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517 | My toddler doesn't like to get his teeth brushed. How do I get him to be more cooperative?
He knows it's part of the bedtime routine and doesn't try to avoid it. He will happily grab and hold out his toothbrush for us to put toothpaste on it, and then he enjoys sucking and chewing it.
When he's done that for a short while, we decide it's necessary to do it properly, and that often ends in me holding him while my wife brushing his teeth, while we explain what we're doing and why. It only takes 20 seconds, but it's always accompanied by screaming and squirming. I'd like to find a way to avoid this. As soon as we're done, everything is fine again.
**Clarification and update:**
At this age, we don't expect him to be able to brush his teeth on his own. What I meant was that he didn't allow us to do it for him either.
In the meantime, four months have passed since I asked this, and he's developed a lot. Now he gladly lets us brush his teeth carefully and cheerfully.
**Update 2:**
Another 6 months have passed, and he's still not enjoying the experience. He understands that it has to be done, and he sees us do it too. Sometimes he'll happily let us brush his teeth, other times it's a struggle.
We are using several suggestions from the answers below -- we sing, we distract, we talk about "dirty teeth" and brushing the "dirty sugar" away, we let him brush on his own for a while and then take over, he can see himself in the mirror, etc.
All of this helps, but one factor certainly is that he's tired, and that's natural because brushing teeth is part of the bedtime routine. | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/517",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/109/"
] | Both of ours went through a stage like this (in fact number two is still going through it).
* Lighten up - if you don't get a perfect brush in EVERY day, nothing bad is going to happen
* Make sure it really is about the teeth and not power struggles
* Try a mixed approach - if one idea works for you, great, but have a whole load of others ready!
Making a game out of their resistance worked (sometimes) for me: I'd poke the brush at the, and they'd turn their mouth away, but every now and then (because they're laughing) I'd 'hit'. Generally, after a few minutes of that and them laughing silly, they'd relax and let me 'win' .. a bit. Sometimes. | I was watching The Two Towers one day, while my daughter was watching a princess movie in the other room. She wandered in and started watching The Two Towers with me. There were some orcs on the screen, and it struck me. "Addison, see those guys? They're called orcs. See their teeth? They're yucky aren't they? That's what happens when you don't brush your teeth."
We haven't had too much of a problem since then, and she occasionally attempts to explain to her little brother that his teeth will look like an orc's if he doesn't let us brush them.
(Luckily, she didn't have nightmares about said orcs either) |
517 | My toddler doesn't like to get his teeth brushed. How do I get him to be more cooperative?
He knows it's part of the bedtime routine and doesn't try to avoid it. He will happily grab and hold out his toothbrush for us to put toothpaste on it, and then he enjoys sucking and chewing it.
When he's done that for a short while, we decide it's necessary to do it properly, and that often ends in me holding him while my wife brushing his teeth, while we explain what we're doing and why. It only takes 20 seconds, but it's always accompanied by screaming and squirming. I'd like to find a way to avoid this. As soon as we're done, everything is fine again.
**Clarification and update:**
At this age, we don't expect him to be able to brush his teeth on his own. What I meant was that he didn't allow us to do it for him either.
In the meantime, four months have passed since I asked this, and he's developed a lot. Now he gladly lets us brush his teeth carefully and cheerfully.
**Update 2:**
Another 6 months have passed, and he's still not enjoying the experience. He understands that it has to be done, and he sees us do it too. Sometimes he'll happily let us brush his teeth, other times it's a struggle.
We are using several suggestions from the answers below -- we sing, we distract, we talk about "dirty teeth" and brushing the "dirty sugar" away, we let him brush on his own for a while and then take over, he can see himself in the mirror, etc.
All of this helps, but one factor certainly is that he's tired, and that's natural because brushing teeth is part of the bedtime routine. | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/517",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/109/"
] | I was watching The Two Towers one day, while my daughter was watching a princess movie in the other room. She wandered in and started watching The Two Towers with me. There were some orcs on the screen, and it struck me. "Addison, see those guys? They're called orcs. See their teeth? They're yucky aren't they? That's what happens when you don't brush your teeth."
We haven't had too much of a problem since then, and she occasionally attempts to explain to her little brother that his teeth will look like an orc's if he doesn't let us brush them.
(Luckily, she didn't have nightmares about said orcs either) | One trick that has worked for us is telling stories on thomas train. I brush his teeth while his dad tells the stories. It takes two stories for us to completely brush his teeth.
I also liked the mirror technique. i will keep that as plan B :P
One thing which used to work for us (he doesnt buy into it anymore now) was to let him brush my teeth (without toothpaste of course) while I brush his :D |
517 | My toddler doesn't like to get his teeth brushed. How do I get him to be more cooperative?
He knows it's part of the bedtime routine and doesn't try to avoid it. He will happily grab and hold out his toothbrush for us to put toothpaste on it, and then he enjoys sucking and chewing it.
When he's done that for a short while, we decide it's necessary to do it properly, and that often ends in me holding him while my wife brushing his teeth, while we explain what we're doing and why. It only takes 20 seconds, but it's always accompanied by screaming and squirming. I'd like to find a way to avoid this. As soon as we're done, everything is fine again.
**Clarification and update:**
At this age, we don't expect him to be able to brush his teeth on his own. What I meant was that he didn't allow us to do it for him either.
In the meantime, four months have passed since I asked this, and he's developed a lot. Now he gladly lets us brush his teeth carefully and cheerfully.
**Update 2:**
Another 6 months have passed, and he's still not enjoying the experience. He understands that it has to be done, and he sees us do it too. Sometimes he'll happily let us brush his teeth, other times it's a struggle.
We are using several suggestions from the answers below -- we sing, we distract, we talk about "dirty teeth" and brushing the "dirty sugar" away, we let him brush on his own for a while and then take over, he can see himself in the mirror, etc.
All of this helps, but one factor certainly is that he's tired, and that's natural because brushing teeth is part of the bedtime routine. | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/517",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/109/"
] | Both of ours went through a stage like this (in fact number two is still going through it).
* Lighten up - if you don't get a perfect brush in EVERY day, nothing bad is going to happen
* Make sure it really is about the teeth and not power struggles
* Try a mixed approach - if one idea works for you, great, but have a whole load of others ready!
Making a game out of their resistance worked (sometimes) for me: I'd poke the brush at the, and they'd turn their mouth away, but every now and then (because they're laughing) I'd 'hit'. Generally, after a few minutes of that and them laughing silly, they'd relax and let me 'win' .. a bit. Sometimes. | I'd go crazy too having someone brush my teeth. ;) I can only recommend to relax. Brush yours and let him find his way to do it. It will come if you can show him that you are convinced that he is capable of doing it properly. And as long as it does not, remember that it is *your* fear that lets him very little room to decide about *his* body. Don't force him into resignation. Let him explore and let him know it's his realm. And let him experience unbrushed tooth, too. This is where we take our motivation to brush ours! And it's not really that dangerous as we tend to think to go to bed without having your tooth brushed properly. The harm that can be done to the relationship between you and your child by forcing it is much worse than some potential hole in a tooth. Just imagine the respect he will experience when you ask him if he wants help and you would accept his no.
The other day on a familylab talk there was a mother telling about the big fights she has with her daughter because the daughter doesn't want to brush her teeth. The mother was asking for advice. Mathias Voelchert from familylab asked her if she could try to not care about her teeth for the next 14 days. It wouldn't be the end for her teeth but could be a beautiful 2 weeks for their relationship. :) |
517 | My toddler doesn't like to get his teeth brushed. How do I get him to be more cooperative?
He knows it's part of the bedtime routine and doesn't try to avoid it. He will happily grab and hold out his toothbrush for us to put toothpaste on it, and then he enjoys sucking and chewing it.
When he's done that for a short while, we decide it's necessary to do it properly, and that often ends in me holding him while my wife brushing his teeth, while we explain what we're doing and why. It only takes 20 seconds, but it's always accompanied by screaming and squirming. I'd like to find a way to avoid this. As soon as we're done, everything is fine again.
**Clarification and update:**
At this age, we don't expect him to be able to brush his teeth on his own. What I meant was that he didn't allow us to do it for him either.
In the meantime, four months have passed since I asked this, and he's developed a lot. Now he gladly lets us brush his teeth carefully and cheerfully.
**Update 2:**
Another 6 months have passed, and he's still not enjoying the experience. He understands that it has to be done, and he sees us do it too. Sometimes he'll happily let us brush his teeth, other times it's a struggle.
We are using several suggestions from the answers below -- we sing, we distract, we talk about "dirty teeth" and brushing the "dirty sugar" away, we let him brush on his own for a while and then take over, he can see himself in the mirror, etc.
All of this helps, but one factor certainly is that he's tired, and that's natural because brushing teeth is part of the bedtime routine. | 2011/04/05 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/517",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/109/"
] | Both of ours went through a stage like this (in fact number two is still going through it).
* Lighten up - if you don't get a perfect brush in EVERY day, nothing bad is going to happen
* Make sure it really is about the teeth and not power struggles
* Try a mixed approach - if one idea works for you, great, but have a whole load of others ready!
Making a game out of their resistance worked (sometimes) for me: I'd poke the brush at the, and they'd turn their mouth away, but every now and then (because they're laughing) I'd 'hit'. Generally, after a few minutes of that and them laughing silly, they'd relax and let me 'win' .. a bit. Sometimes. | We sing the song (Ariel's theme) from Little Mermaid while we brush, the kids get a kick out of it and encourages them to open their mouths wide for the ahh-ahh-ahhs. |
88,293 | Which is better English (if either)?
>
> * The results are within the range of values from the literature.
> * The results are within the range of values in the literature.
>
>
> | 2012/10/27 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/88293",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/14291/"
] | Per mine and Edwin's comments above, Google Books confirms an overwhelming preference for
>
> [...the range of values **found** in the literature.](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22the%20range%20of%20values%20found%20in%20the%20literature%22&btnG=Search%20Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1)
>
>
>
As a native speaker, I expected that before checking usage figures, but explaining *why* isn't so easy. Partly it's just a matter of established idiomatic usage, but I do think *"found"* is more consistent with the [research/testing] context, in that it shows the writer has made an effort to locate and quantify the relevant values. | The data was taken "from" the literature, but it remains there, in the literature because you aren't taking anything away from the document when you use the data in the document. Hence, "in the literature" is more correct than "from the literature," syntactically although either would be correct grammatically. |
499,234 | I am a rookie on both RF and PCB design and I am currently trying to do a 50 ohm 11 watt dummy load project for 100MHz-1GHz.
My calculations are done for the load but I have some questions about designing the PCB.
My new design is as below:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iUgz8.png)
My instructor keeps saying that :
>
> ''There is a problem with lining up resistors on a row, because you will see a high impedance with reflections on first resistor, then traveling to the next, and the next ... Try designing so that the signal reaches all resistors at the same time. This is difficult with so many resistors. If the attenuator is then directly connected to the same point your series resistor can be of high impedance without affecting signal, because of the short length.''
>
>
>
I don't know how to do this and out of ideas, I tried to do it as a circle around the connector but still not accepted.
Attenuators written as AT1,AT2,AT3. The other resistors are for the load.
Project Specification:
* The power I am trying to terminate is 5-10 watts.
* SMD resistors are 560Nohms 1 watt resistors and the signal strength should not exceed -10dBm that is why I am using an 50dB attenuator, to achieve the desired signal strength.
PCB design Specification:
* Trace Width = 0.5mm
* Dielectric Thickness = 0.3mm
* Trace Thickness = 0.036mm
* Substrate Dielectric (Ɛr) = 4.6
* Total board thickness = 0.39mm
* Size of the resistors (x,y) = (6.4,3.2)mm
* Dimensions of the board are (x,y) = (7.5,10)cm
**EDIT**
So I decided to do it as a star or circle shaped design to make the lines equal to each other. Here is what it looks like:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/May3X.png)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KSM9k.png)
I just draw this schematic to show how my circuit looks like there might be errors. | 2020/05/12 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/499234",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/252287/"
] | The biggest problem you have is the parallel connection of all those 560 Ω resistors. You obviously need to space them apart so that they can all dissipate their heat. However to parallel them at RF, you need 560 Ω transmission lines, and you can't get impedance that high on microstrip, especially the very thin dielectric you've chosen. The eleven lines in parallel will cause a very large shunt capacitive defect, giving you an increasingly degraded return loss as the frequency rises.
This is how I'd approach the circuit
[simulate this circuit](/plugins/schematics?image=http%3a%2f%2fi.stack.imgur.com%2faJiZ4.png) – Schematic created using [CircuitLab](https://www.circuitlab.com/)
Resistors are chosen from the E24 series, nearest to the value that would actually give 50 Ω match and equal power dissipation. As a result of that approximation, the final DC resistance comes out to about 49 Ω. Each horizontal line is a length of transmission line, with the approximate impedance (rounded to integer) above it. You'll note they are all 'reasonable' values, in the ballpark of 50 Ω, so straightforward to fabricate on the board. As transmission lines, they can be any length, allowing you to space the resistors at will around the board.
There are some practical details that will affect the high frequency match. High value resistors tend to be a bit capacitive, low value resistors a bit inductive, so this layout would only be a first cut, and measurement, or detailed modelling with data for those specific devices, would be needed to tweak up the match. There is plenty of scope to change the impedance of the series lines slightly to compensate for the parasitics of the components.
Note that the signal decreases along the chain, so R11 provides the ideal place to feed the final instrumentation attenuator, with a slight modification of value as required. | The free space wavelength at 1GHz is 30cm. Assuming an effective dielectric constant of 4, it will be 60cm. I believe you can add those resistances in a few centimeter easily. In that case you can neglect the wave effect in the layout. You should verify with simulation if it is really case. Some reflections will happen of course.
I see plenty of space around your resistors. I would definitively make it more compact. At RF design the trace lengths is your enemy due to their inductance if you do not use a transmission line. If you use a transmission line, then the junctions might be tricky to design.
If you worry about the different impedances seen between the resistors, you can connect them in a star fashion, so they will load the line at the same point. If the inductance of the connection is negligible this might be OK. |
5,077,520 | I'm developing an iPhone app at the moment using Appcelerator Titanium which has 3 tabs in a tab group.
My app.js can be found here: <http://pastie.org/private/zoignwv05l9t6pbrfm01dw>
In the 'Company Search' tab group, I've been working on a Table View which loads data using an XHR keyword search (I've added a search box using Titanium.UI.createSearchBar with various event handlers for changing search, cancelling search). We'll call the first search results table view tier 1.
The search part works fine and I've set up a click event for the table view which works perfectly, opening a new window. We'll call this tier 2.
The problem is that if I click on the back button on tier 2 (returning me to my tier 1 results) and modify my search to something new, a new XHR request is made to refresh the table view data. If I then click one of these new results, the tier 2 window opens, but I can see a duplicated tier 2 window beneath it. Clicking the back button on the new tier 2 window takes me up the window hierachy to a duplicated tier 2 window.
