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7,060,865 | I created a simple test jar executable file, but when I tried to run it, it wouldn't work because it said that the Main-Class manifest attribute from jar.jar wouldn't load. The manifest file (which was called manifest.mf) I typed up looked like this:
Main-Class: JarTest
and the compiler command looked like this:
jar ... | 2011/08/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7060865",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/858819/"
] | The c++ is a really complex language to parse, so it would be really hard / long / expensive to develop such a tool I guess.
The general rule is to never modify generated code ( in your case the code is generated by Qt designer)
You can
* Subclass the generated class and put your modifications in the sub class
* Co... | A software introspection tool, [GammaRay](https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay), can save widgets from a running Qt application to `.ui` files (since 2012, I believe). Tested on Qt 5.12 - layout is perfectly correct, but no signals, no object names, though it gives a good starting point in restoring objects' hierarchy and ... |
17,537,722 | I'm trying to cluster the Twitter stream. I want to put each tweet to a cluster that talk about the same topic. I tried to cluster the stream using an online clustering algorithm with tf/idf and cosine similarity but I found that the results are quite bad.
The main disadvantages of using tf/idf is that it clusters doc... | 2013/07/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17537722",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2464658/"
] | In my experience, cosine similarity on [latent semantic analysis](http://t.co/I1wtljOr) (LSA/LSI) vectors works a lot better than raw tf-idf for text clustering, though I admit I haven't tried it on Twitter data. In particular, it tends to take care of the sparsity problem that you're encountering, where the documents ... | **Long answer:**
TfxIdf is currently one of the most famous search method. What you need are some preprocessing from Natural Langage Processing (NLP). There is a lot of resources that can help you for english (for example the lib 'nltk' in python).
You must use the NLP analysis both on your querys (questions) and on ... |
17,537,722 | I'm trying to cluster the Twitter stream. I want to put each tweet to a cluster that talk about the same topic. I tried to cluster the stream using an online clustering algorithm with tf/idf and cosine similarity but I found that the results are quite bad.
The main disadvantages of using tf/idf is that it clusters doc... | 2013/07/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17537722",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2464658/"
] | As mentioned in other comments and answers. Using LDA can give good tweet->topic weights.
If these weights are insufficient clustering for your needs you could look at clustering these topic distributions using a clustering algorithm.
While it is training set dependent LDA could easily bundle tweets with stackoverflo... | **Long answer:**
TfxIdf is currently one of the most famous search method. What you need are some preprocessing from Natural Langage Processing (NLP). There is a lot of resources that can help you for english (for example the lib 'nltk' in python).
You must use the NLP analysis both on your querys (questions) and on ... |
17,537,722 | I'm trying to cluster the Twitter stream. I want to put each tweet to a cluster that talk about the same topic. I tried to cluster the stream using an online clustering algorithm with tf/idf and cosine similarity but I found that the results are quite bad.
The main disadvantages of using tf/idf is that it clusters doc... | 2013/07/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17537722",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2464658/"
] | In my experience, cosine similarity on [latent semantic analysis](http://t.co/I1wtljOr) (LSA/LSI) vectors works a lot better than raw tf-idf for text clustering, though I admit I haven't tried it on Twitter data. In particular, it tends to take care of the sparsity problem that you're encountering, where the documents ... | As mentioned in other comments and answers. Using LDA can give good tweet->topic weights.
If these weights are insufficient clustering for your needs you could look at clustering these topic distributions using a clustering algorithm.
While it is training set dependent LDA could easily bundle tweets with stackoverflo... |
24,737 | My connected flight was purchased from Air France from Paris to Vancouver. The first flight (Paris-Toronto) was operated by Air France, the second one (Toronto-Vancouver) was operated by Air Canada. In Paris, Air France told me my baggage would be delivered to Vancouver airport directly. So I have filled out the declar... | 2014/03/04 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/24737",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/12012/"
] | That's unfortunate, and when it's all sorted out, I'd suggest a letter to Air Canada / Air France asking for some points as compensation.
In the meanwhile, you can only do a few things:
* wait. This will take time. All bags are tracked electronically in the system, so it's a case of the right person finding the log f... | I was in a similar situation. I was flying from Melbourne, Australia to Kuala Lumpur by Malaysian Airlines and then KL to Singapore by Singapore Airlines. When I checked in at Melbourne, I was told that I will be able to collect my bags at Singapore directly. Well, this had never happened with me before, so I was a bit... |
101,741 | Tonight a band of lizardfolk was towing a large raft (some 30-feet square raft) over shallow swamp waters. Some 4~5 feet deep. Since the raft had some several key townsfolk tied up on it and was on its way to be sacrificed to some hideous demi-human deity, the wizard decided to cast web below the raft.
His rationale w... | 2017/06/17 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101741",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/11402/"
] | I would say yes, because the Web spell can be layered over the bottom of the raft, and the web spell says that:
>
> Webs layered over a flat surface have a depth of 5 feet.
>
>
>
Since this is, or more than, the depth of the river, the web could be considered anchored to both points, as it would be the exactly th... | The *web* spell can't hold the raft
===================================
The *web* spell says:
>
> If the webs aren't anchored **between two solid masses (such as walls or trees)** or layered across a floor, wall, or ceiling, the conjured web collapses on itself, **and the spell ends at the start of your next turn**.... |
39,302 | Last week, I rode AMT005 (the westbound *California Zephyr*) from Omaha to Salt Lake City as part of an itinerary that went as follows:
* Omaha to SLC via Denver and the Central Corridor on AMT005
* SLC to Evanston, WY via private vehicle
However, due to a rockslide that blocked the Central Corridor (ex-D&RGW) mainli... | 2014/12/03 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/39302",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/22968/"
] | I think the only real answer to this is that it can't hurt to ask the on-train staff -- politely and without sounding like you have a *right* to be let off there.
However, I wouldn't get my hopes up. There doesn't seem to be a passenger station in Evanston, and railway regulations generally frown on letting passengers... | *Possibly*. The reason is, Amtrak has to do *something* with its passengers for Glenwood Springs, and you are allowed to make the most out of that "something".
To be clear, #5 did *not* roll into Ogden via the Transcontinental Railroad and then double back into Colorado to Glenwood Springs. That equipment needed to b... |
41,279 | I've only heard about living hedge barriers, but would dead stick barriers help keep out the deer so they go around the garden also? | 2018/08/04 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/41279",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/13136/"
] | That is a [Sulphur Cosmos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_sulphureus) I believe. | Possibly a variety of Bur Marigold (*[Bidens](https://garden.org/plants/view/710289/Bur-Marigold-Bidens-Campfire-Fireburst/)*). Bidens are known for [attractiveness to bees](https://www.ballseed.com/PlantInfo/?phid=010000001034831). |
41,279 | I've only heard about living hedge barriers, but would dead stick barriers help keep out the deer so they go around the garden also? | 2018/08/04 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/41279",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/13136/"
] | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZiL3Z.jpg)
Most echinachea I know are cool colors such as purples and pinks. I didn't know that you could get this color from echinachea. Gorgeous. But I could be wrong...so we'll wait for others to input their views. Ple... | Possibly a variety of Bur Marigold (*[Bidens](https://garden.org/plants/view/710289/Bur-Marigold-Bidens-Campfire-Fireburst/)*). Bidens are known for [attractiveness to bees](https://www.ballseed.com/PlantInfo/?phid=010000001034831). |
41,279 | I've only heard about living hedge barriers, but would dead stick barriers help keep out the deer so they go around the garden also? | 2018/08/04 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/41279",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/13136/"
] | It's most likely Tithonia rotundifolia (common name is Mexican sunflower). A great plant: tall, wide, floriferous and excellent for pollinators. I used to grow it (or the Torch cultivar) when I had larger gardens. Here are some photos:
* [Multiple flowers](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vppusJc1Nis/UtbNZGNv6-I/AAAAAAAAjrA/... | Possibly a variety of Bur Marigold (*[Bidens](https://garden.org/plants/view/710289/Bur-Marigold-Bidens-Campfire-Fireburst/)*). Bidens are known for [attractiveness to bees](https://www.ballseed.com/PlantInfo/?phid=010000001034831). |
99,839 | My organic eggs have a date of June 24 on them; today is June 28. Can I still cook them? (I am not used to purchasing organic eggs.) | 2019/06/28 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/99839",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/76253/"
] | Check again, the date should be 'sell by' rather than 'eat by'. If you're in the US, you should have at least a couple weeks to eat them after the sell by date. | use a glass of water, if they float to the top not good, if the sink they are fresh, if they kinda float but not to the top they are ok |
8,240 | I have a 3 way switch that was wired incorrectly when the switches were replaced with a different color switch. Is there a methodical way for me to identify which wires represent which piece of the system so I can correct the bad wiring?
