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24,187 | In the USSR there flourished some very interesting machines, including the БЭСМ and МЭСМ lines, the Сетунь, the [ЭВМ Стрела](http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cp0308.htm) and others.
Maybe the most famous ones are
* БЭСМ-4, which is said to have done [the first computer animation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so_HQKv-... | 2022/03/29 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/24187",
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] | I'm not sure your question is correct. You posit that native Soviet designs were ahead until some point around 1980, when "suddenly" clones of Western designs took over. In fact, Comecon countries started cloning Western machines way earlier. Three examples from the top of my mind, cloning the most successful Western d... | I highly recommend Jimmy Maher’s series, [“Tales of the Mirror World,”](https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-part-1-calculators-and-cybernetics/) posted on the Digital Antiquarian blog. (Which anyone who scrolls this far down the page should definitely be reading!)
In particular, part II covers the... |
24,187 | In the USSR there flourished some very interesting machines, including the БЭСМ and МЭСМ lines, the Сетунь, the [ЭВМ Стрела](http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cp0308.htm) and others.
Maybe the most famous ones are
* БЭСМ-4, which is said to have done [the first computer animation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so_HQKv-... | 2022/03/29 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/24187",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
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] | I'm not sure your question is correct. You posit that native Soviet designs were ahead until some point around 1980, when "suddenly" clones of Western designs took over. In fact, Comecon countries started cloning Western machines way earlier. Three examples from the top of my mind, cloning the most successful Western d... | COCOM and similar things were mentioned. But that "marvellous design" OmarL mentioned was seen in the USSR at the time as heterogeneity and inefficient fund spending. They wanted a one size fit all, something similar to the position of the IBM at the time.
In 1969 the [decision](https://www.rbth.com/science_and_tech/2... |
24,187 | In the USSR there flourished some very interesting machines, including the БЭСМ and МЭСМ lines, the Сетунь, the [ЭВМ Стрела](http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cp0308.htm) and others.
Maybe the most famous ones are
* БЭСМ-4, which is said to have done [the first computer animation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so_HQKv-... | 2022/03/29 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/24187",
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] | 1. Economy of scale.
The "scale" part requires an economy to back the development and the production by buying the products. The iron curtain separated the "west" (an economy with ~1 billion people) and the "east" (~300 million people with much less GDP per capita). Other parts of the world are not counted because the... | There is still development of original computer architectures in Russia, but they don't seem to get used commercially very much. In the post-Soviet era, most businesses preferred imported computers, for both performance and reliability.
The [Elbrus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_(computer)) brand name covers se... |
24,187 | In the USSR there flourished some very interesting machines, including the БЭСМ and МЭСМ lines, the Сетунь, the [ЭВМ Стрела](http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cp0308.htm) and others.
Maybe the most famous ones are
* БЭСМ-4, which is said to have done [the first computer animation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so_HQKv-... | 2022/03/29 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/24187",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/576/"
] | 1. Economy of scale.
The "scale" part requires an economy to back the development and the production by buying the products. The iron curtain separated the "west" (an economy with ~1 billion people) and the "east" (~300 million people with much less GDP per capita). Other parts of the world are not counted because the... | COCOM and similar things were mentioned. But that "marvellous design" OmarL mentioned was seen in the USSR at the time as heterogeneity and inefficient fund spending. They wanted a one size fit all, something similar to the position of the IBM at the time.
In 1969 the [decision](https://www.rbth.com/science_and_tech/2... |
24,187 | In the USSR there flourished some very interesting machines, including the БЭСМ and МЭСМ lines, the Сетунь, the [ЭВМ Стрела](http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cp0308.htm) and others.
Maybe the most famous ones are
* БЭСМ-4, which is said to have done [the first computer animation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so_HQKv-... | 2022/03/29 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/24187",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/576/"
] | I highly recommend Jimmy Maher’s series, [“Tales of the Mirror World,”](https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-part-1-calculators-and-cybernetics/) posted on the Digital Antiquarian blog. (Which anyone who scrolls this far down the page should definitely be reading!)
In particular, part II covers the... | There is still development of original computer architectures in Russia, but they don't seem to get used commercially very much. In the post-Soviet era, most businesses preferred imported computers, for both performance and reliability.
The [Elbrus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_(computer)) brand name covers se... |
24,187 | In the USSR there flourished some very interesting machines, including the БЭСМ and МЭСМ lines, the Сетунь, the [ЭВМ Стрела](http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cp0308.htm) and others.
Maybe the most famous ones are
* БЭСМ-4, which is said to have done [the first computer animation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so_HQKv-... | 2022/03/29 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/24187",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/576/"
] | I highly recommend Jimmy Maher’s series, [“Tales of the Mirror World,”](https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-part-1-calculators-and-cybernetics/) posted on the Digital Antiquarian blog. (Which anyone who scrolls this far down the page should definitely be reading!)
In particular, part II covers the... | COCOM and similar things were mentioned. But that "marvellous design" OmarL mentioned was seen in the USSR at the time as heterogeneity and inefficient fund spending. They wanted a one size fit all, something similar to the position of the IBM at the time.
In 1969 the [decision](https://www.rbth.com/science_and_tech/2... |
6,112,562 | on my form i have checkbox1, checkbox2, checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2.
By default only checkbox1 is active. When I click(check) checkbox1, checkbox2 is activated. When I click(check) checkbox2, checkbox3 is activated. Finally when I check checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2 are activated.
And when I uncheck checkbox3... | 2011/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6112562",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619780/"
] | Added shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X C to Keybindings (Window -> Preferences -> filter for Keys) when 'Editing Java Source' for 'Remove Active Session'. | Close the IDE and open it again. This works if you did not use any code coverage tools and have just clicked the basic "Coverage" icon in the IDE. |
6,112,562 | on my form i have checkbox1, checkbox2, checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2.
By default only checkbox1 is active. When I click(check) checkbox1, checkbox2 is activated. When I click(check) checkbox2, checkbox3 is activated. Finally when I check checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2 are activated.
And when I uncheck checkbox3... | 2011/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6112562",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619780/"
] | Click the "Remove all Sessions" button in the toolbar of the "Coverage" view.
 | If you would like to remove active session/project/folder then you can follow
Click the "Remove Active Session" button in the toolbar of the "Coverage" view. |
6,112,562 | on my form i have checkbox1, checkbox2, checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2.
By default only checkbox1 is active. When I click(check) checkbox1, checkbox2 is activated. When I click(check) checkbox2, checkbox3 is activated. Finally when I check checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2 are activated.
And when I uncheck checkbox3... | 2011/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6112562",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619780/"
] | If you remove the coverage session, also the coverage coloring will disappear. For this, hit Remove Session or Remove All Sessions in the Coverage view's toolbar.
<http://eclemma.org/faq.html> | Close the IDE and open it again. This works if you did not use any code coverage tools and have just clicked the basic "Coverage" icon in the IDE. |
6,112,562 | on my form i have checkbox1, checkbox2, checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2.
By default only checkbox1 is active. When I click(check) checkbox1, checkbox2 is activated. When I click(check) checkbox2, checkbox3 is activated. Finally when I check checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2 are activated.
And when I uncheck checkbox3... | 2011/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6112562",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619780/"
] | On 4.2 eclipse it seems to be impossible to remove the eCobertura highlights. Sadly eCobertura plugins seems to be not maintained anymore. However if you start writing into the class, its gone. So **type a space, and then undo**, and its gone. | I have used the Open Clover Tool for the code coverage, I have also been searching this for a long time.
Its pretty straightforward, in the Coverage Explorer tab, you can find three square buttons which says the code lines you wanted to display, click on hide the coverage square box and its gone. Last button in the im... |
6,112,562 | on my form i have checkbox1, checkbox2, checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2.
By default only checkbox1 is active. When I click(check) checkbox1, checkbox2 is activated. When I click(check) checkbox2, checkbox3 is activated. Finally when I check checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2 are activated.
And when I uncheck checkbox3... | 2011/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6112562",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619780/"
] | I have used the Open Clover Tool for the code coverage, I have also been searching this for a long time.
Its pretty straightforward, in the Coverage Explorer tab, you can find three square buttons which says the code lines you wanted to display, click on hide the coverage square box and its gone. Last button in the im... | Close the IDE and open it again. This works if you did not use any code coverage tools and have just clicked the basic "Coverage" icon in the IDE. |
6,112,562 | on my form i have checkbox1, checkbox2, checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2.
By default only checkbox1 is active. When I click(check) checkbox1, checkbox2 is activated. When I click(check) checkbox2, checkbox3 is activated. Finally when I check checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2 are activated.
And when I uncheck checkbox3... | 2011/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6112562",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619780/"
] | Click the "Remove all Sessions" button in the toolbar of the "Coverage" view.
 | Close the IDE and open it again. This works if you did not use any code coverage tools and have just clicked the basic "Coverage" icon in the IDE. |
6,112,562 | on my form i have checkbox1, checkbox2, checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2.
By default only checkbox1 is active. When I click(check) checkbox1, checkbox2 is activated. When I click(check) checkbox2, checkbox3 is activated. Finally when I check checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2 are activated.
And when I uncheck checkbox3... | 2011/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6112562",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619780/"
] | Click the "Remove all Sessions" button in the toolbar of the "Coverage" view.
 | If you remove the coverage session, also the coverage coloring will disappear. For this, hit Remove Session or Remove All Sessions in the Coverage view's toolbar.