It's almost as if when back is clicked on tier 2, the window is animated out of view but not removed (as I would expect).
I hope this makes sense. It's hard to describe.
Here's my company-search.js tab code: <http://pastie.org/private/jdwiuasivd3zrnhcqbqxw>
I've also got a video showing the problem: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_1zlXf__UE>
Thanks so much in advance for any ideas or recommendations. | 2011/02/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5077520",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/126431/"
] | I've fixed this problem.
Here is my amended source code: <http://pastie.org/private/ycown2e6tracfvdukz29uw>
From what I work out, I appeared to be adding the table view to the current window every time the first XHR request was called.
I moved the table view row click event code and the win.add(tableView) code outside the loader.onload event code and hey-presto, it all works as planned!
Hope this helps someone else out. | It looks like the issue posted in [Appcelerator forums](http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/14301/iphone-opening-a-tertiary-window-with-tiuicurrenttabopen). In company\_search.js try checking e.rowData.url in the tableViews click event against the e.rowData.url from the previous click event. If it is same, do not open the window in the current tab. |
3,033,180 | I saw the Example of Mr. Bob regarding Delphi 2010 Datasnap, I am impressed. But my question is what if the client is connected thru proxy server? how could I define the proxy in the client?
thanks... | 2010/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3033180",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/365801/"
] | Forget D2010 Datasnap. It's still a half backed solution lacking a lot in flexibility and security. It will only work in very simple scenarios, and it's unusable in any real application due to its many flaws.
**Update**: because I am said my answer was argumentative and not helpful, I'll give you the full answer: connections through a proxy - but a transparent one - are not supported. If you look at the implementation of TDSHTTPNativeClient, you'll see it instantiates a TidHTTP component, which would allow a proxy to be set, but the implementation totally overlooked the need to set a proxy, because, you know, proxies are so rarely used today that there was no need to think about them ;). That component is private, thereby you can't access it easily. You could try with some RTTI code, or you could try to modify yourself the DSHTTPLayer.pas unit to add the missing pieces. All that to set what should have been a basic supported feature out of the box.
But as long as you try to use this Datasnap, you will encounter many other basic issues, look in Quality Central for them. Again, my advice is to avoid this Datasnap unless you have very basic remoting needs, until Embarcadero makes it a true professional remoting library and not a toy.
**Update 2**: I've added a request to support a proxy to Quality Central, [#85467](http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=85467) | @Idsandon : How nice of you to *not* link to your critical article on this subject ;-) I can't help myself but to link to it : <http://www.sandon.it/?q=node/57> - especially the security considerations are not to be ignored, so thanks for this detailed analysis. |
496,231 | After doing research, I have found there are many advantages to boot from an EBS-backed AMI rather than instance storage. I have a few questions related to this:
1. What is the optimal size for an Ubuntu (12.10.1) EBS-backed AMI. I know the default is 8GBs, If I want to boot as a root device, should I make it bigger? I cannot seem to find too many use cases of what people use.
2. Once I make the AMI how do I use it as a root device (and not use the instance storage)
3. What is the standard maintenance for this (snapshots)
Thanks for your help! | 2013/04/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/496231",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/147449/"
] | >
> What is the optimal size for an Ubuntu (12.10.1) EBS-backed AMI. I
> know the default is 8GBs, If I want to boot as a root device, should I
> make it bigger? I cannot seem to find too many use cases of what
> people use.
>
>
>
There is no such thing, as it's completely dependent on your use case. I typically keep my root (/) partition at the default of 8GB, and then add additional EBS volumes (/var, /opt, /home, etc.) as necessary.
>
> Once I make the AMI how do I use it as a root device (and not use the
> instance storage)
>
>
>
Right-click on a EBS root AMI and choose "Launch Instance", or select an EBS root AMI from the Launch Instance dialogue. Eric Hammond ([also a SF user](https://serverfault.com/users/30542/eric-hammond)) maintains a convenient list of the most up-to-date Ubuntu AMIs for each region on [his website](http://alestic.com/). Top of the right sidebar.
>
> What is the standard maintenance for this (snapshots)
>
>
>
This is a very nebulous question, but yes, taking periodic snapshots is likely a good idea. You need to be careful, though. Depending on what software is running on your system, taking snapshots without first flushing data to disk will likely cause the filesystem in the snapshot to be corrupt, requiring recovery/fsck on first boot.
For mysql data partitions, ESH's [ec2-consistent-snapshot](https://github.com/alestic/ec2-consistent-snapshot) does a nice job. | I usually use the default size for the root device and put all my data and apps on additional EBS volumes. This way you can use ec2-consistent-snapshot with filesystem freeze for consistent backups of the instance (freezing the root fs often fail due to race conditions). |
19,154,774 | I have the need to create some pdf through java code, pdf templates are fixed and are very complex too. Each pdf represents a module and I have to fill it with informations I get from other sources in my application and finally create the complete pdf.
So, is there a library which, given a pdf, scans it and creats some java code which will eventually create it back? This way once I get the pdf template in java code I just have to edit it adding my informations and create it back. | 2013/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/19154774",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1654930/"
] | You can check these 2 link it's have all information regarding PDF CRUD operation.
[How to read PDF files using Java?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4784825/how-to-read-pdf-files-using-java)
<http://mrbool.com/how-to-create-write-and-read-pdf-files-using-pdfone-and-java/27058> | I have used with success iText <http://itextpdf.com/> for various tasks involving creating, parsing and modifying pdf files. Please not that this one is not free for commercial use and the pricing isn't cheap either.
However, your question is a possible duplicate of the folowing one, so be sure to check the answers there:
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6118635/what-is-the-best-pdf-open-source-library-for-java> |
19,154,774 | I have the need to create some pdf through java code, pdf templates are fixed and are very complex too. Each pdf represents a module and I have to fill it with informations I get from other sources in my application and finally create the complete pdf.
So, is there a library which, given a pdf, scans it and creats some java code which will eventually create it back? This way once I get the pdf template in java code I just have to edit it adding my informations and create it back. | 2013/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/19154774",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1654930/"
] | You can check these 2 link it's have all information regarding PDF CRUD operation.
[How to read PDF files using Java?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4784825/how-to-read-pdf-files-using-java)
<http://mrbool.com/how-to-create-write-and-read-pdf-files-using-pdfone-and-java/27058> | `itext` is one of best approach for your need..
[itext API'S](http://itextpdf.com/api) |
53,758,738 | I created a public link for a group of testers but the link shows: "***This beta isn't accepting any new testers right now.***"
The build has been approved and I set the limit to 10 testers.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/la34e.png)
Why is the public link not accepting new beta testers? | 2018/12/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/53758738",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3641812/"
] | Well, after writing this, I decided to check the build state and I noticed that the build was missing a step:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BPe7x.png)
After notifying the testers, the link now accepts new testers. The link shows: "*To join the Mealcard beta, tap the link on your iPhone or iPad after you install TestFlight.*"
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tohiq.png) | If, like I found, you're finding clicking "Notify Testers" still doesn't work as outlined in Ricardo's post, give it 10 minutes to propagate across Apple's networks. |
53,758,738 | I created a public link for a group of testers but the link shows: "***This beta isn't accepting any new testers right now.***"
The build has been approved and I set the limit to 10 testers.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/la34e.png)
Why is the public link not accepting new beta testers? | 2018/12/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/53758738",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3641812/"
] | Well, after writing this, I decided to check the build state and I noticed that the build was missing a step:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BPe7x.png)
After notifying the testers, the link now accepts new testers. The link shows: "*To join the Mealcard beta, tap the link on your iPhone or iPad after you install TestFlight.*"
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tohiq.png) | If it says that, it may mean that the app you are trying to install dont want anymore poeple 'testing' their app. or it could mean the link has expired |
53,758,738 | I created a public link for a group of testers but the link shows: "***This beta isn't accepting any new testers right now.***"
The build has been approved and I set the limit to 10 testers.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/la34e.png)
Why is the public link not accepting new beta testers? | 2018/12/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/53758738",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3641812/"
] | If, like I found, you're finding clicking "Notify Testers" still doesn't work as outlined in Ricardo's post, give it 10 minutes to propagate across Apple's networks. | If it says that, it may mean that the app you are trying to install dont want anymore poeple 'testing' their app. or it could mean the link has expired |
24,770,998 | I am reading about Codd’s Eight Original Operators in [Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying by Itzik Ben-Gan, Lubor Kollar, Dejan Sarka, and Steve Kass](http://tsql.solidq.com/books/insidetsql2008/) and do not understand the Divide operator.
Quotes defining the Divide operator:
>
> “A divisor relation is used to partition a dividend relation and
> produce a quotient relation. The quotient relation is made up of those
> values of one column from the dividend table for which the second
> column contains all of the values in the divisor.”
>
>
>
This statement is in agreement with [Wikipedia's definition and example](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_algebra#Division_.28.C3.B7.29).
>
> “The formula for the Divide operator includes three relations: *a*
> divide by *b* per *c*, where *a* is the dividend, *b* is the divisor, and *c* is
> the mediator relation. Let relation *a* have attributes A and relation *b*
> attributes B. The Divide operator returns a relation that includes of
> all tuples from divisor such that a tuple {A, B} appears in the
> mediator relation for all tuples from divisor relation.”
>
>
>
The diagram below is used to demonstrate this statement. I believe the relations are presented in the following order: dividend, divisor, mediator, and end result.
The second relation (the divisor) has {a, x}, {a, z}, {b, x} and {b, z} for tuples. My thought process follows that since there are tuples {b, x} and {b, z} that b should be included in the end result. I've check the book corrections on the book's website (linked at the beginning of this post) and am certain that I am wrong.
**Why is the result of the diagram example *a* and not *a* and *b*?** | 2014/07/16 | [
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] | Relational Division has always been a mess, and is likely to stay that way. It was originally invented as the means for relational query systems to be able to formulate/answer questions such as, e.g., "what is the list of customers who have subscribed ALL possible insurance policy types". That is, it was intended as the vehicle for formulating queries that involved some kind of universal quantification as a predicate determining the result set.
Elaborating further on my customers/policies example, let's assume that the set of "ALL possible insurance policy types" is itself time-varying, i.e. over time, new policy types can emerge, while others can be discontinued. Let's further assume that "ALL possible insurance policy types" in a certain query, means, specifically, "ALL policy types that are currently open for subscrition by customers" (that is, the discontinued policy types are not part of this set of "ALL" types).
Let's assume that this set of "ALL possible policy types" at a certain moment is {TYPE1, TYPE3}. TYPE2 has been discontinued. Let's also assume that customer ES still has a policy of type TYPE2, obviously dating from before when it was discontinued. Thus customer ES has policies of type {TYPE1, TYPE2, TYPE3}.
Now answer the question whether this customer has "ALL policy types that are currently open for subscription". Your answer should be a firm 'yes'. You might get a sense of where this is going : relational division centers around comparison of two *sets*. One is a "comparand" (the customer's set of subscribed policy types), the other one is a "reference" (the set of policy types that are currently open for subscription).
Now there are at least two useful comparisons that can be made between sets : one is for equality, the other is for set containment (subsetness). In some cases of querying you will want the equality test, while in others you will want the containment test. And the relational operator called 'division' (in whatever of its umpty flavours) does not allow to make this distinction. I gather it is this phenomenon that you are asking about, and the answer is simply that the choice is made by design, so to speak, and hardwired into the operator's definition. It makes the operator "useful" in those cases where its definition matches your needs, and useless in other cases.
The sort-of good news is, when you have to spell out the SQL for a relational division, there won't be much difference between division-with-equality and division-with-containment (despite the fact that the algebra operator is, by definition, only one of the two, and the other one simply even does not have an algebraic operator). Main problem is that set equality itself is very messy to express in SQL, and that's not any less so "inside a relational division query" ...
And then there are still all the valid points already made by philip. Read them, but very carefully. | The result in the diagram should indeed be rows {a} and {b}. But the book and your message are mixed up.
There are a number of relational DIVIDE variants. There is Codd's divide, Date's abridged version of Codd's divide, Todd's divide, Date and Darwen's Small (Codd-like) divide-per and Great (Todd-like) divide-per and their Generalized Small and Great divide-pers, and Darwen's per-divide-per.
The quotes and diagram are from the book. First they are trying to talk about Codd's divide and it has two inputs; "a divisor relation is used to partition a dividend relation". (The book even says: "This is the way the Divide operator was defined originally.") But its second sentence is wrong. First, it talks about columns instead of disjoint column sets. Second, it limits its second operand to only having a subset of the first operand's columns. (It's Date's abridged version of Codd's divide.) Third, it is unintelligible. Let A, B and C be disjoint attribute sets and AB and BC be relations with attribute sets A U B and B U C. Then Codd's AB DIVIDEBY BC returns A subrows that appear in AB with every B subrow that appears in BC.
The wiki actually describes Codd's divide. So only if you ignore the problems above is the first quote "in agreement with" it.
Then the second quote is talking about a *different* "extended" divide operator. The book explains that Codd's divide doesn't reflect a natural phrasing using "for all" in common situations. They then unclearly introduce the other operator. They are trying to define the Small divide-per. The input "includes three relations: a divide by b per c". The diagram shown is even labelled as an "extended divide".
Unfortunately the definition is not only ungrammatical, it is unintelligible. A DIVIDEBY B PER AB returns rows that appear in A that appear as subrows in AB with every row that appears in B. They should say that it returns the tuples {A} in the dividend such that a tuple {A, B} appears in the mediator with all tuples {B} in the divisor
That book is a mess. The writing is terrible. The proof reading is terrible. Given the text in this section there is no reason to expect the answers to be right. But also, you are not reading carefully.
Then you misinterpret the arguments in the diagram. But you don't notice because you are not following the definition. Thus not noticing that the definition is unintelligible. The diagram shows relations A-AB-B-result which is dividend-mediator-divisor-quotient. So again you are not reading carefully.
And it is true that both {a} and {b} rows should be in the result. But I can't really say you're "right" about that because your "thought process" seems to be "get a vague impression". Some of the vagueness is surely due to the poor writing in the book. But you don't seem to be noticing that the book is unintelligible. Read carefully! |
627,339 | 04 TLS server with iRedMail installed. When just installed it worked okay but after 4 emails I get a error message
>
> Sep 9 12:24:18 hostname postfix/smtp[9907]: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024: Connection refused
> Sep 9 12:24:18 hostname postfix/smtp[9907]: D97C720A31: to=, relay=none, delay=1.1, delays=1.1/0.02/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024: Connection refused)
> Sep 9 12:24:19 hostname postfix/smtpd[9892]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
>
>
>
I don't know where the problem is. Can someone help me out here? | 2014/09/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/627339",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/168085/"
] | I ran into something similar recently. In my case, scanning the logs I noticed some memory allocation errors and this, together with some hints from pages, suggested to me that the node didn't have enough RAM to operate properly. I've subsequently added 1GB of swap which seems to have helped. So I'd tentatively suggest it's a low memory condition -- add some RAM and reboot and see if things improve, and look through your logs for errors. | Run postmap command on conf files in /etc/postfix/ and restart postfix service. |
56,608 | John 2:13-22 ([NIV](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202&version=NIV)),
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18 The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
**19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.** 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
How could Jesus, having been crucified and buried, raise the temple of His body from the death and destruction He prophesied would come to it?
