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546,019 | A. She is likely/sure/certain to start her new project.
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> She may start her new project.
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Are the senses and the roles of the to inf. the same as 'start her new project' of 'may', complementing the (modal) verbs and indicating the action of the subject? Do we speak them in the same sense? If we classify the main verb of modal verbs ad the complement of the modal verbs, do we also classify the inf. above as the complements of the 'be + adj.'s? Or is the to-inf. just an object?
B. I'm dying/willing/curious/anxious/eager to eat that cake.
I'm dying/willing/curious/anxious/eager for that cake.
Do we speak the to inf.s above in the same sense as the 'for~'s? Do they mean
the same, expressing the subject's wish, desire, or plan as adverbials?
C. I hoped for some money./I hoped to take the train.
I begged for more candy./I begged to go to the movies.
I longed for an A./I long to get an A.
I volunteered for the job./I volunteered to help the kids.
I was aiming for the trophy./I was aiming to receive the trophy.
Do these to inf. express desire/intention as adverbials, same as the 'for+N's? Or, are they just objects? | 2020/09/07 | [
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] | Though you're correct that many of the pairs you've provided are similar semantically, you've confused the functions complement, object, and adjunct(traditional grammar's 'adverbial').
First off, you'll want to get form and function separated. The form of dependent clauses, and phrases, is determined by their internal structure: NPs are headed by nouns and allow a certain range of dependents; *to*-infinitival clauses are headed by a verb in plain form and allow a range of dependents different from those found in an NP. So, a *to*-infinitival clause will never be an NP, but it may appear in the same functional category in a larger structure.
Then, you can start to look at the function of these dependent clauses and phrases in clause or phrase structure.
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> She - is - **likely [to - start - her new project]**
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> Subject - predicator - **predicative complement**
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> II
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> She - may - **[start - her new project]**
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> Subject - predicator - **catenative complement**
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In I, *to start her new project* is a *to*-infinitival clause functioning as dependent (specifically a complement) in the adjective phrase headed by *likely*. It is a complement because it is allowed only by *likely* and other adjectives allowing a *to*-infinitival clause as complement, not by adjectives in general: \**dry to start her new project*.
In II, *start her new project* is a plain infinitival clause functioning as direct dependent (specifically a complement) of the predicator *may*. The specific type of complement is a catenative complement. These are non-finite (plain infinitival, *to*-infinitival, gerund-participial, or past participial) clauses specifically allowed by the verb acting as predicator.
It is necessary to note here that the *to*-infinitivals in your examples are not adjuncts, but in fact complements in AdjPs in A and B, and catenative complements in C. This becomes clear when we note that *in order* may not be inserted while keeping the same meaning,
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> ?I'm willing **in order to** eat that cake. (Willing to do what?)
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> I'm dying **in order to** eat that cake. (How terrible!)
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> etc.
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> \*I hoped **in order** to go to the movies.
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> I begged **in order** to go to the movies. (What did you beg for/to do?)
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> \*I long **in order** to get an A.
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> I volunteered **in order** to help the kids. (What did you volunteer
> for/as/to do?)
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> I was aiming **in order** to receive the trophy. (What were you aiming
> at/to do?)
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Though there is some overlap between verbs that allow different sorts of complement - object, catenative complement, predicative complement - the complements themselves are best viewed as distinct categories each allowed by a specific set of verbs. For example, what follows *get* in the each of the sentences below is a distinct sort of complement:
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> Mark - got - **a dog** [object]
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> Mark - got - **excited to go one the trip**. [predicative complement]
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> Mark - got - **me** - **a dog** [indirect object - direct object]
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> Mark - got - **chosen as goalie** [catenative complement(past
> participial clause)]
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> Mark - got - **to go first** [catenative complement(*to*-infinitival
> clause)]
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> Mark - got - **me** - **to go first** [object - catenative
> complement(*to*-infinitival clause)]
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Though *get* allows these constructions, if we pick another verb that allows the first, say *sniff*, we'll quickly see that the others are not allowed.
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> Mark - sniffed - **a dog** [object]
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> \*Mark - sniffed - **excited to go on the trip**. [predicative complement]
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> \*Mark - sniffed - **me** - **a dog** [indirect object - direct object]
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> \*Mark - sniffed - **chosen as goalie** [catenative complement(past
> participial clause)]
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> \*Mark - sniffed - **to go first** [catenative complement(*to*-infinitival
> clause)]
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> \*Mark - sniffed - **me** - **to go first** [object - catenative
> complement(*to*-infinitival clause)]
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Though the last two could be understood as adjunct of purpose in some strange context, they are not understood in a sense similar to the catenative complement examples with *get*.
Long story short, yes all of the pairs you provided have similar meanings, no their structures cannot be analyzed as equivalent. | hope/willingness/reluctance/anxiety/attempt + to-V
I see that this to-V is a noun complement, since the nouns' adj./v. forms take their noun complements. But...
1. opportunity/chance(s)/possibility/capacity/power + for N/to-V
Is the to-V of opportunity/../power an adjective clause that tells us what the nouns are for?
2. 'effort' + to-V/for N
Is the to-V of 'effort' an adjective clause that tells us the intention of the agent of 'effort'?
3. tendency+ to-V (which is the verbal complement of 'tend')
Is the to-V of 'tendency' not a noun phrase but just a verbal complement?
4. obligation/duty/responsibility + to-V
Is the to-V of obligation/duty/responsibility an adjective phrase that shows the fixed necessity of the agent's action?
My diagnoses of 1., 2., and 4. are on the ground that there are the usages of to infinitives as adjective phrases or adverbials that show the meanings but in just a slightly different way.
Sorry for bothering you so much, sir, but I'm having a hard time studying and diagnosing these to-Vs. There are no textbooks for learners' giving the information. (well, at least of the ones in South Korea.) I'm very thankful for your help. |
19,166 | When they use the replicators on the Enterprise, does the bulk matter being processed give a 1 to 1 return or is some of the material lost? | 2012/06/26 | [
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] | I haven't been able to find anything more definitive than this:
Source: *[Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (ISBN 0-671-70427-3)](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0671704273)*
Much of this answer is paraphrase the contents of several pages into a few paragraphs. *Please forgive the lack of actual quotes. This answer is long enough as it is.*
---
The Replicators are based on Transporter technology, with only one significant difference: Transporters use the quantum scanners to scan objects to "read" the patterns as part of the transport sequence. Replicators, instead, use patterns stored in memory in the computer system. Otherwise, the systems are identical. (Pages 90-91)
It's important to note that living beings are scanned in a Transporter at a Quantum level, but materials can be scanned at a lower resolution for energy savings. The reason living beings need to be scanned at the quantum resolution is that failure to do so introduces more "errors" - an imperfect reassembly of matter at the end of the transport cycle. These small errors would add up over time, causing noticeable physical effects on living tissue.
Armed with this knowledge, logic dictates that there is no loss of matter as part of the process itself.
Given the absolutely miniscule margin for errors in transporters, ***any*** loss of matter would, over repeated transports, cause symptoms. Scrambled DNA, cellular damage, etc. It stands to reason that ***with transporters, there can be no loss of matter without serious consequences***.
Taking the next step, since replicators are simply transporters with stored patterns in place of the scanning/imaging array, there is also likely no loss in matter. The components are all the same *except for the source of the patterns*.
The different source of the patterns may affect how accurately a pattern is recreated. A quantum scan has more bits than a finitely stored file in a computer, but it is the transmission/matter assembly components that are responsible for grabbing the correct amount of source matter and reassembling it into the final product.
***Since these are the same components in both systems, it stands to reason that food replicators, like transporters, reassemble 100% 0f the matter that they consume, with no loss in the process.*** | According to [this article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_%28Star_Trek%29) on the replicator, it works by reassembeling subatomic particles into whatever is needed. According to the [Laws of Conservation](http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Chemistry/Generalchemistry/Energy/LawofConservation/LawofConservation.htm),
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> Law of Conservation of Matter: During an ordinary chemical change, there is no detectable increase or decrease in the quantity of matter.
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So in Theory the only thing expended during the replication process is energy. The matter made had to come from somewhere, but there is no way any of the matter would be lost in the process. |
19,166 | When they use the replicators on the Enterprise, does the bulk matter being processed give a 1 to 1 return or is some of the material lost? | 2012/06/26 | [
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] | According to [this article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_%28Star_Trek%29) on the replicator, it works by reassembeling subatomic particles into whatever is needed. According to the [Laws of Conservation](http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Chemistry/Generalchemistry/Energy/LawofConservation/LawofConservation.htm),
>
> Law of Conservation of Matter: During an ordinary chemical change, there is no detectable increase or decrease in the quantity of matter.
>
>
>
So in Theory the only thing expended during the replication process is energy. The matter made had to come from somewhere, but there is no way any of the matter would be lost in the process. | In Section 13.5 page 153, in the food replication section of the ST:TNG Technical Manual, it mentions reprocessing of biological waste back into usable food is 82% efficient. That suggests a maximum of 18% of the input matter can be lost during replicator processing, otherwise the number would be closer to 100% instead of 82%.
Even taking into account losses to the atmosphere and water from CO2 and H20 metabolic products, a significant percentage seems to be lost based on this 82% figure.
One could easily build into the machinery the ability to reclaim mass from air and water, so I'm inclined to think that 82% food reclamation ability is a measure of the 18% mass lost during replicator processing.
(The real reason for the 82% figure is to give ST a reason to stop for food supplies. If the figure were 100%, barring energy usage, no starship with food replicators would ever have a story reason to run out of food and find supplies.) |
19,166 | When they use the replicators on the Enterprise, does the bulk matter being processed give a 1 to 1 return or is some of the material lost? | 2012/06/26 | [
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] | I haven't been able to find anything more definitive than this:
Source: *[Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (ISBN 0-671-70427-3)](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0671704273)*
Much of this answer is paraphrase the contents of several pages into a few paragraphs. *Please forgive the lack of actual quotes. This answer is long enough as it is.*
---
The Replicators are based on Transporter technology, with only one significant difference: Transporters use the quantum scanners to scan objects to "read" the patterns as part of the transport sequence. Replicators, instead, use patterns stored in memory in the computer system. Otherwise, the systems are identical. (Pages 90-91)
It's important to note that living beings are scanned in a Transporter at a Quantum level, but materials can be scanned at a lower resolution for energy savings. The reason living beings need to be scanned at the quantum resolution is that failure to do so introduces more "errors" - an imperfect reassembly of matter at the end of the transport cycle. These small errors would add up over time, causing noticeable physical effects on living tissue.
Armed with this knowledge, logic dictates that there is no loss of matter as part of the process itself.
Given the absolutely miniscule margin for errors in transporters, ***any*** loss of matter would, over repeated transports, cause symptoms. Scrambled DNA, cellular damage, etc. It stands to reason that ***with transporters, there can be no loss of matter without serious consequences***.
Taking the next step, since replicators are simply transporters with stored patterns in place of the scanning/imaging array, there is also likely no loss in matter. The components are all the same *except for the source of the patterns*.
The different source of the patterns may affect how accurately a pattern is recreated. A quantum scan has more bits than a finitely stored file in a computer, but it is the transmission/matter assembly components that are responsible for grabbing the correct amount of source matter and reassembling it into the final product.
***Since these are the same components in both systems, it stands to reason that food replicators, like transporters, reassemble 100% 0f the matter that they consume, with no loss in the process.*** | In Section 13.5 page 153, in the food replication section of the ST:TNG Technical Manual, it mentions reprocessing of biological waste back into usable food is 82% efficient. That suggests a maximum of 18% of the input matter can be lost during replicator processing, otherwise the number would be closer to 100% instead of 82%.
Even taking into account losses to the atmosphere and water from CO2 and H20 metabolic products, a significant percentage seems to be lost based on this 82% figure.
One could easily build into the machinery the ability to reclaim mass from air and water, so I'm inclined to think that 82% food reclamation ability is a measure of the 18% mass lost during replicator processing.
(The real reason for the 82% figure is to give ST a reason to stop for food supplies. If the figure were 100%, barring energy usage, no starship with food replicators would ever have a story reason to run out of food and find supplies.) |
134,928 | I'm a video editor working with large HD files. I am building a new computer and need some help. I will be running 2 hard drives. One with the operating system and all the programs. And one with all the project files I will be working from. I am keeping these seperate. I will be purchasing a 10k rpm hard drive. So i will have a 10k rpm drive, and a 7200rpm drive. Should I put the OS on the faster drive, or put my working files on the faster drive? | 2010/04/26 | [
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] | Unless you are concerned that you might not have enough RAM so will regularly be swapping to disk, I would suggest putting the project work on the faster drive. I expect you will notice a difference when working on large files with processes that are not CPU-bound. You are going to be reading/writing to your working media files a lot more than you will be requiring the machine to read program files (and related data) and write to log files on the system drive.
Also, use what space you have spare on the other drive for local backups, unless you already have such a backup arrangement. | If possible, and you have the cash, would it be feasible to install the operating system onto SSD drive, use that for your scratch drive and operating system and the files you are currently editing, then use the large drive for backup and storage. |
134,928 | I'm a video editor working with large HD files. I am building a new computer and need some help. I will be running 2 hard drives. One with the operating system and all the programs. And one with all the project files I will be working from. I am keeping these seperate. I will be purchasing a 10k rpm hard drive. So i will have a 10k rpm drive, and a 7200rpm drive. Should I put the OS on the faster drive, or put my working files on the faster drive? | 2010/04/26 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/134928",
"https://superuser.com",
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] | Unless you are concerned that you might not have enough RAM so will regularly be swapping to disk, I would suggest putting the project work on the faster drive. I expect you will notice a difference when working on large files with processes that are not CPU-bound. You are going to be reading/writing to your working media files a lot more than you will be requiring the machine to read program files (and related data) and write to log files on the system drive.
Also, use what space you have spare on the other drive for local backups, unless you already have such a backup arrangement. | Put your OS on the faster drive; as 7200RPM and 10kRPM isn't that much of a difference. **With all honesty you're being anal here about speed you wont even be able to notice.**
Also if the 10k is external then you're going to be wasting performance. |
134,928 | I'm a video editor working with large HD files. I am building a new computer and need some help. I will be running 2 hard drives. One with the operating system and all the programs. And one with all the project files I will be working from. I am keeping these seperate. I will be purchasing a 10k rpm hard drive. So i will have a 10k rpm drive, and a 7200rpm drive. Should I put the OS on the faster drive, or put my working files on the faster drive? | 2010/04/26 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/134928",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/35269/"
] | If possible, and you have the cash, would it be feasible to install the operating system onto SSD drive, use that for your scratch drive and operating system and the files you are currently editing, then use the large drive for backup and storage. | Put your OS on the faster drive; as 7200RPM and 10kRPM isn't that much of a difference. **With all honesty you're being anal here about speed you wont even be able to notice.**
Also if the 10k is external then you're going to be wasting performance. |
934,560 | I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that? | 2015/06/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/934560",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180832/"
] | Go to "View", select option "Draft" view, then it shows where you have "Section Break (Next Page)" - if your document does not have that then it will continue showing the same section, even if you select "Insert/page break". I think sometimes this function Insert/page break" gets stuck and keeps inserting "section break" instead of "page break".
I'Draft' view you can delete the "section break" and add "page break". This is the only thing that worked for me, and I started having these issues with MS 365, but not in prior versions. | Go into Header/Footer mode and see if "Link to Previous" is highlighted, per the following screenshot:
.
If so, deselect "Link to Previous" and see if that fixes it. |
934,560 | I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that? | 2015/06/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/934560",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180832/"
] | Whenever you delete a section break, the section before that break takes on the page layout of the section after that break. So when you delete that Continuous break the break before will always change to a Continuous break. You then just go into the page layout and change it back to Next Page. | Here’s what I do. Start on your last page. Take out the continuous Section break (csb). Insert Next Page break in its place. Back up to the next CSB And repeat this, working from the back page to the first page. I NEVER use CSB’s because of the issues you described. Note: you will have to go into each footer in each section and turn off the connection to previous footer if you want the footer to be different. The only time I would use a CSB is when using columns. |
934,560 | I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that? | 2015/06/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/934560",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180832/"
] | I know, this is very annoying! Instead of simply deleting the continuous page break, use the Layout/Page Setup/Layout box to change it to a next page break instead (or to insert a next page break AFTER it). Then you can delete it (them) without changing the ones above it. | Here’s what I do. Start on your last page. Take out the continuous Section break (csb). Insert Next Page break in its place. Back up to the next CSB And repeat this, working from the back page to the first page. I NEVER use CSB’s because of the issues you described. Note: you will have to go into each footer in each section and turn off the connection to previous footer if you want the footer to be different. The only time I would use a CSB is when using columns. |
934,560 | I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that? | 2015/06/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/934560",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180832/"
] | I know, this is very annoying! Instead of simply deleting the continuous page break, use the Layout/Page Setup/Layout box to change it to a next page break instead (or to insert a next page break AFTER it). Then you can delete it (them) without changing the ones above it. | If your document is in "compatibility mode" (it will say so at the top of the screen), to go File and select Convert (the top option just to the right of the list on the far left), then select OK. This is for Word 2016. |
934,560 | I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that? | 2015/06/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/934560",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180832/"
] | MS-Word solution has been there all along. Why it's buried here????
From: <https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/word-changing-a-section-breaks-type/>
1. Click inside the section you want to changed, i.e. BELOW the marker for the section break you want to change.
2. Go to the Page Layout tab.
3. Click the Launch icon dialog launcher at the bottom right of the Page Setup group to open the Page Setup dialog box. (little box with arrow)
4. Select the Layout tab.
5. Select the type of section break from the Section Start list, then click OK. The section changes immediately. | I know, this is very annoying! Instead of simply deleting the continuous page break, use the Layout/Page Setup/Layout box to change it to a next page break instead (or to insert a next page break AFTER it). Then you can delete it (them) without changing the ones above it. |
934,560 | I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that? | 2015/06/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/934560",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180832/"
] | MS-Word solution has been there all along. Why it's buried here????
From: <https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/word-changing-a-section-breaks-type/>
1. Click inside the section you want to changed, i.e. BELOW the marker for the section break you want to change.
2. Go to the Page Layout tab.
3. Click the Launch icon dialog launcher at the bottom right of the Page Setup group to open the Page Setup dialog box. (little box with arrow)
4. Select the Layout tab.
5. Select the type of section break from the Section Start list, then click OK. The section changes immediately. | If your document is in "compatibility mode" (it will say so at the top of the screen), to go File and select Convert (the top option just to the right of the list on the far left), then select OK. This is for Word 2016. |
934,560 | I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that? | 2015/06/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/934560",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180832/"
] | Go to "View", select option "Draft" view, then it shows where you have "Section Break (Next Page)" - if your document does not have that then it will continue showing the same section, even if you select "Insert/page break". I think sometimes this function Insert/page break" gets stuck and keeps inserting "section break" instead of "page break".