Currently if switch 1 is on, switch 2 can turn light on or off. If switch 1 is of... | 2011/08/11 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/8240",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/255/"
] | As Karl points out, first find the hot (source) wire. On a standard three way switch, this is usually attached to the screw on the side of the switch that only has one screw. The screw on the switch is usually a darker color too. There will be one of these on each switch obviously, so there are really only two wires to... | Yes. You will need some basic testing equipment; a multimeter should do. There will be a live wire coming in one box, and two traveller wires also in that box (usually a black/white pair.) The traveler pair will go to the other box.
Use your multimeter to figure out what is live whe nothing else is. This is the hot '... |
8,240 | I have a 3 way switch that was wired incorrectly when the switches were replaced with a different color switch. Is there a methodical way for me to identify which wires represent which piece of the system so I can correct the bad wiring?
Currently if switch 1 is on, switch 2 can turn light on or off. If switch 1 is of... | 2011/08/11 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/8240",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/255/"
] | I had this EXACT issue when I moved into my new (to me) house. The original owner was a bit of a handyman and had done several small (and big) projects all over. In many cases regarding electrical work he'd done, I had to go back in and clean up.
Here's a fail-safe process to fix a three way setup that isn't working:
... | Yes. You will need some basic testing equipment; a multimeter should do. There will be a live wire coming in one box, and two traveller wires also in that box (usually a black/white pair.) The traveler pair will go to the other box.
Use your multimeter to figure out what is live whe nothing else is. This is the hot '... |
8,240 | I have a 3 way switch that was wired incorrectly when the switches were replaced with a different color switch. Is there a methodical way for me to identify which wires represent which piece of the system so I can correct the bad wiring?
Currently if switch 1 is on, switch 2 can turn light on or off. If switch 1 is of... | 2011/08/11 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/8240",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/255/"
] | Yes. You will need some basic testing equipment; a multimeter should do. There will be a live wire coming in one box, and two traveller wires also in that box (usually a black/white pair.) The traveler pair will go to the other box.
Use your multimeter to figure out what is live whe nothing else is. This is the hot '... | sometimes when 3-way switches don't function it is because they were installed without a 3-wire cable . The installer maynot have known that a 3-wire cable was needed for 3-way switches |
8,240 | I have a 3 way switch that was wired incorrectly when the switches were replaced with a different color switch. Is there a methodical way for me to identify which wires represent which piece of the system so I can correct the bad wiring?
Currently if switch 1 is on, switch 2 can turn light on or off. If switch 1 is of... | 2011/08/11 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/8240",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/255/"
] | I had this EXACT issue when I moved into my new (to me) house. The original owner was a bit of a handyman and had done several small (and big) projects all over. In many cases regarding electrical work he'd done, I had to go back in and clean up.
Here's a fail-safe process to fix a three way setup that isn't working:
... | As Karl points out, first find the hot (source) wire. On a standard three way switch, this is usually attached to the screw on the side of the switch that only has one screw. The screw on the switch is usually a darker color too. There will be one of these on each switch obviously, so there are really only two wires to... |
8,240 | I have a 3 way switch that was wired incorrectly when the switches were replaced with a different color switch. Is there a methodical way for me to identify which wires represent which piece of the system so I can correct the bad wiring?
Currently if switch 1 is on, switch 2 can turn light on or off. If switch 1 is of... | 2011/08/11 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/8240",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/255/"
] | As Karl points out, first find the hot (source) wire. On a standard three way switch, this is usually attached to the screw on the side of the switch that only has one screw. The screw on the switch is usually a darker color too. There will be one of these on each switch obviously, so there are really only two wires to... | sometimes when 3-way switches don't function it is because they were installed without a 3-wire cable . The installer maynot have known that a 3-wire cable was needed for 3-way switches |
8,240 | I have a 3 way switch that was wired incorrectly when the switches were replaced with a different color switch. Is there a methodical way for me to identify which wires represent which piece of the system so I can correct the bad wiring?
Currently if switch 1 is on, switch 2 can turn light on or off. If switch 1 is of... | 2011/08/11 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/8240",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/255/"
] | I had this EXACT issue when I moved into my new (to me) house. The original owner was a bit of a handyman and had done several small (and big) projects all over. In many cases regarding electrical work he'd done, I had to go back in and clean up.
Here's a fail-safe process to fix a three way setup that isn't working:
... | sometimes when 3-way switches don't function it is because they were installed without a 3-wire cable . The installer maynot have known that a 3-wire cable was needed for 3-way switches |
12,022,579 | The manifest defines the app icon that I want. But when I deploy the app the app icon is a completely different icon. What could possibly be going on?
The image that was showing as the icon is no where to be found in any of my project files. I haven't moved my ic\_launcher images at all so they are all still in their ... | 2012/08/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12022579",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/657936/"
] | Check paths (/res/drawable-\*) and try to clean your project | It could be possible, that your phone uses an other density than the icon you provided. Did you scale you icon down to all densities? Did you forget to delete the default app icon in the ldpi, mdpi and hdpi folder? |
12,022,579 | The manifest defines the app icon that I want. But when I deploy the app the app icon is a completely different icon. What could possibly be going on?
The image that was showing as the icon is no where to be found in any of my project files. I haven't moved my ic\_launcher images at all so they are all still in their ... | 2012/08/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12022579",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/657936/"
] | Check paths (/res/drawable-\*) and try to clean your project | Make sure that you have the res/drawable-hdpi,ldpi,mdpi have the correct images and sizes.
The website below might help you out with the sizes..
<http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_launcher.html> |
86,912 | I see an event is being organised in Washington, DC, called the [Million Muppet March](http://millionmuppetmarch.com/). In British English, at least, [muppet](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muppet) has no very positive connotations:-
>
> muppet (ˈmʌpɪt) — n slang a stupid person
>
>
>
Is that also the cas... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86912",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | In American English, 'muppet', capitalized or not, has no meaning other than being characterized by the Jim Henson branded characters. The idea of it being a 'stupid person' is unknown. Some of the Muppet characters are slow, others are bright, others have other personality traits.
