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60,328 | The [Megaphragma mymaripenne](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/30/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas/#.VJ9zSAlE) is the smallest animal with eyes, brain, wings, muscles, guts and genitals.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQIak.gif)
... | 2016/11/03 | [
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] | You appear to have a misunderstanding of how physics works. Classical physics (i.e., the thing we generally refer to when discussing how things interact) is [merely an approximation](https://www.quora.com/At-what-scale-in-the-physical-hierarchy-does-the-classical-world-emerge-from-the-quantum-In-other-words-at-what-poi... | Quite large animals are "affected" by quantum mechanics, because even large animals consist of small parts and many mechanisms at the smallest scales of animal bodies rely on quantum mechanics.
For example: the reason that geckos' feet stick to glass is because of quantum mechanics (Van der Waals forces to be precise:... |
60,328 | The [Megaphragma mymaripenne](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/30/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas/#.VJ9zSAlE) is the smallest animal with eyes, brain, wings, muscles, guts and genitals.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQIak.gif)
... | 2016/11/03 | [
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] | It is hard to put an exact number on this, but it seems like the answer would be maybe 1000 atoms at most. [From Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment),
>
> The [double slit] experiment can be done with entities much larger than electrons
> and photons, although it becomes more difficult a... | Humans are affected by quantum mechanics: some human eyes are able to detect a single quantum of light (a photon). |
60,328 | The [Megaphragma mymaripenne](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/30/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas/#.VJ9zSAlE) is the smallest animal with eyes, brain, wings, muscles, guts and genitals.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQIak.gif)
... | 2016/11/03 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/60328",
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] | You appear to have a misunderstanding of how physics works. Classical physics (i.e., the thing we generally refer to when discussing how things interact) is [merely an approximation](https://www.quora.com/At-what-scale-in-the-physical-hierarchy-does-the-classical-world-emerge-from-the-quantum-In-other-words-at-what-poi... | Proteins are the smallest machines of the cell that can do anything interesting (for some definition of *interesting*, but I work with proteins and I am biased). They are long chains of hundreds of aminoacids (thousands of atoms) do things like pumping water, nutrients, and waste in and out of the cells, guide chemical... |
60,328 | The [Megaphragma mymaripenne](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/30/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas/#.VJ9zSAlE) is the smallest animal with eyes, brain, wings, muscles, guts and genitals.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQIak.gif)
... | 2016/11/03 | [
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] | When I read "If by some miracle it could be still shrinked [sic]..." in the question, I wonder whether you really want to try to conform to "known" physics, especially if you're telling a story.
But that said, I haven't noticed the phrase "thermodynamic limit" being used in any answers yet. The reason human-sized obje... | The actual question is : how big can a system be and still be quantic ?
Some theories say that if enough particles are entangled, then the wave function may spontaneously collapse, which means that for example it is not possible to entangle Shrödinger's cat to a decaying atom.
The limit for this would be also the si... |
60,328 | The [Megaphragma mymaripenne](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/30/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas/#.VJ9zSAlE) is the smallest animal with eyes, brain, wings, muscles, guts and genitals.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQIak.gif)
... | 2016/11/03 | [
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] | In the world of processors 5nm was assumed as smallest size before quantum tunneling starts to [be a problem](https://www.cnet.com/news/end-of-moores-law-its-not-just-about-physics/). If you shrink your wasp 1000 times it will become 200nm long, since its legs are much smaller they will probably be affected by tunnelin... | Humans are affected by quantum mechanics: some human eyes are able to detect a single quantum of light (a photon). |
60,328 | The [Megaphragma mymaripenne](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/30/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas/#.VJ9zSAlE) is the smallest animal with eyes, brain, wings, muscles, guts and genitals.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQIak.gif)
... | 2016/11/03 | [
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] | It is hard to put an exact number on this, but it seems like the answer would be maybe 1000 atoms at most. [From Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment),
>
> The [double slit] experiment can be done with entities much larger than electrons
> and photons, although it becomes more difficult a... | Quite large animals are "affected" by quantum mechanics, because even large animals consist of small parts and many mechanisms at the smallest scales of animal bodies rely on quantum mechanics.
For example: the reason that geckos' feet stick to glass is because of quantum mechanics (Van der Waals forces to be precise:... |
60,328 | The [Megaphragma mymaripenne](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/30/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas/#.VJ9zSAlE) is the smallest animal with eyes, brain, wings, muscles, guts and genitals.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQIak.gif)
... | 2016/11/03 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/60328",
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] | Quite large animals are "affected" by quantum mechanics, because even large animals consist of small parts and many mechanisms at the smallest scales of animal bodies rely on quantum mechanics.
For example: the reason that geckos' feet stick to glass is because of quantum mechanics (Van der Waals forces to be precise:... | Humans are affected by quantum mechanics: some human eyes are able to detect a single quantum of light (a photon). |
106,147 | Will Pages/Keynote/Numbers (ex. iWork) be free for old macs? | 2013/10/23 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/106147",
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] | It appears that everyone that owns an older copy of iWork for iOS gets a free upgrade whether or not your version came from a retail CD or the Mac App Store.
If you don't already own iWork - you will have to pay for either a new Mac or the apps piecemeal on the App Store.
The above summary is my understanding of this... | No. It can be downloaded for free only for Macs purchased on or after October 1, 2013 ([source](http://www.apple.com/mac/pages/)). |
106,147 | Will Pages/Keynote/Numbers (ex. iWork) be free for old macs? | 2013/10/23 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/106147",
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] | In addition to upgrades for users of existing/previous installs of iWork, it has been shown that the logic that handles identifying whether you are eligible for an upgrade does not take into account whther your install was a trial or retail edition. In some cases, users with a trial version installed have found that up... | No. It can be downloaded for free only for Macs purchased on or after October 1, 2013 ([source](http://www.apple.com/mac/pages/)). |
106,147 | Will Pages/Keynote/Numbers (ex. iWork) be free for old macs? | 2013/10/23 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/106147",
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] | It appears that everyone that owns an older copy of iWork for iOS gets a free upgrade whether or not your version came from a retail CD or the Mac App Store.
If you don't already own iWork - you will have to pay for either a new Mac or the apps piecemeal on the App Store.
The above summary is my understanding of this... | In addition to upgrades for users of existing/previous installs of iWork, it has been shown that the logic that handles identifying whether you are eligible for an upgrade does not take into account whther your install was a trial or retail edition. In some cases, users with a trial version installed have found that up... |
616,444 | Recently, I had updated my Windows 8 to 8.1, and got some errors with Windows Phone 8 SDK (I could not run unit tests).
The problem is that on Windows 8 I had installed WP 8 SDK with Russian language (my failure...), and now I am not able to uninstall it because it says that Windows running with compatibility settings... | 2013/07/06 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/616444",
"https://superuser.com",
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] | For anyone who runs in to this (since it's first hit on google):
Run the uninstaller from "Programs and Features", it'll fail and give this error.
Right click the icon (Red Visual studio) on the start bar, right click the app, properties.
Compatibility, Change settings for all users, Run this in compatibility mode f... | You can install visual studio 2012 update 3 or upgrade to visual studio 2013 ultimate preview, which already has the windows phone 8 sdk inbuilt. |
56,196 | A neighbor two units down from me discharged a firearm inside the unit and the bullet went through both of our units and ended up in mine. If either of us had been using the bathroom we may have been killed. Is there any legal action that we can take or anything that we can pursue? | 2020/09/11 | [
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] | Yes. You can file a police report. You can also sue for cost of repairing any damaged property. | ### Yes for the damage to your property, *maybe* for almost shooting you.
You could, of course, sue for the cost of repairing the damage caused to your property by your neighbor.
Whether you could also sue for negligent infliction of emotional distress is a bit more complicated. The relevant test in many jurisdiction... |
300,245 | I'm building a caching system and I want it to be ready for distributed caching a la memcached. What I'm looking to do is to convert a traditional Hashtable/Dictionary of (string -> object) and to allow per-item expiration to be handled by the Cache itself, in the way that the System.Web.Caching.Cache can do.
I'm awar... | 2008/11/18 | [
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] | You could check out one of the open source Memcached wrappers for .Net. That might be helpful. Here's one from Sourceforge I was running in production for a while.
[Memcached .net](http://sourceforge.net/projects/memcacheddotnet/) | This might be helpful
[Memcached Providers](http://www.codeplex.com/memcachedproviders) |
300,245 | I'm building a caching system and I want it to be ready for distributed caching a la memcached. What I'm looking to do is to convert a traditional Hashtable/Dictionary of (string -> object) and to allow per-item expiration to be handled by the Cache itself, in the way that the System.Web.Caching.Cache can do.