I'Draft' view you can delete the "section break" and add "page break". This is the only thing that worked for me, and I started having these issues with MS 365, but not in prior versions. | If your document is in "compatibility mode" (it will say so at the top of the screen), to go File and select Convert (the top option just to the right of the list on the far left), then select OK. This is for Word 2016. |
934,560 | I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that? | 2015/06/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/934560",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180832/"
] | MS-Word solution has been there all along. Why it's buried here????
From: <https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/word-changing-a-section-breaks-type/>
1. Click inside the section you want to changed, i.e. BELOW the marker for the section break you want to change.
2. Go to the Page Layout tab.
3. Click the Launch icon dialog launcher at the bottom right of the Page Setup group to open the Page Setup dialog box. (little box with arrow)
4. Select the Layout tab.
5. Select the type of section break from the Section Start list, then click OK. The section changes immediately. | Go into Header/Footer mode and see if "Link to Previous" is highlighted, per the following screenshot:
.
If so, deselect "Link to Previous" and see if that fixes it. |
934,560 | I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that? | 2015/06/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/934560",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180832/"
] | Go into Header/Footer mode and see if "Link to Previous" is highlighted, per the following screenshot:
.
If so, deselect "Link to Previous" and see if that fixes it. | If your document is in "compatibility mode" (it will say so at the top of the screen), to go File and select Convert (the top option just to the right of the list on the far left), then select OK. This is for Word 2016. |
934,560 | I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that? | 2015/06/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/934560",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/180832/"
] | Whenever you delete a section break, the section before that break takes on the page layout of the section after that break. So when you delete that Continuous break the break before will always change to a Continuous break. You then just go into the page layout and change it back to Next Page. | Go to "View", select option "Draft" view, then it shows where you have "Section Break (Next Page)" - if your document does not have that then it will continue showing the same section, even if you select "Insert/page break". I think sometimes this function Insert/page break" gets stuck and keeps inserting "section break" instead of "page break".
I'Draft' view you can delete the "section break" and add "page break". This is the only thing that worked for me, and I started having these issues with MS 365, but not in prior versions. |
463,256 | I would like to know the exact meaning of this phrase "**cut my legs out from under me**".
I've been searching for it everywhere, but until now I've only come across the definition of "cut the ground from under somebody's feet". And I know it is not the same. Though, I've heard on some TV shows people saying "cut my legs out from under me". | 2018/09/05 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/463256",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/315095/"
] | Merriam Webster's definition for [have one's legs/feet/knees cut out from under (one)](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/have%20one%27s%20legs/feet/knees%20cut%20out%20from%20under%20(one)) is as follows:
>
> be knocked down by something that hits one's legs very hard
>
>
> * When I learned that I was seriously ill, I felt as if my feet were cut out from under me.
>
>
> often used figuratively.
>
>
> * When the program lost the grant its financial legs had been cut out from under it.
>
>
>
According to MW's popularity index they list it as " Bottom 10% of words"
I can't say I've heard it before. While searching online I saw an equivalent French term "couper l'herbe sous le pied", and also saw more example sentences.
Two of the example sentences quoted below are of Canadian origin.
>
> * Organized crime has emerged as the number one threat to Canada's overall security, yet the government has cut the legs out from under Canada's security committee
> * "Having a national formulary as a defining component of a national pharmacare program," said Brian Ferguson, "would cut the legs out from under the provinces to make decisions about how they ration across different parts of their programs."
> ([sources for this quote](https://www.google.pt/search?ei=oAyQW5rWJsaesgGE84iQDA&q=Having%20a%20national%20formulary%20as%20a%20defining%20component%20of%20a%20national%20pharmacare%20program&oq=Having%20a%20national%20formulary%20as%20a%20defining%20component%20of%20a%20national%20pharmacare%20program&gs_l=psy-ab.3...194551.214320.0.215693.2.2.0.0.0.0.83.83.1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.0.0....0.OLeusFD5zb8))
>
>
>
Perhaps it's an expression that has transitioned from French Canadians to English Canadians?
Thinking about this further, I know an expression "to have your legs **kicked** out from under you" which would basically hold the same meaning as MW's definition above. | My Dad used to use the term in a manner with less outward accusation (not blaming another) of “my legs went out from under me”, I think he meant it in the sense of being utterly flabbergasted or staggered by what someone says. |
1,513,785 | I have created a form to login and password in java swing. I want this application automatically start when the system restart. Means if I restart my computer then my application must run. How to get this
Thanks
Sunil Kumar Sahoo | 2009/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1513785",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/111988/"
] | It depends on what OS you are on. For Windows, use the java equivalent of "RegCreateKeyEx" (<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724844(VS.85).aspx>) to add a key to "HKEY\_LOCAL\_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" that points to your application's location on the filesystem. On linux, depending on your desktop environment, there is usually a ".autostart" folder in your home folder where you can point to your application. You would need to look at specific distribution documentation to be certain though. I am unsure on how to do this on OSX, but a quick google search should tell you. | Make a shortcut to your application in the Startup group of the Start menu.
(There are other ways, eg. adding keys to the registry, but the great thing about the Startup group is that it's easy to make a shortcut there "by hand", and it's visible - you can see it and control it as an ordinary user.) |
95,831 | I've heard that it is possible to take an image on photo paper, either as a contact print or with a pinhole camera, and develop it by using a scanner rather than through the wet process. Does anyone have any experience with this? | 2018/01/12 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/95831",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/71490/"
] | Photo paper is ordinary paper coated with light sensitive chemical. These are crystals consisting of silver combined with iodine, or chlorine, or bromine. In their natural state they resemble table salt except the crystal are much smaller. When these crystals are exposed to light, the chemical bonds holding the crystal together weakens. Normally we only expose film or paper briefly to light. This feeble exposure weakens the chemical bond which remains and holds the crystal together. Once the film or photo has been exposed in this way, it is necessary to soak the exposed materials in a chemical called a developer. The job of the developer is to seek exposed crystals and completely terminate the bond. This action releases the metallic silver and washes away the other component. The now unbound metallic silver is opaque and thus appears black. This is typically the way we obtain a photographic image. Lastly, the film or paper is chemically treated to render the image permanent, then washed and dried.
The use of a chemical developer to do this deed can be skipped. If you can figure out how to expose the photo paper to an image using tons of light, the light sensitive silver crystals will self-reduce. Most papers are crystals of silver plus bromine. Now free bromine has a ruddy coloration. When tons of light play on the paper, opaque metallic silver is formed plus free bromine. An image thus forms on the paper. The combined silver and bromine blend to form a maroon coloration.
I don’t think it will be possible to use a scanner to cause photo paper to self-reduce. That’s OK because you can use readymade sunlight to do this deed. Place objects on photo paper under subdued light conditions. These can be coins, flowers, leaves or tracings on paper or photographic negatives. Best if you overlay with plate glass to keep this all flat. Now take your art work outside into the sunlight. In just a few minutes an image will naturally form. No chemical baths needed. You must admire your solar print hastily because it will soon fade by becoming uniformly maroon. To stop the fading we bath the paper in photographic fixer solution, then wash and dry. Solar printing was a viable way to make prints from negatives for many years in the history of photography. | If by scanner you mean an image scanner then no. At least not with conventionally exposed photographic paper (if you radically overexpose silver based papers you will get an image of sorts without development, but radically means many orders of magnitude more exposure than normal). Until you develop the paper (or film) there is no image to scan. In conventional development the silver halide coated photographic printing paper (and film) is converted into visible metallic silver in areas where it has been exposed to light. The developer is always in solution, so always wet. |
95,831 | I've heard that it is possible to take an image on photo paper, either as a contact print or with a pinhole camera, and develop it by using a scanner rather than through the wet process. Does anyone have any experience with this? | 2018/01/12 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/95831",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/71490/"
] | Photo paper is ordinary paper coated with light sensitive chemical. These are crystals consisting of silver combined with iodine, or chlorine, or bromine. In their natural state they resemble table salt except the crystal are much smaller. When these crystals are exposed to light, the chemical bonds holding the crystal together weakens. Normally we only expose film or paper briefly to light. This feeble exposure weakens the chemical bond which remains and holds the crystal together. Once the film or photo has been exposed in this way, it is necessary to soak the exposed materials in a chemical called a developer. The job of the developer is to seek exposed crystals and completely terminate the bond. This action releases the metallic silver and washes away the other component. The now unbound metallic silver is opaque and thus appears black. This is typically the way we obtain a photographic image. Lastly, the film or paper is chemically treated to render the image permanent, then washed and dried.
The use of a chemical developer to do this deed can be skipped. If you can figure out how to expose the photo paper to an image using tons of light, the light sensitive silver crystals will self-reduce. Most papers are crystals of silver plus bromine. Now free bromine has a ruddy coloration. When tons of light play on the paper, opaque metallic silver is formed plus free bromine. An image thus forms on the paper. The combined silver and bromine blend to form a maroon coloration.
I don’t think it will be possible to use a scanner to cause photo paper to self-reduce. That’s OK because you can use readymade sunlight to do this deed. Place objects on photo paper under subdued light conditions. These can be coins, flowers, leaves or tracings on paper or photographic negatives. Best if you overlay with plate glass to keep this all flat. Now take your art work outside into the sunlight. In just a few minutes an image will naturally form. No chemical baths needed. You must admire your solar print hastily because it will soon fade by becoming uniformly maroon. To stop the fading we bath the paper in photographic fixer solution, then wash and dry. Solar printing was a viable way to make prints from negatives for many years in the history of photography. | A scanner **can not** work as a substitute to film development, you still need wet process for that.
On the other hand it **can** work as a substitute to printing and enlarging.
When using this hybrid approach (in B&W at least; color is different) you need only a changing bag, a developing tank, a thermometer and a couple of beakers for chemicals. Your whole "darkroom" could easily fit in a small box or closet.
You do away with the enlarger, trays and drying racks, which together take *a lot* of space.
The end results are not quite like wet printed pictures, but for people who are used to the idea that photos should be in electronic format but still want to play the film game it makes good sense. |
6,503 | Is there a way to find all posts/comments I made in a given Facebook fanpage? | 2010/09/07 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6503",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/2264/"
] | There doesn't seem to be a way to do this at the time. Using Windows shortcuts is one possibility to make it as though the files are located in the same folders, however, it seems like it would get a bit complicated if there are a lot of folders.
There is a [feature request](https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/1876/exclude-files-above-max-size-limit) for this exact issue, which you can vote on.
Other features you may want to look for is the [ability to watch any folder](https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/11/watch-any-folder), which you might be able to use in conjunction with your file system to create a limited set of folders to sync. Another one that might help is [excluding certain file extensions](https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/2385/option-to-exclude-by-file-extension), this would help if all the large files are of the same type (e.g. .exe, .avi, etc.). | You could use junctions from sysinternals. Its like hard links for windows.
It works great for me. Just make a junction from a source folder inside dropbox to a target folder that is outside of dropbox. Despite what the dropbox support team says this method works. I got it going on a windows server right now.
mkdir Dropbox\folder-inside-dropbox
junction.exe Dropbox\folder-inside-dropbox\ C:\whatever\target-folder\you\want...\
<http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=60991&replies=3>
This will only partially work. You must restart dropbox to see new files. |
37,218,198 | I have a basic question and have been pulling my hair out trying to figure it out.
I want a google sheet to be view only for anyone with the link.
I want to be able to edit anything as the owner (duh)
I want to protect a sheet except for certain cells (say A1) to be editable and add 1 person with a google account (say george@gmail.com) so they can only edit A1.
All my attempts have led to anonymous users being view only as desired, but george@gmail.com can edit *every cell* and isn't limited to A1.
Am I possibly doing something wrong, or is this scenario just not possible?
I've tried many guides including these:
<https://support.google.com/docs/answer/144687?hl=en>
<http://www.appscare.com/2015/02/set-permissions-protected-sheets/>
Thanks! | 2016/05/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/37218198",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6257317/"
] | You can add "Copy and Publish Build Artifacts" task to copy and publish the deployment files to artifact folder that can be used in "Release Management".
And then you can enable ["FTP Deployment"](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-deploy/#ftp) for your Azure Web App and use ["FTP Uploader"](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=januskamphansen.ftpupload-task) task to publish the files to Azure. | I've solved this a few ways:
* Use azure git deploy. <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-publish-source-control/> I bake the git credentials into a script, and force commit and publish the site to the azure url.
* Use Publish-WebApplicationWebsite.ps1 from the Azure SDK <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/vs-azure-tools-publish-webapplicationwebsite-windows-powershell-script/> I recall handing it a folder, but it appears the current version takes in an MSDeploy package. |
36,507 | **How should I use this structure to convey the matter in my question exactly like a native:**
>
> **1.** It is not worth it we are moving next year
>
> **2.** It is not worth it if we move next year
>
> **3.** It is not worth it moving next year for us
>
> **4.** It is not worth moving next year for us
>
>
>
> | 2014/10/11 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/36507",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/5652/"
] | * *Would you not open the door?*
* *I wonder if you would mind not opening the door?*
* *I want you to not open the door.*
You can also add *please*. ;-) And you can use *I would like* instead of *I want*. These are a bit more polite:
* *Would you please not open the door?*
* *I wonder if you would mind not opening the door, please?*
* *I would prefer that you not open the door, please.* | If you want minimal changes to the sentences this is tough.
1. Please do not open the door.
2. [Note that the original is wrong. It should be "I wonder if you would mind opening the door." The question mark is optional; the present participle is not.]
I wonder if you would mind not opening the door?
3. I want you not to open the door.
But no well-educated Englishman would ever say 3. He would say something like "I would prefer you not to open the door." |
36,507 | **How should I use this structure to convey the matter in my question exactly like a native:**
>
> **1.** It is not worth it we are moving next year
>
> **2.** It is not worth it if we move next year
>
> **3.** It is not worth it moving next year for us
>
> **4.** It is not worth moving next year for us
>
>
>
> | 2014/10/11 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/36507",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/5652/"
] | * *Would you not open the door?*
* *I wonder if you would mind not opening the door?*
* *I want you to not open the door.*
You can also add *please*. ;-) And you can use *I would like* instead of *I want*. These are a bit more polite:
* *Would you please not open the door?*
* *I wonder if you would mind not opening the door, please?*
* *I would prefer that you not open the door, please.* | It depends on the intention of the question and what you want to express, remember that sometimes we can neither translate literaly from our original language to English nor viceversa.
Following the rules I consider that the phrase coulb be this "Wouldn't you open the door?" |
36,507 | **How should I use this structure to convey the matter in my question exactly like a native:**
>
> **1.** It is not worth it we are moving next year
>
> **2.** It is not worth it if we move next year
>
> **3.** It is not worth it moving next year for us
>
> **4.** It is not worth moving next year for us
>
>
>
> | 2014/10/11 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/36507",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/5652/"
] | If you want minimal changes to the sentences this is tough.
1. Please do not open the door.
2. [Note that the original is wrong. It should be "I wonder if you would mind opening the door." The question mark is optional; the present participle is not.]
I wonder if you would mind not opening the door?
3. I want you not to open the door.
But no well-educated Englishman would ever say 3. He would say something like "I would prefer you not to open the door." | It depends on the intention of the question and what you want to express, remember that sometimes we can neither translate literaly from our original language to English nor viceversa.
Following the rules I consider that the phrase coulb be this "Wouldn't you open the door?" |
8,324 | My machine shut down unexpectedly today (laptop battery is crap) and when I rebooted it I lost all sound.
I tried to go to Preferences->Sound but it just opens a little window saying "waiting for sound system to respond" and nothing happens. When my computer rebooted it did warn me of some errors in the filesystem after the unexpected shut down, but I let it correct all errors it found.
I understand I may need to reinstall some packages, but I don't know which.
System:
Dell XPS m1330
Ubuntu 10.10 64bit
Is there anyone out there who can help me?
Thanks in advance! | 2010/10/19 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/8324",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/4442/"
] | You can use iwconfig (wifitools) for wep encryption, or wpa\_supplicant for wpa and wep, also you use wicd-curses if you're looking for something easier, good luck =) | You can check out iwconfig and iwlist:
* **iwconfig** manipulate the basic wireless parameters
* **iwlist** allow to initiate scanning and list frequencies, bit-rates, encryption keys...
There are many options. Check out [Wireless Tools for Linux](http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html) for more. |
14,498 | we are not using any CC payment but rely stricktly on bank transfer or cash payment. Especially with these bank transfer payments it takes time to link payments to event participants.
It would help if each participant could be given a unique payment reference of some kind to include in the comment of their bank transfer so linking that payment to an event participant would become easier.
Is this possible in Civi? or through an extension? | 2016/08/21 | [
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/14498",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/users/3645/"
] | Not sure I understand the question 100%, but Civi can be configured with ACH payment processing (e.g. using iATS: <http://home.iatspayments.com/>) - this will allow for users to register themselves online and will link the event payment with the participant record. For cash payments, you can use "Pending (Pay Later)" either from the front end (by enabling this as an option in the event configuration on the amounts tab - e.g. pay at the door) or back end (creating a back office registration and recording a contribution with a status of pending pay later).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y1OK2.jpg)
Hope this helps!
Tamar | Thanks for the additional info. If I understand correctly, you essentially want to provide those who pay via bank draft a reference number such that when you are informed of the receipt of a payment by your bank, you can do a find on the number and pull up the pending pay later contribution more easily than you would just by relying on a name - if that's the case, I would suggest you add a token to the for contribution ID and/or contact ID in the "Contributions - Receipt (on-line)" System Workflow Message Template provides content and formatting for the receipt. You can modify it from Administer > Communications > Message Templates > System Workflow Message and it is part of the email that they receive after registering and ask that they include that as a memo or a note when requesting the bank transfer. You will need knowledge of HTML to do this (which I do not have).
The link to the participant record will be preserved if you edit the pending pay later contribution to a status of "Completed" and include whatever other details of the payment that are pertinent (e.g. transaction numer, date, etc.).
Hope this helps,
Tamar |
1,061,706 | I have a modem which I connect to my PC, I can connect to the internet by dialing PPPoE with username/password ISP gave me.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nqHhj.png)
Today I bought a router so I can share the internet with other computers at my home.
However when I tried dialing on my router, it's not working.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kYt6P.png)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0T6tM.png)
I already made sure it's plugged into the WAN port and I gave my ISP a call and they said they're not blocking anything.
Any idea why? Is my router faulty? Unfortunately I don't have another router to test. Thanks for reading and apologize for bad english. | 2016/04/05 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1061706",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/540659/"
] | It turned out the modem was faulty.
Even if the connection from the ISP is fluctuating and drops frequently, it might also be happening because the router is faulty. There are two ways to check for this possibility.