<http://eclemma.org/faq.html> |
6,112,562 | on my form i have checkbox1, checkbox2, checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2.
By default only checkbox1 is active. When I click(check) checkbox1, checkbox2 is activated. When I click(check) checkbox2, checkbox3 is activated. Finally when I check checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2 are activated.
And when I uncheck checkbox3... | 2011/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6112562",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619780/"
] | I found a workaround over on GitHub: <https://github.com/jmhofer/eCobertura/issues/8>
For those who don't want to click the link, here's the text of the comment:
>
> Good workaround:
> Create a run configuration with a filter, that excludes everything ("\*") and let it run just a single test. Name it "Undo coverage... | If you remove the coverage session, also the coverage coloring will disappear. For this, hit Remove Session or Remove All Sessions in the Coverage view's toolbar.
<http://eclemma.org/faq.html> |
6,112,562 | on my form i have checkbox1, checkbox2, checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2.
By default only checkbox1 is active. When I click(check) checkbox1, checkbox2 is activated. When I click(check) checkbox2, checkbox3 is activated. Finally when I check checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2 are activated.
And when I uncheck checkbox3... | 2011/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6112562",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619780/"
] | On 4.2 eclipse it seems to be impossible to remove the eCobertura highlights. Sadly eCobertura plugins seems to be not maintained anymore. However if you start writing into the class, its gone. So **type a space, and then undo**, and its gone. | Close the IDE and open it again. This works if you did not use any code coverage tools and have just clicked the basic "Coverage" icon in the IDE. |
6,112,562 | on my form i have checkbox1, checkbox2, checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2.
By default only checkbox1 is active. When I click(check) checkbox1, checkbox2 is activated. When I click(check) checkbox2, checkbox3 is activated. Finally when I check checkbox3, textbox1 and textbox2 are activated.
And when I uncheck checkbox3... | 2011/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6112562",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619780/"
] | I found a workaround over on GitHub: <https://github.com/jmhofer/eCobertura/issues/8>
For those who don't want to click the link, here's the text of the comment:
>
> Good workaround:
> Create a run configuration with a filter, that excludes everything ("\*") and let it run just a single test. Name it "Undo coverage... | If you would like to remove active session/project/folder then you can follow
Click the "Remove Active Session" button in the toolbar of the "Coverage" view. |
19,884,438 | My company just finished upgrading to TFS 2012. I was very excited to try out the new task board. But I am getting errors like this one:
>
> [Error] TF400654: Unable to configure Planning Tools. The following element contains an error: TaskWorkItems/States. TF400587: This element defines the states for work items tha... | 2013/11/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/19884438",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/16241/"
] | You need to update the CommonConfiguration.xml file associated with your Team Project to use the new state name. You can do this via the command-line witadmin importcommonprocessconfig: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh500413(v=vs.110).aspx>
First do an export, edit the XML file (the format is pretty... | If you just need a new column for Task, you need to update Task state in the task xml AND modify the state in the process config.
If you need to add other Work item (Test Case in my exemple), you can follow this article (write for TFS 2013 but there is no big difference for 2012)
<http://fabienguede.blogspot.fr/2014/... |
270,068 | I can't find an Ubuntu installer to format the PC and install it. | 2013/03/19 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/270068",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/141744/"
] | You can download Ubuntu from here:
<http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop>
My personal choice would be 12.04 as its supported for longer (April 2017) but if you want the latest features download 12.10. The only other choice is 32-bit or 64-bit. It's up to you which you choose to download.
The 32-bit version contain... | Intel uses the same instructions as AMD.
You can find in: <http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop> |
124,959 | I'm trying to create a meal ordering process which is split across 5 steps.
I wanted to know what might be a good way to design a stepper pattern for mobile.
After researching i have narrowed down to 4 options
1) Compress the step circles and text to fit in line: readability problems, too cluttered hence going to ign... | 2019/04/09 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/124959",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/125088/"
] | In my website, I would use some of the alternatives below:
**Aletrnative 1:**
Something that works like pagnation. Basically, I will show just 2 steps at first step and last step and 3 steps for others.
See an example:
* step 1: Current Step > Next step
* step 2: First Step > Current Step > Next step > ...
* step 3... | You can try to use as an alternative the **material Design** tabs as a reference. You can hide some unused steps but if user swipe, then he can see it.
See image example and see more in <https://material.io/design/components/tabs.html#usage>
[](https... |
11,666,425 | I am an android developer new to windows phone development. [This](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/PhoneStateListener.html) is the android equivalent of it. | 2012/07/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11666425",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/502792/"
] | No, you can't detect calls. Additionally, assuming you are considering an app that will run in the background and listen for calls, then do something, in Windows Phone, apps don't "run" in the background. When you start another app, go back to the start screen, or turn off the phone, the app will be either be deactivat... | No, the current Windows Phone 7.x SDK's don't allow you to detect calls. |
40,104 | When I moved into my house, the kitchen has large floor tiles on the floor. Quite a few of these tiles are cracked. I've been told that the reason they are cracked is because under the floor tiles is a plywood underlay layer, and where the plywood pieces meet each other isn't exactly even, and so the tiles are cracking... | 2014/03/17 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/40104",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/15141/"
] | If the tiles are cracking, it's probably (edit: might not be) not just the plywood. The floor is flexing in some manner. Tiles need a very rock solid underlayment.
So pulling up the tiles and then pulling up the subfloor and then relaying a new subfloor may not actually fix your problem.
The joists may be flexing (an... | The plywood should be relaid so that it is even and you need to put half-inch concrete board on top of the plywood. Especially for larger tiles. |
24,311,710 | So, I've got a C# windows workflow project that creates a report programmatically and emails it out. It works fine on my local machine, but putting it on a scheduler in a different machine generates the following error:
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, ... | 2014/06/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/24311710",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2722951/"
] | The accepted answer pointed me in the right direction. However, didn't provide enough details for me to reach resolution. I wanted to add this as a comment to that answer but it was too long.
In my VS project, I had a reference to Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms version 12.0.0.0 and when deploying to another computer... | try to add the dll files to the project from :
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\ReportViewer
add them to the bin folder after publishing the project |
410 | Standard odds calculation assumes that all unseen cards are still in the deck. For instance for a flush draw with two suited cards showing on the board, we assume 9 outs.(13-2 hole cards-2 on the board). On the flop we assume about 36% chance to win.
This however is not always the case, if the hand is played heads up ... | 2012/02/06 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/410",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/268/"
] | No, those cards have no significance to odds calculation.
If I shuffle a fresh deck, what is the chance the the top card is the Ace of Spades? 1 in 52. If I deal off the top 10 cards face down, what is the chance that the card on top now is the Ace of Spades? Still 1 in 52. The same probability will apply to the rest ... | *(oh well instead of commenting I may as well post this as an answer)*
You're asking two different questions and they have two different answers.
>
> Are burnt cards significant in odds calculation?
>
>
>
No. They're not different than any other card still in the deck.
>
> there is also the possibility that so... |
410 | Standard odds calculation assumes that all unseen cards are still in the deck. For instance for a flush draw with two suited cards showing on the board, we assume 9 outs.(13-2 hole cards-2 on the board). On the flop we assume about 36% chance to win.
This however is not always the case, if the hand is played heads up ... | 2012/02/06 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/410",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/268/"
] | No, those cards have no significance to odds calculation.
If I shuffle a fresh deck, what is the chance the the top card is the Ace of Spades? 1 in 52. If I deal off the top 10 cards face down, what is the chance that the card on top now is the Ace of Spades? Still 1 in 52. The same probability will apply to the rest ... | So an 8-handed table and it is folded round to the SB who has 22 and raises, AK suited in the BB shoves and SB calls. Stats show AKs is 50.1% equity but this cannot be the reality because of the chance that amongst the 12 cards in the muck there is at least one other ace or king. Taking out the SB and BB cards there ar... |
410 | Standard odds calculation assumes that all unseen cards are still in the deck. For instance for a flush draw with two suited cards showing on the board, we assume 9 outs.(13-2 hole cards-2 on the board). On the flop we assume about 36% chance to win.
This however is not always the case, if the hand is played heads up ... | 2012/02/06 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/410",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/268/"
] | No, those cards have no significance to odds calculation.
If I shuffle a fresh deck, what is the chance the the top card is the Ace of Spades? 1 in 52. If I deal off the top 10 cards face down, what is the chance that the card on top now is the Ace of Spades? Still 1 in 52. The same probability will apply to the rest ... | When I considered this question (from the point of view of a live full-ring game with 10 players where 25 cards are missing after the flop is dealt: 20 player cards, 3 flop cards, 2 burn cards) I came to the conclusion that with 50% of the cards missing but never knowing which ones we're talking about some kind of stan... |
410 | Standard odds calculation assumes that all unseen cards are still in the deck. For instance for a flush draw with two suited cards showing on the board, we assume 9 outs.(13-2 hole cards-2 on the board). On the flop we assume about 36% chance to win.
This however is not always the case, if the hand is played heads up ... | 2012/02/06 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/410",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/268/"
] | *(oh well instead of commenting I may as well post this as an answer)*
You're asking two different questions and they have two different answers.
>
> Are burnt cards significant in odds calculation?
>
>
>
No. They're not different than any other card still in the deck.
