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15,469,273 | There are many query tools for SQL databases, e.g. QTADO, navicat, etc. Are there similar tools for Cassandra and other noSQL databases? I need it mostly for testing during development of Cassandra apps. | 2013/03/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15469273",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1034974/"
] | Aqua Data Studio has a native interface to it, not sure how much functionality it supports, link is below. I have no stake or interest in ADS, just looking for some tools as well.
<http://www.aquafold.com/dbspecific/apache_cassandra_client.html> | Unfortunately no, i don't think there is any such tool for cassandra. Though viewer tool are available, say Datastax Opscenter, tool developed by the company behind cassandra. Also TOAD for NOSQL is also available. |
15,469,273 | There are many query tools for SQL databases, e.g. QTADO, navicat, etc. Are there similar tools for Cassandra and other noSQL databases? I need it mostly for testing during development of Cassandra apps. | 2013/03/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15469273",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1034974/"
] | Playorm supports S-SQL for Cassandra and you can use it's command line tool to execute SQL statements. For more details visit <http://buffalosw.com/wiki/Command-Line-Tool/> | I use Visual Studio Code and <https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mtxr.sqltools> extension. It supports various db-s, including cassandra. |
15,469,273 | There are many query tools for SQL databases, e.g. QTADO, navicat, etc. Are there similar tools for Cassandra and other noSQL databases? I need it mostly for testing during development of Cassandra apps. | 2013/03/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15469273",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1034974/"
] | Aqua Data Studio is great for Cassandra, MongoDb and many other NoSQL and SQL DBs. Unfortunately its pricey (499) for an average Joe and they don't have a community license. | RazorSQL has support for Cassandra.
<http://www.razorsql.com/articles/razorsql_apache_cassandra.html>
It's commercial but has a 30 day trial. |
15,469,273 | There are many query tools for SQL databases, e.g. QTADO, navicat, etc. Are there similar tools for Cassandra and other noSQL databases? I need it mostly for testing during development of Cassandra apps. | 2013/03/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15469273",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1034974/"
] | Aqua Data Studio is great for Cassandra, MongoDb and many other NoSQL and SQL DBs. Unfortunately its pricey (499) for an average Joe and they don't have a community license. | Datastax OpsCenter is probably the closest thing to those tools, but if you just want something for testing during development, you may find cqlsh meets your needs well. It's bundled with Cassandra. |
15,469,273 | There are many query tools for SQL databases, e.g. QTADO, navicat, etc. Are there similar tools for Cassandra and other noSQL databases? I need it mostly for testing during development of Cassandra apps. | 2013/03/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15469273",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1034974/"
] | Aqua Data Studio has a native interface to it, not sure how much functionality it supports, link is below. I have no stake or interest in ADS, just looking for some tools as well.
<http://www.aquafold.com/dbspecific/apache_cassandra_client.html> | RazorSQL has support for Cassandra.
<http://www.razorsql.com/articles/razorsql_apache_cassandra.html>
It's commercial but has a 30 day trial. |
15,469,273 | There are many query tools for SQL databases, e.g. QTADO, navicat, etc. Are there similar tools for Cassandra and other noSQL databases? I need it mostly for testing during development of Cassandra apps. | 2013/03/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15469273",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1034974/"
] | Aqua Data Studio is great for Cassandra, MongoDb and many other NoSQL and SQL DBs. Unfortunately its pricey (499) for an average Joe and they don't have a community license. | I ended up using the OLEDB provider for Cassandra, and QTADO tool (with CQL3 commands). |
291,572 | Magento transactional emails somehow get additional escape characters added to the headers.
Magic\_quotes are disabled in PHP.
Postfix uses Elastic Email as a relay. According to Elastic, e-mail are received correctly.
Then majority of clients receive the emails correctly, except those who are behind messagelabs.com filter. After reviewing the logs, the messages are rejected by messagelabs.com because additional slashes are added to the emails.
Has anyone ever come across this issue? Which piece could be at fault?
Again, majority of customers receive emails perfectly fine. | 2011/07/18 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/291572",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/78801/"
] | The word 'Dell' sets alarm bells ringing for me, as I've had a similar experience, but with a Dell desktop.
It turned out to be a bad driver. Sourcing the driver from the manufacturer of the NIC rather than from Dell resolved the problem for me.
It might not be the problem you are seeing, but it is eerily similar. | Have DNS issues been ruled out? Are you receiving the same DNS servers on the wired and wireless interfaces and both resolve your primary domian controller? |
291,572 | Magento transactional emails somehow get additional escape characters added to the headers.
Magic\_quotes are disabled in PHP.
Postfix uses Elastic Email as a relay. According to Elastic, e-mail are received correctly.
Then majority of clients receive the emails correctly, except those who are behind messagelabs.com filter. After reviewing the logs, the messages are rejected by messagelabs.com because additional slashes are added to the emails.
Has anyone ever come across this issue? Which piece could be at fault?
Again, majority of customers receive emails perfectly fine. | 2011/07/18 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/291572",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/78801/"
] | The word 'Dell' sets alarm bells ringing for me, as I've had a similar experience, but with a Dell desktop.
It turned out to be a bad driver. Sourcing the driver from the manufacturer of the NIC rather than from Dell resolved the problem for me.
It might not be the problem you are seeing, but it is eerily similar. | Have you compared the network / subnet information from your wireless NIC to your wired NIC? Have you used ipconfig /all to ensure that your cards are on the same subnet and you haven't statically set any info to your wired NIC that would cause this issue? |
11,726,045 | I'm new to unit testing and I'm trying to get started with PHPUnit on an existing project I'm working on.
The problem I'm facing is that I have lots of unit tests that require a database which is fair enough. I've set up an SQLite DB for the sole purpose of unit testing. Sometimes I want to drop and re-create the database for new tests (by this I mean each separate classes), to prevent unnecessary data clashes.
However, sometimes I don't want this to happen if I have unit tests in the same class that depend upon one another; these may need access to data that was saved in a previous test.
I am currently getting a "fresh" database in the setUp() function of each class. What I didn't anticipate is that this function (as with \_\_construct()) would run after every test case within said class.
Is there a way that I can flush the database with each test class? Or am I going about the entire process incorrectly?
Any tips appreciated, thanks. | 2012/07/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11726045",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1240134/"
] | I also started using PHPUnit fairly recently (about a year ago). The first thing I did was to set up unit tests for the project I was working on at the time. I decided it was a good idea to test the data access layer too and did a similar thing to you. It took me days to set up and I ended up with unit tests that took 8 minutes to run! 99% of that time was spent setting up and tearing down the test database. What a disaster!
What I did was to refactor the project so that only one class actually needed to talk to the database and had integration tests for this, but no unit tests. That meant that my project now had to use dependency injection to facilitate testing. I ended up with a suite of tests that run in around 2-3 seconds and a project that practically wrote itself. It is a dream to maintain and make changes/additions to, I wish all my code had been written that way.
Basically, what I am trying to say in my long winded way is that you should change your code to be easy to test, not try and force the unit tests to fit code not designed in a test driven way. The time you invest in that now (if you can) will be repaid back later with dividends!
**Bite the bullet and refactor now!** | The setUp and tearDown functions do exactly as you mention, which is to set up the test environment for each test execution and then clean up after each test case exeuction.
What you probably want to do is set up your database data provider at the suite level.
[Suite level fixtures](http://www.phpunit.de/manual/3.0/en/fixtures.html#fixtures.suite-level-setup)
This is probably not really the best way to do things to get true isolated unit tests (i.e. you could set up mock data provider for DB's etc). But it is something that you can do that should meet your immediate needs. |
36,097 | Is there a license -Open Source license, maybe- which grants the intellectual property on a paper (how-to guide, for example) I have created in a company, even if I work for it?
* I would like to make sure that based on the license it gets
recognized I am the author of the paper.
* Also, I want to make sure any derivative work recognizes the original paper and author.
* Finally,the license should recognize the paper was created in certain company (to avoid any industrial conflict with the employer).
Can you please advice? | 2019/01/11 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/36097",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/23690/"
] | If the paper was written while you were in the employ of the company, the company **may** own the copyright of the paper. This will depend on the details of any agreement that you have with the company, and on how the paper relates to your employment.
If the paper was a purely spare-time activity, conducted outside of work hours and not related to your employment, you likely own the copyright, although you may have agreed to assign it to the company if you signed a rather far-reaching IP transfer agreement.
If the paper was written as part of your job, ("in the course of employment") the company quite likely owns the copyright, unless they granted such rights to you in an agreement.
If the paper was related to your job, but nor actually written as part of your job responsibilities, then the exact details of your employment agreement, and of the company's policies (which you may be considered to have agreed to) will determine the ownership.
The country where you were working and living when the paper was written will also matter.
If the company owns the copyright, then the company will decide if it will be licensed at all, and if so, under what license.
If you own the copyright, than any of several copy-left open-source licenses would achieve the results you desire. I would tend to favor the creative commons [CC-BY-SA license (current version)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) as it is widely known and understood, but really almost any copy-left license will achieve the stated goals.
It might be a good idea to ask a company representative if they consider that they own the copyright to the specific paper. If the answer is "yes" and you disagree, you might well need a lawyer. Or you might be able to convince he company to release the paper under a license that will achieve your goal, depending on the nature of the paper and the company's policy on such matters, and the economic value of the paper to the company, if any. If the answer is "No" you have only to choose your specific license. | If you work for the company as an employee or work-for-hire contractor, they own the copyright, you don’t.
Unless you are in the United States, you have a moral right that includes a right of attribution among other things. Unless you gave up that right in your contract of employment. The US does not recognise moral rights. |
786,881 | A farmer has to cross a river with a wolf, a goat and a cabbage.
He has a boat, but in the boat he can take just one thing.
He cannot let the goat alone with the wolf or the goat with the cabbage. It’s obvious why.
What is the solution?
Ok So I know the two solutions and I arrived them with trial and error. Reaching dead ends and making smart moves. But I am interested to know the solution of this problem using Dijkstra's Algorithm. I do not know what my graph should represent and how to use the shortest path algorithm to solve this puzzle. | 2014/05/08 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/786881",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/101525/"
] | Dijkstra himself simplified the example problem by noting the symmetry between wolf and cabbage, see <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/videos/EWD4.mpg>. | I know this is old, but here's the answer formatted as a decision tree I made. Note: the cabbage is not denoted as 'C', but 'L' since I did the problem with lettuce instead of cabbage for a school project.
 |
3,845,196 | If I have a **sitemap\_index.xml**:
http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml
2010-09-28
And I change the content or update the page, and then change the **lastmod**, will I then have to submit it again to the search engines, for example in google webmaster tools (the section where you submit sitemaps)?
Thanks | 2010/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3845196",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | As long as you've told Google about the sitemap, they'll check it periodically. The more often it changes, the more they'll tend to check it.
If you go to Site configuration | Sitemaps, it'll tell you the last date they downloaded your sitemap. | No. It is however worth taking a look at the sitemaps page on webmaster tools every now and then and seeing if any errors were reported with the sitemap. |
3,845,196 | If I have a **sitemap\_index.xml**:
http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml
2010-09-28
And I change the content or update the page, and then change the **lastmod**, will I then have to submit it again to the search engines, for example in google webmaster tools (the section where you submit sitemaps)?
Thanks | 2010/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3845196",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | As long as you've told Google about the sitemap, they'll check it periodically. The more often it changes, the more they'll tend to check it.
If you go to Site configuration | Sitemaps, it'll tell you the last date they downloaded your sitemap. | @Skilldrick is right!
Also, google states that the results are not effected by the sitemaps anyway. They should only give a guidance to the search spider. He/she will make the final decision!! |
8,012,111 | I heard there is some limitation for a single thread to use network bandwidth? if this is true, is this the reason to use multithread programming to achieve the maximum bandwidth? | 2011/11/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8012111",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/705414/"
] | When I try your code in [jsFiddle, it works just fine](http://jsfiddle.net/BrianGenisio/M8Qcf/1/).
Dumb question: Are you testing it by clicking on the first line item (Uw kozijn)? Because if you are, it is not in the list... it is in it's own DIV so you will not get both events. If you click on anything else, however, it all works as I would expect. | The problem was an old jQuery validate library, after updating that library, everything worked as expected! |
3,814 | I'm starting fresh and seeing if I can complete bigger challenges earlier on to net large amounts of experience for a low-level character. Out of these challanges, the hang-time in vehicle challanges seem like they would be particularly easy to net.
Because of this, I'm curious: What's the earliest point in the game where one can net the 5 second hang-time achievement? If you don't know if your suggested location is the earliest location, that's fine; I have never gotten the 5 seconds of hangtime achievement and so would like to know where it can be gotten regardless of time spent reaching the location. | 2010/07/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/3814",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/207/"
] | ### Melee off Piss Wash Gully (Earliest opportunity)
If you have a partner Melee your vehicle while you're in it on the Piss Wash ramp, that also unlocks it. ([Youtube Video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQPk6N9q_Ck))
### Dahl Headlands
I've gotten it in the Dahl Headlands off the beginning Ramp. You've got to be lined up perfectly.
### Rust Commons East
There's a bridge near the Middle of Nowhere that (at one point) during the game is lowered for you (I believe it's on the mission to go to Janistown); If you talk to the Claptrap, and then back up the racer, you'll get insane air if you jump the bridge while it's about 50 degrees or better.
### General Knoxx's Armory
The highways in the Sunken Sea provide good opportunities. The easiest way to do it is to get in the racer and launch your self off the left end of a broken road (where the curb hits the road). The hitting of the curb makes you go higher and makes it more likely. | I did it by sliding the runner on its side while it was moving. This gave me the achievement even though it was a glitch. It it is very difficult to do, but you can do it as soon as you get the runner. |
467,468 | Pejorative word for attending "ribbon cutting ceremonies, ribbon cutting ceremonies, Association parties and fests" by a country's missions post abroad who are meant to be engaged in welfare of country's diaspora in a foreign country but instead do the above activities.
Example: The Ecuadorian embassy in Poland is hopeless and indifferent, they are most involved in \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (ribbon cutting ceremonies, Association parties and fests) | 2018/10/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/467468",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/246313/"
] | [***pomp***](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/thesaurus/pomp) (Ceremony and splendid display, especially at a public event.) ***and pageantry***; ***razzmatazz***
>
> **ceremony**, ceremoniousness, ceremonial, solemnity, ritual, **display**, **spectacle**, pageantry, pageant
>
>
>
> **show**, showiness, **ostentation**, splendour, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, majesty, stateliness, glory, gloriousness, sumptuousness, opulence, lavishness, richness, brilliance, radiance, dazzle, theatricality, **drama**, flourish, glitter, style, éclat, resplendence, splendidness
>
>
> *informal* pizzazz, razzle-dazzle, **razzmatazz**
>
>
>
src: ODOL
Emphasis of select entries mine, to suggest as possible options. | *The Ecuadorian embassy in Poland is hopeless and indifferent, they are most involved in **window dressing**.*
>
> **window dressing**
>
> noun [ U ] (DECEIVING)
>
>
> DISAPPROVING things that are of no real importance and are said or done in order to make an attractive effect:
>
>
> *How many of the candidate's policies are real intentions, and how many are just window dressing?*
> — <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/window-dressing>
>
>
> |
467,468 | Pejorative word for attending "ribbon cutting ceremonies, ribbon cutting ceremonies, Association parties and fests" by a country's missions post abroad who are meant to be engaged in welfare of country's diaspora in a foreign country but instead do the above activities.
Example: The Ecuadorian embassy in Poland is hopeless and indifferent, they are most involved in \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (ribbon cutting ceremonies, Association parties and fests) | 2018/10/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/467468",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/246313/"
] | **Dog and pony show**
This is explained in Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_and_pony_show>
>
> ...a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often
> over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or
> convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends.
> Typically, the term is used in a pejorative sense to connote disdain,
> jocular lack of appreciation, or distrust of the message being
> presented or the efforts undertaken to present it.
>
>
>
So for your example,
*The Ecuadorian embassy in Poland is hopeless and indifferent, they are mostly involved in **dog and pony shows**.* | *The Ecuadorian embassy in Poland is hopeless and indifferent, they are most involved in **window dressing**.*
>
> **window dressing**
>
> noun [ U ] (DECEIVING)
>
>
> DISAPPROVING things that are of no real importance and are said or done in order to make an attractive effect:
>
>
> *How many of the candidate's policies are real intentions, and how many are just window dressing?*
> — <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/window-dressing>
>
>
> |
467,468 | Pejorative word for attending "ribbon cutting ceremonies, ribbon cutting ceremonies, Association parties and fests" by a country's missions post abroad who are meant to be engaged in welfare of country's diaspora in a foreign country but instead do the above activities.
Example: The Ecuadorian embassy in Poland is hopeless and indifferent, they are most involved in \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (ribbon cutting ceremonies, Association parties and fests) | 2018/10/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/467468",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/246313/"
] | **Dog and pony show**
This is explained in Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_and_pony_show>
>
> ...a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often
> over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or
> convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends.
> Typically, the term is used in a pejorative sense to connote disdain,
> jocular lack of appreciation, or distrust of the message being
> presented or the efforts undertaken to present it.
>
>
>
So for your example,
*The Ecuadorian embassy in Poland is hopeless and indifferent, they are mostly involved in **dog and pony shows**.* | [***pomp***](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/thesaurus/pomp) (Ceremony and splendid display, especially at a public event.) ***and pageantry***; ***razzmatazz***
>
> **ceremony**, ceremoniousness, ceremonial, solemnity, ritual, **display**, **spectacle**, pageantry, pageant
>
>
>
> **show**, showiness, **ostentation**, splendour, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, majesty, stateliness, glory, gloriousness, sumptuousness, opulence, lavishness, richness, brilliance, radiance, dazzle, theatricality, **drama**, flourish, glitter, style, éclat, resplendence, splendidness
>
>
> *informal* pizzazz, razzle-dazzle, **razzmatazz**
>
>
>
src: ODOL
Emphasis of select entries mine, to suggest as possible options. |
209,527 | I faintly remember an anime I loved but didn't finish.
There are a boy and 2 girls in a cafe in one episode. They use crystals to see what magical powers the boy has. They are elemental crystals and one crystal showed if you had a unique power. The boy has a few elemental powers, which was rare, and he had an original one too. | 2019/04/22 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/209527",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/114409/"
] | [In Another World with my Smartphone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Another_World_with_My_Smartphone)
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A young, easy-going guy died in a tragic accident, and God felt bad, so reincarnated him in a fantasy world after cranking his attributes up to 11 and letting him take his smartphone.
It's a harem anime, borderline-ecchi, where the protagonist goes on adventures and befriends various young women, solving problems through clever applications of the large number of spells that he learns enhanced through the common functionality of a modern smartphone (maps, searching, photos, etc.)
His first contacts in the new world are two sisters who, while being capable warrior/mage, he rescues, and they introduce him to the system of magic using crystals that contain/enable spells of different affinities. | Is it Steven Universe?
Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. It premiered on May 21, 2013 with its pilot, then on November 4, 2013 with its first season. It is Cartoon Network's first animated show created solely by a woman. It is the coming-of-age story of a young boy, Steven Universe (voiced by Zach Callison), who lives with the Crystal Gems—magical, humanoid aliens named Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst (Michaela Dietz), and Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall)—in the fictional town of Beach City. Steven, who is half-Gem, has adventures with his friends and helps the Gems protect the world from their own kind. The themes of the series include love, family, and the importance of healthy interpersonal relationships. Books, comics and video games based on the series have been released, and a television film is in development.
The series has developed a broad fan base and has been critically acclaimed for its design, music, voice acting, characterization, prominence of LGBTQ themes and science fantasy worldbuilding. The series won its first GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Program in 2019, becoming the first animated series to win the award. It also received its first Peabody Award for Children's & Youth Programming in 2019. It has been nominated for four Emmy Awards and five Annie Awards. Its fifth season concluded in January 2019.
Steven Universe is set in the fictional town of Beach City, Delmarva.[4] The Crystal Gems live in an ancient beachside temple and protect humanity from monsters and other threats. The Gems are ageless alien warriors who project female humanoid forms from magical gemstones at the core of their being. The Crystal Gems comprise Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven—a young, half-human, half-Gem boy who inherited his gemstone from his mother, the Crystal Gems' former leader Rose Quartz. As Steven tries to understand his gradually expanding range of powers, he spends his days with his father Greg, his friend Connie, his magical pet lion, other residents of Beach City, and the Gems. He explores the abilities inherited from his mother, which include fusion—the ability of Gems to merge their bodies and abilities to form new, more powerful personalities.
The series's first season gradually reveals that the Crystal Gems are remnants of a great interstellar empire. During their missions they visit ruins that were once important to Gem culture but have been derelict for millennia. The Gems are cut off from the Gem homeworld, and Steven learns that many of the monsters and artifacts they encounter are Gems who were corrupted by a Gem weapon of mass destruction and can no longer maintain rational, humanoid form. By the end of the first season, Steven learns that, millennia ago, the Gem empire intended to sterilize the Earth to incubate new Gems, but Rose Quartz led her supporters, the Crystal Gems, in a violent and apparently successful rebellion against this genocidal plan. In the present, the Gem empire's machinations again begin to extend towards Earth with the arrival of hostile envoys Peridot and Jasper.