Does this verse suggest that Jesus died only in body, but in soul/mind/spirit He remained alive even after the cross? | 2021/03/12 | [
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] | Does this verse suggest that Jesus died only in body, but in soul/mind/spirit He remained alive even after the cross?
Yes.
Just before Jesus physically died on the cross,
Luke 23:46
>
> Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my **spirit**." When he had said this, he breathed his last.
>
>
>
Only God can kill the soul.
Matthew 10:28
>
> Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the **soul**. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
>
>
> | You are interpreting text using the western understanding of ‘death’. Instead you need to apply Hebraic understanding, after all, the Bible is a Jewish book. Our dictionary defines death very differently to the Bible.
Death (Biblically) means separation. Physical ‘death’ is [you] separation from your physical ‘body’. As ‘sin’ is in the ‘flesh’, it’s the ‘flesh’ that had to die. Jesus took our ‘sin’ in his body. So it was his body that died. |
56,608 | John 2:13-22 ([NIV](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202&version=NIV)),
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18 The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
**19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.** 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
How could Jesus, having been crucified and buried, raise the temple of His body from the death and destruction He prophesied would come to it?
Does this verse suggest that Jesus died only in body, but in soul/mind/spirit He remained alive even after the cross? | 2021/03/12 | [
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] | Does this verse suggest that Jesus died only in body, but in soul/mind/spirit He remained alive even after the cross?
Yes.
Just before Jesus physically died on the cross,
Luke 23:46
>
> Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my **spirit**." When he had said this, he breathed his last.
>
>
>
Only God can kill the soul.
Matthew 10:28
>
> Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the **soul**. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
>
>
> | I strongly recommend that you not venture on this minefield. There is no solution to this. The distinction between body and soul is very vexed (if it exists at all) and is not in the OT.
All that on can say is what is recorded in the Bible - NOTHING. Jesus died. Solving this problem is like trying to understand the incarnation itself - it is a mystery not recorded but accepted by faith.
After Jesus died, He was raised to life. Note further that according to John 2:19-21 and 10:17, 18 both say that Jesus resurrected Himself. Further, John 1:4 & 5:26 says that the Son has “life in Himself”, that is, is not dependent on the Father for His existence. Compare 1 John 5:11 & 1:1, 2.
Now, do not reply that other texts (Rom 6:4, Gal 1:1, Eph 1:17-20) say that the Father raised Jesus from the dead. That is true but beside the point here because how Jesus resurrected Himself or the Father did is part of the mystery of the incarnation and the resurrection.
To understand either of these things is to be God and none of us is God! |
56,608 | John 2:13-22 ([NIV](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202&version=NIV)),
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18 The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
**19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.** 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
How could Jesus, having been crucified and buried, raise the temple of His body from the death and destruction He prophesied would come to it?
Does this verse suggest that Jesus died only in body, but in soul/mind/spirit He remained alive even after the cross? | 2021/03/12 | [
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"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
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] | You are interpreting text using the western understanding of ‘death’. Instead you need to apply Hebraic understanding, after all, the Bible is a Jewish book. Our dictionary defines death very differently to the Bible.
Death (Biblically) means separation. Physical ‘death’ is [you] separation from your physical ‘body’. As ‘sin’ is in the ‘flesh’, it’s the ‘flesh’ that had to die. Jesus took our ‘sin’ in his body. So it was his body that died. | I strongly recommend that you not venture on this minefield. There is no solution to this. The distinction between body and soul is very vexed (if it exists at all) and is not in the OT.
All that on can say is what is recorded in the Bible - NOTHING. Jesus died. Solving this problem is like trying to understand the incarnation itself - it is a mystery not recorded but accepted by faith.
After Jesus died, He was raised to life. Note further that according to John 2:19-21 and 10:17, 18 both say that Jesus resurrected Himself. Further, John 1:4 & 5:26 says that the Son has “life in Himself”, that is, is not dependent on the Father for His existence. Compare 1 John 5:11 & 1:1, 2.
Now, do not reply that other texts (Rom 6:4, Gal 1:1, Eph 1:17-20) say that the Father raised Jesus from the dead. That is true but beside the point here because how Jesus resurrected Himself or the Father did is part of the mystery of the incarnation and the resurrection.
To understand either of these things is to be God and none of us is God! |
109,086 | I have a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens and its hood EW-83H. I also have an EW-83J lens hood intended for EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM. I don't have a full frame camera; my camera is a crop sensor one.
If I'm using the 24-105mm lens on a crop sensor camera, it's equivalent to 38.4mm-168mm. The 17-55mm lens is equivalent to 27.2mm-88mm.
I'm thinking of using the 24-105mm lens with the EW-83J lens hood intended for another lens, because the 24mm lens hood (EW-83H) needs to be relatively small due to the wide angle, and therefore, it doesn't offer as much protection as the EW-83J hood. Of course, using the lens on a full frame camera really requires the EW-83H hood so I'm not planning to throw that away.
I have been looking at the lens hood mount, and the diameters (81mm inner, 84mm outer) are the same, and the number 83 in the model number (whatever that means -- I couldn't find any 83mm dimension in the mount mechanism) is the same too. The lens hood mount mechanism seems to be identical. However, I'm afraid that if I try mounting the EW-83J hood on the L lens, it could get stuck due to some difference in the mounting mechanism I couldn't see.
So, my question is: can I use the EW-83J lens hood on the 24-105mm lens intended to be used with the EW-83H lens hood (when using the lens with a crop sensor camera)? Is it a good idea to use the EW-83J hood on a crop sensor camera or can it cause some bad effects on the image quality? | 2019/06/22 | [
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] | Yes, because you are using a crop camera, you can use the EW-83J hood on your 24-105 without any vignetting or other effects.
Here is a chart that shows many other alternate lens and hood combinations.
[Alternate Hoods](https://khromagery.com/2006/11/16/alternate-canon-lens-hoods/)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2qA6r.jpg) | For the vast majority of Canon lens hoods, if the number part of the name of the hood is the same as the number part of the name of another hood then the hood will mount on lenses for which the other hood was made.
There are a few exceptions for hoods that do not use the typical bayonet style attachment. For instance, the ET-65III made for the EF 85mm f/1.8, EF 100mm f/2, and several other discontinued lenses that presses straight on with release buttons is not interchangeable with the bayonet twist-on style ET-65B for the EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS. |
73,981 | I'm at a loss as to how I should title this. I have this sentence:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via
> telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I am trying to express several things:
1. We have an option to provide notifications
2. We can provide
those notifications via telephone
3. I think we can provide email
notifications (Further research is required, but I believe the
audience already has that context. The addition of "possibly" is
primarily meant to emphasize the lack of a guarantee).
Would I be better off with this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly, email.
>
>
>
or this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly email.
>
>
> | 2012/07/09 | [
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] | I would suggest using no commas at all. I think it's cleaner, and not ambiguous:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and possibly email.
>
>
>
The other two acceptable choices that you have are (1) a comma right before *and*, and (2) commas around the *possibly*. The first choice would make the email option sound further removed from the phone option (try pausing there when saying it aloud):
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly email.
>
>
>
The second choice would look like this, and would draw some attention to the word *possibly*:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
But all three commas together, though grammatically acceptable, merely comprise clutter (*telephone, and, possibly, email*) and should be avoided. | Oxford commas give me a headache. My feeling is that "possibly" does not need to be offset under these circumstances, therefore I would put "We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly via e-mail."
However, I'm old, and still view the Oxford Comma as optional. |
73,981 | I'm at a loss as to how I should title this. I have this sentence:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via
> telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I am trying to express several things:
1. We have an option to provide notifications
2. We can provide
those notifications via telephone
3. I think we can provide email
notifications (Further research is required, but I believe the
audience already has that context. The addition of "possibly" is
primarily meant to emphasize the lack of a guarantee).
Would I be better off with this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly, email.
>
>
>
or this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly email.
>
>
> | 2012/07/09 | [
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] | I agree with Daniel, the commas are cluttering up your sentence unnecessarily.
You could consider:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and (possibly) email.
>
>
> | As others have noted, the three commas in
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and, possibly, email
>
>
>
are unnecessary; or the comma before *and* could be retained ("...via telephone, and possibly email"); or the aforementioned "weak interruption" might be set off by commas ("...via telephone and, possibly, email"); or it might be set off by parentheses ("...via telephone and (possibly) email"). The last of these forms perhaps is most likely to convey the idea that email might or might not be available for notifications. That idea is slightly obscured by appearance of both *option* and *possibly* in the sentence. Consider a rewording like
>
> We can provide notifications via telephone and (if circumstances permit) email.
>
>
>
Saying "we can provide..." instead of "we will provide..." implies that notifications are optional, and it probably is not necessary to explicitly say they are optional. If for some reason you are required to be explicit, start the sentence off with "If you so choose" or "If you like" or "At your option":
>
> If you like, we will provide notifications via telephone or (circumstances permitting) email.
>
>
> |
73,981 | I'm at a loss as to how I should title this. I have this sentence:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via
> telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I am trying to express several things:
1. We have an option to provide notifications
2. We can provide
those notifications via telephone
3. I think we can provide email
notifications (Further research is required, but I believe the
audience already has that context. The addition of "possibly" is
primarily meant to emphasize the lack of a guarantee).
Would I be better off with this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly, email.
>
>
>
or this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly email.
>
>
> | 2012/07/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73981",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | Without *possibly*, no comma is required: *We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and email.*
*Possibly*, when present, forms a weak interruption in the sentence, which can be acknowledged thus: *We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly, email.* | Oxford commas give me a headache. My feeling is that "possibly" does not need to be offset under these circumstances, therefore I would put "We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly via e-mail."
However, I'm old, and still view the Oxford Comma as optional. |
73,981 | I'm at a loss as to how I should title this. I have this sentence:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via
> telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I am trying to express several things:
1. We have an option to provide notifications
2. We can provide
those notifications via telephone
3. I think we can provide email
notifications (Further research is required, but I believe the
audience already has that context. The addition of "possibly" is
primarily meant to emphasize the lack of a guarantee).
Would I be better off with this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly, email.
>
>
>
or this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly email.
>
>
> | 2012/07/09 | [
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] | I would say, you don't need a comma before "and" (although, you can use it; it's a matter of choice). But commas should surround "possibly". Hence, you can use:
>
> * We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly, email.
> * We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
> | Perhaps removing the first comma?
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I've been taught that if a dependent clause is surrounded by commas it could theoretically be removed while leaving a syntactically correct, though not necessarily semantically equivalent, sentence.
>
> I've been taught that if a dependent clause is surrounded by commas it could theoretically be removed while leaving a syntactically correct sentence.
>
>
>
or
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and email.
>
>
> |
73,981 | I'm at a loss as to how I should title this. I have this sentence:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via
> telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I am trying to express several things:
1. We have an option to provide notifications
2. We can provide
those notifications via telephone
3. I think we can provide email
notifications (Further research is required, but I believe the
audience already has that context. The addition of "possibly" is
primarily meant to emphasize the lack of a guarantee).
Would I be better off with this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly, email.
>
>
>
or this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly email.
>
>
> | 2012/07/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73981",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/12066/"
] | As others have noted, the three commas in
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and, possibly, email
>
>
>
are unnecessary; or the comma before *and* could be retained ("...via telephone, and possibly email"); or the aforementioned "weak interruption" might be set off by commas ("...via telephone and, possibly, email"); or it might be set off by parentheses ("...via telephone and (possibly) email"). The last of these forms perhaps is most likely to convey the idea that email might or might not be available for notifications. That idea is slightly obscured by appearance of both *option* and *possibly* in the sentence. Consider a rewording like
>
> We can provide notifications via telephone and (if circumstances permit) email.
>
>
>
Saying "we can provide..." instead of "we will provide..." implies that notifications are optional, and it probably is not necessary to explicitly say they are optional. If for some reason you are required to be explicit, start the sentence off with "If you so choose" or "If you like" or "At your option":
>
> If you like, we will provide notifications via telephone or (circumstances permitting) email.
>
>
> | Oxford commas give me a headache. My feeling is that "possibly" does not need to be offset under these circumstances, therefore I would put "We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly via e-mail."
However, I'm old, and still view the Oxford Comma as optional. |
73,981 | I'm at a loss as to how I should title this. I have this sentence:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via
> telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I am trying to express several things:
1. We have an option to provide notifications
2. We can provide
those notifications via telephone
3. I think we can provide email
notifications (Further research is required, but I believe the
audience already has that context. The addition of "possibly" is
primarily meant to emphasize the lack of a guarantee).
Would I be better off with this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly, email.
>
>
>
or this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly email.
>
>
> | 2012/07/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73981",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/12066/"
] | Without *possibly*, no comma is required: *We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and email.*
*Possibly*, when present, forms a weak interruption in the sentence, which can be acknowledged thus: *We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly, email.* | I would say, you don't need a comma before "and" (although, you can use it; it's a matter of choice). But commas should surround "possibly". Hence, you can use:
>
> * We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly, email.
> * We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
> |
73,981 | I'm at a loss as to how I should title this. I have this sentence:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via
> telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I am trying to express several things:
1. We have an option to provide notifications
2. We can provide
those notifications via telephone
3. I think we can provide email
notifications (Further research is required, but I believe the
audience already has that context. The addition of "possibly" is
primarily meant to emphasize the lack of a guarantee).
Would I be better off with this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly, email.
>
>
>
or this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly email.
>
>
> | 2012/07/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73981",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/12066/"
] | Perhaps removing the first comma?
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I've been taught that if a dependent clause is surrounded by commas it could theoretically be removed while leaving a syntactically correct, though not necessarily semantically equivalent, sentence.
>
> I've been taught that if a dependent clause is surrounded by commas it could theoretically be removed while leaving a syntactically correct sentence.
>
>
>
or
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and email.
>
>
> | Oxford commas give me a headache. My feeling is that "possibly" does not need to be offset under these circumstances, therefore I would put "We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly via e-mail."
However, I'm old, and still view the Oxford Comma as optional. |
73,981 | I'm at a loss as to how I should title this. I have this sentence:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via
> telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I am trying to express several things:
1. We have an option to provide notifications
2. We can provide
those notifications via telephone
3. I think we can provide email
notifications (Further research is required, but I believe the
audience already has that context. The addition of "possibly" is
primarily meant to emphasize the lack of a guarantee).
Would I be better off with this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly, email.
>
>
>
or this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly email.
>
>
> | 2012/07/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73981",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/12066/"
] | I would suggest using no commas at all. I think it's cleaner, and not ambiguous:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and possibly email.
