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14,061 | Ok, so with ArcGIS 10, ESRI has depricated 'Address Standardizing' in the new locators, I know you can still use the 9.3.1 locators to do this; but I heavily suspect that after the 10.1 version we will see this available less and less.
The [FGDC Addressing Standard](http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standa... | 2011/08/26 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14061",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2746/"
] | I work in the address verification field, actually (a company called [SmartyStreets](https://smartystreets.com)) -- where we do postal address verification (in the United States).
You'll need a CASS-Certified vendor of address data. These companies' software has been approved by the USPS to append missing information ... | Yes there are tools, free would depend on where your addresses are located.
There are many not free address scrubbers licensed by the USPS. One of the ones I use is [ZP4](http://www.semaphorecorp.com/cgi/zp4.html). I find the input and output to be flexible based on how you store your data currently and how you would l... |
14,061 | Ok, so with ArcGIS 10, ESRI has depricated 'Address Standardizing' in the new locators, I know you can still use the 9.3.1 locators to do this; but I heavily suspect that after the 10.1 version we will see this available less and less.
The [FGDC Addressing Standard](http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standa... | 2011/08/26 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14061",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2746/"
] | Parsing of an address is a complicated process, as I'm sure you are well aware.
Using ZIP+4 data from the USPS, you can determine if a street exists within a given city/state/zip code. You can even verify that a primary number (house number) falls within the correct ZIP+4 range. Adjusting city names and street names ... | Yes there are tools, free would depend on where your addresses are located.
There are many not free address scrubbers licensed by the USPS. One of the ones I use is [ZP4](http://www.semaphorecorp.com/cgi/zp4.html). I find the input and output to be flexible based on how you store your data currently and how you would l... |
14,061 | Ok, so with ArcGIS 10, ESRI has depricated 'Address Standardizing' in the new locators, I know you can still use the 9.3.1 locators to do this; but I heavily suspect that after the 10.1 version we will see this available less and less.
The [FGDC Addressing Standard](http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standa... | 2011/08/26 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14061",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2746/"
] | Yes there are tools, free would depend on where your addresses are located.
There are many not free address scrubbers licensed by the USPS. One of the ones I use is [ZP4](http://www.semaphorecorp.com/cgi/zp4.html). I find the input and output to be flexible based on how you store your data currently and how you would l... | Another option for US based addresses is [YAddress](http://www.yaddress.net). It also corrects and validates the address before splitting it into components. (I work for the company that makes it.) |
14,061 | Ok, so with ArcGIS 10, ESRI has depricated 'Address Standardizing' in the new locators, I know you can still use the 9.3.1 locators to do this; but I heavily suspect that after the 10.1 version we will see this available less and less.
The [FGDC Addressing Standard](http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standa... | 2011/08/26 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14061",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2746/"
] | Parsing of an address is a complicated process, as I'm sure you are well aware.
Using ZIP+4 data from the USPS, you can determine if a street exists within a given city/state/zip code. You can even verify that a primary number (house number) falls within the correct ZIP+4 range. Adjusting city names and street names ... | I work in the address verification field, actually (a company called [SmartyStreets](https://smartystreets.com)) -- where we do postal address verification (in the United States).
You'll need a CASS-Certified vendor of address data. These companies' software has been approved by the USPS to append missing information ... |
14,061 | Ok, so with ArcGIS 10, ESRI has depricated 'Address Standardizing' in the new locators, I know you can still use the 9.3.1 locators to do this; but I heavily suspect that after the 10.1 version we will see this available less and less.
The [FGDC Addressing Standard](http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standa... | 2011/08/26 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14061",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2746/"
] | I work in the address verification field, actually (a company called [SmartyStreets](https://smartystreets.com)) -- where we do postal address verification (in the United States).
You'll need a CASS-Certified vendor of address data. These companies' software has been approved by the USPS to append missing information ... | I have had great success using the us address parser library. I built a python tool that uses the library to create the parsed out address fields. <https://github.com/datamade/usaddress> |
14,061 | Ok, so with ArcGIS 10, ESRI has depricated 'Address Standardizing' in the new locators, I know you can still use the 9.3.1 locators to do this; but I heavily suspect that after the 10.1 version we will see this available less and less.
The [FGDC Addressing Standard](http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standa... | 2011/08/26 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14061",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2746/"
] | I work in the address verification field, actually (a company called [SmartyStreets](https://smartystreets.com)) -- where we do postal address verification (in the United States).
You'll need a CASS-Certified vendor of address data. These companies' software has been approved by the USPS to append missing information ... | Another option for US based addresses is [YAddress](http://www.yaddress.net). It also corrects and validates the address before splitting it into components. (I work for the company that makes it.) |
14,061 | Ok, so with ArcGIS 10, ESRI has depricated 'Address Standardizing' in the new locators, I know you can still use the 9.3.1 locators to do this; but I heavily suspect that after the 10.1 version we will see this available less and less.
The [FGDC Addressing Standard](http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standa... | 2011/08/26 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14061",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2746/"
] | Parsing of an address is a complicated process, as I'm sure you are well aware.
Using ZIP+4 data from the USPS, you can determine if a street exists within a given city/state/zip code. You can even verify that a primary number (house number) falls within the correct ZIP+4 range. Adjusting city names and street names ... | I have had great success using the us address parser library. I built a python tool that uses the library to create the parsed out address fields. <https://github.com/datamade/usaddress> |
14,061 | Ok, so with ArcGIS 10, ESRI has depricated 'Address Standardizing' in the new locators, I know you can still use the 9.3.1 locators to do this; but I heavily suspect that after the 10.1 version we will see this available less and less.
The [FGDC Addressing Standard](http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standa... | 2011/08/26 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14061",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2746/"
] | Parsing of an address is a complicated process, as I'm sure you are well aware.
Using ZIP+4 data from the USPS, you can determine if a street exists within a given city/state/zip code. You can even verify that a primary number (house number) falls within the correct ZIP+4 range. Adjusting city names and street names ... | Another option for US based addresses is [YAddress](http://www.yaddress.net). It also corrects and validates the address before splitting it into components. (I work for the company that makes it.) |
14,061 | Ok, so with ArcGIS 10, ESRI has depricated 'Address Standardizing' in the new locators, I know you can still use the 9.3.1 locators to do this; but I heavily suspect that after the 10.1 version we will see this available less and less.
The [FGDC Addressing Standard](http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standa... | 2011/08/26 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14061",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/2746/"
] | I have had great success using the us address parser library. I built a python tool that uses the library to create the parsed out address fields. <https://github.com/datamade/usaddress> | Another option for US based addresses is [YAddress](http://www.yaddress.net). It also corrects and validates the address before splitting it into components. (I work for the company that makes it.) |
14,218 | I came across a paper, not sure it originated from academia or a blog or such, that reported on applying principal components to build currency baskets from a set of individual currency pairs and to identify driving currencies. When I use the term basket then I mean a collection of individual cash fx pairs and to relat... | 2014/07/30 | [
"https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/14218",
"https://quant.stackexchange.com",
"https://quant.stackexchange.com/users/2114/"
] | Perhaps [this paper](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2400219) by Hyun Woo Byun and coauthors is what you're looking for: *Using a Principal Component Analysis to develop Multi-Currency Trading algorithms in the FX market*
They apply principal component analysis to a currency basket of 9 pairs with a... | Try the BIS, they are the experts in this area. <http://www.bis.org/statistics/eer/>
There are two papers there which explain the methodology behind their currency indices. |
219,480 | Is there any way to bake a texture that I generated for Displace modifier? Or any way to recreate it one to one in the shader editor? I need to make a few fixes (to redraw it a bit) and also use it for generating my color map. Thanks T\_T | 2021/04/14 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/219480",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/104331/"
] | Select your object and click the spanner/wrench in the properties sidebar and then the Add Modifier dropdown:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VHgJ6.jpg)
The Solidifer and Subdivision Surface entries are arrowed below:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6TWHJ.png)
a light has no modifiers at all
[ I'd like to open a topic about the writing systems. As far as I understand the Chinese writing system has literally no connection at all with the pronunciation of the words ... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/34555",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com",
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] | Chinese characters work very well for Chinese – but that is a tautology because they *evolved* as a way to represent Chinese and can thus be said to be *designed* for Chinese. This not necessarily applies only to Mandarin Chinese but also to many other flavours of Chinese that developed from a common Old or Middle Chin... | While Chinese writing isn't a universal writing in the sense of the question, there were attempts to create such writing systems, e.g., Bliss symbolics. They are generally known as pasigraphies.
Some more information on pasigraphies is available from the sister site on Constructed Languages in these questions and thei... |
2,742 | During the [tag cleanup](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2736/17758), several of the questions have been being converted to more general tags like [merchandise](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/merchandise "show questions tagged 'merchandise'"), [cosplay](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions... | 2016/02/11 | [
"https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2742",
"https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | We do seem to have gotten a little boost in merchandise, cosplay, and itasha id questions after deciding they were the only image-based identification questions we would take. I hope we won't come to regret allowing them.
So far, though, they haven't been troublesome. If they become a plague like the other image-only ... | For now, perhaps it would be best to require that users provide information about the item that is **relevant**, **substantial** and **not obvious from the image**.
Otherwise, it's essentially another low quality id-request. The only reason we exempted these questions was that they *could provide more information*
Fo... |
55,658,029 | Say, I have an application that reads a batch of data from KAFKA, it uses the keys of the incoming messages and makes a query to HBase (reads the current data from HBase for those keys), does some computation and writes data back to HBase for the same set of keys. For e.g.