In the second season, Peridot allies with and eventually joins the Crystal Gems to prevent Earth's destruction by a Gem "geo-weapon" buried in the planet. During the third season, Lapis Lazuli, an errant Gem from Homeworld, decides to live on Earth with Peridot; Jasper is defeated and captured, and Steven learns that his mother shattered one of the Gem empire's matriarchs, Pink Diamond. In the fourth season, as Steven wrestles with his conflicted feelings about his mother's actions, the Gem empire leaders Blue Diamond and Yellow Diamond return their full attention to Earth. In the fifth season, Steven learns that in fact his mother was Pink Diamond, who faked her death to assume the identity of Rose Quartz; he uses this revelation to try to persuade the other Diamonds to take responsibility for and fix the damage they have caused. |
209,527 | I faintly remember an anime I loved but didn't finish.
There are a boy and 2 girls in a cafe in one episode. They use crystals to see what magical powers the boy has. They are elemental crystals and one crystal showed if you had a unique power. The boy has a few elemental powers, which was rare, and he had an original one too. | 2019/04/22 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/209527",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/114409/"
] | [In Another World with my Smartphone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Another_World_with_My_Smartphone)
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A young, easy-going guy died in a tragic accident, and God felt bad, so reincarnated him in a fantasy world after cranking his attributes up to 11 and letting him take his smartphone.
It's a harem anime, borderline-ecchi, where the protagonist goes on adventures and befriends various young women, solving problems through clever applications of the large number of spells that he learns enhanced through the common functionality of a modern smartphone (maps, searching, photos, etc.)
His first contacts in the new world are two sisters who, while being capable warrior/mage, he rescues, and they introduce him to the system of magic using crystals that contain/enable spells of different affinities. | I think what you're looking for might be *Full Time Magister*, I’m not entirely sure though.
From [MyAnimeList.net](https://myanimelist.net/anime/34300/Quanzhi_Fashi):
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> The aloof high schooler Mo Fan has found himself in a universe similar yet distinctly different from his own mundane one; it's a place where magic has replaced the essence of science. Here, the most capable students are taught to master the wonders of spellworking to fend off large devastating beasts that lurk in the forests surrounding the city.
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> Like his previous life, Mo Fan remains the son of a poor laborer and the older step-brother to a crippled sister. Despite these disadvantages, he dreams of attending a magic school to become a magician—a highly respected and lucrative trade—in order to repay his father for his hard work.
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> Mo Fan is accepted into a renowned magic institution. However, rumors spread about his poverty and lack of magical ability, labeling him as the laughing stock of the school. Nonetheless, Mo Fan manages to harness not only the powerful fire element, but also the rare lightning element! Now armed with dual abilities, what dangerous encounters will the versatile mage face?
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The protagonist matches the description of having elemental powers, including one very rare ability. |
209,527 | I faintly remember an anime I loved but didn't finish.
There are a boy and 2 girls in a cafe in one episode. They use crystals to see what magical powers the boy has. They are elemental crystals and one crystal showed if you had a unique power. The boy has a few elemental powers, which was rare, and he had an original one too. | 2019/04/22 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/209527",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/114409/"
] | I think what you're looking for might be *Full Time Magister*, I’m not entirely sure though.
From [MyAnimeList.net](https://myanimelist.net/anime/34300/Quanzhi_Fashi):
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> The aloof high schooler Mo Fan has found himself in a universe similar yet distinctly different from his own mundane one; it's a place where magic has replaced the essence of science. Here, the most capable students are taught to master the wonders of spellworking to fend off large devastating beasts that lurk in the forests surrounding the city.
>
>
> Like his previous life, Mo Fan remains the son of a poor laborer and the older step-brother to a crippled sister. Despite these disadvantages, he dreams of attending a magic school to become a magician—a highly respected and lucrative trade—in order to repay his father for his hard work.
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> Mo Fan is accepted into a renowned magic institution. However, rumors spread about his poverty and lack of magical ability, labeling him as the laughing stock of the school. Nonetheless, Mo Fan manages to harness not only the powerful fire element, but also the rare lightning element! Now armed with dual abilities, what dangerous encounters will the versatile mage face?
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The protagonist matches the description of having elemental powers, including one very rare ability. | Is it Steven Universe?
Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. It premiered on May 21, 2013 with its pilot, then on November 4, 2013 with its first season. It is Cartoon Network's first animated show created solely by a woman. It is the coming-of-age story of a young boy, Steven Universe (voiced by Zach Callison), who lives with the Crystal Gems—magical, humanoid aliens named Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst (Michaela Dietz), and Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall)—in the fictional town of Beach City. Steven, who is half-Gem, has adventures with his friends and helps the Gems protect the world from their own kind. The themes of the series include love, family, and the importance of healthy interpersonal relationships. Books, comics and video games based on the series have been released, and a television film is in development.
The series has developed a broad fan base and has been critically acclaimed for its design, music, voice acting, characterization, prominence of LGBTQ themes and science fantasy worldbuilding. The series won its first GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Program in 2019, becoming the first animated series to win the award. It also received its first Peabody Award for Children's & Youth Programming in 2019. It has been nominated for four Emmy Awards and five Annie Awards. Its fifth season concluded in January 2019.
Steven Universe is set in the fictional town of Beach City, Delmarva.[4] The Crystal Gems live in an ancient beachside temple and protect humanity from monsters and other threats. The Gems are ageless alien warriors who project female humanoid forms from magical gemstones at the core of their being. The Crystal Gems comprise Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven—a young, half-human, half-Gem boy who inherited his gemstone from his mother, the Crystal Gems' former leader Rose Quartz. As Steven tries to understand his gradually expanding range of powers, he spends his days with his father Greg, his friend Connie, his magical pet lion, other residents of Beach City, and the Gems. He explores the abilities inherited from his mother, which include fusion—the ability of Gems to merge their bodies and abilities to form new, more powerful personalities.
The series's first season gradually reveals that the Crystal Gems are remnants of a great interstellar empire. During their missions they visit ruins that were once important to Gem culture but have been derelict for millennia. The Gems are cut off from the Gem homeworld, and Steven learns that many of the monsters and artifacts they encounter are Gems who were corrupted by a Gem weapon of mass destruction and can no longer maintain rational, humanoid form. By the end of the first season, Steven learns that, millennia ago, the Gem empire intended to sterilize the Earth to incubate new Gems, but Rose Quartz led her supporters, the Crystal Gems, in a violent and apparently successful rebellion against this genocidal plan. In the present, the Gem empire's machinations again begin to extend towards Earth with the arrival of hostile envoys Peridot and Jasper.
In the second season, Peridot allies with and eventually joins the Crystal Gems to prevent Earth's destruction by a Gem "geo-weapon" buried in the planet. During the third season, Lapis Lazuli, an errant Gem from Homeworld, decides to live on Earth with Peridot; Jasper is defeated and captured, and Steven learns that his mother shattered one of the Gem empire's matriarchs, Pink Diamond. In the fourth season, as Steven wrestles with his conflicted feelings about his mother's actions, the Gem empire leaders Blue Diamond and Yellow Diamond return their full attention to Earth. In the fifth season, Steven learns that in fact his mother was Pink Diamond, who faked her death to assume the identity of Rose Quartz; he uses this revelation to try to persuade the other Diamonds to take responsibility for and fix the damage they have caused. |
10,508,343 | I am looking for an algorithm which, given a set of numbers {0, 1, 2, 4, 5...} and a set of conditions on the relative positions of each element, would check if a valid permutation exists. The conditions are always of type "Element in position i in the original array must be next(adjacent) to element in position j or z".
The last and first element in a permutation are considered adjacent.
Here's a simple example:
Let the numbers be {0, 1, 2, 3}
and a set of conditions: a0 must be next to a1, a0 must be next to a2, a3 must be next to a1
A valid solution to this example would be {0,1,3,2}.
Notice that any rotation/symmetry of this solution is also a valid solution. I just need to prove that such a solution exists.
Another example using the same set:
a0 must be next to a1, a0 must be next to a3, a0 must be next to a2.
There is no valid solution for this example since a number can only adjacent to 2 numbers.
The only idea I can come up with right now would be to use some kind of backtracking.
If a solution exists, this should converge quiet fast. If no solution exists, I can't imagine any way to avoid checking all possible permutations.
As I already stated, a rotation or symmetry doesn't affect the result for a given permutation, therefor it should be possible to reduce the number of possibilities. | 2012/05/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10508343",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1350324/"
] | Formulate this as a graph problem. Connect every pair of numbers that need to be next to each other. You are going to end up with a bunch of connected component. Each component has a number of permutations (lets call them mini-permutations), and you can have a permutation of the components.
When you create the graph make sure each component follows a bunch of rules: no cycles, no vertices with more than two vertices etc. | Basically you want to know if you can create chains of numbers. Put each number into a chain which keeps track of the number and up to two neighbors. Use the rules to join chains together. When you join two chains you'll end up with a chain with two loose ends (neighbors). If you can get through all the rules without running out of loose ends then it works. |
10,508,343 | I am looking for an algorithm which, given a set of numbers {0, 1, 2, 4, 5...} and a set of conditions on the relative positions of each element, would check if a valid permutation exists. The conditions are always of type "Element in position i in the original array must be next(adjacent) to element in position j or z".
The last and first element in a permutation are considered adjacent.
Here's a simple example:
Let the numbers be {0, 1, 2, 3}
and a set of conditions: a0 must be next to a1, a0 must be next to a2, a3 must be next to a1
A valid solution to this example would be {0,1,3,2}.
Notice that any rotation/symmetry of this solution is also a valid solution. I just need to prove that such a solution exists.
Another example using the same set:
a0 must be next to a1, a0 must be next to a3, a0 must be next to a2.
There is no valid solution for this example since a number can only adjacent to 2 numbers.
The only idea I can come up with right now would be to use some kind of backtracking.
If a solution exists, this should converge quiet fast. If no solution exists, I can't imagine any way to avoid checking all possible permutations.
As I already stated, a rotation or symmetry doesn't affect the result for a given permutation, therefor it should be possible to reduce the number of possibilities. | 2012/05/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10508343",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1350324/"
] | Basically you want to know if you can create chains of numbers. Put each number into a chain which keeps track of the number and up to two neighbors. Use the rules to join chains together. When you join two chains you'll end up with a chain with two loose ends (neighbors). If you can get through all the rules without running out of loose ends then it works. | I've implemented the graph solution with a slight modification.
If a node has too many neighbors, the algorithm would drop one edge and check the graph again.
I then use backtracking to roll back and check if it is possible to drop the next edge...
This method give the same result as the brute force method I wrote.
In term of complexity, this solution seems to be better than the brute force although I can't run it on more than 20 numbers(only 8 for the brute-force). In a sens, this is logical since such graph can actually generate a subset of valid permutation at once, plus in the worst case, it is equivalent to finding some compositions over the set of edges. It is backtracking after all.
Given that rotation doesn't have any effect on the validity of permutations, I was thinking about fixing the a0 in the first position(This can be achieved by simply rotating a valid permutation till a0 is in the first position) and then try to build the solution from there.
Using DP I might get something better than exponential complexity. But I must say that i'm still not sure where to begin :) |
10,508,343 | I am looking for an algorithm which, given a set of numbers {0, 1, 2, 4, 5...} and a set of conditions on the relative positions of each element, would check if a valid permutation exists. The conditions are always of type "Element in position i in the original array must be next(adjacent) to element in position j or z".
The last and first element in a permutation are considered adjacent.
Here's a simple example:
Let the numbers be {0, 1, 2, 3}
and a set of conditions: a0 must be next to a1, a0 must be next to a2, a3 must be next to a1
A valid solution to this example would be {0,1,3,2}.
Notice that any rotation/symmetry of this solution is also a valid solution. I just need to prove that such a solution exists.
Another example using the same set:
a0 must be next to a1, a0 must be next to a3, a0 must be next to a2.
There is no valid solution for this example since a number can only adjacent to 2 numbers.
The only idea I can come up with right now would be to use some kind of backtracking.
If a solution exists, this should converge quiet fast. If no solution exists, I can't imagine any way to avoid checking all possible permutations.
As I already stated, a rotation or symmetry doesn't affect the result for a given permutation, therefor it should be possible to reduce the number of possibilities. | 2012/05/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10508343",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1350324/"
] | Formulate this as a graph problem. Connect every pair of numbers that need to be next to each other. You are going to end up with a bunch of connected component. Each component has a number of permutations (lets call them mini-permutations), and you can have a permutation of the components.
When you create the graph make sure each component follows a bunch of rules: no cycles, no vertices with more than two vertices etc. | I've implemented the graph solution with a slight modification.
If a node has too many neighbors, the algorithm would drop one edge and check the graph again.
I then use backtracking to roll back and check if it is possible to drop the next edge...
This method give the same result as the brute force method I wrote.
In term of complexity, this solution seems to be better than the brute force although I can't run it on more than 20 numbers(only 8 for the brute-force). In a sens, this is logical since such graph can actually generate a subset of valid permutation at once, plus in the worst case, it is equivalent to finding some compositions over the set of edges. It is backtracking after all.
Given that rotation doesn't have any effect on the validity of permutations, I was thinking about fixing the a0 in the first position(This can be achieved by simply rotating a valid permutation till a0 is in the first position) and then try to build the solution from there.
Using DP I might get something better than exponential complexity. But I must say that i'm still not sure where to begin :) |
1,758 | I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had *none*), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give me the same server experience as any other computer (x86 or ARM). Everyone I've asked about "starting with servers" says to just use any old computer. The truth is. All I have is my laptop with Win7, and an RPi.
I want something that will give me real world experience with setting up a LAMP server, FreeNAS, some kind of media server, or anything else. I'm second guessing myself, because this runs on ARM, and most Linux OS's won't run on arm. I believe Ubuntu and CentOS (from what I heard) are the biggest name servers OS's. I also heard that archlinux runs on arm.
I know the above is a mess of questions, but any help and/or guidance is appreciated.
Main Question:
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Can I get cmd line, server setup, and server maintenance experience from the RPi comparable to that of someone that works on x86 machines? | 2012/08/30 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1758",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/571/"
] | If you just want to play with Linux without the chance of breaking stuff or wasting money I would suggest you install a virtual machine, for example virtualbox.
This is a lot faster than an RPi (ofcourse depending of your machine) and is a bit more convenient with installing and setting up (no cables, usbdisks, powerplugs, extra keyboards, delivery time and whatnot).
It doesn't really matter what distribution you pick. Ubuntu is a nice start with lots of documentation available (also look into Debian documentation). But pick the server version so you won't get spoiled with the GUI, a benefit you won't have while ssh'ing into your next employers webserver. | You could certainly get a feel for it--especially if you have some specific software you were wanting to learn about and that software had a PI build available.
Limitations:
1. Low memory
2. Low speed.
3. There are probably many server tools that won't run or aren't ported.
4. Not a "Real" server environment (mostly because of the previous item)
Advantages:
1. Low price.
2. Lots of information on how to solve simple tasks.
3. Many basic services you might want to deploy on a server are available
4. Full time servers with low energy/low heat/low(no) fan noise. No reason to ever shut it down.
5. Experience with linux remote management tools like ssh, screen, etc.
6. Easily replicate a clustered environment
7. Affordable enough to use a separate PI for each app if you wanted to.
As an example, I put a full minecraft server on one. Could carry it around and host a wifi game without any internet connectivity, but the speed was borderline and it was glitchy at times.
I still run SSH, RDP, Git, http and wiki services on it though and even if I don't use them much, they are always available. (forwarding SSH through your firewall makes almost anything not only possible but quite useful!) |
1,758 | I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had *none*), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give me the same server experience as any other computer (x86 or ARM). Everyone I've asked about "starting with servers" says to just use any old computer. The truth is. All I have is my laptop with Win7, and an RPi.
I want something that will give me real world experience with setting up a LAMP server, FreeNAS, some kind of media server, or anything else. I'm second guessing myself, because this runs on ARM, and most Linux OS's won't run on arm. I believe Ubuntu and CentOS (from what I heard) are the biggest name servers OS's. I also heard that archlinux runs on arm.
I know the above is a mess of questions, but any help and/or guidance is appreciated.
Main Question:
--------------
Can I get cmd line, server setup, and server maintenance experience from the RPi comparable to that of someone that works on x86 machines? | 2012/08/30 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1758",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/571/"
] | Lets look at it the other way round. Lots of people who have only previously used linux on x86 are experiencing the linux on ARM for the first time with the RPi. Lots of what they know about linux doesn't really matter which platform it's running on.
Setting up a LAMP server will be quite similar on RPi vs x86, but you should be aware that the RPi performance will probably resemble a 300Mhz PIII or thereabouts.
Round here I have seen x86 PCs with better specs on the side of the road :) | You could certainly get a feel for it--especially if you have some specific software you were wanting to learn about and that software had a PI build available.
Limitations:
1. Low memory
2. Low speed.
3. There are probably many server tools that won't run or aren't ported.
4. Not a "Real" server environment (mostly because of the previous item)
Advantages:
1. Low price.
2. Lots of information on how to solve simple tasks.
3. Many basic services you might want to deploy on a server are available
4. Full time servers with low energy/low heat/low(no) fan noise. No reason to ever shut it down.
5. Experience with linux remote management tools like ssh, screen, etc.
6. Easily replicate a clustered environment
7. Affordable enough to use a separate PI for each app if you wanted to.
As an example, I put a full minecraft server on one. Could carry it around and host a wifi game without any internet connectivity, but the speed was borderline and it was glitchy at times.
I still run SSH, RDP, Git, http and wiki services on it though and even if I don't use them much, they are always available. (forwarding SSH through your firewall makes almost anything not only possible but quite useful!) |
1,758 | I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had *none*), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give me the same server experience as any other computer (x86 or ARM). Everyone I've asked about "starting with servers" says to just use any old computer. The truth is. All I have is my laptop with Win7, and an RPi.
I want something that will give me real world experience with setting up a LAMP server, FreeNAS, some kind of media server, or anything else. I'm second guessing myself, because this runs on ARM, and most Linux OS's won't run on arm. I believe Ubuntu and CentOS (from what I heard) are the biggest name servers OS's. I also heard that archlinux runs on arm.
I know the above is a mess of questions, but any help and/or guidance is appreciated.
Main Question:
--------------
Can I get cmd line, server setup, and server maintenance experience from the RPi comparable to that of someone that works on x86 machines? | 2012/08/30 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1758",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/571/"
] | If you just want to play with Linux without the chance of breaking stuff or wasting money I would suggest you install a virtual machine, for example virtualbox.
This is a lot faster than an RPi (ofcourse depending of your machine) and is a bit more convenient with installing and setting up (no cables, usbdisks, powerplugs, extra keyboards, delivery time and whatnot).
It doesn't really matter what distribution you pick. Ubuntu is a nice start with lots of documentation available (also look into Debian documentation). But pick the server version so you won't get spoiled with the GUI, a benefit you won't have while ssh'ing into your next employers webserver. | I have a little bit of experience with servers. The most popular are Debian and Red Hat IMHO, certainly not Ubuntu. Most of what you do involves general Linux commands, rather than anything server specific.
As for practice, whip up a cloud server on Amazon, Rackspace, or Brightbox and setup a webserver from start to finish. You learn a lot and it's pretty cheap. It's also nice to run on such fast CPUs and with a stupidly fast internet connection, for downloading source code etc. |
1,758 | I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had *none*), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give me the same server experience as any other computer (x86 or ARM). Everyone I've asked about "starting with servers" says to just use any old computer. The truth is. All I have is my laptop with Win7, and an RPi.
I want something that will give me real world experience with setting up a LAMP server, FreeNAS, some kind of media server, or anything else. I'm second guessing myself, because this runs on ARM, and most Linux OS's won't run on arm. I believe Ubuntu and CentOS (from what I heard) are the biggest name servers OS's. I also heard that archlinux runs on arm.
I know the above is a mess of questions, but any help and/or guidance is appreciated.
Main Question:
--------------
Can I get cmd line, server setup, and server maintenance experience from the RPi comparable to that of someone that works on x86 machines? | 2012/08/30 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1758",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/571/"
] | The answer depends on what you mean by "server experience". The vast majority of what you do on a RPi running raspbian works the same way on any server based on a Debian derivative. Editing files. System configuration. Basic linux command line familiarity. Security. Remote access. All of this works the same regardless of what physical platform.
You may want a larger system for specific types of experience, but I'd say that the RPi is perfectly good way for somebody with no linux experience to get some practice in at low risk. Even if you configure a larger box later, the RPi gives you an expensive 2nd system for testing. The suggestions made above (dedicated or virtual linux, laptop) are all complementary. For experience, the more realistic your scenario, the better. Very few systems operate in isolation these days. The RPi is a great little add-on to any learning lab. | I have a little bit of experience with servers. The most popular are Debian and Red Hat IMHO, certainly not Ubuntu. Most of what you do involves general Linux commands, rather than anything server specific.