1. If you place your ear next to the router, you may be able to hear a barely audible humming noise that shouldn't normally be there coming from the router's transformer.
2. If the router's transformer is causing problems, the connection from the ISP will drop more and more frequently over time until the router fails completely. | There are two main reasons for this -
1 - The router is faulty
2 - or the connection from your ISP is fluctuating and drops frequently. You can test this by pinging. If you find the connection drops you should rather check with the ISP to resolve it.
Apart from above two check for any loose connection or fault on cable too many joins may also create these problem. I had the same issue and it got resolved only after the cable got replaced. |
258,722 | The problem with aggressively closing duplicates (within minutes or hours) is that it diminishes the incentive for fresh and likely better answers.
A good way to address this is to show answers to the original question as answers to the fresh question, while allowing the asker of the fresh question to choose a different answer as the correct one. (This can be enriched in various ways: links to/from duplicates, factor in votes and age, etc. but those are secondary aspects.)
This incentivizes fresh answers because a better answer has a greater chance of being accepted as correct given that there is an active asker eager for answers. The asker is free to accept the originally accepted answer early on to let answerers know that they are not still looking for a different or better answer.
Additionally new questions, and those with recent activity have more eyeballs looking at them and good answers have a better chance of getting upvotes. Necromancing is thankless.
Lastly, this question wouldn't be complete if it didn't pose the meta-question, is this itself a duplicate? | 2014/06/07 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/258722",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/621338/"
] | >
> The problem with aggressively closing duplicates (within minutes or hours) is that it diminishes the incentive for fresh and likely better answers.
>
>
>
No, it doesn't. It just ensures that those answers are placed in a more appropriate place, together with the other answers, where they can be seen and evaluated: on the master question.
However, it *does* diminish the incentive for a bunch of duplicate answers rehashing things that have already been said better by the other answers. This is the goal.
>
> This incentivizes fresh answers because a better answer has a greater chance of being accepted as correct given that there is an active asker eager for answers.
>
>
>
Acceptance of an answer is worth only 15 reputation. Upvotes are worth 10, but you can get an unlimited number of them. Upvotes continue to trickle in on many of my old answers, far outshadowing whatever reputation I earned from the asker accepting them. So although the checkmark is certainly an incentive to post an answer, there is no *disincentive* to answer the other question.
>
> Additionally new questions, and those with recent activity have more eyeballs looking at them and good answers have a better chance of getting upvotes. Necromancing is thankless.
>
>
>
This is false. Well, part of it is true. The part that says "questions...with recent activity have more eyeballs looking at them". That part is true, and posting an answer to a question counts as recent activity. It bumps up the question in the "active" list and gets eyeballs on it. Those eyeballs are frequently connected to hands that can click the vote buttons. This is, of course, all by design.
Besides, all traffic that the duplicate question gets is being redirected to the master question. Those viewers will see your answer there. There is no net loss.
The other part of your claim that's true is that "good answers have a better chance of getting upvotes". Obviously; that too is by design. If you post a good answer, it is likely to be upvoted. But it doesn't matter *which question* you post that good answer to. So post it to the master question, where people can find it, not one of the many duplicates. There's no point in having good answers scattered all over the place.
"Necromancing" is far from thankless. Well, it is, but only actual necromancing. Answering questions more than 60 days old can be rather rewarding. We actually award a [Necromancer badge](https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/17/necromancer) to reward people who answer "old" questions.
The truth is, I hate that people call this "necromancy". Necromancy is the use of magic to communicate with dead people. When you answer a question, you aren't using any magic, you're just using your brain. And there's no such thing as a "dead" question. Questions and answers aren't like people or foodstuffs; they don't age or go bad as time passes. Frankly, I don't understand how this philosophy of ignoring and neglecting "old" questions developed. I understand it comes from the traditional online forums, a model that we have explicitly abandoned. But even there, I don't understand how it ever made any sense. Why does everything need to be revisited and duplicated periodically? It certainly doesn't make the Internet a better place.
If you have something to contribute, contribute it. | A question that's been asked a dozen times has already had a dozen opportunities to receive an answer. In fact, in many cases it *still has* -- frankly, it seems like there are a few too many questions that literally have a dozen open duplicates. Whether it's because someone didn't bother to search first, or they don't like the answers given and were hoping to be told something different, or whatever. (Preferably they'd be closed as well, but it's harder than you'd think to monitor 7 million questions and keep track of which ones have already been asked before.)
A 13th duplicate is by definition not significantly different than the existing 12, and does not really make it any easier for future visitors to find an answer on SO; it just adds to the pile of crap they have to wade through. The only advantage it'd have is that it'll be on the front page for a while...but then, so were all the others at some point. Worked out so well for them, right? :P
If you want fresh eyes on an existing question, then offer a bounty (which puts it on the "featured" tab). Or ask about it in one of the relevant chat rooms. You can also ask about it somewhere famous (like Reddit, for example). I've seen that work on several occasions. (There's even badges for doing it.) In any case, if the question is any good, bringing attention to the original (rather than to yet another duplicate) is better in the long run.
If you think the existing answers suck, then provide a better one. The posting of an answer will mark the question as recently active, so it gets another chance at the front page, and will get you some rep if it's indeed better. :)
If you just want to control what answer gets the green check mark, that's not a good reason to clutter up the place with duplicates. |
55,036 | Wells Fargo is offering [$1B in preferred stock yielding 6%](https://blogs.barrons.com/incomeinvesting/2015/09/09/wells-fargo-to-offer-1b-in-preferred-stock-yielding-6/). I want to buy this preferred stock but how? Say I open an account at Fidelity.
I can't find it in the stock market. | 2015/10/19 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/55036",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/7490/"
] | For preferred shares, different brokers (and quote sources) have symbols that are formatted slightly differently. The issue you ask about is WFC-PV at [Yahoo!](http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=WFC-PV&ql=1), WFC.PR.V at E\*Trade, WFC/PV at [Fidelity](https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/goto/evaluate/snapshot.jhtml?symbols=WFC/PV&type=sq-NavBar), etc.
Once you find the symbol at whatever broker you're using, you buy it basically like the common shares (I say basically because the volume on preferreds tend to be lower than common shares, so the bid/ask spread may be higher and it may be harder to get fills, but the process of placing an order should be about the same, although brokers may differ there as well.) | After the registration of a preferred stock is accepted by the SEC and becomes effective, there is a delay prior to the listing of shares on the NYSE or NASDAQ. You will see in almost every prospectus or registration statement a clause that says “we intend to apply to have these shares listed on the NYSE (or other exchange) under the symbol xxxxx. If this application is approved, trading of the shares is expected to begin within 30 days” (or something similar). In the interim, the stock may trade on the OTC Grey Market for up to a month and they often trade at a discount to the issue price.
Here's a [LINK](https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/115378/multiple-stock-symbols-for-same-company-with-in-usa/115379#115379) that's spells out the numerous symbols used to look up preferred stocks. |
14,915 | Many languages have a little subsystem that uses a combination of particles of no\*, some\*, any\*, every\* or similar to create related question and negation words.
This is what the system roughly looks like this in English:
With complete sets like:
>
> nothing, anything, something, everything
>
>
> noone, anyone, someone, everyone
>
>
> nowhere, anywhere, somewhere, everywhere
>
>
>
And incomplete sets like:
>
> nohow, anyhow, somehow
>
>
> never, any time, sometimes, every time
>
>
>
This looks very similar cross linguistically, although, some sets that are incomplete in one language are complete in another. E.g. Czech:
>
> nikdy (lit. nowhen), někdy (lit. somewhen)
>
>
>
However, because the actual words that compose this subsystem fall across word classes (pronouns, adverbs, adjectives) and functions (e.g. negation vs. positive statements vs. indeterminate statements). I couldn't find any grammar (outside some learner grammars) that actually treats this as a subsystem.
Does anybody know of any studies and/or grammars of this subsystem in any language (or better still across languages). It's hard to research because there is no one term that I could find that covers all of these words. Yet, they are clearly related - I'm afraid I'm missing something obvious but I've been looking for a while. | 2015/11/06 | [
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/14915",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/users/2121/"
] | More traditionally oriented grammars call this subsystem **Indefinite pronouns**. Restricting the pronouns to words that really replace nouns (taking pro-noun literally) and reclassifying the rest of the old pronouns as determiners, adjectives, adverbs and particles is a rather recent innovation.
EDIT: I found two more terms: In a (hardly citable, but once you have the term you can track it down) *Lateinische Schulgrammatik* I found the term **pronomina corelata** for the pronomial part (including adjectives) of the system you describe.
Even better is the next one, it describes the full system. In Esperanto, thoses word are called **tabelvortoj** (table words). | These are all compounds of a logical quantifier (no[ne], some, many, most, each, every, all) and a basic noun (thing; body, one; time, ever, when; where; how, way[s]). Some are also contractions (n[ot]ever, al[l]ways). |
14,915 | Many languages have a little subsystem that uses a combination of particles of no\*, some\*, any\*, every\* or similar to create related question and negation words.
This is what the system roughly looks like this in English:
With complete sets like:
>
> nothing, anything, something, everything
>
>
> noone, anyone, someone, everyone
>
>
> nowhere, anywhere, somewhere, everywhere
>
>
>
And incomplete sets like:
>
> nohow, anyhow, somehow
>
>
> never, any time, sometimes, every time
>
>
>
This looks very similar cross linguistically, although, some sets that are incomplete in one language are complete in another. E.g. Czech:
>
> nikdy (lit. nowhen), někdy (lit. somewhen)
>
>
>
However, because the actual words that compose this subsystem fall across word classes (pronouns, adverbs, adjectives) and functions (e.g. negation vs. positive statements vs. indeterminate statements). I couldn't find any grammar (outside some learner grammars) that actually treats this as a subsystem.
Does anybody know of any studies and/or grammars of this subsystem in any language (or better still across languages). It's hard to research because there is no one term that I could find that covers all of these words. Yet, they are clearly related - I'm afraid I'm missing something obvious but I've been looking for a while. | 2015/11/06 | [
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/14915",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/users/2121/"
] | More traditionally oriented grammars call this subsystem **Indefinite pronouns**. Restricting the pronouns to words that really replace nouns (taking pro-noun literally) and reclassifying the rest of the old pronouns as determiners, adjectives, adverbs and particles is a rather recent innovation.
EDIT: I found two more terms: In a (hardly citable, but once you have the term you can track it down) *Lateinische Schulgrammatik* I found the term **pronomina corelata** for the pronomial part (including adjectives) of the system you describe.
Even better is the next one, it describes the full system. In Esperanto, thoses word are called **tabelvortoj** (table words). | Your list of words *resonates* with me. I have no answer to your question about whether they are treated as a group in any linguistics discussion.
*However* the NSM theory of semantics (and the perspective on grammar that flows from that semantics) suggests a list of indefinable semantic elements, which include the following: [NOT, SOME, ALL, SOMEONE, SOMETHING~THING, WHERE~PLACE, WHEN~TIME, LIKE~AS~WAY](https://www.griffith.edu.au/humanities-languages/school-humanities-languages-social-science/research/natural-semantic-metalanguage-homepage/what-is-nsm/semantic-primes).
Rather than be concerned with grammar and grammatical terminology I'm rather inspired to draw a direct line from these semantic elements to your list of **obviously related words**. Incidentally I connect LIKE~AS~WAY with ***how***.
My answer is technically a comment. I know that you are aware of this theory, so I apologise if I am breaking the rules here. I am new to this site. |
647,974 | I am going to learn trigonometry next year. I am an advanced student and I like to get a head start on things. So,
>
> How do you describe and introduce Trigonometry to the advanced secondary school student who has had Algebra and Geometry?
>
>
>
A supplemental question is
>
> What are the best texts or websites to introduce the subject to a curious or independent learner?
>
>
> | 2014/01/22 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/647974",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/123126/"
] | >
> *What is trigonometry ?*
>
>
>
The thing with the angles and the three-letter functions... Unless you meant it philosophically, as in *What is art ?*, and whatever... | Literally, the study of triangles. Since a triangle may either be specified by its edge lengths or by its angles (up to scaling), in practice this means that trigonometry studies the relationship between angles and side lengths. Traditionally, the focus is on right triangles, which represent the majority of the challenge (any triangle can be cut into two right triangles).
Since there are triangles everywhere, trigonometry has many implications, for example in the motion of planets, springs, pendula, and waves. |
647,974 | I am going to learn trigonometry next year. I am an advanced student and I like to get a head start on things. So,
>
> How do you describe and introduce Trigonometry to the advanced secondary school student who has had Algebra and Geometry?
>
>
>
A supplemental question is
>
> What are the best texts or websites to introduce the subject to a curious or independent learner?
>
>
> | 2014/01/22 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/647974",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/123126/"
] | Trigonometry is the study of triangles.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometry>
It has vast applications in the real world and in theoretical maths. Wikipedia actually is one of the better starting points for learning about it. The introduction from Wolfram is more straightforward and less helpful for a newcomer:
<http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Trigonometry.html>
If you really want to start studying on your own, the Kahn Academy is a great place to listen to lectures:
<https://www.khanacademy.org/math/trigonometry>
Personally I found this book fascinating, it provides wonderful context for the basic subject, and you may continue to amaze (and annoy) your teachers by quoting from it. The reading could be difficult (or boring) for you, I would look for one in the library before buying it. But when you have to write a history paper, perhaps you can use this as a reference to write about mathematics if you find this subject more interesting!
[http://www.amazon.com/The-Mathematics-Heavens-Earth-Trigonometry/dp/0691129738](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0691129738) | Literally, the study of triangles. Since a triangle may either be specified by its edge lengths or by its angles (up to scaling), in practice this means that trigonometry studies the relationship between angles and side lengths. Traditionally, the focus is on right triangles, which represent the majority of the challenge (any triangle can be cut into two right triangles).
Since there are triangles everywhere, trigonometry has many implications, for example in the motion of planets, springs, pendula, and waves. |
30,841 | Hello fellow explorers,
I've been looking into amateur satellite and rocket launches. Now, I'm by no means saying I'm an expert and have all my plans ready for launch. However, hypothetically if I were to launch a home made satellite, that followed the FCC regulations in transmission of data, would I need to do anything else? Is there some sort of required registry for satellites I would have to inform? Would I need to work with government programs to confirm my orbit does not conflict with any low and high earth orbits? Are there any international safety regulations I need to fulfill?
I know this is a loaded question, however, I guess is space the modern day wild west or is there a system and regulation that needs to be followed.
Thank you all,
Nate | 2018/09/21 | [
"https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/30841",
"https://space.stackexchange.com",
"https://space.stackexchange.com/users/27311/"
] | Based on your question, I'm assuming that you are in the United States. If that's right, you need to get licenses from NOAA if you are engaged in remote sensing (basically if you have a camera on-board), and you need to get a license from the FCC to transmit/receive radio signals. Assuming you aren't doing the launch yourself, that's all you need to do. The launcher will require an FAA launch license. NOAA and the FCC have their own internal requirements about debris mitigation, national security limitations on sensing, and many other criteria that you'll need to meet. There is however no need to register anything internationally or domestically: the U.S. Department of State takes care of that themselves directly, and you don't need to deconflict your object with others in space. The licensing agencies might impose some limitations on your orbit for those reasons, but it's not something you have to figure out all on your own. | The NASA 101 guide on Cubesats provide some information on licensing procedures and qualifications, <https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_csli_cubesat_101_508.pdf>. I know it's good practice to embed the information but in this case it's pretty long. In a nutshell - you need to get RF and Remote Sensing (if applicable) licenses and also your launch provider and integrator will ask for a good deal of documents and qualifications for the flight certification, this includes the Orbital Debris Mitigation Compliance for instance.
This document is for Cubesats only of course and is kind of geared towards people applying to the CSLI, which is a NASA initiative somehow more aimed at universities or research than fully commercial projects. It is also from a US perspective. Yet, I believe it provides some good information to get started with. |
116,162 | I have a song I'm working on where the chorus ends with a half note in the first half of a measure. I would like to do an instrumental/solo, I want to allow freedom to the musician so I have just filled the measure with beat "slashes". My question is if a measure already contain musical notation in the first half, should I use two slashes instead of a rest in the second half of the measure or wait until the next measure to start the slashes? Should I do it like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FYqdS.png)
or like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IaeLH.png)
I tend to prefer the second as I want the soloist to do a pickup into the second measure. But I've been told I should not mix standard notation with slashes in the same measure. Any thoughts or advice? | 2021/07/21 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/116162",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/79830/"
] | Since slashes are a more recent addition to the world of music notation the conventions are a little less etched in stone. The main thing is to make sure what you write is logical and clear, which it is. If you want the soloist to start playing around beat 3 the second example is the way to go. I would also include a written instruction such as “solo ad lib” to be even more clear. I have encountered combinations of notes and slashes in a single bar many times on charts written by other musicians and also have written things this way myself. | There's no problem mixing slashes with notes in the same measure. And I've never seen a 'rule' that there should be. Perhaps you're mixing up slashes and Bar Repeat symbols?
Write a rest where you want silence. Write notes or slashes where you want something played. So I think the second way best describes what you want here. |
561,131 | I have a 10000mAh battery pack for charging phones/tablet/whatever but I also have some cordless tool batteries which can be used in an inverter to power a usb charger similar to the power bank. The cordless tool batteries only go up to 5Ah (I think you can get larger ones but they’re not very common) and that on it’s own is far larger than the power bank as well as having a lower capacity. I assume it is to do with the batteries being 18v rather than 5 or whatever the power bank is? | 2021/04/20 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/561131",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/283446/"
] | A graphical representation may help.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7hZmz.png)
*Figure 1. The energy capacity of a battery is the product of the battery voltage and the mAh rating.*
Here it's clear that the 18 V, 5 Ah battery has the higher capacity.
The Wh (watt-hour) rating is a better number to use when comparing battery capacities. | Your assumption is correct.
The powerbank has higher Amp-hour rating but significantly lower voltage because it usually has a single 3.7V cell vs. at least 3 cells for a power tool.
In your particular case, the 18V battery likely has 5 cells, so even if the powerbank has the Ah rating of 10,000mAh (10Ah), and the power tool battery of 5Ah, which is 2 times more Ah for the powerbank, the tool battery has 5 times the voltage, so it actually has more energy in watt-hours (Wh).
Powerbank: 10Ah × 3,7V = 37Wh
Power tool: 5Ah × 18.5V = 92.5Wh
So, both the Ah rating AND the voltage of the battery need to be considered, in other words you need to use the ENERGY capacity in Wh for a proper comparison between batteries. |
6,200 | As per the definition i found in the internet,
* Oligopoly, in which a market is run by a small number of firms that together control the majority of the market share.
* Monopoly, where there is only one provider of a product or service.
Consider this situation in a country.
There are 4 main bus operators in this country. A,B,C and D and some individual bus owners.