>
> there is also the possibility that so... | So an 8-handed table and it is folded round to the SB who has 22 and raises, AK suited in the BB shoves and SB calls. Stats show AKs is 50.1% equity but this cannot be the reality because of the chance that amongst the 12 cards in the muck there is at least one other ace or king. Taking out the SB and BB cards there ar... |
410 | Standard odds calculation assumes that all unseen cards are still in the deck. For instance for a flush draw with two suited cards showing on the board, we assume 9 outs.(13-2 hole cards-2 on the board). On the flop we assume about 36% chance to win.
This however is not always the case, if the hand is played heads up ... | 2012/02/06 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/410",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/268/"
] | *(oh well instead of commenting I may as well post this as an answer)*
You're asking two different questions and they have two different answers.
>
> Are burnt cards significant in odds calculation?
>
>
>
No. They're not different than any other card still in the deck.
>
> there is also the possibility that so... | When I considered this question (from the point of view of a live full-ring game with 10 players where 25 cards are missing after the flop is dealt: 20 player cards, 3 flop cards, 2 burn cards) I came to the conclusion that with 50% of the cards missing but never knowing which ones we're talking about some kind of stan... |
282 | I work for a relatively small company. We don't get a lot of resumes from people with experience, yet we're in a position where we should hire people to grow. We pretty frequently get resumes from people just out of school.
We'd like to try to find the diamonds in the rough, but flying non-local people out and taking... | 2010/07/14 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/282",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/51/"
] | We have a mixed art/tech environment, but hiring process is always the same. Cull interesting resumes and offer candidates a task from start to finish on his own where you give him only a high concept. For programmers a small game that can be made in several days (can use programmer art or stock) where you give him a c... | No professional experience doesn't mean no experience at all. Check if the candidates have participated in any local/global event such as the global game jam, the independent games festival or they just come up with a website with their portfolio.
On the other hand, some programmers just love programming competitions... |
282 | I work for a relatively small company. We don't get a lot of resumes from people with experience, yet we're in a position where we should hire people to grow. We pretty frequently get resumes from people just out of school.
We'd like to try to find the diamonds in the rough, but flying non-local people out and taking... | 2010/07/14 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/282",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/51/"
] | We have a mixed art/tech environment, but hiring process is always the same. Cull interesting resumes and offer candidates a task from start to finish on his own where you give him only a high concept. For programmers a small game that can be made in several days (can use programmer art or stock) where you give him a c... | What the heck... :)
[How to Recruit Great Developers](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1451216/how-to-recruit-great-developers)
[What process do you use to recruit programmers](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69238/what-process-do-you-use-to-recruit-programmers)
[What is the best way to tell an excellent prog... |
282 | I work for a relatively small company. We don't get a lot of resumes from people with experience, yet we're in a position where we should hire people to grow. We pretty frequently get resumes from people just out of school.
We'd like to try to find the diamonds in the rough, but flying non-local people out and taking... | 2010/07/14 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/282",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/51/"
] | We have a mixed art/tech environment, but hiring process is always the same. Cull interesting resumes and offer candidates a task from start to finish on his own where you give him only a high concept. For programmers a small game that can be made in several days (can use programmer art or stock) where you give him a c... | One of the things that is quickly making the rounds as a easy filtering mechanism is codility.
<http://codility.com/>
It's a service you pay for to give automated timed programming tests. The bad thing is that there are a fixed number of tests. The good thing is that the tests are automatically graded by unit tests. ... |
282 | I work for a relatively small company. We don't get a lot of resumes from people with experience, yet we're in a position where we should hire people to grow. We pretty frequently get resumes from people just out of school.
We'd like to try to find the diamonds in the rough, but flying non-local people out and taking... | 2010/07/14 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/282",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/51/"
] | No professional experience doesn't mean no experience at all. Check if the candidates have participated in any local/global event such as the global game jam, the independent games festival or they just come up with a website with their portfolio.
On the other hand, some programmers just love programming competitions... | One of the things that is quickly making the rounds as a easy filtering mechanism is codility.
<http://codility.com/>
It's a service you pay for to give automated timed programming tests. The bad thing is that there are a fixed number of tests. The good thing is that the tests are automatically graded by unit tests. ... |
282 | I work for a relatively small company. We don't get a lot of resumes from people with experience, yet we're in a position where we should hire people to grow. We pretty frequently get resumes from people just out of school.
We'd like to try to find the diamonds in the rough, but flying non-local people out and taking... | 2010/07/14 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/282",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/51/"
] | What the heck... :)
[How to Recruit Great Developers](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1451216/how-to-recruit-great-developers)
[What process do you use to recruit programmers](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69238/what-process-do-you-use-to-recruit-programmers)
[What is the best way to tell an excellent prog... | One of the things that is quickly making the rounds as a easy filtering mechanism is codility.
<http://codility.com/>
It's a service you pay for to give automated timed programming tests. The bad thing is that there are a fixed number of tests. The good thing is that the tests are automatically graded by unit tests. ... |
742,698 | I've read that using the router as an access point would be a solution, but is it possible to do this wirelessly, i.e without using a cat-5 cable? I haven't tried this yet, as I'm not sure if this is possible or whether there is a better way. Currently my setup is:
* A virgin super-hub modem/router downstairs with int... | 2014/04/16 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/742698",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/237077/"
] | With your current hardware as described, you have two options:
1. Run a cable upstairs to your un-networked router.
2. Go out and buy a wireless bridge or repeater.
If your downstairs router has wi-fi capabilities, you can wirelessly network your Pis via that (assuming the signal is strong enough), but that won't get... | install DD-WRT put it in AP Client mode and use it to receive from the virgin gateway over wifi and then send out to your PI's through ethernet connected to the dlink |
82,545 | I was wondering for some time why in some cases x-ray crystallography and not NMR is used for structure determination of small molecules? Does crystallization maybe require a smaller amount of the compound than NMR? | 2017/09/12 | [
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/82545",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/users/51852/"
] | Our group uses both methods a lot so here are some examples why you would use X-ray, in addition to NMR, in organic synthesis.
---
**Your compound isn't soluble enough:**
Colleagues produce very large aromatic systems for organic electronics which are basically insoluble in all solvents. With a good NMR machine (600... | Coming from natural product chemistry, of course the structure elucidation by NMR is the most commonly used method, especially in isolation. NMR requires only a little substance dissolved in whichever deuterated solvent you have on your shelf and is rapidly set up. The only downside is that for very small amounts of sa... |
135,575 | In our campaign, I'm currently considering multiclassing into Rogue very soon. One thing I'm wondering is how, if at all, it could be justified for me to learn thieves' cant *when our party is currently alone in the middle of an illusory mind-dungeon* - the point being that there are no Rogueish role models or tutors o... | 2018/11/15 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/135575",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/48792/"
] | ### Choose whatever narrative you like best. Class features do not need narrative justification.
The D&D 5E system is mainly driven by rules and abstractions rather than narrative. Regardless of the narrative you use to explain how your character gained their class features, your character will gain those class featur... | Class levels are abstract
-------------------------
The character does not know that he just took a level in rogue, he has always been studying and practicing rogue things and is only now confident in his own ability to put it into practice.
**In short he has always known basic thieves' cant**, but maybe he struggled... |
135,575 | In our campaign, I'm currently considering multiclassing into Rogue very soon. One thing I'm wondering is how, if at all, it could be justified for me to learn thieves' cant *when our party is currently alone in the middle of an illusory mind-dungeon* - the point being that there are no Rogueish role models or tutors o... | 2018/11/15 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/135575",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/48792/"
] | ### Choose whatever narrative you like best. Class features do not need narrative justification.
The D&D 5E system is mainly driven by rules and abstractions rather than narrative. Regardless of the narrative you use to explain how your character gained their class features, your character will gain those class featur... | First, discuss with your DM
---------------------------
When you have questions like this of "should this be allowed" the DM will ultimately be the final authority. So, you should talk to them about your concerns. D&D 5e is a game about collaboratively storytelling, so they will typically work to weave it into their n... |
135,575 | In our campaign, I'm currently considering multiclassing into Rogue very soon. One thing I'm wondering is how, if at all, it could be justified for me to learn thieves' cant *when our party is currently alone in the middle of an illusory mind-dungeon* - the point being that there are no Rogueish role models or tutors o... | 2018/11/15 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/135575",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/48792/"
] | ### Choose whatever narrative you like best. Class features do not need narrative justification.
The D&D 5E system is mainly driven by rules and abstractions rather than narrative. Regardless of the narrative you use to explain how your character gained their class features, your character will gain those class featur... | Narratively? None at all. RAW? The knowledge just appears
---------------------------------------------------------
RAW doesn't care about making any kind of sense narratively, and there is no way the designers could design around narratives that exist only at individual tables and still keep a tight ruleset. You woul... |
135,575 | In our campaign, I'm currently considering multiclassing into Rogue very soon. One thing I'm wondering is how, if at all, it could be justified for me to learn thieves' cant *when our party is currently alone in the middle of an illusory mind-dungeon* - the point being that there are no Rogueish role models or tutors o... | 2018/11/15 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/135575",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/48792/"
] | Class levels are abstract
-------------------------
The character does not know that he just took a level in rogue, he has always been studying and practicing rogue things and is only now confident in his own ability to put it into practice.