>
>
>
The other two acceptable choices that you have are (1) a comma right before *and*, and (2) commas around the *possibly*. The first choice would make the email option sound further removed from the phone option (try pausing there when saying it aloud):
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly email.
>
>
>
The second choice would look like this, and would draw some attention to the word *possibly*:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
But all three commas together, though grammatically acceptable, merely comprise clutter (*telephone, and, possibly, email*) and should be avoided. | I agree with Daniel, the commas are cluttering up your sentence unnecessarily.
You could consider:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and (possibly) email.
>
>
> |
73,981 | I'm at a loss as to how I should title this. I have this sentence:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via
> telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I am trying to express several things:
1. We have an option to provide notifications
2. We can provide
those notifications via telephone
3. I think we can provide email
notifications (Further research is required, but I believe the
audience already has that context. The addition of "possibly" is
primarily meant to emphasize the lack of a guarantee).
Would I be better off with this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly, email.
>
>
>
or this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly email.
>
>
> | 2012/07/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73981",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/12066/"
] | I agree with Daniel, the commas are cluttering up your sentence unnecessarily.
You could consider:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and (possibly) email.
>
>
> | Oxford commas give me a headache. My feeling is that "possibly" does not need to be offset under these circumstances, therefore I would put "We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly via e-mail."
However, I'm old, and still view the Oxford Comma as optional. |
73,981 | I'm at a loss as to how I should title this. I have this sentence:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via
> telephone, and, possibly, email.
>
>
>
I am trying to express several things:
1. We have an option to provide notifications
2. We can provide
those notifications via telephone
3. I think we can provide email
notifications (Further research is required, but I believe the
audience already has that context. The addition of "possibly" is
primarily meant to emphasize the lack of a guarantee).
Would I be better off with this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and possibly, email.
>
>
>
or this:
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone and, possibly email.
>
>
> | 2012/07/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73981",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/12066/"
] | Firstly, a rant. I deplore and detest the word *notifications*. It should have no plural. It is designed to be an uncountable noun and, therefore, not capable of pluralisation. It derives from the verb *notify* so it focuses on the act or fact of giving or receiving notice.
Facebook and the rest make me foam at the mouth with the revolting 'You have received new notifications'. No, my darling, stupid Facebook, you are referring to *actual notices* so just call them *notices*. You are not trying to say anything about the act or fact of giving notices, you are communicating something about actual notices - new notices are awaiting attention.
You will find other examples where the long word (often ending *-ation*) is used when the shorter word is better. An example that springs to mind is *motivations* - no such word in my book. Motivation is the general idea of having motives, so it already carries a plural sense; if you want to talk about certain movites, then just say *motive* or *motives*. This practice is the result of people mistakenly believing that longer words make them seem better educated.
Turning to the matter in hand, I suggest a simpler start with 'We are able to provide notification by telephone and, possibly, e-mail.'
*Notification* strikes me as right here but *notice* (again as an uncountable noun), or *notices* might work well depending on context.
If you want to surround *possibly* by commas, there is no need for a comma before *and*. The commas act as weak brackets. Take *possibly* away and there would be no comma before *and*, so why insert one just because you add *possibly*? | As others have noted, the three commas in
>
> We have the option to provide notifications via telephone, and, possibly, email
>
>
>
are unnecessary; or the comma before *and* could be retained ("...via telephone, and possibly email"); or the aforementioned "weak interruption" might be set off by commas ("...via telephone and, possibly, email"); or it might be set off by parentheses ("...via telephone and (possibly) email"). The last of these forms perhaps is most likely to convey the idea that email might or might not be available for notifications. That idea is slightly obscured by appearance of both *option* and *possibly* in the sentence. Consider a rewording like
>
> We can provide notifications via telephone and (if circumstances permit) email.
>
>
>
Saying "we can provide..." instead of "we will provide..." implies that notifications are optional, and it probably is not necessary to explicitly say they are optional. If for some reason you are required to be explicit, start the sentence off with "If you so choose" or "If you like" or "At your option":
>
> If you like, we will provide notifications via telephone or (circumstances permitting) email.
>
>
> |
165,335 | I need to calculate where to crop a camera preview in real-time on Android.
What Stack Exchange site is right for that question?
EDIT: It doesn't specifically have to be Android. I'm more interested in how to calculate the crop location on an image (quickly). | 2013/01/28 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/165335",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/209475/"
] | >
> Can one moderator just make a unilateral decision and action a migration? Or were there multiple votes involved?
>
>
>
Regular close voters can vote to close a question, or choose from a limited set of sites to migrate it to. Code Review is not an available migration path on Stack Overflow, however, so only a moderator may migrate a question to that site. A moderator's close/migrate vote is always binding (i.e. it overrides all others).
You can find out who performed the migration by scrolling to the bottom of your question where it was moved to, and clicking the origin site name:
>
> **migrated** from [stackoverflow.com](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14532169/naive-c-matrix-multiplication-100-times-slower-than-blas?noredirect=1)
>
>
>
Which brings you to the [original page](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14532169/naive-c-matrix-multiplication-100-times-slower-than-blas?noredirect=1), where you can see at the bottom who migrated it:
>
> **migrated** to [codereview.stackexchange.com](https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/20980/naive-c-matrix-multiplication-100-times-slower-than-blas) by Luchian Grigore, casperOne♦
>
>
>
That said, a migration can be [rejected](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35744/allow-diamond-moderators-to-reverse-question-migrations/126982#126982); this involves closing the question on the destination site, which unlocks it on the originating site allowing it to be reopened if appropriate. However this depends on what happens to the question on the destination site. | It says:
>
> migrated from [stackoverflow.com](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14532169/naive-c-matrix-multiplication-100-times-slower-than-blas?noredirect=1) 1 hour ago
>
>
>
below the question on the target site. Clicking on the link takes you back to the original question, where it says:
>
> migrated to codereview.stackexchange.com by Luchian Grigore, casperOne♦ 1 hour ago
>
>
>
Of these "Luchian Grigore" voted to close(he can't vote for migration to code-review since it's not in the list), and "casperOne" as a diamond mod migrated it. |
165,335 | I need to calculate where to crop a camera preview in real-time on Android.
What Stack Exchange site is right for that question?
EDIT: It doesn't specifically have to be Android. I'm more interested in how to calculate the crop location on an image (quickly). | 2013/01/28 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/165335",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/209475/"
] | >
> Can one moderator just make a unilateral decision and action a migration? Or were there multiple votes involved?
>
>
>
Regular close voters can vote to close a question, or choose from a limited set of sites to migrate it to. Code Review is not an available migration path on Stack Overflow, however, so only a moderator may migrate a question to that site. A moderator's close/migrate vote is always binding (i.e. it overrides all others).
You can find out who performed the migration by scrolling to the bottom of your question where it was moved to, and clicking the origin site name:
>
> **migrated** from [stackoverflow.com](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14532169/naive-c-matrix-multiplication-100-times-slower-than-blas?noredirect=1)
>
>
>
Which brings you to the [original page](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14532169/naive-c-matrix-multiplication-100-times-slower-than-blas?noredirect=1), where you can see at the bottom who migrated it:
>
> **migrated** to [codereview.stackexchange.com](https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/20980/naive-c-matrix-multiplication-100-times-slower-than-blas) by Luchian Grigore, casperOne♦
>
>
>
That said, a migration can be [rejected](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35744/allow-diamond-moderators-to-reverse-question-migrations/126982#126982); this involves closing the question on the destination site, which unlocks it on the originating site allowing it to be reopened if appropriate. However this depends on what happens to the question on the destination site. | If you view the [mirgation stub](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14532169/naive-c-matrix-multiplication-100-times-slower-than-blas?noredirect=1) on Stack Overflow, you can see who closed it as off-topic.
Posts can be closed/migrated either by 5 users with enough reputation to close a quesiton (3k), by a single moderator, or by some combination (once a moderator votes to close, the question gets closed, whether there are no close votes already or 4).
In the case of your quesiton, the close notice reads:
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> migrated to codereview.stackexchange.com by Luchian Grigore, casperOne♦ 1 hour ago
>
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> |
165,335 | I need to calculate where to crop a camera preview in real-time on Android.
What Stack Exchange site is right for that question?
EDIT: It doesn't specifically have to be Android. I'm more interested in how to calculate the crop location on an image (quickly). | 2013/01/28 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/165335",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/209475/"
] | It says:
>
> migrated from [stackoverflow.com](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14532169/naive-c-matrix-multiplication-100-times-slower-than-blas?noredirect=1) 1 hour ago
>
>
>
below the question on the target site. Clicking on the link takes you back to the original question, where it says:
>
> migrated to codereview.stackexchange.com by Luchian Grigore, casperOne♦ 1 hour ago
>
>
>
Of these "Luchian Grigore" voted to close(he can't vote for migration to code-review since it's not in the list), and "casperOne" as a diamond mod migrated it. | If you view the [mirgation stub](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14532169/naive-c-matrix-multiplication-100-times-slower-than-blas?noredirect=1) on Stack Overflow, you can see who closed it as off-topic.
Posts can be closed/migrated either by 5 users with enough reputation to close a quesiton (3k), by a single moderator, or by some combination (once a moderator votes to close, the question gets closed, whether there are no close votes already or 4).
In the case of your quesiton, the close notice reads:
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431,329 | I seem to be hearing many different vocalizations of the name, and I'm not sure which one is correct. The last thing I want to do is "erroneously" drop the name in a meeting, and someone feel the need to correct me. So is it pronounced "Ess-Cue-El-ight", or "Ess-Cue-El-Eye", or something else entirely? Is there a citation from one of the project developers lurking around the internet that explicitly states the correct pronunciation? Would really appreciate some clarification!
Two video sources:
<https://youtu.be/Jib2AmRb_rk>
<https://youtu.be/giAMt8Tj-84>
Edit:
Kind of embarrasing, but I didnt even realize that the first video link was actually the creator of SQLite, Dr Richard Hipp, and he pronounces it as "Ess-Cue-El-Ight/Eye". So that pretty much confirms the correct pronunciation is somewhere in that modicum of a ballpark. | 2018/02/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/431329",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/93636/"
] | SQL by itself [is (or can be) pronounced](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/7231/how-is-sql-pronounced) as "sequel".
Therefore it seems logical that SQLite is pronounces "sequelite".
Edit: According to your edit the creator of SQLite pronounces it as "Ess-Cue-El-Eye". I don't think that's how he actually pronounces it, he's just talking fast and sloppy. He pronounces it (in my ears at least) as "Ess-Cue-El-ite". And later in that presentation he explicitly says that he doesn't care how you pronounce it. | I remember watching a presentation by the [SQLite creator/maintainer Richard Hipps](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sqlite%20richard%20hipp) (you can watch yourself, its one of these videos)
In it he says *"pronounce it however you want"* - so there is no "official" pronunciation. |
431,329 | I seem to be hearing many different vocalizations of the name, and I'm not sure which one is correct. The last thing I want to do is "erroneously" drop the name in a meeting, and someone feel the need to correct me. So is it pronounced "Ess-Cue-El-ight", or "Ess-Cue-El-Eye", or something else entirely? Is there a citation from one of the project developers lurking around the internet that explicitly states the correct pronunciation? Would really appreciate some clarification!
Two video sources:
<https://youtu.be/Jib2AmRb_rk>
<https://youtu.be/giAMt8Tj-84>
Edit:
Kind of embarrasing, but I didnt even realize that the first video link was actually the creator of SQLite, Dr Richard Hipp, and he pronounces it as "Ess-Cue-El-Ight/Eye". So that pretty much confirms the correct pronunciation is somewhere in that modicum of a ballpark. | 2018/02/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/431329",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/93636/"
] | There are in general two ways to pronounce 'SQL' by itself and that leads to two reasonable ways to pronounce 'SQLite'.
'SQL' is pronounced either as 'ess queue ell' or 'sequel' (in IPA /'es 'kju: 'el/ or /'si: kwəl/ respectively).
This leads to 'SQLite' as either **'ess queue ell light' or 'see quell light'**, which in normal pronunciation comes out as 'ess queue ehlight' or 'seek quellight' (or in IPA /'es 'kju: 'el 'lait/ or /'si: kwə 'lait/ respectively note the syllable accents)).
The two varieties for SQLite are probably in the same variation as SQL.
Note that the inventor pronounces it the first way but in his accent (Estuary English) makes a glottal stop out of the final 't' (or even drops it altogether). In GenAmE the final 't' is unreleased and so may also be hard to hear for non-native speakers. | SQL by itself [is (or can be) pronounced](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/7231/how-is-sql-pronounced) as "sequel".
Therefore it seems logical that SQLite is pronounces "sequelite".
Edit: According to your edit the creator of SQLite pronounces it as "Ess-Cue-El-Eye". I don't think that's how he actually pronounces it, he's just talking fast and sloppy. He pronounces it (in my ears at least) as "Ess-Cue-El-ite". And later in that presentation he explicitly says that he doesn't care how you pronounce it. |
431,329 | I seem to be hearing many different vocalizations of the name, and I'm not sure which one is correct. The last thing I want to do is "erroneously" drop the name in a meeting, and someone feel the need to correct me. So is it pronounced "Ess-Cue-El-ight", or "Ess-Cue-El-Eye", or something else entirely? Is there a citation from one of the project developers lurking around the internet that explicitly states the correct pronunciation? Would really appreciate some clarification!
Two video sources:
<https://youtu.be/Jib2AmRb_rk>
<https://youtu.be/giAMt8Tj-84>
Edit:
Kind of embarrasing, but I didnt even realize that the first video link was actually the creator of SQLite, Dr Richard Hipp, and he pronounces it as "Ess-Cue-El-Ight/Eye". So that pretty much confirms the correct pronunciation is somewhere in that modicum of a ballpark. | 2018/02/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/431329",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/93636/"
] | There are in general two ways to pronounce 'SQL' by itself and that leads to two reasonable ways to pronounce 'SQLite'.
'SQL' is pronounced either as 'ess queue ell' or 'sequel' (in IPA /'es 'kju: 'el/ or /'si: kwəl/ respectively).
This leads to 'SQLite' as either **'ess queue ell light' or 'see quell light'**, which in normal pronunciation comes out as 'ess queue ehlight' or 'seek quellight' (or in IPA /'es 'kju: 'el 'lait/ or /'si: kwə 'lait/ respectively note the syllable accents)).
The two varieties for SQLite are probably in the same variation as SQL.
Note that the inventor pronounces it the first way but in his accent (Estuary English) makes a glottal stop out of the final 't' (or even drops it altogether). In GenAmE the final 't' is unreleased and so may also be hard to hear for non-native speakers. | I remember watching a presentation by the [SQLite creator/maintainer Richard Hipps](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sqlite%20richard%20hipp) (you can watch yourself, its one of these videos)
In it he says *"pronounce it however you want"* - so there is no "official" pronunciation. |
65,067 | Jet packs are classically worn like a book-bag on the back. Would it be more stable if the exhaust ports were separated? Would the jet pack be easier to control if the turbines were at the ends of a long hollow pole that would also hold the fuel? Would a pole help stabilize hovering like it does a tight rope walker?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wqwtg.jpg) | 2019/06/02 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/65067",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/38881/"
] | Not really.