To call someone in the US a muppet w... | They are genuinely going to march with Muppets (capitalised and trademarked) to protest the cutting of funding for PBS (who hosts Sesame Street)
[WSBT](http://articles.wsbt.com/2012-10-14/puppet-protest_34453644)
>
> A grassroots protest to save PBS funding, dubbed the Million Muppet March, is scheduled for Saturday... |
86,912 | I see an event is being organised in Washington, DC, called the [Million Muppet March](http://millionmuppetmarch.com/). In British English, at least, [muppet](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muppet) has no very positive connotations:-
>
> muppet (ˈmʌpɪt) — n slang a stupid person
>
>
>
Is that also the cas... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86912",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | They are genuinely going to march with Muppets (capitalised and trademarked) to protest the cutting of funding for PBS (who hosts Sesame Street)
[WSBT](http://articles.wsbt.com/2012-10-14/puppet-protest_34453644)
>
> A grassroots protest to save PBS funding, dubbed the Million Muppet March, is scheduled for Saturday... | In the U.S., the term "muppet" is also used in the financial product sales industry (read: stock brokers) to refer to a "mark"; a ignorant individual who can be easily exploited. |
86,912 | I see an event is being organised in Washington, DC, called the [Million Muppet March](http://millionmuppetmarch.com/). In British English, at least, [muppet](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muppet) has no very positive connotations:-
>
> muppet (ˈmʌpɪt) — n slang a stupid person
>
>
>
Is that also the cas... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86912",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | In American English, 'muppet', capitalized or not, has no meaning other than being characterized by the Jim Henson branded characters. The idea of it being a 'stupid person' is unknown. Some of the Muppet characters are slow, others are bright, others have other personality traits.
To call someone in the US a muppet w... | As a dual citizen of both countries I can say beyond a doubt there is no American equivalent of the British slang word muppet. Same goes for plonker, wally, jesse and many many more. The British are very creative. |
86,912 | I see an event is being organised in Washington, DC, called the [Million Muppet March](http://millionmuppetmarch.com/). In British English, at least, [muppet](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muppet) has no very positive connotations:-
>
> muppet (ˈmʌpɪt) — n slang a stupid person
>
>
>
Is that also the cas... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86912",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | As a dual citizen of both countries I can say beyond a doubt there is no American equivalent of the British slang word muppet. Same goes for plonker, wally, jesse and many many more. The British are very creative. | For an example of the British usage of "muppet", see the film *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels*, in which the character "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale (played by P.H. Moriarty) remarks, "I don't care who you use as long as they're not complete muppets".
"Moppet" is an alternative spelling for "Poppet" (see the Wikipedia... |
86,912 | I see an event is being organised in Washington, DC, called the [Million Muppet March](http://millionmuppetmarch.com/). In British English, at least, [muppet](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muppet) has no very positive connotations:-
>
> muppet (ˈmʌpɪt) — n slang a stupid person
>
>
>
Is that also the cas... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86912",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | They are genuinely going to march with Muppets (capitalised and trademarked) to protest the cutting of funding for PBS (who hosts Sesame Street)
[WSBT](http://articles.wsbt.com/2012-10-14/puppet-protest_34453644)
>
> A grassroots protest to save PBS funding, dubbed the Million Muppet March, is scheduled for Saturday... | Reuters [reports](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/13/million-muppet-march-romney-pbs-big-bird_n_1962831.html):
*'Million Muppet March' Planned To Defend PBS After Romney Big Bird Comments*
>
> Plans to save Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on U.S. public television's "Sesame Street," from possible extinc... |
86,912 | I see an event is being organised in Washington, DC, called the [Million Muppet March](http://millionmuppetmarch.com/). In British English, at least, [muppet](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muppet) has no very positive connotations:-
>
> muppet (ˈmʌpɪt) — n slang a stupid person
>
>
>
Is that also the cas... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86912",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | They are genuinely going to march with Muppets (capitalised and trademarked) to protest the cutting of funding for PBS (who hosts Sesame Street)
[WSBT](http://articles.wsbt.com/2012-10-14/puppet-protest_34453644)
>
> A grassroots protest to save PBS funding, dubbed the Million Muppet March, is scheduled for Saturday... | For an example of the British usage of "muppet", see the film *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels*, in which the character "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale (played by P.H. Moriarty) remarks, "I don't care who you use as long as they're not complete muppets".
"Moppet" is an alternative spelling for "Poppet" (see the Wikipedia... |
86,912 | I see an event is being organised in Washington, DC, called the [Million Muppet March](http://millionmuppetmarch.com/). In British English, at least, [muppet](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muppet) has no very positive connotations:-
>
> muppet (ˈmʌpɪt) — n slang a stupid person
>
>
>
Is that also the cas... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86912",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | In American English, 'muppet', capitalized or not, has no meaning other than being characterized by the Jim Henson branded characters. The idea of it being a 'stupid person' is unknown. Some of the Muppet characters are slow, others are bright, others have other personality traits.
To call someone in the US a muppet w... | Reuters [reports](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/13/million-muppet-march-romney-pbs-big-bird_n_1962831.html):
*'Million Muppet March' Planned To Defend PBS After Romney Big Bird Comments*
>
> Plans to save Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on U.S. public television's "Sesame Street," from possible extinc... |
86,912 | I see an event is being organised in Washington, DC, called the [Million Muppet March](http://millionmuppetmarch.com/). In British English, at least, [muppet](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muppet) has no very positive connotations:-
>
> muppet (ˈmʌpɪt) — n slang a stupid person
>
>
>
Is that also the cas... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86912",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | In American English, 'muppet', capitalized or not, has no meaning other than being characterized by the Jim Henson branded characters. The idea of it being a 'stupid person' is unknown. Some of the Muppet characters are slow, others are bright, others have other personality traits.
To call someone in the US a muppet w... | For an example of the British usage of "muppet", see the film *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels*, in which the character "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale (played by P.H. Moriarty) remarks, "I don't care who you use as long as they're not complete muppets".
"Moppet" is an alternative spelling for "Poppet" (see the Wikipedia... |
86,912 | I see an event is being organised in Washington, DC, called the [Million Muppet March](http://millionmuppetmarch.com/). In British English, at least, [muppet](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muppet) has no very positive connotations:-
>
> muppet (ˈmʌpɪt) — n slang a stupid person
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Is that also the cas... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86912",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | As a dual citizen of both countries I can say beyond a doubt there is no American equivalent of the British slang word muppet. Same goes for plonker, wally, jesse and many many more. The British are very creative. | In the U.S., the term "muppet" is also used in the financial product sales industry (read: stock brokers) to refer to a "mark"; a ignorant individual who can be easily exploited. |
86,912 | I see an event is being organised in Washington, DC, called the [Million Muppet March](http://millionmuppetmarch.com/). In British English, at least, [muppet](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/muppet) has no very positive connotations:-
>
> muppet (ˈmʌpɪt) — n slang a stupid person
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>
>
Is that also the cas... | 2012/10/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/86912",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/305/"
] | In American English, 'muppet', capitalized or not, has no meaning other than being characterized by the Jim Henson branded characters. The idea of it being a 'stupid person' is unknown. Some of the Muppet characters are slow, others are bright, others have other personality traits.
To call someone in the US a muppet w... | In the U.S., the term "muppet" is also used in the financial product sales industry (read: stock brokers) to refer to a "mark"; a ignorant individual who can be easily exploited. |
1,200,527 | I have a job setup in SQL Server 2005 which has an Operating System (CmdExec) step.
The step calls a program which can take a long time to run. I see that if the program takes longer than 1 minute 40 seconds to respond the step fails with an error message "The operation has timed out". The program actually continues t... | 2009/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1200527",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3821/"
] | SQL jobs don't have timeouts -- you can't configure them to stop on their own if they run too long, or reach a particular point in time. (Woulda saved me a lot of development time if you could!) You can configure steps to check for times or durations, and can code the actions taken within steps to check for times, but ... | The Webservices is your answer. As Phillip pointed out, there is no time out for steps in SQL Server jobs.