**In short he has always known basic thieves' cant**, but maybe he struggled... | First, discuss with your DM
---------------------------
When you have questions like this of "should this be allowed" the DM will ultimately be the final authority. So, you should talk to them about your concerns. D&D 5e is a game about collaboratively storytelling, so they will typically work to weave it into their n... |
135,575 | In our campaign, I'm currently considering multiclassing into Rogue very soon. One thing I'm wondering is how, if at all, it could be justified for me to learn thieves' cant *when our party is currently alone in the middle of an illusory mind-dungeon* - the point being that there are no Rogueish role models or tutors o... | 2018/11/15 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/135575",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/48792/"
] | Class levels are abstract
-------------------------
The character does not know that he just took a level in rogue, he has always been studying and practicing rogue things and is only now confident in his own ability to put it into practice.
**In short he has always known basic thieves' cant**, but maybe he struggled... | Narratively? None at all. RAW? The knowledge just appears
---------------------------------------------------------
RAW doesn't care about making any kind of sense narratively, and there is no way the designers could design around narratives that exist only at individual tables and still keep a tight ruleset. You woul... |
135,575 | In our campaign, I'm currently considering multiclassing into Rogue very soon. One thing I'm wondering is how, if at all, it could be justified for me to learn thieves' cant *when our party is currently alone in the middle of an illusory mind-dungeon* - the point being that there are no Rogueish role models or tutors o... | 2018/11/15 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/135575",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/48792/"
] | Narratively? None at all. RAW? The knowledge just appears
---------------------------------------------------------
RAW doesn't care about making any kind of sense narratively, and there is no way the designers could design around narratives that exist only at individual tables and still keep a tight ruleset. You woul... | First, discuss with your DM
---------------------------
When you have questions like this of "should this be allowed" the DM will ultimately be the final authority. So, you should talk to them about your concerns. D&D 5e is a game about collaboratively storytelling, so they will typically work to weave it into their n... |
40,088,713 | I've developed some photo application for internal use, working with Canon 5D Mark II through Canon EOS SDK 2.13.
As for now, I've tried to upgrade SDK to 3.5.
The application was totally ruined (e.g., when I try to open liveview, the camera flatters its shutter on-off and doesn't send liveview stream).
So, I've got so... | 2016/10/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/40088713",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4202154/"
] | I do not have any experience with this SDK. But using a quick fix to make your old project compile again with a Win32 assembly is to build on a target platform (32-bit).
Build -> Configuration Manager -> Project
choose on column Platform
New -> Then set new platform to x86. | There has been a breaking change in version 3.4 where the file and IO related functions switched from uint to ulong.
Also the PictureStyleDesc struct has changed in 3.2 and the DirectoryItemInfo struct in 3.4
[My project](http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/688276/Canon-EDSDK-Tutorial-in-Csharp) is compatible with all... |
1,341,370 | Are there any fully functional IRC Components out there for Delphi? I have looked at the TIDIRC component (Indy 10), and it is missing too many things to be usable for me.
I basically have an application and I would like to add in the IRC functionality to it, to automatically connect to an IRC server and join 2 chann... | 2009/08/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1341370",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/161519/"
] | You can look at:
1. Torry's page on [IRC components for Delphi](http://www.torry.net/pages.php?id=217)
2. Instructions on building an IRC client [here](http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Delphi-Kylix/Building-an-IRC-Client/). Plenty of useful information. | You can use a library such as [Synapse](http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/doku.php) and implement your own. Start with the telnet class, create a new descendant to implement the specific commands you want to provide. The good thing is that the IRC protocol is well [documented](http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2812.html). |
1,341,370 | Are there any fully functional IRC Components out there for Delphi? I have looked at the TIDIRC component (Indy 10), and it is missing too many things to be usable for me.
I basically have an application and I would like to add in the IRC functionality to it, to automatically connect to an IRC server and join 2 chann... | 2009/08/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1341370",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/161519/"
] | You can look at:
1. Torry's page on [IRC components for Delphi](http://www.torry.net/pages.php?id=217)
2. Instructions on building an IRC client [here](http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Delphi-Kylix/Building-an-IRC-Client/). Plenty of useful information. | There is opensource Delphi client - VisualIRC
<http://www.visualirc.net/download.php>
Outdated somehow (but same is IRC, no?), but still can be used as root.
To me, the problem with IRC is lack of standard.
The standard features are too narrow and simplistics.
The richer and flexier ones - just simplge login/password... |
1,341,370 | Are there any fully functional IRC Components out there for Delphi? I have looked at the TIDIRC component (Indy 10), and it is missing too many things to be usable for me.
I basically have an application and I would like to add in the IRC functionality to it, to automatically connect to an IRC server and join 2 chann... | 2009/08/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1341370",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/161519/"
] | You can look at:
1. Torry's page on [IRC components for Delphi](http://www.torry.net/pages.php?id=217)
2. Instructions on building an IRC client [here](http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Delphi-Kylix/Building-an-IRC-Client/). Plenty of useful information. | TIdIRC is actually not free of some smaller Bugs but Indy10 supports you also as a big InternetFramework - you can get Indy10 TIdIRC right running up to Win10:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70O4gkLy_ZY&t=140s>
Elmar Baumann |
1,341,370 | Are there any fully functional IRC Components out there for Delphi? I have looked at the TIDIRC component (Indy 10), and it is missing too many things to be usable for me.
I basically have an application and I would like to add in the IRC functionality to it, to automatically connect to an IRC server and join 2 chann... | 2009/08/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1341370",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/161519/"
] | You can use a library such as [Synapse](http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/doku.php) and implement your own. Start with the telnet class, create a new descendant to implement the specific commands you want to provide. The good thing is that the IRC protocol is well [documented](http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2812.html). | There is opensource Delphi client - VisualIRC
<http://www.visualirc.net/download.php>
Outdated somehow (but same is IRC, no?), but still can be used as root.
To me, the problem with IRC is lack of standard.
The standard features are too narrow and simplistics.
The richer and flexier ones - just simplge login/password... |
1,341,370 | Are there any fully functional IRC Components out there for Delphi? I have looked at the TIDIRC component (Indy 10), and it is missing too many things to be usable for me.
I basically have an application and I would like to add in the IRC functionality to it, to automatically connect to an IRC server and join 2 chann... | 2009/08/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1341370",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/161519/"
] | You can use a library such as [Synapse](http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/doku.php) and implement your own. Start with the telnet class, create a new descendant to implement the specific commands you want to provide. The good thing is that the IRC protocol is well [documented](http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2812.html). | TIdIRC is actually not free of some smaller Bugs but Indy10 supports you also as a big InternetFramework - you can get Indy10 TIdIRC right running up to Win10:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70O4gkLy_ZY&t=140s>
Elmar Baumann |
74,132 | Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) (2017 to 2021) [Ajit Pai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Pai#Net_neutrality_in_the_United_States) had been outspoken against net neutrality since at least 2014 and once head of the FCC worked to undo it: [Net neutrality in the United States: Rollback to T... | 2022/07/08 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/74132",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/16047/"
] | *Q: Has the Biden administration successfully restored US internet neutrality? Have they put safeguards in place to keep it that way?*
No and no.
*Q: Since [the order rolling back net neutrality regulations in October 2020,] how has the US federal government's actions affected the state of net neutrality in the US?*
... | I think "net neutrality" is very similar to "scientific neutrality" in highly technological societies: there is no such thing. We know that Big Fossil Fuel firms have used scientific data to augment their climate denialism on various fronts, as Big Tobacco did with the science showing tobacco was a carcinogen. And simi... |
6,642 | Does anyone know of any (preferably online) tools that allow you to create a visual scrap book of online research, with links to pages, snippets of text, and images?
Maybe something similar to [Notefish](http://www.notefish.com/)? (I couldn't work out any way to get images into the notes).
[Here](http://www.notefish.... | 2010/09/12 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6642",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/4441/"
] | The [Best Word Finder](http://www.wireless-trend.com/wordfinder_best_index_eng.php) can combine multiple search restrictions.
The following link has the fields filled in for the letters "BJEOT?Y" and matching "O?J\*".
This returns the word "Object"
<http://www.wireless-trend.com/wordfinder_best_index_eng.php?ufname=... | Many sites helps you to make words from letters for Scrabble and other word games. You can use their tools to train for Scrabble, Words With Friends, Literati and other word games, but also to create words with the letters of your choice. |
6,642 | Does anyone know of any (preferably online) tools that allow you to create a visual scrap book of online research, with links to pages, snippets of text, and images?
Maybe something similar to [Notefish](http://www.notefish.com/)? (I couldn't work out any way to get images into the notes).
[Here](http://www.notefish.... | 2010/09/12 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6642",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/4441/"
] | If you're simply trying to get Scrabble moves, then [Scrabulizer.com](http://www.scrabulizer.com) is what you want. Otherwise what you want is an anagrammer, of which there are plenty. Such as <http://www.a2zwordfinder.com> | You could try <http://www.scrabbleaword.com> too. They have multiple word finder dictionaries you can choose from. |
6,642 | Does anyone know of any (preferably online) tools that allow you to create a visual scrap book of online research, with links to pages, snippets of text, and images?
Maybe something similar to [Notefish](http://www.notefish.com/)? (I couldn't work out any way to get images into the notes).
[Here](http://www.notefish.... | 2010/09/12 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6642",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/4441/"
] | This seems like just what you need.