First the reason why it could be absolutely terrible: a long pole is flexible, and you could run into awful oscillations. A long pole with two heavy masses at the end will have a very low resonance frequency, and probably also some interesting torsion effects.
The reason why you would want a separation is simple high school physics. You control your attitude with torque. A longer arm would mean a larger torque for the same thrust angle deflection. It would be a good solution if the thrust vectoring angles would be excessive otherwise.
From what I gather, the opposite is true. Minute adjustments cause a big change in attitude, and the system is already quite skitterish. The only use case for your system may be avoiding burnt legs.
Your idea of a hollow pole with fuel in it wouldn't be half bad though - it might help your jet pack operator balance, just like a rope walker. Just don't put jets on the end of the pole. | I don't think that much separation would help with control. See this article on actual "Iron Man" flying suit.
<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/real-life-iron-man-suit-now-available-for-sale/> |
88,220 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [Place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?](https://superuser.com/questions/66948/place-a-bootable-iso-on-a-usb-drive)
>
>
>
Is there any tool to create a bootable USB stick from any bootable CD? Like I want to create a USB stick from [Ultimate Boot CD](http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/). | 2009/12/27 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/88220",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/10827/"
] | >
> Is there any tool to create a bootable USB stick from any bootable CD? Like I want to create a USB stick from Ultimate Boot CD.
>
>
>
Yes, and it is included in Ultimate Boot CD.
**[Quote](http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)**:
>
> New! Run Ultimate Boot CD from your
> USB memory stick
>
>
> * A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be
> used on newer machines that supports
> booting from USB devices. You can
> access the same tools as you would
> from the CD version.
>
>
> | The easiest thing you can do which works *most* (but not all, before I get corrected) of the time is to simply mark the drive as active (In disk management) and then copy all the contents of the CD to the USB drive (including system and hidden files). |
88,220 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [Place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?](https://superuser.com/questions/66948/place-a-bootable-iso-on-a-usb-drive)
>
>
>
Is there any tool to create a bootable USB stick from any bootable CD? Like I want to create a USB stick from [Ultimate Boot CD](http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/). | 2009/12/27 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/88220",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/10827/"
] | >
> Is there any tool to create a bootable USB stick from any bootable CD? Like I want to create a USB stick from Ultimate Boot CD.
>
>
>
Yes, and it is included in Ultimate Boot CD.
**[Quote](http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)**:
>
> New! Run Ultimate Boot CD from your
> USB memory stick
>
>
> * A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be
> used on newer machines that supports
> booting from USB devices. You can
> access the same tools as you would
> from the CD version.
>
>
> | [UNetbootin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNetbootin) would do the trick with pretty much any [live CD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD). |
474,834 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [Move raided hard drives between identical servers, preserving data](https://serverfault.com/questions/474456/move-raided-hard-drives-between-identical-servers-preserving-data)
>
>
>
I'm a server beginner working with a Sun x4600 and an IBM x3650. In the event that one of them dies, I want to have a plan for removing the hard drives from the dead server and hot-swapping them into the other with minimal downtime.
In a series of attempted practice runs (these servers are not in production use yet), I discovered that this is a lot harder than I had assumed it would be. The receiving raid controller doesn't autodetect new drives. To make it actually expose the new drives to the operating system always seems to require a reboot and reconfiguration in the raid controller's bios, where you have to "initialize" the new drives before it will recognize them as a raid array. This is not acceptable because it wipes precious data from the drives!
How do others handle this problem? How do you hotswap raided hard drives from a dead server with a different raid controller to a live server without destroying the data on them? Is it even possible?
So far it seems like the best I could do in that scenario is send the hard drives from the dead server to a data recovery service (because apparently raid arrays are not portable at all unless the raid controller happens to be exactly the same, so popping them into another server to recover the data won't work), have blank drives ready for another server and transfer backups onto them until I have a new server to replace the dead one. That can't be right, there must be a better way, right?
I would settle for getting a server to use a solitary hard drives (without the stupid raid controller wiping the data on it) that used to be in a raid 1 array. | 2013/02/02 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/474834",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/157074/"
] | Different RAID controllers? All bets are off. You *may* be able to get it to work with very closely-related cards of the same lineage, same firmware, etc., but it's highly unlikely that this is going to be supported by your hardware vendor.
Honestly, this is where a well-implemented and well-tested backup regimen comes into play. You don't need to muck about with swapping drives between disparate hardware - just restore onto the new machine and you're back up and running. | As you have already mentioned, different RAID controllers store metadata about the RAID arrays in different and incompatible ways.
Some OS's provide software RAID. Linux, for example, has mdraid, which runs in the kernel and is very mature and stable. It is fairly easy to re-assemble an mdraid array in any recent Linux box.
Of course, you lose the benefits of your RAID controler (e.g., cache, and probably I/O speed).
Linux is an example here. I think you have similar features in many other mainstream OS's (\*BSDs, modern Windows Servers, OpenSolaris, maybe IllumOS). |
103,613 | Suppose that person A booked today a hotel room for 3 nights in Dubai to travel in the upcoming February with Hotel Z (room price = 50€). In January, person A changed his mind about the visit and would cancel it. Person B, just realized that next week he has to be in Dubai, so he checked the price and found that room prices are almost 130€.
Is it possible for person A to sell his booking confirmation to person B? (Person A sell it for 70€ and person B can save up to 60€ and if there is hosting web service that carries this service, then it can take 10%)...
Will Hotel Z mind if such a thing happens? I am assuming that hotel policy is not violated by this kind of booking.
And how to make sure of this conduct is acceptable and could work? | 2017/10/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103613",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/58596/"
] | Well...yes, it probably violates the terms in some way, especially if persons A and B are unrelated and otherwise unknown to each other.
However, most hotels are much looser about who uses a reservation than airlines so it's much more possible than not. Many (most?) actually accommodate this situation by allowing another name to be added for check-in in case that person arrives earlier then the one who made the booking. | I have booked (with a legitimate purpose) quite a few hotel rooms for other people. Reservation in my name with my credit card. But I usually mention, from reservation time, that it's for someone else, and mention the name.
You could try emailing the hotel, explaining that your colleague is coming instead of you, and could they update the reservation details.
On the other hand, a 50 EUR/night hotel in Dubai is at the lower end of things. They might prove to be quite flexible.
FYI I had a look at the prices for the Accor group in Dubai next week, plenty of options between 50 and 80 EUR... |
103,613 | Suppose that person A booked today a hotel room for 3 nights in Dubai to travel in the upcoming February with Hotel Z (room price = 50€). In January, person A changed his mind about the visit and would cancel it. Person B, just realized that next week he has to be in Dubai, so he checked the price and found that room prices are almost 130€.
Is it possible for person A to sell his booking confirmation to person B? (Person A sell it for 70€ and person B can save up to 60€ and if there is hosting web service that carries this service, then it can take 10%)...
Will Hotel Z mind if such a thing happens? I am assuming that hotel policy is not violated by this kind of booking.
And how to make sure of this conduct is acceptable and could work? | 2017/10/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103613",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/58596/"
] | Well...yes, it probably violates the terms in some way, especially if persons A and B are unrelated and otherwise unknown to each other.
However, most hotels are much looser about who uses a reservation than airlines so it's much more possible than not. Many (most?) actually accommodate this situation by allowing another name to be added for check-in in case that person arrives earlier then the one who made the booking. | You can resell your hotel reservation only if terms permits you to transfer the name on the booking (similar to plane tickets). Without a name transfer there is a risk that hotel won't able to check-in the person to prevent fraud. To avoid the surprise, it's good to confirm the terms with the hotel directly or just take the risk. See: [Hotel early arrival for another guest](https://travel.stackexchange.com/q/85851/2879)
There are several services that offer secondary markets to resell non-refundable travel tickets (similar to Craigslist, eBay or StubHub) such as *Hall St*, *Cancelon*, *ChangeYourFlight* and other similar. See: [New sites let you sell unused trips](http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20121015-new-sites-let-you-sell-unused-trips). |
103,613 | Suppose that person A booked today a hotel room for 3 nights in Dubai to travel in the upcoming February with Hotel Z (room price = 50€). In January, person A changed his mind about the visit and would cancel it. Person B, just realized that next week he has to be in Dubai, so he checked the price and found that room prices are almost 130€.
Is it possible for person A to sell his booking confirmation to person B? (Person A sell it for 70€ and person B can save up to 60€ and if there is hosting web service that carries this service, then it can take 10%)...
Will Hotel Z mind if such a thing happens? I am assuming that hotel policy is not violated by this kind of booking.
And how to make sure of this conduct is acceptable and could work? | 2017/10/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103613",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/58596/"
] | **This boils down to whether hotel reservations are transferable.**
Unlike flight tickets which rarely are, hotels reservations are *most* often transferable. Most booking of hotels does *not* require advance information on the guest, they only require information for booking the transaction which is used to charge the reservation either immediately or later.
Some hotels charge do not even charge anything until checkout which is going to be a problem since they may charge it to the person who booked. Most times though I was able to substitute a new card at check-in but if the guest does not do so, the original buyer may be charged.
In some countries, registration of guest is mandatory and you may have to fill out this information right after booking. This is an exception and I do not remember where it happened to me last but there are several countries that send this information to the local police or an immigration database. In this case you would have to call ahead and ask for the substitution to be made, rather than another guest just showing up instead of the one who booked. | I have booked (with a legitimate purpose) quite a few hotel rooms for other people. Reservation in my name with my credit card. But I usually mention, from reservation time, that it's for someone else, and mention the name.
You could try emailing the hotel, explaining that your colleague is coming instead of you, and could they update the reservation details.
On the other hand, a 50 EUR/night hotel in Dubai is at the lower end of things. They might prove to be quite flexible.
FYI I had a look at the prices for the Accor group in Dubai next week, plenty of options between 50 and 80 EUR... |
103,613 | Suppose that person A booked today a hotel room for 3 nights in Dubai to travel in the upcoming February with Hotel Z (room price = 50€). In January, person A changed his mind about the visit and would cancel it. Person B, just realized that next week he has to be in Dubai, so he checked the price and found that room prices are almost 130€.
Is it possible for person A to sell his booking confirmation to person B? (Person A sell it for 70€ and person B can save up to 60€ and if there is hosting web service that carries this service, then it can take 10%)...
Will Hotel Z mind if such a thing happens? I am assuming that hotel policy is not violated by this kind of booking.
And how to make sure of this conduct is acceptable and could work? | 2017/10/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103613",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/58596/"
] | I have booked (with a legitimate purpose) quite a few hotel rooms for other people. Reservation in my name with my credit card. But I usually mention, from reservation time, that it's for someone else, and mention the name.
You could try emailing the hotel, explaining that your colleague is coming instead of you, and could they update the reservation details.
On the other hand, a 50 EUR/night hotel in Dubai is at the lower end of things. They might prove to be quite flexible.
FYI I had a look at the prices for the Accor group in Dubai next week, plenty of options between 50 and 80 EUR... | You can resell your hotel reservation only if terms permits you to transfer the name on the booking (similar to plane tickets). Without a name transfer there is a risk that hotel won't able to check-in the person to prevent fraud. To avoid the surprise, it's good to confirm the terms with the hotel directly or just take the risk. See: [Hotel early arrival for another guest](https://travel.stackexchange.com/q/85851/2879)
There are several services that offer secondary markets to resell non-refundable travel tickets (similar to Craigslist, eBay or StubHub) such as *Hall St*, *Cancelon*, *ChangeYourFlight* and other similar. See: [New sites let you sell unused trips](http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20121015-new-sites-let-you-sell-unused-trips). |
103,613 | Suppose that person A booked today a hotel room for 3 nights in Dubai to travel in the upcoming February with Hotel Z (room price = 50€). In January, person A changed his mind about the visit and would cancel it. Person B, just realized that next week he has to be in Dubai, so he checked the price and found that room prices are almost 130€.
Is it possible for person A to sell his booking confirmation to person B? (Person A sell it for 70€ and person B can save up to 60€ and if there is hosting web service that carries this service, then it can take 10%)...
Will Hotel Z mind if such a thing happens? I am assuming that hotel policy is not violated by this kind of booking.
And how to make sure of this conduct is acceptable and could work? | 2017/10/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103613",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/58596/"
] | **This boils down to whether hotel reservations are transferable.**
Unlike flight tickets which rarely are, hotels reservations are *most* often transferable. Most booking of hotels does *not* require advance information on the guest, they only require information for booking the transaction which is used to charge the reservation either immediately or later.
Some hotels charge do not even charge anything until checkout which is going to be a problem since they may charge it to the person who booked. Most times though I was able to substitute a new card at check-in but if the guest does not do so, the original buyer may be charged.
In some countries, registration of guest is mandatory and you may have to fill out this information right after booking. This is an exception and I do not remember where it happened to me last but there are several countries that send this information to the local police or an immigration database. In this case you would have to call ahead and ask for the substitution to be made, rather than another guest just showing up instead of the one who booked. | You can resell your hotel reservation only if terms permits you to transfer the name on the booking (similar to plane tickets). Without a name transfer there is a risk that hotel won't able to check-in the person to prevent fraud. To avoid the surprise, it's good to confirm the terms with the hotel directly or just take the risk. See: [Hotel early arrival for another guest](https://travel.stackexchange.com/q/85851/2879)
There are several services that offer secondary markets to resell non-refundable travel tickets (similar to Craigslist, eBay or StubHub) such as *Hall St*, *Cancelon*, *ChangeYourFlight* and other similar. See: [New sites let you sell unused trips](http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20121015-new-sites-let-you-sell-unused-trips). |
39,430 | I am creating plot threads for my ongoing science fiction campaign. I know my players pretty well and they do like a well interwoven set of plots. I want to make sure that the plot threads I am working on are of just the right level of complexity before I build them into my campaign.
I am looking for a process or set of steps where I can decompose the plots into their elements and then - by myself - work through the plots to get a feel for their complexity. Complexity here is how difficult the plot is to follow, which is a combination of:
1. Number of NPCs involved.
2. Number of different sub-plots going on at once.
3. How much these sub-plots interact with each other (you can have loads of them if they are easily separated).
The problem I have had doing this by just pretending to be the players is that I have the entire campaign plot in my head, so it is very difficult to put myself directly into the shoes of the players.
Is there a way to test my plot threads before I run them through with players? | 2014/06/02 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/39430",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/173/"
] | I use [graph theory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory). All you need to do is to have NPCs (and/or places) as nodes and plots as arcs. You can even use something like [GraphViz](http://www.graphviz.org/) to visualise the graph you created. In general, the more complex the graph, the more potentially complex the plot.
Each link could have a cost associated with it that depends on how hard whatever the arc represent is to find out from the PCs's point of view. Or rather what you think is the difficulty in getting that particular thread. This can be highly subjective and difficult to do as all the information you pass to the players has the same colour! They do not know what is really important and what is not. Then you can do some "shortest path" calculations to see how reachable an end node is from any other nodes.