The bus fare is controlled by a national body.
Some particular bus owners who has AC installed in the bus, charges a 0.2$ extra per route.
In the above scenario in what classification would you put the transport sector of this country. Is it a monopoly as the price is regulated by a single body? or is it an oligopoly as the market share is dominated by these four main company.
Further more for my upcoming exam if I get a question on Market structure of this country transport system how can I elaborate? | 2015/06/21 | [
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/6200",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/users/5001/"
] | This market is an oligopoly that is *subject to government regulation*.
It cannot be a monopoly because there is more than one firm. The presence of the regulating government body is a "red herring", it distracts from the main point- there are multiple firms.
It does not appear to be competitive because:
* Four is subjectively few firms
* Implicitly, regulation would be entirely pointless in a competitive market.
* One firm has managed to differentiate themselves by adding air conditioners. Firms in perfect competition cannot be differentiated from one another. | *Partial answer...*
Transportation is an example of perfect substitute. If A increases the price, demand of A will decrease. Price is regulated by national body but no single firm can dominate the market alone. So this is not monopoly. |
6,200 | As per the definition i found in the internet,
* Oligopoly, in which a market is run by a small number of firms that together control the majority of the market share.
* Monopoly, where there is only one provider of a product or service.
Consider this situation in a country.
There are 4 main bus operators in this country. A,B,C and D and some individual bus owners.
The bus fare is controlled by a national body.
Some particular bus owners who has AC installed in the bus, charges a 0.2$ extra per route.
In the above scenario in what classification would you put the transport sector of this country. Is it a monopoly as the price is regulated by a single body? or is it an oligopoly as the market share is dominated by these four main company.
Further more for my upcoming exam if I get a question on Market structure of this country transport system how can I elaborate? | 2015/06/21 | [
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/6200",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/users/5001/"
] | There is a sense of differentiation thus this is not competitive market clearly. Government regulations in an industry cannot be regarded as a monopoly as government mostly will decide on a price ceiling or floor and not the quantity of transport supplied. Since there are only 4 firms this is an oligopoly clearly. They can collude to restrict output and raise prices if it is within the limits set by government. Maybe the government has set the price to actually prevent collusion. | *Partial answer...*
Transportation is an example of perfect substitute. If A increases the price, demand of A will decrease. Price is regulated by national body but no single firm can dominate the market alone. So this is not monopoly. |
24,089 | I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, website, ...) to just download the stuff you need, without hassle. The same goes for the other Windows based laptops in my direct environment.
Are there any (preferably free) automated solutions available? Or do you have a nice workflow - other than searching the manufacturers website - to help smoothing this process? | 2009/08/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/24089",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5544/"
] | Try using [Secunia PSI](http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/). It can update drivers and other apps! | [Driver Genius](http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Driver-Genius-Professional-2009/1068481134/1) is what I use. |
24,089 | I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, website, ...) to just download the stuff you need, without hassle. The same goes for the other Windows based laptops in my direct environment.
Are there any (preferably free) automated solutions available? Or do you have a nice workflow - other than searching the manufacturers website - to help smoothing this process? | 2009/08/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/24089",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5544/"
] | [Drivermax](http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/) is ~~free and~~ the best and supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7/8, 64 and 32-bit. | Try using [Secunia PSI](http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/). It can update drivers and other apps! |
24,089 | I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, website, ...) to just download the stuff you need, without hassle. The same goes for the other Windows based laptops in my direct environment.
Are there any (preferably free) automated solutions available? Or do you have a nice workflow - other than searching the manufacturers website - to help smoothing this process? | 2009/08/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/24089",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5544/"
] | Try using [Secunia PSI](http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/). It can update drivers and other apps! | I use [SlimDrivers](https://www.slimwareutilities.com/slimdrivers.php) to update my drivers. |
24,089 | I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, website, ...) to just download the stuff you need, without hassle. The same goes for the other Windows based laptops in my direct environment.
Are there any (preferably free) automated solutions available? Or do you have a nice workflow - other than searching the manufacturers website - to help smoothing this process? | 2009/08/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/24089",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5544/"
] | [Update Notifier](http://cleansofts.org/view/update-notifier.html) is one of my favorite FREEWARE programs. However, [Driver Checker](http://www.driverchecker.com/) is also a good one. | [Driver Genius](http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Driver-Genius-Professional-2009/1068481134/1) is what I use. |
24,089 | I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, website, ...) to just download the stuff you need, without hassle. The same goes for the other Windows based laptops in my direct environment.
Are there any (preferably free) automated solutions available? Or do you have a nice workflow - other than searching the manufacturers website - to help smoothing this process? | 2009/08/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/24089",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5544/"
] | [Drivermax](http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/) is ~~free and~~ the best and supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7/8, 64 and 32-bit. | [Update Notifier](http://cleansofts.org/view/update-notifier.html) is one of my favorite FREEWARE programs. However, [Driver Checker](http://www.driverchecker.com/) is also a good one. |
24,089 | I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, website, ...) to just download the stuff you need, without hassle. The same goes for the other Windows based laptops in my direct environment.
Are there any (preferably free) automated solutions available? Or do you have a nice workflow - other than searching the manufacturers website - to help smoothing this process? | 2009/08/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/24089",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5544/"
] | [Update Notifier](http://cleansofts.org/view/update-notifier.html) is one of my favorite FREEWARE programs. However, [Driver Checker](http://www.driverchecker.com/) is also a good one. | I use [SlimDrivers](https://www.slimwareutilities.com/slimdrivers.php) to update my drivers. |
24,089 | I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, website, ...) to just download the stuff you need, without hassle. The same goes for the other Windows based laptops in my direct environment.
Are there any (preferably free) automated solutions available? Or do you have a nice workflow - other than searching the manufacturers website - to help smoothing this process? | 2009/08/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/24089",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5544/"
] | [Drivermax](http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/) is ~~free and~~ the best and supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7/8, 64 and 32-bit. | [Driver Genius](http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Driver-Genius-Professional-2009/1068481134/1) is what I use. |
24,089 | I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, website, ...) to just download the stuff you need, without hassle. The same goes for the other Windows based laptops in my direct environment.
Are there any (preferably free) automated solutions available? Or do you have a nice workflow - other than searching the manufacturers website - to help smoothing this process? | 2009/08/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/24089",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/5544/"
] | [Drivermax](http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/) is ~~free and~~ the best and supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7/8, 64 and 32-bit. | I use [SlimDrivers](https://www.slimwareutilities.com/slimdrivers.php) to update my drivers. |
9,387,737 | I am dealing with a huge codebehind of a an ASP.NET user control. I am taking the approach of refactoring the huge class into a number of partial clasees separted by UI intent.
Is there guidance on:
* Number of partial classes I am must constrain myself to.
* Naming or names to be given toof the partial class files. | 2012/02/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9387737",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/336489/"
] | 1. There's no limit to the number of Partial Class files you can use. They all compile into a single class at compile time. The more partial class files, though, the more confusing things could be when trying to find different functionality in the class.
2. I would name the files starting with the class name and then follow up with which concern the file was addressing. That way you're a little more clear about what is in each file.
You should also be careful about your class. If a single class is addressing several different UI Concerns to the point that you feel it should be separated into separate files it sounds like your class should be broken up into several smaller, more concise classes (rather than a single monolithic class defined across several files). | I'm not familiar with a partial classes limitation.
About file naming, again - no limitation. It could be anything.
My personal preference would be [MainClassName].[aspect].cs,
for example: *MyHugeControl.Reports.cs*, *MyHugeControl.Data.cs*, etc. |
8,221,077 | As a student in web development, I work with PHP, mainly through CMSs.
I already know the basic knowledge on the famous MVC design pattern, but now would like to work with a framework.
I've just discovered RoR and Django (respectively Ruby & Python Frameworks) and my first experiments with these frameworks, coupled to the amazing syntaxes of their languages, completely blown me away.
I've already made my choice: Django. (Just to explain : Throughout my researches, I learnt that Django's philosophy is : "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.", and that RoR's motto was exactly the opposite. As a noobie, I think it would be better to work on an app that naturally leads me to the best practices. I can also add that Django seems to be far more transparent and easier to understand, compared to the weird "magic" of Ruby).
The problem is that learning the language and the Framework will may be a difficult task.
My objectives are:
- Mastering Python + Django.
- Learn the right way to develop MVC applications.
- Become productive as fast as possible.
And considering that Django and Cake PHP are quite "similar", should I first learn "MVC in the real world" with Cake PHP before trying to begin directly with Python + Django or not? What would you do, according to your experience?
Pros for learning Cake Php first:
Some of my friends already work with Cake and they could help.
Learning something new is always a nice line to add on the CV.
Cons:
Learning something new is always a bit stupid when you are 95% convinced you won't use it anymore in the future. | 2011/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8221077",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1058870/"
] | The shortest path to Python/Django is to learn Python/Django.
If you invest time in learning something different, it will just create some preconceptions that may not hold in a Python/Django environment. | Well, here's some info that may help along the way:
1. Don't categorize everything that has routes, controllers, views, etc as "MVC". Django, for example, is self-described as MTV.
2. Django is a fantastic framework and does lots of things well. You will find that the Django and Python library and community is much more "batteries included" than PHP's.
3. Pigeonholing yourself into one language or framework is almost always a bad idea. You don't have to leave PHP, Ruby, etc forever in order to learn Django and Python. Accumulate and assimilate and you'll be more valuable.
4. Just go read the Django documentation end to end and follow the tutorial. It'll take a few days of your time, but you'll save yourself weeks of writing code that someone else has already baked into the framework or Python. |
51,428,566 | I've been using Dax to help me Document my Power BI file. Using Dax queries I've been able to record all the fields that exist in the file, including calculated and measured fields. In my documentation process I am also looking to find a way to record visualizations on the report - namely the charts and graphs. Unfortunately, no Dax query I've read about provides a list of data such as the visualization title, what fields it's using, or what kind of graph it is. Is there any Dax query that provides this information, as a whole or any part of it?
In addition to attempting to document with Dax I have also looked at the raw XML data in the Power BI file (For those who may not know, you can rename your Power BI file from .pbix to .zip and view the raw data). The relevant files within PBI are either XML or JSON. Looking at ../Report/Layout.JSON specifically I have seen JSON-formatted text that includes visualization data. Is there any easy way to extract this data and format it in a more-readable fashion?
For clarity, I do not need the contents of the tables, but I would like a way to record what fields are being used in the visualization, rather than what fields merely exist.
EDIT: *I've found a workaround. It isn't efficient, and I would still appreciate any knowledge on this subject*
I mentioned going through the the Layout file, renaming it to .JSON and poking it in Notepad++. I've found that you can ctrl+f for "displayName", "queryRef" and ""title\":show\":true,\"text\":\"". Break these all to new lines and indent them with tab (Use ctrl+h and replace with \n\t in notepad). These indent the JSON-formatted lines for Power BI pages, fields called by visualizations, and the visualization titles (if they have any), respectively.
Save this document as .csv and load it into Excel by delimiting on tabs. Use your preferred process - I prefer query editor - editor to remove the other non-indented rows. There still may be a lot of excess characters on the indented lines which need to be removed manually. At the end of this process, though, I ended with 3 columns in excel listing the aforementioned fields I've been looking for.
On a PBIX file with more than a dozen pages and several hundred dependent fields this process took about three hours. If there are any faster ways to do this, I would love to hear about them | 2018/07/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/51428566",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10102245/"
] | As you have noted, DAX doesn't help you in this case because it will tell you about the model rather than the visuals on the report pages. The Layout file works, but you have to parse it for the information you need. You could probably just pull that JSON file into Power BI and process it there to get the info you want. There are also third party tools that can help with this. I just looked at <https://app.datavizioner.com/> and it lists the ID of the visual, the type of visual, and each field used in the visual. It is currently free and just requires you to upload a PBIT of your report. It doesn't have the title of the visual that we see, so you would have to find a way to map the IDs you see to the human-friendly title of the visuals if you need that.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kfmnq.jpg) | See <http://radacad.com/power-bi-helper>. It can tell you tables and columns in use. It also can export a list of all tables, columns, formulas, and roles in your model.
If you want stuff on the visualizations and how they are configured, Layout.json is the only way I know. The file does open nicely in Power Query if you were so inclined to try to make something of it. |
51,428,566 | I've been using Dax to help me Document my Power BI file. Using Dax queries I've been able to record all the fields that exist in the file, including calculated and measured fields. In my documentation process I am also looking to find a way to record visualizations on the report - namely the charts and graphs. Unfortunately, no Dax query I've read about provides a list of data such as the visualization title, what fields it's using, or what kind of graph it is. Is there any Dax query that provides this information, as a whole or any part of it?
In addition to attempting to document with Dax I have also looked at the raw XML data in the Power BI file (For those who may not know, you can rename your Power BI file from .pbix to .zip and view the raw data). The relevant files within PBI are either XML or JSON. Looking at ../Report/Layout.JSON specifically I have seen JSON-formatted text that includes visualization data. Is there any easy way to extract this data and format it in a more-readable fashion?
For clarity, I do not need the contents of the tables, but I would like a way to record what fields are being used in the visualization, rather than what fields merely exist.
EDIT: *I've found a workaround. It isn't efficient, and I would still appreciate any knowledge on this subject*
I mentioned going through the the Layout file, renaming it to .JSON and poking it in Notepad++. I've found that you can ctrl+f for "displayName", "queryRef" and ""title\":show\":true,\"text\":\"". Break these all to new lines and indent them with tab (Use ctrl+h and replace with \n\t in notepad). These indent the JSON-formatted lines for Power BI pages, fields called by visualizations, and the visualization titles (if they have any), respectively.
Save this document as .csv and load it into Excel by delimiting on tabs. Use your preferred process - I prefer query editor - editor to remove the other non-indented rows. There still may be a lot of excess characters on the indented lines which need to be removed manually. At the end of this process, though, I ended with 3 columns in excel listing the aforementioned fields I've been looking for.
On a PBIX file with more than a dozen pages and several hundred dependent fields this process took about three hours. If there are any faster ways to do this, I would love to hear about them | 2018/07/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/51428566",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10102245/"
] | As you have noted, DAX doesn't help you in this case because it will tell you about the model rather than the visuals on the report pages. The Layout file works, but you have to parse it for the information you need. You could probably just pull that JSON file into Power BI and process it there to get the info you want. There are also third party tools that can help with this. I just looked at <https://app.datavizioner.com/> and it lists the ID of the visual, the type of visual, and each field used in the visual. It is currently free and just requires you to upload a PBIT of your report. It doesn't have the title of the visual that we see, so you would have to find a way to map the IDs you see to the human-friendly title of the visuals if you need that.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kfmnq.jpg) | My new Power BI comparer tool documents the whole Power BI file (pbit). The "CompareVisuals"-tab should provide you with all the information necessary.
It also superfast: Just fill in the path to the pbits (you can fill in the same path into both fields, if you don't want to compare, but just to analyze one file).
<https://www.thebiccountant.com/2019/09/14/compare-power-bi-files-with-power-bi-comparer-tool/> |
7,538 | Can I square faces and edges of boards with only a #4 hand held plane? I've read a #4 can be used in combination with a #7, but a #7 is seeming out of the budget for me. | 2018/07/14 | [
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com/questions/7538",
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com",
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com/users/5260/"
] | Yes.
It is very much not ideal to do so, but it is always possible to flatten surfaces with planes shorter than the wood you're working on (obvious really, but many people don't see this and assume that long planes are necessary when in fact they're merely desirable).
To offset the physical limitations of a short plane doing this kind of thing you must adopt a careful, stage-by-stage approach to the work, stopping planing frequently to check progress. This is actually a lot harder to do than it sounds! But it's a must, and the same basic thing is the secret to the success of many hand-tool operations — doing the work slowly and methodically, checking at each break for square, flatness etc. and adjusting as needed for the next round of work. Every stage gets you closer and closer to straight or flat.
Other than that the main practical thing using a short plane is to identify and mark high spots *and plane those areas only*, where with a longer plane it would naturally bridge gaps and plane off those high spots automatically. This is illustrated in many guides to planing by a version of a simple drawing, here's one example from an old Stanley publication\*:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dULjq.jpg)
Note it says *easier*, not *only possible*.
Paul Sellers would be a good person to focus on if you're serious about doing everything with a no. 4 (not just for this by any means but for this especially). He is a big proponent of doing a lot of work with the no. 4 where others would advise doing the least amount of work possible with one, using other planes as needed for each of their specialist roles.
Now as I read someone put it once, Paul Sellers can do jointing and flatten boards with a no. 4 because he's a ninja with a plane, and you aren't so you can't. While that's amusing and has an element of truth if you work as advised above you *can* achieve similar results I promise you.... but much more slowly obviously.
---
\*There is a surprisingly amount of cornerstone advice on planing on just that one page so I'll link to the whole image it's taken from, [here on LostArtPress](https://lostartpress.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/plane_use_2.jpg) so you can see the whole thing. | I couldn't tell from the original question whether you had a #4 already, or whether you're looking for a first plane to get started, say. It sounds like you've made the decision to dimension by hand, so that's a given and it wouldn't be relevant to say you could consider power tools that produce the needed result in more of a production manner and spend time saved toward finished product. Or that a jointer might not be as handy in a shooting board, for example (other purposes weighing in the decision).
I sure get a lot of enjoyment out of hand planing (just in its own right, he whispers). If you're just starting you'll be figuring out some of the things that are as important as the length of the plane (how to keep the blade sharp, tool configuration, the feel for planing technique, reading grain, how to produce parallel faces and edges once you've got a reference, etc.).
I've been doing a lot of planing but still consider myself in the seasoned *beginner* class :) You mention board in your post and I was curious what lengths you'd be working with. I feel comfortable dimensioning a three foot board with a "short" plane, say, but would run in terror from eight! I'm better at surfacing edges rather than faces and handling twist/cup puts my brain and patience into overdrive, even with an augmented tool set, meaning winding sticks.
There are some good articles suggesting a progression of hand plane purchases. For example: <https://www.wwgoa.com/article/hand-plane-starter-kit-four-planes-for-hybrid-woodworking/> . I bought a 5 1/2 as my second plane and love it. |
382,765 | To compile my current project, one exe with ~90,000 loc + ~100 DLL's it takes about a half hour or more depending on the speed of the workstation.
The build process is one of running devenv from Powershell scripts. This works very well with no problems.
The problem is that it is slow. I want to speed up this build process.
MSBuild (using VS-2005) is one option but there's a bug specifying icons to the vb compiler/linker on the command line such that it won't successfully link.
What other options are there to "make" VB.NET programs?