I'm awar... | 2008/11/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/300245",
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] | The most important thing is to make sure that your application is easy to port, follow normal DI/IOC (Dependency injection/Inversion of control) principles. So code that depends on the cache should not
* Get a reference to the cache themself
* Reference a Dictionary<,> object
Instead, make sure that the code
* Call ... | You could check out one of the open source Memcached wrappers for .Net. That might be helpful. Here's one from Sourceforge I was running in production for a while.
[Memcached .net](http://sourceforge.net/projects/memcacheddotnet/) |
300,245 | I'm building a caching system and I want it to be ready for distributed caching a la memcached. What I'm looking to do is to convert a traditional Hashtable/Dictionary of (string -> object) and to allow per-item expiration to be handled by the Cache itself, in the way that the System.Web.Caching.Cache can do.
I'm awar... | 2008/11/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/300245",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7104/"
] | The most important thing is to make sure that your application is easy to port, follow normal DI/IOC (Dependency injection/Inversion of control) principles. So code that depends on the cache should not
* Get a reference to the cache themself
* Reference a Dictionary<,> object
Instead, make sure that the code
* Call ... | This might be helpful
[Memcached Providers](http://www.codeplex.com/memcachedproviders) |
50,290 | I have an IO pin on a [LM3S1751](http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/LM3S1751-IQC50-A2/726-1108-ND/1739410) microcontroller tied to a [pogo pin](http://www.digikey.com/scripts/dksearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=829-22-008-20-001101) which shunts to ground when engaged. There is a 100k external pullup on the pin.... | 2012/12/01 | [
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] | >
> How do i measure RL and VRL?
>
>
>
They're noted on page 2 of the datasheet you linked. RL is your 10k resistor. VRL is the voltage developed across it. VC is the sensor's supply voltage (note that the heater (VH) must be 5V +/-5%, but VC can be up to 15V max per the datasheet).
 microcontroller tied to a [pogo pin](http://www.digikey.com/scripts/dksearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=829-22-008-20-001101) which shunts to ground when engaged. There is a 100k external pullup on the pin.... | 2012/12/01 | [
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] | >
> How do i measure RL and VRL?
>
>
>
They're noted on page 2 of the datasheet you linked. RL is your 10k resistor. VRL is the voltage developed across it. VC is the sensor's supply voltage (note that the heater (VH) must be 5V +/-5%, but VC can be up to 15V max per the datasheet).
 and [he... |
50,290 | I have an IO pin on a [LM3S1751](http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/LM3S1751-IQC50-A2/726-1108-ND/1739410) microcontroller tied to a [pogo pin](http://www.digikey.com/scripts/dksearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=829-22-008-20-001101) which shunts to ground when engaged. There is a 100k external pullup on the pin.... | 2012/12/01 | [
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] | I've designed for similar sensors from e2v (NO2 and CO) in connection with the Air Quality Egg project. For that project I actually implemented a feedback control loop to control the heater voltage to keep it within the specified power output (schematics [here](http://solderpad.com/vicatcu/aqe-cmos-gas-add-on/) and [he... | Standard Test condition is given at 200K load for clean air.
Spec is given as RM1 ~ 0.1 MΩ to 2 MΩ for clean air (after climatizing)
And sensitivity as 12±8 for 0.3 ppm NOx for Rs ratio to RM2 of clean air.
However graph shows sensitivity of near worst case = 5 at 0.3ppm
![enter image description here](https://i.stack... |
28,922 | I hope this question is in the correct SE website.
I run a multi-author football website. The site has been up since 2009. Each year some authors come and some go. The site is built on WordPress, if that adds any clarity to the coming question.
One point I always try to make to new authors is to use Headings instead ... | 2012/04/25 | [
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] | Instead of trying to blindly replace all bold words with header tags (which could easily lead to breaking an article), you need to *educate* your authors on the importance of the header tags, what they mean and their direct SEO benefits. Tell them that their article will likely receive more views if it is structure cor... | why not create an 'admin' page for them where they enter their articles? That way, you can put a button for, say, 'bold' and show it as bold but internally you code it as a header. If tomorrow you decide to change how you lay out the HTML, you change what the admin does, and your authors don't need to even know anythin... |
297 | Are there any other games in the Cluedo series that has the same characters? The only other one I could find was The Great Museum Caper... | 2010/10/20 | [
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] | [Clue: The Card Game](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3269/clue-the-card-game) uses the same characters as the U.S. version of Clue: Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum, Mr. Green, Mrs. White, and Mrs. Peacock. In some ways, it's even more fun than the board game.
There's a [Cluedo card game](http://w... | There is a long list of *official* Clue variants which can be found at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo>. According to wikipedia, "The great-museum-caper" is not an official variant.
[This Answer was edited to improve it's value.] |
297 | Are there any other games in the Cluedo series that has the same characters? The only other one I could find was The Great Museum Caper... | 2010/10/20 | [
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] | <http://www.theartofmurder.com/> is probably the most comprehensive list I know of. It goes through all the editions, variants, spinoffs etc of Clue/Cluedo. Which are mostly the same game.
*The Great Museum Caper* is a 1991 variant in the US. | There is a long list of *official* Clue variants which can be found at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo>. According to wikipedia, "The great-museum-caper" is not an official variant.
[This Answer was edited to improve it's value.] |
297 | Are there any other games in the Cluedo series that has the same characters? The only other one I could find was The Great Museum Caper... | 2010/10/20 | [
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] | <http://www.theartofmurder.com/> is probably the most comprehensive list I know of. It goes through all the editions, variants, spinoffs etc of Clue/Cluedo. Which are mostly the same game.
*The Great Museum Caper* is a 1991 variant in the US. | [Clue: The Card Game](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3269/clue-the-card-game) uses the same characters as the U.S. version of Clue: Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum, Mr. Green, Mrs. White, and Mrs. Peacock. In some ways, it's even more fun than the board game.
There's a [Cluedo card game](http://w... |
109,953 | In the cinematic universe, people often throw around the phrase "gifted." For people born with powers, the word mutant is often used. What I'm asking is, is there a general word or phrase used to refer to any and all people with superhuman abilities?
Edit: I am looking for answers about both the cinematic universe and... | 2015/12/08 | [
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] | **The MCU:**
This is actually discussed in-universe.
From the *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.* episode *One of Us*:
>
> Coulson: What do you mean, "other"?
>
> Simmons: [sighs] "Gifted" is both insufficient and too broad. I believe there are two categories we're dealing with. Um, "enhanced" is what I would suggest we ... | For the MCU:
------------
In *Marvel: Agents of SHIELD* They refer to people as gifted (born), enhanced (created), and for people who have undergone a change via Terrigenesis are referred to as Inhumans. People from other planets who have powers are simply referred to as aliens.
In *Avengers: Age of Ultron* Captain ... |
54,106 | I need to find software to draw things like furniture or other home stuff in a Mac, something similar to AutoCad, but much more simple - in 2D.
I am not expert in drawing, so something we can load the object from the toolbar or similar.
Any ideas? | 2018/12/30 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/54106",
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] | I'd suggest [Sweet Home 3D](https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Sweet_Home_3D), it has both 2D and 3D mode and a lot of furniture built-in.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3y3rW.jpg) | I would take a look at [SketchUp](https://www.sketchup.com/) (formerly Google Sketchup)
I've been playing around with it for some design work I've been doing for 3D Printing.
There is also a [large community](https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/) which makes models available.
Hope that helps.
Brian |
2,527,731 | What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch? | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2527731",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | It might be difficult to comprehend the source for an entire OS all at once. The [tutorials](http://wiki.osdev.org/Tutorials) over at [osdev.org](http://wiki.osdev.org/) have a few "bare bones" code samples to get you started. | I think best way to read many different operating system sources, definitely osdev barebone tutorials, whitepapers on OS research and documentation on your target hardware.
I personally would recommend looking at l4-ka pistachio kernel, written in pretty darn good C++. There are also multiple smaller projects definite... |
2,527,731 | What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch? | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2527731",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/109104/"
] | It might be difficult to comprehend the source for an entire OS all at once. The [tutorials](http://wiki.osdev.org/Tutorials) over at [osdev.org](http://wiki.osdev.org/) have a few "bare bones" code samples to get you started. | I just wrote my version of x86 kernel from scratch! (for my [OS class project](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/)) and that was experience I couldn't probably describe. You can find valuable resources at above link. |
2,527,731 | What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch? | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2527731",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/109104/"
] | I think best way to read many different operating system sources, definitely osdev barebone tutorials, whitepapers on OS research and documentation on your target hardware.
