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20,437 | Why do we say "Jack Shit" to mean "nothing at all"? | 2011/04/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20437",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/7214/"
] | (Expanded from @mickeyf and @Callithumpian's [comments](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20437/origin-of-jack-shit/20440#20440).)
**Jack-shit** is US slang dating to at least 1968, where it was used by S. Clay Wilson's ["Captain Pissgums and His Pervert Pirates"](http://ukjarry.blogspot.com/2010/01/360-s-cl... | "Jack shit" is a colloquial form of emphasis. That is, if you say either "you don't know jack" or "you don't know shit" you convey the same meaning. It's arguable whether one is more intense or threatening than the other; to my mind, that depends on context and setting. "You don't know jack shit" conveys greater force ... |
20,437 | Why do we say "Jack Shit" to mean "nothing at all"? | 2011/04/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20437",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/7214/"
] | I guess your question is more about the *jack* part.
In English a jack is by-name for a common person.
In British English, *jack* is a very old (13th century) term to designate the average peasant - the man at the bottom of the social pyramid. See for instance colloquial expressions such as "every man jack".
In th... | [Etymonline](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=jack%20shit&searchmode=none) reports that *Jack shit* (to mean "nothing at all") has been attested by 1974, and it is American English slang.
It doesn't report for which reason *Jack shit* is used, and not, for example, *Daniel shit*.
There isn't probably any ... |
20,437 | Why do we say "Jack Shit" to mean "nothing at all"? | 2011/04/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20437",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/7214/"
] | The term "jack shit" has been around for ages. The term is a corruption of a phrase used in the British Navy. "He doesn't know jacks from sheets." Where "jacks" were flags or small sails and "sheets" were larger sails. It's not that big a step from describing a novice sailor as "not knowing jacks from sheets" to "not k... | [Etymonline](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=jack%20shit&searchmode=none) reports that *Jack shit* (to mean "nothing at all") has been attested by 1974, and it is American English slang.
It doesn't report for which reason *Jack shit* is used, and not, for example, *Daniel shit*.
There isn't probably any ... |
20,437 | Why do we say "Jack Shit" to mean "nothing at all"? | 2011/04/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20437",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/7214/"
] | I guess your question is more about the *jack* part.
In English a jack is by-name for a common person.
In British English, *jack* is a very old (13th century) term to designate the average peasant - the man at the bottom of the social pyramid. See for instance colloquial expressions such as "every man jack".
In th... | The term "jack shit" has been around for ages. The term is a corruption of a phrase used in the British Navy. "He doesn't know jacks from sheets." Where "jacks" were flags or small sails and "sheets" were larger sails. It's not that big a step from describing a novice sailor as "not knowing jacks from sheets" to "not k... |
20,437 | Why do we say "Jack Shit" to mean "nothing at all"? | 2011/04/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20437",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/7214/"
] | I guess your question is more about the *jack* part.
In English a jack is by-name for a common person.
In British English, *jack* is a very old (13th century) term to designate the average peasant - the man at the bottom of the social pyramid. See for instance colloquial expressions such as "every man jack".
In th... | (Expanded from @mickeyf and @Callithumpian's [comments](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20437/origin-of-jack-shit/20440#20440).)
**Jack-shit** is US slang dating to at least 1968, where it was used by S. Clay Wilson's ["Captain Pissgums and His Pervert Pirates"](http://ukjarry.blogspot.com/2010/01/360-s-cl... |
20,437 | Why do we say "Jack Shit" to mean "nothing at all"? | 2011/04/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20437",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/7214/"
] | The term "jack shit" has been around for ages. The term is a corruption of a phrase used in the British Navy. "He doesn't know jacks from sheets." Where "jacks" were flags or small sails and "sheets" were larger sails. It's not that big a step from describing a novice sailor as "not knowing jacks from sheets" to "not k... | (Expanded from @mickeyf and @Callithumpian's [comments](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20437/origin-of-jack-shit/20440#20440).)
**Jack-shit** is US slang dating to at least 1968, where it was used by S. Clay Wilson's ["Captain Pissgums and His Pervert Pirates"](http://ukjarry.blogspot.com/2010/01/360-s-cl... |
659,483 | The laptop is able to suspend. After resuming from suspend, there is simply no display, the screen remains off. Based on all the other answers, I have tried the various **Ctrl+Alt+Fn** (1 - 12) combinations as well as **Ctrl+Alt+Del**. There is no terminal, no error message, no nothing. The only thing that does happen ... | 2015/08/09 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/659483",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/434692/"
] | The solution was to update the BIOS.
The old BIOS which didn't work was version F.19.
It worked after updating to version F.39. | If you can't get anything on a screen even after powering off and on, possibly you should try to clear CMOS but this better do in service centre.
If you can see at least BIOS post messages immediately after powering on but then it goes blank screen, this means something wrong with you OS and you should try to boot Ubu... |
659,483 | The laptop is able to suspend. After resuming from suspend, there is simply no display, the screen remains off. Based on all the other answers, I have tried the various **Ctrl+Alt+Fn** (1 - 12) combinations as well as **Ctrl+Alt+Del**. There is no terminal, no error message, no nothing. The only thing that does happen ... | 2015/08/09 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/659483",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/434692/"
] | The solution was to update the BIOS.
The old BIOS which didn't work was version F.19.
It worked after updating to version F.39. | I had the same problem. In my case, I discovered a method for this: start swiping the touch pad fully and very fast, **immediately** after opening the lid. |
659,483 | The laptop is able to suspend. After resuming from suspend, there is simply no display, the screen remains off. Based on all the other answers, I have tried the various **Ctrl+Alt+Fn** (1 - 12) combinations as well as **Ctrl+Alt+Del**. There is no terminal, no error message, no nothing. The only thing that does happen ... | 2015/08/09 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/659483",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/434692/"
] | If you can't get anything on a screen even after powering off and on, possibly you should try to clear CMOS but this better do in service centre.
If you can see at least BIOS post messages immediately after powering on but then it goes blank screen, this means something wrong with you OS and you should try to boot Ubu... | I had the same problem. In my case, I discovered a method for this: start swiping the touch pad fully and very fast, **immediately** after opening the lid. |
33,441 | I'm writing my research proposal and my supervisor wants me to abbreviate the journal name (and remove part of the month from the publication date). How can I achieve that?
*Edit:*
I am using BibTeX and my .bib file holds the full journal name. I writing using Emacs on an Arch Linux machine. I don't really mind switch... | 2011/11/02 | [
"https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33441",
"https://tex.stackexchange.com",
"https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5366/"
] | A while back I created a package and some BibTeX styles for automatic journal abbreviations that uses the ISSN database to do exactly this:
<https://github.com/compholio/jabbrv>
This is now included as an Overleaf template: <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/automatic-journal-abbreviations/mxfsdscmvxcr>
Edit: ... | You should be aware that the abbreviation is not arbitrary, because there is the standard [ISO 4](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4) that defines a [List of Title Word Abbreviations (LTWA)](http://www.issn.org/services/online-services/access-to-the-ltwa/). As far as I know, every abbreviation is unique, so that abbrev... |
33,441 | I'm writing my research proposal and my supervisor wants me to abbreviate the journal name (and remove part of the month from the publication date). How can I achieve that?
*Edit:*
I am using BibTeX and my .bib file holds the full journal name. I writing using Emacs on an Arch Linux machine. I don't really mind switch... | 2011/11/02 | [
"https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33441",
"https://tex.stackexchange.com",
"https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5366/"
] | A while back I created a package and some BibTeX styles for automatic journal abbreviations that uses the ISSN database to do exactly this:
<https://github.com/compholio/jabbrv>
This is now included as an Overleaf template: <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/automatic-journal-abbreviations/mxfsdscmvxcr>
Edit: ... | I have made a little Python script that processes a bibtex database, searching for the journal names and replacing them with their official abbreviation (taken from the Jabref source): <https://gist.github.com/FilipDominec/9ff081952dbc4aae1df657a56c3db4ea> |
167,016 | I was trying to create an Android emulator on my computer but the AVD Manager is telling me that my computer doesn't support a required feature for the "VT-x or SVM." My computer has a AMD A6-5350M processor with radeon graphics with 8GB of memory. I was wondering if there was any way to run an emulator with this confi... | 2017/01/17 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/167016",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/106273/"
] | VT-x is the Intel virtualization technology while SVM is its equivalent for AMD.
I think either your computer doesn't have such feature or it is not enabled.
Go to the BIOS and see if it is supported.
If the feature is not supported, you can test your app with ADB though. | My Laptop has also got AMD processor, I tried with Android emulator many times but always get it running slow or not opening at all... So I switched to other Android emulators and I found "Xamarin" cool.. even Genymotion is cool but not all feature you get for fee :P.
So what I suggest is to use "Xamarin". |
167,016 | I was trying to create an Android emulator on my computer but the AVD Manager is telling me that my computer doesn't support a required feature for the "VT-x or SVM." My computer has a AMD A6-5350M processor with radeon graphics with 8GB of memory. I was wondering if there was any way to run an emulator with this confi... | 2017/01/17 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/167016",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/106273/"
] | I found out that it seems that the state of enabling and disabling the virtualization on my computer is flipped in the BIOS. While trying to run the emulator did succeed is getting to the home screen when the virtualization was actually enabled, it was too slow to actually try to run anything from the Android AVD manag... | My Laptop has also got AMD processor, I tried with Android emulator many times but always get it running slow or not opening at all... So I switched to other Android emulators and I found "Xamarin" cool.. even Genymotion is cool but not all feature you get for fee :P.