As for practice, whip up a cloud server on Amazon, Rackspace, or Brightbox and setup a webserver from start to finish. You learn a lot and it's pretty cheap. It's also nice to run on such fast CPUs and with a stupidly fast internet connection, for downloading source code etc. |
1,758 | I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had *none*), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give me the same server experience as any other computer (x86 or ARM). Everyone I've asked about "starting with servers" says to just use any old computer. The truth is. All I have is my laptop with Win7, and an RPi.
I want something that will give me real world experience with setting up a LAMP server, FreeNAS, some kind of media server, or anything else. I'm second guessing myself, because this runs on ARM, and most Linux OS's won't run on arm. I believe Ubuntu and CentOS (from what I heard) are the biggest name servers OS's. I also heard that archlinux runs on arm.
I know the above is a mess of questions, but any help and/or guidance is appreciated.
Main Question:
--------------
Can I get cmd line, server setup, and server maintenance experience from the RPi comparable to that of someone that works on x86 machines? | 2012/08/30 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1758",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/571/"
] | The answer depends on what you mean by "server experience". The vast majority of what you do on a RPi running raspbian works the same way on any server based on a Debian derivative. Editing files. System configuration. Basic linux command line familiarity. Security. Remote access. All of this works the same regardless of what physical platform.
You may want a larger system for specific types of experience, but I'd say that the RPi is perfectly good way for somebody with no linux experience to get some practice in at low risk. Even if you configure a larger box later, the RPi gives you an expensive 2nd system for testing. The suggestions made above (dedicated or virtual linux, laptop) are all complementary. For experience, the more realistic your scenario, the better. Very few systems operate in isolation these days. The RPi is a great little add-on to any learning lab. | For real industry server experience, I feel you would be better off using even an old laptop to install CentOS 6 or 7. Even if the laptop is a Windows laptop, you can install CentOS and make it dual boot. This leaves Windows entirely alone and CentOS can work fine without even knowing Windows is in the other partition. CentOS is a clone of Redhat's Enterprise version with the branding and logo removed, and it's free. |
1,758 | I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had *none*), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give me the same server experience as any other computer (x86 or ARM). Everyone I've asked about "starting with servers" says to just use any old computer. The truth is. All I have is my laptop with Win7, and an RPi.
I want something that will give me real world experience with setting up a LAMP server, FreeNAS, some kind of media server, or anything else. I'm second guessing myself, because this runs on ARM, and most Linux OS's won't run on arm. I believe Ubuntu and CentOS (from what I heard) are the biggest name servers OS's. I also heard that archlinux runs on arm.
I know the above is a mess of questions, but any help and/or guidance is appreciated.
Main Question:
--------------
Can I get cmd line, server setup, and server maintenance experience from the RPi comparable to that of someone that works on x86 machines? | 2012/08/30 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1758",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/571/"
] | If you just want to play with Linux without the chance of breaking stuff or wasting money I would suggest you install a virtual machine, for example virtualbox.
This is a lot faster than an RPi (ofcourse depending of your machine) and is a bit more convenient with installing and setting up (no cables, usbdisks, powerplugs, extra keyboards, delivery time and whatnot).
It doesn't really matter what distribution you pick. Ubuntu is a nice start with lots of documentation available (also look into Debian documentation). But pick the server version so you won't get spoiled with the GUI, a benefit you won't have while ssh'ing into your next employers webserver. | For real industry server experience, I feel you would be better off using even an old laptop to install CentOS 6 or 7. Even if the laptop is a Windows laptop, you can install CentOS and make it dual boot. This leaves Windows entirely alone and CentOS can work fine without even knowing Windows is in the other partition. CentOS is a clone of Redhat's Enterprise version with the branding and logo removed, and it's free. |
1,758 | I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had *none*), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give me the same server experience as any other computer (x86 or ARM). Everyone I've asked about "starting with servers" says to just use any old computer. The truth is. All I have is my laptop with Win7, and an RPi.
I want something that will give me real world experience with setting up a LAMP server, FreeNAS, some kind of media server, or anything else. I'm second guessing myself, because this runs on ARM, and most Linux OS's won't run on arm. I believe Ubuntu and CentOS (from what I heard) are the biggest name servers OS's. I also heard that archlinux runs on arm.
I know the above is a mess of questions, but any help and/or guidance is appreciated.
Main Question:
--------------
Can I get cmd line, server setup, and server maintenance experience from the RPi comparable to that of someone that works on x86 machines? | 2012/08/30 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1758",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/571/"
] | If you just want to play with Linux without the chance of breaking stuff or wasting money I would suggest you install a virtual machine, for example virtualbox.
This is a lot faster than an RPi (ofcourse depending of your machine) and is a bit more convenient with installing and setting up (no cables, usbdisks, powerplugs, extra keyboards, delivery time and whatnot).
It doesn't really matter what distribution you pick. Ubuntu is a nice start with lots of documentation available (also look into Debian documentation). But pick the server version so you won't get spoiled with the GUI, a benefit you won't have while ssh'ing into your next employers webserver. | Lets look at it the other way round. Lots of people who have only previously used linux on x86 are experiencing the linux on ARM for the first time with the RPi. Lots of what they know about linux doesn't really matter which platform it's running on.
Setting up a LAMP server will be quite similar on RPi vs x86, but you should be aware that the RPi performance will probably resemble a 300Mhz PIII or thereabouts.
Round here I have seen x86 PCs with better specs on the side of the road :) |
1,758 | I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had *none*), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give me the same server experience as any other computer (x86 or ARM). Everyone I've asked about "starting with servers" says to just use any old computer. The truth is. All I have is my laptop with Win7, and an RPi.
I want something that will give me real world experience with setting up a LAMP server, FreeNAS, some kind of media server, or anything else. I'm second guessing myself, because this runs on ARM, and most Linux OS's won't run on arm. I believe Ubuntu and CentOS (from what I heard) are the biggest name servers OS's. I also heard that archlinux runs on arm.
I know the above is a mess of questions, but any help and/or guidance is appreciated.
Main Question:
--------------
Can I get cmd line, server setup, and server maintenance experience from the RPi comparable to that of someone that works on x86 machines? | 2012/08/30 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1758",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/571/"
] | Lets look at it the other way round. Lots of people who have only previously used linux on x86 are experiencing the linux on ARM for the first time with the RPi. Lots of what they know about linux doesn't really matter which platform it's running on.
Setting up a LAMP server will be quite similar on RPi vs x86, but you should be aware that the RPi performance will probably resemble a 300Mhz PIII or thereabouts.
Round here I have seen x86 PCs with better specs on the side of the road :) | For real industry server experience, I feel you would be better off using even an old laptop to install CentOS 6 or 7. Even if the laptop is a Windows laptop, you can install CentOS and make it dual boot. This leaves Windows entirely alone and CentOS can work fine without even knowing Windows is in the other partition. CentOS is a clone of Redhat's Enterprise version with the branding and logo removed, and it's free. |
1,758 | I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had *none*), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give me the same server experience as any other computer (x86 or ARM). Everyone I've asked about "starting with servers" says to just use any old computer. The truth is. All I have is my laptop with Win7, and an RPi.
I want something that will give me real world experience with setting up a LAMP server, FreeNAS, some kind of media server, or anything else. I'm second guessing myself, because this runs on ARM, and most Linux OS's won't run on arm. I believe Ubuntu and CentOS (from what I heard) are the biggest name servers OS's. I also heard that archlinux runs on arm.
I know the above is a mess of questions, but any help and/or guidance is appreciated.
Main Question:
--------------
Can I get cmd line, server setup, and server maintenance experience from the RPi comparable to that of someone that works on x86 machines? | 2012/08/30 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1758",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/571/"
] | The answer depends on what you mean by "server experience". The vast majority of what you do on a RPi running raspbian works the same way on any server based on a Debian derivative. Editing files. System configuration. Basic linux command line familiarity. Security. Remote access. All of this works the same regardless of what physical platform.
You may want a larger system for specific types of experience, but I'd say that the RPi is perfectly good way for somebody with no linux experience to get some practice in at low risk. Even if you configure a larger box later, the RPi gives you an expensive 2nd system for testing. The suggestions made above (dedicated or virtual linux, laptop) are all complementary. For experience, the more realistic your scenario, the better. Very few systems operate in isolation these days. The RPi is a great little add-on to any learning lab. | You could certainly get a feel for it--especially if you have some specific software you were wanting to learn about and that software had a PI build available.
Limitations:
1. Low memory
2. Low speed.
3. There are probably many server tools that won't run or aren't ported.
4. Not a "Real" server environment (mostly because of the previous item)
Advantages:
1. Low price.
2. Lots of information on how to solve simple tasks.
3. Many basic services you might want to deploy on a server are available
4. Full time servers with low energy/low heat/low(no) fan noise. No reason to ever shut it down.
5. Experience with linux remote management tools like ssh, screen, etc.
6. Easily replicate a clustered environment
7. Affordable enough to use a separate PI for each app if you wanted to.
As an example, I put a full minecraft server on one. Could carry it around and host a wifi game without any internet connectivity, but the speed was borderline and it was glitchy at times.
I still run SSH, RDP, Git, http and wiki services on it though and even if I don't use them much, they are always available. (forwarding SSH through your firewall makes almost anything not only possible but quite useful!) |
1,758 | I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had *none*), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give me the same server experience as any other computer (x86 or ARM). Everyone I've asked about "starting with servers" says to just use any old computer. The truth is. All I have is my laptop with Win7, and an RPi.
I want something that will give me real world experience with setting up a LAMP server, FreeNAS, some kind of media server, or anything else. I'm second guessing myself, because this runs on ARM, and most Linux OS's won't run on arm. I believe Ubuntu and CentOS (from what I heard) are the biggest name servers OS's. I also heard that archlinux runs on arm.
I know the above is a mess of questions, but any help and/or guidance is appreciated.
Main Question:
--------------
Can I get cmd line, server setup, and server maintenance experience from the RPi comparable to that of someone that works on x86 machines? | 2012/08/30 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1758",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/571/"
] | Lets look at it the other way round. Lots of people who have only previously used linux on x86 are experiencing the linux on ARM for the first time with the RPi. Lots of what they know about linux doesn't really matter which platform it's running on.
Setting up a LAMP server will be quite similar on RPi vs x86, but you should be aware that the RPi performance will probably resemble a 300Mhz PIII or thereabouts.
Round here I have seen x86 PCs with better specs on the side of the road :) | I have a little bit of experience with servers. The most popular are Debian and Red Hat IMHO, certainly not Ubuntu. Most of what you do involves general Linux commands, rather than anything server specific.
As for practice, whip up a cloud server on Amazon, Rackspace, or Brightbox and setup a webserver from start to finish. You learn a lot and it's pretty cheap. It's also nice to run on such fast CPUs and with a stupidly fast internet connection, for downloading source code etc. |
1,378,156 | I have no idea when this started to happen but it is preventing me from opening .bat files on double click. I am only able to run it as administrator. Is there anyway to fix this so i can double click instead of running as administrator? This causes some programs not to work.
I've tried to reset the file association in the registry, checked the environment variables, and I checked to see if cmd was actually in the System32 folder.
If more info is needed, I will try to provide it. | 2018/11/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1378156",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/966888/"
] | Okay, some of you might think I'm stupid but this is how I solved this issue.
I went into my environment variables and was looking for COMSPEC but instead I found ComSpec. Once I renamed it back to COMSPEC everything started working again.
I have no idea how it was even renamed in the first place but that fixed my issue.
Hope this helps other people with this issue. | I think this is related to cmd, not to your specific bat file.
so open cmd (start menu >> RUN >> type **cmd** and press ENTER)
on the task bar, right click on the cmd icon, you will see a small menu, right click on the first option in is ( **Command Prompt** )... now choose **Properties** , then in **Shortcut** tab press **Advanced**, then check **Run As Administrator**
then press **OK** and **OK**
try now to run your bat file...
please comment if this did not solve your case... otherwise vote my answer as a solution... |
1,378,156 | I have no idea when this started to happen but it is preventing me from opening .bat files on double click. I am only able to run it as administrator. Is there anyway to fix this so i can double click instead of running as administrator? This causes some programs not to work.
I've tried to reset the file association in the registry, checked the environment variables, and I checked to see if cmd was actually in the System32 folder.
If more info is needed, I will try to provide it. | 2018/11/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1378156",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/966888/"
] | Okay, some of you might think I'm stupid but this is how I solved this issue.
I went into my environment variables and was looking for COMSPEC but instead I found ComSpec. Once I renamed it back to COMSPEC everything started working again.
I have no idea how it was even renamed in the first place but that fixed my issue.
Hope this helps other people with this issue. | Solved thanx to Squashman above (can't vote his reply as an answer), my ComSpec value was changed somehow to c:\PHP, reset it to the following as per Squashman and fixed (posting this since some might miss his reply to an answer):
Right click "This PC" > Properties > Advanced System Settings > "Environment Variables..." > in System Variables make sure you have ComSpec (or COMSPEC but shouldn't matter) and it's set as follows:
Variable: ComSpec
Value: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe |
5,556,316 | I have a bunch of encrypted files that I want to decrypt (duh). I found out they are encrypted with Blowfish using a 224-bit key after some research. I know what the first few bytes of the plaintext looks like (it's kind of a header).
Noting that I am not NSA nor do I have ridiculous computing power, is there any chance of me brute forcing the key *within a reasonable time* (eg: not the life of the universe)?
I read somewhere that someone published an attack on the full-blown Blowfish (no pun intended) that reduces the search to 2^(n/2) but it mysteriously disappeared. Apparently it was some kind of MITM attack; though Blowfish uses a 16 round Feistel network, so it has to be clever if it exists. Can anyone confirm this?
>
> **EDIT:** I do have access to a large number of the keys that are used, just not all of them. Perhaps it would be more worth my while to try and attack the generation of the keys instead?
>
>
> | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5556316",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/396458/"
] | No, you can't recover the plain text unless the encryption was done incorrectly.
There is a published "known plain text" attack, but it requires billions of known plain texts to work.
---
**Update regarding "Edit":** Again, if the encryption was done *correctly*, examining the known keys won't help, because a cryptographic number generator used to generate good keys is going to have similar complexity as the cipher. However, using a bad generator (or password-based encryption with weak passwords) is a common implementation flaw. Good luck! | 2^(n/2) means in this case 2^223 rather than 224, possibly? if so, I can't see it helps you very much. I think you need to get down to something like 2^64 or so to brute force it on a home PC in a reasonable time. |
5,556,316 | I have a bunch of encrypted files that I want to decrypt (duh). I found out they are encrypted with Blowfish using a 224-bit key after some research. I know what the first few bytes of the plaintext looks like (it's kind of a header).
Noting that I am not NSA nor do I have ridiculous computing power, is there any chance of me brute forcing the key *within a reasonable time* (eg: not the life of the universe)?
I read somewhere that someone published an attack on the full-blown Blowfish (no pun intended) that reduces the search to 2^(n/2) but it mysteriously disappeared. Apparently it was some kind of MITM attack; though Blowfish uses a 16 round Feistel network, so it has to be clever if it exists. Can anyone confirm this?
>
> **EDIT:** I do have access to a large number of the keys that are used, just not all of them. Perhaps it would be more worth my while to try and attack the generation of the keys instead?
>
>
> | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5556316",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/396458/"
] | There is no chance of you brute-forcing the key\*. Assuming there is a meet-in-the-middle attack for Blowfish that reduces it to testing 2^112 keys, there isn't enough computing power on the planet to have a decent chance of brute-forcing the key before the Sun goes cold. The NSA couldn't do it either, if that's any consolation, although it's conceivable they can solve Blowfish rather than guess keys.
Unless you can find the keys, you aren't going to read the files.
\*Technically, you do have a chance. However, it's far more likely that you'll win a national lottery twice (assuming you buy a ticket for two drawings). | 2^(n/2) means in this case 2^223 rather than 224, possibly? if so, I can't see it helps you very much. I think you need to get down to something like 2^64 or so to brute force it on a home PC in a reasonable time. |
5,556,316 | I have a bunch of encrypted files that I want to decrypt (duh). I found out they are encrypted with Blowfish using a 224-bit key after some research. I know what the first few bytes of the plaintext looks like (it's kind of a header).
Noting that I am not NSA nor do I have ridiculous computing power, is there any chance of me brute forcing the key *within a reasonable time* (eg: not the life of the universe)?
I read somewhere that someone published an attack on the full-blown Blowfish (no pun intended) that reduces the search to 2^(n/2) but it mysteriously disappeared. Apparently it was some kind of MITM attack; though Blowfish uses a 16 round Feistel network, so it has to be clever if it exists. Can anyone confirm this?
>
> **EDIT:** I do have access to a large number of the keys that are used, just not all of them. Perhaps it would be more worth my while to try and attack the generation of the keys instead?
>
>
> | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5556316",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/396458/"
] | There is no chance of you brute-forcing the key\*. Assuming there is a meet-in-the-middle attack for Blowfish that reduces it to testing 2^112 keys, there isn't enough computing power on the planet to have a decent chance of brute-forcing the key before the Sun goes cold. The NSA couldn't do it either, if that's any consolation, although it's conceivable they can solve Blowfish rather than guess keys.
Unless you can find the keys, you aren't going to read the files.
\*Technically, you do have a chance. However, it's far more likely that you'll win a national lottery twice (assuming you buy a ticket for two drawings). | No, you can't recover the plain text unless the encryption was done incorrectly.
There is a published "known plain text" attack, but it requires billions of known plain texts to work.
---
**Update regarding "Edit":** Again, if the encryption was done *correctly*, examining the known keys won't help, because a cryptographic number generator used to generate good keys is going to have similar complexity as the cipher. However, using a bad generator (or password-based encryption with weak passwords) is a common implementation flaw. Good luck! |
5,556,316 | I have a bunch of encrypted files that I want to decrypt (duh). I found out they are encrypted with Blowfish using a 224-bit key after some research. I know what the first few bytes of the plaintext looks like (it's kind of a header).
Noting that I am not NSA nor do I have ridiculous computing power, is there any chance of me brute forcing the key *within a reasonable time* (eg: not the life of the universe)?
I read somewhere that someone published an attack on the full-blown Blowfish (no pun intended) that reduces the search to 2^(n/2) but it mysteriously disappeared. Apparently it was some kind of MITM attack; though Blowfish uses a 16 round Feistel network, so it has to be clever if it exists. Can anyone confirm this?
>
> **EDIT:** I do have access to a large number of the keys that are used, just not all of them. Perhaps it would be more worth my while to try and attack the generation of the keys instead?
>
>
> | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5556316",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/396458/"
] | No, you can't recover the plain text unless the encryption was done incorrectly.
There is a published "known plain text" attack, but it requires billions of known plain texts to work.
---
**Update regarding "Edit":** Again, if the encryption was done *correctly*, examining the known keys won't help, because a cryptographic number generator used to generate good keys is going to have similar complexity as the cipher. However, using a bad generator (or password-based encryption with weak passwords) is a common implementation flaw. Good luck! | Do you happen to know how the key was chosen? If it's say, generated from a password and no proper password derivation function is used this may be your best angle of attack. Also depending on the chaining mode used there could be other venue of attack, we need to know more. |
5,556,316 | I have a bunch of encrypted files that I want to decrypt (duh). I found out they are encrypted with Blowfish using a 224-bit key after some research. I know what the first few bytes of the plaintext looks like (it's kind of a header).
Noting that I am not NSA nor do I have ridiculous computing power, is there any chance of me brute forcing the key *within a reasonable time* (eg: not the life of the universe)?
I read somewhere that someone published an attack on the full-blown Blowfish (no pun intended) that reduces the search to 2^(n/2) but it mysteriously disappeared. Apparently it was some kind of MITM attack; though Blowfish uses a 16 round Feistel network, so it has to be clever if it exists. Can anyone confirm this?
>
> **EDIT:** I do have access to a large number of the keys that are used, just not all of them. Perhaps it would be more worth my while to try and attack the generation of the keys instead?
>
>
> | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5556316",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/396458/"
] | There is no chance of you brute-forcing the key\*. Assuming there is a meet-in-the-middle attack for Blowfish that reduces it to testing 2^112 keys, there isn't enough computing power on the planet to have a decent chance of brute-forcing the key before the Sun goes cold. The NSA couldn't do it either, if that's any consolation, although it's conceivable they can solve Blowfish rather than guess keys.
Unless you can find the keys, you aren't going to read the files.
\*Technically, you do have a chance. However, it's far more likely that you'll win a national lottery twice (assuming you buy a ticket for two drawings). | Do you happen to know how the key was chosen? If it's say, generated from a password and no proper password derivation function is used this may be your best angle of attack. Also depending on the chaining mode used there could be other venue of attack, we need to know more. |
97,964 | I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I *do* use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
**How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?** | 2013/08/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97964",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/43/"
] | I had the same problem, you need to go to System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars, select your Facebook account then untick the Contacts checkbox <http://take.ms/AD4o8V>
Then you can select any of the fields in your Contacts app and "reclaim" your desired main email address. | 1. Go to your iOS Facebook app. On the left side tap on General then tap email then scroll to the bottom , you will see **use your Facebook email**. Uncheck the box.