{K1, V1}, {K2, V2}, {K3, V3} (incoming messag... | 2019/04/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/55658029",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3701377/"
] | A message will only appear in one and only one kafka partition. It is using a hash function on the message modulo the number of partitions. I believe this guarantee solves your problem.
But bear in mind that if you change the number of partitions the same message key could be allocated to a different partition. That m... | As Vassilis mentioned, Kafka guarantee that single key will be only in one partition.
There are [different strategies](https://medium.com/@anyili0928/what-i-have-learned-from-kafka-partition-assignment-strategy-799fdf15d3ab) how to distribute keys on partitions.
When you increase partition number or change partiti... |
55,658,029 | Say, I have an application that reads a batch of data from KAFKA, it uses the keys of the incoming messages and makes a query to HBase (reads the current data from HBase for those keys), does some computation and writes data back to HBase for the same set of keys. For e.g.
{K1, V1}, {K2, V2}, {K3, V3} (incoming messag... | 2019/04/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/55658029",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3701377/"
] | When you increase a number of partitions only new messages come to the newly added partitions. Kafka takes responsibility for processing one message exactly once | As Vassilis mentioned, Kafka guarantee that single key will be only in one partition.
There are [different strategies](https://medium.com/@anyili0928/what-i-have-learned-from-kafka-partition-assignment-strategy-799fdf15d3ab) how to distribute keys on partitions.
When you increase partition number or change partiti... |
109,013 | Throughout the various Star Trek shows, there are a number of times when the *Enterprise* or another Federation vessel encounters a more advanced civilization. For instance, in *The Corbomite Maneuver*, Balok's ship seems to be more advanced than the *Enterprise*. Kirk and Balok arrange for a crewmember from the *Enter... | 2015/11/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109013",
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] | The quantum slipstream drive.
=============================
In *Voyager* ["Hope and Fear"](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hope_and_Fear_(episode)), the crew believes that Starfleet has sent them a rescue vessel, the USS Dauntless, which contains a quantum slipstream drive. In reality, the ship was wholly from th... | Not completely sure this counts, but how about [**disruptor technology**](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Disruptor)?
Disruptors are weapons used in several different varieties by many alien species including the Borg, Breen, Cardassians, Cravic, Dominion, Eminians, Federation, Ferengi, Gorn, Hirogen, Klingons, L... |
109,013 | Throughout the various Star Trek shows, there are a number of times when the *Enterprise* or another Federation vessel encounters a more advanced civilization. For instance, in *The Corbomite Maneuver*, Balok's ship seems to be more advanced than the *Enterprise*. Kirk and Balok arrange for a crewmember from the *Enter... | 2015/11/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109013",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | The quantum slipstream drive.
=============================
In *Voyager* ["Hope and Fear"](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hope_and_Fear_(episode)), the crew believes that Starfleet has sent them a rescue vessel, the USS Dauntless, which contains a quantum slipstream drive. In reality, the ship was wholly from th... | Pre-Federation, we know that the Andorians gave the humans technology. Both during the Xindi incident, where Commander Shran gives Commander Tucker some engineering technology, and sometime before the decommissioning of NX-01 they give them the technology to go warp 7.
Also, Chief O'Brien adapts a lot of Cardassian te... |
109,013 | Throughout the various Star Trek shows, there are a number of times when the *Enterprise* or another Federation vessel encounters a more advanced civilization. For instance, in *The Corbomite Maneuver*, Balok's ship seems to be more advanced than the *Enterprise*. Kirk and Balok arrange for a crewmember from the *Enter... | 2015/11/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109013",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/"
] | Not strictly alien technology if alien means extraterrestrial: The mobile holographic projector the Doctor is equipped with in *Voyager: Future's End* is used continuously after this double episode. | [Memory Alpha: The Bajoran wormhole](http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Bajoran_wormhole) states, "The Bajoran wormhole was an artificial construct built by the beings known to the Bajoran people as the Prophets,". Creating new wormholes may not have been something Starfleet adopted, but Starfleet did use this technolog... |
109,013 | Throughout the various Star Trek shows, there are a number of times when the *Enterprise* or another Federation vessel encounters a more advanced civilization. For instance, in *The Corbomite Maneuver*, Balok's ship seems to be more advanced than the *Enterprise*. Kirk and Balok arrange for a crewmember from the *Enter... | 2015/11/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109013",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | The quantum slipstream drive.
=============================
In *Voyager* ["Hope and Fear"](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hope_and_Fear_(episode)), the crew believes that Starfleet has sent them a rescue vessel, the USS Dauntless, which contains a quantum slipstream drive. In reality, the ship was wholly from th... | Not strictly alien technology if alien means extraterrestrial: The mobile holographic projector the Doctor is equipped with in *Voyager: Future's End* is used continuously after this double episode. |
109,013 | Throughout the various Star Trek shows, there are a number of times when the *Enterprise* or another Federation vessel encounters a more advanced civilization. For instance, in *The Corbomite Maneuver*, Balok's ship seems to be more advanced than the *Enterprise*. Kirk and Balok arrange for a crewmember from the *Enter... | 2015/11/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109013",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/"
] | Chronologically, holodecks first appear in ENT 1x05, [Unexpected](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unexpected_(episode)) (2151), as an alien technology:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UK6z8.jpg)
They parted on friendly terms, and gave Klingons the technology at the end of... | Pre-Federation, we know that the Andorians gave the humans technology. Both during the Xindi incident, where Commander Shran gives Commander Tucker some engineering technology, and sometime before the decommissioning of NX-01 they give them the technology to go warp 7.
Also, Chief O'Brien adapts a lot of Cardassian te... |
109,013 | Throughout the various Star Trek shows, there are a number of times when the *Enterprise* or another Federation vessel encounters a more advanced civilization. For instance, in *The Corbomite Maneuver*, Balok's ship seems to be more advanced than the *Enterprise*. Kirk and Balok arrange for a crewmember from the *Enter... | 2015/11/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109013",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | The quantum slipstream drive.
=============================
In *Voyager* ["Hope and Fear"](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hope_and_Fear_(episode)), the crew believes that Starfleet has sent them a rescue vessel, the USS Dauntless, which contains a quantum slipstream drive. In reality, the ship was wholly from th... | Perhaps slightly less canon, but the Vanguard books series goes into this specific point pretty thoroughly. These books are set in the TOS era aboard a large space station, from which the 'Taurus Reach' is explored.
Technology from a long-dormant society is discovered and eventually leads to an advance in energy-to-ma... |
109,013 | Throughout the various Star Trek shows, there are a number of times when the *Enterprise* or another Federation vessel encounters a more advanced civilization. For instance, in *The Corbomite Maneuver*, Balok's ship seems to be more advanced than the *Enterprise*. Kirk and Balok arrange for a crewmember from the *Enter... | 2015/11/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109013",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/"
] | Chronologically, holodecks first appear in ENT 1x05, [Unexpected](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unexpected_(episode)) (2151), as an alien technology:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UK6z8.jpg)
They parted on friendly terms, and gave Klingons the technology at the end of... | [Memory Alpha: The Bajoran wormhole](http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Bajoran_wormhole) states, "The Bajoran wormhole was an artificial construct built by the beings known to the Bajoran people as the Prophets,". Creating new wormholes may not have been something Starfleet adopted, but Starfleet did use this technolog... |
109,013 | Throughout the various Star Trek shows, there are a number of times when the *Enterprise* or another Federation vessel encounters a more advanced civilization. For instance, in *The Corbomite Maneuver*, Balok's ship seems to be more advanced than the *Enterprise*. Kirk and Balok arrange for a crewmember from the *Enter... | 2015/11/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109013",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/"
] | Chronologically, holodecks first appear in ENT 1x05, [Unexpected](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unexpected_(episode)) (2151), as an alien technology:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UK6z8.jpg)
They parted on friendly terms, and gave Klingons the technology at the end of... | **Voyager received a large amount of alien technology, over time.**
For starters, they have nanoprobe torpedoes that are a combined effort with the Borg.
Their power relays were also improved by the Borg, and after it was realized they worked better than before, were allowed to stay that way.
Their astrometrics was ... |
109,013 | Throughout the various Star Trek shows, there are a number of times when the *Enterprise* or another Federation vessel encounters a more advanced civilization. For instance, in *The Corbomite Maneuver*, Balok's ship seems to be more advanced than the *Enterprise*. Kirk and Balok arrange for a crewmember from the *Enter... | 2015/11/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109013",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/"
] | Pre-Federation, we know that the Andorians gave the humans technology. Both during the Xindi incident, where Commander Shran gives Commander Tucker some engineering technology, and sometime before the decommissioning of NX-01 they give them the technology to go warp 7.