A question you might need to ask is why the web service is timing out. In my experience, the problem could be that you're running too large a request, either returning too long a result or resulting in somerthin... |
19,697,978 | In the introduction to ZFS file system, I saw one statement:
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> ZFS file system is quite scalable, 128 bit filesystem
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>
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What does 128-bit filesystem mean? What makes it scalable? | 2013/10/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/19697978",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/161289/"
] | ZFS is a “128 bit” file system, which means 128 bits is the largest size address for any unit within it. This size allows capacities and sizes not likely to become confining anytime in the foreseeable future. For instance, the theoretical limits it imposes include 2^48 entries per directory, a maximum file size of 16 E... | TLDR it can hold much larger files then a 64 bit F. such as. EXT.
ZFS is a 128-bit file system,[85] so it can address 1.84 × 1019 times more data than 64-bit systems such as Btrfs. The limitations of ZFS are designed to be so large that they should not be encountered in the foreseeable future.
Some theoretical limits... |
168,624 | When a semicolon is used to join two or more ideas (parts) in a sentence, those ideas are then given equal position or rank.
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> Some people write with a word processor; others write with a pen or pencil.
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Can you use the semi colon or dash to break down this example:
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> You are the highest bidder; you ar... | 2018/06/05 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/168624",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/73722/"
] | The two common usages I'm aware of are linking complete sentences that are related to each other and separating items in a list where the items consist of more than one word.
Your first example should use a comma instead of a semi-colon as the second part relies on the first to make sense. Other what? Other people. Wh... | The purpose of all punctuation is to clarify meaning. The principle use of the semi-colon is to join two related sentences. So ask yourself "If I used a full-stop, would this still make sense".
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> Some people write with a word processor.
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> Others write with a pen or pencil.
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These are both grammatic... |
382,465 | I have a desktop with a large music library connected to a high quality stereo and I'd like to be able to control which songs are playing, and in an ideal world, make playlists, using a laptop.
Essentially, I want the iTunes Remote app, which I have installed on my iPhone, to work from a laptop as well.
Desktop: Wind... | 2012/01/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/382465",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/113973/"
] | You can use [TeamViewer](http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx), a free app which works both on a PC and mobile devices such as the iPhone and gives you remove access to any device/PC via the Internet.
It is not a direct iTunes-remote-control, however, you can do almost anything you normally do on your PC (includin... | Here is a link to a java base app from google:
<https://code.google.com/archive/p/tunesremote-se/wikis>
Seems to work. |
382,465 | I have a desktop with a large music library connected to a high quality stereo and I'd like to be able to control which songs are playing, and in an ideal world, make playlists, using a laptop.
Essentially, I want the iTunes Remote app, which I have installed on my iPhone, to work from a laptop as well.
Desktop: Wind... | 2012/01/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/382465",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/113973/"
] | Realise this is an old thread, however, there is an app in the Windows Store called "rtRemote for iTunes" - this is a Windows 8 /RT remote control for iTunes that is very similar to the Apple Remote app but you can run it on a laptop or a tablet. Whilst this is for Windows 8 (not Windows 7 as per your specific scenario... | Here is a link to a java base app from google:
<https://code.google.com/archive/p/tunesremote-se/wikis>
Seems to work. |
92,167 | I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch.
Consider:
* The machines are very powerful, and neither them nor the switch is heavily loaded.
* From analyzing tcpdumps logs on the two machines I see the proble... | 2009/12/08 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/92167",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/88/"
] | The usual suspects:
* Duplex mismatch
+ check on switch for collisions or errors
+ check on hosts for collisions or errorsIf you see collisions, that end is half duplex and should be set to full. If you see errors, check the other end for collisions. If both ends have errors, you may have a bad cable.
* DNS timeou... | This seems like the latency you would get going from one side of US to the other. Is the switch managed? Can you connect to the switch and check for issues? I would expect <1-2 ms on a local network |
92,167 | I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch.
Consider:
* The machines are very powerful, and neither them nor the switch is heavily loaded.
* From analyzing tcpdumps logs on the two machines I see the proble... | 2009/12/08 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/92167",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/88/"
] | The usual suspects:
* Duplex mismatch
+ check on switch for collisions or errors
+ check on hosts for collisions or errorsIf you see collisions, that end is half duplex and should be set to full. If you see errors, check the other end for collisions. If both ends have errors, you may have a bad cable.
* DNS timeou... | What model of Cisco switch are you using? One thing that could be happening is if the switch doesn't know which port you're server is on, it will need to flood all ports with the packet, which could take time (shouldn't take 100ms though). You can verify by running TCP dump on another server that isn't one of the two s... |
92,167 | I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch.
Consider:
* The machines are very powerful, and neither them nor the switch is heavily loaded.
* From analyzing tcpdumps logs on the two machines I see the proble... | 2009/12/08 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/92167",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/88/"
] | What model of Cisco switch are you using? One thing that could be happening is if the switch doesn't know which port you're server is on, it will need to flood all ports with the packet, which could take time (shouldn't take 100ms though). You can verify by running TCP dump on another server that isn't one of the two s... | This seems like the latency you would get going from one side of US to the other. Is the switch managed? Can you connect to the switch and check for issues? I would expect <1-2 ms on a local network |
92,167 | I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch.
Consider:
* The machines are very powerful, and neither them nor the switch is heavily loaded.
* From analyzing tcpdumps logs on the two machines I see the proble... | 2009/12/08 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/92167",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/88/"
] | Well, crap. It appears I misread both the tcpdump and wireshark logs. The delay I was getting was 100 microseconds, not millis!
[alt text http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/files/2009/10/homer-simpson-doh.gif](http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/files/2009/10/homer-simpson-doh.gif) | Have you checked the cabling? Bad cables and/or punchdowns can result in retries that can greatly increase latency. |
92,167 | I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch.
Consider:
* The machines are very powerful, and neither them nor the switch is heavily loaded.
* From analyzing tcpdumps logs on the two machines I see the proble... | 2009/12/08 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/92167",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/88/"
] | The usual suspects:
* Duplex mismatch
+ check on switch for collisions or errors
+ check on hosts for collisions or errorsIf you see collisions, that end is half duplex and should be set to full. If you see errors, check the other end for collisions. If both ends have errors, you may have a bad cable.
* DNS timeou... | Have you checked the cabling? Bad cables and/or punchdowns can result in retries that can greatly increase latency. |
92,167 | I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch.
Consider:
* The machines are very powerful, and neither them nor the switch is heavily loaded.
* From analyzing tcpdumps logs on the two machines I see the proble... | 2009/12/08 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/92167",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/88/"
] | Have you checked the cabling? Bad cables and/or punchdowns can result in retries that can greatly increase latency. | This seems like the latency you would get going from one side of US to the other. Is the switch managed? Can you connect to the switch and check for issues? I would expect <1-2 ms on a local network |
92,167 | I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch.
Consider:
* The machines are very powerful, and neither them nor the switch is heavily loaded.
* From analyzing tcpdumps logs on the two machines I see the proble... | 2009/12/08 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/92167",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/88/"
] | Well, crap. It appears I misread both the tcpdump and wireshark logs. The delay I was getting was 100 microseconds, not millis!
[alt text http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/files/2009/10/homer-simpson-doh.gif](http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/files/2009/10/homer-simpson-doh.gif) | The usual suspects:
* Duplex mismatch
+ check on switch for collisions or errors
+ check on hosts for collisions or errorsIf you see collisions, that end is half duplex and should be set to full. If you see errors, check the other end for collisions. If both ends have errors, you may have a bad cable.
* DNS timeou... |
92,167 | I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch.
Consider:
* The machines are very powerful, and neither them nor the switch is heavily loaded.
* From analyzing tcpdumps logs on the two machines I see the proble... | 2009/12/08 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/92167",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/88/"
] | What model of Cisco switch are you using? One thing that could be happening is if the switch doesn't know which port you're server is on, it will need to flood all ports with the packet, which could take time (shouldn't take 100ms though). You can verify by running TCP dump on another server that isn't one of the two s... | In my experience Cisco switches should insert less than 1ms to the latency, so yes, this is an indication of a problem.