[A2Z WordFinder: Scrabble® Letter Pattern Search](http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/puzz/scrabble.html)
Results in:
 | Many sites helps you to make words from letters for Scrabble and other word games. You can use their tools to train for Scrabble, Words With Friends, Literati and other word games, but also to create words with the letters of your choice. |
6,642 | Does anyone know of any (preferably online) tools that allow you to create a visual scrap book of online research, with links to pages, snippets of text, and images?
Maybe something similar to [Notefish](http://www.notefish.com/)? (I couldn't work out any way to get images into the notes).
[Here](http://www.notefish.... | 2010/09/12 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6642",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/4441/"
] | If you're simply trying to get Scrabble moves, then [Scrabulizer.com](http://www.scrabulizer.com) is what you want. Otherwise what you want is an anagrammer, of which there are plenty. Such as <http://www.a2zwordfinder.com> | Many sites helps you to make words from letters for Scrabble and other word games. You can use their tools to train for Scrabble, Words With Friends, Literati and other word games, but also to create words with the letters of your choice. |
6,642 | Does anyone know of any (preferably online) tools that allow you to create a visual scrap book of online research, with links to pages, snippets of text, and images?
Maybe something similar to [Notefish](http://www.notefish.com/)? (I couldn't work out any way to get images into the notes).
[Here](http://www.notefish.... | 2010/09/12 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6642",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/4441/"
] | This seems like just what you need.
[A2Z WordFinder: Scrabble® Letter Pattern Search](http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/puzz/scrabble.html)
Results in:
 | You could try <http://www.scrabbleaword.com> too. They have multiple word finder dictionaries you can choose from. |
6,642 | Does anyone know of any (preferably online) tools that allow you to create a visual scrap book of online research, with links to pages, snippets of text, and images?
Maybe something similar to [Notefish](http://www.notefish.com/)? (I couldn't work out any way to get images into the notes).
[Here](http://www.notefish.... | 2010/09/12 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6642",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/4441/"
] | This seems like just what you need.
[A2Z WordFinder: Scrabble® Letter Pattern Search](http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/puzz/scrabble.html)
Results in:
 | The [Lexifind Scrabble Helper](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search?q=lexifind) allows you to enter your rack and board letters on a full scrabble board, and can display every playable word, right on the board. It also has full support for Literati, Lexulous, Wordscraper and Words with Friends.
There is a [video ... |
6,642 | Does anyone know of any (preferably online) tools that allow you to create a visual scrap book of online research, with links to pages, snippets of text, and images?
Maybe something similar to [Notefish](http://www.notefish.com/)? (I couldn't work out any way to get images into the notes).
[Here](http://www.notefish.... | 2010/09/12 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6642",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/4441/"
] | This seems like just what you need.
[A2Z WordFinder: Scrabble® Letter Pattern Search](http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/puzz/scrabble.html)
Results in:
 | The [Best Word Finder](http://www.wireless-trend.com/wordfinder_best_index_eng.php) can combine multiple search restrictions.
The following link has the fields filled in for the letters "BJEOT?Y" and matching "O?J\*".
This returns the word "Object"
<http://www.wireless-trend.com/wordfinder_best_index_eng.php?ufname=... |
6,642 | Does anyone know of any (preferably online) tools that allow you to create a visual scrap book of online research, with links to pages, snippets of text, and images?
Maybe something similar to [Notefish](http://www.notefish.com/)? (I couldn't work out any way to get images into the notes).
[Here](http://www.notefish.... | 2010/09/12 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6642",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/4441/"
] | You could try <http://www.scrabbleaword.com> too. They have multiple word finder dictionaries you can choose from. | Many sites helps you to make words from letters for Scrabble and other word games. You can use their tools to train for Scrabble, Words With Friends, Literati and other word games, but also to create words with the letters of your choice. |
586,838 | >
> Down in to the Yard, by way of the steps, came Daniel Doyce, Mr Meagles, and Clennam. Passing along the Yard, and between the open doors on either hand, all abundantly garnished with **light children nursing heavy ones**, they arrived at its opposite boundary, the gateway.
>
>
> ([*Little Dorrit*](https://dicken... | 2022/03/31 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/586838",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/286086/"
] | In [*Little Dorrit*: Strategies of Paradox in the World Turned Upside Down](http://www.dickens.jp/archive/ld/ld-matsuoka.html) by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, the lines preceding "light children nursing heavy ones" provide a great explanation of what the phrase implies:
>
> One of the ironies of the Dorrits is that the father... | Small children left in charge of babies almost as big as they were seems to have been a common sight in large, poor families in Dickens's time, as Justin and Kate Bunting pointed out. Presumably the babies would literally be lighter than their siblings, but still "heavy" in the sense of being far too heavy for the chil... |
2,940,161 | I am writing an application which is a kinda video streamer.The client is receiving a video stream using udp socket.Now as I am receiving the stream I want to play it simultaneous.It is different from playing local video file lying in your hard disk in which case it can be as simple as running the file using system("vl... | 2010/05/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2940161",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/90575/"
] | Well you can always take a look at [VideoLan's own homepage](http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch01.html)
Other than that, streaming is quite straightforward:
1. Decide on a video codec that supports streaming. (ok obvious and probably already done)
2. Choose appropriate packet size.
3. Choose appropriate... | Unfortunately really the only API vlc has is the command line or equivalent of the command line (you can start player instances, passing them essentially what you would have on the command line). You can use libvlc if you need multiple instances or callbacks but it's pretty opaque still... |
10,049 | **Situation:**
* mother produces more milk than the baby drinks
* from breastfeeding, the skin is too sensitive to cover it with nursing pads
**Problem:**
Without nursing pads, milk will gradually dribble out at night, causing uncomfortably wet bedsheets.
**Short of switching bedsheets every day, what is a viable s... | 2015/11/23 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/10049",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/10101/"
] | Super-soaker diaper pads containing sodium polyacrylate, carboxymethylcellulose etc. can soak up a tremendous amount of liquid. If the mother cannot lay directly on a pad (even an [adult-sized diaper](http://www.walmart.com/c/kp/adult-diapers)), the absorbent powder could be sandwiched between towels and left on the be... | Don't worry too much, breasts don't stay "leaky". Your real problem are sore nipples from breastfeeding. If you know a beekeeper get yourself some homemade honey and ask him if he can let you have some propolis. Propolis is like an antibiotic the bees produce to keep their hives healthy. You (or the beekeeper) have to ... |
10,049 | **Situation:**
* mother produces more milk than the baby drinks
* from breastfeeding, the skin is too sensitive to cover it with nursing pads
**Problem:**
Without nursing pads, milk will gradually dribble out at night, causing uncomfortably wet bedsheets.
**Short of switching bedsheets every day, what is a viable s... | 2015/11/23 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/10049",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/10101/"
] | First, the leaking is not caused by overproduction. The letdown mechanism is just a little too sensitive in some women at first. Second, the leaking will settle down over time, as the mechanism fine tunes and everything sort of "stabilizes."
Next, take a close look at the nursing pads. They should **not** be plastic b... | Don't worry too much, breasts don't stay "leaky". Your real problem are sore nipples from breastfeeding. If you know a beekeeper get yourself some homemade honey and ask him if he can let you have some propolis. Propolis is like an antibiotic the bees produce to keep their hives healthy. You (or the beekeeper) have to ... |
15,045,367 | I'm setting up i2c for an Application written in C, but I've not been able to find any how-to's for it. I'm running a model-b Raspberry Pi on Debian 6 with LXDE. Can anybody show me how to set up i2c so I can use it in a C Application?
Thanks for any help in advance | 2013/02/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15045367",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1721628/"
] | I've been looking for similar information and I found a couple of i2c tutorials, one in [adafruit tutorials](http://learn.adafruit.com/category/raspberry-pi) and the other in [Guy Carpenter's Gaugette blog](http://guy.carpenter.id.au/gaugette/). I'm not yet at the stage of actually using it so I can't vouch for their c... | try this :
[C GPIO Interface library for the Raspberry Pi](http://wiringpi.com/)
It offers API for handling GPIO port on Raspberry, including dedicated functions for I2C interface. I've been using this to read measurements from temperature sensor and it works perfect (STCN75 connected to RPi rev. B).
You can find ex... |
32,550 | I'm new to arduino. I'm doing a project where I need to send a RFID UID to php code. The UID will be detected by the arduino and the rest will happen at the php side. for that I need to get this UID at oho side. I'm using RFID-RC522 and arduino mega 2560. how can I do this?
also I found couple of posts about ethernet.... | 2016/12/22 | [
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/32550",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/users/29323/"
] | Welcome to SE:Arduino.
Shields are usually designed so that the pins are still fully accessible. The shield has a set of male connectors on the underside and female connectors (same as your Arduino) on the top side. Just Google a pic of a shield and you will see what I mean.
Ethernet is not the only choice, there is... | There is a lot of WiFi and ethernet shields, most of them(if not all) will not block your RFID especially if you use Mega2560. You must have a network connection for talking with php server, so YES, you need WiFi or ethernet shield.
Hope i'll help.