2. Go back to your iPhone contact list, scroll and find your name, click edit on the top left side. Scroll down until you find the notorious Facebook email. This time it will have a red button where you can delete it. After deleting the next email on line will be your default email.If you dont have another email on the list just type your preferred email and its done. |
97,964 | I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I *do* use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
**How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?** | 2013/08/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97964",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/43/"
] | I had the same problem, you need to go to System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars, select your Facebook account then untick the Contacts checkbox <http://take.ms/AD4o8V>
Then you can select any of the fields in your Contacts app and "reclaim" your desired main email address. | I went into Settings and then scrolled down to Facebook (it was in the 7th group of items listed together in a white box background) and in there under "Allow these app to use this account" I turned the little slidey-switch-thing to off. |
97,964 | I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I *do* use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
**How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?** | 2013/08/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97964",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/43/"
] | Found an answer for this that worked for me.
1. Go into your contact information and 'unlink' your facebook contact from your regular contact.
2. Go into settings > mail, contacts, cals and make sure the correct contact is selected (non-facebook contact)
3. Go into settings > safari > pws & autofill and again make sure the correct contact info is selected
4. Go back into your contact information and re-link your facebook and your regular contact info.
My worked fine after this and got my gmail. Man this was bugging me. | 1. Go to your iOS Facebook app. On the left side tap on General then tap email then scroll to the bottom , you will see **use your Facebook email**. Uncheck the box.
2. Go back to your iPhone contact list, scroll and find your name, click edit on the top left side. Scroll down until you find the notorious Facebook email. This time it will have a red button where you can delete it. After deleting the next email on line will be your default email.If you dont have another email on the list just type your preferred email and its done. |
97,964 | I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I *do* use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
**How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?** | 2013/08/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97964",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/43/"
] | Open up your contact card that is linked to your autofill
Change the label on your facebook email to 'other' or something else and change the label on the email that needs to be auto filled to 'email' or 'home' if 'email' is not available.
If that doesn't work unlink facebook and link facebook again. Facebook should now be at the bottom.
Autofill should pick the top email address. | I had the same problem, you need to go to System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars, select your Facebook account then untick the Contacts checkbox <http://take.ms/AD4o8V>
Then you can select any of the fields in your Contacts app and "reclaim" your desired main email address. |
97,964 | I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I *do* use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
**How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?** | 2013/08/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97964",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/43/"
] | Go to account settings in Facebook (web) -> general -> email
Untick "use your Facebook email"
You may need to then re sync your Facebook contacts.
Hey presto... It's sorted!! | I went into Settings and then scrolled down to Facebook (it was in the 7th group of items listed together in a white box background) and in there under "Allow these app to use this account" I turned the little slidey-switch-thing to off. |
97,964 | I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I *do* use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
**How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?** | 2013/08/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97964",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/43/"
] | Found an answer for this that worked for me.
1. Go into your contact information and 'unlink' your facebook contact from your regular contact.
2. Go into settings > mail, contacts, cals and make sure the correct contact is selected (non-facebook contact)
3. Go into settings > safari > pws & autofill and again make sure the correct contact info is selected
4. Go back into your contact information and re-link your facebook and your regular contact info.
My worked fine after this and got my gmail. Man this was bugging me. | I went into Settings and then scrolled down to Facebook (it was in the 7th group of items listed together in a white box background) and in there under "Allow these app to use this account" I turned the little slidey-switch-thing to off. |
97,964 | I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I *do* use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
**How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?** | 2013/08/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97964",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/43/"
] | First, I created a new contact in my contacts for myself with just my email, and the other specific info I want used for autofill in it, using a name that was not at all similar to the one currently being used (i.e. "hello kitty" or something that you will be able to easily pick out).
Then, I went into Settings → Safari → Passwords & Autofill → My Info. Then type the name you previously created into the search box to choose it as the info you want used for autofill.
Voila! This worked for me. | I went into Settings and then scrolled down to Facebook (it was in the 7th group of items listed together in a white box background) and in there under "Allow these app to use this account" I turned the little slidey-switch-thing to off. |
97,964 | I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I *do* use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
**How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?** | 2013/08/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97964",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/43/"
] | I had the same problem, you need to go to System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars, select your Facebook account then untick the Contacts checkbox <http://take.ms/AD4o8V>
Then you can select any of the fields in your Contacts app and "reclaim" your desired main email address. | Remove the facebook email address from your facebook account. then resync contacts. |
97,964 | I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I *do* use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
**How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?** | 2013/08/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97964",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/43/"
] | Go to account settings in Facebook (web) -> general -> email
Untick "use your Facebook email"
You may need to then re sync your Facebook contacts.
Hey presto... It's sorted!! | I had the same problem, you need to go to System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars, select your Facebook account then untick the Contacts checkbox <http://take.ms/AD4o8V>
Then you can select any of the fields in your Contacts app and "reclaim" your desired main email address. |
97,964 | I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @facebook.com email address in the email field.
I do not use Facebook for email. I never have, never will, and never want to. I *do* use Facebook for lots of other things, and thus, would prefer not to turn off iOS's Facebook integration, which seems to be the only workaround that googling has offered me.
**How can I force auto-complete to use my preferred email address, rather than the one associated with my Facebook account?** | 2013/08/05 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97964",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/43/"
] | Found an answer for this that worked for me.
1. Go into your contact information and 'unlink' your facebook contact from your regular contact.
2. Go into settings > mail, contacts, cals and make sure the correct contact is selected (non-facebook contact)
3. Go into settings > safari > pws & autofill and again make sure the correct contact info is selected
4. Go back into your contact information and re-link your facebook and your regular contact info.
My worked fine after this and got my gmail. Man this was bugging me. | Remove the facebook email address from your facebook account. then resync contacts. |
373 | I intend to publish a book in Kindle in both English and Japanese. Right now, I have the English version written in a Microsoft Word document. I would like to start translating the Japanese version soon (while the English version is still being worked on).
Is there any software or generally accepted method for managing this process? I'll be doing the translation myself with the help of an editor, but I'm afraid that I'll start losing track of things when changes are made to the English version (i.e., such changes won't be reflected in the Japanese version).
One option would be to wait until the English version is 100% complete, but I'm wondering if there are any effective methods for translating while the "original" is still in development. | 2013/12/25 | [
"https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/373",
"https://ebooks.stackexchange.com",
"https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/users/157/"
] | If you're using MS Word, use the change tracking features ("review" button on the ribbon in MSOffice 2007 => "Track changes").
This way, you know what changes you made on what pages since the last translation pass.
Once you apply all those changes to the translation, you accept them (which folds them into main document and leaves the change list empty for the next round).
Having said that, as someone who have actually done translations myself, I would recommend that you just avoid the headache and wait till almost 100% completion. | A similar approach to the one proposed by Anthon - to use Latex - is to try a much simpler, relatively basic way of editing the text where you also markup (similar to how we edit these questions and answers). One of the well used formats is called markdown. Here's a blog post by an author who switched to using markdown instead of Word or other document writing tools <http://ianhocking.com/2013/06/22/writing-a-novel-using-markdown/>
And you might find the service offered by leanpub helpful. They:
* Can import documents from Microsoft Word files <https://leanpub.com/help/howtofromworddirectly>
* Support mutiple languages within a single document <https://leanpub.com/help/manual#leanpub-auto-switching-back-and-forth-between-language-fonts> and
<http://blog.leanpub.com/2011/09/multilingual-support-in-leanpub.html>
* Synchronize files easily with a dropbox account if you have one
Because the files are textual in nature they're easy to manage and track using source control software such as Mercurial, Git, etc. Text based 'diff' software utilities make changes easier to track e.g. to compare updates between English and Japanese versions of your book.
What they don't seem to do is offer any way to easily allow you to edit two versions of a chapter (etc) in parallel. Nor do they provide an easy way to publish the 'same' book in different languages. Here's a suggestion:
Import the English version of the book and split the book's contents into separate text files, one per chapter. Create a second 'mirror' book on leanpub, this one set to Japanese. For each chapter in the English version, copy the text into the relevant folder for the Japanese version of the book. I'd also change the filename slightly e.g. to chapter1.jp.txt for the Japanese language version and you might even decide to do the same for the English language version e.g. chapter1.en.txt so they're unambiguous and easy to recognize.
As you update the text in the respective file for either language, use a 'diff' tool <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff> to easily see the change(s) you're making. Then apply similar changes to the equivalent file in the other language.
Note: you don't need to actually publish with leanpub, but you can. And you retain copyright of what you write (unless you choose to assign copyright, etc). |
68,748 | I have 3 seperate physical servers:
* Old Webserver (IIS6; Windows Server 2003)
* New Webserver (IIS7; Windows Server 2008)
* DB Server (SQL 2008; Windows Server 2008)
These are all non-domain standalone machines.
The sites on the new webserver connect to the db server for their data. I accomplished this by setting up a local user on each machine and the IIS 7 sites are in an app pool that has it's identity set to the created local user account. I am using windows authentication to connect to the db server.
Now, I am trying to migrate databases off of the old web server onto our db server and reconfigure the web sites to connect to the db server for their data.
So, I created the local user account on the old webserver to match the account on the db server, set up a new app pool with identity set to the local user account. The site is running, when the site goes to connect to the database server I get the error:
>
> Login failed. The login is from an
> untrusted domain and cannot be used
> with Windows authentication.
>
>
>
Please help. | 2009/09/25 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/68748",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/3302/"
] | You will not be able to use Pass-Through authentication in this fashion with SQL Server. That works with file shares and even authenticating people via web apps, but SQL Server itself treats the local machine like a DOMAIN and accounts with the same username/password are not the same across machines.
Your options are:
1. Use SQL Server Integrated Authentication
2. Move the machines to a domain and use a service account
Your best bet is to go with SQL Server Integrated Authentication. | Confirm that the application is configured to use the newly created app pool. |
42,802 | I need to implement a circuit for a researcher, which looks a little bit like this:
**Description of the circuit:**
There are two or more fully isolated biphasic current drivers, and N output pins. Any of the current drivers can connect to any of the outputs. On the diagram I have represented this part of the circuit as 4 plugs on flying leads which can connect to any of the 8 sockets. The connections will need to be changed dynamically and arbitrarily, perhaps up to 100Hz. The output voltage may need to be as high as ±80v, but the current will no more than 10mA.
**What's my problem?**
I have no problems implementing the fully isolated current drivers. What I'm not sure about is connecting the drivers to the outputs.
**What have I thought of so far?**
The only way I can imagine doing this is to use a 4x8 matrix of relays (or solid state relays). I could probably do this, but I'm aware that in the course of the project they're going to want to expand the number of outputs to 64, and the number of drivers to 4 or 8. This is going to mean a circuit containing 1024 relays!
Is there some alternative way I could approach this problem. I am open to any kind of suggestions. | 2012/10/04 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/42802",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/1024/"
] | Four HP E1466A/E1467A (4x64/8x32 relay matrix switch) will do the trick for 8 drivers and 64 outputs. | You could use a analog demultiplexer IC.
Something like this : <http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cd74hc4051-ep.pdf>
But when it comes to 64 outputs, you could use the knowledge of 'divide and
conquer' algorithm into practice.
You could do something like this with 8to1 analog demultiplexer, then you
only need 9 chips for 64 ports. or if you use 16to1 demultiplexer there only
you need 4 of them and another one 4to1 demultiplexer.
 |
102,066 | I'm trying to devise a way to **represent a preferred method of contact** from say; a list of phone numbers. There can also be e-mails as well or other means.
A user may have a cell phone, home phone etc.
*i.e.*
>
> (123) 456-789, (098) 765-4321
>
>
>
Would the best way to represent the preferred method by bolding the font?
>
> (123) 456-789, **(098) 765-4321**
>
>
>
Currently, that is what we are doing but I'm looking to see if there are any possible alternatives.
**UPDATE:** This is meant to be the visual representation *after* the user has already input the data. We are now showing it to someone else. | 2016/12/01 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/102066",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/87330/"
] | Just highlight the preferred number:
>
> ### (098) 765-4321
>
>
> (123) 456-789
>
>
>
You can do it in various ways depending on how much you want to emphasize on this number:
* locate it on 1st place in the list
* increase the font size
* use bold font
* give a background color to the number
* use colors for font and/or background
* make it flash (thats extreme don't do it) | As you are probably noticing the way you are doing it could lead to issues. What if the user forgets or doesn't know how to bold a selected number? What if they only bold part of it? What if they bold more than one? On top of that it is pretty un-intuitve, I've never seen this as a standard so other users would likely be caught off guard too.
So I suggest three alternatives:
**Split inputs:**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/knlAo.png)
By splitting the inputs and telling users exactly what you want them to put into the boxes it is less likely for them to get confused or mess it up.
**Dropdown selection:**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4tgF.png)
As the users enter numbers, split at the comma and dynamically fill a dropdown box. Then users can select which number they want to use as their preferred. You may have to toy with how/when to populate the dropdown to not have it be confusing and to deal with errors.
**Verbose:**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IQtaU.png)
This method takes up the most room but is the most foolproof. All they have to do is fill in their details and check which is preferred. If they leave it blank then the value is null. You could replace the labels with *Contact 1, Contact 2, etc.* if that fits your need better. Also this way you don't have to deal with parsing comma seperated values which always finds a way to go wrong.
EDIT: After OP's edit I see I read the problem wrong. I'll leave this here in case it helps anyone else while I think of a new answer. |
102,066 | I'm trying to devise a way to **represent a preferred method of contact** from say; a list of phone numbers. There can also be e-mails as well or other means.
A user may have a cell phone, home phone etc.
*i.e.*
>
> (123) 456-789, (098) 765-4321
>
>
>
Would the best way to represent the preferred method by bolding the font?
>
> (123) 456-789, **(098) 765-4321**
>
>
>
Currently, that is what we are doing but I'm looking to see if there are any possible alternatives.
**UPDATE:** This is meant to be the visual representation *after* the user has already input the data. We are now showing it to someone else. | 2016/12/01 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/102066",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/87330/"
] | I think there is no clear way to indicate this.
You can give emphasis on an element to differentiate it from others using the methods the other answers propose. But **understanding that the emphasis is made to demonstrate the preferred way is not clear** in my opinion.
The only proposal I have is either **put it explicitly ("preferred")** or **include only the preferred one in the examples**. | As you are probably noticing the way you are doing it could lead to issues. What if the user forgets or doesn't know how to bold a selected number? What if they only bold part of it? What if they bold more than one? On top of that it is pretty un-intuitve, I've never seen this as a standard so other users would likely be caught off guard too.
So I suggest three alternatives:
**Split inputs:**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/knlAo.png)
By splitting the inputs and telling users exactly what you want them to put into the boxes it is less likely for them to get confused or mess it up.
**Dropdown selection:**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4tgF.png)
As the users enter numbers, split at the comma and dynamically fill a dropdown box. Then users can select which number they want to use as their preferred. You may have to toy with how/when to populate the dropdown to not have it be confusing and to deal with errors.
**Verbose:**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IQtaU.png)
This method takes up the most room but is the most foolproof. All they have to do is fill in their details and check which is preferred. If they leave it blank then the value is null. You could replace the labels with *Contact 1, Contact 2, etc.* if that fits your need better. Also this way you don't have to deal with parsing comma seperated values which always finds a way to go wrong.
EDIT: After OP's edit I see I read the problem wrong. I'll leave this here in case it helps anyone else while I think of a new answer. |
102,066 | I'm trying to devise a way to **represent a preferred method of contact** from say; a list of phone numbers. There can also be e-mails as well or other means.
A user may have a cell phone, home phone etc.
*i.e.*
>
> (123) 456-789, (098) 765-4321
>
>
>
Would the best way to represent the preferred method by bolding the font?
>
> (123) 456-789, **(098) 765-4321**
>
>
>
Currently, that is what we are doing but I'm looking to see if there are any possible alternatives.
**UPDATE:** This is meant to be the visual representation *after* the user has already input the data. We are now showing it to someone else. | 2016/12/01 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/102066",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/87330/"
] | As you are probably noticing the way you are doing it could lead to issues. What if the user forgets or doesn't know how to bold a selected number? What if they only bold part of it? What if they bold more than one? On top of that it is pretty un-intuitve, I've never seen this as a standard so other users would likely be caught off guard too.
So I suggest three alternatives:
**Split inputs:**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/knlAo.png)
By splitting the inputs and telling users exactly what you want them to put into the boxes it is less likely for them to get confused or mess it up.
**Dropdown selection:**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4tgF.png)
As the users enter numbers, split at the comma and dynamically fill a dropdown box. Then users can select which number they want to use as their preferred. You may have to toy with how/when to populate the dropdown to not have it be confusing and to deal with errors.
**Verbose:**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IQtaU.png)
This method takes up the most room but is the most foolproof. All they have to do is fill in their details and check which is preferred. If they leave it blank then the value is null. You could replace the labels with *Contact 1, Contact 2, etc.* if that fits your need better. Also this way you don't have to deal with parsing comma seperated values which always finds a way to go wrong.
EDIT: After OP's edit I see I read the problem wrong. I'll leave this here in case it helps anyone else while I think of a new answer. | I'd love to know the context of the list. May be worth considering whether it's actually necessary to show alternative contact information if the user doesn't want others to use it.
Most of the usual visual stylings have been mentioned already, but have you considered putting the non-preferred contact methods in a collapsed list and only having the preferred method revealed? This may be effective depending on the number of alternative contact methods. |
102,066 | I'm trying to devise a way to **represent a preferred method of contact** from say; a list of phone numbers. There can also be e-mails as well or other means.
A user may have a cell phone, home phone etc.
*i.e.*
>
> (123) 456-789, (098) 765-4321
>
>
>
Would the best way to represent the preferred method by bolding the font?
>
> (123) 456-789, **(098) 765-4321**
>
>
>
Currently, that is what we are doing but I'm looking to see if there are any possible alternatives.
**UPDATE:** This is meant to be the visual representation *after* the user has already input the data. We are now showing it to someone else. | 2016/12/01 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/102066",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/87330/"
] | Just highlight the preferred number:
>
> ### (098) 765-4321
>
>
> (123) 456-789
>
>
>
You can do it in various ways depending on how much you want to emphasize on this number:
* locate it on 1st place in the list
* increase the font size
* use bold font
* give a background color to the number
* use colors for font and/or background
* make it flash (thats extreme don't do it) | We did this with a system a few years ago & tested it. Bold doesn't work - we put (preferred) after |
102,066 | I'm trying to devise a way to **represent a preferred method of contact** from say; a list of phone numbers. There can also be e-mails as well or other means.
A user may have a cell phone, home phone etc.
*i.e.*
>
> (123) 456-789, (098) 765-4321
>
>
>
Would the best way to represent the preferred method by bolding the font?
>
> (123) 456-789, **(098) 765-4321**
>
>
>
Currently, that is what we are doing but I'm looking to see if there are any possible alternatives.
**UPDATE:** This is meant to be the visual representation *after* the user has already input the data. We are now showing it to someone else. | 2016/12/01 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/102066",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/87330/"
] | Just highlight the preferred number:
>
> ### (098) 765-4321
>
>
> (123) 456-789
>
>
>
You can do it in various ways depending on how much you want to emphasize on this number:
* locate it on 1st place in the list
* increase the font size
* use bold font
* give a background color to the number
* use colors for font and/or background
* make it flash (thats extreme don't do it) | I'd love to know the context of the list. May be worth considering whether it's actually necessary to show alternative contact information if the user doesn't want others to use it.
Most of the usual visual stylings have been mentioned already, but have you considered putting the non-preferred contact methods in a collapsed list and only having the preferred method revealed? This may be effective depending on the number of alternative contact methods. |
102,066 | I'm trying to devise a way to **represent a preferred method of contact** from say; a list of phone numbers. There can also be e-mails as well or other means.
A user may have a cell phone, home phone etc.
*i.e.*
>
> (123) 456-789, (098) 765-4321
>
>
>
Would the best way to represent the preferred method by bolding the font?
>
> (123) 456-789, **(098) 765-4321**
>
>
>
Currently, that is what we are doing but I'm looking to see if there are any possible alternatives.
**UPDATE:** This is meant to be the visual representation *after* the user has already input the data. We are now showing it to someone else. | 2016/12/01 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/102066",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/87330/"
] | I think there is no clear way to indicate this.
You can give emphasis on an element to differentiate it from others using the methods the other answers propose. But **understanding that the emphasis is made to demonstrate the preferred way is not clear** in my opinion.
The only proposal I have is either **put it explicitly ("preferred")** or **include only the preferred one in the examples**. | We did this with a system a few years ago & tested it. Bold doesn't work - we put (preferred) after |
102,066 | I'm trying to devise a way to **represent a preferred method of contact** from say; a list of phone numbers. There can also be e-mails as well or other means.
A user may have a cell phone, home phone etc.
*i.e.*
>
> (123) 456-789, (098) 765-4321
>
>
>
Would the best way to represent the preferred method by bolding the font?
>
> (123) 456-789, **(098) 765-4321**
>
>
>
Currently, that is what we are doing but I'm looking to see if there are any possible alternatives.