Are both devices connected to the switch via wires (i.e. not 802.11)? In the same VLAN?
Is this a trusted network? If the devices and switches are lightly loaded I would be concerned that someone wa... |
92,167 | I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch.
Consider:
* The machines are very powerful, and neither them nor the switch is heavily loaded.
* From analyzing tcpdumps logs on the two machines I see the proble... | 2009/12/08 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/92167",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/88/"
] | Well, crap. It appears I misread both the tcpdump and wireshark logs. The delay I was getting was 100 microseconds, not millis!
[alt text http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/files/2009/10/homer-simpson-doh.gif](http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/files/2009/10/homer-simpson-doh.gif) | What model of Cisco switch are you using? One thing that could be happening is if the switch doesn't know which port you're server is on, it will need to flood all ports with the packet, which could take time (shouldn't take 100ms though). You can verify by running TCP dump on another server that isn't one of the two s... |
92,167 | I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch.
Consider:
* The machines are very powerful, and neither them nor the switch is heavily loaded.
* From analyzing tcpdumps logs on the two machines I see the proble... | 2009/12/08 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/92167",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/88/"
] | Have you checked the cabling? Bad cables and/or punchdowns can result in retries that can greatly increase latency. | In my experience Cisco switches should insert less than 1ms to the latency, so yes, this is an indication of a problem.
Are both devices connected to the switch via wires (i.e. not 802.11)? In the same VLAN?
Is this a trusted network? If the devices and switches are lightly loaded I would be concerned that someone wa... |
51,529 | I have a 24 inch, mid-2007 iMac purchased used. I don't know the original owner and it's out of warranty.
On the display is a series of tan or yellowish horizontal lines - all an approximate inch apart, for a total of about eight or so. The spacing between is regular. They're wider (about an inch wide) at the left an... | 2012/05/17 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/51529",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/22623/"
] | This looks like a backlight uniformity issue.
This is where the screen isn't being evenly lit by the CCFL bulbs behind it. Some of them are outputting differing amounts of light and cause this perceived 'discolouration'. The lighter colours really do show it.
Unfortunately, this is one of the disadvantages of a CCFL ... | If you boot the Mac holding the option key, this will have the firmware drive the screen and isolate any software corruption or odd driver bugs in most cases and let you know it's a hardware issue.
Usually vertical lines are the LCD failing - then a cable issue - lastly the GPU.
Usually horizontal lines are a cabling... |
51,529 | I have a 24 inch, mid-2007 iMac purchased used. I don't know the original owner and it's out of warranty.
On the display is a series of tan or yellowish horizontal lines - all an approximate inch apart, for a total of about eight or so. The spacing between is regular. They're wider (about an inch wide) at the left an... | 2012/05/17 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/51529",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/22623/"
] | If you boot the Mac holding the option key, this will have the firmware drive the screen and isolate any software corruption or odd driver bugs in most cases and let you know it's a hardware issue.
Usually vertical lines are the LCD failing - then a cable issue - lastly the GPU.
Usually horizontal lines are a cabling... | Translation by google off the content above:
The lower plastic layer diffuser matrix is yellowing with time, and the lamp loses brightness, as a result - the common yellow color images and brightness differences (strip) from the brightness is insufficient. Solution - replacement of this layer, and preferably tubes. A... |
51,529 | I have a 24 inch, mid-2007 iMac purchased used. I don't know the original owner and it's out of warranty.
On the display is a series of tan or yellowish horizontal lines - all an approximate inch apart, for a total of about eight or so. The spacing between is regular. They're wider (about an inch wide) at the left an... | 2012/05/17 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/51529",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/22623/"
] | This looks like a backlight uniformity issue.
This is where the screen isn't being evenly lit by the CCFL bulbs behind it. Some of them are outputting differing amounts of light and cause this perceived 'discolouration'. The lighter colours really do show it.
Unfortunately, this is one of the disadvantages of a CCFL ... | Translation by google off the content above:
The lower plastic layer diffuser matrix is yellowing with time, and the lamp loses brightness, as a result - the common yellow color images and brightness differences (strip) from the brightness is insufficient. Solution - replacement of this layer, and preferably tubes. A... |
7,922 | Two days ago I read in the [news](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/25/canada-bomb-threat-flight-panama/13180759/):
>
> Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a Canada-to-Panama flight back to
> Toronto after a passenger allegedly threatened the plane Friday
> morning. The nature of the threat or why the pa... | 2014/07/28 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7922",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1997/"
] | Fighter jets escorting planes after various sorts of emergencies seems to be standard procedure in many countries, you hear about it quite frequently. It's sometimes implied in the media that if the situation would turn into a 9/11-type hijacking it might be necessary to shoot the plane down but nobody seems willing to... | If absolutely necessary the plane can be prevented from making a mess of a major city, but it is basically a rather obvious visible sign to anyone misbehaving in the plane that they are in very, very deep trouble.
Given the threat of "I have a bomb and I will blow up Canada" the cabin crew are clearly overreacting. H... |
7,922 | Two days ago I read in the [news](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/25/canada-bomb-threat-flight-panama/13180759/):
>
> Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a Canada-to-Panama flight back to
> Toronto after a passenger allegedly threatened the plane Friday
> morning. The nature of the threat or why the pa... | 2014/07/28 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7922",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1997/"
] | Especially post-911 it became paramount to ensure that such aircraft form no threat to cities and other places where crashing an aircraft into them would cause serious damage.
Blowing it out of the sky, however bad it would be for the passengers (not to mention the psychological impact on the fighter crews and their... | If absolutely necessary the plane can be prevented from making a mess of a major city, but it is basically a rather obvious visible sign to anyone misbehaving in the plane that they are in very, very deep trouble.
Given the threat of "I have a bomb and I will blow up Canada" the cabin crew are clearly overreacting. H... |
7,922 | Two days ago I read in the [news](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/25/canada-bomb-threat-flight-panama/13180759/):
>
> Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a Canada-to-Panama flight back to
> Toronto after a passenger allegedly threatened the plane Friday
> morning. The nature of the threat or why the pa... | 2014/07/28 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7922",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1997/"
] | Fighter jets escorting planes after various sorts of emergencies seems to be standard procedure in many countries, you hear about it quite frequently. It's sometimes implied in the media that if the situation would turn into a 9/11-type hijacking it might be necessary to shoot the plane down but nobody seems willing to... | Especially post-911 it became paramount to ensure that such aircraft form no threat to cities and other places where crashing an aircraft into them would cause serious damage.
Blowing it out of the sky, however bad it would be for the passengers (not to mention the psychological impact on the fighter crews and their... |
7,922 | Two days ago I read in the [news](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/25/canada-bomb-threat-flight-panama/13180759/):
>
> Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a Canada-to-Panama flight back to
> Toronto after a passenger allegedly threatened the plane Friday
> morning. The nature of the threat or why the pa... | 2014/07/28 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7922",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1997/"
] | Fighter jets escorting planes after various sorts of emergencies seems to be standard procedure in many countries, you hear about it quite frequently. It's sometimes implied in the media that if the situation would turn into a 9/11-type hijacking it might be necessary to shoot the plane down but nobody seems willing to... | In addition to @Relaxed's answer, one additional reason would be if the hijacker gets control of the cockpit and turns off the transponder. ATC works on secondary radar with a signal bounced back from the plane in order for ATC to track the aircraft.