Yoav |
32,550 | I'm new to arduino. I'm doing a project where I need to send a RFID UID to php code. The UID will be detected by the arduino and the rest will happen at the php side. for that I need to get this UID at oho side. I'm using RFID-RC522 and arduino mega 2560. how can I do this?
also I found couple of posts about ethernet.... | 2016/12/22 | [
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/32550",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/users/29323/"
] | If you can use Wi-Fi, I suggest you to use **ESP8266-01**, it's cheap and usefull ! With this chip you can send all data to your server! | There is a lot of WiFi and ethernet shields, most of them(if not all) will not block your RFID especially if you use Mega2560. You must have a network connection for talking with php server, so YES, you need WiFi or ethernet shield.
Hope i'll help.
Yoav |
98,919 | Below is my home network topology. I currently have 5 static IP addresses, 3 of which are in use by 3 routers. These routers in-turn subnet internal networks and port forward. I use my SSL VPN appliance to remote home from work or on the road. At this point I can remotely administer my Windows Server. I know the networ... | 2010/01/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/98919",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/30611/"
] | If you simplify your configuration to the following Modem -> DDWRT -> Optional switch if the DDWRT doesn't have enough ports -> Servers/Clients. You should be able to setup you configuration such that the DDWRT router is listening on all of the public IP's and forwarding to the correct host using iptables.
Sorry, I ca... | Maybe you are already done. Here you find how to do it with DD-WRT:
<http://www.techenclave.com/guides-and-tutorials/multiple-public-ips-one-router-using-100375.html> |
98,919 | Below is my home network topology. I currently have 5 static IP addresses, 3 of which are in use by 3 routers. These routers in-turn subnet internal networks and port forward. I use my SSL VPN appliance to remote home from work or on the road. At this point I can remotely administer my Windows Server. I know the networ... | 2010/01/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/98919",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/30611/"
] | If you simplify your configuration to the following Modem -> DDWRT -> Optional switch if the DDWRT doesn't have enough ports -> Servers/Clients. You should be able to setup you configuration such that the DDWRT router is listening on all of the public IP's and forwarding to the correct host using iptables.
Sorry, I ca... | You can also consider getting a DrayTek 2950 or 2820N Model, they have dual WAN Ports (so you can plugin two physical internet connections)
They can have multiple Public IP Address bound to each Wan Interface, very easy to use and provides tons of features.
www.draytek.us
www.draytek.co.uk
<http://www.draytek.co.uk... |
54,894 | Is there any way to add more than 10 locations to Google maps (by becoming a premium user or other paid services)? Or is a default for all users ? | 2014/01/23 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/54894",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/57581/"
] | Ten destination points is currently the maximum for multiple-destination driving directions. There is no premium option and currently no way to get around this limit. | Yes, this is possible but only in the old Google maps. |
54,894 | Is there any way to add more than 10 locations to Google maps (by becoming a premium user or other paid services)? Or is a default for all users ? | 2014/01/23 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/54894",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/57581/"
] | You may simply concatenate destinations in the URL.
For instance my original 10 destinations may be like this...
<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bridgewater+Pet+Boarding,+7596+Austin+Rd,+Saline,+MI+48176/Saline,+MI/Milan,+MI/Britton,+MI/Tecumseh,+MI/Decker+%26+Sons+Insurance+Inc,+265+S+Main+St,+Onsted,+MI+49265/Jacks... | Ten destination points is currently the maximum for multiple-destination driving directions. There is no premium option and currently no way to get around this limit. |
54,894 | Is there any way to add more than 10 locations to Google maps (by becoming a premium user or other paid services)? Or is a default for all users ? | 2014/01/23 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/54894",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/57581/"
] | You are using the "better" version of Google Maps. It is possible to switch to [the old version](https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3045828?hl=en). Follow the link provided or search for
>
> Switch back to the classic version of Maps
>
>
>
You can also try an alternative solution such as:
* [OSRM](http://ma... | Ten destination points is currently the maximum for multiple-destination driving directions. There is no premium option and currently no way to get around this limit. |
54,894 | Is there any way to add more than 10 locations to Google maps (by becoming a premium user or other paid services)? Or is a default for all users ? | 2014/01/23 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/54894",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/57581/"
] | You may simply concatenate destinations in the URL.
For instance my original 10 destinations may be like this...
<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bridgewater+Pet+Boarding,+7596+Austin+Rd,+Saline,+MI+48176/Saline,+MI/Milan,+MI/Britton,+MI/Tecumseh,+MI/Decker+%26+Sons+Insurance+Inc,+265+S+Main+St,+Onsted,+MI+49265/Jacks... | Yes, this is possible but only in the old Google maps. |
54,894 | Is there any way to add more than 10 locations to Google maps (by becoming a premium user or other paid services)? Or is a default for all users ? | 2014/01/23 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/54894",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/57581/"
] | You are using the "better" version of Google Maps. It is possible to switch to [the old version](https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3045828?hl=en). Follow the link provided or search for
>
> Switch back to the classic version of Maps
>
>
>
You can also try an alternative solution such as:
* [OSRM](http://ma... | Yes, this is possible but only in the old Google maps. |
54,894 | Is there any way to add more than 10 locations to Google maps (by becoming a premium user or other paid services)? Or is a default for all users ? | 2014/01/23 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/54894",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/57581/"
] | You may simply concatenate destinations in the URL.
For instance my original 10 destinations may be like this...
<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bridgewater+Pet+Boarding,+7596+Austin+Rd,+Saline,+MI+48176/Saline,+MI/Milan,+MI/Britton,+MI/Tecumseh,+MI/Decker+%26+Sons+Insurance+Inc,+265+S+Main+St,+Onsted,+MI+49265/Jacks... | You are using the "better" version of Google Maps. It is possible to switch to [the old version](https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3045828?hl=en). Follow the link provided or search for
>
> Switch back to the classic version of Maps
>
>
>
You can also try an alternative solution such as:
* [OSRM](http://ma... |
21,545,468 | I want to know the different techniques that are used for performing arithmetic operations on very large integers in C. One that I know of is using string to hold a number and define operations add, subtract etc. for it. I am not interested in using libraries, this question is purely for knowledge. Please suggest any o... | 2014/02/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/21545468",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2136312/"
] | You can go as low level as representing your integers as an array of bytes, and do all the operations (like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division or comparison) just like a CPU does them, at word level.
The simplest algorithms are for addition and subtraction, where you simply add or subtract the digits in s... | You could use 3 linked lists, one for number A, one for number B and one for the result.
You would then read each digit as a character input from the user, make it an integer and and save it to a new node in the list, corresponding to the number you read at the moment.
And Finally you would just write as functions th... |
98,062 | I am trying to create a virtual 3D chat room based on character interaction (just like in Sims2), so I have added a collider on the "user's in-game character". The problem is that when I enable the box collider, the character movement looks like it's freaking out (the character is seen as if it is moving fast from left... | 2015/04/08 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/98062",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/63771/"
] | One method you could use is to subdivide the line into segments and do a vector dot product between each vector that represents the segment and a vector representing a straight line between the first and last point. This has the benefit of letting you find extremely "spiky" segments easily.
Edit:
Also, I would consid... | Somehow referring to MSalters Answer, here is some more specific information.
Use the least squares method to fit a line for your points. You are basically looking for a function y=f(x) which fits best. Once you have it you can use the actual y values to sum the square of differences:
s = sum over ( (y-f(x))^2 )
Th... |
74,407 | I've posted a problem twice, asking for help, and I've yet to have anyone respond? What gives? | 2011/01/09 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/74407",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | As @Saladin says in his comment, patience is a virtue, and getting a problem solved on SO for free is still a privilege, not a right. If you want guaranteed answers, hire somebody.
Also, the two questions you complain about are *way* too broad, and reek of "please debug my incredibly complex jQuery animation thingadon... | Seriously?
Have you ever thought about the possibility that no one that saw your question was able to answer it? Have you thought about "not posting the same question twice"? (It often stops people from helping spammers). Take a look at your accept rate.. 39% isn't very encouraging to take a serious look into your ques... |
74,407 | I've posted a problem twice, asking for help, and I've yet to have anyone respond? What gives? | 2011/01/09 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/74407",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | As @Saladin says in his comment, patience is a virtue, and getting a problem solved on SO for free is still a privilege, not a right. If you want guaranteed answers, hire somebody.
Also, the two questions you complain about are *way* too broad, and reek of "please debug my incredibly complex jQuery animation thingadon... | **None.**
Impossibility indicates 0% probability. Each time a question gets a view, there is a chance that it will be answered. There are no questions that go over two hours without getting a view. Every view gives the possibility of an answer, views are virtually guaranteed for any question. Therefore, there is no ti... |
6,225 | I'm thinking about replacing an iPhone with Android device, but before I do that I'd like to know which versions of Android support multiple Exchange accounts? Are all main features (Mail/Calendar/Contacts) supported when several accounts are set up? | 2011/02/21 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/6225",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/3046/"
] | From Android 2.0 Exchange support was added and this included multiple exchange accounts.
<http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html>
The highlights there mention "Handset manufacturers can choose whether to include Exchange support in their devices." But all the the higher end devises (Galaxy S, Ne... | Yes, at least on 2.1+. I do have the Samung TouchWiz UI though, and the email app is subtly different. I would expect it to be the same in this regard however. Note that the Email app is terrible, though, and may not otherwise behave how you want. I recommend a third-party app or forwarding your email to Gmail. |
1,335 | In John 3:5, Jesus says that we must be "born of water and the Spirit".