**UPDATE:** This is meant to be the visual representation *after* the user has already input the data. We are now showing it to someone else. | 2016/12/01 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/102066",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/87330/"
] | I think there is no clear way to indicate this.
You can give emphasis on an element to differentiate it from others using the methods the other answers propose. But **understanding that the emphasis is made to demonstrate the preferred way is not clear** in my opinion.
The only proposal I have is either **put it explicitly ("preferred")** or **include only the preferred one in the examples**. | I'd love to know the context of the list. May be worth considering whether it's actually necessary to show alternative contact information if the user doesn't want others to use it.
Most of the usual visual stylings have been mentioned already, but have you considered putting the non-preferred contact methods in a collapsed list and only having the preferred method revealed? This may be effective depending on the number of alternative contact methods. |
102,066 | I'm trying to devise a way to **represent a preferred method of contact** from say; a list of phone numbers. There can also be e-mails as well or other means.
A user may have a cell phone, home phone etc.
*i.e.*
>
> (123) 456-789, (098) 765-4321
>
>
>
Would the best way to represent the preferred method by bolding the font?
>
> (123) 456-789, **(098) 765-4321**
>
>
>
Currently, that is what we are doing but I'm looking to see if there are any possible alternatives.
**UPDATE:** This is meant to be the visual representation *after* the user has already input the data. We are now showing it to someone else. | 2016/12/01 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/102066",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/87330/"
] | We did this with a system a few years ago & tested it. Bold doesn't work - we put (preferred) after | I'd love to know the context of the list. May be worth considering whether it's actually necessary to show alternative contact information if the user doesn't want others to use it.
Most of the usual visual stylings have been mentioned already, but have you considered putting the non-preferred contact methods in a collapsed list and only having the preferred method revealed? This may be effective depending on the number of alternative contact methods. |
26,214 | The name of the popular daily is **The New York Times.** I'm talking about ***its*** reporter. May I omit the definite article from this sentence?
>
> I'm talking about Paul, *the* **The New York Times** reporter.
>
>
>
The first *the* is grammatically introduced as a modifier of the word *reporter* whereas the capital **The** is the part of the daily's name.
Is this right then?
>
> I'm talking about Paul, *the* New York Times reporter.
>
>
>
I **must** include *the (and not The)* in my sentence. | 2014/06/12 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/26214",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/3187/"
] | Yes, this "the" is regularly omitted, and the capital "The" in the second sentence would be wrong (because "the" is modifying "reporter," not "New York Times"). | I'm talking about Paul, the New York Times reporter. is incorrect because "The New York Times" is itself the name of newspaper. So writing "I'm talking about Paul, The New York Times reporter" will be good enough for you :) |
2,618,592 | We keep most of our logs in a dedicated database table. We have written custom appenders for log4j and log4net, have a fixed log schema with lots of handy columns, and are quite happy with it.
Is that the "best practice" (for sites smaller in scale than Facebook, where a simple DB table just won't scale)? | 2010/04/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2618592",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11236/"
] | Assuming your running a Linux-based webserver, write your logs to a simple log file, and have a cron job bzip the file daily. You can bzcat the file to get at it's contents. The same cron script could remove files older than a given threshold, or you could remove old logs manually. This is the pretty accepted scheme that most daemons use, directly or indirectly via syslog.
Just remember to write the log file outside of the publicly accessible web root, or people can guess your log file names and download potentially revealing data. | Database logs are not compressed or moved to different boxes easily. On the other hand, searching logs on a database probably has an advantage.
Are you worried about your current solution? If you do not have problems with it, I wouldn't worry. |
2,618,592 | We keep most of our logs in a dedicated database table. We have written custom appenders for log4j and log4net, have a fixed log schema with lots of handy columns, and are quite happy with it.
Is that the "best practice" (for sites smaller in scale than Facebook, where a simple DB table just won't scale)? | 2010/04/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2618592",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11236/"
] | Assuming your running a Linux-based webserver, write your logs to a simple log file, and have a cron job bzip the file daily. You can bzcat the file to get at it's contents. The same cron script could remove files older than a given threshold, or you could remove old logs manually. This is the pretty accepted scheme that most daemons use, directly or indirectly via syslog.
Just remember to write the log file outside of the publicly accessible web root, or people can guess your log file names and download potentially revealing data. | Why are you using a database? Do you often find yourself making complex queries on it? Or can the queries you're using be translated to simple `grep` searches?
That's the main question you should ask yourself when choosing between a simple textual log file and DB table. |
1,308,097 | I'm working on a legacy vb.net winform app, and would like to have have up and down arrows within my button controls.
I would think i need to invoke some sort of escape character sequence to have get the equivalent of &uparr and &dnarr ? | 2009/08/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1308097",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/85942/"
] | Open up "Character Map" (from Programs->Accessories->System Tools on WinXP). You can find all sorts of interesting characters there.
Sometimes, you'll want to use weird fonts like WebDings or WingDings, but be careful to only use fonts that will be on the users's machines.) | You can press ALT and type the unicode value for the character you want. Consult this [table](http://unicode.org/charts/symbols.html#CombiningDiacriticalMarks), specifically the "arrows" section, and convert from HEX to DEC. |
151,043 | I'm currently designing an mesothermic reptilian sapiens for my world, that have evolved from a deinonychus-type of dinosaur and developed flexible hands with opposable thumbs, but still possessing arms that are shorter and weaker than human arms.
I imagine them to be potentially very quick and agile in battle. Able to jump into attack with spears, sickle claws and even tail and jaw. They are also intelligent and creative, and possesses certain magical capacities as well.
But being mesothermic, I don't expect them to have as much endurance as humans. Don't think they would be at advantage pushing against shield walls for hours. And due to their shorter arms I don't think they are able to be that efficient with bows, javelins or slings.
They have also failed to domesticate any animal that can be used in battle, though they may have access to slave soldiers.
I can easily visualize such reptile warriors defeating human warriors in warfare on a tribal level. But when it comes to organized armies, imagine for example facing an army of phalanxes, heavy cavalry and archers.
Could my reptiles then stand a chance in open battle? How? They are crafty enough to employ whatever solutions that exist in an antique context. | 2019/07/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151043",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/66521/"
] | I see 4 issues
**Packing problem (why tails are a problem in close order combat)**
Human formations can be very dense. In a phalanx, troops can be placed less than a foot behind the line in front of them. They can still effectively use their spears to strike. They can support each other and bring a large number of weapons to bear.
Raptors have these long tails that stick out behind them several feet, [in all raptors were 11 ft long](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus). If a raptor turns its body the tail swings side to side further increasing the amount of space to the side that needs to be set aside for it. Basically a raptor takes up as much space as 2 horses but is far lighter and weaker. This says the closest raptors could fight and still be effective is in a tight line followed by another line more than a yard behind.
The lack of density reduces the power of a charge (mass matters) A [1,540 horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse) with 200 -300 lbs of armored knight hits a spear wall much harder than a [200 lbs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus) raptor.
Also a charge from a 9-11ft 1/2 ton tall knight + horse is much more intimidating than a charge from a 3ft raptor that is only 200lbs
**Reach**
In a phalanx with [7 - 15 foot spears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx) the first 3-5 rows would be able to engage the raptor in front of them. Only the front line of raptors would be able to hit the humans, and only after fighting through being stabbed-by spears for 7 - 15 feet.
**Shields and armor**
Arms let you use shields which are a great defense, they are easier to make than armor and can cover more of the body, raptors would have to rely on armor only.
These raptors have a lot more surface area then humans (11 feet long x3 ft high vs 6ft high x8 inches deep) which means armoring them well will be very heavy and likely impractical.
**Range**
It seems like the raptors would have trouble building effective ranged weapons. Combined with their lack of armor and large targets would make them vulnerable to range attack. Which means they have to attack aggressively.
**Conclusions**
Raptors would be effective as light cavalry [their walking pace is estimated to be 6mph x2 a humans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus), but there low reach, low mass, low armor and inability to form tight formations would reduce their effectiveness as shock/heavy cavalry or any kind of infantry. | On an open field they'd likely get beaten no matter what. Their bones aren't as dense as ours. Best chance of success attacking even a small human military unit would be in forest or alpine terrain, using hit-and-run tactics to either shield themselves or knock humans to their deaths |
151,043 | I'm currently designing an mesothermic reptilian sapiens for my world, that have evolved from a deinonychus-type of dinosaur and developed flexible hands with opposable thumbs, but still possessing arms that are shorter and weaker than human arms.
I imagine them to be potentially very quick and agile in battle. Able to jump into attack with spears, sickle claws and even tail and jaw. They are also intelligent and creative, and possesses certain magical capacities as well.
But being mesothermic, I don't expect them to have as much endurance as humans. Don't think they would be at advantage pushing against shield walls for hours. And due to their shorter arms I don't think they are able to be that efficient with bows, javelins or slings.
They have also failed to domesticate any animal that can be used in battle, though they may have access to slave soldiers.
I can easily visualize such reptile warriors defeating human warriors in warfare on a tribal level. But when it comes to organized armies, imagine for example facing an army of phalanxes, heavy cavalry and archers.
Could my reptiles then stand a chance in open battle? How? They are crafty enough to employ whatever solutions that exist in an antique context. | 2019/07/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151043",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/66521/"
] | As has been stated already, these creatures weapons and strategies would build upon their physiology.
Those tails could power slings, while accuracy is hard to judge since its a matter of eye-tail coordination, in mass they could be quite dangerous.
Their basic shape would engender the use of the atlatl-like tools, held in their jaws. They could then charge the enemy and at the proper moment, curling their necks and torsos and hips forward, throw heavy darts and javelins.
They could employ hand-held crossbows that they cock with their powerful legs. And, since they, as has been noted, essentially cavalry they could fight as dragoons -- charging the enemy discharging crossbows and running away.
I would think that their armored troopers would have heavily armored undersides so they could run at enemy lines and leap into their midst where their powerful hind legs would give them a great advantage in hand-to-claw combat.
Lastly, they might attach wicked scythe-like weapons to the tips of their tails and yield them like cavalry sabers when facing lightly armored troops like archers and muleskinners handling the supply train.
And, these guys would probably eat what they kill so their logistical requirements would greatly favor them over humans. | I see 4 issues
**Packing problem (why tails are a problem in close order combat)**
Human formations can be very dense. In a phalanx, troops can be placed less than a foot behind the line in front of them. They can still effectively use their spears to strike. They can support each other and bring a large number of weapons to bear.
Raptors have these long tails that stick out behind them several feet, [in all raptors were 11 ft long](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus). If a raptor turns its body the tail swings side to side further increasing the amount of space to the side that needs to be set aside for it. Basically a raptor takes up as much space as 2 horses but is far lighter and weaker. This says the closest raptors could fight and still be effective is in a tight line followed by another line more than a yard behind.
The lack of density reduces the power of a charge (mass matters) A [1,540 horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse) with 200 -300 lbs of armored knight hits a spear wall much harder than a [200 lbs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus) raptor.
Also a charge from a 9-11ft 1/2 ton tall knight + horse is much more intimidating than a charge from a 3ft raptor that is only 200lbs
**Reach**
In a phalanx with [7 - 15 foot spears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx) the first 3-5 rows would be able to engage the raptor in front of them. Only the front line of raptors would be able to hit the humans, and only after fighting through being stabbed-by spears for 7 - 15 feet.
**Shields and armor**
Arms let you use shields which are a great defense, they are easier to make than armor and can cover more of the body, raptors would have to rely on armor only.
These raptors have a lot more surface area then humans (11 feet long x3 ft high vs 6ft high x8 inches deep) which means armoring them well will be very heavy and likely impractical.
**Range**
It seems like the raptors would have trouble building effective ranged weapons. Combined with their lack of armor and large targets would make them vulnerable to range attack. Which means they have to attack aggressively.
**Conclusions**
Raptors would be effective as light cavalry [their walking pace is estimated to be 6mph x2 a humans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus), but there low reach, low mass, low armor and inability to form tight formations would reduce their effectiveness as shock/heavy cavalry or any kind of infantry. |
151,043 | I'm currently designing an mesothermic reptilian sapiens for my world, that have evolved from a deinonychus-type of dinosaur and developed flexible hands with opposable thumbs, but still possessing arms that are shorter and weaker than human arms.
I imagine them to be potentially very quick and agile in battle. Able to jump into attack with spears, sickle claws and even tail and jaw. They are also intelligent and creative, and possesses certain magical capacities as well.
But being mesothermic, I don't expect them to have as much endurance as humans. Don't think they would be at advantage pushing against shield walls for hours. And due to their shorter arms I don't think they are able to be that efficient with bows, javelins or slings.
They have also failed to domesticate any animal that can be used in battle, though they may have access to slave soldiers.
I can easily visualize such reptile warriors defeating human warriors in warfare on a tribal level. But when it comes to organized armies, imagine for example facing an army of phalanxes, heavy cavalry and archers.
Could my reptiles then stand a chance in open battle? How? They are crafty enough to employ whatever solutions that exist in an antique context. | 2019/07/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151043",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/66521/"
] | As has been stated already, these creatures weapons and strategies would build upon their physiology.
Those tails could power slings, while accuracy is hard to judge since its a matter of eye-tail coordination, in mass they could be quite dangerous.
Their basic shape would engender the use of the atlatl-like tools, held in their jaws. They could then charge the enemy and at the proper moment, curling their necks and torsos and hips forward, throw heavy darts and javelins.
They could employ hand-held crossbows that they cock with their powerful legs. And, since they, as has been noted, essentially cavalry they could fight as dragoons -- charging the enemy discharging crossbows and running away.
I would think that their armored troopers would have heavily armored undersides so they could run at enemy lines and leap into their midst where their powerful hind legs would give them a great advantage in hand-to-claw combat.
Lastly, they might attach wicked scythe-like weapons to the tips of their tails and yield them like cavalry sabers when facing lightly armored troops like archers and muleskinners handling the supply train.
And, these guys would probably eat what they kill so their logistical requirements would greatly favor them over humans. | All the fossil evidence we have indicates that dinosaurs were the precursor species to modern birds, which are most certainly homeothermic. So, we can presume that this mesothermy is such that the dinos need not bask in the sun to maintain body temperature.
Mesothermy has nothing to do with endurance. In fact, the relationship may actually be inverted: the dinos with their lower basal metabolisms for a given body mass than placental mammals (much as marsupial mammals have) would use less energy for the basic processes of life, and activity would generate body heat and raised body temperatures which they would be better able to tolerate despite potentially worse thermoregulatory capability than humans.
As a side note, there is practically no creature on earth that is as good at getting rid of excess body heat as humans... but getting rid of excess heat is not the only way to cope with body heat, the other way is to simply *tolerate* it, and continue to function *despite* an increased body temperature. The nature of thermodynamics is that the higher the difference in temperature between two environments, the faster heat will be radiated away from the hotter object. So, the dinos body temperatures may vary by several degrees during exertion, but unlike mammals, they can simply put up with it.
A dromaeosaur descendant would have a largely horizontal spine, much like birds which also are thought to have descended from dromaeosaurs, though the possibility certainly exists for them to rotate their hips so that they are standing more upright.
The dromaeosaur body plan includes legs with muscular thighs, slender calves, and a digitigrade posture with extended foot bones, making them a cursorial species. Humans are the fastest of the apes in bipedal locomotion (though apes which move quadrupedally may be faster), and can run at up to 37 kph or so. However, humans' relatively short foot and bulky calf muscles do not allow as efficient or as rapid running as the dromaeosaur body plan. While ostriches can run at up to 80 kph, I would expect that a dromaeosaur such as the OP's dinos would be able to run at around 60 kph or so, and could conceivably leap two or more metres upwards and perhaps up to ten metres laterally.
While humans are effectively unarmoured and have no claws or fangs, medieval humans such as the OP mentions are able to supplement their meagre natural weapons and armor with manufactured weapons and armor. On the other hand, the dinos, being carnivorous predatory beings, would have tough skin overlaid by feathers, as well as long claws on the fingers and a particularly large claw on each foot. Additionally, the OP has said that dinos have a humanlike ability to make their own technological innovations. This could include their own armour and enhanced weapons such as razor sharp claw sheaths.
Given a dino's long, narrow body plan and well-made metal armour, I would expect that arrows and other thrusting weapons would be more likely to deflect from their armour than is the case with a tall, broad human figure. This, combined with dinos' great mobility, would render the mainstay of late medieval military armament - pike and shot - far less effective than it is against humans. Dinos could reasonably expect arrows or spears to deflect from their armour, and combined with their mobility, they could either throw all but the most disciplined phalanx into disarray simply by flanking, and if the phalanx sacrificed its own mobility and formed a circle, the dinos could still duck under or leap over the spears and once inside the range of the spears, their enhanced natural weapons would quickly break the phalanx.
A unit of sword wielding humans would stand a better chance against the dinos than pike and shot, as swords are inherently more maneuverable weapons.
Human cavalry would have speed approaching that of the dinos, but lower maneuverability.
The main advantage that the dinos have is that they have intelligence comparable to that of humans. Combined with their superior natural weapons, they could maneuver humans into situations where the dinos advantages could be exploited to the fullest. |
151,043 | I'm currently designing an mesothermic reptilian sapiens for my world, that have evolved from a deinonychus-type of dinosaur and developed flexible hands with opposable thumbs, but still possessing arms that are shorter and weaker than human arms.
I imagine them to be potentially very quick and agile in battle. Able to jump into attack with spears, sickle claws and even tail and jaw. They are also intelligent and creative, and possesses certain magical capacities as well.
But being mesothermic, I don't expect them to have as much endurance as humans. Don't think they would be at advantage pushing against shield walls for hours. And due to their shorter arms I don't think they are able to be that efficient with bows, javelins or slings.
They have also failed to domesticate any animal that can be used in battle, though they may have access to slave soldiers.
I can easily visualize such reptile warriors defeating human warriors in warfare on a tribal level. But when it comes to organized armies, imagine for example facing an army of phalanxes, heavy cavalry and archers.
Could my reptiles then stand a chance in open battle? How? They are crafty enough to employ whatever solutions that exist in an antique context. | 2019/07/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151043",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/66521/"
] | All the fossil evidence we have indicates that dinosaurs were the precursor species to modern birds, which are most certainly homeothermic. So, we can presume that this mesothermy is such that the dinos need not bask in the sun to maintain body temperature.
Mesothermy has nothing to do with endurance. In fact, the relationship may actually be inverted: the dinos with their lower basal metabolisms for a given body mass than placental mammals (much as marsupial mammals have) would use less energy for the basic processes of life, and activity would generate body heat and raised body temperatures which they would be better able to tolerate despite potentially worse thermoregulatory capability than humans.
As a side note, there is practically no creature on earth that is as good at getting rid of excess body heat as humans... but getting rid of excess heat is not the only way to cope with body heat, the other way is to simply *tolerate* it, and continue to function *despite* an increased body temperature. The nature of thermodynamics is that the higher the difference in temperature between two environments, the faster heat will be radiated away from the hotter object. So, the dinos body temperatures may vary by several degrees during exertion, but unlike mammals, they can simply put up with it.
A dromaeosaur descendant would have a largely horizontal spine, much like birds which also are thought to have descended from dromaeosaurs, though the possibility certainly exists for them to rotate their hips so that they are standing more upright.
The dromaeosaur body plan includes legs with muscular thighs, slender calves, and a digitigrade posture with extended foot bones, making them a cursorial species. Humans are the fastest of the apes in bipedal locomotion (though apes which move quadrupedally may be faster), and can run at up to 37 kph or so. However, humans' relatively short foot and bulky calf muscles do not allow as efficient or as rapid running as the dromaeosaur body plan. While ostriches can run at up to 80 kph, I would expect that a dromaeosaur such as the OP's dinos would be able to run at around 60 kph or so, and could conceivably leap two or more metres upwards and perhaps up to ten metres laterally.
While humans are effectively unarmoured and have no claws or fangs, medieval humans such as the OP mentions are able to supplement their meagre natural weapons and armor with manufactured weapons and armor. On the other hand, the dinos, being carnivorous predatory beings, would have tough skin overlaid by feathers, as well as long claws on the fingers and a particularly large claw on each foot. Additionally, the OP has said that dinos have a humanlike ability to make their own technological innovations. This could include their own armour and enhanced weapons such as razor sharp claw sheaths.
Given a dino's long, narrow body plan and well-made metal armour, I would expect that arrows and other thrusting weapons would be more likely to deflect from their armour than is the case with a tall, broad human figure. This, combined with dinos' great mobility, would render the mainstay of late medieval military armament - pike and shot - far less effective than it is against humans. Dinos could reasonably expect arrows or spears to deflect from their armour, and combined with their mobility, they could either throw all but the most disciplined phalanx into disarray simply by flanking, and if the phalanx sacrificed its own mobility and formed a circle, the dinos could still duck under or leap over the spears and once inside the range of the spears, their enhanced natural weapons would quickly break the phalanx.
A unit of sword wielding humans would stand a better chance against the dinos than pike and shot, as swords are inherently more maneuverable weapons.
Human cavalry would have speed approaching that of the dinos, but lower maneuverability.