So what I suggest is to use "Xamarin". |
35,778 | At the end of "The wedding of River song", Dorium says that at the end, a question will be asked, and it must not be answered. Silence must fall. He then says, "Doctor Who??", hinting that the question will be the Doctor's name.
In the episode "The name of the Doctor", the Doctor goes
>
> to his grave, and is asked... | 2013/05/18 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35778",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7931/"
] | It is improbable that the silence wanted to prevent the events in the Name of the Doctor, or even that they were aware of the events.
The utterance of the words and question "Dr. Who?" by the Great Intelligence is not enough to conclude that this is the situation referred to in the prophecy. The prophecy refers to ot... | I think yous arent really looking at the prophecy that well or what Dorium said to be in fact.
"On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the eleventh, **when no living creature** can speak falsely or fail to answer, a Question will be asked, a question that must never, ever be answered."
On the name of the doctor so... |
35,778 | At the end of "The wedding of River song", Dorium says that at the end, a question will be asked, and it must not be answered. Silence must fall. He then says, "Doctor Who??", hinting that the question will be the Doctor's name.
In the episode "The name of the Doctor", the Doctor goes
>
> to his grave, and is asked... | 2013/05/18 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35778",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7931/"
] | >
> The Silence wanted to prevent the Great Intelligence from turning the Doctor's victories into defeats by killing the Doctor before he could get to Trenzalore. The Silence's goals are explained by two key pieces of dialogue in "The Wedding of River Song":
>
>
>
* Churchill: But what was the question? Why did it... | To answer the question of why the Silence didn't want the Doctor to go to Trenzalore and answer the question, we must first figure out what "Silence" is referring to in the prophecy. It could be either of the following, which contain spoilers from The Name of the Doctor:
>
> Silence could mean that nobody present at... |
35,778 | At the end of "The wedding of River song", Dorium says that at the end, a question will be asked, and it must not be answered. Silence must fall. He then says, "Doctor Who??", hinting that the question will be the Doctor's name.
In the episode "The name of the Doctor", the Doctor goes
>
> to his grave, and is asked... | 2013/05/18 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35778",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7931/"
] | As Dorium explains to The Doctor, The Silence did not want to *kill* the Doctor, they just did not want him to *remain alive*. That explanation was brushed off by The Doctor at the time, but it actually makes perfect sense now.
The Silence did not necessarily want to murder The Doctor personally. (They are not like hi... | It is improbable that the silence wanted to prevent the events in the Name of the Doctor, or even that they were aware of the events.
The utterance of the words and question "Dr. Who?" by the Great Intelligence is not enough to conclude that this is the situation referred to in the prophecy. The prophecy refers to ot... |
35,778 | At the end of "The wedding of River song", Dorium says that at the end, a question will be asked, and it must not be answered. Silence must fall. He then says, "Doctor Who??", hinting that the question will be the Doctor's name.
In the episode "The name of the Doctor", the Doctor goes
>
> to his grave, and is asked... | 2013/05/18 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35778",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7931/"
] | It is still possible that the events in that prophecy are going to be coming in the 50th, and are related to why the John Hurt doctor isn't the Doctor, and so the events of the Name of the Doctor are irrelevant to the Silence's plan. I say that because the prophecy also says when no one can fail to answer or speak fals... | I think yous arent really looking at the prophecy that well or what Dorium said to be in fact.
"On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the eleventh, **when no living creature** can speak falsely or fail to answer, a Question will be asked, a question that must never, ever be answered."
On the name of the doctor so... |
35,778 | At the end of "The wedding of River song", Dorium says that at the end, a question will be asked, and it must not be answered. Silence must fall. He then says, "Doctor Who??", hinting that the question will be the Doctor's name.
In the episode "The name of the Doctor", the Doctor goes
>
> to his grave, and is asked... | 2013/05/18 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35778",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7931/"
] | The Silence didn't care about the Doctor visiting his tomb. The prophecy is about the battle that resulted in the graveyard we see in *The Name of the Doctor*. During that battle, Silence fell. The main reason I think this is the case, is because:
>
> when no living creature may speak falsely or fail to give answer
>... | Well we know the Doctor some time in the future will actually die on Trenzalore. So it's possible the prophecy could be pertaining to the last time he goes there.
We know the 11th Doctor will die soon so maybe he goes back there in the Christmas Special or 50th Anniversary and then more will be explained. That will f... |
35,778 | At the end of "The wedding of River song", Dorium says that at the end, a question will be asked, and it must not be answered. Silence must fall. He then says, "Doctor Who??", hinting that the question will be the Doctor's name.
In the episode "The name of the Doctor", the Doctor goes
>
> to his grave, and is asked... | 2013/05/18 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35778",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7931/"
] | Well we know the Doctor some time in the future will actually die on Trenzalore. So it's possible the prophecy could be pertaining to the last time he goes there.
We know the 11th Doctor will die soon so maybe he goes back there in the Christmas Special or 50th Anniversary and then more will be explained. That will f... | One thing no one seems to have mentioned is that the 11th Doctor did "fall" at Trenzalore. Remember, the TARDIS parked in orbit and refused to land on the planet, and so the Doctor disabled the anti-gravity and let the TARDIS fall to the planet. I believe that this is the "fall of the 11th" from the prophecy. |
35,778 | At the end of "The wedding of River song", Dorium says that at the end, a question will be asked, and it must not be answered. Silence must fall. He then says, "Doctor Who??", hinting that the question will be the Doctor's name.
In the episode "The name of the Doctor", the Doctor goes
>
> to his grave, and is asked... | 2013/05/18 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35778",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7931/"
] | As Dorium explains to The Doctor, The Silence did not want to *kill* the Doctor, they just did not want him to *remain alive*. That explanation was brushed off by The Doctor at the time, but it actually makes perfect sense now.
The Silence did not necessarily want to murder The Doctor personally. (They are not like hi... | One thing no one seems to have mentioned is that the 11th Doctor did "fall" at Trenzalore. Remember, the TARDIS parked in orbit and refused to land on the planet, and so the Doctor disabled the anti-gravity and let the TARDIS fall to the planet. I believe that this is the "fall of the 11th" from the prophecy. |
35,778 | At the end of "The wedding of River song", Dorium says that at the end, a question will be asked, and it must not be answered. Silence must fall. He then says, "Doctor Who??", hinting that the question will be the Doctor's name.
In the episode "The name of the Doctor", the Doctor goes
>
> to his grave, and is asked... | 2013/05/18 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35778",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7931/"
] | It is still possible that the events in that prophecy are going to be coming in the 50th, and are related to why the John Hurt doctor isn't the Doctor, and so the events of the Name of the Doctor are irrelevant to the Silence's plan. I say that because the prophecy also says when no one can fail to answer or speak fals... | To answer the question of why the Silence didn't want the Doctor to go to Trenzalore and answer the question, we must first figure out what "Silence" is referring to in the prophecy. It could be either of the following, which contain spoilers from The Name of the Doctor:
>
> Silence could mean that nobody present at... |
35,778 | At the end of "The wedding of River song", Dorium says that at the end, a question will be asked, and it must not be answered. Silence must fall. He then says, "Doctor Who??", hinting that the question will be the Doctor's name.
In the episode "The name of the Doctor", the Doctor goes
>
> to his grave, and is asked... | 2013/05/18 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35778",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7931/"
] | >
> The Silence wanted to prevent the Great Intelligence from turning the Doctor's victories into defeats by killing the Doctor before he could get to Trenzalore. The Silence's goals are explained by two key pieces of dialogue in "The Wedding of River Song":
>
>
>
* Churchill: But what was the question? Why did it... | Well we know the Doctor some time in the future will actually die on Trenzalore. So it's possible the prophecy could be pertaining to the last time he goes there.
We know the 11th Doctor will die soon so maybe he goes back there in the Christmas Special or 50th Anniversary and then more will be explained. That will f... |
35,778 | At the end of "The wedding of River song", Dorium says that at the end, a question will be asked, and it must not be answered. Silence must fall. He then says, "Doctor Who??", hinting that the question will be the Doctor's name.
In the episode "The name of the Doctor", the Doctor goes
>
> to his grave, and is asked... | 2013/05/18 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35778",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7931/"
] | To answer the question of why the Silence didn't want the Doctor to go to Trenzalore and answer the question, we must first figure out what "Silence" is referring to in the prophecy. It could be either of the following, which contain spoilers from The Name of the Doctor:
>
> Silence could mean that nobody present at... | One thing no one seems to have mentioned is that the 11th Doctor did "fall" at Trenzalore. Remember, the TARDIS parked in orbit and refused to land on the planet, and so the Doctor disabled the anti-gravity and let the TARDIS fall to the planet. I believe that this is the "fall of the 11th" from the prophecy. |
87,496 | How do you answer the question "*Give me an estimate on how long this will take you*"?