A limitation of this method is that it is very static -- unless you have a nice little script that you can update for all nodes/arcs as your PCs will do things that the NPCs will need to react to. | I like your list but I think you're missing a factor. Common or ambiguous elements of plots.
Let's take one of the standard simple plots in a game. Somebody went missing and the party has to find him or her. Okay, you can spin off as much complexity as you want but the plot itself is basic.
Now let's run two of those at the same time. It seems that we've just doubled the complexity.
Okay, now put a body in the game. To which plot does it belong? This kind of question adds a ton of complexity to your plot (especially if there's the possibility that it ties two plots together or belongs to a third, undiscovered plot). But this complexity only occurs when multiple are active. So if you're breaking the game down into individual plots and counting their complexity in isolation, you'll miss something like this.
Anyway, to estimate something like this I'd right out the clues, NPCS, hints, etc that you drop and give them a point or two toward each plot they could apply to. You could probably get fancier with the math but I don't think it's worth the trouble because the set of clue applications you come up with will probably be different than what the players think of.
Another factor to consider is agents. How many people are actively taking part in a plot? A plot where the party acts as a single unit and the NPCs react only when the PCs show up is simple. The same plot where the party is not a cohesive unit and all five of them act independently is more complex. The same plot with two NPCs trying to cover up evidence whenever they're off stage is even more complicated. |
39,430 | I am creating plot threads for my ongoing science fiction campaign. I know my players pretty well and they do like a well interwoven set of plots. I want to make sure that the plot threads I am working on are of just the right level of complexity before I build them into my campaign.
I am looking for a process or set of steps where I can decompose the plots into their elements and then - by myself - work through the plots to get a feel for their complexity. Complexity here is how difficult the plot is to follow, which is a combination of:
1. Number of NPCs involved.
2. Number of different sub-plots going on at once.
3. How much these sub-plots interact with each other (you can have loads of them if they are easily separated).
The problem I have had doing this by just pretending to be the players is that I have the entire campaign plot in my head, so it is very difficult to put myself directly into the shoes of the players.
Is there a way to test my plot threads before I run them through with players? | 2014/06/02 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/39430",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/173/"
] | I use [graph theory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory). All you need to do is to have NPCs (and/or places) as nodes and plots as arcs. You can even use something like [GraphViz](http://www.graphviz.org/) to visualise the graph you created. In general, the more complex the graph, the more potentially complex the plot.
Each link could have a cost associated with it that depends on how hard whatever the arc represent is to find out from the PCs's point of view. Or rather what you think is the difficulty in getting that particular thread. This can be highly subjective and difficult to do as all the information you pass to the players has the same colour! They do not know what is really important and what is not. Then you can do some "shortest path" calculations to see how reachable an end node is from any other nodes.
A limitation of this method is that it is very static -- unless you have a nice little script that you can update for all nodes/arcs as your PCs will do things that the NPCs will need to react to. | "Complexity is how difficult the plots are to follow"
My experience is that difficulty in following plots depends on the following factors:
1. Clarity on the goal and role of the PCs
2. Clarity on the goals and roles of the NPCS
3. Anything that is superfluous to the above
4. Anything that casts doubt on #1/#2
5. Play expectations about how play works and how much betrayal/lying/GM gotchas to expect
I ran a one-on-one one shot which had a pretty simple setup - the bad guy needed to be killed. Easy enough, right? The player had his character go get his girlfriend, and find a safe place to hide her. Ok, reasonable. He then freaks out that the priest he's going to leave her with is secretly going to betray him... I stop the game, I go, "Look, that's not what this game is about. This one shot is to show off this game system, and the game system is about duels and tactical fighting. The priest isn't going to betray you, that's not where the fun is here."
So, even when you have a dead simple plot, players might project other things onto it, if they've got bad expectations.
The better you get at giving clarity to players as a GM, the easier it is to follow the ideas and not get lost. If you have multiple plots happening? Make sure it's clear to the players that these are, indeed, multiple, separate plots.
Where there is to be ambiguity? I really prefer the Dogs in the Vineyard method: "He's lying. You're not sure why or what, but you know you're not getting the truth here." There, the ambiguity is assigned to the character, but as the GM, the info you're getting from me is clear. This avoids the pitfall where the players assume that everything is probably false and spend 80% of the game hyper preparing for things that don't matter. |
39,430 | I am creating plot threads for my ongoing science fiction campaign. I know my players pretty well and they do like a well interwoven set of plots. I want to make sure that the plot threads I am working on are of just the right level of complexity before I build them into my campaign.
I am looking for a process or set of steps where I can decompose the plots into their elements and then - by myself - work through the plots to get a feel for their complexity. Complexity here is how difficult the plot is to follow, which is a combination of:
1. Number of NPCs involved.
2. Number of different sub-plots going on at once.
3. How much these sub-plots interact with each other (you can have loads of them if they are easily separated).
The problem I have had doing this by just pretending to be the players is that I have the entire campaign plot in my head, so it is very difficult to put myself directly into the shoes of the players.
Is there a way to test my plot threads before I run them through with players? | 2014/06/02 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/39430",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/173/"
] | I like your list but I think you're missing a factor. Common or ambiguous elements of plots.
Let's take one of the standard simple plots in a game. Somebody went missing and the party has to find him or her. Okay, you can spin off as much complexity as you want but the plot itself is basic.
Now let's run two of those at the same time. It seems that we've just doubled the complexity.
Okay, now put a body in the game. To which plot does it belong? This kind of question adds a ton of complexity to your plot (especially if there's the possibility that it ties two plots together or belongs to a third, undiscovered plot). But this complexity only occurs when multiple are active. So if you're breaking the game down into individual plots and counting their complexity in isolation, you'll miss something like this.
Anyway, to estimate something like this I'd right out the clues, NPCS, hints, etc that you drop and give them a point or two toward each plot they could apply to. You could probably get fancier with the math but I don't think it's worth the trouble because the set of clue applications you come up with will probably be different than what the players think of.
Another factor to consider is agents. How many people are actively taking part in a plot? A plot where the party acts as a single unit and the NPCs react only when the PCs show up is simple. The same plot where the party is not a cohesive unit and all five of them act independently is more complex. The same plot with two NPCs trying to cover up evidence whenever they're off stage is even more complicated. | "Complexity is how difficult the plots are to follow"
My experience is that difficulty in following plots depends on the following factors:
1. Clarity on the goal and role of the PCs
2. Clarity on the goals and roles of the NPCS
3. Anything that is superfluous to the above
4. Anything that casts doubt on #1/#2
5. Play expectations about how play works and how much betrayal/lying/GM gotchas to expect
I ran a one-on-one one shot which had a pretty simple setup - the bad guy needed to be killed. Easy enough, right? The player had his character go get his girlfriend, and find a safe place to hide her. Ok, reasonable. He then freaks out that the priest he's going to leave her with is secretly going to betray him... I stop the game, I go, "Look, that's not what this game is about. This one shot is to show off this game system, and the game system is about duels and tactical fighting. The priest isn't going to betray you, that's not where the fun is here."
So, even when you have a dead simple plot, players might project other things onto it, if they've got bad expectations.
The better you get at giving clarity to players as a GM, the easier it is to follow the ideas and not get lost. If you have multiple plots happening? Make sure it's clear to the players that these are, indeed, multiple, separate plots.
Where there is to be ambiguity? I really prefer the Dogs in the Vineyard method: "He's lying. You're not sure why or what, but you know you're not getting the truth here." There, the ambiguity is assigned to the character, but as the GM, the info you're getting from me is clear. This avoids the pitfall where the players assume that everything is probably false and spend 80% of the game hyper preparing for things that don't matter. |
26,451 | I have tried almost everything I can think of and I couldn't find out why (through google) my grid hotkeys aren't working.
I'm using the grid plugin for compiz . | 2011/02/15 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/26451",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/10868/"
] | For a GUI based setup, you may try [cgit](http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/). Here is a [tutorial](http://www.codeography.com/2009/05/30/setting-up-cgit-under-ubuntu.html) for setting up cgit in ubuntu. | WHat is "GUI based setup"? In its core, "git clients" and "git servers" (for real GIT is distributed system, not so much "central server" and "clients" exists unlike in SVN or CVS, but for sure you can treat a GIT repository as the "master one") communicate through the network, so no "GUI" is needed here. What you can do in GUI: you can have GUI to work on your repository (even maybe integrated into your IDE) or some kind of "GUI" (let's say a web based one) where you can examine the content of the repository. If you mean this, you may need (of course you can find more!) gitweb. It's in the Ubuntu's repositories (can be installed with apt-get) and written as perl. It acts a CGI solution. More information: <https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gitweb> |
26,451 | I have tried almost everything I can think of and I couldn't find out why (through google) my grid hotkeys aren't working.
I'm using the grid plugin for compiz . | 2011/02/15 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/26451",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/10868/"
] | WHat is "GUI based setup"? In its core, "git clients" and "git servers" (for real GIT is distributed system, not so much "central server" and "clients" exists unlike in SVN or CVS, but for sure you can treat a GIT repository as the "master one") communicate through the network, so no "GUI" is needed here. What you can do in GUI: you can have GUI to work on your repository (even maybe integrated into your IDE) or some kind of "GUI" (let's say a web based one) where you can examine the content of the repository. If you mean this, you may need (of course you can find more!) gitweb. It's in the Ubuntu's repositories (can be installed with apt-get) and written as perl. It acts a CGI solution. More information: <https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gitweb> | seems gitorious is the best option |
26,451 | I have tried almost everything I can think of and I couldn't find out why (through google) my grid hotkeys aren't working.
I'm using the grid plugin for compiz . | 2011/02/15 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/26451",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/10868/"
] | For a GUI based setup, you may try [cgit](http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/). Here is a [tutorial](http://www.codeography.com/2009/05/30/setting-up-cgit-under-ubuntu.html) for setting up cgit in ubuntu. | seems gitorious is the best option |
69,027 | Using InDesign I've placed two objects (the background color and brown pattern) and have several placeholders I'm using with the data merge feature.
However, for proofing reasons I'm trying to use the multiple records feature my *content* is properly appearing as a grid on the pages but the background/pattern remain in the center of the page.
I'm still new to InDesign in general so I'm sure I've missed something. I need to tell InDesign that the background objects need to be repeated as well.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0SfSH.png) | 2016/03/26 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/69027",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/32117/"
] | When creating a merged document (with or without multiple records), any content that is not on the actual document page will not be duplicated. This includes master page content, it will remain the same and not duplicate.
To fix the issue and have proper duplication of the background and image template, you'll need to paste those items from the master pages into the main page document.
I've worked with helion3 to fix the issue, but here are the steps for any future users:
1. Open up your Pages panel in the document and double-click the Master page that contains the items you want to have duplicated in the multi-merge.
2. Cut the items from the Master page (Cmd+X) and paste it into place (Edit > Paste Into Place) on Page 1 of the actual document. | 1. <http://indesignsecrets.com/automating-data-handling.php>
2. <http://indesignsecrets.com/data-merging-part-2.php>
hope these links can help you.. |
69,027 | Using InDesign I've placed two objects (the background color and brown pattern) and have several placeholders I'm using with the data merge feature.
However, for proofing reasons I'm trying to use the multiple records feature my *content* is properly appearing as a grid on the pages but the background/pattern remain in the center of the page.
I'm still new to InDesign in general so I'm sure I've missed something. I need to tell InDesign that the background objects need to be repeated as well.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0SfSH.png) | 2016/03/26 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/69027",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/32117/"
] | I think scripting is cool, however I did not have the time to figure out the logic. So I created an ID file with 5 pages for 5 tabs of colors.
Each page about 2.2 x 1 was filled with a different color. Then I exported to a .jpg.
In excel I created 5 new fields called '@Colortab1 to '@colortab5. Then I hyperlinked each color jpg. Saved the excel as a .csv.
Back to the merging id file I inserted a rectangle and inserted the color field. Then export out to a pdf. | 1. <http://indesignsecrets.com/automating-data-handling.php>
2. <http://indesignsecrets.com/data-merging-part-2.php>
hope these links can help you.. |
69,027 | Using InDesign I've placed two objects (the background color and brown pattern) and have several placeholders I'm using with the data merge feature.
However, for proofing reasons I'm trying to use the multiple records feature my *content* is properly appearing as a grid on the pages but the background/pattern remain in the center of the page.
I'm still new to InDesign in general so I'm sure I've missed something. I need to tell InDesign that the background objects need to be repeated as well.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0SfSH.png) | 2016/03/26 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/69027",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/32117/"
] | When creating a merged document (with or without multiple records), any content that is not on the actual document page will not be duplicated. This includes master page content, it will remain the same and not duplicate.
To fix the issue and have proper duplication of the background and image template, you'll need to paste those items from the master pages into the main page document.
I've worked with helion3 to fix the issue, but here are the steps for any future users:
1. Open up your Pages panel in the document and double-click the Master page that contains the items you want to have duplicated in the multi-merge.
2. Cut the items from the Master page (Cmd+X) and paste it into place (Edit > Paste Into Place) on Page 1 of the actual document. | I think scripting is cool, however I did not have the time to figure out the logic. So I created an ID file with 5 pages for 5 tabs of colors.
Each page about 2.2 x 1 was filled with a different color. Then I exported to a .jpg.
In excel I created 5 new fields called '@Colortab1 to '@colortab5. Then I hyperlinked each color jpg. Saved the excel as a .csv.
Back to the merging id file I inserted a rectangle and inserted the color field. Then export out to a pdf. |
34,203 | The tournment director apologied to Firoujza for moving his game on move 60. However, according to Stockfish 12 NNUE d=61the position on the board just before the players moved is evaluated as 0.00, that means a draw. The game indeed terminated with a draw. What the controversy is about? | 2021/02/19 | [
"https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/34203",
"https://chess.stackexchange.com",
"https://chess.stackexchange.com/users/23297/"
] | Computer evaluation is based on perfect play from both sides, which is never the case in human games, and hence is irrelevant here. Given the nature of the position and the time situation, it is crystal clear that Firouzja had the "psychological" advantage, which he could've converted had the game been continued smoothly. Playing with a rook and an unsafe king against the bishop pair under time pressure is a nightmare for every chess player. Maneuvering with the two bishops is much easier. All this, in addition to other factors such as Firouzja's tournament position, makes up the post-game controversy that has arisen. | [https://chess24.com/en/read/news/tata-steel-chess-apologise-to-firouzja-after-controversy#:~:text=An%20incident%20involving%2017%2Dyear,on%20chess24%20and%20social%20media](https://chess24.com/en/read/news/tata-steel-chess-apologise-to-firouzja-after-controversy#:%7E:text=An%20incident%20involving%2017%2Dyear,on%20chess24%20and%20social%20media).
this is the answer to your question |
581,545 | Does anyone know the key combo for turning off the beep that the Kinesis Contoured ergonomic keyboard makes when you hit Caps Lock?