I personally would recommend looking at l4-ka pistachio kernel, written in pretty darn good C++. There are also multiple smaller projects definite... | I read this article a while back. You might find it interesting. This guy wrote MINIX back in the day for the very purpose of teaching OS concepts. So it would probably be a good simple OS to study. <http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/>
However, as Martin and Cory mentioned, it's a big chunk to chew. |
2,527,731 | What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch? | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2527731",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/109104/"
] | I think [Minix](http://www.minix3.org/) was created for pretty much that exact purpose.
Have fun! | I think best way to read many different operating system sources, definitely osdev barebone tutorials, whitepapers on OS research and documentation on your target hardware.
I personally would recommend looking at l4-ka pistachio kernel, written in pretty darn good C++. There are also multiple smaller projects definite... |
2,527,731 | What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch? | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2527731",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/109104/"
] | It all depends on how you want your Operating System to function, if you want a microkernel you should probably study Minix 3, or if you want a monolithic kernel the current linux kernel is a good place to start from (HINT: look in arch/x86/boot, there is some very interesting code in there).
However I personally think... | There is not much point in studying obsolete OS's which is pretty much all current OS's as they tend to have long lives. Have a look at some fresh ideas (although based on tried and true) like [Singularity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_system%29) |
2,527,731 | What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch? | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2527731",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/109104/"
] | I think [Minix](http://www.minix3.org/) was created for pretty much that exact purpose.
Have fun! | I read this article a while back. You might find it interesting. This guy wrote MINIX back in the day for the very purpose of teaching OS concepts. So it would probably be a good simple OS to study. <http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/>
However, as Martin and Cory mentioned, it's a big chunk to chew. |
2,527,731 | What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch? | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2527731",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/109104/"
] | It might be difficult to comprehend the source for an entire OS all at once. The [tutorials](http://wiki.osdev.org/Tutorials) over at [osdev.org](http://wiki.osdev.org/) have a few "bare bones" code samples to get you started. | Honestly, you should probably not start with an x86 architecture, or even operating systems but maybe something like an 8-bit starter kit, like a basic [Fox11 development kit](http://www.evbplus.com/fox11_hc11_68hc11.html). In college, I wrote my first (and only) OS in Assembly for an M68HC11 processor (the one in the ... |
2,527,731 | What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch? | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2527731",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/109104/"
] | It all depends on how you want your Operating System to function, if you want a microkernel you should probably study Minix 3, or if you want a monolithic kernel the current linux kernel is a good place to start from (HINT: look in arch/x86/boot, there is some very interesting code in there).
However I personally think... | I read this article a while back. You might find it interesting. This guy wrote MINIX back in the day for the very purpose of teaching OS concepts. So it would probably be a good simple OS to study. <http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/>
However, as Martin and Cory mentioned, it's a big chunk to chew. |
2,527,731 | What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch? | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2527731",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/109104/"
] | Honestly, you should probably not start with an x86 architecture, or even operating systems but maybe something like an 8-bit starter kit, like a basic [Fox11 development kit](http://www.evbplus.com/fox11_hc11_68hc11.html). In college, I wrote my first (and only) OS in Assembly for an M68HC11 processor (the one in the ... | I read this article a while back. You might find it interesting. This guy wrote MINIX back in the day for the very purpose of teaching OS concepts. So it would probably be a good simple OS to study. <http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/>
However, as Martin and Cory mentioned, it's a big chunk to chew. |
2,527,731 | What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch? | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2527731",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/109104/"
] | I think [Minix](http://www.minix3.org/) was created for pretty much that exact purpose.
Have fun! | For my OS class in college we used the [Nachos](http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tom/nachos/) OS Project and implemented that. I did the C++ version, however I think there is also a Java port of this as well. I remember it being very interesting and learning a great deal, even though it was a lot of work. |
3,071 | There are many pictures I've seen of lightning coming out of the plume of smoke caused by a volcano (Often called 'Volcano Lightning').
Example:
Why does this happen? | 2014/12/16 | [
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/3071",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/users/115/"
] | To actively take measurements from the mount of an erupting volcano is not practical, so the mechanisms are often modeled in a laboratory, such as what was performed in the article [Experimental generation of volcanic lightning](http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/42/1/79.full) (Cimarelli et al. 2014), who determined th... | From my knowledge, lightning is formed when a static charge develops between ice particles in a cloud, and the charge is neutralized via an electric strike to the ground.
In a volcanic cloud, there is a lot of ash and very high temperatures. The ash is a substitute for the ice particles. The temperature difference b... |
3,071 | There are many pictures I've seen of lightning coming out of the plume of smoke caused by a volcano (Often called 'Volcano Lightning').
Example:
Why does this happen? | 2014/12/16 | [
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/3071",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/users/115/"
] | To actively take measurements from the mount of an erupting volcano is not practical, so the mechanisms are often modeled in a laboratory, such as what was performed in the article [Experimental generation of volcanic lightning](http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/42/1/79.full) (Cimarelli et al. 2014), who determined th... | The discharges are due to the charged particles carried aloft by the plumes rising from or shot from a volcano. The plumes may be dominated by positive charge but usually it also contains regions of negative charge. These regions can discharge to one another or to ground. The current in a discharge can heat the air so ... |
77,497 | To give you some background details about myself: I have a deep interest in [Quine's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine) work and Naturalism in Philosophy; I have been independently studying and reading Quine's work and his relation to other philosophers, in particular the relation between Quine's w... | 2020/11/16 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/77497",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/48641/"
] | From what I understand, Quine's naturalized epistemology is based on the idea that epistemological questions should be approached from the perspective of empirical science, rather than from the perspective of a priori philosophical analysis. In this sense, Quine's approach could be seen as a rejection of the "Myth of t... | Quine's work does not fall prey to the 'Myth of the Given' for a variety of reasons. First, Quine's naturalized epistemology does not rely on any sort of foundation, either in the form of an observation sentence or otherwise. Second, Quine's work is not committed to the 'Third Dogma of Empiricism', which states that al... |
9,497 | In [this question](https://rpg.stackexchange.com/a/157484/40101) I made an answer and [@illustro](https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/36850/illustro) also provided an answer which includes information that I feel would improve my answer (I made a similar point in my answer, but his answer provided validation to that po... | 2019/10/08 | [
"https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9497",
"https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40101/"
] | Improvement is better.
----------------------
If you really think that the information that @illustro pointed you to would improve your answer, definitely incorporate it. We want to create the best resource possible for the [millions who will come after the original querent](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/244534/311... | Yes, most complete answer > less complete answers
-------------------------------------------------
If someone else's answer highlighted something you forgot to mention or expanded on a point your own answer made its perfectly fine to also incorporate that information in an edit.
The only unacceptable way to do this ... |
28,316,013 | I have icon sets (Tick and close) used in excel rows. I need to calculate the count of "Ticks" in one cell and "close" in another cell. Can you please help me how to do that ?
For cells which has text i am using =CountIF(A8:A10):"Text" formula. but for icons im not sure how to do that. | 2015/02/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28316013",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4501532/"
] | If you just want to use Excel cells only you will need to add another 'helper' column, which could be then hidden, that contains the conditional formula and then use count on that.
Alternatively you could open the Visual Basic editor and insert a module, using [this tutorial on conditional formatting](http://www.cpea... | I think it can not be done using just functions. If you really need to see those icons for example and count them I would use something like 1 and 0 for counting, where 1 is tick and 0 close. If it bothers you, that there are 1 and 0 in cells then change font color to white, for example, then you wont see them, and to ... |
19,999 | I have a receive-only VOIP account with a small-time company in Poland. Not much in the way of support or features, and sporadically offline, but okay. I bought a local DID number from it.
What [FOSS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software) Windows or Linux software might I be able to use on a virt... | 2015/06/02 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/19999",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/14672/"
] | [tSIP](http://tomeko.net/software/SIPclient/howto/voicemail.php):
* create announcement file (wave S16LE, 8ksps); it must be as long as the longest call voicemail should record as call would be disconnected when file would end, thus it should consist of few seconds of prompt, period of silence and perhaps warning at t... | If you are not a FOSS-fanatic, i.e. if this is not a critical requirement, Google Voice will be just fine for you.
Just sign up for an account and it has all you need: you can pick up a US DID **for free**, it has built-in voicemail, and it can send recorded voicemails to email.
Voicemail greetings are customizable. |
286,511 | I have 2 SharePoint lists. I have List A which is list of types of devices (make, model, etc.) and List B which contains an inventory (serial number, computer names, ip address, etc.) List B has a lookup column to reference model types from List A, but how can I copy the other relevant data such as make and device type... | 2020/11/04 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/286511",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/93510/"
] | You should be able to simply show the other columns of information through the lookup column that you have added on to List B.