My boss has presented a list of items he would like me to complete, 3 of which I have no idea what he's asking for. I have asked him twice to explain exactly what he wants and yet the communication is still unclear.
Can someone he... | 2017/03/20 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/87496",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/66454/"
] | Since you're not getting clear responses to your questions, one possibility is to make an estimate based on some assumptions. Then present both your assumptions and the estimate to your boss. Keep a record of both so that you will be covered when the boss later figures out what he really wants, and questions your imple... | I would send your boss an email something along the lines of:
>
> My estimates can only be as accurate as the requirements provided.
> Three of the tasks you have assigned are unfamiliar to me. Could we spend
> some time together so that I can obtain the necessary information to
> provide you an accurate estimate?
> ... |
9,837,326 | Im Tryinig to create a networking **Java SE** application with a **user-friendly interface**, im so confused about the GUI library **(Swing, SWT, JavaFX)** and also about the **architecture** of the application **(MVC, PureMVC)** can any one, with experience, give me a suggestion about all this, I would be so grateful.... | 2012/03/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9837326",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1286872/"
] | Grails is a framework for creating web applications, so if you're trying to create a Java SE (desktop) application, you can forget about Grails.
However, there is a desktop application framework called [Griffon](http://griffon.codehaus.org/) that uses the same language as Grails (Groovy), which should be easier than u... | Grails it's server side framework, designed to build web application. So, if you're making desktop app (event n-tier app, with some central server), it doesn't good here.
Anyway, you can find official Grails documentation here: <http://grails.org/doc/latest/> (as for me it's very detailed)
Also, if you're really nee... |
9,837,326 | Im Tryinig to create a networking **Java SE** application with a **user-friendly interface**, im so confused about the GUI library **(Swing, SWT, JavaFX)** and also about the **architecture** of the application **(MVC, PureMVC)** can any one, with experience, give me a suggestion about all this, I would be so grateful.... | 2012/03/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9837326",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1286872/"
] | This are at least three question, a single answer is unlikely to cover all aspects
a) What about GUI-Lib
With any detailed information about your requirements it is hard to say which fits better and why. In short
Swing is pure Java, maybe some what slow, but running where java is fully available (not android for exa... | Grails is a framework for creating web applications, so if you're trying to create a Java SE (desktop) application, you can forget about Grails.
However, there is a desktop application framework called [Griffon](http://griffon.codehaus.org/) that uses the same language as Grails (Groovy), which should be easier than u... |
9,837,326 | Im Tryinig to create a networking **Java SE** application with a **user-friendly interface**, im so confused about the GUI library **(Swing, SWT, JavaFX)** and also about the **architecture** of the application **(MVC, PureMVC)** can any one, with experience, give me a suggestion about all this, I would be so grateful.... | 2012/03/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9837326",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1286872/"
] | Grails is a framework for creating web applications, so if you're trying to create a Java SE (desktop) application, you can forget about Grails.
However, there is a desktop application framework called [Griffon](http://griffon.codehaus.org/) that uses the same language as Grails (Groovy), which should be easier than u... | GUI:
JavaFX is dead, don't use it.
SWT is hairy and to low level - you won't use it.
Swing is way to go (also you can customize is with L&F like substance) if you dislike built in Look&Feels like Metal. |
9,837,326 | Im Tryinig to create a networking **Java SE** application with a **user-friendly interface**, im so confused about the GUI library **(Swing, SWT, JavaFX)** and also about the **architecture** of the application **(MVC, PureMVC)** can any one, with experience, give me a suggestion about all this, I would be so grateful.... | 2012/03/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9837326",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1286872/"
] | Grails is a framework for creating web applications, so if you're trying to create a Java SE (desktop) application, you can forget about Grails.
However, there is a desktop application framework called [Griffon](http://griffon.codehaus.org/) that uses the same language as Grails (Groovy), which should be easier than u... | Btw, every Grails application *is* an Spring MVC application, so every +1 you give to Spring MVC applies to Grails as well. |
9,837,326 | Im Tryinig to create a networking **Java SE** application with a **user-friendly interface**, im so confused about the GUI library **(Swing, SWT, JavaFX)** and also about the **architecture** of the application **(MVC, PureMVC)** can any one, with experience, give me a suggestion about all this, I would be so grateful.... | 2012/03/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9837326",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1286872/"
] | This are at least three question, a single answer is unlikely to cover all aspects
a) What about GUI-Lib
With any detailed information about your requirements it is hard to say which fits better and why. In short
Swing is pure Java, maybe some what slow, but running where java is fully available (not android for exa... | Grails it's server side framework, designed to build web application. So, if you're making desktop app (event n-tier app, with some central server), it doesn't good here.
Anyway, you can find official Grails documentation here: <http://grails.org/doc/latest/> (as for me it's very detailed)
Also, if you're really nee... |
9,837,326 | Im Tryinig to create a networking **Java SE** application with a **user-friendly interface**, im so confused about the GUI library **(Swing, SWT, JavaFX)** and also about the **architecture** of the application **(MVC, PureMVC)** can any one, with experience, give me a suggestion about all this, I would be so grateful.... | 2012/03/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9837326",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1286872/"
] | This are at least three question, a single answer is unlikely to cover all aspects
a) What about GUI-Lib
With any detailed information about your requirements it is hard to say which fits better and why. In short
Swing is pure Java, maybe some what slow, but running where java is fully available (not android for exa... | GUI:
JavaFX is dead, don't use it.
SWT is hairy and to low level - you won't use it.
Swing is way to go (also you can customize is with L&F like substance) if you dislike built in Look&Feels like Metal. |
9,837,326 | Im Tryinig to create a networking **Java SE** application with a **user-friendly interface**, im so confused about the GUI library **(Swing, SWT, JavaFX)** and also about the **architecture** of the application **(MVC, PureMVC)** can any one, with experience, give me a suggestion about all this, I would be so grateful.... | 2012/03/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9837326",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1286872/"
] | This are at least three question, a single answer is unlikely to cover all aspects
a) What about GUI-Lib
With any detailed information about your requirements it is hard to say which fits better and why. In short
Swing is pure Java, maybe some what slow, but running where java is fully available (not android for exa... | Btw, every Grails application *is* an Spring MVC application, so every +1 you give to Spring MVC applies to Grails as well. |
376,504 | On this small island in Liyue, there is a seal blocking a hole where materials such as Violetgrass can be seen.
There is a tablet in front of the seal, presumably a puzzle of sorts to solve to open the seal. But I haven't found any solution that has worked.
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y... | 2020/10/09 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/376504",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | Yes, it can be done. A correct swipe is about 1/2 second at a uniform speed, slightly slower than the speed at which you would scan a card reader at a grocery store. It's admittedly easier to do on mouse (and when you're not stressed by an Impostor possibly stack-killing you).
Here's a video of a YouTuber named Alphar... | I have heard that if you swipe slowly to the arrow and then really fast to the end you will actually complete the quest, I have actually tried this myself and It actually does work.! |
399,306 | I understand Regression analysis relies on the following assumptions about the residuals:
* Normally Distributed (normal plot of residuals)
* Be independent of each other (random and data must be time ordered)
* Have a constant variance
Do these same assumptions apply to both Non-Linear regression and linear regressi... | 2019/03/25 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/399306",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/242361/"
] | **Those assumptions don’t even necessarily apply to linear regression.**
The assumptions you list are important in order for the OLS estimator to have the nice properties we want it to have, but that’s just one estimator. A generalized least squares estimator, for instance, could be perfectly reasonable for autocorrel... | There is also the hypothesis of homoskedasticity in the case of linear regression (ie: all residuals must have the same variance)
When jumping into the non-linear regression world, different methods will have different assumptions, so there is no definite answer. I would say, however, that independence of residuals is... |
37,977 | After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series. | 2013/07/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15655/"
] | Trantor was never intended to be Earth. [Thaddeus's answer](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977/is-trantor-earth/37978#37978) gives some evidence from early canon.
Later Asimov linked the *Foundation* universe with the *Robots* universe, which situated Earth in the *Foundation* universe. [*Robots and Empir... | Lord Dorwin makes a brief mention of "Sol" in "Foundation" (chapter 2 - "The Encyclopedists). Speaking of possible locations for the first human world, he says (he drops his 'r's - sorry).
>
> "Othahs insist on Alpha Centauwi, oah on Sol, oah on 61 Cygni – all in
> the Siwius sectah, you see"
>
>
>
So it's known ... |
37,977 | After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series. | 2013/07/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15655/"
] | How many *Foundation* books have you read? By *[Foundation's Edge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%27s_Edge)*, it's clear that Earth isn't a known planet in the Foundation time-frame. The following book, *Foundation and Earth* is all about the search for Earth, and it is definitely not Trantor. | Lord Dorwin makes a brief mention of "Sol" in "Foundation" (chapter 2 - "The Encyclopedists). Speaking of possible locations for the first human world, he says (he drops his 'r's - sorry).