Also, Chief O'Brien adapts a lot of Cardassian te... | [Memory Alpha: The Bajoran wormhole](http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Bajoran_wormhole) states, "The Bajoran wormhole was an artificial construct built by the beings known to the Bajoran people as the Prophets,". Creating new wormholes may not have been something Starfleet adopted, but Starfleet did use this technolog... |
109,013 | Throughout the various Star Trek shows, there are a number of times when the *Enterprise* or another Federation vessel encounters a more advanced civilization. For instance, in *The Corbomite Maneuver*, Balok's ship seems to be more advanced than the *Enterprise*. Kirk and Balok arrange for a crewmember from the *Enter... | 2015/11/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109013",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/"
] | Chronologically, holodecks first appear in ENT 1x05, [Unexpected](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unexpected_(episode)) (2151), as an alien technology:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UK6z8.jpg)
They parted on friendly terms, and gave Klingons the technology at the end of... | Not strictly alien technology if alien means extraterrestrial: The mobile holographic projector the Doctor is equipped with in *Voyager: Future's End* is used continuously after this double episode. |
51,255,919 | I'm thinking of switching to the Shopify platform, and I had a question regarding product bundles. Currently, customers are able to purchase bundled items on my website that are items composed of other items within the assortment. For example, customers can buy a bundle item that's a monitor, keyboard and CPU as one se... | 2018/07/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/51255919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6520038/"
] | I built an App many years ago that does exactly this. You create a product with infinite inventory composed of X other products, give it a price, and sell it as a bundle. When the order is booked, the App updates the individual product inventory levels, and all is well.
The main problem no one has ever solved with th... | >
> Does anybody know of an app that would support this functionality?
>
>
>
I believe there are quite a few apps that support this now. Our App supports it via the 'Synchronize Inventory' task: [Products Assistant](https://apps.shopify.com/shopify-assistant) |
1,537,336 | I am trying to create a RAS server in XP Pro. The idea is to log in to this server via a dialup connection. I have set up a new network connection via the New Connect Wizard in XP - according to [this tutorial](https://web.archive.org/web/1/http://articles.techrepublic%2ecom%2ecom/5100-10878_11-5034594.html) on techrep... | 2009/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1537336",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/182448/"
] | Wireshark should be able to capture the traffic on your connection. I would check the protocol you're using for communication and make sure that Wireshark is monitoring those protocols. Also, I would make sure that Wireshark is actually capturing traffic on your dial up device. It sounds like it's currently monitoring ... | I recently found Microsoft Network Monitor and it has ability to sniff on dialup adapter with Vista or Win7 as OS. Works great! |
1,537,336 | I am trying to create a RAS server in XP Pro. The idea is to log in to this server via a dialup connection. I have set up a new network connection via the New Connect Wizard in XP - according to [this tutorial](https://web.archive.org/web/1/http://articles.techrepublic%2ecom%2ecom/5100-10878_11-5034594.html) on techrep... | 2009/10/08 | [
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] | Wireshark should be able to capture the traffic on your connection. I would check the protocol you're using for communication and make sure that Wireshark is monitoring those protocols. Also, I would make sure that Wireshark is actually capturing traffic on your dial up device. It sounds like it's currently monitoring ... | According to [this](http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/PPP#Windows) Wireshark wiki page, you must use Winpcp ***3.1*** to be able to capture traffic on dial up modems. |
256,296 | This question stems from a commonly depicted mode of transportation, the ornithopter. It is the primary flight tool in the latest Dune movie as well as seen in Black Panther and in several books I've been reading. My question is where did the idea for this flying machine first stem from as it seems to be a primary mode... | 2021/11/21 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/256296",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4193/"
] | As Valorum pointed out, experimental ornithopters date back at least to [Leonardo da Vinci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter) and probably earlier. Working ornithopters have been built in the real world; I used to have a toy that flew by flapping light Mylar wings. [Google Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.co... | **1930:** ["The First Ornithopter"](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?85333), a short story by [Jack Winks](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13546), in [*Amazing Stories*, January 1930](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56355), available at the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories... |
256,296 | This question stems from a commonly depicted mode of transportation, the ornithopter. It is the primary flight tool in the latest Dune movie as well as seen in Black Panther and in several books I've been reading. My question is where did the idea for this flying machine first stem from as it seems to be a primary mode... | 2021/11/21 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/256296",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4193/"
] | As Valorum pointed out, experimental ornithopters date back at least to [Leonardo da Vinci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter) and probably earlier. Working ornithopters have been built in the real world; I used to have a toy that flew by flapping light Mylar wings. [Google Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.co... | My great grand father the french engineer René Riout devoted himself for three decades to the realization of flapping wing ornithopters. In 1905 he invented his first models. In 1909 he won the gold medal in the Lépine competition for a reduced model. In 1913 he worked on the development of a model ordered by a pilot, ... |
256,296 | This question stems from a commonly depicted mode of transportation, the ornithopter. It is the primary flight tool in the latest Dune movie as well as seen in Black Panther and in several books I've been reading. My question is where did the idea for this flying machine first stem from as it seems to be a primary mode... | 2021/11/21 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/256296",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4193/"
] | **1930:** ["The First Ornithopter"](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?85333), a short story by [Jack Winks](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13546), in [*Amazing Stories*, January 1930](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56355), available at the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories... | My great grand father the french engineer René Riout devoted himself for three decades to the realization of flapping wing ornithopters. In 1905 he invented his first models. In 1909 he won the gold medal in the Lépine competition for a reduced model. In 1913 he worked on the development of a model ordered by a pilot, ... |
159,598 | I have win 7. Taksbar grouping - "never"
All tasks(icons) are not in one small group, but big tasks as it must be.
But if I open 3 notepad programs etc & then I'll try to move one of this task in the left - windows move all 3 like one group. How to split them? It use to be splited.. and now its groupd.. somehow :(
man... | 2010/07/03 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/159598",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/41720/"
] | Unfortunately, the Taskbar option to 'Never Combine' does not effect on the behaviour of the icons when moving them on the Taskbar, it simply prevents icons for the same application from being 'stacked'.
As far as I know, the behaviour you are seeing is the default and I am unaware of any third party utilities that ca... | If I am understanding your question correctly, this will help you in ungrouping different instances of the same application/window: <http://www.windows7news.com/2009/08/26/add-never-combine-hide-labels-to-the-windows-7-taskbar/>
>
> **Add “Never Combine, Hide Labels” to the Windows 7 Taskbar**
>
>
> Add a string ca... |
14,170 | Is there a standard for the frequencies and or duration used for error or alert beeps?
When I hear a ding or bing sound, I sometimes find that the frequency of the tone is too high or low (in my opinion) for the intent. For example, a high pitch tone a second long indicates an error to me, whereas a lower tone and qui... | 2011/11/21 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/14170",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/323/"
] | US Department of Defense Design Criteria Standard: Human Engineering, better known as
[MIL-STD 1472](http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Documents/acquisition/MILSTD1472F.pdf), has a pretty complete section (5.3) on audio signals. A quick read yields the following standards that seem to bear directly on your questio... | Higher pitched sounds about the 1KHz range are more unpleasant and therefore draw more attention and are therefore used more for alerts that need immediate attention. Think of a fire alarm here.
Lower pitched toned about the 100Hz range are more pleasant and therefore used more for notification tones. Computer startup... |
27,375,323 | I have arcgis mxd file, I dont know how to use arcgis, i just have .mxd file and need to embed into html/php to make a maps access via browser ? Maybe using iframe or arcgis have tool to convert ? | 2014/12/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/27375323",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4077557/"
] | Mxd files are published using [ArcGIS for Server](http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisserver). But it's not free.
I think there is no other way to directly publish mxd on the web. | I'm not entirely sure why you'd want to host an MXD on the web, but I'm assuming you want to put an interactive map on a website? You can publish services to ArcGIS for Server or ArcGIS Online if you have access to that. Otherwise you can upload a static map. Create a PDF, JPEG, PNG, etc by going to File > Export after... |
33,539,076 | Is there a react native module that allows you to generate form very fast? like XLForm for iOS and Backbone Form for backbone? | 2015/11/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/33539076",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3642187/"
] | You may want to check out this library.
<https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb-form-native> | I'm currently working on a module that provides that functionality
<https://github.com/MichaelCereda/react-native-form-generator> |
292,577 | I am looking for the 1968 French departments administrative boundaries. I've scoured the Internet but have had no luck. | 2018/08/13 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/292577",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/126606/"
] | JPEG from 1964: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/resource/g5831f.ct003434/)
You will have to georeference the image and digitise it yourself. | You can use "Historique des commune" from insee (<https://www.insee.fr/fr/information/2114819#titre-bloc-11>) which contains all modifications in french city since 1943.
It doesn't contain boundary, but can help to check the evolution of these administrative set. |
26,435,248 | I'm imlementing Neural Networks using C language for a class. I haven't programmed with C++ nor with C for a long time. I started my first couple implementations using C language and it was a pain in the neck!
Now, I am not sure is it because of the language or its how NN is with any language??
BTW, we are not allowed ... | 2014/10/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/26435248",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2415307/"
] | Just like any other programming task (that doesn't rely on some framework which is only available in 1 language), there is no magical advantage gained by using a special language for Neural Networks.
If you agree that writing code in C++ in general is much easier than writing code in C, then writing Neural Networks co... | Transitioning to C++ could be worth your time, especially if you've already developed some Object Oriented skills and understanding (even if not with the C++ language itself). However if OO is difficult for you, then the transition may cause more harm than good. It depends on you as a programmer.
The transition won't ... |
59,180 | I am 19 and I plan on working on a cruise ship to save up around $20,000 to buy a plot of land in Oregon and build a tiny house for myself; however all of this is just an idea at the moment, nothing has been put to paper.
How could I best draw up a plan and accomplish it task by task?
Will I need to build credit? ... | 2016/02/10 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/59180",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/37498/"
] | If there is land for sale, you can buy it. The United States doesn't have many restrictions on the purchase of land.