If the transponder is turned off, it would be very difficult for AT... |
7,922 | Two days ago I read in the [news](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/25/canada-bomb-threat-flight-panama/13180759/):
>
> Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a Canada-to-Panama flight back to
> Toronto after a passenger allegedly threatened the plane Friday
> morning. The nature of the threat or why the pa... | 2014/07/28 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7922",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1997/"
] | Fighter jets escorting planes after various sorts of emergencies seems to be standard procedure in many countries, you hear about it quite frequently. It's sometimes implied in the media that if the situation would turn into a 9/11-type hijacking it might be necessary to shoot the plane down but nobody seems willing to... | In addition to the reasons above (911-ish & transponder out), it is also an indication that somebody on the ground is aware and cares if communications are cut off and passengers do not know what is going on. They may not be able to do anything and passengers may realize that, but at least you know the ground is aware ... |
7,922 | Two days ago I read in the [news](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/25/canada-bomb-threat-flight-panama/13180759/):
>
> Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a Canada-to-Panama flight back to
> Toronto after a passenger allegedly threatened the plane Friday
> morning. The nature of the threat or why the pa... | 2014/07/28 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7922",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1997/"
] | Fighter jets escorting planes after various sorts of emergencies seems to be standard procedure in many countries, you hear about it quite frequently. It's sometimes implied in the media that if the situation would turn into a 9/11-type hijacking it might be necessary to shoot the plane down but nobody seems willing to... | The utility of sending fighter jets is to destroy the plane before an hypothetical attempt. It's unfortunate, but the point is to kill a few people to save many. This can also possibly have the impact of scaring the hijacker/terrorist.
In the mean time, someone in the ATC can attempt to negotiate with the terrorist be... |
7,922 | Two days ago I read in the [news](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/25/canada-bomb-threat-flight-panama/13180759/):
>
> Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a Canada-to-Panama flight back to
> Toronto after a passenger allegedly threatened the plane Friday
> morning. The nature of the threat or why the pa... | 2014/07/28 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7922",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1997/"
] | Especially post-911 it became paramount to ensure that such aircraft form no threat to cities and other places where crashing an aircraft into them would cause serious damage.
Blowing it out of the sky, however bad it would be for the passengers (not to mention the psychological impact on the fighter crews and their... | In addition to @Relaxed's answer, one additional reason would be if the hijacker gets control of the cockpit and turns off the transponder. ATC works on secondary radar with a signal bounced back from the plane in order for ATC to track the aircraft.
If the transponder is turned off, it would be very difficult for AT... |
7,922 | Two days ago I read in the [news](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/25/canada-bomb-threat-flight-panama/13180759/):
>
> Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a Canada-to-Panama flight back to
> Toronto after a passenger allegedly threatened the plane Friday
> morning. The nature of the threat or why the pa... | 2014/07/28 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7922",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1997/"
] | Especially post-911 it became paramount to ensure that such aircraft form no threat to cities and other places where crashing an aircraft into them would cause serious damage.
Blowing it out of the sky, however bad it would be for the passengers (not to mention the psychological impact on the fighter crews and their... | In addition to the reasons above (911-ish & transponder out), it is also an indication that somebody on the ground is aware and cares if communications are cut off and passengers do not know what is going on. They may not be able to do anything and passengers may realize that, but at least you know the ground is aware ... |
7,922 | Two days ago I read in the [news](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/25/canada-bomb-threat-flight-panama/13180759/):
>
> Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a Canada-to-Panama flight back to
> Toronto after a passenger allegedly threatened the plane Friday
> morning. The nature of the threat or why the pa... | 2014/07/28 | [
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Blowing it out of the sky, however bad it would be for the passengers (not to mention the psychological impact on the fighter crews and their... | The utility of sending fighter jets is to destroy the plane before an hypothetical attempt. It's unfortunate, but the point is to kill a few people to save many. This can also possibly have the impact of scaring the hijacker/terrorist.
In the mean time, someone in the ATC can attempt to negotiate with the terrorist be... |
425 | On [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Civil_War), I ran into an article talking about World War I to World War II and some of the adjacent wars before WWI as being a "European Civil War" or a "Second Thirty Years War". What is the scholarly basis of this? I saw a few names but it wasn't expecially concre... | 2011/10/19 | [
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China had an extremely bloody civil war over this period, i... |
84,061 | I am working on a project right now and I just noticed something, that makes sense, but I did not realize it.
The Visualforce page and the Visualforce component both use the same controller. Now correct me if I am wrong, but when the Visualforce component is called from the Visualforce page, the component will the... | 2015/07/20 | [
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An Apex transaction represents a set of operations that are executed as a single unit. All DML operations in a transaction either complete successfully, or if an error occurs in one operation, the entire transaction is roll... | As Badan said, you are correct. So, what we do to share a large amount of data from the page to the component is:
1) Build a data class containing objects and values you want both items to share.
2) After populating an instance the data class in the page controller or extension constructor, pass it to the component as ... |
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158,369 | I've got a request from a customer to automatically detect the type of mobile device (not the browser, the type. ex: Moto Q, Blackjack II, etc.) and automatically select the device from a drop down with a list of supported devices.
So far I've found that the HTTP Headers (submitted by mobile IE) contain information su... | 2008/10/01 | [
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From the site:
>
> So... What is WURFL?
> The WURFL is an XML configuration file which contains information about capabilities and features of many mobile devices.
>
>
> The main scope of the file is to collect as much information as we ... |
158,369 | I've got a request from a customer to automatically detect the type of mobile device (not the browser, the type. ex: Moto Q, Blackjack II, etc.) and automatically select the device from a drop down with a list of supported devices.
So far I've found that the HTTP Headers (submitted by mobile IE) contain information su... | 2008/10/01 | [
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158,369 | I've got a request from a customer to automatically detect the type of mobile device (not the browser, the type. ex: Moto Q, Blackjack II, etc.) and automatically select the device from a drop down with a list of supported devices.
So far I've found that the HTTP Headers (submitted by mobile IE) contain information su... | 2008/10/01 | [
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From the site:
>
> So... What is WURFL?
> The WURFL is an XML configuration file which contains information about capabilities and features of many mobile devices.
>
>
> The main scope of the file is to collect as much information as we ... | Another fast and easy solution is Apache Mobile Filter: <http://www.apachemobilefilter.org> |
264 | There have been questions that received answers before being closed, e.g. [this one](https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/1135/what-are-local-networkss-ip). I feel like there have been more, but I might be wrong.
Should we discourage people from providing answers to questions that are obviously or apparently (existe... | 2012/04/10 | [
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We are also in a better shape than cstheory because most off-topic qu... | I know I *hated* the policy on cstheory because I felt that (good) questions too basic for the site deserved an answer. This can clearly not be the case here, though; questions we close are (hopefully) clearly offtopic and/or really bad.
Reasons for implementing such a policy:
* **Protecting our scope** -- If we answ... |
264 | There have been questions that received answers before being closed, e.g. [this one](https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/1135/what-are-local-networkss-ip). I feel like there have been more, but I might be wrong.
Should we discourage people from providing answers to questions that are obviously or apparently (existe... | 2012/04/10 | [
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Reasons for implementing such a policy:
* **Protecting our scope** -- If we answ... |
264 | There have been questions that received answers before being closed, e.g. [this one](https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/1135/what-are-local-networkss-ip). I feel like there have been more, but I might be wrong.
Should we discourage people from providing answers to questions that are obviously or apparently (existe... | 2012/04/10 | [
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Reasons for implementing such a policy:
* **Protecting our scope** -- If we answ... |
264 | There have been questions that received answers before being closed, e.g. [this one](https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/1135/what-are-local-networkss-ip). I feel like there have been more, but I might be wrong.
Should we discourage people from providing answers to questions that are obviously or apparently (existe... | 2012/04/10 | [
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We are also in a better shape than cstheory because most off-topic qu... |
264 | There have been questions that received answers before being closed, e.g. [this one](https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/1135/what-are-local-networkss-ip). I feel like there have been more, but I might be wrong.