>
> "Othahs insist on Alpha Centauwi, oah on Sol, oah on 61 Cygni – all in
> the Siwius sectah, you see"
>
>
>
So it's known ... |
37,977 | After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series. | 2013/07/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15655/"
] | **Definitely not, given Trantor's physical location in the galaxy and its planetary properties. Trantor is located as close to the galactic core as possible for humans to still be able to inhabit it. It is also slightly larger than Earth.**
>
> Trantor was first mentioned in a short story by Asimov, 'Black Friar of t... | *[Pebble in the Sky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_in_the_Sky)* was published in 1950, between the original *Foundation* stories appearing in magazine form and in book form.
It identifies Earth as a small but particularly annoying part of the Trantorian Empire.
In *Foundation*, Lord Dorwin makes it clear that ... |
37,977 | After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series. | 2013/07/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15655/"
] | **Definitely not, given Trantor's physical location in the galaxy and its planetary properties. Trantor is located as close to the galactic core as possible for humans to still be able to inhabit it. It is also slightly larger than Earth.**
>
> Trantor was first mentioned in a short story by Asimov, 'Black Friar of t... | Trantor was never intended to be Earth. [Thaddeus's answer](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977/is-trantor-earth/37978#37978) gives some evidence from early canon.
Later Asimov linked the *Foundation* universe with the *Robots* universe, which situated Earth in the *Foundation* universe. [*Robots and Empir... |
37,977 | After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series. | 2013/07/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15655/"
] | How many *Foundation* books have you read? By *[Foundation's Edge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%27s_Edge)*, it's clear that Earth isn't a known planet in the Foundation time-frame. The following book, *Foundation and Earth* is all about the search for Earth, and it is definitely not Trantor. | *[Pebble in the Sky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_in_the_Sky)* was published in 1950, between the original *Foundation* stories appearing in magazine form and in book form.
It identifies Earth as a small but particularly annoying part of the Trantorian Empire.
In *Foundation*, Lord Dorwin makes it clear that ... |
37,977 | After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series. | 2013/07/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15655/"
] | How many *Foundation* books have you read? By *[Foundation's Edge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%27s_Edge)*, it's clear that Earth isn't a known planet in the Foundation time-frame. The following book, *Foundation and Earth* is all about the search for Earth, and it is definitely not Trantor. | **No.**
The Empire Trilogy (*Pebble in the Sky* &cetera) mention that Earth is more or less abandoned, being just another podunk little planet in the Trantorian Empire.
Furthermore, if you're willing to endure some spoilers:
>
> The twist ending of *Foundation and Earth* is that Earth was completely abandoned cent... |
37,977 | After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series. | 2013/07/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15655/"
] | *[Pebble in the Sky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_in_the_Sky)* was published in 1950, between the original *Foundation* stories appearing in magazine form and in book form.
It identifies Earth as a small but particularly annoying part of the Trantorian Empire.
In *Foundation*, Lord Dorwin makes it clear that ... | Lord Dorwin makes a brief mention of "Sol" in "Foundation" (chapter 2 - "The Encyclopedists). Speaking of possible locations for the first human world, he says (he drops his 'r's - sorry).
>
> "Othahs insist on Alpha Centauwi, oah on Sol, oah on 61 Cygni – all in
> the Siwius sectah, you see"
>
>
>
So it's known ... |
37,977 | After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series. | 2013/07/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15655/"
] | Trantor was never intended to be Earth. [Thaddeus's answer](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977/is-trantor-earth/37978#37978) gives some evidence from early canon.
Later Asimov linked the *Foundation* universe with the *Robots* universe, which situated Earth in the *Foundation* universe. [*Robots and Empir... | *[Pebble in the Sky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_in_the_Sky)* was published in 1950, between the original *Foundation* stories appearing in magazine form and in book form.
It identifies Earth as a small but particularly annoying part of the Trantorian Empire.
In *Foundation*, Lord Dorwin makes it clear that ... |
37,977 | After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series. | 2013/07/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15655/"
] | *[Pebble in the Sky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_in_the_Sky)* was published in 1950, between the original *Foundation* stories appearing in magazine form and in book form.
It identifies Earth as a small but particularly annoying part of the Trantorian Empire.
In *Foundation*, Lord Dorwin makes it clear that ... | **No.**
The Empire Trilogy (*Pebble in the Sky* &cetera) mention that Earth is more or less abandoned, being just another podunk little planet in the Trantorian Empire.
Furthermore, if you're willing to endure some spoilers:
>
> The twist ending of *Foundation and Earth* is that Earth was completely abandoned cent... |
37,977 | After reading the first Foundation book in the series, I asked myself if Trantor was Earth at one point. I don't think Asimov ever mentions Earth in the Foundation series. | 2013/07/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15655/"
] | **Definitely not, given Trantor's physical location in the galaxy and its planetary properties. Trantor is located as close to the galactic core as possible for humans to still be able to inhabit it. It is also slightly larger than Earth.**
>
> Trantor was first mentioned in a short story by Asimov, 'Black Friar of t... | How many *Foundation* books have you read? By *[Foundation's Edge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%27s_Edge)*, it's clear that Earth isn't a known planet in the Foundation time-frame. The following book, *Foundation and Earth* is all about the search for Earth, and it is definitely not Trantor. |
133,793 | Part - 1 Rejection
Case 1:
Rejection reason was justification for the purpose and the condition of the intended stay was not provided:
>
> The applicant has applied for a visa to meet with client. The applicant has informed the he will be conducting training as well as day to day tasks and workshops and similar ses... | 2019/03/13 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/133793",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/91153/"
] | >
> Based on the attached description of the application's activities in Norway the applicant must apply for the residence permit.
>
>
>
*What should I do next?*
Apply for the residence permit. You’ve already received the most relevant advise already. I would follow that.
An applicant may have many reasons to b... | In response to the edit:
>
> What should be change in purpose of visit? I want business visa only.
>
>
>
You would qualify for a short-term visa for this visit if you could convince the Norwegian authorities that while you are in Norway you will not perform any activities that are considered under Norwegian immig... |
158,652 | The Malgrange-Ehrenpreis theorem tells us that there is a fundamental solution for any linear differential operator of constants coefficients. The original proof was not constructive (it was based on the Hahn-Banach theorem). Lars Hörmander first gave a method (Hörmander's staircase) to explicitely compute fundamental ... | 2014/02/25 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/158652",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/47455/"
] | The fact that there always exists a temperate fundamental solution was proved by Hormander [here](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02589517) in 1958. I don't know if this answers some part of your question. Concerning regularity, well, this is an interesting question (most of the classical theory of PDEs is... | If you are interested in explicit fundamental solutions for pde's, you should take a look at the supremely interesting work of the Innsbruck group (P. Wagner and N. Ortner). Detailed references can be found via Google. For starters there is their "A survey on explicit representation formulae for fundamental solutions o... |
6,214,487 | I am developing an application. In that my requirement is access the video from iPhone and play that videos and select one from that videos. So please tell me how to access and play the videos in iPhone programmatically. | 2011/06/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6214487",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/777021/"
] | This site is not to do your homework for you. Please read Apple docs on [Media Player Framework](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaplayer). Then download [sample code](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/navigation/#section=Resource%20Types&topic=Sample%20Code) from iOS Developer Library. Once you ... | Apple's [MoviePlayer](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/MoviePlayer_iPhone/Introduction/Intro.html) sample shows how to do this.
And refer - <https://web.archive.org/web/20110528064432/http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/codinghowtos/AudioAndVideo/_index.html> |
40,994,642 | With the rise of Spark, Scala has gained a tremendous momentum as programming language of choice for data science applications.
To increase the efficiency when working on data science applications, **specialized IDEs** have been released for
* R (e.g. RStudio) and
* Python (e.g. Spyder or Rodeo, see [Is there someth... | 2016/12/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/40994642",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1575670/"
] | Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any dedicated Data Science IDEs for Scala at this time. I think these would be your best options:
[IntelliJ Worksheets:](https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IntelliJIDEA/Working+with+Scala+Worksheet)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------... | Your best shot (nothing like rstudio but this would be your best shot for scala) is [apache zeppelin](https://zeppelin.apache.org/)
 |
40,994,642 | With the rise of Spark, Scala has gained a tremendous momentum as programming language of choice for data science applications.
To increase the efficiency when working on data science applications, **specialized IDEs** have been released for
* R (e.g. RStudio) and
* Python (e.g. Spyder or Rodeo, see [Is there someth... | 2016/12/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/40994642",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1575670/"
] | Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any dedicated Data Science IDEs for Scala at this time. I think these would be your best options:
[IntelliJ Worksheets:](https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IntelliJIDEA/Working+with+Scala+Worksheet)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------... | I would recommend you to look at Scala IDE for Eclipse. But i think, it really depends on your personal choice in which you are comfortable writing the code. For testing code by code, i would still use jupyter notebook |
40,994,642 | With the rise of Spark, Scala has gained a tremendous momentum as programming language of choice for data science applications.