>
> Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is **born of water and the Spirit** he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. [John 3:5 (NASB)](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%203:5&version=NASB)
>
>
>
In English, ... | 2012/03/14 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/1335",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι ἐὰν μή τις γεννηθῇ ἐξ *ὕδατος*
> **καὶ** *πνεύματος* οὐ δύναται εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ
>
>
>
It honestly requires some interpretation which means that, ultimately theology will come into play as one selects a translation.
It could be a [hendiadys](http://en.wik... | The Greek for the passage in question goes like so:
>
> [John 3:5](http://esv.to/John3.5)
>
> γεννηθη εξ υδατος και πνευματος
>
> born of water and spirit
>
>
>
The grammatical construct used in 3:5 is fairly rare in Johannine literature. Below are probably the best parallels (but also see John 1:14 and 2... |
1,335 | In John 3:5, Jesus says that we must be "born of water and the Spirit".
>
> Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is **born of water and the Spirit** he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. [John 3:5 (NASB)](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%203:5&version=NASB)
>
>
>
In English, ... | 2012/03/14 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/1335",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι ἐὰν μή τις γεννηθῇ ἐξ *ὕδατος*
> **καὶ** *πνεύματος* οὐ δύναται εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ
>
>
>
It honestly requires some interpretation which means that, ultimately theology will come into play as one selects a translation.
It could be a [hendiadys](http://en.wik... | This answer agrees with Soldarnal's, but I think this is an even stronger argument. The context of the whole discussion is that he is talking about regeneration; he is telling Nicodemus that even though he knows the Scriptures inside and out, he has to have a radical supernatural change before he will understand. Too o... |
5,477,031 | I am trying to develop a online software with PHP/MySQL. I need a good **login class/script**. I am gonna adapt it to my software.
By the way, I found **http://usercake.com/**.
What do you know about that? | 2011/03/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5477031",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/272478/"
] | I'm not sure if it is what you looking for but have a look at phpMyAdmin.
It is a tool for mySql to manage databases, table, user, and data of a mySql installation.
It is a php written webfrontend.
<http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php> | This may be overkill for your needs, but we use [DbVisualizer](http://www.dbvis.com/) to manipulate our databases. |
5,477,031 | I am trying to develop a online software with PHP/MySQL. I need a good **login class/script**. I am gonna adapt it to my software.
By the way, I found **http://usercake.com/**.
What do you know about that? | 2011/03/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5477031",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/272478/"
] | I'm not sure if it is what you looking for but have a look at phpMyAdmin.
It is a tool for mySql to manage databases, table, user, and data of a mySql installation.
It is a php written webfrontend.
<http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php> | I have made a tutorial that shows you how to install phpMyAdmin on your server. The designer mode makes it simple to manage your database and it runs in your browser. This tutorial shows you how <http://havenofcode.com/tutorial.php?tut=9>. |
10,706 | I've just seen a question regarding sound conform for films, but it mostly seems to relate to people who have the budget for fancy software, and who are dealing with editors nice enough to provide fancy things like EDLs!
I'm still pretty new to the field but I've done quite a few short films now and directors seem to ... | 2011/10/05 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/10706",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/1106/"
] | First off, the director doesn't know what he/she is doing if they're providing you 4 "final" edits. The most any director should provide is 2 (i.e. festival/feature cut and television/broadcast cut), and those are never simultaneous. In my experience, one is always completed and output before the other.
You've also be... | Definitely don't grin and bear it. I think this is where managing clients' expectations comes in. The client needs to understand that reconforming takes up your time, especially when they don't even want to provide an edit change list! If it's an unpaid gig, it might be an idea to tell them that they can only submit on... |
10,706 | I've just seen a question regarding sound conform for films, but it mostly seems to relate to people who have the budget for fancy software, and who are dealing with editors nice enough to provide fancy things like EDLs!
I'm still pretty new to the field but I've done quite a few short films now and directors seem to ... | 2011/10/05 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/10706",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/1106/"
] | First off, the director doesn't know what he/she is doing if they're providing you 4 "final" edits. The most any director should provide is 2 (i.e. festival/feature cut and television/broadcast cut), and those are never simultaneous. In my experience, one is always completed and output before the other.
You've also be... | On a side-note to Shaun's post, if you're using Nuendo and cannot go the EDL route, there is a very useful alignment tool which will align any region to another. If you get the omf for the new cut, manually re-syncing becomes much, much easier. As Shaun said, you can load the new omf into your existing session and re-a... |
355,864 | So, I'm writing a paper on the rise of communism in China. At one point I write the following:
>
> "Today, it is well known that communism is responsible for more deaths than even national socialism."
>
>
>
Then, Word corrects it by capitalizing "*National Socialism.*"
Is it always meant to be capitalized? I am... | 2016/10/28 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/355864",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/203310/"
] | Hmm, I wouldn't normally capitalize it. We don't capitalize names of political ideologies in general. We write "Political ideologies we will discuss in this chapter include capitalism, communism, socialism, national socialism, democracy, dictatorship, and aristocracy." Not "... Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, Nationa... | I believe that if you are talking about it as a political ideology that it would be perfectly in order for it not to be capitalised - ***national socialism***. Similarly one would speak about ***communism*** or ***conservatism***. After all a political ideology is merely an abstract noun in the same way that an academi... |
2,746,289 | I am building a web application, in Java, where i want the whole screenshot of the webpage, if i give the URL of the webpage as input.
The basic idea i have is to capture the display buffer of the rendering component..I have no idea of how to do it..
plz help.. | 2010/04/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2746289",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/329943/"
] | Have you looked into using [Less CSS](http://lesscss.org/) or [SASS](http://sass-lang.com/)? | There's no native CSS way, but you could use something like [LESS](http://lesscss.org/) which will allow you to write it like that and compile it into real CSS.
There's [HSS](http://ncannasse.fr/projects/hss) too, which also supports nested rules like the ones you specified. |
14,329 | Whats the best way to present a list form to users? We are just starting to convert some of our dead-tree documents into SharePoint forms and workflows. What is the best way to present these forms without making users click *Add New Form*? Many people who have no SharePoint experience do no realize the little link unde... | 2011/06/10 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/14329",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/2470/"
] | Some things I've done in the past are:
* Making a link list dedicated as the central new form list, one click access to enter any form
* Created several buttons that link to the new forms
* In some custom dashboards, I've used jQuery and Lytebox techniques to open forms in modal windows (in Sharepoint 2007) | InfoPath forms are pretty powerful, and can be used for stand-alone forms published to form libraries, or customized as list view forms. If you don't want to depend on InfoPath, you can always customize list views with SharePoint Designer, the out of box WebParts like the XsltListViewWebPart and some custom XSLT, or yo... |
472,525 | I am having a tough time wrapping my head around this question.
I am well aware of the benefits of using a twisted pair for signal wires: the cancellation of common mode noise coupled onto the wires, and the cancellation of radiated noise from the loops when there are changing currents through the wires.
Now, we have... | 2019/12/19 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/472525",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
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] | I assume you want the fast rise time to appear at the load on the end of the long cables. Or you have a high di/dt load and you want to minimize the voltage dip at the load. In that case twisting the cables may help. The magnetic fields of close conductors carrying opposite currents will tend to cancel, reducing the in... | Cable impedance depends on the sq.rt. of L/C ratio while C depends on gap between conductors and increases about 1pF per twist. But Inductance increases at a lower rate so impedance only drops 50% or so unless they were very loose to begin with.
If the load has any capacitance then the step voltage load impedance beco... |
887,402 | My brother thought it would be cute if he locked me out of my local account on windows 8.1 with a new password, and yet when the joke ran out he realized he had forgotten what he changed my password to. I can't seem to access the system restore menu during startup (tried pressing f12 multiple times with no result). I d... | 2015/03/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/887402",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/426283/"
] | I do it manually:
cmd as administrator - dir c:\ /s >files-before.txt
regedit - file - export - all - registry-before.txt
install,
make files/registry-after.txt
and check differences in kdiff3 | Try looking at [System Explorer](http://systemexplorer.net/).
You can create a system snapshot, install your software, then take another snapshot and compare the two.
You can also save as a text file. |
887,402 | My brother thought it would be cute if he locked me out of my local account on windows 8.1 with a new password, and yet when the joke ran out he realized he had forgotten what he changed my password to. I can't seem to access the system restore menu during startup (tried pressing f12 multiple times with no result). I d... | 2015/03/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/887402",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/426283/"
] | Try looking at [System Explorer](http://systemexplorer.net/).
You can create a system snapshot, install your software, then take another snapshot and compare the two.
You can also save as a text file. | I use [Total Uninstall](https://www.martau.com/). It's not free, but if you run it before you install a program and then again afterwards or use it to start the installation program, then it will generate a report showing all of the registry and file changes that have been made to the system during the installation of ... |
887,402 | My brother thought it would be cute if he locked me out of my local account on windows 8.1 with a new password, and yet when the joke ran out he realized he had forgotten what he changed my password to. I can't seem to access the system restore menu during startup (tried pressing f12 multiple times with no result). I d... | 2015/03/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/887402",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/426283/"
] | I do it manually:
cmd as administrator - dir c:\ /s >files-before.txt
regedit - file - export - all - registry-before.txt
install,
make files/registry-after.txt
and check differences in kdiff3 | I use [Total Uninstall](https://www.martau.com/). It's not free, but if you run it before you install a program and then again afterwards or use it to start the installation program, then it will generate a report showing all of the registry and file changes that have been made to the system during the installation of ... |
3,596,281 | What is the best way to make password/logon screen? Iread somewhere that it is better to use a popup control. If so where exactly do I need to create it, in App.xaml? | 2010/08/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3596281",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/188862/"
] | There are number of things you need to consider while implementing a login screen for your Windows Phone 7 application. [Here is a sample](http://babaandthepigman.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4F1B7368284539E5!220.entry) that can give you an idea of how to get started, if you haven't. One of the important aspects of a login... | Regarding implementation of a popup, I posted a simple example in the Answer linked below which you can check out. In this case it implements a context menu.. you can populate the popup with whichever contents make sense for your login screen.