If you go in to edit the column you should see a section that says "Add a column to show each of these additional fields:"
Select the columns you require and they should be added as additiona... | If you want this for display purposes you can modify the list view on List B to show lookup columns. Lookup columns will look like this:
LookupColumnName:FieldNameOnListA
However you need to ensure that all fields are selected in the picture @Hartraft posted.
[ and List B which contains an inventory (serial number, computer names, ip address, etc.) List B has a lookup column to reference model types from List A, but how can I copy the other relevant data such as make and device type... | 2020/11/04 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/286511",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/93510/"
] | Because your original question is about how to copy data from another list based on a lookup column, that is what I'm answering, however I had the same initial reaction as Hartraft. Namely, that there's an easier way to just display additional information from an item selected in a lookup column from one list into anot... | You should be able to simply show the other columns of information through the lookup column that you have added on to List B.
If you go in to edit the column you should see a section that says "Add a column to show each of these additional fields:"
Select the columns you require and they should be added as additiona... |
286,511 | I have 2 SharePoint lists. I have List A which is list of types of devices (make, model, etc.) and List B which contains an inventory (serial number, computer names, ip address, etc.) List B has a lookup column to reference model types from List A, but how can I copy the other relevant data such as make and device type... | 2020/11/04 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/286511",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/93510/"
] | Because your original question is about how to copy data from another list based on a lookup column, that is what I'm answering, however I had the same initial reaction as Hartraft. Namely, that there's an easier way to just display additional information from an item selected in a lookup column from one list into anot... | If you want this for display purposes you can modify the list view on List B to show lookup columns. Lookup columns will look like this:
LookupColumnName:FieldNameOnListA
However you need to ensure that all fields are selected in the picture @Hartraft posted.
[.
Now, if I right-click on my layer and go to properties, and choose WGS 84, the shapefile disappea... | 2017/02/02 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/226811",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/90840/"
] | If you just change its CRS, it will keep the value as they were. For an example, UTM values are in hundreds of thousands, not double digit decimals like WGS84.
So instead of changing the CRS of the layer, I generally try to reproject the whole shapefile, by saving it under a new name: just right-click the layer and c... | Another technique that works is to set up a project with at least one other layer with the desired projection. Set OTF to on. Import your layer with the different CRS. It will automatically be brought in with the CRS of your project.
[](https://i.stac... |
139,027 | I would like to open [this page](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/cloud-gke-workshop-v2) (with its images) from a URL and edit a copy in Google Docs. The URL does not require authentication. How do I do this?
* Saving it creates an HTML file plus a folder, which cannot be uploaded as such to Google Docs... | 2020/02/23 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/139027",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/18240/"
] | Try Save to Google Drive Chrome extension. More details in [Save web content to Google Drive](https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375013?hl=en&ref_topic=2375187)
NOTE: The above extension works with [the page](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/cloud-gke-workshop-v2) referred by the OP.
---
From th... | Unfortunately **you cannot**.
**Google Docs is just not build to edit HTML files**. Even if you were to find some way it would leave behind so many entities that would be impractical to clean up the file.
You could probably uploaded to your drive and use an extension to edit it there. Still (from what I heard) these... |
46,258 | i am trying to detect the touch on android and is it possible to have a same function with touch which can work same as OnMouseUp() function | 2012/12/26 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/46258",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/24373/"
] | Seriously, Google that stuff:
<http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/Input.html>
There is a complete manual on unity. Took me just one google search. | if you want to develop the touch functionality you have to write input.getmousebuttondown,input.getmousebuttonup,input.getmousebutton will work.One more way also there touch pahse began,thouchphase.end.
OnMouseUp() and OnMouseDown() will work only for windows,mac.It won't support for mobiles(ios and android).
check t... |
97,737 | I have a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ60. The problem is I don't really understand the workings of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. Whenever I go into manual mode, the pictures I take are pitch black. I take the pic indoors with a moderate amount of light, but I don't know why the pics are black.
How do I use manual exposur... | 2018/04/03 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/97737",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/74433/"
] | ISO is a setting on your camera that lets you set how sensitive the sensor is. In brightly lit scene's you set it to lower number and as it gets darker you may need to set to a higher number in order to let enough light pass through the lens and shutter to achieve proper exposure. It is best practice use the lowest ISO... | Black pictures in Manual mode just means you are not exposing the image properly. To your eyes the light may seem bright enough but it is no where near as bright as outdoors.
The main culprit indoors would be ISO. You probably need about ISO 1600 or ISO 3200 for the average indoor room. At night ISO 6400 might be need... |
97,737 | I have a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ60. The problem is I don't really understand the workings of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. Whenever I go into manual mode, the pictures I take are pitch black. I take the pic indoors with a moderate amount of light, but I don't know why the pics are black.
How do I use manual exposur... | 2018/04/03 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/97737",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/74433/"
] | ISO is a setting on your camera that lets you set how sensitive the sensor is. In brightly lit scene's you set it to lower number and as it gets darker you may need to set to a higher number in order to let enough light pass through the lens and shutter to achieve proper exposure. It is best practice use the lowest ISO... | ISO numbers double with a doubling in sensitivity (i.e. 200 ISO is twice as sensitive as 100 ISO). Opening the aperture (toward smaller numbers), doubles the light entering the camera with each f/stop you open, but results in lower depth-of-field. And shutter speed, when hand-holding the camera, should be at least as f... |
18,987 | I'm trying to speed up my pathfinding and discovered [A\* with JPS](http://harablog.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/jump-point-search/). It basically prunes tiles before adding them to the OPEN set.
Can I use that technique with my grid that only allows straight directions? | 2011/10/25 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/18987",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/177/"
] | If you read [the article](http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~dharabor/data/papers/harabor-grastien-aaai11.pdf), you'll see that they list this as an open problem in the "Conclusions" section:
>
> "One interesting direction for further work is to extend
> jump points to other types of grids, such as hexagons or
> texes (... | Actually, if you look at the definition of 45-degree route, it is always possible to transform a path with 45-degree route into a path without 45-degree turn. And it's also optimal (you can easily prove it by contradiction).
So, the simplest way is to run the jump point search and then transform it into orthogonal rou... |
4,165,265 | I have two different folders located not under the same parent folder.
Is it possible to make a Git repository that includes them both rather than I having to make two Git repositories one for each one? | 2010/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4165265",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/206446/"
] | Move these directories to a single parent, create a git repo, and create symlinks to the directories in previous paths.
In a similar situation I also created a script to make these symlinks automatically (I had much more of them than 2) and added it to the repo. | This can be done by having a folder with [hard links](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link) to the two directories, thereby giving them a common parent folder. |
350,726 | Many of us seem quite unhappy with the scarcity of quality questions on the site.
If you're reading this, you're probably more than qualified to ask good questions.
If you are also unhappy with question scarcity, then...
***Why aren't you asking more questions?***
Possible reasons
----------------
I'll speculate a... | 2017/06/14 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/350726",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/541136/"
] | I don't ask questions anymore because... I can generally figure out the problem in far less time than it would take for me to write up the question. (#5)
I don't see a point in self answer questions either. I mean, yeah, share knowledge and all, but... if you can solve it, so can anyone else... why does it need to be ... | I recently set up a slightly old implementation. It was a SimpleMembership Authorization and Authentication provider using a MSSQL Database with the ASP.Net schema.
Since this is nothing fancy, and nothing new, there was a lot of coverage. The whole process went without a hitch, and the small issues where I had a que... |
350,726 | Many of us seem quite unhappy with the scarcity of quality questions on the site.
If you're reading this, you're probably more than qualified to ask good questions.
If you are also unhappy with question scarcity, then...
***Why aren't you asking more questions?***
Possible reasons
----------------
I'll speculate a... | 2017/06/14 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/350726",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/541136/"
] | My main reason for not asking questions: It seems that it will take a long time to produce a question of sufficient quality and that that time could be better spent researching the problem and experimenting myself. | I have three main reasons, and I don't see any of them on your list. Maybe #3 is.
In order of frequency:
### 1. The question I have is already answered.
Maybe it took a while to find, but I was able to find an existing answer on the site. Sometimes I get it directly from Google Search, and sometimes I have to jump t... |
350,726 | Many of us seem quite unhappy with the scarcity of quality questions on the site.
If you're reading this, you're probably more than qualified to ask good questions.
If you are also unhappy with question scarcity, then...
***Why aren't you asking more questions?***
Possible reasons
----------------
I'll speculate a... | 2017/06/14 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/350726",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/541136/"
] | It's pretty simple, really. The expectation among MSO regulars is usually that [the asker will have *exhausted* their own resources before asking](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/261592/how-much-research-effort-is-expected-of-stack-overflow-users/261593#261593). Since a typical skilled answerer has a lot more ... | I ask questions when I am stuck, have googled a fair bit, tried some things and have hit a dead end.