(Faster workstation is not an option.) | 2008/12/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/382765",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21826/"
] | Do you absolutely have to compile the whole solution every time? With that many assemblies it seems unlikely that they all need to be built unless they actually change. If your solution is made up of multiple projects, you might consider creating multiple solutions in your build environment. One master solution could contain all the projects, another that includes the ones that change most often. You can then configure your build process to focus on the projects that have changed. Depending on the source control system you use, you may be able to query the system to determine which projects have changed since the last build, and only build those projects. | There's [NAnt](http://nant.sourceforge.net/), and [Cruisecontrol.NET](http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET) for continuous build.
You mentioned that getting a faster PC is not an option, but how much memory do you have? 2GB should be the minimum for a developer machine. Also, using a fast 10K RPM hard disk makes a [big difference](http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/01/tip-trick-hard-drive-speed-and-visual-studio-performance.aspx).
Have you tried disabling any virus scanner during your build? |
382,765 | To compile my current project, one exe with ~90,000 loc + ~100 DLL's it takes about a half hour or more depending on the speed of the workstation.
The build process is one of running devenv from Powershell scripts. This works very well with no problems.
The problem is that it is slow. I want to speed up this build process.
MSBuild (using VS-2005) is one option but there's a bug specifying icons to the vb compiler/linker on the command line such that it won't successfully link.
What other options are there to "make" VB.NET programs?
(Faster workstation is not an option.) | 2008/12/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/382765",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21826/"
] | There's [NAnt](http://nant.sourceforge.net/), and [Cruisecontrol.NET](http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET) for continuous build.
You mentioned that getting a faster PC is not an option, but how much memory do you have? 2GB should be the minimum for a developer machine. Also, using a fast 10K RPM hard disk makes a [big difference](http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/01/tip-trick-hard-drive-speed-and-visual-studio-performance.aspx).
Have you tried disabling any virus scanner during your build? | There's not much you can do to make the build process any faster short of adding more cores, CPU power, and memory to your machine, but that isn't an option in your case.
Most large projects are not self-contained in a single EXE. More often, logical units are moved into seperate assemblies, which can either be a DLL or EXE. The end result is a whole bunch of little assemblies, instead of one enormous one.
To cite one example, one project that I worked on was enormous, consisting of 700+ forms and 10s of 1000s of classes. Functionally related forms, such as those related to printing, report generation, user interrogation, etc were self-contained in their own EXEs. If I was working on the reports, I'd exclude all projects not related to reports from the build process, and this helps bring the compilation time down from a half hour to a few seconds.
This programming style can be tricky, but when it done right, it simply works and works flawlessly. |
382,765 | To compile my current project, one exe with ~90,000 loc + ~100 DLL's it takes about a half hour or more depending on the speed of the workstation.
The build process is one of running devenv from Powershell scripts. This works very well with no problems.
The problem is that it is slow. I want to speed up this build process.
MSBuild (using VS-2005) is one option but there's a bug specifying icons to the vb compiler/linker on the command line such that it won't successfully link.
What other options are there to "make" VB.NET programs?
(Faster workstation is not an option.) | 2008/12/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/382765",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21826/"
] | There's [NAnt](http://nant.sourceforge.net/), and [Cruisecontrol.NET](http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET) for continuous build.
You mentioned that getting a faster PC is not an option, but how much memory do you have? 2GB should be the minimum for a developer machine. Also, using a fast 10K RPM hard disk makes a [big difference](http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/01/tip-trick-hard-drive-speed-and-visual-studio-performance.aspx).
Have you tried disabling any virus scanner during your build? | If you have a big number of projects then you should try to reduce them. You can always split them up in dll's later. The fewer projects the faster it can build. Especially if it has to build them in a certain order.
Breaking them in smaller solutions is also an option. |
382,765 | To compile my current project, one exe with ~90,000 loc + ~100 DLL's it takes about a half hour or more depending on the speed of the workstation.
The build process is one of running devenv from Powershell scripts. This works very well with no problems.
The problem is that it is slow. I want to speed up this build process.
MSBuild (using VS-2005) is one option but there's a bug specifying icons to the vb compiler/linker on the command line such that it won't successfully link.
What other options are there to "make" VB.NET programs?
(Faster workstation is not an option.) | 2008/12/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/382765",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21826/"
] | Do you absolutely have to compile the whole solution every time? With that many assemblies it seems unlikely that they all need to be built unless they actually change. If your solution is made up of multiple projects, you might consider creating multiple solutions in your build environment. One master solution could contain all the projects, another that includes the ones that change most often. You can then configure your build process to focus on the projects that have changed. Depending on the source control system you use, you may be able to query the system to determine which projects have changed since the last build, and only build those projects. | If you can, upgrade to the 3.5 version of MSBuild. It can build solution files, and enables support for [multiprocessor support](http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronhallberg/archive/2007/10/02/fancy-new-command-line-options-for-msbuild.aspx) (or [here](http://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/archive/2007/10/22/enabling-multiprocessor-support-in-an-msbuild-host.aspx) if you need to host it yourself) enabling it to build projects in parallel.
The caveat is that you need to be using project references so it knows what to build.
Also, how long is it taking now? Have you looked at the CPU/Memory Usage (using something like [PerfMon](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa645516(VS.71).aspx)) to see if it is a bottleneck? |
382,765 | To compile my current project, one exe with ~90,000 loc + ~100 DLL's it takes about a half hour or more depending on the speed of the workstation.
The build process is one of running devenv from Powershell scripts. This works very well with no problems.
The problem is that it is slow. I want to speed up this build process.
MSBuild (using VS-2005) is one option but there's a bug specifying icons to the vb compiler/linker on the command line such that it won't successfully link.
What other options are there to "make" VB.NET programs?
(Faster workstation is not an option.) | 2008/12/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/382765",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21826/"
] | Do you absolutely have to compile the whole solution every time? With that many assemblies it seems unlikely that they all need to be built unless they actually change. If your solution is made up of multiple projects, you might consider creating multiple solutions in your build environment. One master solution could contain all the projects, another that includes the ones that change most often. You can then configure your build process to focus on the projects that have changed. Depending on the source control system you use, you may be able to query the system to determine which projects have changed since the last build, and only build those projects. | There's not much you can do to make the build process any faster short of adding more cores, CPU power, and memory to your machine, but that isn't an option in your case.
Most large projects are not self-contained in a single EXE. More often, logical units are moved into seperate assemblies, which can either be a DLL or EXE. The end result is a whole bunch of little assemblies, instead of one enormous one.
To cite one example, one project that I worked on was enormous, consisting of 700+ forms and 10s of 1000s of classes. Functionally related forms, such as those related to printing, report generation, user interrogation, etc were self-contained in their own EXEs. If I was working on the reports, I'd exclude all projects not related to reports from the build process, and this helps bring the compilation time down from a half hour to a few seconds.
This programming style can be tricky, but when it done right, it simply works and works flawlessly. |
382,765 | To compile my current project, one exe with ~90,000 loc + ~100 DLL's it takes about a half hour or more depending on the speed of the workstation.
The build process is one of running devenv from Powershell scripts. This works very well with no problems.
The problem is that it is slow. I want to speed up this build process.
MSBuild (using VS-2005) is one option but there's a bug specifying icons to the vb compiler/linker on the command line such that it won't successfully link.
What other options are there to "make" VB.NET programs?
(Faster workstation is not an option.) | 2008/12/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/382765",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21826/"
] | Do you absolutely have to compile the whole solution every time? With that many assemblies it seems unlikely that they all need to be built unless they actually change. If your solution is made up of multiple projects, you might consider creating multiple solutions in your build environment. One master solution could contain all the projects, another that includes the ones that change most often. You can then configure your build process to focus on the projects that have changed. Depending on the source control system you use, you may be able to query the system to determine which projects have changed since the last build, and only build those projects. | If you have a big number of projects then you should try to reduce them. You can always split them up in dll's later. The fewer projects the faster it can build. Especially if it has to build them in a certain order.
Breaking them in smaller solutions is also an option. |
382,765 | To compile my current project, one exe with ~90,000 loc + ~100 DLL's it takes about a half hour or more depending on the speed of the workstation.
The build process is one of running devenv from Powershell scripts. This works very well with no problems.
The problem is that it is slow. I want to speed up this build process.
MSBuild (using VS-2005) is one option but there's a bug specifying icons to the vb compiler/linker on the command line such that it won't successfully link.
What other options are there to "make" VB.NET programs?
(Faster workstation is not an option.) | 2008/12/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/382765",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21826/"
] | If you can, upgrade to the 3.5 version of MSBuild. It can build solution files, and enables support for [multiprocessor support](http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronhallberg/archive/2007/10/02/fancy-new-command-line-options-for-msbuild.aspx) (or [here](http://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/archive/2007/10/22/enabling-multiprocessor-support-in-an-msbuild-host.aspx) if you need to host it yourself) enabling it to build projects in parallel.
The caveat is that you need to be using project references so it knows what to build.
Also, how long is it taking now? Have you looked at the CPU/Memory Usage (using something like [PerfMon](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa645516(VS.71).aspx)) to see if it is a bottleneck? | There's not much you can do to make the build process any faster short of adding more cores, CPU power, and memory to your machine, but that isn't an option in your case.
Most large projects are not self-contained in a single EXE. More often, logical units are moved into seperate assemblies, which can either be a DLL or EXE. The end result is a whole bunch of little assemblies, instead of one enormous one.
To cite one example, one project that I worked on was enormous, consisting of 700+ forms and 10s of 1000s of classes. Functionally related forms, such as those related to printing, report generation, user interrogation, etc were self-contained in their own EXEs. If I was working on the reports, I'd exclude all projects not related to reports from the build process, and this helps bring the compilation time down from a half hour to a few seconds.
This programming style can be tricky, but when it done right, it simply works and works flawlessly. |
382,765 | To compile my current project, one exe with ~90,000 loc + ~100 DLL's it takes about a half hour or more depending on the speed of the workstation.
The build process is one of running devenv from Powershell scripts. This works very well with no problems.
The problem is that it is slow. I want to speed up this build process.
MSBuild (using VS-2005) is one option but there's a bug specifying icons to the vb compiler/linker on the command line such that it won't successfully link.
What other options are there to "make" VB.NET programs?
(Faster workstation is not an option.) | 2008/12/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/382765",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21826/"
] | If you can, upgrade to the 3.5 version of MSBuild. It can build solution files, and enables support for [multiprocessor support](http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronhallberg/archive/2007/10/02/fancy-new-command-line-options-for-msbuild.aspx) (or [here](http://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/archive/2007/10/22/enabling-multiprocessor-support-in-an-msbuild-host.aspx) if you need to host it yourself) enabling it to build projects in parallel.
The caveat is that you need to be using project references so it knows what to build.
Also, how long is it taking now? Have you looked at the CPU/Memory Usage (using something like [PerfMon](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa645516(VS.71).aspx)) to see if it is a bottleneck? | If you have a big number of projects then you should try to reduce them. You can always split them up in dll's later. The fewer projects the faster it can build. Especially if it has to build them in a certain order.
Breaking them in smaller solutions is also an option. |
56,842 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
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> [[Singular] Is/Are [Plural]?](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17766/singular-is-are-plural)
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Should the verb be is or are? I would say 'are', but a colleague says 'is'. | 2012/02/03 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/56842",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/17729/"
] | In terms of grammar, the subject "The first and most well-known example" is singular and requires singular verb agreement. If doesn't sound natural you may rewrite as
>
> The first and most well-known examples are ...
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> The reserves are the first and most ...
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> | I would say 'the first and most well-known examples of this are reserves'. |
56,842 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
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> [[Singular] Is/Are [Plural]?](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17766/singular-is-are-plural)
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Should the verb be is or are? I would say 'are', but a colleague says 'is'. | 2012/02/03 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/56842",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/17729/"
] | The ‘Cambridge Grammar of English’ by Carter and McCarthy states that 'In informal spoken language, speakers sometimes have a choice whether to use a singular or plural verb when there is a difference in number between the subject and the complement.' That might allow your sentence to be ‘The first and most well-known example are the reserves in the United States’. However, the same source also says that in such cases ‘Normally, and in more formal styles, the subject determines the number of the verb.’ That position seems to me to be more readily defensible. | I would say 'the first and most well-known examples of this are reserves'. |
56,842 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [[Singular] Is/Are [Plural]?](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17766/singular-is-are-plural)
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Should the verb be is or are? I would say 'are', but a colleague says 'is'. | 2012/02/03 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/56842",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/17729/"
] | The ‘Cambridge Grammar of English’ by Carter and McCarthy states that 'In informal spoken language, speakers sometimes have a choice whether to use a singular or plural verb when there is a difference in number between the subject and the complement.' That might allow your sentence to be ‘The first and most well-known example are the reserves in the United States’. However, the same source also says that in such cases ‘Normally, and in more formal styles, the subject determines the number of the verb.’ That position seems to me to be more readily defensible. | In terms of grammar, the subject "The first and most well-known example" is singular and requires singular verb agreement. If doesn't sound natural you may rewrite as
>
> The first and most well-known examples are ...
>
>
> The reserves are the first and most ...
>
>
> |
6,413,654 | I've got a PS script that adds firewall rules.
I'm using Process.Start("powershell.exe", "-File "+"\"C:\Program Files (x86)\blah\blah\add-FirewallRule.ps1\"");
This command works fine on my local machine, but in testing I've been running the program on a Windows Server 2008 R2, and the PS script won't run. It runs and works fine if I run it manually from the command line, but my code won't work. All the file paths are correct (i've already checked that and had a co worker check it). When I run the code the PS console doesn't even pop up.
Any suggestions? | 2011/06/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6413654",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/759830/"
] | Since you are in C#, I'd recommend using the [PowerShell Invoke API](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd182449%28VS.85%29.aspx) rather than Process.Start. The API is easy to use and hopefully will give you a better indication of what is going wrong. | Have you tried running as Admin? I believe Process.Start requires elevated privileges that are not available in, say, sandbox mode. |
6,413,654 | I've got a PS script that adds firewall rules.
I'm using Process.Start("powershell.exe", "-File "+"\"C:\Program Files (x86)\blah\blah\add-FirewallRule.ps1\"");
This command works fine on my local machine, but in testing I've been running the program on a Windows Server 2008 R2, and the PS script won't run. It runs and works fine if I run it manually from the command line, but my code won't work. All the file paths are correct (i've already checked that and had a co worker check it). When I run the code the PS console doesn't even pop up.
Any suggestions? | 2011/06/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6413654",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/759830/"
] | Turns out that I wasn't accounting for the automatic redirect caused by running a 32-bit app on a 64-bit system. So all I had to do was go in and set the appropriate execution policy for the 32 bit version of powershell. | Have you tried running as Admin? I believe Process.Start requires elevated privileges that are not available in, say, sandbox mode. |
6,413,654 | I've got a PS script that adds firewall rules.
I'm using Process.Start("powershell.exe", "-File "+"\"C:\Program Files (x86)\blah\blah\add-FirewallRule.ps1\"");
This command works fine on my local machine, but in testing I've been running the program on a Windows Server 2008 R2, and the PS script won't run. It runs and works fine if I run it manually from the command line, but my code won't work. All the file paths are correct (i've already checked that and had a co worker check it). When I run the code the PS console doesn't even pop up.
Any suggestions? | 2011/06/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6413654",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/759830/"
] | Since you are in C#, I'd recommend using the [PowerShell Invoke API](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd182449%28VS.85%29.aspx) rather than Process.Start. The API is easy to use and hopefully will give you a better indication of what is going wrong. | Turns out that I wasn't accounting for the automatic redirect caused by running a 32-bit app on a 64-bit system. So all I had to do was go in and set the appropriate execution policy for the 32 bit version of powershell. |
70,907,883 | I have some params in **Remote Config** that I want to update from the **Google Cloud Functions**.
Should I use the **Remote Config API** when both Cloud Functions and Remote Config belong to the same account or project?
I am asking because Cloud Functions can directly import the data from Firestore without any authentication and API. | 2022/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/70907883",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10229072/"
] | Remote Config provided the RESTful APIs to update the parameters or template.
You don't **have to** call them from a Google Cloud function. But calling them from a Google Cloud function or even Firebase Cloud function is definitely workable.
You can even call the RESTful APIs from postman or some other tools once you set up the call properly.
Check more details here: <https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/remote-config/rest> | **With Remote Config backend APIs, you could use Remote Config with Cloud Functions for Firebase,** changing values in your app based on events that happen server-side. For example, you can use Remote Config to promote a new feature in your app, and then turn off that promotion automatically once you detect enough people have interacted with the new feature.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SuVCH.png)
Using the Remote Config REST API or the Admin SDKs described in [this guide](https://firebase.google.com/docs/remote-config/automate-rc), you can bypass managing the template in the Firebase console to directly integrate Remote Config changes into your own processes.
As described [here](https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/calling/firebase-remote-config), Cloud Functions can be triggered in response to changes in Firebase Remote Config in the same Cloud project as the function. This makes it possible to change the behavior and appearance of your app without publishing an app update. |
116,617 | Please see this question I am asked in one of my textbooks. I am asked to add a time signature. My answer is 12/16 but the problem is that I can't divide the bar into 4 dotted quavers because of the quaver rest in the middle of the second bar. In 12/8 you are supposed to clearly show the 4 beat divisions. Is this the case for 12/16 too? If so then how can this be right?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IYLxU.jpg) | 2021/08/16 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/116617",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/35708/"
] | As you correctly observe, the quaver rest messes up the 4 beat divisions, so the time signature can't be 12/16. It has to be 6/8. | 12/16 is compound quadruple time with a beat equal to a dotted quaver.
6/8 time is the time signature with two dotted crotchets for beats
This time signature clearly has two beats and the first beat is equal to a dotted crotchet, this would lead you to 6/8 time. |
138,487 | The [Eversmoking Bottle](https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/eversmoking-bottle) magic item has the following details:
>
> Smoke leaks from the lead-stoppered mouth of this brass bottle, which weighs 1 pound. When you use an action to remove the stopper, a cloud of thick smoke pours out in a 60-foot radius from the bottle. The cloud's area is heavily obscured. Each minute the bottle remains open and within the cloud, the radius increases by 10 feet until it reaches its maximum radius of 120 feet.
>
>
> The cloud persists as long as the bottle is open. Closing the bottle requires you to speak its command word as an action. Once the bottle is closed, the cloud disperses after 10 minutes. A moderate wind (11 to 20 miles per hour) can also disperse the smoke after 1 minute, and a strong wind (21 or more miles per hour) can do so after 1 round.
>
>
>
**What happens if a very fast creature opens the bottle, then immediately moves far away from the smoke (e.g. 500 ft.)?**
1. The smoke follows the creature to the destination, but without leaving a trail on the way
2. Smoke is generated along the way as well, making a 60ft wide, 500ft long line of smoke
3. Smoke is only generated at the start of the creature's turns, so if he stops 500ft away and waits for his next turn, a single new 60ft cloud will be made there
4. The smoke is only generated once (upon opening time), no additional smoke will be generated neither on the way to the destination, nor at the destination itself
5. Other behaviour | 2019/01/04 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/138487",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/36796/"
] | Option #4: The smoke only exists at the initial point of creation.