<http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsphone7series/thread/e... |
3,119 | I haven't used project gamification so asking from a newby perspective.
I am interested in understanding how you manage and sustain this process **over time**:
* how do you measure the success and benefits of gamification throughout the project?
* is it common to have a surge of interest at the beginning and then see... | 2011/08/15 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/3119",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/1722/"
] | I think only you know the answer to that based on your team make up and dynamics. I am loathe to introduce any practice that I'm not prepared to sustain. It makes introducing future practices (ones that I **am** prepared to practice long term) that much harder as teams have long memories.
You also have to be careful a... | If you say you measure gamification...what kind of gamification did you try?
I try find also some answers in this area: [Gamification and Daily Scrum - anybody ever tried sth like this?](https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/13991/gamification-and-daily-scrum-anybody-ever-tried-sth-like-this).
Regarding measurement..... |
3,119 | I haven't used project gamification so asking from a newby perspective.
I am interested in understanding how you manage and sustain this process **over time**:
* how do you measure the success and benefits of gamification throughout the project?
* is it common to have a surge of interest at the beginning and then see... | 2011/08/15 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/3119",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/1722/"
] | We have some projects using [GetBadges](http://getbadg.es) for more than a year (disclaimer: I'm co-founder of GetBadges).
The trick is to moderate your game accordingly and introduce some twist over time. If you base your gamification on human interactions and behaviours instead of 'game mechanics' like leaderboards... | If you say you measure gamification...what kind of gamification did you try?
I try find also some answers in this area: [Gamification and Daily Scrum - anybody ever tried sth like this?](https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/13991/gamification-and-daily-scrum-anybody-ever-tried-sth-like-this).
Regarding measurement..... |
94,884 | I have a 2x4 that is 86 inches long which needs to be cut so that one end is 2 inches and the opposite end 1.75 inches. How do I figure the angle of the cut? Could you please give me the step by step process of figuring this? To tell me to subtract one side from another and apply the law of sines to the result will not... | 2016/07/22 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/94884",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/56720/"
] | If I understand correctly, you have a triangle with one side of 2" and another side of 1.75".
The first thing you want to do is find the hypotenuse. Use the Pythagorean theorem.
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
2^2 + 1.75^2 = c^2
4 + 3.0625 = c^2
sqrt(7.0625) = c
2.65 = c
Next we will use **arcsin** or **arccos** to fi... | Since it seems like you're working with an existing space [these](https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A228013%2Ck%3Aangle%20finder%20tool) work wonders if you're looking for an angle... but you're not, you're looking for an edge length.
What actually needs is a straight ruler. Place it on the edge of the 2x4... |
94,884 | I have a 2x4 that is 86 inches long which needs to be cut so that one end is 2 inches and the opposite end 1.75 inches. How do I figure the angle of the cut? Could you please give me the step by step process of figuring this? To tell me to subtract one side from another and apply the law of sines to the result will not... | 2016/07/22 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/94884",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/56720/"
] | The wedge being ripped off is 86" long and has a slope of 0.25", right?
If so then, the answer is 0.167° based on [this online calculator](http://www.calculator.net/triangle-calculator.html?vc=&vx=0.25&vy=&va=90&vz=86&vb=&angleunits=d&x=58&y=8).
[](h... | Since it seems like you're working with an existing space [these](https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A228013%2Ck%3Aangle%20finder%20tool) work wonders if you're looking for an angle... but you're not, you're looking for an edge length.
What actually needs is a straight ruler. Place it on the edge of the 2x4... |
3,582 | OK, now that I've posted the actual questions, I've deleted all the meta explanation.
Was it correct to split this question into two seperate questions for 1 and 2?
[World where everyone can know what everyone is thinking](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41816/world-where-everyone-can-know-what-ever... | 2016/05/19 | [
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3582",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/users/18252/"
] | Imho:
The worlds are going to develop very differently in those two scenarios, so I'd say it would be better to post two separate questions. Otherwise, at the very least, it would difficult to pick the best answer - what if someone gives an awesome answer for #1, but ignores #2?
For the convenience, you could mention... | I disagree. This sets a dangerous precedent. People suddenly will begin to branch out questions into several sub-questions where only some nuance of the main issue changes. The big-picture question is never asked, and there are several splits of the answers. people answer one of them, and the other go without attention... |
3,582 | OK, now that I've posted the actual questions, I've deleted all the meta explanation.
Was it correct to split this question into two seperate questions for 1 and 2?
[World where everyone can know what everyone is thinking](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41816/world-where-everyone-can-know-what-ever... | 2016/05/19 | [
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3582",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/users/18252/"
] | Imho:
The worlds are going to develop very differently in those two scenarios, so I'd say it would be better to post two separate questions. Otherwise, at the very least, it would difficult to pick the best answer - what if someone gives an awesome answer for #1, but ignores #2?
For the convenience, you could mention... | I remember the confusion with the 40mph runners, where we weren't sure whether it was an evolved trait or a suddenly given one as the responses would be completely different in each case. One government regulation and the other evolved social dynamics. I feel the same is true here and the two cases should be held clear... |
3,582 | OK, now that I've posted the actual questions, I've deleted all the meta explanation.
Was it correct to split this question into two seperate questions for 1 and 2?
[World where everyone can know what everyone is thinking](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41816/world-where-everyone-can-know-what-ever... | 2016/05/19 | [
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3582",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/users/18252/"
] | Imho:
The worlds are going to develop very differently in those two scenarios, so I'd say it would be better to post two separate questions. Otherwise, at the very least, it would difficult to pick the best answer - what if someone gives an awesome answer for #1, but ignores #2?
For the convenience, you could mention... | The mods solved this problem by putting #1 on hold as too broad. I guess I agree with their decision, as I was indirectly asking for the history and evolution of the culture of an entire species. I suppose if I had asked both questions in one, then that might have been too broad as well, since it would have included th... |
3,582 | OK, now that I've posted the actual questions, I've deleted all the meta explanation.
Was it correct to split this question into two seperate questions for 1 and 2?
[World where everyone can know what everyone is thinking](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41816/world-where-everyone-can-know-what-ever... | 2016/05/19 | [
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3582",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/users/18252/"
] | I remember the confusion with the 40mph runners, where we weren't sure whether it was an evolved trait or a suddenly given one as the responses would be completely different in each case. One government regulation and the other evolved social dynamics. I feel the same is true here and the two cases should be held clear... | I disagree. This sets a dangerous precedent. People suddenly will begin to branch out questions into several sub-questions where only some nuance of the main issue changes. The big-picture question is never asked, and there are several splits of the answers. people answer one of them, and the other go without attention... |
3,582 | OK, now that I've posted the actual questions, I've deleted all the meta explanation.
Was it correct to split this question into two seperate questions for 1 and 2?
[World where everyone can know what everyone is thinking](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41816/world-where-everyone-can-know-what-ever... | 2016/05/19 | [
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3582",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/users/18252/"
] | The mods solved this problem by putting #1 on hold as too broad. I guess I agree with their decision, as I was indirectly asking for the history and evolution of the culture of an entire species. I suppose if I had asked both questions in one, then that might have been too broad as well, since it would have included th... | I disagree. This sets a dangerous precedent. People suddenly will begin to branch out questions into several sub-questions where only some nuance of the main issue changes. The big-picture question is never asked, and there are several splits of the answers. people answer one of them, and the other go without attention... |
3,582 | OK, now that I've posted the actual questions, I've deleted all the meta explanation.
Was it correct to split this question into two seperate questions for 1 and 2?
[World where everyone can know what everyone is thinking](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41816/world-where-everyone-can-know-what-ever... | 2016/05/19 | [
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3582",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/users/18252/"
] | I remember the confusion with the 40mph runners, where we weren't sure whether it was an evolved trait or a suddenly given one as the responses would be completely different in each case. One government regulation and the other evolved social dynamics. I feel the same is true here and the two cases should be held clear... | The mods solved this problem by putting #1 on hold as too broad. I guess I agree with their decision, as I was indirectly asking for the history and evolution of the culture of an entire species. I suppose if I had asked both questions in one, then that might have been too broad as well, since it would have included th... |
148,952 | I want to migrate to lightning experience, and I don't see the "Log in to Portal as user" button in my lightning contact layout.
If I view the contact layout in classic Salesforce, I can see and manage the button:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qBVjP... | 2016/11/16 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/148952",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/33798/"
] | **Update:** This has been available since the [Winter '18 release](https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/winter18/release-notes/rn_networks_manage_external_users_lex.htm)
This feature is currently unavailable in Lightning UX:
<https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/winter16/release-notes/lex_gaps_limi... | This feature is now available after the Winter '18 release. Go Lightning! |
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