But now I know that a question will get shot down in flames if there is anyway any part of it can be interpreted as poor, lazy, not researched,... Didnt used to happen
I do know that the question is clear in my mind (... |
350,726 | Many of us seem quite unhappy with the scarcity of quality questions on the site.
If you're reading this, you're probably more than qualified to ask good questions.
If you are also unhappy with question scarcity, then...
***Why aren't you asking more questions?***
Possible reasons
----------------
I'll speculate a... | 2017/06/14 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/350726",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/541136/"
] | I have three main reasons, and I don't see any of them on your list. Maybe #3 is.
In order of frequency:
### 1. The question I have is already answered.
Maybe it took a while to find, but I was able to find an existing answer on the site. Sometimes I get it directly from Google Search, and sometimes I have to jump t... | I ask questions when I am stuck, have googled a fair bit, tried some things and have hit a dead end.
But now I know that a question will get shot down in flames if there is anyway any part of it can be interpreted as poor, lazy, not researched,... Didnt used to happen
I do know that the question is clear in my mind (... |
350,726 | Many of us seem quite unhappy with the scarcity of quality questions on the site.
If you're reading this, you're probably more than qualified to ask good questions.
If you are also unhappy with question scarcity, then...
***Why aren't you asking more questions?***
Possible reasons
----------------
I'll speculate a... | 2017/06/14 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/350726",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/541136/"
] | It's pretty simple, really. The expectation among MSO regulars is usually that [the asker will have *exhausted* their own resources before asking](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/261592/how-much-research-effort-is-expected-of-stack-overflow-users/261593#261593). Since a typical skilled answerer has a lot more ... | I don't ask questions anymore because... I can generally figure out the problem in far less time than it would take for me to write up the question. (#5)
I don't see a point in self answer questions either. I mean, yeah, share knowledge and all, but... if you can solve it, so can anyone else... why does it need to be ... |
350,726 | Many of us seem quite unhappy with the scarcity of quality questions on the site.
If you're reading this, you're probably more than qualified to ask good questions.
If you are also unhappy with question scarcity, then...
***Why aren't you asking more questions?***
Possible reasons
----------------
I'll speculate a... | 2017/06/14 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/350726",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/541136/"
] | I don't ask questions since by the time I distill the question to a "Stack Overflow" worthy question, it's normally not answerable in the sea of sand questions on SO.
So if I post it, I either:
* Waste time writing it up
* Self answer eventually
* Get misguided people posting crap or answers to it which straight up a... | I have three main reasons, and I don't see any of them on your list. Maybe #3 is.
In order of frequency:
### 1. The question I have is already answered.
Maybe it took a while to find, but I was able to find an existing answer on the site. Sometimes I get it directly from Google Search, and sometimes I have to jump t... |
350,726 | Many of us seem quite unhappy with the scarcity of quality questions on the site.
If you're reading this, you're probably more than qualified to ask good questions.
If you are also unhappy with question scarcity, then...
***Why aren't you asking more questions?***
Possible reasons
----------------
I'll speculate a... | 2017/06/14 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/350726",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/541136/"
] | The kinds of questions I *need* to ask aren't the kinds of questions people *want* to answer.
=============================================================================================
That doesn't mean my questions are off-topic, either.
-----------------------------------------------------
I've [only had one poo... | It's pretty simple, really. The expectation among MSO regulars is usually that [the asker will have *exhausted* their own resources before asking](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/261592/how-much-research-effort-is-expected-of-stack-overflow-users/261593#261593). Since a typical skilled answerer has a lot more ... |
350,726 | Many of us seem quite unhappy with the scarcity of quality questions on the site.
If you're reading this, you're probably more than qualified to ask good questions.
If you are also unhappy with question scarcity, then...
***Why aren't you asking more questions?***
Possible reasons
----------------
I'll speculate a... | 2017/06/14 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/350726",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/541136/"
] | I don't ask questions since by the time I distill the question to a "Stack Overflow" worthy question, it's normally not answerable in the sea of sand questions on SO.
So if I post it, I either:
* Waste time writing it up
* Self answer eventually
* Get misguided people posting crap or answers to it which straight up a... | I recently set up a slightly old implementation. It was a SimpleMembership Authorization and Authentication provider using a MSSQL Database with the ASP.Net schema.
Since this is nothing fancy, and nothing new, there was a lot of coverage. The whole process went without a hitch, and the small issues where I had a que... |
108 | Apart from the song [*The Promised Land*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promised_Land_%28Bruce_Springsteen_song%29), there are quite a few other songs by Bruce Springsteen whose lyrics make reference to a "promised land".
Some examples:
>
> * "For all the blown-off strangers and hot rod angels, stumbling through ... | 2015/02/25 | [
"https://musicfans.stackexchange.com/questions/108",
"https://musicfans.stackexchange.com",
"https://musicfans.stackexchange.com/users/80/"
] | The Promised Land is a theme that Springsteen employs, because it's a place he always wanted to be. In his lean younger years, before the fame, it was a place he hoped to get to. It was a place he hoped his fans got to. It was a common cause that bound his fans to himself. The Promised Land is, after all, "the runaway ... | **"The Promised Land"** is a profound concept that has been a part of the world's music for *several thousand years*. It is most certainly not uniquely associated with Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, or any other musician.
Undoubtedly, the concept and the image of The Promised Land resonate with Springsteen because of... |
124,257 | Given the historic drop in the front month WTI price today, I was wondering what the ramifications are for those professional traders who are left holding a long position. Note this problem won't normally apply to retail traders, since their brokerage would normally close out their long position in advance of them bein... | 2020/04/20 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/124257",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/21865/"
] | Anyone left holding a long position at the end of trading tomorrow (the expiry date of the May 2020 contract) will be contractually obligated to take delivery of the oil and store it somewhere.
There's no distinction between retail and institutional trades here - anyone who doesn't want to take delivery is going to ha... | The last available oil storage is probably DOT-111 Tank Cars as on the railroad tracks. A railroad company is paid to store the oil.
Or the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve might begin selling oil storage. |
8,491 | These are some passages from [Man-Eating Cats by Haruki Murakami](http://www.geocities.jp/yoshio_osakabe/Haruki/Books/Man-Eating-E.html).
>
> **He'd been** dead set against out marriage from the start, and his tone
> of voice said **he'd** finally been proved right.
>
>
> **He had taken** a pair of scissors to eve... | 2013/07/24 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/8491",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/1544/"
] | Contractions are often considered inappropriate in formal writing. The more formal, the less acceptable.
They are always acceptable in dialog if that is how the character would talk in real life.
Probably debatable in narration in a novel.
Where acceptable, whether to use a contraction depends on the rhythm of the s... | Contractions are generally viewed as being informal. That is, they're used by people in everyday speech, but rarely in more formal writing. I'd therefore say a good rule of thumb is to avoid them except in those circumstances where it is within character to have them e.g. it fits the speech pattern of the characters, o... |
8,491 | These are some passages from [Man-Eating Cats by Haruki Murakami](http://www.geocities.jp/yoshio_osakabe/Haruki/Books/Man-Eating-E.html).
>
> **He'd been** dead set against out marriage from the start, and his tone
> of voice said **he'd** finally been proved right.
>
>
> **He had taken** a pair of scissors to eve... | 2013/07/24 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/8491",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/1544/"
] | Contractions are generally viewed as being informal. That is, they're used by people in everyday speech, but rarely in more formal writing. I'd therefore say a good rule of thumb is to avoid them except in those circumstances where it is within character to have them e.g. it fits the speech pattern of the characters, o... | If you are writing something informal, it's appropriate to use contractions.
However, at the time of formal communication such as composing an email to colleagues,boss communicating with clients, it's advisable to avoid using contractions and use the complete words so as to make things easy to understand. |
8,491 | These are some passages from [Man-Eating Cats by Haruki Murakami](http://www.geocities.jp/yoshio_osakabe/Haruki/Books/Man-Eating-E.html).
>
> **He'd been** dead set against out marriage from the start, and his tone
> of voice said **he'd** finally been proved right.
>
>
> **He had taken** a pair of scissors to eve... | 2013/07/24 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/8491",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/1544/"
] | Contractions are often considered inappropriate in formal writing. The more formal, the less acceptable.
They are always acceptable in dialog if that is how the character would talk in real life.
Probably debatable in narration in a novel.
Where acceptable, whether to use a contraction depends on the rhythm of the s... | If you are writing something informal, it's appropriate to use contractions.
However, at the time of formal communication such as composing an email to colleagues,boss communicating with clients, it's advisable to avoid using contractions and use the complete words so as to make things easy to understand. |
8,488,403 | How many positive two-digits integers are factors of (2^24 - 1)?