==================================================================
There are a few important points in your quote:
>
> When you use an action to remove the stopper, a cloud of thick smoke pours out in a 60-foot radius from the bottle. [...] Each minute the bottle remains open and within the cloud, the radius increases by 10 feet until it reaches its maximum radius of 120 feet.
>
>
>
Note that other than the initial opening of the bottle, no other mention of the cloud's position refers to the bottle. Additionally, in order for the cloud to continue growing, the bottle must remain within its range.
While a "60-foot radius from the bottle" almost describes the fog as an aura that follows the bottle, it distinctly states that the bottle has to remain within the cloud for the full effect, so its implied that the cloud can be separated from the bottle.
If you were to move out of the cloud, the cloud would sit in place, cease to grow, and disappear when you cork the bottle (or by a stiff wind or the duration running out). | #4 The cloud remains where it was summoned but does not vanish (unless the requirements for dissipation are met).
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First, the bottle only generates one cloud of smoke:
>
> **a** cloud of thick smoke pours out in a 60-foot radius from the bottle
>
>
>
Next, the bottle must remain within that cloud to increase the cloud's size:
>
> Each minute the bottle remains open **and within the cloud**, the radius increases by 10 feet until it reaches its maximum radius of 120 feet.
>
>
>
In real life, there would be a trail of smoke and one might consider that as being part of the same cloud, but the spell's description does not say "it continues to billow smoke" but that the cloud increases in size. It would be logical to interpret the cloud's increase in size as the result of more smoke being added to it from the bottle, but this is one of those times where a magical effect doesn't even come close to mirroring what you'd expect to happen in reality. It's magic (not physics) and a game (not a simulation)!
It's also moot, because once/as long as the bottle is outside of the cloud's area, the cloud stops growing but does not begin to disperse (unless there's a strong enough wind) because:
>
> The cloud persists as long as the bottle is open [...] Once the bottle is closed, the cloud disperses after 10 minutes.
>
>
>
So in your scenario, the initial cloud of 60' radius is created, the bottle bearer rapidly moves out of its area, stopping the growth. No new cloud is created but the old one stays in place at the same size until the bottle is restoppered or a strong enough wind begins to dissipate the cloud. |
14,786 | Arisa is shot several times by the GHQ soldiers at the end of the series, when her shield fails due to all voids disappearing, but the wiki pages have confusing information about her whereabouts at the end.
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guilty_Crown_characters) has "She follows Gai to the final battle, holding back the UN forces with her shield, and is alive seen being outside of the falling GHQ."
Is she alive? When the scene of her alive outside the building happens? | 2014/11/01 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14786",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2808/"
] | Arisa can be seen outside of the collapsing GHQ building at around 20:23 of episode 22.
Screenshot courtesy of [Hakase](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/191/hakase)
It is not known how she got out of the collapsing GHQ building with the bullet wound she got from the UN Military Forces at 18:15, though. My guess is that she got rescued by the UN Forces, probably as an act of humanity. | According to the [Guilty Crown Wikia](http://guiltycrown.wikia.com/wiki/Arisa_Kuhouin), she is still alive, and I believe the scene of her being outside of the building is near the end of the last episode. |
53,702,599 | There is an option called 'Rows per batch' in OLE DB Destination, which, when specified, pulls a certain amount of rows within a batch, otherwise, pull all rows in the source in one batch.
Question: If my source and/or targer server are all highly OLTP database, will setting a low number on this parameter (for eg, 10k or 50k) help reducing lock escalation chance, so that the loading process can make minimal impact on either of the databases? | 2018/12/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/53702599",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5444942/"
] | "Rows per batch" is actually more for tuning your data flow. By calculating the maximum width of a row, in bytes, and then dividing the default buffer size (the default is 10MB), you will get the number of rows you can insert in one "batch" without spilling the data out to tempdb or your buffer disk (depending if you set a specific location for you temp buffer). While keeping your data flow completely in memory and not needing to spill to disk, you'll keep your data transfer moving as quickly as possible.
The "Table Lock" option in the OLE DB Destination is what tells the server to lock the table or not. | In general the answer is: yes.
It also depends on the processing speed of the rows and the overhead per batch.
If your transaction with all the rows in a batch takes to long, consider splitting up. But splitting it up in too small batches can also yield performance problems.
The best way is to test and find the sweetspot. |
215,648 | I'm writing an application in which -
Many users can subsribe to posts made by another users.
So for a single publisher there can be many subscribers.
When a message is posted by an user X, all users who have subscribed to messages of User X will be sent an email.
How to achieve this ? I'm thinking of using publish-subscribe pattern.
And then I came through JMS. Which is the best JMS implementation to use according to your experience ?
Or else what else solution do you propose to the given problem ?
Shall I go for a straight-forward solution ?:
User x posts a message, I find all users (from database) who subscribe to user x
and then for every user, I call the sendEmail() method.
[EDIT]
My intention here is not to send-emails. I'm really sorry if it wasn't clear.
I also have to send kind of system-notifications apart from Email to all subscribers.
Right now, I've implemented the email-sending as a threadPool | 2013/10/26 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/215648",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/89507/"
] | Hope you are not looking for a platform specific solution
If Yes, your requirement highlights a pub/sub pattern. I handled the same using [RabbitMQ](http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-three-java.html) which has specific support for Pub/Sub scenario.
Without going in to granular details, to give you an idea on RabbitMQ's pub/sub model
It has something called "exchange" in addition to "producer","queue", & "consumer"
The core idea on this messaging model is that the producer never sends any messages directly to a queue. A quite often the producer doesn't even know if a message will be delivered to any queue at all. The producer can only send messages to an exchange. An exchange receives messages from producers and the other side it pushes them to queues.
It supports different exchange types to satisfy your various needs - **direct, topic, headers** and **fanout.**
This means greater flexibility to de-couple core MQ functionality from the business logic, which you may want to impose on message formats/delivery/retry logic
I used "topic" exchange type which supports message routing/filtering just by looking at message name/title.
To give you a best use of this logic - I had a weird requirement (on pub/sub model) to maintain the list of active subscribers , which I managed to get it done by introducing a heartbeat (topic based) message on the same queue
For the said reasons, and high accuracy on message delivery, and good performance results of supported AMQP protocol, I felt quite happy about my choice
Disclaimer : I am not advocating here that RabbitMQ is the only choice, but sharing this as my nice experience with a smart solution. There are quite few pub/sub solutions out there in the market.
I also found [WAMP](http://wamp.ws/) interesting while exploring various options,but didn't use it for any commercial implementation | I agree with Sarien in that XMPP can be used for the purpose. XEP-0060 - Publish / Subscribe does exactly what you are trying to do... It can send notifications to the subscribers, as well as the payload (on request, or as soon as it is generated). You will have to look deeper though to see if this fits your needs...
Hope it helps. |
1,955 | I have an idea for an attack on an additive number theory conjecture. My usual collaborator (with whom I have published four papers) is not an ANT specialist, and is not interested in working on this problem with me.
Via email, I approached an ANT specialist, but he is apparently not interested in a collaboration (though he hasn't indicated why or why not).
So I'm still looking for a potential collaborator.
Is there an accepted channel or website on which one can post "Seeking Collaborator" type requests? Or does one have to individually identify and personally email specialists in that field of research, in order to locate a willing collaborator? | 2014/10/30 | [
"https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/1955",
"https://meta.mathoverflow.net",
"https://meta.mathoverflow.net/users/19844/"
] | Not through Stackexchange (unless you are willing to hire someone).
Become an expert: read all the literature on your subject, write about it,
answer questions. If you can, develop some results and present them at
appropriate conferences. This improves the odds of someone coming to you about
collaboration.
You can also open up the problem and invite the world in. Create a web page or wiki
and point people to it whenever socially acceptable. On this forum, place a link on your
user page and mention it oh so occasionally in appropriate contexts. MathOverflow is
for references, not advertisements.
If you have developed the idea enough to try an approach, and are getting stuck,
THEN you might try a post which describes the approach and the specific sticking
point, and what you have tried and read about it. Anyone who replies may be a
potential collaborator, in which case you can mention to them that you would
welcome further input from them. But make it about the specific question; don't
make it about the collaboration. | You might find someone on [Linked In](https://www.linkedin.com/nhome/). Select *Interests*, *groups*, then search for *mathematics*. Over 1000 groups. |
1,955 | I have an idea for an attack on an additive number theory conjecture. My usual collaborator (with whom I have published four papers) is not an ANT specialist, and is not interested in working on this problem with me.
Via email, I approached an ANT specialist, but he is apparently not interested in a collaboration (though he hasn't indicated why or why not).
So I'm still looking for a potential collaborator.
Is there an accepted channel or website on which one can post "Seeking Collaborator" type requests? Or does one have to individually identify and personally email specialists in that field of research, in order to locate a willing collaborator? | 2014/10/30 | [
"https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/1955",
"https://meta.mathoverflow.net",
"https://meta.mathoverflow.net/users/19844/"
] | I don't have any good ideas on websites or channels where one can request such collaborations.
Insofar as this is posted to MO meta, there seems to be an implicit question as to whether or how MO could be used to promote such an inquiry. Realistically I think the options for this are a bit limited. Two things come to my mind (aside from the well-intentioned suggestions made by the Masked Avenger).
The first is to construct a good and well-focused question that involves your idea, and (maybe) to add somewhere in the body that you would be open to a possible collaboration on this, giving suitable contact details. (Or, you could bring up the prospect of contacting someone offline in a follow-up comment, if they respond usefully.) It is quite true that MO has some success stories where collaborations began with an MO question, and I think the community might be sympathetic to this. But the emphasis here would be on the question itself, and I think it would also be good to be low-key about the possible collaboration.
(There is sometimes a funny dynamic about proposing collaborations, not unlike the dynamic seen on sites like match.com, or so I would guess. Indeed a mathematical collaboration is a type of interpersonal relationship with someone you might not know too well at first, and which involves a degree of give and take and some degree of commitment and so on. People often want to weigh all sorts of factors before "taking the plunge". Same with how one chooses a PhD adviser, come to think of it...)
The other option, which I expect would be riskier in terms of the question staying open, is just to ask an advice-style question pertaining to the mathematical profession, which one sometimes sees on MO. You could maybe ask something very similar to what you ask here, or you could ask how other people in the profession broach the subject of initiating collaborations, etc. Such a question could be Community Wiki, and maybe such a direct approach would garner some useful suggestions. As I say it's "riskier", but as my dad used to advise me, "nothing ventured, nothing gained". Could be others are in a similar situation and would be interested in such a question. | You might find someone on [Linked In](https://www.linkedin.com/nhome/). Select *Interests*, *groups*, then search for *mathematics*. Over 1000 groups. |
149,518 | When one reads a fictional story, one can still learn about non-fiction things. I do not necessarily mean in "creative non-fiction", but this is nearly found in any realistic fiction. For example, by reading one of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's fiction novels, one can discover what society was like in his place and time.
* The nearest word I can find to describe this is "subject matter", but I do not know if this accurately fits.
Is there a term used to describe this "non-fiction information" that can be taken from a story? | 2014/02/03 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/149518",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/15983/"
] | ...pay close attention to the [non-fictive](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Non-fictive?s=t) elements. | How about "real-life facts"? or "historically accurate facts"? |
149,518 | When one reads a fictional story, one can still learn about non-fiction things. I do not necessarily mean in "creative non-fiction", but this is nearly found in any realistic fiction. For example, by reading one of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's fiction novels, one can discover what society was like in his place and time.
* The nearest word I can find to describe this is "subject matter", but I do not know if this accurately fits.
Is there a term used to describe this "non-fiction information" that can be taken from a story? | 2014/02/03 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/149518",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/15983/"
] | ...pay close attention to the [non-fictive](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Non-fictive?s=t) elements. | How about *factual information*?
>
> [**factual**](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/factual): of the nature of fact; real; actual; based on facts
>
>
> *The film, "Stigmata," is based on [**factual**](http://www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/Tips/Stigmata/stigmata.html) elements such as an ancient document called the Gospel of St. Thomas; real life phenomena known as the stigmata; and the experiences of Padre Pio, a priest who possessed the stigmata, the wounds inflicted upon Christ during the crucifixion.*
>
>
> |
541,342 | I just burned a Windows **.iso** image to a blank DVD. And now it just says blank media, when I read from Ubuntu!
Is it a problem with the .iso image, or because it is a Windows .iso image?
*Very troublesome for me.* I'm using *Brasero* Disc Burner. | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/541342",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/-1/"
] | I've had this happen to me before. The data has clearly been written to the disk if you hold it to the light but for some reason it registers as a blank disk.
Solution:
Toss it in the garbage and try again with another disk. Also, try changing the burn speed; some people say that you are prone to less errors if you burn the disk at a low speed. | Burn it using Ubuntu.
The process is really simple: <http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/burn-a-dvd-on-ubuntu>.
If the problem persisted, it might be a hardware problem. |
541,342 | I just burned a Windows **.iso** image to a blank DVD. And now it just says blank media, when I read from Ubuntu!
Is it a problem with the .iso image, or because it is a Windows .iso image?
*Very troublesome for me.* I'm using *Brasero* Disc Burner. | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/541342",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/-1/"
] | I've had this happen to me before. The data has clearly been written to the disk if you hold it to the light but for some reason it registers as a blank disk.
Solution:
Toss it in the garbage and try again with another disk. Also, try changing the burn speed; some people say that you are prone to less errors if you burn the disk at a low speed. | **Background:**
---------------
This is a common issue under Windows, with the default behaviour being to create 'the intent' of burning the data (but not actually encoding).
This can also be caused by drive (hardware) issues; wherein the data is written, but the CD/DVD is not correctly encoded to mark written/unused space (and later appears as still unused/blank).
---
**You need to be more specific:**
---------------------------------
**Are you trying to create an *Ubuntu LiveCD?***
You likely can't, as Ubuntu (desktop) will NOT fit on a 600MB CD);
**OR, just experiencing an issue with writing an .iso file to optical media?** |
541,342 | I just burned a Windows **.iso** image to a blank DVD. And now it just says blank media, when I read from Ubuntu!
Is it a problem with the .iso image, or because it is a Windows .iso image?
*Very troublesome for me.* I'm using *Brasero* Disc Burner. | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/541342",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/-1/"
] | I've had this happen to me before. The data has clearly been written to the disk if you hold it to the light but for some reason it registers as a blank disk.
Solution:
Toss it in the garbage and try again with another disk. Also, try changing the burn speed; some people say that you are prone to less errors if you burn the disk at a low speed. | I had this happen when burning something stored on a network share. Brasero goes thru the process of burning the disk, but it's blank afterwards. I had to copy the files to the local drive, then burn them. |
523,263 | My Asus A54C TB31 running Windows 7 fails to connect to a certain Wireless N network. To be more specific, it shows that it is connected but there is no internet access. I have tried disabling all services and all startup items, removing McAfee's protection, turning it into an Open network, and updating the drivers for the Wireless card.
I am seriously running out of things to check. This computer works on other networks (I believe N, but have no way to check right now). It claims to support b/g/n networks. I can ping other computers in my network, but I can't access the gateway directly wirelessly. Also, the ISP-provided access point/router/modem does not show that the device is connected. The ethernet card works in the same machine.
Any ideas? | 2012/12/23 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/523263",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/51066/"
] | Try changing MAC address of the adapter (here's a simple program for that: <http://www.klcconsulting.net/change_mac_w2k.htm> ). Also, try reseting the router. Are you sure that the IP your WiFi adapter gets is not used elsewhere in the network? Try disconnecting everything, resetting the router and using only your not working WiFi adapter to connect. Lastly, try manually setting a random IP for the WiFi adapter. The fact that you can ping others in the network means that the gateway (router) is operating and taking your traffic as it should. Could it be that you are connected on the wire while trying it out?
Hope that helps. | Sometimes one happens upon a combination of router/adapter that just do not work together at all.
You can play with the parameters of the router and the adapter, turning off all security and firewalls
etc. But if nothing comes out of it, then you have only a few options :
1. Update router firmware (if possible)
2. Get a new router, preferably of another make
3. Get a new adapter (since this is a laptop, this means a USB network adapter)
It would be interesting to know the make of your router and adapter, as well as router firmware version and adapter driver version. With that information, I might be able to think up some more
options. |
153,341 | I have a set of regular Christmas lights, and one half of the set doesn't work.
Can the half that doesn't work be removed and somehow join or solder the two remaining wire ends?
The last working lightbulb has two wires going in, and only one wire going out. There's a third wire, but it goes past the lightbulb.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/30B8f.jpg) | 2018/12/25 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/153341",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/53603/"
] | In a way, this is kind of like asking, "Doctor, I got a sliver in my finger, what do I do" to which he replies, "get into the office immediately, we need to amputate at the shoulder or higher"
I'm just kidding :)
But YES, you can, however, you really should skip the operation. Pulling the sliver or repairing the fault is more economical, but time consuming. Light sets are so inexpensive today its often worth it to buy a new set.
I tend to keep a few laying around that I can use for spare bulbs. Many bulbs nowadays can blow and still allow the set to work, but this isn't entirely perfect. A bad bulb, or a poorly seated bulb, or a broken bulb lead, or a lead not centered well, or a wire pulled out of the socket is usually the culprit. You can bulb swap unknown bulbs 1 at a time with a single socket you know is working.
While you can rewire a set, you'd now have to tape it, and also ensure you arent increasing the voltage so much that you overpower the remaining bulbs and blow them too. 100 light sets are usually using bulbs for 100 light sets. Turn that into a 50 or 25, and the voltage goes up.
Not worth messing with,and if it is, its more useful to keep the set intact.
The 3 wire part is leading the hot and neutral to another section of the lights, so if it is a 100 set, it is already 50 and 50 :)
Decide if you want the outlet, measure it from end to end with an ohmmeter, and cut and repair the last socket with the outlet if being used, re measure everything before plugging it in, and be sure to keep hot hot, and neutral neutral.
Dont both attempting it if you arent able to do this. | Yes - most Christmas lights are actually multiple sets wired in parallel.
That third wire you mentioned likely starts at the first bulb, then goes right the way down the string without touching anything until it gets to the first bulb of the second series.
They say a picture speaks a thousand words:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hd1KF.png)
If it's the half nearest the plug that still works, cut the purple wire at the very first bulb (nearest to the plug). Unwind it, leaving one wire (black in the picture) connecting the two halves of the set.
Cut the black wire where it comes out of the last (working) bulb, making sure to seal any exposed wires with electrical tape. |
153,341 | I have a set of regular Christmas lights, and one half of the set doesn't work.