The main advantage that the dinos have is that they have intelligence comparable to that of humans. Combined with their superior natural weapons, they could maneuver humans into situations where the dinos advantages could be exploited to the fullest. | I see 4 issues
**Packing problem (why tails are a problem in close order combat)**
Human formations can be very dense. In a phalanx, troops can be placed less than a foot behind the line in front of them. They can still effectively use their spears to strike. They can support each other and bring a large number of weapons to bear.
Raptors have these long tails that stick out behind them several feet, [in all raptors were 11 ft long](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus). If a raptor turns its body the tail swings side to side further increasing the amount of space to the side that needs to be set aside for it. Basically a raptor takes up as much space as 2 horses but is far lighter and weaker. This says the closest raptors could fight and still be effective is in a tight line followed by another line more than a yard behind.
The lack of density reduces the power of a charge (mass matters) A [1,540 horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse) with 200 -300 lbs of armored knight hits a spear wall much harder than a [200 lbs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus) raptor.
Also a charge from a 9-11ft 1/2 ton tall knight + horse is much more intimidating than a charge from a 3ft raptor that is only 200lbs
**Reach**
In a phalanx with [7 - 15 foot spears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx) the first 3-5 rows would be able to engage the raptor in front of them. Only the front line of raptors would be able to hit the humans, and only after fighting through being stabbed-by spears for 7 - 15 feet.
**Shields and armor**
Arms let you use shields which are a great defense, they are easier to make than armor and can cover more of the body, raptors would have to rely on armor only.
These raptors have a lot more surface area then humans (11 feet long x3 ft high vs 6ft high x8 inches deep) which means armoring them well will be very heavy and likely impractical.
**Range**
It seems like the raptors would have trouble building effective ranged weapons. Combined with their lack of armor and large targets would make them vulnerable to range attack. Which means they have to attack aggressively.
**Conclusions**
Raptors would be effective as light cavalry [their walking pace is estimated to be 6mph x2 a humans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus), but there low reach, low mass, low armor and inability to form tight formations would reduce their effectiveness as shock/heavy cavalry or any kind of infantry. |
151,043 | I'm currently designing an mesothermic reptilian sapiens for my world, that have evolved from a deinonychus-type of dinosaur and developed flexible hands with opposable thumbs, but still possessing arms that are shorter and weaker than human arms.
I imagine them to be potentially very quick and agile in battle. Able to jump into attack with spears, sickle claws and even tail and jaw. They are also intelligent and creative, and possesses certain magical capacities as well.
But being mesothermic, I don't expect them to have as much endurance as humans. Don't think they would be at advantage pushing against shield walls for hours. And due to their shorter arms I don't think they are able to be that efficient with bows, javelins or slings.
They have also failed to domesticate any animal that can be used in battle, though they may have access to slave soldiers.
I can easily visualize such reptile warriors defeating human warriors in warfare on a tribal level. But when it comes to organized armies, imagine for example facing an army of phalanxes, heavy cavalry and archers.
Could my reptiles then stand a chance in open battle? How? They are crafty enough to employ whatever solutions that exist in an antique context. | 2019/07/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151043",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/66521/"
] | All the fossil evidence we have indicates that dinosaurs were the precursor species to modern birds, which are most certainly homeothermic. So, we can presume that this mesothermy is such that the dinos need not bask in the sun to maintain body temperature.
Mesothermy has nothing to do with endurance. In fact, the relationship may actually be inverted: the dinos with their lower basal metabolisms for a given body mass than placental mammals (much as marsupial mammals have) would use less energy for the basic processes of life, and activity would generate body heat and raised body temperatures which they would be better able to tolerate despite potentially worse thermoregulatory capability than humans.
As a side note, there is practically no creature on earth that is as good at getting rid of excess body heat as humans... but getting rid of excess heat is not the only way to cope with body heat, the other way is to simply *tolerate* it, and continue to function *despite* an increased body temperature. The nature of thermodynamics is that the higher the difference in temperature between two environments, the faster heat will be radiated away from the hotter object. So, the dinos body temperatures may vary by several degrees during exertion, but unlike mammals, they can simply put up with it.
A dromaeosaur descendant would have a largely horizontal spine, much like birds which also are thought to have descended from dromaeosaurs, though the possibility certainly exists for them to rotate their hips so that they are standing more upright.
The dromaeosaur body plan includes legs with muscular thighs, slender calves, and a digitigrade posture with extended foot bones, making them a cursorial species. Humans are the fastest of the apes in bipedal locomotion (though apes which move quadrupedally may be faster), and can run at up to 37 kph or so. However, humans' relatively short foot and bulky calf muscles do not allow as efficient or as rapid running as the dromaeosaur body plan. While ostriches can run at up to 80 kph, I would expect that a dromaeosaur such as the OP's dinos would be able to run at around 60 kph or so, and could conceivably leap two or more metres upwards and perhaps up to ten metres laterally.
While humans are effectively unarmoured and have no claws or fangs, medieval humans such as the OP mentions are able to supplement their meagre natural weapons and armor with manufactured weapons and armor. On the other hand, the dinos, being carnivorous predatory beings, would have tough skin overlaid by feathers, as well as long claws on the fingers and a particularly large claw on each foot. Additionally, the OP has said that dinos have a humanlike ability to make their own technological innovations. This could include their own armour and enhanced weapons such as razor sharp claw sheaths.
Given a dino's long, narrow body plan and well-made metal armour, I would expect that arrows and other thrusting weapons would be more likely to deflect from their armour than is the case with a tall, broad human figure. This, combined with dinos' great mobility, would render the mainstay of late medieval military armament - pike and shot - far less effective than it is against humans. Dinos could reasonably expect arrows or spears to deflect from their armour, and combined with their mobility, they could either throw all but the most disciplined phalanx into disarray simply by flanking, and if the phalanx sacrificed its own mobility and formed a circle, the dinos could still duck under or leap over the spears and once inside the range of the spears, their enhanced natural weapons would quickly break the phalanx.
A unit of sword wielding humans would stand a better chance against the dinos than pike and shot, as swords are inherently more maneuverable weapons.
Human cavalry would have speed approaching that of the dinos, but lower maneuverability.
The main advantage that the dinos have is that they have intelligence comparable to that of humans. Combined with their superior natural weapons, they could maneuver humans into situations where the dinos advantages could be exploited to the fullest. | Easily, by working together more effectively. An army of 100,000 D-men will slaughter 5,000 humans. By having superior organisation and, crucially, not always fighting among themselves while sowing discord among their human foes, the D-men can overcome any minor physiological disadvantage they might have.
Human are, as [Dunbar suggests](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number) best working in groups of 150. If D-men have a clan, tribe or even species-wide loyalty so that they can easily work together in much larger units, then the humans are likely to be completely outmatched. Humanity has always consisted of badly-coordinated warring groups. Imaginean empire consisting of an entire race of beings, all working together for the common cause. They could field armies much larger than their divided human neighbours.
Nobody says the Romans won because they were bigger and stronger or physically superior to their foes, just better organised.
Secondly, the moral is to the physical as three to one, as [Boney once quipped](https://shannonselin.com/2014/08/10-napoleon-bonaparte-quotes-context/)> Being who know no fear, and whose ferocity is greater than human, who cannot be broken by heavy casualties or impossible odds, will be practically unbeatable whatever their physical limitations. They may simply terrify the hell out of any humans who try to oppose them, phalanxes scattering as their approach.
Thirdly, if they are built differently to use, there will be places they work better. It's also a matter or choosing your terrain. Are D-men better adapted to marshes, or deep forest, or rocky slopes than humans? if so, that's where you fight your battles. Are they more effective in the dark with their own peculiar senses? How amphibious are they?
Fourthly, amateurs study strategy, professionals study logistics. What key advantages do D-men have when it comes to keeping an army supplied in the field? How easily can they live off the land?
Finally: breeding and maturation. If they lay 100 eggs at a time like turtles, and come to maturity in a few years, then they can absorb massive casualties and keep coming back stronger, while their human opponents get rapidly worn down.
In summary: look beyond simple physiology. That's not what soldiering is about. |
151,043 | I'm currently designing an mesothermic reptilian sapiens for my world, that have evolved from a deinonychus-type of dinosaur and developed flexible hands with opposable thumbs, but still possessing arms that are shorter and weaker than human arms.
I imagine them to be potentially very quick and agile in battle. Able to jump into attack with spears, sickle claws and even tail and jaw. They are also intelligent and creative, and possesses certain magical capacities as well.
But being mesothermic, I don't expect them to have as much endurance as humans. Don't think they would be at advantage pushing against shield walls for hours. And due to their shorter arms I don't think they are able to be that efficient with bows, javelins or slings.
They have also failed to domesticate any animal that can be used in battle, though they may have access to slave soldiers.
I can easily visualize such reptile warriors defeating human warriors in warfare on a tribal level. But when it comes to organized armies, imagine for example facing an army of phalanxes, heavy cavalry and archers.
Could my reptiles then stand a chance in open battle? How? They are crafty enough to employ whatever solutions that exist in an antique context. | 2019/07/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151043",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/66521/"
] | All the fossil evidence we have indicates that dinosaurs were the precursor species to modern birds, which are most certainly homeothermic. So, we can presume that this mesothermy is such that the dinos need not bask in the sun to maintain body temperature.
Mesothermy has nothing to do with endurance. In fact, the relationship may actually be inverted: the dinos with their lower basal metabolisms for a given body mass than placental mammals (much as marsupial mammals have) would use less energy for the basic processes of life, and activity would generate body heat and raised body temperatures which they would be better able to tolerate despite potentially worse thermoregulatory capability than humans.
As a side note, there is practically no creature on earth that is as good at getting rid of excess body heat as humans... but getting rid of excess heat is not the only way to cope with body heat, the other way is to simply *tolerate* it, and continue to function *despite* an increased body temperature. The nature of thermodynamics is that the higher the difference in temperature between two environments, the faster heat will be radiated away from the hotter object. So, the dinos body temperatures may vary by several degrees during exertion, but unlike mammals, they can simply put up with it.
A dromaeosaur descendant would have a largely horizontal spine, much like birds which also are thought to have descended from dromaeosaurs, though the possibility certainly exists for them to rotate their hips so that they are standing more upright.
The dromaeosaur body plan includes legs with muscular thighs, slender calves, and a digitigrade posture with extended foot bones, making them a cursorial species. Humans are the fastest of the apes in bipedal locomotion (though apes which move quadrupedally may be faster), and can run at up to 37 kph or so. However, humans' relatively short foot and bulky calf muscles do not allow as efficient or as rapid running as the dromaeosaur body plan. While ostriches can run at up to 80 kph, I would expect that a dromaeosaur such as the OP's dinos would be able to run at around 60 kph or so, and could conceivably leap two or more metres upwards and perhaps up to ten metres laterally.
While humans are effectively unarmoured and have no claws or fangs, medieval humans such as the OP mentions are able to supplement their meagre natural weapons and armor with manufactured weapons and armor. On the other hand, the dinos, being carnivorous predatory beings, would have tough skin overlaid by feathers, as well as long claws on the fingers and a particularly large claw on each foot. Additionally, the OP has said that dinos have a humanlike ability to make their own technological innovations. This could include their own armour and enhanced weapons such as razor sharp claw sheaths.
Given a dino's long, narrow body plan and well-made metal armour, I would expect that arrows and other thrusting weapons would be more likely to deflect from their armour than is the case with a tall, broad human figure. This, combined with dinos' great mobility, would render the mainstay of late medieval military armament - pike and shot - far less effective than it is against humans. Dinos could reasonably expect arrows or spears to deflect from their armour, and combined with their mobility, they could either throw all but the most disciplined phalanx into disarray simply by flanking, and if the phalanx sacrificed its own mobility and formed a circle, the dinos could still duck under or leap over the spears and once inside the range of the spears, their enhanced natural weapons would quickly break the phalanx.
A unit of sword wielding humans would stand a better chance against the dinos than pike and shot, as swords are inherently more maneuverable weapons.
Human cavalry would have speed approaching that of the dinos, but lower maneuverability.
The main advantage that the dinos have is that they have intelligence comparable to that of humans. Combined with their superior natural weapons, they could maneuver humans into situations where the dinos advantages could be exploited to the fullest. | The effectiveness of our dinos directly correlates with a tactical acumen. But before we look at the best tactics we should look at how to arm them.
Because of their physiological make-up, they are pretty much cavalry without any further need for anything but a lance. Due to being armed with natural claws, additional hand to hand weapons are not needed, making them extremely light cavalry. Their scales serve as natural armor, probably sturdy enough to be considered equivalent with chainmail or light plate. Adding additional armour, probably from skin or leather, what's turn our light cavalry dinos into heavy armoured light cavalry.
If these deinonychus mastered domestication of other reptiles, then they could field auxilia comprised of Dinosaurs riding on bigger Dinosaurs. These would serve as linebreaker if these heavier dinosaurs might be ankylosaurus or very large vegetarian dinosaurs like brontosaurus.
Due to their speed they can employ fast encirclement tactics and swift charges into the flanks of the humans. Another tactic they can easily employ is skirmishing, fast assaults and immediately retreating to break formations. With their smaller frame than humans and a natural camouflage coloration of their scales, they also make adapt ambushers. |
151,043 | I'm currently designing an mesothermic reptilian sapiens for my world, that have evolved from a deinonychus-type of dinosaur and developed flexible hands with opposable thumbs, but still possessing arms that are shorter and weaker than human arms.
I imagine them to be potentially very quick and agile in battle. Able to jump into attack with spears, sickle claws and even tail and jaw. They are also intelligent and creative, and possesses certain magical capacities as well.
But being mesothermic, I don't expect them to have as much endurance as humans. Don't think they would be at advantage pushing against shield walls for hours. And due to their shorter arms I don't think they are able to be that efficient with bows, javelins or slings.
They have also failed to domesticate any animal that can be used in battle, though they may have access to slave soldiers.
I can easily visualize such reptile warriors defeating human warriors in warfare on a tribal level. But when it comes to organized armies, imagine for example facing an army of phalanxes, heavy cavalry and archers.
Could my reptiles then stand a chance in open battle? How? They are crafty enough to employ whatever solutions that exist in an antique context. | 2019/07/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151043",
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] | **In open battle, yes**
And the answer takes two vital components - speed and strength. Your idea of weapons for these deinos revolve around human ones. But that's not the correct approach, it's talons. Large, wicked sharp talons that the deinos have on their feet which gives them better reach. They would attack humans by leaping in the air and landing on them, savagely carving through the lines of humans. To do this, the deinos would need to be adjusted a bit by evolution to have more ostrich-like speed, but essentially what you'd turn them into is cavalry-turned-shock-troopers once they hit enemy lines. They'd crash trough anything short of a shieldwall backed by spears.
Which is were the problems start. See, these things are cavalry. So the best counter is just a spearwall. Nothing too fancy. Any human commander would just order his troops to deploy spears and impale the charging deinos. Archery would work as well, up to a point, at any rate. Gambeson is good enough to stop a few arrows, and deinos have built-in scales, so they can take one or two volleys of arrows. Javelins are a bit tougher, but manageable.
Now, this is were the counter-strategy comes into play. If the deinos would lose a head-on attack, then they don't need to bother with one. A deino with ostrich like speed can run up to 40 mph, which means that a massed deino army has one of the most dangerous abilities at their disposal - encirclement. Normally, it takes some serious tactical acumen, but I don't see why an army of fast knights can't simply pull it off using speed. And when it works, it [*works*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae). Overall numerical disadvantages stop being a problem, spears become hard after the first deino charge because you can pressure the enemy too close together, and enemy morale plummets.
Unfortunately, this won't work if the enemy is say, using natural formations to their advantages, defending forts, or fighting in caves. And if you're fighting, say, the Golden Horde of the Mongols, you're dead because cavalry archers are OP in ancient combat. | I see 4 issues
**Packing problem (why tails are a problem in close order combat)**
Human formations can be very dense. In a phalanx, troops can be placed less than a foot behind the line in front of them. They can still effectively use their spears to strike. They can support each other and bring a large number of weapons to bear.
Raptors have these long tails that stick out behind them several feet, [in all raptors were 11 ft long](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus). If a raptor turns its body the tail swings side to side further increasing the amount of space to the side that needs to be set aside for it. Basically a raptor takes up as much space as 2 horses but is far lighter and weaker. This says the closest raptors could fight and still be effective is in a tight line followed by another line more than a yard behind.
The lack of density reduces the power of a charge (mass matters) A [1,540 horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse) with 200 -300 lbs of armored knight hits a spear wall much harder than a [200 lbs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus) raptor.
Also a charge from a 9-11ft 1/2 ton tall knight + horse is much more intimidating than a charge from a 3ft raptor that is only 200lbs
**Reach**
In a phalanx with [7 - 15 foot spears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx) the first 3-5 rows would be able to engage the raptor in front of them. Only the front line of raptors would be able to hit the humans, and only after fighting through being stabbed-by spears for 7 - 15 feet.
**Shields and armor**
Arms let you use shields which are a great defense, they are easier to make than armor and can cover more of the body, raptors would have to rely on armor only.
These raptors have a lot more surface area then humans (11 feet long x3 ft high vs 6ft high x8 inches deep) which means armoring them well will be very heavy and likely impractical.
**Range**
It seems like the raptors would have trouble building effective ranged weapons. Combined with their lack of armor and large targets would make them vulnerable to range attack. Which means they have to attack aggressively.
**Conclusions**
Raptors would be effective as light cavalry [their walking pace is estimated to be 6mph x2 a humans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus), but there low reach, low mass, low armor and inability to form tight formations would reduce their effectiveness as shock/heavy cavalry or any kind of infantry. |
151,043 | I'm currently designing an mesothermic reptilian sapiens for my world, that have evolved from a deinonychus-type of dinosaur and developed flexible hands with opposable thumbs, but still possessing arms that are shorter and weaker than human arms.
I imagine them to be potentially very quick and agile in battle. Able to jump into attack with spears, sickle claws and even tail and jaw. They are also intelligent and creative, and possesses certain magical capacities as well.
But being mesothermic, I don't expect them to have as much endurance as humans. Don't think they would be at advantage pushing against shield walls for hours. And due to their shorter arms I don't think they are able to be that efficient with bows, javelins or slings.
They have also failed to domesticate any animal that can be used in battle, though they may have access to slave soldiers.
I can easily visualize such reptile warriors defeating human warriors in warfare on a tribal level. But when it comes to organized armies, imagine for example facing an army of phalanxes, heavy cavalry and archers.
Could my reptiles then stand a chance in open battle? How? They are crafty enough to employ whatever solutions that exist in an antique context. | 2019/07/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151043",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/66521/"
] | **In open battle, yes**
And the answer takes two vital components - speed and strength. Your idea of weapons for these deinos revolve around human ones. But that's not the correct approach, it's talons. Large, wicked sharp talons that the deinos have on their feet which gives them better reach. They would attack humans by leaping in the air and landing on them, savagely carving through the lines of humans. To do this, the deinos would need to be adjusted a bit by evolution to have more ostrich-like speed, but essentially what you'd turn them into is cavalry-turned-shock-troopers once they hit enemy lines. They'd crash trough anything short of a shieldwall backed by spears.
Which is were the problems start. See, these things are cavalry. So the best counter is just a spearwall. Nothing too fancy. Any human commander would just order his troops to deploy spears and impale the charging deinos. Archery would work as well, up to a point, at any rate. Gambeson is good enough to stop a few arrows, and deinos have built-in scales, so they can take one or two volleys of arrows. Javelins are a bit tougher, but manageable.
Now, this is were the counter-strategy comes into play. If the deinos would lose a head-on attack, then they don't need to bother with one. A deino with ostrich like speed can run up to 40 mph, which means that a massed deino army has one of the most dangerous abilities at their disposal - encirclement. Normally, it takes some serious tactical acumen, but I don't see why an army of fast knights can't simply pull it off using speed. And when it works, it [*works*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae). Overall numerical disadvantages stop being a problem, spears become hard after the first deino charge because you can pressure the enemy too close together, and enemy morale plummets.
Unfortunately, this won't work if the enemy is say, using natural formations to their advantages, defending forts, or fighting in caves. And if you're fighting, say, the Golden Horde of the Mongols, you're dead because cavalry archers are OP in ancient combat. | All the fossil evidence we have indicates that dinosaurs were the precursor species to modern birds, which are most certainly homeothermic. So, we can presume that this mesothermy is such that the dinos need not bask in the sun to maintain body temperature.
Mesothermy has nothing to do with endurance. In fact, the relationship may actually be inverted: the dinos with their lower basal metabolisms for a given body mass than placental mammals (much as marsupial mammals have) would use less energy for the basic processes of life, and activity would generate body heat and raised body temperatures which they would be better able to tolerate despite potentially worse thermoregulatory capability than humans.
As a side note, there is practically no creature on earth that is as good at getting rid of excess body heat as humans... but getting rid of excess heat is not the only way to cope with body heat, the other way is to simply *tolerate* it, and continue to function *despite* an increased body temperature. The nature of thermodynamics is that the higher the difference in temperature between two environments, the faster heat will be radiated away from the hotter object. So, the dinos body temperatures may vary by several degrees during exertion, but unlike mammals, they can simply put up with it.