However, you need to be able to afford it. Dependent on where you are looking $20,000 can either be a lot or very little land, I suspect that the question you were looking to ask is 'can I afford it?'.
... | Here are some important things to think about. Alan and Denise Fields discuss them in more detail in *[Your New House](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1889392111)*.
**Permanent work.** Where do you want to live? Are there suitable jobs nearby? How much do they pay?
**Emergency fund.** Banks care that you hav... |
53,446,241 | I am interested in visualizing melodic contours of polyphonic music with Processing. It is still unclear to me, though, what the most convenient format for imported data (pitch and onset/duration) would be: tabular (e.g. Humdrum), XML (e.g. MEI, musicXML), or JSON? Maybe another format?
Any suggestions/thoughts on thi... | 2018/11/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/53446241",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4171324/"
] | Using MIDI files would be optimal, because of the combination of those 3 reasons
1. MIDI is widely used. You can export a .midi file from pratically any score editor plus you can create your own by recording the input from a midi instrument.
2. You can already find .midi files of iconic polyphonic music on the web (Ba... | The best answer I can give you is that you should **put together a simple hello world program that tests out each format and see which one you like the best.**
In the end, you're the one that has to deal with the code, so only you can really decide on the best format. |
28,142,895 | DynamoDB local is taking 100+ ms to perform a single put operation against my table. The docs say that throughput is ignored for local dbs, and is only limited by the speed of the hard disk/computer.
Compared to mongodb my write throughput is 100x slower than it should be. **Is there something I can do to speed writes... | 2015/01/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28142895",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/140811/"
] | It's been a while since you asked your question but I still want to give some background information.
MongoDB is so fast because it buffers the updates in memory before writing them to disk. You can read more about this in the official MongoDB FAQ [here](http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/developers/#when-does-mongodb... | This is an old question, but is still quite relevant - according to Stackoverflow it has been viewed over 2,000 times over the years. As FLXN already explained in his answer, DynamoDB Local was meant to be a tool for developing applications - it wasn't meant to be a real installable replacement for DynamoDB. It is neit... |
3,889,759 | How can i prevent an external OpenGL application(no sources available) from drawing like it can be done by GDebugger?
The problem is Dassault Catia that opens complex models within five(!) hours because they are rendered while the loading is in process.
When the border of this application is clicked and the mouse b... | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3889759",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/62349/"
] | I think GDebugger uses custom version of opengl32.dll. Application loads it because it's in it starting directory (or intercepting LoadLibrary call). Each function in that library may do additional code before executing call to standard opengl32.dll, this allows for full control on application. But if you going to make... | I think what the various GL-debuggers do, is to replace the OpenGL-dll in order to intercept the OpenGL calls. I guess you could provide your own "dummy" OpenGL-dll, in which all routines are basically "no-ops". |
3,889,759 | How can i prevent an external OpenGL application(no sources available) from drawing like it can be done by GDebugger?
The problem is Dassault Catia that opens complex models within five(!) hours because they are rendered while the loading is in process.
When the border of this application is clicked and the mouse b... | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3889759",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/62349/"
] | I think GDebugger uses custom version of opengl32.dll. Application loads it because it's in it starting directory (or intercepting LoadLibrary call). Each function in that library may do additional code before executing call to standard opengl32.dll, this allows for full control on application. But if you going to make... | If you're on win32 grab a copy of [GLIntercept](http://glintercept.nutty.org/). It may have a stub-out option already; if it doesn't it shouldn't be too hard to add. |
40,038,416 | I have been working on a project in which I need to connect to a BLE and communicate with Arduino through BLE. Every thing worked fine until I update my device to Android M. I haven't changed anything in my project but now my app not connecting to BLE. | 2016/10/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/40038416",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4444254/"
] | I also faced this problem. All you need to do is to enable *ACCESS\_FINE\_LOCATION* & *ACCESS\_COARSE\_LOCATION*
permission in your manifest and also you need to enable location service(by turning on GPS). | Android M needed GPS should be on for effective working of bluetooth, that's why it is unable to connect to android BLE. Give GPS permissions also. Hope it will help |
169,690 | I had applied for a company that does managed IT services so the question is quite fitting. It was asked by an HR recruiter who probably wasn't very technical herself.
I have trouble with questions out of context like this. For example is it assuming you know what is causing the problem but don't know how to fix it? I... | 2021/02/19 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169690",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/123202/"
] | This is a STAR format interview question:
It's generally 5 questions, 2 managers, and every question in the format:
**Situation - Task - Action - Result**
The **Situation - Task** are the questions they ask you.
The **Action - Result** is where you come in **with examples**, **preferably unique** and 99% of the tim... | It's usually better to say what you want to say rather than trying to guess what they want you to say. Most of your second paragraph would have been a perfectly good start to your answer, because it's sincere:
>
> In IT support most of the time you don't know how to fix something at first glance (i.e. you can't be 10... |
169,690 | I had applied for a company that does managed IT services so the question is quite fitting. It was asked by an HR recruiter who probably wasn't very technical herself.
I have trouble with questions out of context like this. For example is it assuming you know what is causing the problem but don't know how to fix it? I... | 2021/02/19 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169690",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/123202/"
] | This is a STAR format interview question:
It's generally 5 questions, 2 managers, and every question in the format:
**Situation - Task - Action - Result**
The **Situation - Task** are the questions they ask you.
The **Action - Result** is where you come in **with examples**, **preferably unique** and 99% of the tim... | This is a situational interview question. They typically want you to answer as a specific instance that it happened to you. Situation, actions, outcome.
Typically, if you answered it the way you did, very general, most interviewers would say "can you give me a specific example."
And either you pull something out of y... |
32,036 | Why is it some employers want to do video calls, such as Skype, for interviews instead of just a phone call? The only reason I can think of is so they know how you look, but what difference does that make? | 2014/08/07 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32036",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25603/"
] | Lots of reasons. First, they want to make sure you aren't cheating on the questions by having someone else feeding you the answers or looking them up on Google.
They want to see your body language to assess your reactions to the questions beyond just your words.
There are some unethical people who do the phone inter... | Video calls give them a better look at you in a number of different ways. The audio quality is clearer than phones provide. They can check that you're able to dress properly and groom yourself. They can see your body language, and you can see theirs.
On the whole, video calls provide a much better experience and clear... |
32,036 | Why is it some employers want to do video calls, such as Skype, for interviews instead of just a phone call? The only reason I can think of is so they know how you look, but what difference does that make? | 2014/08/07 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32036",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25603/"
] | Lots of reasons. First, they want to make sure you aren't cheating on the questions by having someone else feeding you the answers or looking them up on Google.
They want to see your body language to assess your reactions to the questions beyond just your words.
There are some unethical people who do the phone inter... | >
> Why is it some employers want to do video calls, such as Skype, for
> interviews instead of just a phone call?
>
>
>
Body language.
You've probably noticed that you have more information conveyed to you when you talk to someone in person, rather than on the phone.
The look on their face, the tilt of their h... |
32,036 | Why is it some employers want to do video calls, such as Skype, for interviews instead of just a phone call? The only reason I can think of is so they know how you look, but what difference does that make? | 2014/08/07 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32036",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25603/"
] | >
> Why is it some employers want to do video calls, such as Skype, for
> interviews instead of just a phone call?
>
>
>
Body language.
You've probably noticed that you have more information conveyed to you when you talk to someone in person, rather than on the phone.
The look on their face, the tilt of their h... | Video calls give them a better look at you in a number of different ways. The audio quality is clearer than phones provide. They can check that you're able to dress properly and groom yourself. They can see your body language, and you can see theirs.
On the whole, video calls provide a much better experience and clear... |
132 | When I was working in student government during university, I would occasionally be asked to provide anonymous feedback about one of my colleagues. I was assured this feedback would be seen only by our advisor and the administration president.
How honest should I be in performance review feedback items such as this? ... | 2012/04/10 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/132",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
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] | This is a very tough one. I've been in peer review processes that are similar — that specifically *ask* for "something they could do better".
Here's how I approach it:
* **Be as honest as possible,** but only about things you believe will help the team. There's no use pointing out a character flaw where there is no p... | There is an unfortunate reality of doing these kinds of reviews: Everything hidden becomes known even if the feedback could only be seen by an advisor or administration president.
If a person performing the review mentions some of your constructive criticisms to a person, there are ways of determining who left it, so ... |
132 | When I was working in student government during university, I would occasionally be asked to provide anonymous feedback about one of my colleagues. I was assured this feedback would be seen only by our advisor and the administration president.
How honest should I be in performance review feedback items such as this? ... | 2012/04/10 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/132",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/27/"
] | There is an unfortunate reality of doing these kinds of reviews: Everything hidden becomes known even if the feedback could only be seen by an advisor or administration president.
If a person performing the review mentions some of your constructive criticisms to a person, there are ways of determining who left it, so ... | First of all, for feedback of this kind in general, you should absolutely be as truthful as possible, meaning everything you say should be rooted as closely as possible in the truth.
How candid you should be is another matter, and making that decision calls for further assessment of the context. Remember that the purp... |
132 | When I was working in student government during university, I would occasionally be asked to provide anonymous feedback about one of my colleagues. I was assured this feedback would be seen only by our advisor and the administration president.
How honest should I be in performance review feedback items such as this? ... | 2012/04/10 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/132",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/27/"
] | This is a very tough one. I've been in peer review processes that are similar — that specifically *ask* for "something they could do better".