Can the half that doesn't work be removed and somehow join or solder the two remaining wire ends?
The last working lightbulb has two wires going in, and only one wire going out. There's a third wire, but it goes past the lightbulb.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/30B8f.jpg) | 2018/12/25 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/153341",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/53603/"
] | Most lights are actually low voltage and that's why when 1 goes out a whole section of lights go out. I would caution againts changing the number of lights. My wife purchased a short string to put all my hallmark moving ornaments on, not realizing these lights were like 15v as the standard ones were 3v - fried every one of them collected over 20+ years. If the voltage is wrong they will flash and be done. | Yes - most Christmas lights are actually multiple sets wired in parallel.
That third wire you mentioned likely starts at the first bulb, then goes right the way down the string without touching anything until it gets to the first bulb of the second series.
They say a picture speaks a thousand words:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hd1KF.png)
If it's the half nearest the plug that still works, cut the purple wire at the very first bulb (nearest to the plug). Unwind it, leaving one wire (black in the picture) connecting the two halves of the set.
Cut the black wire where it comes out of the last (working) bulb, making sure to seal any exposed wires with electrical tape. |
44,631 | As I understand it, German law requires companies posting job openings to address the gendered nature of the German language by including both the masculine and feminine forms of the job title (e.g., by writing "*Programmierer(in)*" for both maculine "*Programmierer*" and feminine "*Programmiererin*"). When these job postings are then translated into English, this distinction is kept by including "(m/f)" or "(m/f/d)" in the job title, despite the fact that (the vast majority of) job titles are ungendered in English, so it makes the company look like they don't understand how English works.
Is keeping this distinction in English a legal requirement, or are companies just doing it to be safe against any hypothetical legal challenges? Has a German company ever gotten in trouble for not including all genders in a job posting in a language that doesn't gender nouns? | 2019/09/12 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/44631",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/3295/"
] | Adding m/w/d in a job posting is not explicitly required by any German law. It is however the established way to implement the requirements of the AGG (~ general equal treatment act) which in turn implements various EU directives. Protected classes under the AGG are race, ethnic origin, gender, religion or belief system, disability, age, and sexual identity. Of these, only gender manifests itself in the German language, making workarounds necessary that indicate that no gender is preferred.
Within certain bounds, the German language can use gender-neutral terms, for example a job called “Lehrer/-in” or “Lehrer\*in” could also be called “Lehrkraft”.
If you are able to use gender-neutral language in English but are still subject to German law, adding “m/f/d” is probably not necessary but still a very sensible idea as it corresponds to German best practices.
If you fail to add some explicit note that applicants of all genders are welcome, nothing bad will happen automatically. However, a person with a not-explicitly listed gender may apply for the job, get denied, and then sue with the argument that they were denied because of their gender. The employer would have the obligation to prove that their job postings are non-discriminatory. | English does have Gendered nouns that are derived from either German or French, both of which are gendered languages. English just has some usually simple rules for it's gender and usually reserves masculine and feminine for nouns that are capable of having a gender or are personified or otherwise sentient but without any gender (German does this too as the word for girl is neutral gendered, but when referring to a specific person by girl, they will often use "girl" with feminine articles and pronouns. Similarly a robot id neutral in English, but Lt. Commander Data, from Star Trek, is given male pronouns.).
Most job titles in English are generally male pronouns when in the generic (as this common brain teaser relies on this assumption: A boy and his father are in a car accident and are rushed to the emergency room. The doctor on duty sees boy and says, "I can't operate on this child, he's my son." How is this possible? The answer is the doctor is the boy's mother, but because the riddle never associates gender with the doctor, the listener is primed to think the doctor is a man, thus creating the problem of the boy's father being in the wreck but the boy is also the (assumed) male doctor's son, which is impossible).
Some professions might use a gendered term and in these cases the male version is used as a generic. For example, the person playing a male lead in a play is a lead actor and the person playing the female lead is a lead actress. All male characters in the play are called actors and all female players are called actresses, but collectively all people with roles in the play are refered to as actors. So if I was putting out a casting call for actors to perform the parts in Romeo and Juliette, how does someone who wants to play Juliette know if I'm casting that role or not? And keep in mind, the Bard's work always called his cast actors universally... because when he wrote them, women weren't allowed to be actors so the Juliette was played by a man. Thespians today might call female actors "actors" out of tradition of the play, not modern feminism. Shakespeare himself milked this situation for all it's worth in many of his plays, with the character of Portia from the comedy "The Merchant of Venice". Much of the humor of the climax of the play revolves around Portia (played by a man in drag) having to wear drag to pretend to be a lawyer... creating a hilarious scene where Portia's is effectivley a man, pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man (the character's drag costume were usually placed over the actor's drag costume, rather than letting the man just wear men's clothes for the scene). To this day, Portia is occasionally played by men (and usually extremely masculine men) even when the rest of the female roles are given to women, just to preserve the gag of the climax.
And remember, English is in the same language family as German, with the French side being a later addition. German and English tend to share terms, especially with the "commoner's English" as French influences were first introduced into the upper class (both in that it was brought in when England was under William the Conqueror (who was French, lest you want to jokingly say the name fooled you) and was the language of choice in early modern era for Diplomacy (here, French terms entered other languages. For examples the Tsars of Russia were expected to know French starting with Peter the Great. Empress (Tsarina) Catherine the Great had to learn Russian as she was German prior to her reign. She knew French though).
This leads to many German profession terms being common in English. For example, English uses Programmer for one who programs. But since English isn't as strict about Gender, the male terms were used and rarely feminized, thus creating a generic masculine. Lest you think this is unusual to our language, it's not as a lot of monarchy's do not have a term for a female ruler as the concept of a female ruler is more recent then the term and Queen doesn't always mean Ruler and may better translated to "Queen-consort" which exclusively is gendered to the Ruler's female spouse (Ruler's male spouse is not a King, but a prince consort). So the historical female Polish Monarch Jadiwag II is correctly King Jadiwag II even though she's not a man. Similarly Cleopatra of Egypt is the Pharaoh of Egypt, not the Pharess or Pharohess as the term does not exist (in this case Pharaoh was always neutrally the "Ruler of Egypt". Queen Neferti was also referred to as Pharaoh and while she famously wore a false beard, it was not to appear more masculine. The beard was part of the ceremonial garb of the Pharaoh, like the crown, and there are many male Pharaoh who wore false beards because they couldn't grow sufficient beards and wore false ones. It's just associated with Neferti because it was more obvious that it was fake, and by the time of Cleopatra, the False beard was long abandoned.).
Since it is law that German law requires noting a male or female can fill the role and the English language uses the male term as the generic term in almost all professions (and has no way of knowing as there are no article genders in english) the (m/f) will sufficiently indicate the job and is easier than feminizing a word that does not have an English feminine equivalent (i.e. Programmer is a profession that developed in a time where women were common in the work place (and the first person in the profession was Ada Lovelace, a woman!) it has no traditional feminine term so you can't do Programmer(ess) and no other way to indicate that women are welcome. It's probably just a "better safe than sorry" matter for the law, but continental Europe uses Civil Law (as opposed to Common Law Britain and any country who spawned from that empire). Civil Law does not allow for case law and thus does not use precedence to the level of Common Law (case law is the concept in Common Law that two identical cases must return the same verdict, so the first ruling in a jurisdiction will effectively make a law for all equal and lower courts. Several U.S. States don't have murder laws on their books because case law ruled murder illegal long before there was a United States (they still have laws on sentencing convicted murders). Since Civil Law doesn't use case law, and thus only uses laws created by legislation. Precedence may help your argument in a case, but it's ultimately not the law and thus not as binding as it is in Common Law.
So, in this case, one German judge might be swayed by the arguement that English is not as strongly gendered as German and most professions using the masculine gender can refer to both females and males practicing the profession and rule it's not a crime, but that doesn't change the ruling of another judge, who is reading a statute law that says you have to do this for all job ads, with no exception for gendered language in other languages. And as the actor issue I discussed points out, English does have professions that have seperate terms for males and females (another example is a Steward(ess) on a plane... though these days, it's now referred to as a "Flight Attendent", there are other proffesions that use Steward(esses). Or a waiter or waitress (here, generic as wait staff, though a German employer could easily make the mistake it's a waiter). |
10,189,512 | I am currently making a project for school, where I am going to make a program which teaches children how to read. My basic idea for the program was produce the sentence and then get Windows Anna to say it. My question to you is, how can I access Winodws Anna through Java? and is there a better way of doing this?
Thanks | 2012/04/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10189512",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/681159/"
] | You can use command line utiity [NirCmd](http://www.nirsoft.net/articles/speak_from_command_line.html) that uses text-to-speech API installed on Windows.
So, supply this utility together with your java application and run it with appropriate command line. | You can try [FreeTTS](http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php) : a speech synthesizer written in java.
You can try to call the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) but I don't know how to do it in java.
Can you tell us how you invoke NirCmd ?
Altenatively to NirCmd, you can build your own tool in C# that will read the text. The text could be within a txt and your tool invoked with the path to that txt as argument. You can easily adapt a demo project like this one : <http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19334/Text-to-Speech-using-Windows-SAPI> |
10,189,512 | I am currently making a project for school, where I am going to make a program which teaches children how to read. My basic idea for the program was produce the sentence and then get Windows Anna to say it. My question to you is, how can I access Winodws Anna through Java? and is there a better way of doing this?
Thanks | 2012/04/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10189512",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/681159/"
] | You can use command line utiity [NirCmd](http://www.nirsoft.net/articles/speak_from_command_line.html) that uses text-to-speech API installed on Windows.
So, supply this utility together with your java application and run it with appropriate command line. | There is the Speech platform of Windows
<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27226>
The Speech runtime
<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27225>
You can use JNA (not JNI) to interact with dll from java
<https://github.com/twall/jna> |
10,189,512 | I am currently making a project for school, where I am going to make a program which teaches children how to read. My basic idea for the program was produce the sentence and then get Windows Anna to say it. My question to you is, how can I access Winodws Anna through Java? and is there a better way of doing this?
Thanks | 2012/04/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10189512",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/681159/"
] | If having the program access internet is acceptable, then you could use [iSpeech](http://www.ispeech.org/).
You can use their [API](http://www.ispeech.org/developers), but the problem with that is that it is limited to 200 uses/day.
iSpeech has decently sounding voices, generally more polished than other TTS engines I've tired like [espeak](http://espeak.sourceforge.net/) or [FreeTTS](http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php), because it actually pronounces the words more fluently. Sure, it might pronounce 'Wind', relating with air, as 'Wind', relating to twisting, but other than that, it speaks quite well.
Also, while I haven't had any prior experience with this, I found an article that shows you how to access the MS Speech with command line (which can obviously be commanded through Java[if you do not know how, here is a good [article]](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2921621/executing-in-java-code-an-external-program-that-takes-arguments)). It is located [here](http://krolik.net/post/Say-exe-a-simple-command-line-text-to-speech-program-for-Windows.aspx). In command line, all you do is type in 'SayDynamic.exe\* the text you want to speak".
\*Or SayStatic, the other download available on the page.
This method seems to be better in terms of speed and not relying on internet access, but it definitely does NOT pronounce things as well as iSpeech. I guess the ideal thing for your program to have would be to use iSpeech when online, and use the Say\*.exe when offline.
The site also provides the source code of the program. As you might notice, it is NOT Microsoft Anna's voice, but you can specify that in the source and recompile it.
Hope I helped! | You can use command line utiity [NirCmd](http://www.nirsoft.net/articles/speak_from_command_line.html) that uses text-to-speech API installed on Windows.
So, supply this utility together with your java application and run it with appropriate command line. |
10,189,512 | I am currently making a project for school, where I am going to make a program which teaches children how to read. My basic idea for the program was produce the sentence and then get Windows Anna to say it. My question to you is, how can I access Winodws Anna through Java? and is there a better way of doing this?
Thanks | 2012/04/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10189512",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/681159/"
] | If having the program access internet is acceptable, then you could use [iSpeech](http://www.ispeech.org/).
You can use their [API](http://www.ispeech.org/developers), but the problem with that is that it is limited to 200 uses/day.
iSpeech has decently sounding voices, generally more polished than other TTS engines I've tired like [espeak](http://espeak.sourceforge.net/) or [FreeTTS](http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php), because it actually pronounces the words more fluently. Sure, it might pronounce 'Wind', relating with air, as 'Wind', relating to twisting, but other than that, it speaks quite well.
Also, while I haven't had any prior experience with this, I found an article that shows you how to access the MS Speech with command line (which can obviously be commanded through Java[if you do not know how, here is a good [article]](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2921621/executing-in-java-code-an-external-program-that-takes-arguments)). It is located [here](http://krolik.net/post/Say-exe-a-simple-command-line-text-to-speech-program-for-Windows.aspx). In command line, all you do is type in 'SayDynamic.exe\* the text you want to speak".
\*Or SayStatic, the other download available on the page.
This method seems to be better in terms of speed and not relying on internet access, but it definitely does NOT pronounce things as well as iSpeech. I guess the ideal thing for your program to have would be to use iSpeech when online, and use the Say\*.exe when offline.
The site also provides the source code of the program. As you might notice, it is NOT Microsoft Anna's voice, but you can specify that in the source and recompile it.
Hope I helped! | You can try [FreeTTS](http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php) : a speech synthesizer written in java.
You can try to call the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) but I don't know how to do it in java.
Can you tell us how you invoke NirCmd ?
Altenatively to NirCmd, you can build your own tool in C# that will read the text. The text could be within a txt and your tool invoked with the path to that txt as argument. You can easily adapt a demo project like this one : <http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19334/Text-to-Speech-using-Windows-SAPI> |
10,189,512 | I am currently making a project for school, where I am going to make a program which teaches children how to read. My basic idea for the program was produce the sentence and then get Windows Anna to say it. My question to you is, how can I access Winodws Anna through Java? and is there a better way of doing this?
Thanks | 2012/04/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10189512",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/681159/"
] | If having the program access internet is acceptable, then you could use [iSpeech](http://www.ispeech.org/).
You can use their [API](http://www.ispeech.org/developers), but the problem with that is that it is limited to 200 uses/day.
iSpeech has decently sounding voices, generally more polished than other TTS engines I've tired like [espeak](http://espeak.sourceforge.net/) or [FreeTTS](http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php), because it actually pronounces the words more fluently. Sure, it might pronounce 'Wind', relating with air, as 'Wind', relating to twisting, but other than that, it speaks quite well.
Also, while I haven't had any prior experience with this, I found an article that shows you how to access the MS Speech with command line (which can obviously be commanded through Java[if you do not know how, here is a good [article]](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2921621/executing-in-java-code-an-external-program-that-takes-arguments)). It is located [here](http://krolik.net/post/Say-exe-a-simple-command-line-text-to-speech-program-for-Windows.aspx). In command line, all you do is type in 'SayDynamic.exe\* the text you want to speak".
\*Or SayStatic, the other download available on the page.
This method seems to be better in terms of speed and not relying on internet access, but it definitely does NOT pronounce things as well as iSpeech. I guess the ideal thing for your program to have would be to use iSpeech when online, and use the Say\*.exe when offline.
The site also provides the source code of the program. As you might notice, it is NOT Microsoft Anna's voice, but you can specify that in the source and recompile it.
Hope I helped! | There is the Speech platform of Windows
<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27226>
The Speech runtime
<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27225>
You can use JNA (not JNI) to interact with dll from java
<https://github.com/twall/jna> |
45,888 | I'm a citizen of Brazil and Australia. My Brazilian passport is expired and I'm unable to renew it quickly due to not being up-to-date with my voting obligations.
The procedure to normalise my voting status and renew the Brazilian passport will take a while, but I need to travel urgently to Brazil. Therefore, obtaining a visa on my Australian passport would be a quicker option.
Is there any issue of me requesting a visa and entering Brazil on a foreign passport despite being a citizen? | 2015/04/10 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/45888",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/28424/"
] | Manuel, apparently there's a document called **ARB**, *Autorização de Retorno ao Brasil* ("Authorization to Return to Brazil"). I first found it on [Wikipedia](http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoriza%C3%A7%C3%A3o_de_Retorno_ao_Brasil), then I found it on the [brazilian consulate in London website](http://cglondres.itamaraty.gov.br/pt-br/arb_autorizacao_de_retorno_ao_brasil.xml). Sadly, I could not find any link on that subject in a website from brazilian consulate or embassy in Australia.
In short, *ARB* it is a document valid for a single trip back to Brazil. Once in the country, it will be seized by the authorities and you'll need to renew your Brazilian passport before leaving the country (or use your Australian one).
I'm sure you can call your nearest consulate in Australia and obtain this document that will allow you to come back to Brazil. | **Update**: Looks like an ARB can be processed in 3 days, while [a tourist visa can take up to 15](http://camberra.itamaraty.gov.br/en-us/tourist_visa.xml), so this is *not* the way to go after all. Leaving this here for posterity though, since it's still the general answer to most "can I enter with the wrong passport" questions.
---
I can't find any definitive source on whether you're technically required to enter Brazil on a Brazilian passport if you have one, the Brazilian embassy to Australia merely says you are "[expected](http://camberra.itamaraty.gov.br/en-us/tourist_visa.xml)" to use it. Nonetheless, the practical thing would be to **apply for the visa for your Australian passport**, and use that to travel to and from Brazil. Three things can happen:
1. The visa application is refused because they realize you're Brazilian. Fine, you're still in Australia, follow [gmauch's advice](https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/45893/1893) and apply for the ARB temporary passport instead.
2. Your visa is granted, you fly to Brazil, and at the border they realize you're a Brazilian citizen. But you're already there and a citizen, so they can't deny you entry — welcome to Brazil!
3. Your visa is granted, you fly to Brazil, you enter as as Australian. Problem solved, and this is by far the most likely scenario.
*Disclaimer*: In scenario 2, if using a foreign passport to enter Brazil turns out to be illegal, there's a chance that getting busted will involve getting held at the border for a while, fines or other unpleasantness. You could do worse than ask the embassy, foreign ministry or other reliable source for advice, although it may be difficult to get a straight answer out of them.
If you're unwilling to risk this, there's option 2B: get the visa, fly to Brazil as an Australian (so the airline lets you on board), but at the border, show them your expired Brazilian passport. This is perfectly legal, and they'll let you in eventually, although you may be in for a long wait while they figure out what happened and how you got here. And you'll now need to get a Brazilian passport before you can leave... unless you exploit the Mercosur loophole to leave Brazil with Brazilian ID, enter a neighboring country as Australian, and fly out from there. |
45,888 | I'm a citizen of Brazil and Australia. My Brazilian passport is expired and I'm unable to renew it quickly due to not being up-to-date with my voting obligations.