A dromaeosaur descendant would have a largely horizontal spine, much like birds which also are thought to have descended from dromaeosaurs, though the possibility certainly exists for them to rotate their hips so that they are standing more upright.
The dromaeosaur body plan includes legs with muscular thighs, slender calves, and a digitigrade posture with extended foot bones, making them a cursorial species. Humans are the fastest of the apes in bipedal locomotion (though apes which move quadrupedally may be faster), and can run at up to 37 kph or so. However, humans' relatively short foot and bulky calf muscles do not allow as efficient or as rapid running as the dromaeosaur body plan. While ostriches can run at up to 80 kph, I would expect that a dromaeosaur such as the OP's dinos would be able to run at around 60 kph or so, and could conceivably leap two or more metres upwards and perhaps up to ten metres laterally.
While humans are effectively unarmoured and have no claws or fangs, medieval humans such as the OP mentions are able to supplement their meagre natural weapons and armor with manufactured weapons and armor. On the other hand, the dinos, being carnivorous predatory beings, would have tough skin overlaid by feathers, as well as long claws on the fingers and a particularly large claw on each foot. Additionally, the OP has said that dinos have a humanlike ability to make their own technological innovations. This could include their own armour and enhanced weapons such as razor sharp claw sheaths.
Given a dino's long, narrow body plan and well-made metal armour, I would expect that arrows and other thrusting weapons would be more likely to deflect from their armour than is the case with a tall, broad human figure. This, combined with dinos' great mobility, would render the mainstay of late medieval military armament - pike and shot - far less effective than it is against humans. Dinos could reasonably expect arrows or spears to deflect from their armour, and combined with their mobility, they could either throw all but the most disciplined phalanx into disarray simply by flanking, and if the phalanx sacrificed its own mobility and formed a circle, the dinos could still duck under or leap over the spears and once inside the range of the spears, their enhanced natural weapons would quickly break the phalanx.
A unit of sword wielding humans would stand a better chance against the dinos than pike and shot, as swords are inherently more maneuverable weapons.
Human cavalry would have speed approaching that of the dinos, but lower maneuverability.
The main advantage that the dinos have is that they have intelligence comparable to that of humans. Combined with their superior natural weapons, they could maneuver humans into situations where the dinos advantages could be exploited to the fullest. |
151,043 | I'm currently designing an mesothermic reptilian sapiens for my world, that have evolved from a deinonychus-type of dinosaur and developed flexible hands with opposable thumbs, but still possessing arms that are shorter and weaker than human arms.
I imagine them to be potentially very quick and agile in battle. Able to jump into attack with spears, sickle claws and even tail and jaw. They are also intelligent and creative, and possesses certain magical capacities as well.
But being mesothermic, I don't expect them to have as much endurance as humans. Don't think they would be at advantage pushing against shield walls for hours. And due to their shorter arms I don't think they are able to be that efficient with bows, javelins or slings.
They have also failed to domesticate any animal that can be used in battle, though they may have access to slave soldiers.
I can easily visualize such reptile warriors defeating human warriors in warfare on a tribal level. But when it comes to organized armies, imagine for example facing an army of phalanxes, heavy cavalry and archers.
Could my reptiles then stand a chance in open battle? How? They are crafty enough to employ whatever solutions that exist in an antique context. | 2019/07/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151043",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/66521/"
] | All the fossil evidence we have indicates that dinosaurs were the precursor species to modern birds, which are most certainly homeothermic. So, we can presume that this mesothermy is such that the dinos need not bask in the sun to maintain body temperature.
Mesothermy has nothing to do with endurance. In fact, the relationship may actually be inverted: the dinos with their lower basal metabolisms for a given body mass than placental mammals (much as marsupial mammals have) would use less energy for the basic processes of life, and activity would generate body heat and raised body temperatures which they would be better able to tolerate despite potentially worse thermoregulatory capability than humans.
As a side note, there is practically no creature on earth that is as good at getting rid of excess body heat as humans... but getting rid of excess heat is not the only way to cope with body heat, the other way is to simply *tolerate* it, and continue to function *despite* an increased body temperature. The nature of thermodynamics is that the higher the difference in temperature between two environments, the faster heat will be radiated away from the hotter object. So, the dinos body temperatures may vary by several degrees during exertion, but unlike mammals, they can simply put up with it.
A dromaeosaur descendant would have a largely horizontal spine, much like birds which also are thought to have descended from dromaeosaurs, though the possibility certainly exists for them to rotate their hips so that they are standing more upright.
The dromaeosaur body plan includes legs with muscular thighs, slender calves, and a digitigrade posture with extended foot bones, making them a cursorial species. Humans are the fastest of the apes in bipedal locomotion (though apes which move quadrupedally may be faster), and can run at up to 37 kph or so. However, humans' relatively short foot and bulky calf muscles do not allow as efficient or as rapid running as the dromaeosaur body plan. While ostriches can run at up to 80 kph, I would expect that a dromaeosaur such as the OP's dinos would be able to run at around 60 kph or so, and could conceivably leap two or more metres upwards and perhaps up to ten metres laterally.
While humans are effectively unarmoured and have no claws or fangs, medieval humans such as the OP mentions are able to supplement their meagre natural weapons and armor with manufactured weapons and armor. On the other hand, the dinos, being carnivorous predatory beings, would have tough skin overlaid by feathers, as well as long claws on the fingers and a particularly large claw on each foot. Additionally, the OP has said that dinos have a humanlike ability to make their own technological innovations. This could include their own armour and enhanced weapons such as razor sharp claw sheaths.
Given a dino's long, narrow body plan and well-made metal armour, I would expect that arrows and other thrusting weapons would be more likely to deflect from their armour than is the case with a tall, broad human figure. This, combined with dinos' great mobility, would render the mainstay of late medieval military armament - pike and shot - far less effective than it is against humans. Dinos could reasonably expect arrows or spears to deflect from their armour, and combined with their mobility, they could either throw all but the most disciplined phalanx into disarray simply by flanking, and if the phalanx sacrificed its own mobility and formed a circle, the dinos could still duck under or leap over the spears and once inside the range of the spears, their enhanced natural weapons would quickly break the phalanx.
A unit of sword wielding humans would stand a better chance against the dinos than pike and shot, as swords are inherently more maneuverable weapons.
Human cavalry would have speed approaching that of the dinos, but lower maneuverability.
The main advantage that the dinos have is that they have intelligence comparable to that of humans. Combined with their superior natural weapons, they could maneuver humans into situations where the dinos advantages could be exploited to the fullest. | On an open field they'd likely get beaten no matter what. Their bones aren't as dense as ours. Best chance of success attacking even a small human military unit would be in forest or alpine terrain, using hit-and-run tactics to either shield themselves or knock humans to their deaths |
151,043 | I'm currently designing an mesothermic reptilian sapiens for my world, that have evolved from a deinonychus-type of dinosaur and developed flexible hands with opposable thumbs, but still possessing arms that are shorter and weaker than human arms.
I imagine them to be potentially very quick and agile in battle. Able to jump into attack with spears, sickle claws and even tail and jaw. They are also intelligent and creative, and possesses certain magical capacities as well.
But being mesothermic, I don't expect them to have as much endurance as humans. Don't think they would be at advantage pushing against shield walls for hours. And due to their shorter arms I don't think they are able to be that efficient with bows, javelins or slings.
They have also failed to domesticate any animal that can be used in battle, though they may have access to slave soldiers.
I can easily visualize such reptile warriors defeating human warriors in warfare on a tribal level. But when it comes to organized armies, imagine for example facing an army of phalanxes, heavy cavalry and archers.
Could my reptiles then stand a chance in open battle? How? They are crafty enough to employ whatever solutions that exist in an antique context. | 2019/07/16 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/151043",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/66521/"
] | **In open battle, yes**
And the answer takes two vital components - speed and strength. Your idea of weapons for these deinos revolve around human ones. But that's not the correct approach, it's talons. Large, wicked sharp talons that the deinos have on their feet which gives them better reach. They would attack humans by leaping in the air and landing on them, savagely carving through the lines of humans. To do this, the deinos would need to be adjusted a bit by evolution to have more ostrich-like speed, but essentially what you'd turn them into is cavalry-turned-shock-troopers once they hit enemy lines. They'd crash trough anything short of a shieldwall backed by spears.
Which is were the problems start. See, these things are cavalry. So the best counter is just a spearwall. Nothing too fancy. Any human commander would just order his troops to deploy spears and impale the charging deinos. Archery would work as well, up to a point, at any rate. Gambeson is good enough to stop a few arrows, and deinos have built-in scales, so they can take one or two volleys of arrows. Javelins are a bit tougher, but manageable.
Now, this is were the counter-strategy comes into play. If the deinos would lose a head-on attack, then they don't need to bother with one. A deino with ostrich like speed can run up to 40 mph, which means that a massed deino army has one of the most dangerous abilities at their disposal - encirclement. Normally, it takes some serious tactical acumen, but I don't see why an army of fast knights can't simply pull it off using speed. And when it works, it [*works*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae). Overall numerical disadvantages stop being a problem, spears become hard after the first deino charge because you can pressure the enemy too close together, and enemy morale plummets.
Unfortunately, this won't work if the enemy is say, using natural formations to their advantages, defending forts, or fighting in caves. And if you're fighting, say, the Golden Horde of the Mongols, you're dead because cavalry archers are OP in ancient combat. | On an open field they'd likely get beaten no matter what. Their bones aren't as dense as ours. Best chance of success attacking even a small human military unit would be in forest or alpine terrain, using hit-and-run tactics to either shield themselves or knock humans to their deaths |
127,091 | On Monday I had to take some emergency personal time after finding out that my mom was hospitalized for a mental health breakdown. I didn't give the details to my manager, only that she was hospitalized. She lives somewhat far away from me so for the past 2 days I've been staying at her place and working from home there.
I work in software so it isn't abnormal for someone to work from home, and our workplace is really flexible with scheduling. My manager is also a really nice understanding guy. We have a couple deadlines coming up, but nothing is critical at the moment.
I have a meeting (unrelated) with my manager when I get back and if it isn't weird I wanted to thank him for being so flexible. I'm a little worried to go into detail about the situation since I think it would be inappropriate/uncomfortable to mention.
Would it be acceptable to thank him? If so, any advice on what to say would be really appreciated | 2019/01/23 | [
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] | First of all sorry about your Mother, hopefully she recovers well!
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Then don't... You don't have to tell your manager everything if you don't feel comfortable in doing so.
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Absolutely. Just talk to him and say that everything is now sorted. I want to thank you for being so flexible the other day. I'm grateful for what you allowed me to work from home during this time on such short notice. | It's always acceptable to thank someone in the workplace for something they did that you appreciated, or which helped you. I would not expect your manager to find a simple and generic thank-you to be uncomfortable, and I would also not expect them to feel strange about not getting details.
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127,091 | On Monday I had to take some emergency personal time after finding out that my mom was hospitalized for a mental health breakdown. I didn't give the details to my manager, only that she was hospitalized. She lives somewhat far away from me so for the past 2 days I've been staying at her place and working from home there.
I work in software so it isn't abnormal for someone to work from home, and our workplace is really flexible with scheduling. My manager is also a really nice understanding guy. We have a couple deadlines coming up, but nothing is critical at the moment.
I have a meeting (unrelated) with my manager when I get back and if it isn't weird I wanted to thank him for being so flexible. I'm a little worried to go into detail about the situation since I think it would be inappropriate/uncomfortable to mention.
Would it be acceptable to thank him? If so, any advice on what to say would be really appreciated | 2019/01/23 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/127091",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
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] | First of all sorry about your Mother, hopefully she recovers well!
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> I'm a little worried to go into detail about the situation
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Then don't... You don't have to tell your manager everything if you don't feel comfortable in doing so.
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Absolutely. Just talk to him and say that everything is now sorted. I want to thank you for being so flexible the other day. I'm grateful for what you allowed me to work from home during this time on such short notice. | Not only is it acceptable, but it is recommended that you do so.
[Even managers like chocolate chip cookies](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B000ILIFAS) and being recognized for a kindness.
Express your gratitude, it is so rarely done that it will be appreciated.
You don't have to make a big deal of it, just next time you see your manager, just say
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Then, buy him a cup of coffee, if you think it appropriate. The important thing is to always acknowledge a kindness done to you, both in the workplace, and outside of it. |
6,048 | My daughter decided to get a little artistic in the bathroom and colored the grout with yellow crayon. Does anyone have a simple way to clean this out? | 2011/05/02 | [
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] | Goof off, tile brush and elbow grease.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8LbwF.jpg)
(source: [nydailynews.com](http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2007/06/14/amd_goofoff.jpg))
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EZdW8.jpg)
(source: [labsafety.com](http://www.labsafety.com/images/xl/Iron-Handle-Scrub-Brush-LSS-_i_lbw157705S.jpg)) | You can also get "grout refresher" basically typex for grout that you paint over the old yellowed grout before you sell the house ;-) |
6,048 | My daughter decided to get a little artistic in the bathroom and colored the grout with yellow crayon. Does anyone have a simple way to clean this out? | 2011/05/02 | [
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] | ALL of the grout? If so, I'd say scraping and re-grouting would likely be easiest solution.
If it's just in a few spots, you could try the brown paper bag + iron technique: cover the area with a layer or two of brown paper bag and then apply a hot iron to it. The heat of the iron will melt the wax and the paper bag will then wick it up. Try on a small section, first. | Goof off, tile brush and elbow grease.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8LbwF.jpg)
(source: [nydailynews.com](http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2007/06/14/amd_goofoff.jpg))
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EZdW8.jpg)
(source: [labsafety.com](http://www.labsafety.com/images/xl/Iron-Handle-Scrub-Brush-LSS-_i_lbw157705S.jpg)) |
6,048 | My daughter decided to get a little artistic in the bathroom and colored the grout with yellow crayon. Does anyone have a simple way to clean this out? | 2011/05/02 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/6048",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/2492/"
] | ALL of the grout? If so, I'd say scraping and re-grouting would likely be easiest solution.
If it's just in a few spots, you could try the brown paper bag + iron technique: cover the area with a layer or two of brown paper bag and then apply a hot iron to it. The heat of the iron will melt the wax and the paper bag will then wick it up. Try on a small section, first. | You can also get "grout refresher" basically typex for grout that you paint over the old yellowed grout before you sell the house ;-) |
35,379 | For someone who has one or more higher degrees than the bachelor's, under what circumstances (if any) should they omit their bachelor's degree from their resume?
As a concrete example, I have a master's degree and part of part of a PhD (i.e. it's incomplete). The bachelor's degree is in the same field as the other two, but from a lesser-known institution. It's obvious that I have a bachelor's, so it seems to just be wasting space. | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35379",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25223/"
] | You should list it. It's a big part of your academic career. Yes, it's implied that you have it, but it shows how your focus and objectives have evolved as you matured. A bachelor's in computer science, followed by an MBA in International Business tells me a lot more than just an MBA in International Business (throwing out an example).
"Lesser-known" institutions - this tells me you're really still "stuck" in the academic mindset. The only thing employers (should) care about is whether or not the program and college are accredited, and whether or not you earned the degree. That bachelor's under a master's and a PhD doesn't look any different coming from Carnegie Mellon or Chadron State College in Nebraska.
Remember - your degree doesn't get you the job. The degree should get you the interview. *YOU* have to get the job. | You should list both your bachelor and masters degree in chronological order. Your employer will almost certainly verify your degrees, and will ask you about it anyway.
I would also NOT LIST the incomplete Ph.D. Listing an incomplete degree will never help you (no one gets a job by ALMOST having a bachelor degree). It may confuse the interviewer, who assumes they will be hiring a Ph.D. You may be put in a position where you have to correct this during the interview (bad), explain the situation to HR after you start (worst), or have it come to light years after the fact (see [Yahoo ex-CEO Scott Thompson](http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/13/technology/yahoo-ceo-out/)).
Never worry that going to a less prestigious school for your BA/BS is going to negatively affect your prospects. I went to a smaller state school to save money for my BS, then got an assistantship to attend a better know university for grad-school. No one has ever asked why I choose to attend the smaller school for undergrad.
**EDIT**
While you should not list a ABD Ph.D., you should list every GRA/GTA position, internship, papers published etc. This will fill in the blank left by the Ph.D., and show that you kept yourself busy during the years between your Master and now. |
35,379 | For someone who has one or more higher degrees than the bachelor's, under what circumstances (if any) should they omit their bachelor's degree from their resume?
As a concrete example, I have a master's degree and part of part of a PhD (i.e. it's incomplete). The bachelor's degree is in the same field as the other two, but from a lesser-known institution. It's obvious that I have a bachelor's, so it seems to just be wasting space. | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35379",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25223/"
] | You should list it. It's a big part of your academic career. Yes, it's implied that you have it, but it shows how your focus and objectives have evolved as you matured. A bachelor's in computer science, followed by an MBA in International Business tells me a lot more than just an MBA in International Business (throwing out an example).
"Lesser-known" institutions - this tells me you're really still "stuck" in the academic mindset. The only thing employers (should) care about is whether or not the program and college are accredited, and whether or not you earned the degree. That bachelor's under a master's and a PhD doesn't look any different coming from Carnegie Mellon or Chadron State College in Nebraska.
Remember - your degree doesn't get you the job. The degree should get you the interview. *YOU* have to get the job. | I would always list it, even as a single line.
The only time I perhaps wouldn't list it would be if I did a Bachelors followed immediately by a Masters in the same subject, ie in 4 consecutive years (or whatever it took you) as in some areas it's possible to do an MSc as a single course in this way. |
35,379 | For someone who has one or more higher degrees than the bachelor's, under what circumstances (if any) should they omit their bachelor's degree from their resume?
As a concrete example, I have a master's degree and part of part of a PhD (i.e. it's incomplete). The bachelor's degree is in the same field as the other two, but from a lesser-known institution. It's obvious that I have a bachelor's, so it seems to just be wasting space. | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35379",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25223/"
] | You should list it. It's a big part of your academic career. Yes, it's implied that you have it, but it shows how your focus and objectives have evolved as you matured. A bachelor's in computer science, followed by an MBA in International Business tells me a lot more than just an MBA in International Business (throwing out an example).
"Lesser-known" institutions - this tells me you're really still "stuck" in the academic mindset. The only thing employers (should) care about is whether or not the program and college are accredited, and whether or not you earned the degree. That bachelor's under a master's and a PhD doesn't look any different coming from Carnegie Mellon or Chadron State College in Nebraska.
Remember - your degree doesn't get you the job. The degree should get you the interview. *YOU* have to get the job. | **I am going to offer a counterpoint:** if space-saving is the reason you would like to cut the Bachelors out, I say that is acceptable. It is clearly a bit of a taboo to do so, as is apparent from the responses here and elsewhere. However, the **résumé's purpose is to be an advertisement for you**. If the Bachelor's degree does not add any substance to that, *and* it is taking away too much valuable space, I say cut it. A single line that no one will pay attention to might not be worth it.
**Take this with a grain of salt**: I am not a hiring manager, and my only experience is crafting my own résumés for job hunting. It would be interesting to hear a response from a hiring manager or recruiter regarding this perspective. |
35,379 | For someone who has one or more higher degrees than the bachelor's, under what circumstances (if any) should they omit their bachelor's degree from their resume?
As a concrete example, I have a master's degree and part of part of a PhD (i.e. it's incomplete). The bachelor's degree is in the same field as the other two, but from a lesser-known institution. It's obvious that I have a bachelor's, so it seems to just be wasting space. | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35379",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25223/"
] | You should list both your bachelor and masters degree in chronological order. Your employer will almost certainly verify your degrees, and will ask you about it anyway.
I would also NOT LIST the incomplete Ph.D. Listing an incomplete degree will never help you (no one gets a job by ALMOST having a bachelor degree). It may confuse the interviewer, who assumes they will be hiring a Ph.D. You may be put in a position where you have to correct this during the interview (bad), explain the situation to HR after you start (worst), or have it come to light years after the fact (see [Yahoo ex-CEO Scott Thompson](http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/13/technology/yahoo-ceo-out/)).
Never worry that going to a less prestigious school for your BA/BS is going to negatively affect your prospects. I went to a smaller state school to save money for my BS, then got an assistantship to attend a better know university for grad-school. No one has ever asked why I choose to attend the smaller school for undergrad.
**EDIT**
While you should not list a ABD Ph.D., you should list every GRA/GTA position, internship, papers published etc. This will fill in the blank left by the Ph.D., and show that you kept yourself busy during the years between your Master and now. | **I am going to offer a counterpoint:** if space-saving is the reason you would like to cut the Bachelors out, I say that is acceptable. It is clearly a bit of a taboo to do so, as is apparent from the responses here and elsewhere. However, the **résumé's purpose is to be an advertisement for you**. If the Bachelor's degree does not add any substance to that, *and* it is taking away too much valuable space, I say cut it. A single line that no one will pay attention to might not be worth it.
**Take this with a grain of salt**: I am not a hiring manager, and my only experience is crafting my own résumés for job hunting. It would be interesting to hear a response from a hiring manager or recruiter regarding this perspective. |
35,379 | For someone who has one or more higher degrees than the bachelor's, under what circumstances (if any) should they omit their bachelor's degree from their resume?