I know this isn't totally programmer-specific, but everyone I know who has used a Kinesis keyboard is a coder. | 2013/04/11 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/581545",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/236624/"
] | Figured it out by reading [the manual](http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/support/manuals.htm). You hit the "Program" and "hyphen" keys at the same time (no need to hold them down). Mine didn't give feedback to acknowledge the action, but now the beep doesn't occur when I hit Caps Lock. | For the Advantage 2: Program + Shift + F8.
<https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/support/technical-support/faqs-advantage2-keyboard/> |
101 | What will be the role of eosDAC tokens in the future? And will it be available in a wallet sometime in the future when the EOS mainnet is established? | 2018/05/09 | [
"https://eosio.stackexchange.com/questions/101",
"https://eosio.stackexchange.com",
"https://eosio.stackexchange.com/users/286/"
] | EOSDAC pitch themselves as "The Community Block Producer". Their tokens represent your stake in the block producer.
It is not yet entirely clear how your EOSDAC ERC20 tokens will transfer to the EOS platform, the [EOSDAC website](https://eosdac.io/tokens/) still says that the process will be *"defined by the launch team, that will be described on the eosDAC website and social media channels."*
Some exchanges, such as OpenLedger have promised to handle the transfer on your behalf. Any ERC20 EOSDAC tokens you hold in OpenLedger will automatically convert to actual EOSDAC. Trusting an exchange comes with risks, so you will have to weigh up the convenience verses control.
Other than that, [the FAQ](https://eosdac.io/faq/) is still a bit vague as to utility: *"The initial eosDAC tokens will give rights to have eosDAC tokens on any EOSIO blockchain that the eosDAC launch team supports. Activated EOS accounts with eosDAC tokens will have the rights to participate in the eosDAC activities and gain eosDAC benefits. In due course, it is probable that eosDAC will provide Dapps and utility based services which can be used by members."*
However we can speculate. Block Producers will earn the new EOS released onto the network. It is possible that if voted as a Block Producer, EOSDAC will be able to distribute this proportionally to its holders. They also make decisions about the future direction of EOS. EOSDAC tokens will likely allow its holders to vote on the position of any issue that the EOSDAC should take. | eosDAC team goal is to become a Block Producer.
Dan confirmed in telegram channel that community developers are building wallets in order to integrate eos related tokens. More information will be given once eos mainnet will be launched. |
650,254 | I am trying to solder some 2N7000 MOSFETs onto a PCB that I got manufactured, but the pads are very close together. When I try soldering the first leg on the MOSFET, I always end up shorting it to the other pad through the solder. The soldering iron I am using is relatively thin and heating at a temperature of 300 C.
Could I be applying too much solder or are there other things you should do to prevent this?
Below are images of the top and bottom of the MOSFET pads, marked as Qx on the top of the PCB:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dE0Xl.jpg)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MBx9u.jpg) | 2023/01/16 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/650254",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/183348/"
] | A smaller soldering iron tip and smaller diameter good quality solder would help. 0.8mm is a good compromise for through-hole parts, maybe with some 1mm and some 0.4mm for coarser/finer parts and SMT.
The design isn't great, it would be better to have the pads spaced out more (plenty of room) and to have to form the TO-92 leads. KiCad has such footprints defined.
Here, for example, is a tape containing pre-formed transistors (the once-ubiquitous 2SA1015 in a Y beta bin). They are formed to fit 3 pads on 2.54mm (0.1") centers. You may prefer to use a footprint with staggered leads.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AfrJu.jpg) | There's two ways you can do this:
* Either use a very fine tip, fine solder 0.5mm or thinner, and carefully solder each via.
* Or (easier) just use a chisel tip, focus on making 3 good joints regardless of if they short with each other or not. Then apply plenty of flux with for example a flux pen and heat all 3 joints a second time.
---
>
> Could I be applying too much solder
>
>
>
Very likely since this is a classic mistake. Particularly using far too thick solder wire. There's a tendency to focus too much on which tip to use instead of just use thinner solder.
But also the layout isn't good and the CAD tool should warn against placing pads this close - the plated area looks too large. As mentioned in another answer there's all manner of TO92 leg shapes you can pre-order. |
102,144 | There are many fast advancements in NLP field, BERT, RoBERTa, ALBERT, and XLNe, and no one can check the news or papers daily. Is there any way or site that keeps track of all these new developments and possibly provides a link to the code? For example, if someone needs to use text summarization, the suggested approach would be X, and so on. | 2021/09/16 | [
"https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/102144",
"https://datascience.stackexchange.com",
"https://datascience.stackexchange.com/users/47473/"
] | If you want to be up to date with the new advancements, a good way is skimming through the accepted papers of the major NLP conferences, namely [ACL](https://2021.aclweb.org/program/accept/), [EMNLP](https://2021.emnlp.org/), and the regional EACL, NAACL, AACL.
If you want even more information, you can skim through the papers uploaded to the arxiv. One way to do that is via Twitter, by following bots that tweet papers in specific areas. For instance [this bot](https://twitter.com/arxiv_cscl) tweets the papers uploaded to the computational linguistics (CL) category.
If you just want to check the best approaches when you are to decide how to approach a problem, then a good option is [paperswithcode](https://paperswithcode.com/). It is a website with the state of the art in different areas (not only NLP), with rankings of the results for different benchmarks, together with links to the paper and source code. For instance, you can have a look at the machine translation section [here](https://paperswithcode.com/task/machine-translation). | <https://nlpprogress.com/> aims to provide pointers to the state of the art papers and datasets for the main NLP tasks.
It seems to be updated regularly so far. However it depends on the efforts of volunteers so there's no guarantee about completeness or future updates. |
112,360 | <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219455(v=office.15).aspx>
We have followed the TechNet article carefully and we have been successful, however, Office documents do not open in OWA.
I get the error "sorry we couldn't open this presentation because we run into a problem, please try again", same with Word, slightly different with Excel.
Our server names are set as External-https. Our SP configuration part has been exactly like described by the TechNet article. The binding is successful (and it does say external-https) and the SPWOPI has been changed to external-https.
We run out of ideas. Can anybody help? | 2014/08/19 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/112360",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/26893/"
] | Before few days I was having same issue. Office web app was install correctly and every thing was done correctly. But still when I was trying preview any file I was getting error "**Sorry we couldn't open this ...**"
Then I start digging ULS logs and I found SPWOPI is failing due to net tcp. So I did steps as below
1. My first step was go on the both the server's services and check net tcp is running or not. But I found net tcp service was missing.
2. Then I go to Windows features and Install HTTP activation and Non-HTTP activation. You can add both for .Net 3.5.1 and 4.0
You can follow this <http://rohitguptablog.wordpress.com/tag/net-tcp/>
Hope this can help you to solve the issue | There could be several reasons why you might be getting this issue , Make sure the owa is on the different server and properly joined to the sharepoint server . Create the owa farm and make sure the sharepoint server is in healthy state .
**I encountered this issue and i could observe that there was a security windows patch was being done on our servers which caused the issue , i had to unjoin the Owa server from the farm ,uninstall the owa server and install again .**
IMPORTANT:
<http://www.wictorwilen.se/office-web-apps-2013-patching-your-wac-farm-with-no-downtime>
<http://www.wictorwilen.se/Tags/Office%20Web%20Apps>
PS: <http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/f7be5f88-8c98-464e-8596-60956b5e98fd/sharepoint-2013-office-web-apps-problem-unable-to-openviewedit?forum=sharepointgeneral> |
115,403 | I first saw this term in use for neutral units in Warcraft 3 (released 2002), and then that got carried through derivatives such as Dota (2003).
Was Warcraft 3 the first time *creep* was used as a reference for this class of units or was it in use prior?
Example usage from [Defense of the Ancients 2 (2010) wiki](http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Creeps):
>
> Creeps are a type of unit within Dota 2 that heroes can interact with, but do not have direct control over by default (see Chen, Enchantress and Helm of the Dominator). There are two types of creeps: lane creeps and neutral creeps. Both types of creeps can be killed by players for gold and experience.
>
>
>
Example usage form [League of Legends (2009) wiki](http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Minion):
>
> Minions, also known as creeps, are expendable allied units that are generated automatically to charge into battle with the purpose of attacking enemy units in the lanes they are assigned.
>
>
> | 2013/05/30 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/115403",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/45183/"
] | Definition
----------
[WoWWiki](http://www.wowwiki.com/Creep) defines creep:
>
> A creep is any monster in the game or any non-quest-giving and non-shopkeeper NPC combatant.
>
>
> Typically used on Battle.net on Warcraft III. The term mob is more often used in World of Warcraft.
>
>
> Comes from Warcraft III where the neutral (but aggressive) packs of monsters would guard certain areas from your armies. Originally, in Starcraft, creep was a layer of slime where zergs could build similar to blight.
>
>
>
As far as I can tell, *creep* was first used as a type of neutral creature in *Warcraft III* "to make its maps seem more like a world, rather than a game board. This will create an immersive atmosphere as well as create unique strategies and tactics."
*World of Warcraft*, 2004
-------------------------
The earliest definition in [Urban Dictionary](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Creeps&defid=479847) is from 2004 for Blizzard Entertainment's *World of Warcraft*:
>
> **Creeps**
>
>
> New terminology for MOBs that Blizzard is trying to instill in the World of Warcraft playing community.
>
>
> *Character 1: Let's go kill that 'creep'.
>
> Character 2: WTF is a 'creep'?
>
> Character 1: Any bad guy we can kill.
>
> Character 2: It is called a MOB you fucking looney tunes bitch.*
>
>
> by Mangina2004 Jan 30, 2004
>
>
>
*WarCraft III*, 2000
--------------------
The term was used by Blizzard on their official preview website for *Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos* (aka *War3* or *WC3* or *RoC*, released 2002).
The [oldest archive of http://www.blizzard.com/war3/neutrals/creeps.shtml](http://wayback.archive.org/web/20011215105451/http://www.blizzard.com/war3/neutrals/creeps.shtml) is from 15th December 2001:
The Blizzard *Warcraft III* preview [homepage](http://wayback.archive.org/web/20011216142321/http://www.blizzard.com/War3/) announced the creeps on December 14, 2001:
>
> 1 2 | 1 4 | 0 1
>
>
> Warcraft III Creeps Revealed
>
>
> "Even the most expert travelers must be wary, for in the exploration of any map they're bound to encounter a variety of Creeps." Learn more about these units on the new Creeps page, currently featuring the Ogre Lord.
>
>
>
Earlier, it was used in 2000 Usenet in a *Warcraft III* preview.
"news [ÎÅÊÔÒÁÌØÎÙÅ ÓÏÚÄÁÎÉÑ] -war3-" - [fido7.ru.game.blizzard](https://groups.google.com/group/fido7.ru.game.blizzard/browse_thread/thread/359e925fcedbba44/15b04ef6d331d3ed?q=creep%20OR%20creeps%20%20Azeroth#15b04ef6d331d3ed) - Ildar Ahmetzhanov - May 13 2000:
>
> The Infoceptor ÏÂÎÏ×ÉÌ %subj'Å×ÕÀ ÓÔÒÁÎÉÞËÕ:
> (<http://www.infoceptor.com/information/war3/miscunits.shtml>)
>
>
> Warcraft 3 will feature a wide range of neutral creatures to make it\_s maps
> seem more like a world, rather than a game board. This will create an immersive
> atmosphere as well as create unique strategies and tactics.
>
>
> ...
>
>
> **Creeps**:
>
> **Creeps** are wondering citizens of Azeroth, littered across the map. Upon
> encountered by players, they have different reactions depending on the players
> race and power. Some may attack outright, while other may offer their services
> of money, while other\_s will give specific quests. **Creeps** are always armed, and hence are sometimes a threat, especially to fledgling forces.
>
>
>
---
*StarCraft*, 1997
-----------------
There was creep in Blizzard's *StarCraft* which was released on [31st March 1998](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft), but this was a different thing altogether. Mentioning it here for completeness only.
"Re: What's the best race?" - [alt.games.starcraft](https://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.starcraft/browse_thread/thread/28685349ee00cea5/73e8cbdc8a30d069?lnk=gst&q=creeps#73e8cbdc8a30d069) - Josh Wooley - April 18, 1998:
>
> the zerg are ok, but theyre units are usually weaker than the other 2. they
> are very cheap, however. everybodys favorite rush race, as far as i can
> tell. cant heal units/buildings, but they do regenerate themselves. have
> to build a fair amount of **creeps** though.
>
>
>
"The UBERLIST" - [alt.games.starcraft](https://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.starcraft/browse_thread/thread/f0ab80742aa663d3/380d417e3afb319?q=creep%20starcraft#0380d417e3afb319) - David Jarrett Fate quoting Blizzard rep Pat N. - Nov 14, 1997:
>
> Q:Must **creep** be destroyed by certain weapon types?
>
> A:Well, the way to destroy some creep is to take out Zerg buildings
> within the **creep** (when you do this, it will begin to recede).
>
>
>
But this isn't the same thing as a neutral unit. From the [StarCraft Wiki](http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Creep_colony):
>
> reep colonies are zerg structures used to extend the creep. Colonies have to be established on pre-existing creep.
>
>
> A creep colony can evolve into defensive structures: the sunken colony for ground defense, or the a spore colony for air defense and detection.
>
>
> At some point, creep colonies were present in the game engine of StarCraft II.
> However, the creep colony was replaced by the creep tumor, and the defenses with the spine crawler and the spore crawler respectively.
>
>
> | I'd like to add that in Starcraft, creep is neutral and spreads on it's own after laying down a hatchery or creep colony. Because it's neutral it can be used by either player. Even a player's creep colony which generates creep and is shorthanded to "creep" often, is essentially a neutral unit in a lot of ways since it can't attack and what it makes benefits both players if they're playing as the zerg race on the map.
This isn't the only time a Blizzard game used a word from an older game with a *slightly* similar meaning, which makes me think that some of the culture at Blizzard lends itself to repurposing words from their other games *intentionally* from time to time, rather than it being a mere coincidence.
Blizzard also has (or at least used to have, back in the day) a close relationship with their players, and so words and phrases in the community do influence Blizzard's choice of words as well. |
32,232,914 | During my app review I received the following:
"17.2: Apps that require users to share personal information, such as email address and date of birth, in order to function will be rejected
Specifically, your app uses Facebook login for authentication purposes only, but does not include account-based features offered by that site, which is not allowed on the App Store.
In order for Facebook to be the only authentication mechanism available, your app must include significant account-specific functionality from Facebook. Pulling profile information, or sharing are not sufficient account-based features for Facebook to be the only authentication mechanism available.
It would be appropriate to implement your own authentication mechanism, or implement significant account-specific functionality from Facebook."
**My Question:**
What are some examples of "significant account-specific functionality from Facebook"?
Would allowing users to choose pictures from their Facebook for their profile, or displaying mutual friends using my app pass this requirement?