Can anyone tell me the formula or some shortcuts to find positive integers? | 2011/12/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8488403",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/647587/"
] | There is no easy way to find factors of a number except calculating them. You have to iterate over the two-digits integers and make mod calculation. | There appear to be 12 *divisors* in all: 13, 15, 17, 21, 35, 39, 45, 51, 63, 65, 85 and 91.
See: <http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=factorize+2%5E24+-+1> |
8,488,403 | How many positive two-digits integers are factors of (2^24 - 1)?
Can anyone tell me the formula or some shortcuts to find positive integers? | 2011/12/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8488403",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/647587/"
] | There is no easy way to find factors of a number except calculating them. You have to iterate over the two-digits integers and make mod calculation. | There actually is a trick that I know! First you need to prime factorize the number, lets say that my number is 56. My remaining prime numbers would be 7, 2, 2, 2. Since I have three 2s, I would write 2^3. Since there is only one 7, I will write 7^1. Then, add one to each of the powers: 1+1 3+1, and then multiply them.... |
8,488,403 | How many positive two-digits integers are factors of (2^24 - 1)?
Can anyone tell me the formula or some shortcuts to find positive integers? | 2011/12/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8488403",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/647587/"
] | There appear to be 12 *divisors* in all: 13, 15, 17, 21, 35, 39, 45, 51, 63, 65, 85 and 91.
See: <http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=factorize+2%5E24+-+1> | There actually is a trick that I know! First you need to prime factorize the number, lets say that my number is 56. My remaining prime numbers would be 7, 2, 2, 2. Since I have three 2s, I would write 2^3. Since there is only one 7, I will write 7^1. Then, add one to each of the powers: 1+1 3+1, and then multiply them.... |
51,947,023 | I am learning MEAN Stack. I started from learning Angular(from angular.io) now I am learning node.js and express.js
My question is, if there is **angular** for front end in MEAN Stack then why there are **views and template engines** in express.js at back-end? Are they alternative for each other or complements each o... | 2018/08/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/51947023",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6405655/"
] | Angular is a full-fledged front-end framework that comes with its own way of doing templating, using angular-specific markup in your HTML. If you use Angular as your framework, you're more or less stuck with their way of templating within the Angular portion of your application.
**Angular Features**
* It is a framewo... | Express JS is a web framework on top of nodejs http module. Whereas Angular JS is a front end framework which doesnot depend on NodeJs server to run. Conceptually both are similar in few features like routing whereas implementation is different |
51,947,023 | I am learning MEAN Stack. I started from learning Angular(from angular.io) now I am learning node.js and express.js
My question is, if there is **angular** for front end in MEAN Stack then why there are **views and template engines** in express.js at back-end? Are they alternative for each other or complements each o... | 2018/08/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/51947023",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6405655/"
] | Basically template engines in Express are mostly used for displaying 404 and other server error messages. I find them ideal for such use cases. Using template engines for complex front end rendering is bad and not a good practice. | Express JS is a web framework on top of nodejs http module. Whereas Angular JS is a front end framework which doesnot depend on NodeJs server to run. Conceptually both are similar in few features like routing whereas implementation is different |
51,947,023 | I am learning MEAN Stack. I started from learning Angular(from angular.io) now I am learning node.js and express.js
My question is, if there is **angular** for front end in MEAN Stack then why there are **views and template engines** in express.js at back-end? Are they alternative for each other or complements each o... | 2018/08/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/51947023",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6405655/"
] | In order to answer your question, let me explain what is angular and what are template engines in express?
### What is Angular?
Angular is a platform that makes it easy to build applications with the web. Angular combines declarative templates, dependency injection, end to end tooling, and integrated best practices t... | Express JS is a web framework on top of nodejs http module. Whereas Angular JS is a front end framework which doesnot depend on NodeJs server to run. Conceptually both are similar in few features like routing whereas implementation is different |
51,947,023 | I am learning MEAN Stack. I started from learning Angular(from angular.io) now I am learning node.js and express.js
My question is, if there is **angular** for front end in MEAN Stack then why there are **views and template engines** in express.js at back-end? Are they alternative for each other or complements each o... | 2018/08/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/51947023",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6405655/"
] | In order to answer your question, let me explain what is angular and what are template engines in express?
### What is Angular?
Angular is a platform that makes it easy to build applications with the web. Angular combines declarative templates, dependency injection, end to end tooling, and integrated best practices t... | Angular is a full-fledged front-end framework that comes with its own way of doing templating, using angular-specific markup in your HTML. If you use Angular as your framework, you're more or less stuck with their way of templating within the Angular portion of your application.
**Angular Features**
* It is a framewo... |
51,947,023 | I am learning MEAN Stack. I started from learning Angular(from angular.io) now I am learning node.js and express.js
My question is, if there is **angular** for front end in MEAN Stack then why there are **views and template engines** in express.js at back-end? Are they alternative for each other or complements each o... | 2018/08/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/51947023",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6405655/"
] | In order to answer your question, let me explain what is angular and what are template engines in express?
### What is Angular?
Angular is a platform that makes it easy to build applications with the web. Angular combines declarative templates, dependency injection, end to end tooling, and integrated best practices t... | Basically template engines in Express are mostly used for displaying 404 and other server error messages. I find them ideal for such use cases. Using template engines for complex front end rendering is bad and not a good practice. |
18,635 | Another poster started some wonderful tutorials (http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/17435/interactive-audio-learn-how-to-build-web-mobile-audio-applications-using-javas) along the lines of what I'm looking for. But I'm pretty impatient for the next tutorial and would love to dive into this more ASAP. Know of any po... | 2013/03/21 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/18635",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/5824/"
] | Tutorial 4 & 5 have been up for awhile.
<http://interactiveaudio.wikiaudio.org/how-to/javascript-variables-primitive-data-types-part-1/>
<http://interactiveaudio.wikiaudio.org/how-to/javascript-variables-primitive-data-types-part-2/> | Well I just started the same course and would love to get to part 5 :)
So no answer, but a recommendation/bump!
Nice tutorial! |
18,635 | Another poster started some wonderful tutorials (http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/17435/interactive-audio-learn-how-to-build-web-mobile-audio-applications-using-javas) along the lines of what I'm looking for. But I'm pretty impatient for the next tutorial and would love to dive into this more ASAP. Know of any po... | 2013/03/21 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/18635",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/5824/"
] | Tutorial 4 & 5 have been up for awhile.
<http://interactiveaudio.wikiaudio.org/how-to/javascript-variables-primitive-data-types-part-1/>
<http://interactiveaudio.wikiaudio.org/how-to/javascript-variables-primitive-data-types-part-2/> | Codecademy is not bad, but some of the lessons have problems with the online interpreter not working real well. Well, I had problems with the Python course anyway. Just a heads up. |
26,178 | For testing android traffic encryption I have configured a VPN client in my phone. What simple test I can perform in my home wifi network to verify that the traffic is really encrypted and secure? | 2012/12/29 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/26178",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/15194/"
] | If the server is located somewhere else, you can check if the traffic is being tunneled through the VPN server by checking what IP address you are coming from. Visit a site like <http://www.whatismyip.com/> with and without your VPN software enabled on your phone and see if it is a different IP address displayed.
Capt... | If you are on a broadcast network like an unencrypted wifi network then you can load up Wireshark on another machine on the network and sniff all of the traffic leaving the device. Wireshark will identify protocols and allow you to see all network communications on the broadcast network. |
284,510 | Soon my fancy new 120GB SSD will arrive for my laptop workstation I use for PHP development and other misc tasks.
I really don't want to bog it down with heaps of software, so my current plan is to have, on the actual OS (Windows 7 Pro):
* VirtualBox
* Google Chrome
* Some AV (AVG or Avast...)
* Not a lot else.
I env... | 2011/05/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/284510",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/218/"
] | If you are going to run Photoshop (CS4 or above) on a guest VM, you may want to consider VMWare Workstation 7.1 as it has far better 3d video performance than Virtual Box according to this [source](http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/virtualization-smackdown-2-oracle-vm-virtualbox-32-vs-vmware-workstation-71/13020?tag=man... | You could give each VM a direct disk partition instead of a virtual disk file on the host OS. Seems to me that one less abstraction layer on the file system can't hurt performance.
I know VMware Workstation supports this, not sure about VirtualBox. |
284,510 | Soon my fancy new 120GB SSD will arrive for my laptop workstation I use for PHP development and other misc tasks.
I really don't want to bog it down with heaps of software, so my current plan is to have, on the actual OS (Windows 7 Pro):
* VirtualBox
* Google Chrome
* Some AV (AVG or Avast...)
* Not a lot else.
