want my code is protected by the legal test of a license?
The second question is what it is the better license for this conditions:
* I don't care what people do with my code, educational purposes, to make money, I don't mind whatever they want to do with it.
* But I want people don't delete my name from the code, and If they use my code force them to mention me. If they change my code and someone ask for those modifications, they give the code with the modifications.
* But I don't want to force people to publish the code of they applications, even if they are using my code.
What is the best license to that purposes? | 2011/04/22 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/70822",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/116230/"
] | Here's a handy guide:
>
> 
>
>
>
References to PDF and [Graffle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniGraffle "what's this") versions of above flowchart are available at [Karl Fogel's blog](http://www.rants.org/2011/04/06/open-source-license-flowchart/). | You can use whatever license you want (even make your own ) on the work which belongs to you (you have the copyright) this is usually done by including a copy of the license in the file `COPYING` along with the source code.
What you are looking for is [XFree86 1.1 styled License](http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE4.html) (It
which is a permissive non-copyleft license(no need to open the source if you use it but requires a acknowledgement) and satisfies all your requirements .
>
> 1. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by The XFree86 Project, Inc (http://www.xfree86.org/) and its contributors", in the same place and form as other third-party acknowledgments. Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself, in the same form and location as other such third-party acknowledgments .
>
>
>
You can replace the xfree86 name with your name and distribute it. |
10,019,513 | I developed a program in c++ and when I run it in windows XP it uses all the available CPU to 100% of usage but when I run the application in windows 7 the app could hardly makes it's way to 40% even by setting the task to real-time or high priority one in taskbar is there a way that I could force the OS to let my application use maximum available CPU like what was in winXP in my code. I mean something like APIs or a library. | 2012/04/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10019513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1146097/"
] | This is more than likely due to you having more than one core. In order to use 100% of your CPU you may need to have multiple threads created. | If your app is using any kind of IO, and that IO is messed up in XP (bad driver and/or something else), that might be causing your app to spin the CPU entirely.
7 is maybe better optimized in such areas, so it frees the CPU until slow (disk, network) stuff is completed. |
10,019,513 | I developed a program in c++ and when I run it in windows XP it uses all the available CPU to 100% of usage but when I run the application in windows 7 the app could hardly makes it's way to 40% even by setting the task to real-time or high priority one in taskbar is there a way that I could force the OS to let my application use maximum available CPU like what was in winXP in my code. I mean something like APIs or a library. | 2012/04/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10019513",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1146097/"
] | This is more than likely due to you having more than one core. In order to use 100% of your CPU you may need to have multiple threads created. | Also depending on what this thread is doing and how often it spends time off the processor (Sleep, object waits) can be a factor, but MK pretty much summed it up for you. You could also have a look here:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686277%28v=vs.85%29.aspx> |
40,543,637 | Do you know if there's a more or less certain date for the GA (General Availability) of App Engine Flexible? What would be the worst-case-scenario of driving our production on App Engine Flexible right now? What kind of failures are more likely than others? | 2016/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/40543637",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7145079/"
] | NEXT 2017 update ([source](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/your-favorite-languages-now-on-Google-App-Engine.html)):
App engine flexible is now GA for Node.js, Ruby, Java 8, Python 2.7 or 3.5, and Go 1.8.
PHP 5.6/7.0/7.1 and ASP.NET are released but are in beta.
You can also bring your own environment with a docker file (or customize the above) | I've had the same question a few months ago when we started using AppEngine flex. I have asked the GCP team a few times and the latest answer I got was :Q1 2017.
That being said, we've been using them for the past 2.5 months and the services were working just fine.
The AppEngine team is very responsive in answering questions and supporting, which is great. |
145,155 | We're currently developing an intranet solution for a client, and am wondering if we can deploy with various webpart properties configured in a default way.
For instance, I dont want the 'help text' populated whenever they add a new webpart, and would like the Chrome Type be 'Title' by default.
Is this possible, or something we just need to train the client on to do when adding new webparts? (and to make the styles consistent)
thanks! | 2015/06/04 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/145155",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/41055/"
] | I say train them on how to use the web parts, they become more self sufficient and it can be confusing seeing duplicate web parts. You are talking about basic web part configuration of ootb web parts here. Now if you were building and deploying your own, then sure set the applicable default values so they are configured on use.
If users don't have the knowledge on how to be creating pages and adding web parts, they shouldn't really be creating content. | You can Add a web part and then make the desired changes.
Now you can export this web part and upload it into Web Part Gallery. Advise users to use the new web part instead of default one. |
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