Should we discourage people from providing answers to questions that are obviously or apparently (existe... | 2012/04/10 | [
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11,121 | Seems like a no-brainer feature to have, specifically regarding the date and location properties of images.
And yes, I know I can use VZ Exif, but for performance reasons, I'd prefer to have that metadata in Assets' DB instead of reading the data from the filesystem every time. | 2013/06/09 | [
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I couldn't see such any file handling field type which stores EXIF data also.
I think, a field type or module can be developed for it which would be great :). |
91,208 | i am working on a product details page for an ecommerce website and i am dealing with complicated products like (sofa , bed ..etc) in these pages we have a lot of variation regarding colors and sizes.
can you suggest complicated benchmark product details page with different variations i can review ?
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1. Variations
What is the product with the least attributes? (like a chair with no color or size choices)
What is the product with the most attributes? (a chair with color, height, width, number of legs, material, cover, etc ... |
91,208 | i am working on a product details page for an ecommerce website and i am dealing with complicated products like (sofa , bed ..etc) in these pages we have a lot of variation regarding colors and sizes.
can you suggest complicated benchmark product details page with different variations i can review ?
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Pic 1 :
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91,208 | i am working on a product details page for an ecommerce website and i am dealing with complicated products like (sofa , bed ..etc) in these pages we have a lot of variation regarding colors and sizes.
can you suggest complicated benchmark product details page with different variations i can review ?
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Zappos does a pretty nice job of dealing with this problem. Many of the shoes they carry are available in all sorts of color combinations and sizes. There are also plenty of related products that, to some extent, are part of the whole purchase consideration a... |
118,874 | I was writing a 3-question examination today (undergrad) with 1200 other students when our professor comes in after ~2/3 of the exam and changes a question to make it solvable. This was a 1.5 hour exam where each question was designed to take 30 minutes so unless you did the other two questions knowing that question wa... | 2018/10/24 | [
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You can write a polite email to the professor (or whoever is in charge of grading the exam, if different), letting them know that you feel this had a disproportionate negative impact on... | Yes, these things happen. No one is perfect, not even a professor. But what you need is a fair resolution. One would be to just cancel the exam and adjust grading rubric accordingly. Another, not quite as good, would be to reschedule another exam.
But you need to find a, hopefully polite, way to let the professor kno... |
118,874 | I was writing a 3-question examination today (undergrad) with 1200 other students when our professor comes in after ~2/3 of the exam and changes a question to make it solvable. This was a 1.5 hour exam where each question was designed to take 30 minutes so unless you did the other two questions knowing that question wa... | 2018/10/24 | [
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You can write a polite email to the professor (or whoever is in charge of grading the exam, if different), letting them know that you feel this had a disproportionate negative impact on... | Other answers respond to the questions raised in the main body of your message, I'd like to comment on the broader question (asked in the title), *What should I do if my professor changes the question mid-exam?*, with particular reference to
>
> unless you did the other two questions knowing [the other] question was... |
118,874 | I was writing a 3-question examination today (undergrad) with 1200 other students when our professor comes in after ~2/3 of the exam and changes a question to make it solvable. This was a 1.5 hour exam where each question was designed to take 30 minutes so unless you did the other two questions knowing that question wa... | 2018/10/24 | [
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You can write a polite email to the professor (or whoever is in charge of grading the exam, if different), letting them know that you feel this had a disproportionate negative impact on... | Consider not doing anything.
The issue isn't time sensitive. Its not like the grades can't be changed after the fact. It's very reasonable to believe the professor is going to analyze the grades that came out of the exam and find a solution.
The professor will have information you don't have. While you know your exam... |
118,874 | I was writing a 3-question examination today (undergrad) with 1200 other students when our professor comes in after ~2/3 of the exam and changes a question to make it solvable. This was a 1.5 hour exam where each question was designed to take 30 minutes so unless you did the other two questions knowing that question wa... | 2018/10/24 | [
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You can write a polite email to the professor (or whoever is in charge of grading the exam, if different), letting them know that you feel this had a disproportionate negative impact on... | One of my professors had a blanket rule that was applied to handle situations like these -
You must solve the question to the best of your ability. If the missing piece of information can be simply substituted by a variable, say 'x', your answer must be in terms of 'x'.
If you think that a question is not solvable, y... |
118,874 | I was writing a 3-question examination today (undergrad) with 1200 other students when our professor comes in after ~2/3 of the exam and changes a question to make it solvable. This was a 1.5 hour exam where each question was designed to take 30 minutes so unless you did the other two questions knowing that question wa... | 2018/10/24 | [
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But you need to find a, hopefully polite, way to let the professor kno... | Other answers respond to the questions raised in the main body of your message, I'd like to comment on the broader question (asked in the title), *What should I do if my professor changes the question mid-exam?*, with particular reference to
>
> unless you did the other two questions knowing [the other] question was... |
118,874 | I was writing a 3-question examination today (undergrad) with 1200 other students when our professor comes in after ~2/3 of the exam and changes a question to make it solvable. This was a 1.5 hour exam where each question was designed to take 30 minutes so unless you did the other two questions knowing that question wa... | 2018/10/24 | [
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] | Yes, these things happen. No one is perfect, not even a professor. But what you need is a fair resolution. One would be to just cancel the exam and adjust grading rubric accordingly. Another, not quite as good, would be to reschedule another exam.
But you need to find a, hopefully polite, way to let the professor kno... | Consider not doing anything.
The issue isn't time sensitive. Its not like the grades can't be changed after the fact. It's very reasonable to believe the professor is going to analyze the grades that came out of the exam and find a solution.
The professor will have information you don't have. While you know your exam... |
118,874 | I was writing a 3-question examination today (undergrad) with 1200 other students when our professor comes in after ~2/3 of the exam and changes a question to make it solvable. This was a 1.5 hour exam where each question was designed to take 30 minutes so unless you did the other two questions knowing that question wa... | 2018/10/24 | [
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] | Yes, these things happen. No one is perfect, not even a professor. But what you need is a fair resolution. One would be to just cancel the exam and adjust grading rubric accordingly. Another, not quite as good, would be to reschedule another exam.
But you need to find a, hopefully polite, way to let the professor kno... | One of my professors had a blanket rule that was applied to handle situations like these -
You must solve the question to the best of your ability. If the missing piece of information can be simply substituted by a variable, say 'x', your answer must be in terms of 'x'.
If you think that a question is not solvable, y... |
34,473 | With more and more people using mobile devices (or devices which doesn't have right click gesture), its getting tough to indicate that there is an activity that involves right click on desktop devices, especially for those applications which became popular on mobile devices or people started using them on mobile device... | 2013/02/11 | [
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] | It's possible that in the future the right click will go the way of the Dodo, but a lot here depends on your intentions and your user demographic.
If your intention is to be strictly cutting edge and your user demographic is very familiar with gestures (and perhaps Mac users?), then by all means avoid it.
If your inte... | yes I Back,JohnGB. Right click is not recommended for websites. If you are using it, please be cautious about the findability score of that feature.
Again Mouse Hover is also auto-of scope for touch devices.
So Try to be selective, minimilistic about features and pitch on the most commonly used interactions. |
34,473 | With more and more people using mobile devices (or devices which doesn't have right click gesture), its getting tough to indicate that there is an activity that involves right click on desktop devices, especially for those applications which became popular on mobile devices or people started using them on mobile device... | 2013/02/11 | [
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] | Firstly, right click isn't a consideration in website design, but may be in desktop software.
Try to **design your software to not need a right click** in the first place. It will be more **discoverable**, and will **translate to mobile** well. I have seen some applications use a long press as the equivalent of a righ... | I don't think that there is a generic answer to this. You need to determine if your users expect there a contextual menu.