To increase the efficiency when working on data science applications, **specialized IDEs** have been released for
* R (e.g. RStudio) and
* Python (e.g. Spyder or Rodeo, see [Is there someth... | 2016/12/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/40994642",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1575670/"
] | Your best shot (nothing like rstudio but this would be your best shot for scala) is [apache zeppelin](https://zeppelin.apache.org/)
 | I would recommend you to look at Scala IDE for Eclipse. But i think, it really depends on your personal choice in which you are comfortable writing the code. For testing code by code, i would still use jupyter notebook |
166,103 | Essentially, I have the opportunity to obtain a game voucher for a couple of PS Vita games that only allows me to download from the UK marketplace. My PSN account is based in New Zealand. What I am thinking is to create a UK account, use the voucher, download the games, switch to my main NZ account and play the downloa... | 2014/04/28 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/166103",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/12229/"
] | No, this will not work. You can only have one account from one region active on a PS Vita. This is the same with the PSP, fwiw.
To change accounts you actually have to reset the device, wipe the content and activate the alternate account with its own SD card, as the memory card content is locked to the account it was ... | For better or worse, this has been done ever since 2006 when the PS3 was released. Back then people who bought the PlayStation 3 and did not have a "local" (Their country) PSN, had to create accounts with "false" data in order to play. That's the case for a lot of people in Latin America (in my experience) who have the... |
348,583 | 
The extremely high system storage is making my phone unusable. What do I do?
None of my apps have any storage more than 3.44 GB. When I connect to iTunes it shows like 30 something GB available. It is annoying to have because I’m not able to download any apps either. I have an... | 2019/01/14 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/348583",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/317371/"
] | I would back up the phone and then erase all content and settings and re-measure it with no user apps or data or things installed - just the blank OS.
If you just want to poke at things before erasing, I would put the device in airplane mode then do the power off ( slide to power off in screen - controller shut down o... | Your image above shows only 3.6 GB free. You should try to get rid of some apps from your phone to free up more space. You could try the App [PhoneClean](https://www.imobie.com/phoneclean/) I used it and it freed up a few GB on my iPhone. You must have access to a Mac since the App funs on MacOS. Then you connect your ... |
348,583 | 
The extremely high system storage is making my phone unusable. What do I do?
None of my apps have any storage more than 3.44 GB. When I connect to iTunes it shows like 30 something GB available. It is annoying to have because I’m not able to download any apps either. I have an... | 2019/01/14 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/348583",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/317371/"
] | I would back up the phone and then erase all content and settings and re-measure it with no user apps or data or things installed - just the blank OS.
If you just want to poke at things before erasing, I would put the device in airplane mode then do the power off ( slide to power off in screen - controller shut down o... | I bet much of your "system storage" is actually chats, photos and videos from social media apps such as WhatsApp. They have been incorrectly recognized as system files. I learned this the hard way. My iphone indicated that all my apps and photos only took up less than 1GB but the system file was more than 13GB! I tried... |
348,583 | 
The extremely high system storage is making my phone unusable. What do I do?
None of my apps have any storage more than 3.44 GB. When I connect to iTunes it shows like 30 something GB available. It is annoying to have because I’m not able to download any apps either. I have an... | 2019/01/14 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/348583",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/317371/"
] | I have had the same issue on Iphone SE. And additionally I was not able to log in to ICloud.
I fixed the issue by restoring the system image of the Ios using Itunes.
Step-by-step:
1. Launch Itunes and back up the phone.
2. Press the Power and Home buttons and hold them until the phone is switched off.
3. Release th... | Your image above shows only 3.6 GB free. You should try to get rid of some apps from your phone to free up more space. You could try the App [PhoneClean](https://www.imobie.com/phoneclean/) I used it and it freed up a few GB on my iPhone. You must have access to a Mac since the App funs on MacOS. Then you connect your ... |
348,583 | 
The extremely high system storage is making my phone unusable. What do I do?
None of my apps have any storage more than 3.44 GB. When I connect to iTunes it shows like 30 something GB available. It is annoying to have because I’m not able to download any apps either. I have an... | 2019/01/14 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/348583",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/317371/"
] | I have had the same issue on Iphone SE. And additionally I was not able to log in to ICloud.
I fixed the issue by restoring the system image of the Ios using Itunes.
Step-by-step:
1. Launch Itunes and back up the phone.
2. Press the Power and Home buttons and hold them until the phone is switched off.
3. Release th... | I bet much of your "system storage" is actually chats, photos and videos from social media apps such as WhatsApp. They have been incorrectly recognized as system files. I learned this the hard way. My iphone indicated that all my apps and photos only took up less than 1GB but the system file was more than 13GB! I tried... |
348,583 | 
The extremely high system storage is making my phone unusable. What do I do?
None of my apps have any storage more than 3.44 GB. When I connect to iTunes it shows like 30 something GB available. It is annoying to have because I’m not able to download any apps either. I have an... | 2019/01/14 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/348583",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/317371/"
] | What I just did on my iPhone 7 Plus 32GB version 12.3.1
1. Phone ON, unlocked, and on the home screen, plugged into PC with iTunes up (don't need to sync)
2. Press and hold Power + Volume Down until the iPhone is off (Still plugged into PC with iTunes up)
3. Power back on, let it come all the way up.
I just went from... | Your image above shows only 3.6 GB free. You should try to get rid of some apps from your phone to free up more space. You could try the App [PhoneClean](https://www.imobie.com/phoneclean/) I used it and it freed up a few GB on my iPhone. You must have access to a Mac since the App funs on MacOS. Then you connect your ... |
348,583 | 
The extremely high system storage is making my phone unusable. What do I do?
None of my apps have any storage more than 3.44 GB. When I connect to iTunes it shows like 30 something GB available. It is annoying to have because I’m not able to download any apps either. I have an... | 2019/01/14 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/348583",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/317371/"
] | What I just did on my iPhone 7 Plus 32GB version 12.3.1
1. Phone ON, unlocked, and on the home screen, plugged into PC with iTunes up (don't need to sync)
2. Press and hold Power + Volume Down until the iPhone is off (Still plugged into PC with iTunes up)
3. Power back on, let it come all the way up.
I just went from... | I bet much of your "system storage" is actually chats, photos and videos from social media apps such as WhatsApp. They have been incorrectly recognized as system files. I learned this the hard way. My iphone indicated that all my apps and photos only took up less than 1GB but the system file was more than 13GB! I tried... |
191,667 | Our Debian Servers are becoming more and more and I am having a bit of a problem keeping the configurations in sync e.g. for ssh keys. But also stuff like vim configurations and tools installed on the servers.
I would really like to have an option to have a default install on all of them where things like wget and w3m... | 2010/10/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/191667",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1131/"
] | I guess you could look into [Puppet](http://www.puppetlabs.com/). It's seems to fit your requirements. | For automating new installations, there is FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). For configuration management, there are a number of solutions, including: cfEngine, Puppet, and bcfg2. Debian provides packages for all those, so they're just an `apt-get` away. |
191,667 | Our Debian Servers are becoming more and more and I am having a bit of a problem keeping the configurations in sync e.g. for ssh keys. But also stuff like vim configurations and tools installed on the servers.
I would really like to have an option to have a default install on all of them where things like wget and w3m... | 2010/10/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/191667",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1131/"
] | I guess you could look into [Puppet](http://www.puppetlabs.com/). It's seems to fit your requirements. | you should have a look at Puppet or Chef. |
191,667 | Our Debian Servers are becoming more and more and I am having a bit of a problem keeping the configurations in sync e.g. for ssh keys. But also stuff like vim configurations and tools installed on the servers.
I would really like to have an option to have a default install on all of them where things like wget and w3m... | 2010/10/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/191667",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1131/"
] | I guess you could look into [Puppet](http://www.puppetlabs.com/). It's seems to fit your requirements. | take a look at look at [debian pre-seeding](http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed) and then - as suggested by Fred and Mark - centralized configuration management like puppet or chef.
pre-seeding might be cumbersome at first but in the long run it's quite powerful..
[here](http://kudzia.eu/b/2009/07/pre-see... |
191,667 | Our Debian Servers are becoming more and more and I am having a bit of a problem keeping the configurations in sync e.g. for ssh keys. But also stuff like vim configurations and tools installed on the servers.
I would really like to have an option to have a default install on all of them where things like wget and w3m... | 2010/10/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/191667",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1131/"
] | I guess you could look into [Puppet](http://www.puppetlabs.com/). It's seems to fit your requirements. | FAI can install and configure your machines. For configuration you can use any scripting language you prefer, like cfengine or chef,....
FAI also includes the normal Debian preseeding technique, but this is only a small part of FAI. FAI can do much more.
The FAI project moved it's $HOME to
<http://fai-project.org> |
191,667 | Our Debian Servers are becoming more and more and I am having a bit of a problem keeping the configurations in sync e.g. for ssh keys. But also stuff like vim configurations and tools installed on the servers.
I would really like to have an option to have a default install on all of them where things like wget and w3m... | 2010/10/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/191667",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1131/"
] | you should have a look at Puppet or Chef. | For automating new installations, there is FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). For configuration management, there are a number of solutions, including: cfEngine, Puppet, and bcfg2. Debian provides packages for all those, so they're just an `apt-get` away. |
191,667 | Our Debian Servers are becoming more and more and I am having a bit of a problem keeping the configurations in sync e.g. for ssh keys. But also stuff like vim configurations and tools installed on the servers.
I would really like to have an option to have a default install on all of them where things like wget and w3m... | 2010/10/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/191667",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1131/"
] | you should have a look at Puppet or Chef. | take a look at look at [debian pre-seeding](http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed) and then - as suggested by Fred and Mark - centralized configuration management like puppet or chef.
pre-seeding might be cumbersome at first but in the long run it's quite powerful..