Here's how I approach it:
* **Be as honest as possible,** but only about things you believe will help the team. There's no use pointing out a character flaw where there is no p... | First of all, for feedback of this kind in general, you should absolutely be as truthful as possible, meaning everything you say should be rooted as closely as possible in the truth.
How candid you should be is another matter, and making that decision calls for further assessment of the context. Remember that the purp... |
64,610 | One of my friends went out with her boyfriend . They both are going to get married so her boyfriend due to the moment of heat fingered her astagfiruallh she has regret about it . I wanted to know weather it is Haram or Zina . Please answer my question and please tell me how can she overcome through it | 2021/01/08 | [
"https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/64610",
"https://islam.stackexchange.com",
"https://islam.stackexchange.com/users/42771/"
] | She's regretting that is the sign of iman
Don't worry if she asked for forgiveness of Allah and make a decision not committing it again then she will as pure as she a new born
May Allah forgive us | *One of my friends went out with her boyfriend . They both are going to get married so her boyfriend due to the moment of heat fingered her **astagfiruallh** she has regret about it . I wanted to know weather it is Haram or Zina . Please answer my question and please tell me how can she overcome through it*.
Sister yo... |
64,610 | One of my friends went out with her boyfriend . They both are going to get married so her boyfriend due to the moment of heat fingered her astagfiruallh she has regret about it . I wanted to know weather it is Haram or Zina . Please answer my question and please tell me how can she overcome through it | 2021/01/08 | [
"https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/64610",
"https://islam.stackexchange.com",
"https://islam.stackexchange.com/users/42771/"
] | She's regretting that is the sign of iman
Don't worry if she asked for forgiveness of Allah and make a decision not committing it again then she will as pure as she a new born
May Allah forgive us | They're going to marry but either way it's a sin, she is regretting it so if she asked for forgiveness it's fine now.
If you have iman in Allah and not repeat the sin again she may be forgiven, may Allah forgive her and us all.
Hope i helped you(: |
528,861 | In order to ask the questio0n, I need to explain the context:
**Background:**
I was in discussion with a friend(Annie), talking about one of our friends, James.
He was filming a video documentary for his PhD thesis about Chinese music. Unfortunately, we lost him about 3 years ago due to stroke.
During the discussi... | 2020/03/27 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/528861",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/325137/"
] | "to alleviate the many ills to which the flesh is heir" = "to alleviate all the bad things that humans suffer.
The expression *to which the flesh is heir* is taken from Shakespeare's play Hamlet (Act 3 Scene 1).
>
> To die, to sleep—
>
>
> No more—and by a sleep to say we end
>
>
> The heartache and the thousand... | "Flesh" is the muscle, fat and sinew of the human body, what we might call "meat" in a non-human animal. By synecdoche (using a part to refer to the whole), it means "body" or "physical form".
"To be heir to something" (in this case, "which", referring to "the many ills") means "to inherit something" or "to get somet... |
528,861 | In order to ask the questio0n, I need to explain the context:
**Background:**
I was in discussion with a friend(Annie), talking about one of our friends, James.
He was filming a video documentary for his PhD thesis about Chinese music. Unfortunately, we lost him about 3 years ago due to stroke.
During the discussi... | 2020/03/27 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/528861",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/325137/"
] | "to alleviate the many ills to which the flesh is heir" = "to alleviate all the bad things that humans suffer.
The expression *to which the flesh is heir* is taken from Shakespeare's play Hamlet (Act 3 Scene 1).
>
> To die, to sleep—
>
>
> No more—and by a sleep to say we end
>
>
> The heartache and the thousand... | "Flesh" (in this sense) means "humans". "Is heir to" means "inherits". And it's "The heartache and the thousand natural shocks" of living that humans inherit. |
528,861 | In order to ask the questio0n, I need to explain the context:
**Background:**
I was in discussion with a friend(Annie), talking about one of our friends, James.
He was filming a video documentary for his PhD thesis about Chinese music. Unfortunately, we lost him about 3 years ago due to stroke.
During the discussi... | 2020/03/27 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/528861",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/325137/"
] | "Flesh" is the muscle, fat and sinew of the human body, what we might call "meat" in a non-human animal. By synecdoche (using a part to refer to the whole), it means "body" or "physical form".
"To be heir to something" (in this case, "which", referring to "the many ills") means "to inherit something" or "to get somet... | "Flesh" (in this sense) means "humans". "Is heir to" means "inherits". And it's "The heartache and the thousand natural shocks" of living that humans inherit. |
184,415 | What types of titles do you underline and what types of titles do you put quotations marks on? | 2014/07/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/184415",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | Underlining is a relic of when people had typewriters or wrote things out in longhand. You only underline things that you would normally be set in italic, but for whatever reason, that option is unavailable to you. For example, when turning in copy written on a typewriter or in manuscript, one would underline things th... | Depending on the style and the relevant manual(s), you might find a good online resource with noodlebib.
The [Noodlbib](http://www.noodletools.com/login.php "Noodlebib") prompts can filter what kind of source you wish to cite be it MLA, APA, or Chicago, and the result is formatted bibliography/sources cited entry.
I... |
6,606,235 | I'm making a rails app that handles many, many posts. What i want to do it display the posts over *x* number of pages with 5 posts per page. I've looked around a lot and have not been able to find a solution. I'm new to ruby on rails and don't yet know enough to be able to separate the posts by page. | 2011/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6606235",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/832891/"
] | There are two gems that could help you: [will\_paginate](https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate) or [kaminari](https://github.com/amatsuda/kaminari). | Take a look at the mysql limit clause. There's a good tutorial here that gives specifics on using it for paging. The tutorial is for PHP but you only really need the concept in order to apply it to rails.
<http://www.tech-evangelist.com/2008/10/16/mysql-limit-paging/> |
12,662 | Imagine we have a black hole and a star.
There are very close to each other so black hole slowly consumes the star.
It is possible to have planets in this system, and for them not to be consumed by this black hole but just follow their unique orbits. Could there even have life there? | 2015/11/26 | [
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/12662",
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com",
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] | It's possible to have planets orbiting a binary pair of stars, your scenario of a close orbit, sometimes called "short orbit binaries". See [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumbinary_planet), also posted above in comments. In such a binary-system, nothing can orbit an individual star, but at some distance, plant... | Planet's that are not part of a solar system are called rogue planets. These planets are planets which are starless, and support themselves with gravity in space. It would most likely be very hard for life to form on these types of planets because there is no star to provide heat for the life. I'm not an expert on astr... |
28,988 | 
My second hand MTB frame has no decal on it. To me it looks like a downhill frame. I was told it's an Orange but now that I look at it I don't know how to tell. The serial number i... | 2015/02/12 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/28988",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/17341/"
] | I locked in your FORK, but your frame could most likely be from the 1990's
SR Suntour XCM V3 Coil 26" Fork (2011)
Item Number: 100079607
Manufacturer:
Suntour
ItemNo 100079607
Color Black
Fork Model XCM V3 coil QR-V/D fork 100mm (1" thrd-150mm NLA>
Steerer Tube 1" Threaded
Front Axle Type 9x100mm quick-release
Spr... | Looks like a trek to me the the gusset on the bottom of the frame that is X shaped is like trek does |
38,254,612 | This is honestly a tiny problem but it's keeping me from proceeding with my small Java practice app.
I'm currently practicing making an API call in Java. I was trying to create a simple class file called "Film". However, when I try to create it as a class-file, Intelli-J keeps telling me that it is unable to create a ... | 2016/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/38254612",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5513336/"
] | More directly, based on what @Vishal Jumani touched on, you need to tell IntelliJ what directories are 'source' or 'test' directories.
A directory structure you can use as an example, but you can use whatever you wish.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/La... | This would usually be because of the way your project is setup. It may not be setup correctly to indicate where your source code is.
* To setup your project, in the Project Tab, click on the top most folder and select F4. This should bring up the Project Settings dialog window.
* Now click on Modules in the LHS, and t... |
493,223 | How a CAN transceiver detects the 5 successive high or low bits and inserting the opposite bit as stuff bit ?
what is the logic behind the bit stuffing process?.
I am sure that, it's not handled in CAN driver software side. | 2020/04/15 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/493223",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
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] | Bit stuffing is on the interface, not the transceiver, like how there is also hardware in the interface to calculate the CRC and various other errors without ever having to touch the main processor, if it sees the successive bits, it inserts the inverted non data bit,
The transceiver remains just a level converter, | This is not happening in transceiver but in CAN module in microcontroller. I suppose it counts bits, it's simple. |
493,223 | How a CAN transceiver detects the 5 successive high or low bits and inserting the opposite bit as stuff bit ?
what is the logic behind the bit stuffing process?.
I am sure that, it's not handled in CAN driver software side. | 2020/04/15 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/493223",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/71777/"
] | The hardware looks at the transmitted or received bits and can count them. Transmitting is easy, insert extra stuff bit when doing the line encoding. Receiving more than 5 same bits before line decoding to remove stuffed bits results into receive error.
The point is to have a line code with transition at least after 5... | This is not happening in transceiver but in CAN module in microcontroller. I suppose it counts bits, it's simple. |
493,223 | How a CAN transceiver detects the 5 successive high or low bits and inserting the opposite bit as stuff bit ?
what is the logic behind the bit stuffing process?.