If your users (or some important subset of your users) expect that there should be a contextual menu, and have expectations about what that contextual menu should contain, then you probably need a... |
34,473 | With more and more people using mobile devices (or devices which doesn't have right click gesture), its getting tough to indicate that there is an activity that involves right click on desktop devices, especially for those applications which became popular on mobile devices or people started using them on mobile device... | 2013/02/11 | [
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] | I have rather strong views on this subject so please take my opinions with whatever serving of salt you like.
That said, I love right click in the browser. When I am on the desktop and working within a web application (Google Dive for example) I often find myself right clicking and seeking to perform an action. And o... | yes I Back,JohnGB. Right click is not recommended for websites. If you are using it, please be cautious about the findability score of that feature.
Again Mouse Hover is also auto-of scope for touch devices.
So Try to be selective, minimilistic about features and pitch on the most commonly used interactions. |
34,473 | With more and more people using mobile devices (or devices which doesn't have right click gesture), its getting tough to indicate that there is an activity that involves right click on desktop devices, especially for those applications which became popular on mobile devices or people started using them on mobile device... | 2013/02/11 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/34473",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/25193/"
] | Firstly, right click isn't a consideration in website design, but may be in desktop software.
Try to **design your software to not need a right click** in the first place. It will be more **discoverable**, and will **translate to mobile** well. I have seen some applications use a long press as the equivalent of a righ... | yes I Back,JohnGB. Right click is not recommended for websites. If you are using it, please be cautious about the findability score of that feature.
Again Mouse Hover is also auto-of scope for touch devices.
So Try to be selective, minimilistic about features and pitch on the most commonly used interactions. |
34,473 | With more and more people using mobile devices (or devices which doesn't have right click gesture), its getting tough to indicate that there is an activity that involves right click on desktop devices, especially for those applications which became popular on mobile devices or people started using them on mobile device... | 2013/02/11 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/34473",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/25193/"
] | I have rather strong views on this subject so please take my opinions with whatever serving of salt you like.
That said, I love right click in the browser. When I am on the desktop and working within a web application (Google Dive for example) I often find myself right clicking and seeking to perform an action. And o... | I don't think that there is a generic answer to this. You need to determine if your users expect there a contextual menu.
If your users (or some important subset of your users) expect that there should be a contextual menu, and have expectations about what that contextual menu should contain, then you probably need a... |
34,473 | With more and more people using mobile devices (or devices which doesn't have right click gesture), its getting tough to indicate that there is an activity that involves right click on desktop devices, especially for those applications which became popular on mobile devices or people started using them on mobile device... | 2013/02/11 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/34473",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/25193/"
] | I have rather strong views on this subject so please take my opinions with whatever serving of salt you like.
That said, I love right click in the browser. When I am on the desktop and working within a web application (Google Dive for example) I often find myself right clicking and seeking to perform an action. And o... | I don't know that right-click is going to ever disappear completely because it is such a well used and loved tool for desktop design. I have seen many a user trying to use right click in user tests as well.
A great way I and other designers have found to avoid using right click in web based design is by giving a sett... |
34,473 | With more and more people using mobile devices (or devices which doesn't have right click gesture), its getting tough to indicate that there is an activity that involves right click on desktop devices, especially for those applications which became popular on mobile devices or people started using them on mobile device... | 2013/02/11 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/34473",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/25193/"
] | I have rather strong views on this subject so please take my opinions with whatever serving of salt you like.
That said, I love right click in the browser. When I am on the desktop and working within a web application (Google Dive for example) I often find myself right clicking and seeking to perform an action. And o... | It's possible that in the future the right click will go the way of the Dodo, but a lot here depends on your intentions and your user demographic.
If your intention is to be strictly cutting edge and your user demographic is very familiar with gestures (and perhaps Mac users?), then by all means avoid it.
If your inte... |
34,473 | With more and more people using mobile devices (or devices which doesn't have right click gesture), its getting tough to indicate that there is an activity that involves right click on desktop devices, especially for those applications which became popular on mobile devices or people started using them on mobile device... | 2013/02/11 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/34473",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/25193/"
] | I have rather strong views on this subject so please take my opinions with whatever serving of salt you like.
That said, I love right click in the browser. When I am on the desktop and working within a web application (Google Dive for example) I often find myself right clicking and seeking to perform an action. And o... | Firstly, right click isn't a consideration in website design, but may be in desktop software.
Try to **design your software to not need a right click** in the first place. It will be more **discoverable**, and will **translate to mobile** well. I have seen some applications use a long press as the equivalent of a righ... |
34,473 | With more and more people using mobile devices (or devices which doesn't have right click gesture), its getting tough to indicate that there is an activity that involves right click on desktop devices, especially for those applications which became popular on mobile devices or people started using them on mobile device... | 2013/02/11 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/34473",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/25193/"
] | It's possible that in the future the right click will go the way of the Dodo, but a lot here depends on your intentions and your user demographic.
If your intention is to be strictly cutting edge and your user demographic is very familiar with gestures (and perhaps Mac users?), then by all means avoid it.
If your inte... | I don't think that there is a generic answer to this. You need to determine if your users expect there a contextual menu.
If your users (or some important subset of your users) expect that there should be a contextual menu, and have expectations about what that contextual menu should contain, then you probably need a... |
34,473 | With more and more people using mobile devices (or devices which doesn't have right click gesture), its getting tough to indicate that there is an activity that involves right click on desktop devices, especially for those applications which became popular on mobile devices or people started using them on mobile device... | 2013/02/11 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/34473",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/25193/"
] | Firstly, right click isn't a consideration in website design, but may be in desktop software.
Try to **design your software to not need a right click** in the first place. It will be more **discoverable**, and will **translate to mobile** well. I have seen some applications use a long press as the equivalent of a righ... | I don't know that right-click is going to ever disappear completely because it is such a well used and loved tool for desktop design. I have seen many a user trying to use right click in user tests as well.
A great way I and other designers have found to avoid using right click in web based design is by giving a sett... |
106,499 | An entry in [Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"](https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7139/fortnightly-topic-challenge-47-wacky-sudokus)
[Other puzzles in this series](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A18250+%5Bsudoku%5D+title%3A%22SS%23%22)
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Welcome to the second puzzl... | 2021/01/11 | [
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] | **Step 1**
>
> I started solving this by hand, and then I realized there was a way
> easier way to solve this: convert each number to base 10, and
> convert each partial number (eg. \_1) into notes denoting its
> possibilities (eg. 01, 11, 21 = 2, 5, 8). Doing so produces:
> [![sudoku grid with trinary converted... | The first thing to note is that some standard sudoku principles apply.
For example for each row and column as well as each block can only contain a particular digit 3 times in each place.
I will use notation [row,column].
To start off we can notice that in the fifth row all 3 of the right zeros ( -0)
are filled in so... |
425,206 | Let f(x) be a polynomial in F[x]. Let K be the splitting field of f over F.
Let a be an element of F. Is K also the splitting field of (x-a)f(x)? I think it should be.
I just want to make sure I'm not being stupid! | 2013/06/20 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/425206",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
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] | In my opinion, nothing ever 'changes' in mathematics, so the fixed/nonfixed distinction probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Unless you're trying to model things changing in time, of course, but the point is, the distinction is less fundamental than the other other two. Good question, by the way.
So without the... | A related taxonomy is the [Boom hierarchy](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.49.3252), where datastructures are classified according to whether they are 'unital', associative, commutative and/or idempotent with respect to the 'joining together' operation.
In your terminology, a set has all four ... |
125 | Like how to vectorize the data structure, how to visualize the computational results in an elegant way, or can we share the code or subroutine here? | 2012/01/19 | [
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] | I would say yes, definitely. There have already been a few questions of this sort. | I agree with David... As always, some effort must be shown in asking the question. |
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