[here](http://kudzia.eu/b/2009/07/pre-see... |
191,667 | Our Debian Servers are becoming more and more and I am having a bit of a problem keeping the configurations in sync e.g. for ssh keys. But also stuff like vim configurations and tools installed on the servers.
I would really like to have an option to have a default install on all of them where things like wget and w3m... | 2010/10/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/191667",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/1131/"
] | you should have a look at Puppet or Chef. | FAI can install and configure your machines. For configuration you can use any scripting language you prefer, like cfengine or chef,....
FAI also includes the normal Debian preseeding technique, but this is only a small part of FAI. FAI can do much more.
The FAI project moved it's $HOME to
<http://fai-project.org> |
81,453 | >
> There are products to be flogged and, Ms. Barberich added, “stars to be made.”
>
>
>
What does it mean by flogged here?
I got these synonym:
struck, propelled, electrical, beaten, flogged, chastised
Full Context for Original Quote: [Who Am I Wearing? Funny You Should Ask.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/fa... | 2012/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/81453",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | *Flogged* is used here in wiktionary's sense 3 of *[flog](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flog)*, “(transitive, UK) To sell something.” That is, the sentence means there are products to be aggressively promoted and pushed into the faces of the public. | >
> There are products to be flogged and, Ms. Barberich added, “stars to be made.”
>
>
>
The sentence means there is scope for a lot of products to be fiercely promoted/publicized in the market, and while it sells the new designers become stars. |
43,938 | I have a WinMo 6.1 PPC phone, and it keeps saying that I have one unread sms/mms message, but i have looked through ALL my folders, and there are no unread messages.
After googling around, I found some little app, FixUnreadCount.exe, that you just copy to your phone, and run, and it is supposed to reset the counts. I... | 2009/09/19 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/43938",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/4865/"
] | On the garmin website you can download software for your device
<http://www8.garmin.com/support/download.jsp> | Use Windows (file) Explorer to browse the file directories. You can discover where photos and MP3 files can be stored. |
43,938 | I have a WinMo 6.1 PPC phone, and it keeps saying that I have one unread sms/mms message, but i have looked through ALL my folders, and there are no unread messages.
After googling around, I found some little app, FixUnreadCount.exe, that you just copy to your phone, and run, and it is supposed to reset the counts. I... | 2009/09/19 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/43938",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/4865/"
] | On the garmin website you can download software for your device
<http://www8.garmin.com/support/download.jsp> | The Garmin Software is free, however the Maps are not. The catch to the Nuvi is that the maps can't be read of the GPS, and needs to be separately purchased and installed.
You can however pull your travel logs of the GPS and I am in the process of writing a little application to parse these and then map them on with G... |
266,458 | Someone who has a great taste in fashion could help others with their shopping, but as a profession not as a hobby.
The inspiration for this question is from the movie "In Her Shoes". | 2015/08/12 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/266458",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/133504/"
] | A ['personal shopper'](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/personal+shopper) (reference.com) does this, and may be employed by the shop or independent. | Personal Shopper/Buyer's Assistant |
266,458 | Someone who has a great taste in fashion could help others with their shopping, but as a profession not as a hobby.
The inspiration for this question is from the movie "In Her Shoes". | 2015/08/12 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/266458",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/133504/"
] | A ['personal shopper'](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/personal+shopper) (reference.com) does this, and may be employed by the shop or independent. | normally you can use many words but the one that best describes that is doradca. THe pronunciation however is not known to me. The word has been in use for last 300 years - so it is hihg time to learnt it and use freely |
4,023 | There is a user that recently started asking [questions](https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/users/24052/mhchem?tab=questions&sort=newest), that some of us see as [pointless discussions about noob stuff](https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/87314/is-dissolving-salt-a-chemical-reaction-or-a-physical-change?nore... | 2017/12/13 | [
"https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4023",
"https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/users/24052/"
] | We do not want **discussions**. We want questions with answers. Whether or not these are pointless, or noob stuff should be determined by voting.
As with chemistry, I don't really like too many generalisations, especially not on the fuzzy interpretation level. There certainly are questions that are too basic, which be... | We don't want discussions. But we also don't want a hostile site that obnoxiously dismisses people as unworthy "noobs". Everybody "knew nothing about chemistry" once. Nothing in the [help centre](https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic) says that the scope of this site is restricted to "professional chemists"... |
29,321 | If I write a check to someone (in this case, from an LLC), on a local bank, and it goes to someone who is within 10-25 miles of me, and they take that to their bank (also local and not my bank), is there an upward limit on how long that check can take to clear on my account?
Is there an upward limit or maximum amount ... | 2014/03/23 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/29321",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/13963/"
] | There's nothing you can do. If he has indeed deposited the check, it would appear on your account fairly quickly - I've never seen it taking more than 2-3 business days. However, a check is a debt instrument, and you cannot close the account until it clears, or until the "unclaimed property" laws of your state kick in.... | According to [this Q&A by a Houston law professor](http://www.chron.com/news/article/Know-your-rights-Stopping-payment-on-a-check-is-1615087.php):
>
> The law, however, is not designed to interfere with an individual's right to stop payment on a valid check because of a dispute with someone. If he didn't deliver as p... |
24,646 | In every edition of D&D before 4e, Paladins are required to be Lawful Good. If they stray from that, they are completely stripped of their powers. This means that evil deities can't grant powers to paladins or if they do, they go into a new class (e.g. Anti-Paladin).
My question is: why? Why was it designed that palad... | 2013/04/11 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/24646",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/7373/"
] | Since Gary Gygax was the original "designer" let's look at what inspired his version and hence D&D's version of the Paladin.
This is from a Collection of "[Sources for D&D](http://www.hahnlibrary.net/rpgs/sources.html)" that was compiled by Aardy R. DeVarque, who draws his source directly from the original 1st edition... | In 2E (and maybe 1E - not sure, I don't have the books handy at the moment), the Paladin is specifically a specialist Fighter, much like how the Druid was an "example" of a specialist Cleric.
The paladin is also less defined by his religion (not just a holy warrior) and his alignment, and more defined by his required ... |
24,646 | In every edition of D&D before 4e, Paladins are required to be Lawful Good. If they stray from that, they are completely stripped of their powers. This means that evil deities can't grant powers to paladins or if they do, they go into a new class (e.g. Anti-Paladin).
My question is: why? Why was it designed that palad... | 2013/04/11 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/24646",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/7373/"
] | Since Gary Gygax was the original "designer" let's look at what inspired his version and hence D&D's version of the Paladin.
This is from a Collection of "[Sources for D&D](http://www.hahnlibrary.net/rpgs/sources.html)" that was compiled by Aardy R. DeVarque, who draws his source directly from the original 1st edition... | From a gaming perspective, I see two points in favor of the initial alignment restriction :
* consistency with existing stereotypes : assassins are evil, paladins
are ultimately good, and so on. So that was not shocking for players
* Paladins was the most powerfull class available. Alignment restriction was a good way... |
24,646 | In every edition of D&D before 4e, Paladins are required to be Lawful Good. If they stray from that, they are completely stripped of their powers. This means that evil deities can't grant powers to paladins or if they do, they go into a new class (e.g. Anti-Paladin).
My question is: why? Why was it designed that palad... | 2013/04/11 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/24646",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/7373/"
] | Since Gary Gygax was the original "designer" let's look at what inspired his version and hence D&D's version of the Paladin.
This is from a Collection of "[Sources for D&D](http://www.hahnlibrary.net/rpgs/sources.html)" that was compiled by Aardy R. DeVarque, who draws his source directly from the original 1st edition... | Short answer: they didn't originally have to be Lawful *Good*
-------------------------------------------------------------
The original Paladin as published in Greyhawk was aligned as Lawful. Full Stop.
(This is a very *minor* frame challenge).
The alignment matrix in *Men and Magic* (TSR, 1974, Gygax Arneson, p... |
24,646 | In every edition of D&D before 4e, Paladins are required to be Lawful Good. If they stray from that, they are completely stripped of their powers. This means that evil deities can't grant powers to paladins or if they do, they go into a new class (e.g. Anti-Paladin).
My question is: why? Why was it designed that palad... | 2013/04/11 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/24646",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/7373/"
] | In 2E (and maybe 1E - not sure, I don't have the books handy at the moment), the Paladin is specifically a specialist Fighter, much like how the Druid was an "example" of a specialist Cleric.
The paladin is also less defined by his religion (not just a holy warrior) and his alignment, and more defined by his required ... | From a gaming perspective, I see two points in favor of the initial alignment restriction :
* consistency with existing stereotypes : assassins are evil, paladins
are ultimately good, and so on. So that was not shocking for players
* Paladins was the most powerfull class available. Alignment restriction was a good way... |
24,646 | In every edition of D&D before 4e, Paladins are required to be Lawful Good. If they stray from that, they are completely stripped of their powers. This means that evil deities can't grant powers to paladins or if they do, they go into a new class (e.g. Anti-Paladin).