I am sure that, it's not handled in CAN driver software side. | 2020/04/15 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/493223",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/71777/"
] | Bit stuffing is on the interface, not the transceiver, like how there is also hardware in the interface to calculate the CRC and various other errors without ever having to touch the main processor, if it sees the successive bits, it inserts the inverted non data bit,
The transceiver remains just a level converter, | The hardware looks at the transmitted or received bits and can count them. Transmitting is easy, insert extra stuff bit when doing the line encoding. Receiving more than 5 same bits before line decoding to remove stuffed bits results into receive error.
The point is to have a line code with transition at least after 5... |
121,435 | I am thinking of running a campaign that takes place on the [Elemental Plane of Air](https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/environment/the-planes/#Elemental_Plane_of_Air) with the PCs being sky nomads. Naturally, they'll have a ship, but I am not sure how inanimate objects react when in subjective directional [gravity... | 2018/04/27 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/121435",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/40305/"
] | *[Subjective Directional Gravity](https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/environment/the-planes/#Gravity)* states the following:
>
> The strength of gravity on a plane with this trait is the same as on the Material Plane, but each individual chooses the direction of gravity’s pull. *Such a plane has no gravity for un... | Your questions are answered in the d20pfsrd links Hey I Can Chan added to your question.
From "[Elemental Plane of Air](https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/environment/the-planes/#Elemental_Plane_of_Air)":
>
> Objects not under the motive force of others do not move.
>
>
>
From "[Gravity](https://www.d20pfsrd... |
149,849 | To talk about something or someone, we usually give an apostrophe, like John's pen. If the word ends with s, we say Adams' pen . But what if we are talking of something that ends with an apostrophe s like Jack's (what we sometimes say in short for Jack's home, or Jack's kitchen etc.). How do I use an apostrophe for wor... | 2014/02/04 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/149849",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | If you're asking about omitting the second "house" from, for example, "My house is open, but Jack's house is closed" then I'd simply omit it: "My house is open, but Jack's is closed."
If, on the other hand, you're asking about nested possessives, as in "My house's roof is brown but Jack's house's roof is gray", and y... | The punctuation usage of the possessive apostrophe have evolved according to the whims of the print media.
In the USA : They only use an apostrophe if the word is **2 syllables** or more: Thomas’ report, Rogers’ network.
For **1 syllable** words they add an apostrophe plus an “s” – Jones’s diary or Chris’s meeting.
I... |
149,849 | To talk about something or someone, we usually give an apostrophe, like John's pen. If the word ends with s, we say Adams' pen . But what if we are talking of something that ends with an apostrophe s like Jack's (what we sometimes say in short for Jack's home, or Jack's kitchen etc.). How do I use an apostrophe for wor... | 2014/02/04 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/149849",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/64743/"
] | *Jack's* is still the correct way of saying the house belongs to Jack, whether or not you use the word *house* after it.
>
> "Have you ever been inside the house at 334 Elm Street?"
>
>
> "Oh yeah, that's Jack's house."
>
>
>
Or,
>
> "Which of those three houses is Jack's?"
>
>
> "That's Jack's" (pointing t... | The punctuation usage of the possessive apostrophe have evolved according to the whims of the print media.
In the USA : They only use an apostrophe if the word is **2 syllables** or more: Thomas’ report, Rogers’ network.
For **1 syllable** words they add an apostrophe plus an “s” – Jones’s diary or Chris’s meeting.
I... |
275 | I'm not a real Mathematician, just an enthusiast. I'm often in the situation where I want to learn some interesting Maths through a good book, but not through an actual Maths textbook. I'm also often trying to give people good Maths books to get them "hooked".
So the question: What are good books, for laymen, which te... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/275",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122/"
] | I think any book by John Allen Paulos would be something any Math enthusiast could enjoy and learn from. | I'm quite partial to Scott Aaronson's 'Quantum computing since Democritus'. It covers many interesting ideas in logic, complexity and computing. It explains things clearly, but does not shy away from the mathematics when necessary. |
275 | I'm not a real Mathematician, just an enthusiast. I'm often in the situation where I want to learn some interesting Maths through a good book, but not through an actual Maths textbook. I'm also often trying to give people good Maths books to get them "hooked".
So the question: What are good books, for laymen, which te... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/275",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122/"
] | One's that were suggested to me by my Calculus teacher in High School. Even my wife liked them and she hates math now:
* [The Education of T.C. Mits: What
modern mathematics means to you](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1589880331)
* [Infinity: Beyond the Beyond the
Beyond](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/... | You might be interested in "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture", a 1992 novel by Greek author Apostolos Doxiadis. This book has got a good story, and also discusses mathematical problems and some recent history of mathematics. <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0571205119/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/278-8223441-9186456> |
275 | I'm not a real Mathematician, just an enthusiast. I'm often in the situation where I want to learn some interesting Maths through a good book, but not through an actual Maths textbook. I'm also often trying to give people good Maths books to get them "hooked".
So the question: What are good books, for laymen, which te... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/275",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122/"
] | [**Journey Through Genius**](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/014014739X)
A brilliant combination of interesting storytelling and large amounts of actual Mathematics. It took my love of Maths to a whole other level. | I'm quite partial to Scott Aaronson's 'Quantum computing since Democritus'. It covers many interesting ideas in logic, complexity and computing. It explains things clearly, but does not shy away from the mathematics when necessary. |
275 | I'm not a real Mathematician, just an enthusiast. I'm often in the situation where I want to learn some interesting Maths through a good book, but not through an actual Maths textbook. I'm also often trying to give people good Maths books to get them "hooked".
So the question: What are good books, for laymen, which te... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/275",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122/"
] | I've been successful in using Courant and Robbins' **[What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0195105192)** for adults who have not had a math class for a few decades, but are open to the idea of learning more about mathematics.
 and Stewart. Maor and Nahin also have some decent accounts. The former's book Trigonometric Delights sparked an interest in me on the history of maths ba... |
275 | I'm not a real Mathematician, just an enthusiast. I'm often in the situation where I want to learn some interesting Maths through a good book, but not through an actual Maths textbook. I'm also often trying to give people good Maths books to get them "hooked".
So the question: What are good books, for laymen, which te... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/275",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122/"
] | Definitely, "[Elementary Differential Equations](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0471319988)" by W.Boyce and R. Di Prima, as it covers a mathematical subject which is used in many applied science disciplines in a way that makes it understandable to non-mathematicians.
**Edit** (1/2/2015): I recently got invo... | Same as me. After so far and so many the books I've read about math. I think the best option for is "Mathematics - Its Content, Methods, and Meaning" by A. D. Aleksandrov, A. N. Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev. It's a russian translated book. It came with 3 part. The book cover all major topic in maths. That is the best m... |
275 | I'm not a real Mathematician, just an enthusiast. I'm often in the situation where I want to learn some interesting Maths through a good book, but not through an actual Maths textbook. I'm also often trying to give people good Maths books to get them "hooked".
So the question: What are good books, for laymen, which te... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/275",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122/"
] | One's that were suggested to me by my Calculus teacher in High School. Even my wife liked them and she hates math now:
* [The Education of T.C. Mits: What
modern mathematics means to you](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1589880331)
* [Infinity: Beyond the Beyond the
Beyond](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/... | I'm surprised nobody has mentioned **Mathematics and the Imagination** by Edward Kasner and James Newman; originally published in 1940, still [available](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0486417034) in an edition from Dover. Among other things, the book that introduced the world to the name "googol" for $10^{10... |
275 | I'm not a real Mathematician, just an enthusiast. I'm often in the situation where I want to learn some interesting Maths through a good book, but not through an actual Maths textbook. I'm also often trying to give people good Maths books to get them "hooked".
So the question: What are good books, for laymen, which te... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/275",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122/"
] | [Paul Nahin](http://www.amazon.com/Paul-J.-Nahin/e/B001HCS1XI/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1279734093&sr=8-1) has a number of accessible mathematics books written for non-mathematicians, the most famous being
* [An Imaginary Tale: The Story of $\sqrt{-1}$](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/069114600... | You might be interested in "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture", a 1992 novel by Greek author Apostolos Doxiadis. This book has got a good story, and also discusses mathematical problems and some recent history of mathematics. <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0571205119/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/278-8223441-9186456> |
275 | I'm not a real Mathematician, just an enthusiast. I'm often in the situation where I want to learn some interesting Maths through a good book, but not through an actual Maths textbook. I'm also often trying to give people good Maths books to get them "hooked".
So the question: What are good books, for laymen, which te... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/275",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122/"
] | Here's what you're looking for. It's an amazing back, and you'll be blown away by all the stuff mentioned in here:
[http://www.amazon.com/Math-Book-Pythagoras-Milestones-Mathematics/dp/1402757964](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1402757964) | 
My mom's friend give me this book while i was finishing the last year of high scholl. At the beginning i wanted to be an engineer. When i finished to read that book i change for math. |
275 | I'm not a real Mathematician, just an enthusiast. I'm often in the situation where I want to learn some interesting Maths through a good book, but not through an actual Maths textbook. I'm also often trying to give people good Maths books to get them "hooked".
So the question: What are good books, for laymen, which te... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/275",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122/"
] | Definitely, "[Elementary Differential Equations](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0471319988)" by W.Boyce and R. Di Prima, as it covers a mathematical subject which is used in many applied science disciplines in a way that makes it understandable to non-mathematicians.