The procedure to normalise my voting status and renew the Brazilian passport will take a while, but I need to travel urgently to Brazil. Therefore, obtaining a visa on my Australian passport would be a quicker option.
Is there any issue of me requesting a visa and entering Brazil on a foreign passport despite being a citizen? | 2015/04/10 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/45888",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/28424/"
] | Manuel, apparently there's a document called **ARB**, *Autorização de Retorno ao Brasil* ("Authorization to Return to Brazil"). I first found it on [Wikipedia](http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoriza%C3%A7%C3%A3o_de_Retorno_ao_Brasil), then I found it on the [brazilian consulate in London website](http://cglondres.itamaraty.gov.br/pt-br/arb_autorizacao_de_retorno_ao_brasil.xml). Sadly, I could not find any link on that subject in a website from brazilian consulate or embassy in Australia.
In short, *ARB* it is a document valid for a single trip back to Brazil. Once in the country, it will be seized by the authorities and you'll need to renew your Brazilian passport before leaving the country (or use your Australian one).
I'm sure you can call your nearest consulate in Australia and obtain this document that will allow you to come back to Brazil. | As stated in Timatic, the database used by airlines:
>
> Passport Exemptions: Nationals of Brazil with a national ID Card
>
>
>
So you only need your Brazilian ID card to board the flight and enter Brazil, even directly from outside the MERCOSUL area. |
122,138 | Paul Tudor Jones was once pictured with a sign saying "Losers Average Losers". I've often seen this taken as a statement against trend trading. In other words, "if you keep doubling-down on positions that are losing, eventually you'll blow all of your money on something that never recovers". That more or less makes sense to me. However an old note of mine says that it also destroys the idea of dollar-cost averaging. How can this be? For example, I can't see how you could ever go bust dollar-cost averaging on a big index like the S&P500.
Do I misunderstand some part of this quote or the system of dollar-cost averaging? For example, if you did dollar-cost average on something that was going bust, you would end up with a large collection of worthless shares that you mostly bought cheap and will have therefore lost on average by chasing a loss. However, that example doesn't seem sufficiently global. Is there some different mathematical implication if you dollar-cost average on a large number of stocks, some of which fail? | 2020/03/27 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/122138",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/95469/"
] | An investor with a long term outlook who believes his fundamental analysis is correct will systematically dollar cost average because at the onset, he has 30-40 years until retirement. In addition, his skillset tends not to include trading ablilty.
Averaging down is not a professional trader's modus operandi. Breakevenitis is a bad habit. It not only ties up additional capital but it also increases the size of the bet (and risk) on a trade that is not going as planned. Hence the old trading expression: "Let your profits run and cut your losses".
Good traders strive to adapt to changing facts rather than marrying a bad position. They consider DCA to be throwing good money after bad. Hence the expression, **Losers Average Losers**. | >
> "if you keep doubling-down on positions that are losing, eventually you'll blow all of your money on something that never recovers"
>
I partially disagree. If a big company, one that is not in trouble, reduces 50% in value for no apparent reason at all, it's may be time to buy. Just don't completely forget diversification.
Usually, such reductions of value happen only when the general trend of market is down. It is hard to find stocks 50% for sale when stocks of other companies are not for sale.
The wisdom here is that usually there is a reason for a particular stock to reduce in value. You'd better be aware what the reason is.
>
> For example, I can't see how you could ever go bust dollar-cost averaging on a big index like the S&P500
>
You can go bust. Invest too much, ignore the recommendation to keep an emergency fund. Then you may have to sell the stocks at lowered prices.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
But, in principle, you're right. Buying S&P 500 index is nearly equivalent to buying stocks of Corporate America, if such thing was possible. The S&P 500 has a certain dividend yield. The investment is inflation protected. Also, you benefit from GDP growth by having a certain share of Corporate America.
From this, we can calculate the expected return. For example, dividend yield can be 4%. Inflation can be 2%. GDP growth can be 2.5%. From this, you get 8.5% return. Plug in your best estimates for dividend yield, inflation and GDP growth and you get best estimate for the return.
The trouble is, this return is guaranteed only on the very long term. If you do a short-term investment, then the valuation difference between the time of purchasing and time of sale makes a large percentage of your return. In such a short-term investment, your return could even be negative.
The benefit of dollar cost averaging is that you diversify in time. You buy stocks when they are expensive, but you also buy stocks when they are cheap. You get more stocks when they are cheap, obviously, so such purchases make a majority of your return. |
214 | What are the names and categories of LEGO bricks? Is there a consistent naming scheme? Does Lego have an official name or identification for different pieces? | 2011/10/26 | [
"https://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/214",
"https://bricks.stackexchange.com",
"https://bricks.stackexchange.com/users/36/"
] | It's been worked out by multiple groups who decided on different systems. The disagreement is based on what information was publicly available from the Lego Group at the time, what pieces had been manufactured up to that point, and what features the category authors thought were salient.
To really appreciate the magnitude of the problem, just try classifying every part in your own collection. Make your own categories or try to follow somebody's elses. You will raise a lot of questions about how broad the categories should be. Everybody with a storage system goes through this.
Existing Classification Schemes
-------------------------------
* [Consider BrickLink's categories](http://www.bricklink.com/catalogTree.asp?itemType=P), which are up to 188 categories containing 25,096 parts as of this writing. In this scheme, there are no subcategories, only 2 levels. The category Brick covers 70 parts, but has 7 co-categories like Brick, Decorated (1356) and Brick, Round (38). Brick, Round shares some close neighbors in a separate group, Cylinder(47) (both terms inherited from LDRAW, by the way.) You could reasonably argue about membership characteristics for classifying under Brick, Round or Cylinder or even whether there should be two groups.
* [LDRAW](http://www.ldraw.org), originated by James Jessiman), didn't categorize parts hierarchically, but for many parts the first word or two makes a genus. Programs such as http://mlcad.lm-software.com/ displayed some of these categories in a menu but invited you to think of the big list "like the rummage in the Lego box." As of this writing, LDRAW covers 5,377 parts.
* [Peeron](http://peeron.com/inv) is an example of an exhaustive set database using LDRAW's part numbers and names. Peeron didn't introduce a hierarchy of its own.
* [PartsRef](http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/), by Steve Bliss, a major LDRAW parts author, attempted to categorize the LDRAW parts hierarchically. It had 22 top level categories, for instance: Architectural, having subcategories like Doors. However the Plate category remained undivided and included all the plates with various protrusions.
* [LEGO Digital Designer](http://ldd.lego.com/) is a newer example with its brick palettes (sorry, I'm not a user.)
* [Pick-a-Brick](http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-A-Brick-ByTheme) as of this writing uses 42 categories, some of which are very broad. For instance, "Brick, Special" is one category (currently 155 parts) that other schemes divide into various groups for round bricks, modified bricks, cylinders, hinges, cones, etc.
* [Auczilla](http://web.archive.org/web/20000824023550/http://www.auczilla.com/lego/xiii/) by Todd Lehman and Suzanne Rich (circa 1996-2000) had another exhaustive parts scheme that excelled in its use of geometric adjectives for part names, such as Half-Octagonal (debatable on math grounds) and Quarter-Round, Convex and Concave. The link is from Internet Wayback but shows the top categories.
* Finally, [Technica](http://isodomos.com/technica/registry/registry.php) (1999) was another attempt at classifying just Technic parts.
In the end, some parts are placed into categories primarily by geometry, others by function, yet others by historical origin. You could also conceivably group bricks by building function (I'm thinking of direction-changing rectilinear bricks) or even by simply the number of studs (I'm thinking of a Kanji dictionary.)
Part Names Make Classification Muddier
--------------------------------------
Consider the language barrier: if you read Lego's English Pick-A-Brick names, you realize it's translated (from Danish). A major category is "Brick, Bow" also known as an Arch.
*Dome*
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NUPwv.gif)
Consider 30367, LEGO's "Final Brick" filed under Bricks, Special. Perhaps they meant Finial? LDRAW calls it a [Cylinder with Dome Top](http://peeron.com/inv/parts/553). BrickLink puts it under Brick, Round (remember BrickLink has both categories Cylinder and Brick, Round from its LDRAW heritage.)
*Jumper Plate*
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zyBNX.gif)
Jumper Plate is one name that made perfect sense to Europeans but baffled Americans; to James Jessiman (Australian) it was a [Plate 1 x 2 with 1 Stud](http://peeron.com/inv/parts/3794). I recall Auczilla used the adjective Offset in there. In Pick-A-Brick it's now a Plate 1x2 With 1 Knob. Or should it be a tile because it's mostly flat?
*Loudhailer*
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BWVfv.gif)
Then there are multi-purpose parts: describe [4349](http://peeron.com/inv/parts/4349) geometrically and it's another cone. But it could be a Minifig Weapon, or just Minifig Utensil. In LDRAW, it's a Loudhailer and has no category as such. The American term would be a Megaphone but many know it as Star Wars Blaster.
Multiply this complexity by thousands, and you get an idea that the task of naming is never settled.
Part Numbers
------------
Many LEGO bricks have part numbers imprinted from the mold. This is now called a "Design ID" by LEGO. It served as the original basis for LDRAW part numbers. However, LDRAW invented its own numbers for parts with no number.
About the year 2000, LEGO introduced a 7 digit "Element ID" to designate a particular design in a particular color. These numbers began to be used internally at LEGO for Building Instructions software, and externally in LEGO Creator software products. They are now shown in official set inventories and in Pick-A-Brick.
Conclusion
----------
This should give you an idea why different name and category schemes don't align. We start by talking about the same LEGO pieces but we bring preferred names from childhood or later (I always referred and still refer to 1xN bricks as 1-bumper, 2-bumper, etc.) We group them according to geometry or function, but find new reasons to subdivide or revise to make the groups more intuitive. New parts challenge these categories. LEGO does not seem to have given the problem much thought or care, lumping parts into catch-all categories. I derive immense satisfaction from solving a problem of devising a part's genus and differentia, but I realize that just like in the taxonomy of living things, there is competition between systems, and endless revision. | Our categories are:
* brick
* shaped
* mechanical
* people
* people tools
* finish
Then L, M, S within each of these. **Brick** is any rectangular prism, flat or otherwise. **Mechanical** are any that can spin or move when connected. **Shaped** are not mechanical or brick. **People tools** are anything that fits in a LEGO hand, not otherwise mechanical. **Finish** are smooth pieces that can not hold another piece on top.
My kids are 9 and 7. Its taken us that long to come up with the system,slowly over time. I'm utterly disappointed with moms who think color sorting is comparably useful. My goal is to be able to find any piece easily when boys put together each set to sell in their 20's. |
65,041 | Turns out that the office never had a shredder due to noise concerns and we seldom have work documents that demand such treatment.
But one day the unexpected happened, and we had to literally burn the stuff up in the toilet (with care, of course).
How do others deal with such a situation? | 2016/04/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65041",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The usual solution is to hire a professional disposal contractor to turn up with a shredding truck, and not only shred all the records while you watch if necessary, but provide a signed log evidencing that (which can be essential for certain types of documentation.)
In an emergency your solution works, but is not as safe or clean. If you have a wood fired boiler at work that can be a better option, or as more and more companies go 'green' many are installing biomass converters which can cope with paper along with other organics. | If this is a one-time or very rare need, and the amount of paper is modest, I'd just drop them in a metal trash can and burn them. A small enough number of pages at a time that the flames stay contained within the trash can. That's a more thorough destruction than a shredder anyway -- determined people have managed to re-assemble shredded pages.
Frankly, though, I think I'd just buy a paper shredder. You can get a cheap one at any office supply store for like $30. |
65,041 | Turns out that the office never had a shredder due to noise concerns and we seldom have work documents that demand such treatment.
But one day the unexpected happened, and we had to literally burn the stuff up in the toilet (with care, of course).
How do others deal with such a situation? | 2016/04/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65041",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | You didn't have to burn stuff in the toilet. Actually, burning stuff in the toilet is beyond reckless. Think: What's the worst that can happen? The worst is your office building on fire. If you need to destroy paper, and you don't have a shredder, you buy a shredder.
Unless you are in the deepest Australian outback, it shouldn't take you more than 30 minutes to buy a shredder and return to the office with it. | The usual solution is to hire a professional disposal contractor to turn up with a shredding truck, and not only shred all the records while you watch if necessary, but provide a signed log evidencing that (which can be essential for certain types of documentation.)
In an emergency your solution works, but is not as safe or clean. If you have a wood fired boiler at work that can be a better option, or as more and more companies go 'green' many are installing biomass converters which can cope with paper along with other organics. |
65,041 | Turns out that the office never had a shredder due to noise concerns and we seldom have work documents that demand such treatment.
But one day the unexpected happened, and we had to literally burn the stuff up in the toilet (with care, of course).
How do others deal with such a situation? | 2016/04/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65041",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> Turns out that the office never had a shredder due to noise concerns
> and we seldom have work documents that demand such treatment.
>
>
>
**Noise is an excuse, not the actual reason.**
Shredders aren't all that noisy, and could easily be operated after hours or in a utility closet where nobody would be disturbed.
Most likely, they simply didn't want to spend the money. Perhaps they were just being frugal, or perhaps they were misguided.
>
> But one day the unexpected happened, and we had to literally burn the
> stuff up in the toilet (with care, of course).
>
>
>
Burning would work.
Of course, if you set off the smoke alarm it will be far more noisy than a shredder. And if you burn the building down you would have to work outside and listen to traffic going by - that could be noisy too.
>
> How do others deal with such a situation?
>
>
>
I worked at an 8-person startup. When we collected paper that needed to be shredded, the CEO took it home and shredded it there. You could take it anywhere a shredder is available (an office-services shop, home, whatever) and get it shredded pretty easily. | If shredding is something you don't do very often, the shredding jobs are not too big when you get them, and you don't need cross cut shredding, then you might consider a hand operated shredder. I have one for home use and, in my experience, it is easy to operate and doesn't make nearly as much noise as an electromechanical shredder. On the other hand, I have found that I must be careful to avoid shredding too many sheets at once - two or three sheets thick is about the maximum mine will take. So, sound-wise, the noise you make won't be as loud, but will last longer. Amazon has one similar to mine for $13 at this link: [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004IAF544/](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B004IAF544) |
65,041 | Turns out that the office never had a shredder due to noise concerns and we seldom have work documents that demand such treatment.
But one day the unexpected happened, and we had to literally burn the stuff up in the toilet (with care, of course).
How do others deal with such a situation? | 2016/04/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65041",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> Turns out that the office never had a shredder due to noise concerns
> and we seldom have work documents that demand such treatment.
>
>
>
**Noise is an excuse, not the actual reason.**
Shredders aren't all that noisy, and could easily be operated after hours or in a utility closet where nobody would be disturbed.
Most likely, they simply didn't want to spend the money. Perhaps they were just being frugal, or perhaps they were misguided.
>
> But one day the unexpected happened, and we had to literally burn the
> stuff up in the toilet (with care, of course).
>
>
>
Burning would work.
Of course, if you set off the smoke alarm it will be far more noisy than a shredder. And if you burn the building down you would have to work outside and listen to traffic going by - that could be noisy too.
>
> How do others deal with such a situation?
>
>
>
I worked at an 8-person startup. When we collected paper that needed to be shredded, the CEO took it home and shredded it there. You could take it anywhere a shredder is available (an office-services shop, home, whatever) and get it shredded pretty easily. | Some good answers already, but all take time. Not great when the SWAT team are trying to bust through the door and the secretary and CEO are trying to hold it closed and wedge a chair under the handle while the wood around the lock is starting to splinter. And the helicopters are making a racket outside making it hard to concentrate. The VP has soiled himself and is running around like the end of the World has come etc,.
For small and rare occasions, burning the documents in anything metal or ceramic is a reasonable thing to do if you're pressed for time. Use common sense in terms of fire safety. Flush or crush the ashes. |
65,041 | Turns out that the office never had a shredder due to noise concerns and we seldom have work documents that demand such treatment.
But one day the unexpected happened, and we had to literally burn the stuff up in the toilet (with care, of course).
How do others deal with such a situation? | 2016/04/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65041",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I can't believe nobody has mentioned scissors yet! Yes, it might take a while to shred paper to the extent that a paper shredder would, but it is free, and safer than starting a fire in your toilet (as long as you watch your fingers!)
Or, if your office won't spring for a shredder, maybe they can at least justify purchasing a pair of shredder scissors for the rare cases that they are needed:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7OUsV.png)
Also, whenever I chop up old credit cards by hand, I always throw the pieces away into several different trash cans. I figure this greatly reduces the chances that someone will be able to find all the pieces and put it back together. | If all other logistics do not pose an issue (e.g. moving the documents, keeping them contained in a public area, etc.) and depending on your area, you may be able to find "community shred" events. They are free and occur pretty regularly in larger or "greener" areas. |
65,041 | Turns out that the office never had a shredder due to noise concerns and we seldom have work documents that demand such treatment.
But one day the unexpected happened, and we had to literally burn the stuff up in the toilet (with care, of course).
How do others deal with such a situation? | 2016/04/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65041",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | You didn't have to burn stuff in the toilet. Actually, burning stuff in the toilet is beyond reckless. Think: What's the worst that can happen? The worst is your office building on fire. If you need to destroy paper, and you don't have a shredder, you buy a shredder.
Unless you are in the deepest Australian outback, it shouldn't take you more than 30 minutes to buy a shredder and return to the office with it. | If this is a one-time or very rare need, and the amount of paper is modest, I'd just drop them in a metal trash can and burn them. A small enough number of pages at a time that the flames stay contained within the trash can. That's a more thorough destruction than a shredder anyway -- determined people have managed to re-assemble shredded pages.
Frankly, though, I think I'd just buy a paper shredder. You can get a cheap one at any office supply store for like $30. |
65,041 | Turns out that the office never had a shredder due to noise concerns and we seldom have work documents that demand such treatment.
But one day the unexpected happened, and we had to literally burn the stuff up in the toilet (with care, of course).
How do others deal with such a situation? | 2016/04/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65041",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | You didn't have to burn stuff in the toilet. Actually, burning stuff in the toilet is beyond reckless. Think: What's the worst that can happen? The worst is your office building on fire. If you need to destroy paper, and you don't have a shredder, you buy a shredder.
Unless you are in the deepest Australian outback, it shouldn't take you more than 30 minutes to buy a shredder and return to the office with it. | If shredding is something you don't do very often, the shredding jobs are not too big when you get them, and you don't need cross cut shredding, then you might consider a hand operated shredder. I have one for home use and, in my experience, it is easy to operate and doesn't make nearly as much noise as an electromechanical shredder. On the other hand, I have found that I must be careful to avoid shredding too many sheets at once - two or three sheets thick is about the maximum mine will take. So, sound-wise, the noise you make won't be as loud, but will last longer. Amazon has one similar to mine for $13 at this link: [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004IAF544/](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B004IAF544) |
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