As a concrete example, I have a master's degree and part of part of a PhD (i.e. it's incomplete). The bachelor's degree is in the same field as the other two, but from a lesser-known institution. It's obvious that I have a bachelor's, so it seems to just be wasting space. | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35379",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25223/"
] | I would always list it, even as a single line.
The only time I perhaps wouldn't list it would be if I did a Bachelors followed immediately by a Masters in the same subject, ie in 4 consecutive years (or whatever it took you) as in some areas it's possible to do an MSc as a single course in this way. | **I am going to offer a counterpoint:** if space-saving is the reason you would like to cut the Bachelors out, I say that is acceptable. It is clearly a bit of a taboo to do so, as is apparent from the responses here and elsewhere. However, the **résumé's purpose is to be an advertisement for you**. If the Bachelor's degree does not add any substance to that, *and* it is taking away too much valuable space, I say cut it. A single line that no one will pay attention to might not be worth it.
**Take this with a grain of salt**: I am not a hiring manager, and my only experience is crafting my own résumés for job hunting. It would be interesting to hear a response from a hiring manager or recruiter regarding this perspective. |
2,164,710 | Moving my project from Ant to Leiningen went so smoothly that I am looking at new things to include in the build process. one of which would be to **automatically create a .deb and .rpm file in the build**. What is the easiest way to do this? | 2010/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2164710",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/90801/"
] | I think your best bet would be to write your own Leiningen plugin for this (which I hear is pretty easy), or use the [lein-scripts](http://clojars.org/lein-scripts) plugin and write a script/task for it. | I've come across the same problem. I followed rosejn's suggestion and created a Leiningen plugin that uses the [RPM Maven Plugin](http://mojo.codehaus.org/rpm-maven-plugin/) to create an RPM. I've put it [here](https://github.com/ahjones/lein-rpm). |
2,164,710 | Moving my project from Ant to Leiningen went so smoothly that I am looking at new things to include in the build process. one of which would be to **automatically create a .deb and .rpm file in the build**. What is the easiest way to do this? | 2010/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2164710",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/90801/"
] | It would be really great to have a lein plugin to help with this. Since it already uses maven under the hood, you could look into using the maven-unix-plugin (<http://mojo.codehaus.org/unix/>) which can build .deb and .rpm files. Otherwise if that looks annoying I don't think either package format is especially complex. You could probably do it by hand in Clojure, in which case maybe looking at some example Ruby Rake tasks would help. (<http://rubyforge.org/projects/pallet/>) | I've come across the same problem. I followed rosejn's suggestion and created a Leiningen plugin that uses the [RPM Maven Plugin](http://mojo.codehaus.org/rpm-maven-plugin/) to create an RPM. I've put it [here](https://github.com/ahjones/lein-rpm). |
57,333 | I frequently receive a notification from my 'phone and recognize the sound as a new email on the Gmail app and many times I'm at work, etc, so I switch to my open Gmail tab. Sometimes I even wait a little bit before going to the Gmail tab. And it's not there. I usually keep my hands on the keyboard.
Checking new mail is one of the few times during the day that I have to move my hand to the mouse for a one-time action just to immediately go back to the keyboard. I got fed up because I couldn't find it on Google's list of Gmail shortcuts and started searching around. Maybe no one has ever asked the question or just no one cares. | 2014/02/21 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/57333",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/10910/"
] | The shortcut that does exactly what is asked for here is 'u', which Google labels "return to thread list," which is what it does if you're in a conversation view (i.e. a single email thread). However, if you're already looking at a list of threads (e.g. your inbox), 'u' will refresh that list.
Unlike "g, i", 'u' works to refresh any thread list you're looking at, and also does not move the cursor back to the top.
Like "g, i", the 'u' shortcut is part of the set of keyboard shortcuts that might be disabled. If that's the case, you can enable them by setting "Keyboard shortcuts on" in Gmail settings, under the "General" tab. You can also do it by pressing the '?' key in the thread or conversation view, which brings up a list of keyboard shortcuts and their meanings (although, as demonstrated here, those meanings aren't always clear). There's a link in the middle of the box allowing you to toggle whether the extended keyboard shortcuts are enabled or disabled:
 | There is [no Gmail shortcut](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6594?hl=en) to check for new mail in Gmail. I guess Google thinks new e-mails appear immediately in the ajax-based UI. Since it's not the case (I had the exact same issue as yours), I use my browser shortcut to reload the page (ctrl+R or F5). I'm aware this is not optimal as reload the whole page wastes resources. |
156,517 | Can I use 14 Guage wire on a 2500 watt baseboard heater. | 2019/02/02 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/156517",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/96555/"
] | Heaters must be derated to 125% when provisioning service for them. So 2500 watts gets derated to 3125 watts and that is what you must provision.
That is within the 3600 watt capacity of a 15A/240V circuit. | I think you would use the watts/voltage = amps. Keep in mind you should only use 80%. So if it is 120v then you are slightly over 20A and would need 10 gauge |
32,086 | >
> 1. Who do you know would want to do that ?.
> 2. Who do you know who would want to do that ?.
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Consider the declarative version : You know who would want to do that. -> Interrogative version, which form by subject–auxiliary inversion should be 1 and it sound more natural to me.Why is there another "who" like in 2nd ?. When I search on google with the exact phrases,"who do you know would" vs "who do you know who would" , I get even more results with the latter. | 2014/08/23 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/32086",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/4579/"
] | In OP's examples, most likely the second *who* (a [relative pronoun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_pronoun) which could be replaced by *that*) would be "deleted" (not uttered) by many if not most native speakers, if only on the grounds of "elegance".
But if we consider another example of the general construction...
>
> 1: Who does John know would want to kill him?
>
> 2a: Who does John know **that** would want to kill him?
>
> 2b: Who does John know **who** would want to kill him?
>
>
>
...it should be obvious that #1 asks which people *John thinks* might want to kill him, whereas #2 asks which (of all the people John knows) *the speaker and her audience think* might want to kill John. (It's entirely a matter of stylistic choice whether to use ***that*** or ***who*** in OP's example #2 and my #2a/b.)
Thus in *some* contexts, the second "relativiser" can safely be "deleted" without affecting or obscuring the meaning. But in others it can't, so it will normally be present or absent according to the intended sense. | >
> 1. Who do you know would want to do that ?.
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This is a standard general way of usage.
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> 2.Who do you know who would want to do that ?.
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As many have pointed out, this is "reflexive pronoun" usage.
Mostly used in plays,scripts and mostly archaic and imperial dialogues. |
7,218,645 | I am building a web app that uses a canvas to draw on. I would like to have an infinitly big drawing space (you can scroll as long as you want in any direction) AND save the data / images to a database.
Something has been done similar to that here: <http://wordsquared.com/>, where the more people that play it, the larger it gets.
I know this would require somehow tiling images, saving them to a db, then only loding the ones within the viewport. How would this and the infinite scrolling be accomplished / where should I start? | 2011/08/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7218645",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/719888/"
] | This is a bit unconventional a method, but just struck me as potentially (in theory, with unbound storage space) infinite.
You will need to store a currently loaded chunk of the board, given as a unique ID of some sort. The chunks and their data need to be in a table with the following columns:
* Chunk ID
* Chunk Data
* ID of chunk to the north
* ID of south
* ID of east
* ID of west
You need to make the canvas draggable, perhaps by using jQuery or similar ([this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5685713/html5-drag-a-canvas) has some info on that).
Now, create an event listener for the canvas to be dragged, and track the distance it moves. When released, if the canvas has not changed to a different chunk, do nothing.
If the canvas has left the current chunk, use the stored ID to find the next chunk to load. If the ID is 0, assume the chunk does not yet exist, and create it. Otherwise, load the chunk, replacing the existing chunk. Set the canvas back to centered.
With long enough IDs and enough storage space, this will give you an infinite canvas, as no coordinate system is used. It also allows for wrapping the edges, or creating wormholes.
How to implement it, I'm not quite sure, but you only need to track how far the canvas has been moved. Google Maps does something similar, so I would look at how they handle it (I will do so shortly and see if I can add some implementation details to this answer).
This may not be the most practical or simplest method, but it was fun to come up with.
*Edit:* I believe this is along the lines of the basic functionality:
<http://candrews.net/blog/2010/10/introducing-sprymap/>
It is a light-weight draggable javascript map. You simply need to track how far, then. | I have made a library to deal with this called TiledCanvas
It provides interfaces to zoom and move. And draw in an infinite space using all the canvas apis.
It lets you load chunks dynamically based on coordinates, you just give it a function that gets as paramters a x, y and callback and you simply give it back something that can be drawn on a canvas.
<https://github.com/Squarific/TiledCanvas> |
67,634 | I know that there is one game system that is based upon the old Marvel Super Heroes RPG, but I forget what the name is. Thus my question is, which system is this?
(It is basically the same ruleset as the old Marvel game from what I remember, but without any setting attached to it.) | 2015/08/25 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/67634",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/15380/"
] | There are many old Marvel games, but I assume you mean [the old one based on the FASERIP system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Super_Heroes_(role-playing_game)) (so named based on the first letters of the 7 primary character attributes).
I know of two recent FASERIP retro-clones:
* [Four Color (4C) System](http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/50837/Four-Color-System-Core-Rules)
* [FASERIP](https://faserip.wordpress.com/)
You can also get stuff for the old system at [classicmarvelforever.com](http://www.classicmarvelforever.com/cms/). | That one's called FASERIP, and is [available for download here](https://faserip.wordpress.com/). |
67,634 | I know that there is one game system that is based upon the old Marvel Super Heroes RPG, but I forget what the name is. Thus my question is, which system is this?
(It is basically the same ruleset as the old Marvel game from what I remember, but without any setting attached to it.) | 2015/08/25 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/67634",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/15380/"
] | There are many old Marvel games, but I assume you mean [the old one based on the FASERIP system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Super_Heroes_(role-playing_game)) (so named based on the first letters of the 7 primary character attributes).
I know of two recent FASERIP retro-clones:
* [Four Color (4C) System](http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/50837/Four-Color-System-Core-Rules)
* [FASERIP](https://faserip.wordpress.com/)
You can also get stuff for the old system at [classicmarvelforever.com](http://www.classicmarvelforever.com/cms/). | You're most likely thinking of the retroclone [*FASERIP*](https://faserip.wordpress.com/), named after the fan-created nickname for [*Marvel Super Heroes*](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQFjABahUKEwjn7dKmz8THAhUSnYgKHf6cCrI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMarvel_Super_Heroes_(role-playing_game)&ei=LpPcVeeeMJK6ogT-uaqQCw&usg=AFQjCNGr38gp6k8HgNBShd64d1tHBJ1rPw&sig2=nlXmV9c46QfAqsHOAOuXRg) as an acronym of its PCs' stats. It's well-known and -liked by fans of old-school supers. This is a fairly straightforward retroclone, intended to be *Marvel Super Heroes* in all but name.
Less likely, you might instead be thinking of the less-well-known [*Four Color System*](http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/50837/Four-Color-System-Core-Rules), another retroclone of *Marvel Super Heroes*. This takes more of a toolkit approach to the original rules, so it's more flexible, but not as immediately playable right out of the box. It's regarded as a useful reference if you're already playing MSH, and as a resource for hacking on the original MSHRPG and other FASERIP games. |
163,858 | What's the best practice for matching colors between video/cgi for vfx shots in Blender?
More specifically: I have a simple scene that is lit with one light in real life (2700K). I have carefully recreated the scene in Blender, adding a point light with emission shader at K=2700.
The camera does white-balancing of the scene, so gray things are gray. Blender renders gray things as yellow/orange. I want to composite both into a single VFX shot.
Should I not worry about colors coming from render and correct them in compositing? Or is there a way to "white balance" a render? | 2020/01/15 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/163858",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/87022/"
] | Trying to match the placement, intensity and quality of the light sources is a good start. As for the color temperature, if the white balance was compensated in the camera for the original footage, then the white point for the scene is already in a different place, so you no longer need the original color temperature. Your light sources in blender should be *achromatic* (without color, or "neutral").
The crucial piece of information you need is: **What color space is the original footage using?** **How is the scene encoded** (Log, Linear? Is there a gamma correction baked into the footage?)
Blender generates scene referred data, so your video sources should be converted to the same kind of information. Make sure that you are converting the source from display referred data to the proper scene referred values to be used in blender's compositor.. In other words you need to make sure you are not mixing apples and oranges.
Once the data is in linear, scene referred values, you can use the [CDL node](https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/55231/what-is-the-the-asc-cdl-node) in the compositor to match color, brightness, etc.
I would advise to stay away from curves in the color management section. It will open a new can of worms that might distort the results. | You can balance black and white values directly in the viewport, by tweaking the black and white level values in the "color management" foldout, you have to check "use curves" :
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gbOVC.png)
Or afterwards in the compositor, using an rgb curves node. This one is easier to tweak since you can use the dropper to pick the desired color.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZcIul.png) |
33,741 | In "The Council of Elrond" Boromir states that he has journeyed one hundred and ten days to reach Rivendell from Minas Tirith. Why did it take him so long? Gimli states that Mordor to the mountains above Moria is 300 leagues which is 900 miles (when they are contemplating the Redhorn pass). Minas Tirith is a bit nearer, but they've travelled south from Rivendell so I estimate his journey at 1000-1100 miles. So at best he's averaged 10 miles/day even though he's a strong determined man on horseback. I just can't reconcile that journey time with the known dimensions of Middle Earth. | 2013/04/02 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33741",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/11779/"
] | There were a couple of reasons. Firstly, as jwenting states, he simply didn't know where it was. As he said at the Council of Elrond:
>
> Long have I wandered by roads forgotten, seeking the house of Elrond, of which many had heard, but few knew where it lay.
>
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>
The second reason is that he lost his horse halfway through, as he tells Celeborn:
>
> A long and wearisome journey. Four hundred leagues I reckoned it, and it took me many months, for I lost my horse at Tharbad, at the fording of the Greyflood.
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(Note that the comparison to the distance from Moria is not very useful: Boromir did not go that way, but went via the Gap of Rohan, as Saruman had not yet revealed himself as a traitor. However, all things being equal, that would actually have shortened his journey, if not for the points above.) | The main reason as stated in the books is that he didn't know where it was. He had only an old riddle to go on, which told him to seek out Imladris, where Elrond Half Elven dwelt.
Not only was that name almost forgotten, the location was too. So he spent a lot of time wandering whither and thither looking for information about Imladris, until eventually arriving there. |
33,741 | In "The Council of Elrond" Boromir states that he has journeyed one hundred and ten days to reach Rivendell from Minas Tirith. Why did it take him so long? Gimli states that Mordor to the mountains above Moria is 300 leagues which is 900 miles (when they are contemplating the Redhorn pass). Minas Tirith is a bit nearer, but they've travelled south from Rivendell so I estimate his journey at 1000-1100 miles. So at best he's averaged 10 miles/day even though he's a strong determined man on horseback. I just can't reconcile that journey time with the known dimensions of Middle Earth. | 2013/04/02 | [
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] | The main reason as stated in the books is that he didn't know where it was. He had only an old riddle to go on, which told him to seek out Imladris, where Elrond Half Elven dwelt.
Not only was that name almost forgotten, the location was too. So he spent a lot of time wandering whither and thither looking for information about Imladris, until eventually arriving there. | In the essay on the Palantíri in *Unfinished Tales*, we are told that the palantír of Minas Tirith was designed to interact most with the palantíri of Gondor, of which only three remained: one in the hands of Saruman, the other controlled by Sauron. Only a strong will and the right to use them enabled Aragorn to wrest the stone of Orthanc from the will of Sauron. Presumably Denethor started using his stone before the return of Sauron and would have been free to turn his attention wherever he wanted, but his interest was Gondor and its enemies, not distant Elvish realms which were probably screened by the power of Vilya the Elven Ring. He may have conversed with Saruman, a similarly proud individual.
However, Sauron would change all of this; he exerted control over what the other two keepers of the Palantíri could see, which was largely images of his huge armies gathering to overwhelm all opposition. He may have stopped them conversing with each other. By that time Denethor would realise that trying to look at Imladris would draw the Eye there. He was not happy about sending either of his sons on the quest; only Boromir's stubbornness saw the quest happen at all. |
33,741 | In "The Council of Elrond" Boromir states that he has journeyed one hundred and ten days to reach Rivendell from Minas Tirith. Why did it take him so long? Gimli states that Mordor to the mountains above Moria is 300 leagues which is 900 miles (when they are contemplating the Redhorn pass). Minas Tirith is a bit nearer, but they've travelled south from Rivendell so I estimate his journey at 1000-1100 miles. So at best he's averaged 10 miles/day even though he's a strong determined man on horseback. I just can't reconcile that journey time with the known dimensions of Middle Earth. | 2013/04/02 | [
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] | There were a couple of reasons. Firstly, as jwenting states, he simply didn't know where it was. As he said at the Council of Elrond:
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> Long have I wandered by roads forgotten, seeking the house of Elrond, of which many had heard, but few knew where it lay.
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The second reason is that he lost his horse halfway through, as he tells Celeborn:
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> A long and wearisome journey. Four hundred leagues I reckoned it, and it took me many months, for I lost my horse at Tharbad, at the fording of the Greyflood.
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(Note that the comparison to the distance from Moria is not very useful: Boromir did not go that way, but went via the Gap of Rohan, as Saruman had not yet revealed himself as a traitor. However, all things being equal, that would actually have shortened his journey, if not for the points above.) | In the essay on the Palantíri in *Unfinished Tales*, we are told that the palantír of Minas Tirith was designed to interact most with the palantíri of Gondor, of which only three remained: one in the hands of Saruman, the other controlled by Sauron. Only a strong will and the right to use them enabled Aragorn to wrest the stone of Orthanc from the will of Sauron. Presumably Denethor started using his stone before the return of Sauron and would have been free to turn his attention wherever he wanted, but his interest was Gondor and its enemies, not distant Elvish realms which were probably screened by the power of Vilya the Elven Ring. He may have conversed with Saruman, a similarly proud individual.
However, Sauron would change all of this; he exerted control over what the other two keepers of the Palantíri could see, which was largely images of his huge armies gathering to overwhelm all opposition. He may have stopped them conversing with each other. By that time Denethor would realise that trying to look at Imladris would draw the Eye there. He was not happy about sending either of his sons on the quest; only Boromir's stubbornness saw the quest happen at all. |
78,345 | I'd like to fly to Borrego Valley Airport (L08) and it's inside California's Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. How does this work, given that I'm supposed to say at least 2000 feet AGL when flying over a state park? Am I allowed to descend below 2000 feet AGL only for takeoff and landing at the airport, or can I be below 2000 feet AGL at other times when flying over the state park? | 2020/05/23 | [
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] | It's important to understand that Bombardier Transportation/Aerospace, while ostensibly a company separate from the original Bombardier family (which only retained a minority stake when it was split off from Consumer Products - snowmobiles, watercraft, etc), is still actually controlled by the family due to a bizarre dual class share structure where the family retains its minority stake in the form of class A shares that have many more votes per share (I think it's 9 or 10 votes or something like that) than the single-vote class B common stock. This gives the family control of the company, and makes it takeover proof (also making it very difficult to raise private capital), even though its equity stake is a small minority one.
But the basic problem is the C series and to a lesser extent the Global 7000, just about broke the company. So broke they were forced to give the program to Airbus more or less for free. The CRJ line was neglected due to the commitments for the C with little in the way of proper design updates. This handed over dominance on the Regional side to Embraer (who's newest Ejet is basically a baby C-series technology wise) and CRJ production is winding down (it is now a Mitubishi product - M's interest wasn't in the Regional Aircraft program, but its support and spares organization, where M was hopelessly lacking).
On the corporate side, the Lear 85 disaster and the Global 7000/7500 development was another money hole, almost as bad as the C.
So in nutshell, since the traditional government money tap the company has traditionally relied on has largely dried up, the family has decided to dump everything (including rail) and just retain the consumer products operation, the separate family controlled company, upon which the whole business was founded, that was spun off some years ago. | The reason they are selling aircraft manufacturing lines to improve profit margin is because their aircraft business has a relatively low-profit margin. One of Bombardier most successful products is this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7pRAE.jpg)
Bombardier Zefiro. Source: Bombardier
It looks somewhat like an aircraft but it is missing the wings. It is called a "train".
Bombardier calls itself "the world's leading manufacturer of both planes and trains". Compared to Airbus and Boeing, they are a very small aircraft manufacturer, but they compensate for that in the train market. By moving out of the airliner manufacturing market they focus on their more profitable train building business. |
224,381 | I felt that maybe there is an alternate and concise way of saying **She agreed to follow without asking questions** in one(or two) word(s) ? | 2015/01/29 | [
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> *She [concurred](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/concur).*
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It doesn't necessarily specify *without question* but is used in situations where brevity is desired to agree with a statement.
Another word is [acquiesce](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/acquiesce) which means agree without protest. | Agreed [wholeheartedly](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wholehearted) might be the word:
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> marked by complete earnest commitment; free from all reserve or hesitation. "gave the proposal *wholehearted* approval"
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