**Edit** (1/2/2015): I recently got invo... | My recommendation is [Great Formulas Explained](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00G807Y00) by Metin Bektas (as well as the second volume More Great Formulas Explained). It's a nice collection of formulas from mathematics, physics and economics for non-mathematicians with lots of examples on how and where to a... |
275 | I'm not a real Mathematician, just an enthusiast. I'm often in the situation where I want to learn some interesting Maths through a good book, but not through an actual Maths textbook. I'm also often trying to give people good Maths books to get them "hooked".
So the question: What are good books, for laymen, which te... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/275",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122/"
] | One's that were suggested to me by my Calculus teacher in High School. Even my wife liked them and she hates math now:
* [The Education of T.C. Mits: What
modern mathematics means to you](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1589880331)
* [Infinity: Beyond the Beyond the
Beyond](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/... | Definitely, "[Elementary Differential Equations](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0471319988)" by W.Boyce and R. Di Prima, as it covers a mathematical subject which is used in many applied science disciplines in a way that makes it understandable to non-mathematicians.
**Edit** (1/2/2015): I recently got invo... |
229,087 | Is there a tool which lets you view the source code a svn repo?
Please let me know if you need any additional information.
Edit : I just want to browse the repos which does not have some interface to browse the code. | 2011/01/31 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/229087",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/61144/"
] | There's some PHP based interfaces for viewing and browsing one or several svn repos.
My favorite one is [websvn](http://websvn.tigris.org) have a look and let me know if this is useful for you. | You can also combine it wit tracking system "Trac", see <http://trac.edgewall.org/> |
19,030 | So earlier this week behind a local school I discovered something remarkable. Someone had put a old, wrecked women's bicycle in a pond.
The wheels toast, the chain rings are useless, rust in many spots and the handle bars take some effort to get them to turn. The frame itself isn't too bad, just has some rust and chip... | 2014/01/18 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/19030",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Murray was a pretty cheap brand to begin with, and the bike in the pictures is clearly rusted beyond the point of reasonable repair, even if you found suitable wheels for it.
It's only value is as steel scrap, or perhaps as an "art object" for a local sculptor. There are no usable parts visible in the pictures that wo... | First of all, I would like to say Murray bikes are really a pleasure to ride when in good condition! The year of that bike is not especially great, as they made quite a lot of bikes of that type in that year. The first thing I would do is take it out of the muck and pressure wash it.
If everything is not too rusted ou... |
21,211 | I am sorry if this is a strange question. Sometimes I like to visit parliaments from around the world and compare their buildings.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qP0JV.jpg)
After looking at the British house of commons chamber, I noticed that there wa... | 2018/04/05 | [
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/21211",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users/15631/"
] | **It is not sunlight. The lights in the roof are artificial**. Your 'old photo before electricity' is presumably from before the war, when the roof *did* have real windows, in 'direct contact with the sky'. See this aerial view from 1919 for reference:
[![Aerial view of Commons Chamber 1919](https://i.stack.imgur.com/... | I suspect that its is sunlight.
No part of the palace of Westminster is that tall and the commons chamber itself is pretty tall with several tiers of seating in both the MPs benches and the public galleries. It's also often difficult to judge the height of Gothic buildings at the best of times and the sort of wide an... |
1,414,078 | Is there a way to rename all methods, properties etc. suggested by R#. I have code that I converted from java and all methods and properties are in the format like this "onBeforeInsertExpression" and I want them to follow camel casing that is common in .NET.
This question is also for CodeRush. | 2009/09/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1414078",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/103682/"
] | No, unfortunately there isn't a way. Resharper's Code Cleanup / Reformat Code options work nicely for formatting, namepaces, etc, but will not do any automatic member renaming. You're kinda stuck doing a "Quick Fix" on each member. If you have a lot of them, this can be a pain... | CodeRush's approach to this kind of fix is more of an interactive process.
Which is to say you have to physically be in the location of the variable whose name you wish to change and you have to change each one individually.
That said, there is a very powerful engine under CodeRush called the DXCore, which can be us... |
17,288,506 | Is there any mechanism like destructors in C? Or is there another way to achieve it?
My requirement is that when a program terminates all memory allocated at runtime should be freed. I keep a list of memory that is allocated using `malloc`. | 2013/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17288506",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1649421/"
] | A very simple solution is not to use `malloc`. This is an option adopted by some safety critical systems and they just use the stack.
Otherwise just terminate the program in a control fashion and tidy up during termination. | At application termination all memory allocated through malloc() will be freed unless the application becomes some kind of a zombie process. Normal termination should free all space otherwise.
The malloc() function uses operating system calls to allocate memory and when the process terminates the memory allocated to t... |
17,288,506 | Is there any mechanism like destructors in C? Or is there another way to achieve it?
My requirement is that when a program terminates all memory allocated at runtime should be freed. I keep a list of memory that is allocated using `malloc`. | 2013/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17288506",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1649421/"
] | Another alternative is to write a memory manager.
The idea is that the memory manager allocates large blocks of memory and divides it into smaller pieces for the rest of the program to use. When the program terminates, the memory manager can just delete the large blocks.
That's the basic idea, although the memory man... | A very simple solution is not to use `malloc`. This is an option adopted by some safety critical systems and they just use the stack.
Otherwise just terminate the program in a control fashion and tidy up during termination. |
17,288,506 | Is there any mechanism like destructors in C? Or is there another way to achieve it?
My requirement is that when a program terminates all memory allocated at runtime should be freed. I keep a list of memory that is allocated using `malloc`. | 2013/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17288506",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1649421/"
] | C++ uses RAII for managing resource lifetimes.
There is no such mechanism in C, Since you cannot have member functions for structures. Your main concern should be freeing memory allocations for reuse during the lifetime of the program rather than at the end of the lifetime. Once the program ends the OS will reclaim ... | At application termination all memory allocated through malloc() will be freed unless the application becomes some kind of a zombie process. Normal termination should free all space otherwise.
The malloc() function uses operating system calls to allocate memory and when the process terminates the memory allocated to t... |
17,288,506 | Is there any mechanism like destructors in C? Or is there another way to achieve it?
My requirement is that when a program terminates all memory allocated at runtime should be freed. I keep a list of memory that is allocated using `malloc`. | 2013/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17288506",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1649421/"
] | Another alternative is to write a memory manager.
The idea is that the memory manager allocates large blocks of memory and divides it into smaller pieces for the rest of the program to use. When the program terminates, the memory manager can just delete the large blocks.
That's the basic idea, although the memory man... | C++ uses RAII for managing resource lifetimes.
There is no such mechanism in C, Since you cannot have member functions for structures. Your main concern should be freeing memory allocations for reuse during the lifetime of the program rather than at the end of the lifetime. Once the program ends the OS will reclaim ... |
17,288,506 | Is there any mechanism like destructors in C? Or is there another way to achieve it?
My requirement is that when a program terminates all memory allocated at runtime should be freed. I keep a list of memory that is allocated using `malloc`. | 2013/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17288506",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1649421/"
] | The operating system will take care of this. When a program terminates, the OS will reclaim all memory used by the process. | At application termination all memory allocated through malloc() will be freed unless the application becomes some kind of a zombie process. Normal termination should free all space otherwise.
The malloc() function uses operating system calls to allocate memory and when the process terminates the memory allocated to t... |
17,288,506 | Is there any mechanism like destructors in C? Or is there another way to achieve it?
My requirement is that when a program terminates all memory allocated at runtime should be freed. I keep a list of memory that is allocated using `malloc`. | 2013/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17288506",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1649421/"
] | Another alternative is to write a memory manager.
The idea is that the memory manager allocates large blocks of memory and divides it into smaller pieces for the rest of the program to use. When the program terminates, the memory manager can just delete the large blocks.
That's the basic idea, although the memory man... | The operating system will take care of this. When a program terminates, the OS will reclaim all memory used by the process. |
17,288,506 | Is there any mechanism like destructors in C? Or is there another way to achieve it?
My requirement is that when a program terminates all memory allocated at runtime should be freed. I keep a list of memory that is allocated using `malloc`. | 2013/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17288506",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1649421/"
] | Another alternative is to write a memory manager.
The idea is that the memory manager allocates large blocks of memory and divides it into smaller pieces for the rest of the program to use. When the program terminates, the memory manager can just delete the large blocks.
That's the basic idea, although the memory man... | At application termination all memory allocated through malloc() will be freed unless the application becomes some kind of a zombie process. Normal termination should free all space otherwise.
The malloc() function uses operating system calls to allocate memory and when the process terminates the memory allocated to t... |
13,074 | Just a d\*mb question on Lie algebras:
Given a Dynkin diagram of a root system (or a Cartan Matrix), how do I know which combination of simple roots are roots?
Eg. Consider the root system of G\_2, let a be the short root and b be the long one, it is clear that a, b, b+a, b+2a, b+3a are positive roots. But it is not ... | 2010/01/26 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/13074",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/1657/"
] | Here's an answer in the simply-laced case. Its proof, and generalization to non-simply-laced, are left to the reader.
1) Start with a simple root, and think of it as a labeling of the Dynkin diagram with a 1 there and 0s elsewhere.
2) Look for a vertex whose label is < 1/2 the sum of the surrounding labels. Increment... | Just a related point for hashing out arguments quickly:
If you ever find yourself in the situation where you want to rule out some vector being a root in a hurry, you can check it against the other roots you do know to see if you get a Cartan integer out of their dot products. |
13,074 | Just a d\*mb question on Lie algebras:
Given a Dynkin diagram of a root system (or a Cartan Matrix), how do I know which combination of simple roots are roots?