My question is: why? Why was it designed that palad... | 2013/04/11 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/24646",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/7373/"
] | In 2E (and maybe 1E - not sure, I don't have the books handy at the moment), the Paladin is specifically a specialist Fighter, much like how the Druid was an "example" of a specialist Cleric.
The paladin is also less defined by his religion (not just a holy warrior) and his alignment, and more defined by his required ... | Short answer: they didn't originally have to be Lawful *Good*
-------------------------------------------------------------
The original Paladin as published in Greyhawk was aligned as Lawful. Full Stop.
(This is a very *minor* frame challenge).
The alignment matrix in *Men and Magic* (TSR, 1974, Gygax Arneson, p... |
82,582 | I'm a student + working from home (coding - not internship). I'm supposed to count hours I've worked on the projects, but then I'm still somewhat new to my job and 2/3 of the time I spend working is basically just learning, reading, testing new technologies and such - every week I'm working is basically 3 days of learn... | 2017/01/07 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82582",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/62609/"
] | Report the hours. They have the right to know how long it took you,
If they hired you on the cheap, they got what they paid for. If they had wanted to hire someone experienced, they would have already done it. And paid that someone accordingly. | Learning will be a major part of your time, no matter how experienced you are. There is much, much more to know than a single person could ever know. So hours spent learning towards the goal of performing the task that you need to perform counts as working time. |
82,582 | I'm a student + working from home (coding - not internship). I'm supposed to count hours I've worked on the projects, but then I'm still somewhat new to my job and 2/3 of the time I spend working is basically just learning, reading, testing new technologies and such - every week I'm working is basically 3 days of learn... | 2017/01/07 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82582",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/62609/"
] | Report the hours. They have the right to know how long it took you,
If they hired you on the cheap, they got what they paid for. If they had wanted to hire someone experienced, they would have already done it. And paid that someone accordingly. | Both overreporting and underreporting of hours amount to timesheet fraud. If your company bills a customer for your hours, timesheet fraud can setup them for potential litigation (in both cases).
The case of overreporting is obvious, but there are a couple of reasons why underreporting could cause problems.
* The cu... |
82,582 | I'm a student + working from home (coding - not internship). I'm supposed to count hours I've worked on the projects, but then I'm still somewhat new to my job and 2/3 of the time I spend working is basically just learning, reading, testing new technologies and such - every week I'm working is basically 3 days of learn... | 2017/01/07 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82582",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/62609/"
] | Report the hours. They have the right to know how long it took you,
If they hired you on the cheap, they got what they paid for. If they had wanted to hire someone experienced, they would have already done it. And paid that someone accordingly. | It is not a general rule for this, at any level of experience as freelancer or employee that is paid per hour.
To manage this ethical, you must answer one question, in my opinion:
Is it, the task, included in the job requirements or it is at the level of knowledge for that you were hired or they already paid you to l... |
82,582 | I'm a student + working from home (coding - not internship). I'm supposed to count hours I've worked on the projects, but then I'm still somewhat new to my job and 2/3 of the time I spend working is basically just learning, reading, testing new technologies and such - every week I'm working is basically 3 days of learn... | 2017/01/07 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82582",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/62609/"
] | Learning will be a major part of your time, no matter how experienced you are. There is much, much more to know than a single person could ever know. So hours spent learning towards the goal of performing the task that you need to perform counts as working time. | It is not a general rule for this, at any level of experience as freelancer or employee that is paid per hour.
To manage this ethical, you must answer one question, in my opinion:
Is it, the task, included in the job requirements or it is at the level of knowledge for that you were hired or they already paid you to l... |
82,582 | I'm a student + working from home (coding - not internship). I'm supposed to count hours I've worked on the projects, but then I'm still somewhat new to my job and 2/3 of the time I spend working is basically just learning, reading, testing new technologies and such - every week I'm working is basically 3 days of learn... | 2017/01/07 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82582",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/62609/"
] | Both overreporting and underreporting of hours amount to timesheet fraud. If your company bills a customer for your hours, timesheet fraud can setup them for potential litigation (in both cases).
The case of overreporting is obvious, but there are a couple of reasons why underreporting could cause problems.
* The cu... | It is not a general rule for this, at any level of experience as freelancer or employee that is paid per hour.
To manage this ethical, you must answer one question, in my opinion:
Is it, the task, included in the job requirements or it is at the level of knowledge for that you were hired or they already paid you to l... |
8,642,643 | Following reading <http://gbif.blogspot.com/2011/01/setting-up-hadoop-cluster-part-1-manual.html> we want to experiment with mapred.reduce.parallel.copies.
The blog mentions "looking very carefully at the logs". How would we know we've reached the sweet spot? what should we look for? how can we detect that we're over... | 2011/12/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8642643",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/574187/"
] | In order to do that you should basically look for 4 things : CPU, RAM, Disk and Network. If your setup is crossing the threshold of these metrics you can deduce that you are pushing the limits. For example, if you have set the value of "mapred.reduce.parallel.copies" to a value much higher than the number of cores avai... | Reaching the "sweet spot" is really just finding the parameters that give you the best result for whichever metric you consider the most important, usually overall job time. To figure out what parameters are working I would suggest using the following profiling tools that Hadoop comes with, MrBench, TestDFSIO, and NNBe... |
389,913 | I need to connect to Linux computers from remote. I am using LogMeIn for windows PCs. But it doesn't have client for Linux boxes.
I have tried Team Viewer, but seems very heavy.
Is there any other solution for this?? | 2012/05/17 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/389913",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/69155/"
] | One of the VNC client variants would be a good choice. There are several forks, I use TightVNC but YMMV. | Either try using vnc (x11vnc or something) if you need the whole desktop, or ssh with X forwarding (ssh -X) to forward just one window/app. |
389,913 | I need to connect to Linux computers from remote. I am using LogMeIn for windows PCs. But it doesn't have client for Linux boxes.
I have tried Team Viewer, but seems very heavy.
Is there any other solution for this?? | 2012/05/17 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/389913",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/69155/"
] | One of the VNC client variants would be a good choice. There are several forks, I use TightVNC but YMMV. | NoMachine (NX Free Edition in 3.5.0) for Linux will let you access Linux boxes. On your local desktop you'll need to install their client: NoMachine Player (NX Client 3.5.0). They also just released NoMachine for remote access to Windows PCs and Macs. |
389,913 | I need to connect to Linux computers from remote. I am using LogMeIn for windows PCs. But it doesn't have client for Linux boxes.
I have tried Team Viewer, but seems very heavy.
Is there any other solution for this?? | 2012/05/17 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/389913",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/69155/"
] | NoMachine (NX Free Edition in 3.5.0) for Linux will let you access Linux boxes. On your local desktop you'll need to install their client: NoMachine Player (NX Client 3.5.0). They also just released NoMachine for remote access to Windows PCs and Macs. | Either try using vnc (x11vnc or something) if you need the whole desktop, or ssh with X forwarding (ssh -X) to forward just one window/app. |
1,264 | What makes [this question](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/16375/why-did-allah-encourage-people-to-come-to-the-prophet-pbuh-so-that-he-would-pl) to be considered as an attempt to a polemic question?
This question is based on Quran 's verse,and user wants its tafseer.
So,what is the problem with it? | 2014/07/23 | [
"https://islam.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1264",
"https://islam.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://islam.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4161/"
] | Ok,I assume that the part which you mentioned,leading toward a particular answer.But I can't understand what is the problem with it?!
All users have authority of accepting or denying.they can be agree with him or be disagree,so they can answer this question based on their opinion and their evidences.every body who isn... | Quite simply, it's the leading question at the end:
>
> **Can we at least draw the conclusion that intercession is not against Islamic teachings?**
>
>
>
The questioner is obviously leading toward a *particular* answer. In bold, no less. This is a hallmark of polemic and apologetic writing; to take a verse or ref... |
2,680,387 | I'm trying to reverse engineer how facebook handles their notifications, where when you get a message you get instantly notified via the browser.
I've fiddled with it for a little bit and realized that there is always a pending GET request "listening" if you will to some sort of update from the server. This appears t... | 2010/04/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2680387",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/207282/"
] | The technique is actually called [Long Polling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)#Ajax_with_long_polling). This is one of the popular [Comet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)) techniques to get around the limitations of traditional polling.
You may want to check out the following Stack O... | The technique is called Comet, aka 'server push'
There are currently 2 main ways of implementing comet.
1) As Daniel mentioned, long-polling, where you can use ajax to leave a hanging request to the browser that doesn't send the response back until the server decides to (whether it be based on someone else's actions ... |
9,960,087 | i am trying to compare just 2 faces and get their likeness - score of how much do they match.
I searching internet for solution but I can only find face recognition against set of training images, I cant find if someone has perform research about this problem - I have 2 unknow faces and I wanna find out if its the same... | 2012/03/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9960087",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/613299/"
] | First, be warned that this is far from a solved problem. In fact it's a relatively area of research in computer vision. Please have a look at the [Labeled Faces in the Wild dataset](http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/) , which uses precisely the task you're talking about, comparing two faces. Of particular interest for yo... | It seems that what you intend to do is find similarity between the two faces. OpenCV provides basic template matching functionality between two images. [Here](http://dasl.mem.drexel.edu/~noahKuntz/openCVTut6.html#Step%202)'s a nice explanation and full-fledged C code for doing that.