I env... | 2011/05/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/284510",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/218/"
] | From my personal perspective (and experience), it is a good idea to run a Linux as your Host OS (I use Ubuntu). The major reasons for this is that Linux has a much smaller footprint with all of the system resources which will be able to let your Guests have a little bit more. VirtualBox and Chrome can both be installed... | If you are going to run Photoshop (CS4 or above) on a guest VM, you may want to consider VMWare Workstation 7.1 as it has far better 3d video performance than Virtual Box according to this [source](http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/virtualization-smackdown-2-oracle-vm-virtualbox-32-vs-vmware-workstation-71/13020?tag=man... |
284,510 | Soon my fancy new 120GB SSD will arrive for my laptop workstation I use for PHP development and other misc tasks.
I really don't want to bog it down with heaps of software, so my current plan is to have, on the actual OS (Windows 7 Pro):
* VirtualBox
* Google Chrome
* Some AV (AVG or Avast...)
* Not a lot else.
I env... | 2011/05/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/284510",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/218/"
] | I've been doing what you're proposing for several months with Virtualbox, and it works pretty well.
Some things to consider:
* You'll probably want to set up file-sharing in your VMs, either via Samba or VirtualBox "shared folders", or both
* Take snapshots of your VMs frequently for backup, and especially before maj... | You could give each VM a direct disk partition instead of a virtual disk file on the host OS. Seems to me that one less abstraction layer on the file system can't hurt performance.
I know VMware Workstation supports this, not sure about VirtualBox. |
284,510 | Soon my fancy new 120GB SSD will arrive for my laptop workstation I use for PHP development and other misc tasks.
I really don't want to bog it down with heaps of software, so my current plan is to have, on the actual OS (Windows 7 Pro):
* VirtualBox
* Google Chrome
* Some AV (AVG or Avast...)
* Not a lot else.
I env... | 2011/05/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/284510",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/218/"
] | From my personal perspective (and experience), it is a good idea to run a Linux as your Host OS (I use Ubuntu). The major reasons for this is that Linux has a much smaller footprint with all of the system resources which will be able to let your Guests have a little bit more. VirtualBox and Chrome can both be installed... | You could give each VM a direct disk partition instead of a virtual disk file on the host OS. Seems to me that one less abstraction layer on the file system can't hurt performance.
I know VMware Workstation supports this, not sure about VirtualBox. |
284,510 | Soon my fancy new 120GB SSD will arrive for my laptop workstation I use for PHP development and other misc tasks.
I really don't want to bog it down with heaps of software, so my current plan is to have, on the actual OS (Windows 7 Pro):
* VirtualBox
* Google Chrome
* Some AV (AVG or Avast...)
* Not a lot else.
I env... | 2011/05/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/284510",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/218/"
] | From my personal perspective (and experience), it is a good idea to run a Linux as your Host OS (I use Ubuntu). The major reasons for this is that Linux has a much smaller footprint with all of the system resources which will be able to let your Guests have a little bit more. VirtualBox and Chrome can both be installed... | I've been doing what you're proposing for several months with Virtualbox, and it works pretty well.
Some things to consider:
* You'll probably want to set up file-sharing in your VMs, either via Samba or VirtualBox "shared folders", or both
* Take snapshots of your VMs frequently for backup, and especially before maj... |
739,831 | NASA's DART impactor made a head-on collision with the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022. A real-time video feed gave immediate confirmation of the direct hit. But according to [this press release](https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-dart-mission-impact-changed-asteroid-s-motion-in-space), NASA had ... | 2022/12/05 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/739831",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/92058/"
] | Because sometimes things don't quite turn out as the theory expects, and the only way to know is to experiment.
Aa an example, take the main result of this experiment: the orbital period was changed by ~32min (<https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-dart-mission-impact-changed-asteroid-s-motion-in-space>).
... | Biliards or snooker are games where you can perfectly calculate the mechanics, nonetheless there is still a great amount of variability.
In the case of DART the impact point might have been solid rock or rubble slipping sideways and dispersing part of the momentum or something in between. Another factor of uncertainty... |
61,265 | I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
With majors where it's expected that people will be more capable of producing value than without such as with STEM majors the... | 2020/12/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61265",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/29677/"
] | Quite a lot of graduates from non-STEM majors (teaching, health professionals, social workers etc.) end up in jobs where their value for the society is not reflected in their salaries, because their services are guaranteed by the state (provision of "free" education, medical and social care). If you as a citizen want t... | I do not personally believe it is justified for the government to subsidise such degrees, but those who do seem to justify it in the following ways:
* A more educated society indirectly benefits us all (supposedly, a more well-educated society will have less crime, elect better politicians, care more about global warm... |
61,265 | I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
With majors where it's expected that people will be more capable of producing value than without such as with STEM majors the... | 2020/12/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61265",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/29677/"
] | Here are some:
* Golden Rule: I'd like my tuition to be paid even if I don't know whether it's profitable, and in return, I'd pay my share of someone else's tuition that I don't know will be profitable.
* Innovation means exploring every possibility, not just the ones that some rich CEO thinks are profitable. I think ... | I do not personally believe it is justified for the government to subsidise such degrees, but those who do seem to justify it in the following ways:
* A more educated society indirectly benefits us all (supposedly, a more well-educated society will have less crime, elect better politicians, care more about global warm... |
61,265 | I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
With majors where it's expected that people will be more capable of producing value than without such as with STEM majors the... | 2020/12/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61265",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/29677/"
] | I'll take a slightly different tack: it is a bad idea for a government to pick winners and losers. What seems a "worthy" degree at one point may turn out not be be so later on.
I come from a STEM background. My freshman year, we had a large graduating class of Chemical Engineers. That's because, 4 years earlier, the m... | Quite a lot of graduates from non-STEM majors (teaching, health professionals, social workers etc.) end up in jobs where their value for the society is not reflected in their salaries, because their services are guaranteed by the state (provision of "free" education, medical and social care). If you as a citizen want t... |
61,265 | I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
With majors where it's expected that people will be more capable of producing value than without such as with STEM majors the... | 2020/12/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61265",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/29677/"
] | After one generation, you would have lots of engineers and lawyers and few, if any, teachers.
After two generations, you would have neither engineers nor teachers.
Our *culture* is more than just engineering. It might be possible to ignore that on the short term, but not for long. So one could say that we're systemat... | There are answers about how all these unprofitable educations are actually profitable in a way. They're really answering the question by implicitly reframing as being about justifying funding education that is profitable, which makes an answer obvious...
There is no *objective*/rational justification to pay for someth... |
61,265 | I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
With majors where it's expected that people will be more capable of producing value than without such as with STEM majors the... | 2020/12/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61265",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/29677/"
] | ### You don't.
A lot of the other answers have been suggested by other people here, with varying degrees of success, but noone's addressed the elephant in the room. You don't try to convince them to fund these degrees, because you don't need to fund them to begin with. When the government is funding the education sect... | I do not personally believe it is justified for the government to subsidise such degrees, but those who do seem to justify it in the following ways:
* A more educated society indirectly benefits us all (supposedly, a more well-educated society will have less crime, elect better politicians, care more about global warm... |
61,265 | I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
With majors where it's expected that people will be more capable of producing value than without such as with STEM majors the... | 2020/12/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61265",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/29677/"
] | Everyone benefits from an educated society.
People with an education, even in non STEM fields are more productive: Just ask Lawyers, Teachers, Advertisers, Designers, Business executives, HR professionals, and all the hundreds of other degree level jobs that exist. A degree, any degree, halves your chance of being une... | The OP seems to be under the impression that universities care about students employment when really they don't. If you want a job then you go to a trade-school. A trade has an almost guarantee of a job. If you want an education then you go to university.
A university trains a countries politicians, the success of a r... |
61,265 | I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
With majors where it's expected that people will be more capable of producing value than without such as with STEM majors the... | 2020/12/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61265",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/29677/"
] | I'll take a slightly different tack: it is a bad idea for a government to pick winners and losers. What seems a "worthy" degree at one point may turn out not be be so later on.
I come from a STEM background. My freshman year, we had a large graduating class of Chemical Engineers. That's because, 4 years earlier, the m... | Most STEM majors don’t use their specialisms in productive employment. Some do, but most don’t. And yet, the university experience of studying something in great detail and exercising insight, creativity, and skill, all under the pressure of high-stakes exams while networking with aspirational peers, turns out to be a ... |
61,265 | I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
With majors where it's expected that people will be more capable of producing value than without such as with STEM majors the... | 2020/12/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61265",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/29677/"
] | After one generation, you would have lots of engineers and lawyers and few, if any, teachers.
After two generations, you would have neither engineers nor teachers.