Eg. Consider the root system of G\_2, let a be the short root and b be the long one, it is clear that a, b, b+a, b+2a, b+3a are positive roots. But it is not ... | 2010/01/26 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/13074",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/1657/"
] | There is also a succinct description of the algorithm in he very last paragraph of §11.1 in page 56 of Humphrey's *Introduction to Lie algebras and representation theory*.
Here's the oblgatory [Google Books link](http://books.google.com/books?id=mSD4DvUFa6QC&lpg=PP1&dq=Humphreys%20Lie%20algebras&client=safari&pg=PA56#... | Just a related point for hashing out arguments quickly:
If you ever find yourself in the situation where you want to rule out some vector being a root in a hurry, you can check it against the other roots you do know to see if you get a Cartan integer out of their dot products. |
13,074 | Just a d\*mb question on Lie algebras:
Given a Dynkin diagram of a root system (or a Cartan Matrix), how do I know which combination of simple roots are roots?
Eg. Consider the root system of G\_2, let a be the short root and b be the long one, it is clear that a, b, b+a, b+2a, b+3a are positive roots. But it is not ... | 2010/01/26 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/13074",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/1657/"
] | Here's an answer in the simply-laced case. Its proof, and generalization to non-simply-laced, are left to the reader.
1) Start with a simple root, and think of it as a labeling of the Dynkin diagram with a 1 there and 0s elsewhere.
2) Look for a vertex whose label is < 1/2 the sum of the surrounding labels. Increment... | This is explained quite clearly in Fulton and Harris' *Representation theory: a first course*, §21.3 (which you can read on googlebooks, for example) |
13,074 | Just a d\*mb question on Lie algebras:
Given a Dynkin diagram of a root system (or a Cartan Matrix), how do I know which combination of simple roots are roots?
Eg. Consider the root system of G\_2, let a be the short root and b be the long one, it is clear that a, b, b+a, b+2a, b+3a are positive roots. But it is not ... | 2010/01/26 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/13074",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/1657/"
] | Here's an answer in the simply-laced case. Its proof, and generalization to non-simply-laced, are left to the reader.
1) Start with a simple root, and think of it as a labeling of the Dynkin diagram with a 1 there and 0s elsewhere.
2) Look for a vertex whose label is < 1/2 the sum of the surrounding labels. Increment... | There is also a succinct description of the algorithm in he very last paragraph of §11.1 in page 56 of Humphrey's *Introduction to Lie algebras and representation theory*.
Here's the oblgatory [Google Books link](http://books.google.com/books?id=mSD4DvUFa6QC&lpg=PP1&dq=Humphreys%20Lie%20algebras&client=safari&pg=PA56#... |
7,864 | I would love to start playing around with long exposure photography, more specifically light painting.
Sadly I don't have any camera except the iSight built into my Macbook Pro and my mid-range Android phone (*I'm in college. Money doesn't really exist for me*).
Does anyone know of a way to take long exposure photos ... | 2011/01/29 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/7864",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1960/"
] | Looks like there is an app that allows you to control the exposure and shutterspeed of the iSight:
<http://www.ecamm.com/mac/iglasses/settings.html#settings> | Based on your budget-related clause, I'd guess you don't have a very current phone, either, but just in case:
It's now possible to sideload the Pixel camera app on (nearly) any Android 9 or 10 phone with compatible camera hardware -- this includes night exposures up to one minute, and may (for compatible phones) inclu... |
5,497,901 | I'm building one village's official site in Drupal 7. I need to create and store some information about village that will be accessible everywhere on the website (e.g. village's name, mayor's name, phone number, email, etc.). I want to define them in the admin site and access them in any node (e.g. all the data will be... | 2011/03/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5497901",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/685453/"
] | You can use the functions [variable\_get()](http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--bootstrap.inc/function/variable_get/7) and [variable\_set()](http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--bootstrap.inc/function/variable_set/7) to store arbitrary information that is available on all pages. It is easy to write a form ... | The answer by Berdir is already very good in case you only want to store the raw data. However, if you always want to display the data in the same way like in some kind of widget format, you have other options, too.
For example, you could create a block with the contact details and you only show it on specific pages.
... |
5,497,901 | I'm building one village's official site in Drupal 7. I need to create and store some information about village that will be accessible everywhere on the website (e.g. village's name, mayor's name, phone number, email, etc.). I want to define them in the admin site and access them in any node (e.g. all the data will be... | 2011/03/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5497901",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/685453/"
] | You can use the functions [variable\_get()](http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--bootstrap.inc/function/variable_get/7) and [variable\_set()](http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--bootstrap.inc/function/variable_set/7) to store arbitrary information that is available on all pages. It is easy to write a form ... | You could also consider [Creating advanced theme settings](https://www.drupal.org/node/177868).
See how you can specify the site's logo path in your theme? You could do something similar with the info you would like to display on your site, practically setting up your theme as a template for a village website.
You ge... |
43,785 | I have a friend who recently invited me to his house for dinner. Sometime in between, he had lit up a cigarette whilst we were standing on his balcony where he's kept a lot of potted plants. I noticed that he was throwing the ash off the cigarette onto on of the pots he was standing next to. At first i thought he was j... | 2019/03/08 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/43785",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/24787/"
] | Ash is never a viable soil amendment. Agriculture used to burn fields of corn stalks, sugar cane or whatever plant material was left after harvesting. That is no longer a practice today.
Burning the plant material is a waste. If there was any nitrogen tucked away in the newly dead plant material such as bark chips, le... | Whether it's helpful depends a lot on what kind of plant you're growing.
Plant ashes in general have a lot of benefits to plants (which I have seen firsthand). They contain water soluble minerals that plants can use rather quickly. Wood ash contains a lot of calcium, an appreciable (but not huge) amounts of potassium,... |
43,785 | I have a friend who recently invited me to his house for dinner. Sometime in between, he had lit up a cigarette whilst we were standing on his balcony where he's kept a lot of potted plants. I noticed that he was throwing the ash off the cigarette onto on of the pots he was standing next to. At first i thought he was j... | 2019/03/08 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/43785",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/24787/"
] | Ash is never a viable soil amendment. Agriculture used to burn fields of corn stalks, sugar cane or whatever plant material was left after harvesting. That is no longer a practice today.
Burning the plant material is a waste. If there was any nitrogen tucked away in the newly dead plant material such as bark chips, le... | Wood ash, and/or charcoal, is the only ash I'm aware of being used as an amendment. The ash from a wood burning stove can be used to adjust PH of soil and add potassium / potash. Charcoal is similar to biochar, which is purported to support beneficial microbes and bacteria. But both should be used only if they come fro... |
43,785 | I have a friend who recently invited me to his house for dinner. Sometime in between, he had lit up a cigarette whilst we were standing on his balcony where he's kept a lot of potted plants. I noticed that he was throwing the ash off the cigarette onto on of the pots he was standing next to. At first i thought he was j... | 2019/03/08 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/43785",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/24787/"
] | Whether it's helpful depends a lot on what kind of plant you're growing.
Plant ashes in general have a lot of benefits to plants (which I have seen firsthand). They contain water soluble minerals that plants can use rather quickly. Wood ash contains a lot of calcium, an appreciable (but not huge) amounts of potassium,... | Wood ash, and/or charcoal, is the only ash I'm aware of being used as an amendment. The ash from a wood burning stove can be used to adjust PH of soil and add potassium / potash. Charcoal is similar to biochar, which is purported to support beneficial microbes and bacteria. But both should be used only if they come fro... |
1,971,359 | I understand that the "NUnit vs. MSTest" question has been asked alot on SO. However, I have a simple question that I think hasn't been answered directly.
I am new to TDD, and I know that both have their pro's and con's, however I want to know from a simplicity point of view which would be easier, MSTest or NUnit?
I ... | 2009/12/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1971359",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/88770/"
] | From the simplicity perspective MSTest has a clear bonus in terms of IDE Integration. No download, no install, no configuration just start unit testing. It's perfect to get your feet wet. I'd switch to NUnit (or personally MbUnit) later on.
For the basics (which you will definately start with) both frameworks have equ... | There's a nice [comparison](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/261139/nunit-vs-mbunit-vs-mstest-vs-xunit-net) of unit testing frameworks. My personal advice would be to go with MSTest only if you use Microsoft Team Foundation Server for continuous integration, otherwise stick with open source alternatives. |
1,971,359 | I understand that the "NUnit vs. MSTest" question has been asked alot on SO. However, I have a simple question that I think hasn't been answered directly.
I am new to TDD, and I know that both have their pro's and con's, however I want to know from a simplicity point of view which would be easier, MSTest or NUnit?
I ... | 2009/12/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1971359",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/88770/"
] | From the simplicity perspective MSTest has a clear bonus in terms of IDE Integration. No download, no install, no configuration just start unit testing. It's perfect to get your feet wet. I'd switch to NUnit (or personally MbUnit) later on.
For the basics (which you will definately start with) both frameworks have equ... | I've actually never used MSTest myself since I started learning TDD with nUnit right away. One of the reasons I did not try out MSTest first was that I heard mostly negative opinions whenever I mentioned it to most TDD'ers. Again, I have no personal experience with it, I can only say I find nUnit easy to use.
There ar... |
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