As explained there, the output of ... |
6,563,639 | In my application (C#) i have lots of const messages which are get printed to the log, presented to the user, etc.
This const messages are not suppose to change so there is no point putting them in an external file or DB.
My solution is very simple - I am thinking about creating a static class and naming it ConstMessa... | 2011/07/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6563639",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/795859/"
] | I would use readonly instead of const to get over versioning issues. | That's usually OK for simple applications - another option is a RESX file if you think there is a possibility the application will ever need to be localized / support more than one language. |
6,563,639 | In my application (C#) i have lots of const messages which are get printed to the log, presented to the user, etc.
This const messages are not suppose to change so there is no point putting them in an external file or DB.
My solution is very simple - I am thinking about creating a static class and naming it ConstMessa... | 2011/07/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6563639",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/795859/"
] | I would use readonly instead of const to get over versioning issues. | I would typically store these as application [Settings](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869%28VS.80%29.aspx) or [Resources](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7k989cfy%28VS.80%29.aspx). |
6,563,639 | In my application (C#) i have lots of const messages which are get printed to the log, presented to the user, etc.
This const messages are not suppose to change so there is no point putting them in an external file or DB.
My solution is very simple - I am thinking about creating a static class and naming it ConstMessa... | 2011/07/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6563639",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/795859/"
] | That's usually OK for simple applications - another option is a RESX file if you think there is a possibility the application will ever need to be localized / support more than one language. | I would typically store these as application [Settings](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869%28VS.80%29.aspx) or [Resources](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7k989cfy%28VS.80%29.aspx). |
5,728,588 | I have few plugins installed in Visual Studio 2008. Is there a way to disable a few of them without uninstalling the specific plugin? I am looking for something visual i.e I dont want to edit the command line used to start Visual Stuio | 2011/04/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5728588",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/320092/"
] | Try disabling Add-ins (e.g. “Tools” | “Add-in Manager”) or run “devenv.exe /SafeMode”.This can eliminate the possibility that third party Add-ins or packages are causing problems. (For more detailed VS command line switches information, see: <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xee0c8y7.aspx> ) | Yeah...of course there is...Just go to Tools menu and select Add-in Manager, then uncheck the addins you don't want to run. You can also remove the check in Startup column to disable the adding when you start Visual Studio. You can always enable them again from Add-in Manager. |
613,289 | I have an IPhone game app idea that will use Google Maps and was wondering if I could charge for a app that used Google Maps? This will be like a mashup. | 2009/03/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/613289",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/44160/"
] | DataMapper, the default ORM for Merb (written in Ruby), might help. Take a look at an experimental [DataMapper adapter for Tokyo-Cabinet](http://github.com/makoto/dm-tokyo-cabinet-adapter/tree/master). DataMapper's already got SQLite3 support so you may be able to compare the two. | I don't know for sure, but since [Carbonado](http://carbonado.sourceforge.net/) supports RDBMSs (Oracle) and "persisted b-trees" (BDB), it could definitely support both. |
28,752,094 | I've been making some tweaks as well as adding finishing touches to an app I've been working on. I just noticed my computer started to load very slowly when compiling the app. after several screen crashes and freezes I decided to reboot in a various number of ways. <http://www.macworld.com/article/2018853/when-good-mac... | 2015/02/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28752094",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4577846/"
] | You can use bitbucket.com, it's free for small projects. | Github is the best repository, it allows you to backup your project,
you can clone it anywhere at any system.
And you can update your project as well.
Along with this, You can make it private.
<http://git-scm.com/docs>
There is another option if you don't want this to be some console
there is an iCloud ... |
176,152 | I am prepping my concrete floors for epoxy. After removing whatever I can do mechanically with a grinder and cup brush, I was going to soak it in muriatic acid.
I did something similar to my exposed brick walls and the effects were fantastic, thar thing does clean. But I remember that I neutralized the ph factor with ... | 2019/10/09 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/176152",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | I have rinsed with clear water and a large rubber squeegee 3 times. On the inside basements I cleaned I made a u shaped dam slightly wider than my squeegee, I set my shop vac to suck the water as I pushed it in, it really worked better than I thought it would, I used some scrap angle iron but I bet some 2x4 scraps woul... | concrete's is naturally alkaline washing with water should suffice, but if you want to hit it with quicklime or baking soda that's not going to do any harm. |
87,268 | There are many variants of the [flight altitude record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record). The highest on the list is [SpaceShipOne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne) but rocketry isn't really "flight" in the sense of aerodynamic lift. What is the highest altitude for which:
1. The flight... | 2021/05/23 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/87268",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/46973/"
] | As of writing this, the official (as verified by [FAI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_A%C3%A9ronautique_Internationale)) **"altitude in horizontal flight"** category record goes to the [SR-71](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird) on [28 Jul 1976](https://www.fai.org/record/3496) a... | Ymb1 mentioned the highest *verified* horizontal flights. Adding to their answer however, the following planes reportedly went higher:
* Brian Carroll said he flew an [English Electric Lightning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning) to **87,300 ft (26.6 km)** MSL. From his description it seems it ... |
87,268 | There are many variants of the [flight altitude record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record). The highest on the list is [SpaceShipOne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne) but rocketry isn't really "flight" in the sense of aerodynamic lift. What is the highest altitude for which:
1. The flight... | 2021/05/23 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/87268",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/46973/"
] | As of writing this, the official (as verified by [FAI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_A%C3%A9ronautique_Internationale)) **"altitude in horizontal flight"** category record goes to the [SR-71](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird) on [28 Jul 1976](https://www.fai.org/record/3496) a... | As far as one can trust NASA to be a reputable source, an A-12 registration 60-6932 operated by CIA flew at 90000ft on 14 August 1965.
There are unofficial accounts that the altitude record of A-12 is actually 94000ft (by A-12 and later SR-71 pilot Ken Collins), but I was unable to verify this. I am inclined to believ... |
87,268 | There are many variants of the [flight altitude record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record). The highest on the list is [SpaceShipOne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne) but rocketry isn't really "flight" in the sense of aerodynamic lift. What is the highest altitude for which:
1. The flight... | 2021/05/23 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/87268",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/46973/"
] | Ymb1 mentioned the highest *verified* horizontal flights. Adding to their answer however, the following planes reportedly went higher:
* Brian Carroll said he flew an [English Electric Lightning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning) to **87,300 ft (26.6 km)** MSL. From his description it seems it ... | As far as one can trust NASA to be a reputable source, an A-12 registration 60-6932 operated by CIA flew at 90000ft on 14 August 1965.
There are unofficial accounts that the altitude record of A-12 is actually 94000ft (by A-12 and later SR-71 pilot Ken Collins), but I was unable to verify this. I am inclined to believ... |
32,007 | [This related question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/31460/28) asks about considerations for Santa's sleigh (particularly weight), but my question is more basic: how do you design a vehicle that satisfies Santa's design requirements, including the very tight schedule, in a way that doesn't turn Santa into ... | 2015/12/22 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32007",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/28/"
] | Let me introduce you to the concept of legendary matter. Legendary matter is mostly like ordinary matter; indeed, there's a legendary counterpart to each ordinary particle, having basically the same properties. With one exception: Instead of the ordinary charges, they have their own charge fields, the legendary charges... | Assuming that Santa travels at the speed of light or faster to reach each home this would be problematic. Which with as many starts and stops needed would play heck on whiplash (or corporeal retention!). Even just one acceleration to half the speed of light in say seconds, would likely cause an x-ray burst and the comp... |
32,007 | [This related question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/31460/28) asks about considerations for Santa's sleigh (particularly weight), but my question is more basic: how do you design a vehicle that satisfies Santa's design requirements, including the very tight schedule, in a way that doesn't turn Santa into ... | 2015/12/22 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32007",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/28/"
] | Let me introduce you to the concept of legendary matter. Legendary matter is mostly like ordinary matter; indeed, there's a legendary counterpart to each ordinary particle, having basically the same properties. With one exception: Instead of the ordinary charges, they have their own charge fields, the legendary charges... | I would expect the technology to consist of a very small self-contained antimatter reactor, with a warp drive similar to the Alcubierre concept or the warp drive from Star Trek. Warp drive operates by moving the space surrounding the vessel so that the vessel is dragged along with it. An extremely fast warp drive could... |
32,007 | [This related question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/31460/28) asks about considerations for Santa's sleigh (particularly weight), but my question is more basic: how do you design a vehicle that satisfies Santa's design requirements, including the very tight schedule, in a way that doesn't turn Santa into ... | 2015/12/22 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32007",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/28/"
] | I would expect the technology to consist of a very small self-contained antimatter reactor, with a warp drive similar to the Alcubierre concept or the warp drive from Star Trek. Warp drive operates by moving the space surrounding the vessel so that the vessel is dragged along with it. An extremely fast warp drive could... | According to Norad, Santa's sleigh's max speed is "faster than starlight." Additionally, we know that despite being rather aged, he is still athletic and has not died yet.
"Faster than starlight", eh? You know what that means? [Time Travel](http://www.andersoninstitute.com/faster-than-light-travel.html). Backwards to ... |
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