Our *culture* is more than just engineering. It might be possible to ignore that on the short term, but not for long. So one could say that we're systemat... | Here are some:
* Golden Rule: I'd like my tuition to be paid even if I don't know whether it's profitable, and in return, I'd pay my share of someone else's tuition that I don't know will be profitable.
* Innovation means exploring every possibility, not just the ones that some rich CEO thinks are profitable. I think ... |
61,265 | I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
With majors where it's expected that people will be more capable of producing value than without such as with STEM majors the... | 2020/12/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61265",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/29677/"
] | There are answers about how all these unprofitable educations are actually profitable in a way. They're really answering the question by implicitly reframing as being about justifying funding education that is profitable, which makes an answer obvious...
There is no *objective*/rational justification to pay for someth... | I do not personally believe it is justified for the government to subsidise such degrees, but those who do seem to justify it in the following ways:
* A more educated society indirectly benefits us all (supposedly, a more well-educated society will have less crime, elect better politicians, care more about global warm... |
61,265 | I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
With majors where it's expected that people will be more capable of producing value than without such as with STEM majors the... | 2020/12/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61265",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/29677/"
] | Everyone benefits from an educated society.
People with an education, even in non STEM fields are more productive: Just ask Lawyers, Teachers, Advertisers, Designers, Business executives, HR professionals, and all the hundreds of other degree level jobs that exist. A degree, any degree, halves your chance of being une... | ### You don't.
A lot of the other answers have been suggested by other people here, with varying degrees of success, but noone's addressed the elephant in the room. You don't try to convince them to fund these degrees, because you don't need to fund them to begin with. When the government is funding the education sect... |
235,721 | After flushing, the bowl on the toilet fills too high, nearly to the top before the tank does.
I do not know what to try first. | 2021/09/30 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/235721",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/142198/"
] | You have a partial drain blockage, probably in the S shaped toilet trap.
1. Wait. The things that go down toilets should disintegrate quickly in water. Sometimes they disintegrate slowly. People who are highly constipated or who use facial tissues instead of toilet paper can cause this. Sometimes waiting solves the pr... | Muriatic acid is a choice if a plunger doesn't work. I am not a fan of the toilet snake because sometimes it pushes the clog worse, and if you use enough force you can crack things and find out later.
Muriatic acid is some serious stuff. You need to be wearing gloves and eyewear and a mask but it is easy and quick. If... |
154,083 | A few years back, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai was created from a volcanic explosion:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/klkBu.jpg)
It has since solidified, and life is beginning to pop up all around the island.
Multiple scientists and some individuals have m... | 2020/02/20 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/154083",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/99991/"
] | Private yacht.
COO of my previous company would sail from NZ to Fiji and back. Often people like this enjoy the company of another person on the boat.
So either...get your own yacht, train and learn how to sail..
or, charter one from Tonga, for a fee, presumably
or, on websites like findacrew.net, see if someone el... | You could look into doing the [SEA Semester Program](https://www.sea.edu/about_sea/why_sea). While there is no guarantee that Hunga Tonga would be included, according to [NASA](https://blogs.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions/2019/01/30/land-ho-visiting-a-young-island/), one of their ships, the SSV Robert C. Seamans, was among ... |
15,898 | Does it go to the Low Quality review or not?
This is related to flagging questions. For high rep user maybe VTD is a better option. | 2016/08/10 | [
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/15898",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/users/167850/"
] | When you vote to delete a post, it gets added to this [queue](https://askubuntu.com/tools?tab=delete&daterange=today) that I am sure no one uses anymore. | When it gets required number of votes, it gets deleted. The required number is 3. Unless that answer is yours, in which case it will be deleted with just 1 vote of you. |
559,929 | I'm doing the build automation for a java app with ant. This is a client-server app which has many projects in eclipse. I would like to create a jar file for the client and one for the server, but since the class dependencies are all over the projects (in eclipse)... I had the idea to use a tool to automate the search ... | 2009/02/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/559929",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/24927/"
] | You may also try [FatJar](http://fjep.sourceforge.net/) | It kind of sounds like what you really want is a [WAR file](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_WAR_(file_format)). |
559,929 | I'm doing the build automation for a java app with ant. This is a client-server app which has many projects in eclipse. I would like to create a jar file for the client and one for the server, but since the class dependencies are all over the projects (in eclipse)... I had the idea to use a tool to automate the search ... | 2009/02/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/559929",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/24927/"
] | You may also try [FatJar](http://fjep.sourceforge.net/) | Personally I would go with Ant + [Apache Ivy](http://ant.apache.org/ivy/). Each project has its own build.xml file and publishes to a central Ivy repository. Other projects will simply download these dependencies as needed.
The advantage of having an Ant based build process is that you can very easily automate it and ... |
23,957 | I've seen some contention around the issue of whether or not wireless connections should be disabled in an environment where a wired domain and unregulated wireless network are both present.
What attack vectors and mitigation methods exist **specifically due to to having both network connections active at the same ti... | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/23957",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/4799/"
] | Edit (11/14): As far as I know, there are no significant risks to having both a wired and a wireless network connections open at the same time, beyond the risks implied by each one individually.
There *are* risks with having a machine connected to both an internal-only network and to the Internet: it partly defeats th... | If you're not using the wireless network, then it should be disabled. If you're in an environment where you don't want intruders on your network, then it's a good idea to disable your wireless network. If an attacker gets onto your wireless network, the implications are about the same as if he got onto your wired netwo... |
23,957 | I've seen some contention around the issue of whether or not wireless connections should be disabled in an environment where a wired domain and unregulated wireless network are both present.
What attack vectors and mitigation methods exist **specifically due to to having both network connections active at the same ti... | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/23957",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/4799/"
] | If you're not using the wireless network, then it should be disabled. If you're in an environment where you don't want intruders on your network, then it's a good idea to disable your wireless network. If an attacker gets onto your wireless network, the implications are about the same as if he got onto your wired netwo... | I'm afraid I must disagree with @D.W. I have advised all of my clients to disable Split Tunnelling[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalk_%28computing%29). Split tunnelling essentially ensures that high risk traffic will follow the less secure route. Flipping the statement the other way, split tunnelling provides th... |
23,957 | I've seen some contention around the issue of whether or not wireless connections should be disabled in an environment where a wired domain and unregulated wireless network are both present.
What attack vectors and mitigation methods exist **specifically due to to having both network connections active at the same ti... | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/23957",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/4799/"
] | Edit (11/14): As far as I know, there are no significant risks to having both a wired and a wireless network connections open at the same time, beyond the risks implied by each one individually.
There *are* risks with having a machine connected to both an internal-only network and to the Internet: it partly defeats th... | I'm afraid I must disagree with @D.W. I have advised all of my clients to disable Split Tunnelling[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalk_%28computing%29). Split tunnelling essentially ensures that high risk traffic will follow the less secure route. Flipping the statement the other way, split tunnelling provides th... |
153,980 | From my textbook:
>
> I wish the earthquake never happened.
>
>
>
>
> Answer key: I wish the earthquake had never happened.
>
>
>
Can I say the following sentence?
>
> I wish (that) the earthquake didn't happen.
>
>
>
If I could, what's the difference between them?
>
> I wish (that) the earthquake ha... | 2018/01/18 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/153980",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/66859/"
] | "I wish the earthquake didn't happen" will sound incorrect to native speakers of English, because *did/do* is not used as a subjunctive verb in English, but *had* is very commonly used for subjunctive statements. This may be confusing, because *had* is also used for non-subjunctive statements (the past tense of *have*)... | The 1st sentence is in the Past perfect and the 2nd in Past simple.Difference between these two tenses is of the time frame.
When you narrate, in the present, an event that happened somewhere before i.e. in the past, you would use **Past Simple**. Whereas, **Past perfect** is used when you talk about an event that wa... |
153,980 | From my textbook:
>
> I wish the earthquake never happened.
>
>
>
>
> Answer key: I wish the earthquake had never happened.
>
>
>
Can I say the following sentence?
>
> I wish (that) the earthquake didn't happen.
>
>
>
If I could, what's the difference between them?
>
> I wish (that) the earthquake ha... | 2018/01/18 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/153980",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/66859/"
] | "I wish the earthquake didn't happen" will sound incorrect to native speakers of English, because *did/do* is not used as a subjunctive verb in English, but *had* is very commonly used for subjunctive statements. This may be confusing, because *had* is also used for non-subjunctive statements (the past tense of *have*)... | **Wish + that-clause**
>
> We use wish with a that-clause when we regret or are sorry that things
> are not different. We imagine a different past or present. [(Cambridge Dictionary, from English Grammar Today](https://www.google.com/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/british-grammar/wish)
>
>
>
**Wish + verb fo... |
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