**\*Note:** I'm building a dating app kind of like Tinder
Thanks! | 2015/08/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/32232914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3826894/"
] | There is certainly a bit of gray area here. But the question you need to ask yourself is, "how can I make my app useful to users who can't login via Facebook?"
If the answer really is "I can't" then your app does indeed require Facebook authentication. It's not useful to anyone who does not have a Facebook account. A contrived example of this could be, for example, "Facebook Group Finder", an app that scans your interests on Facebook and suggests Facebook groups for you to join. If you don't have a Facebook account, then this app can be of no use to you.
Clearly, Apple however believes that your app does not fall into that category of apps. It has useful functionality that should not require a Facebook account to use. According to Apple's review notes, it sounds like your app just requires Facebook credentials so that a user can log in, and does not use any Facebook APIs or information from Facebook beyond that point (or perhaps, it uses them, but using them is not crucial to its operation).
If this is the case, it sounds like you could replace the Facebook account requirement with a requirement for the user to create an account on your website (or whatever) instead, and not really have any loss of functionality compared to a Facebook login. Apple is asking you to add that as a login alternative.
Allowing users to choose pictures from their Facebook profile definitely wouldn't satisfy Apple, since Facebook is not by far the world's only source of pictures. Displaying mutual friends, this probably also wouldn't do it, but it's more of a gray area. It seems like you could just leave the "mutual friends" part out of your app for non-Facebook users. | Other authentication means, provide features that user can be able to sign up using his email id. What I understood from above is you have used only fb authentication. |
32,232,914 | During my app review I received the following:
"17.2: Apps that require users to share personal information, such as email address and date of birth, in order to function will be rejected
Specifically, your app uses Facebook login for authentication purposes only, but does not include account-based features offered by that site, which is not allowed on the App Store.
In order for Facebook to be the only authentication mechanism available, your app must include significant account-specific functionality from Facebook. Pulling profile information, or sharing are not sufficient account-based features for Facebook to be the only authentication mechanism available.
It would be appropriate to implement your own authentication mechanism, or implement significant account-specific functionality from Facebook."
**My Question:**
What are some examples of "significant account-specific functionality from Facebook"?
Would allowing users to choose pictures from their Facebook for their profile, or displaying mutual friends using my app pass this requirement?
**\*Note:** I'm building a dating app kind of like Tinder
Thanks! | 2015/08/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/32232914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3826894/"
] | If you are going to use Facebook log in, apple wants you to use significant account-specific functionality. This means that you should use things from Facebook like user interest or friend list. Using the user name profile pictures are not considered account specific functionality. Apple is saying if you are not using these information then you are not supposed to use Facebook authentication. You have 2 solutions here:
1. Use the significant account-specific functionality from Facebook ex. interests of friend list.
2. Apple will accept the use Facebook log in without significant account-specific functionality if you also add your own login and password.
Tender app is using only Facebook log in and it is not rejected because tinder uses your friends list and interest from Facebook. If you can point to apple how you are using information like this they will accept your app.
I am sure of this information because I got it from apple review team member today! | Other authentication means, provide features that user can be able to sign up using his email id. What I understood from above is you have used only fb authentication. |
32,232,914 | During my app review I received the following:
"17.2: Apps that require users to share personal information, such as email address and date of birth, in order to function will be rejected
Specifically, your app uses Facebook login for authentication purposes only, but does not include account-based features offered by that site, which is not allowed on the App Store.
In order for Facebook to be the only authentication mechanism available, your app must include significant account-specific functionality from Facebook. Pulling profile information, or sharing are not sufficient account-based features for Facebook to be the only authentication mechanism available.
It would be appropriate to implement your own authentication mechanism, or implement significant account-specific functionality from Facebook."
**My Question:**
What are some examples of "significant account-specific functionality from Facebook"?
Would allowing users to choose pictures from their Facebook for their profile, or displaying mutual friends using my app pass this requirement?
**\*Note:** I'm building a dating app kind of like Tinder
Thanks! | 2015/08/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/32232914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3826894/"
] | There is certainly a bit of gray area here. But the question you need to ask yourself is, "how can I make my app useful to users who can't login via Facebook?"
If the answer really is "I can't" then your app does indeed require Facebook authentication. It's not useful to anyone who does not have a Facebook account. A contrived example of this could be, for example, "Facebook Group Finder", an app that scans your interests on Facebook and suggests Facebook groups for you to join. If you don't have a Facebook account, then this app can be of no use to you.
Clearly, Apple however believes that your app does not fall into that category of apps. It has useful functionality that should not require a Facebook account to use. According to Apple's review notes, it sounds like your app just requires Facebook credentials so that a user can log in, and does not use any Facebook APIs or information from Facebook beyond that point (or perhaps, it uses them, but using them is not crucial to its operation).
If this is the case, it sounds like you could replace the Facebook account requirement with a requirement for the user to create an account on your website (or whatever) instead, and not really have any loss of functionality compared to a Facebook login. Apple is asking you to add that as a login alternative.
Allowing users to choose pictures from their Facebook profile definitely wouldn't satisfy Apple, since Facebook is not by far the world's only source of pictures. Displaying mutual friends, this probably also wouldn't do it, but it's more of a gray area. It seems like you could just leave the "mutual friends" part out of your app for non-Facebook users. | If you are going to use Facebook log in, apple wants you to use significant account-specific functionality. This means that you should use things from Facebook like user interest or friend list. Using the user name profile pictures are not considered account specific functionality. Apple is saying if you are not using these information then you are not supposed to use Facebook authentication. You have 2 solutions here:
1. Use the significant account-specific functionality from Facebook ex. interests of friend list.
2. Apple will accept the use Facebook log in without significant account-specific functionality if you also add your own login and password.
Tender app is using only Facebook log in and it is not rejected because tinder uses your friends list and interest from Facebook. If you can point to apple how you are using information like this they will accept your app.
I am sure of this information because I got it from apple review team member today! |
41,642 | Suppose both the kings are left in a fairly neutral positions with just rook at one side and a bishop at the other side. What is the outcome if both the sides play correctly?
Can a side with only bishop claim a draw?
Related:
* [Rook vs Bishop endgame](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/37052/rook-vs-bishop-endgame)
* [Rook and bishop vs. opposite color bishop](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/23768/rook-and-bishop-vs-opposite-color-bishop) | 2023/02/16 | [
"https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/41642",
"https://chess.stackexchange.com",
"https://chess.stackexchange.com/users/727/"
] | See [Pawnless Chess Endgame](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawnless_chess_endgame#Common_pawnless_endings_(rook_and_minor_pieces)) on Wikipedia:
>
> Rook versus a bishop: this is usually a draw. The main exception is when the defending king is trapped in a corner that is of the same color square as [their] bishop (see [Wrong bishop#Rook versus bishop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong_bishop#Rook_versus_bishop)). If the defending king is trapped in a corner that is the opposite color as [their] bishop, [they draw] (see [Fortress (chess)#Fortress in a corner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(chess)#Fortress_in_a_corner)). See the game of Veselin Topalov versus Judit Polgar, where Topalov defended and drew the game to clinch a win of their 2008 Dos Hermanas match.
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Mate is possible, and the side with the Bishop definitely cannot claim a draw (until 50 moves is up). | The side with a bishop can't immediately claim a draw as there are opportunities for checkmate.
At lower levels, the defense isn't trivial either and it's in fact impossible if the side with the bishop can't manage to one of the "safe" corners (the ones with the color opposite to that of the bishop) |
4,235,967 | I'd like to render a very simple 3D scene in a java applet. I could do all the math myself and render that to a bitmap, but as I'm sure I'm not the first person in history to have to draw a few cubes to the screen, I was wondering how this is usually done.
Every place I've read has said either Java3D or LWJGL, but as I understand it these rely on platform-dependent code and need to be installed separately from Java, making them both unsuitable for graphics.
So how is this usually done? | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4235967",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/238419/"
] | In a plug-in 2 JRE (1.6.0\_10+), you can use JWS extensions for embedded applets. This is important because JWS makes it much easier to ensure the correct binaries are on the run-time class path. AFAIU JOGL and Java 3D both offer JWS extensions for their APIs.
Should you choose to go that way, please make the applet has the draggable parameter added, so the end user might choose if they want a (mostly useless) browser window wrapped around a 3D animation. | Could you use JOGL?
<http://download.java.net/media/jogl/demos/www/applettest-jnlp.html> |
4,235,967 | I'd like to render a very simple 3D scene in a java applet. I could do all the math myself and render that to a bitmap, but as I'm sure I'm not the first person in history to have to draw a few cubes to the screen, I was wondering how this is usually done.
Every place I've read has said either Java3D or LWJGL, but as I understand it these rely on platform-dependent code and need to be installed separately from Java, making them both unsuitable for graphics.
So how is this usually done? | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4235967",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/238419/"
] | I ran into similar problems when I needed to do some 3d rendering in an applet. My solution was to simply implement from scratch a 3d rendering library in Java. The fear was that it would be a poor performer but on an I5 processor, this proved to not be the case. The added advantage is that I was able to write the library in the way I always wanted graphics to be done. The real advantage,, though, is that it will run regardless of any need to have some graphics library installed on the client and without regard to any graphics card dependencies.
I will gladly share a subset of this code to anyone who wants to look at it. | Could you use JOGL?
<http://download.java.net/media/jogl/demos/www/applettest-jnlp.html> |
4,235,967 | I'd like to render a very simple 3D scene in a java applet. I could do all the math myself and render that to a bitmap, but as I'm sure I'm not the first person in history to have to draw a few cubes to the screen, I was wondering how this is usually done.
Every place I've read has said either Java3D or LWJGL, but as I understand it these rely on platform-dependent code and need to be installed separately from Java, making them both unsuitable for graphics.
So how is this usually done? | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4235967",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/238419/"
] | [This old page](http://www.garybeene.com/3d/3d-pure.htm "3D on the Web - Pure Java Applets") lists the demos/apps/libraries of 3D Java applets with no hardware dependencies. Unfortunately very few are open-source, others are not even downloadable.
Personally I recommend you to experiment with [Java 1.1 3D renderer by Ken Perlin](http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/render/ "Java 1.1 3D renderer"), which has source code available and free to use for academic purposes.
**EDIT**: [jGL](http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~robin/JavaGL/ "jGL") is another Java 3D library with no hardware dependencies. It mimics OpenGL 1.\* API. It is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). | Could you use JOGL?
<http://download.java.net/media/jogl/demos/www/applettest-jnlp.html> |
4,235,967 | I'd like to render a very simple 3D scene in a java applet. I could do all the math myself and render that to a bitmap, but as I'm sure I'm not the first person in history to have to draw a few cubes to the screen, I was wondering how this is usually done.
Every place I've read has said either Java3D or LWJGL, but as I understand it these rely on platform-dependent code and need to be installed separately from Java, making them both unsuitable for graphics.
So how is this usually done? | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4235967",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/238419/"
] | In a plug-in 2 JRE (1.6.0\_10+), you can use JWS extensions for embedded applets. This is important because JWS makes it much easier to ensure the correct binaries are on the run-time class path. AFAIU JOGL and Java 3D both offer JWS extensions for their APIs.
Should you choose to go that way, please make the applet has the draggable parameter added, so the end user might choose if they want a (mostly useless) browser window wrapped around a 3D animation. | I'm not a Java guy, but 2/3 years ago when I was at univeristy I had the same problem :)
I've tried jogl... and for noob in Java like myself I found it too complicated to configure and write something using it.
I used Java3d and it worked like a charm, the only problem I had back then, was that Java3d did not worked with all graphic cards. But fortunatelly it worked with computers at my univeristy :) |
4,235,967 | I'd like to render a very simple 3D scene in a java applet. I could do all the math myself and render that to a bitmap, but as I'm sure I'm not the first person in history to have to draw a few cubes to the screen, I was wondering how this is usually done.
Every place I've read has said either Java3D or LWJGL, but as I understand it these rely on platform-dependent code and need to be installed separately from Java, making them both unsuitable for graphics.
So how is this usually done? | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4235967",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/238419/"
] | I ran into similar problems when I needed to do some 3d rendering in an applet. My solution was to simply implement from scratch a 3d rendering library in Java. The fear was that it would be a poor performer but on an I5 processor, this proved to not be the case. The added advantage is that I was able to write the library in the way I always wanted graphics to be done. The real advantage,, though, is that it will run regardless of any need to have some graphics library installed on the client and without regard to any graphics card dependencies.
I will gladly share a subset of this code to anyone who wants to look at it. | I'm not a Java guy, but 2/3 years ago when I was at univeristy I had the same problem :)
I've tried jogl... and for noob in Java like myself I found it too complicated to configure and write something using it.
I used Java3d and it worked like a charm, the only problem I had back then, was that Java3d did not worked with all graphic cards. But fortunatelly it worked with computers at my univeristy :) |
4,235,967 | I'd like to render a very simple 3D scene in a java applet. I could do all the math myself and render that to a bitmap, but as I'm sure I'm not the first person in history to have to draw a few cubes to the screen, I was wondering how this is usually done.
Every place I've read has said either Java3D or LWJGL, but as I understand it these rely on platform-dependent code and need to be installed separately from Java, making them both unsuitable for graphics.
So how is this usually done? | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4235967",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/238419/"
] | [This old page](http://www.garybeene.com/3d/3d-pure.htm "3D on the Web - Pure Java Applets") lists the demos/apps/libraries of 3D Java applets with no hardware dependencies. Unfortunately very few are open-source, others are not even downloadable.
Personally I recommend you to experiment with [Java 1.1 3D renderer by Ken Perlin](http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/render/ "Java 1.1 3D renderer"), which has source code available and free to use for academic purposes.
**EDIT**: [jGL](http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~robin/JavaGL/ "jGL") is another Java 3D library with no hardware dependencies. It mimics OpenGL 1.\* API. It is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). | I'm not a Java guy, but 2/3 years ago when I was at univeristy I had the same problem :)
I've tried jogl... and for noob in Java like myself I found it too complicated to configure and write something using it.
I used Java3d and it worked like a charm, the only problem I had back then, was that Java3d did not worked with all graphic cards. But fortunatelly it worked with computers at my univeristy :) |
4,235,967 | I'd like to render a very simple 3D scene in a java applet. I could do all the math myself and render that to a bitmap, but as I'm sure I'm not the first person in history to have to draw a few cubes to the screen, I was wondering how this is usually done.
Every place I've read has said either Java3D or LWJGL, but as I understand it these rely on platform-dependent code and need to be installed separately from Java, making them both unsuitable for graphics.
So how is this usually done? | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4235967",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/238419/"
] | [This old page](http://www.garybeene.com/3d/3d-pure.htm "3D on the Web - Pure Java Applets") lists the demos/apps/libraries of 3D Java applets with no hardware dependencies. Unfortunately very few are open-source, others are not even downloadable.
Personally I recommend you to experiment with [Java 1.1 3D renderer by Ken Perlin](http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/render/ "Java 1.1 3D renderer"), which has source code available and free to use for academic purposes.
**EDIT**: [jGL](http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~robin/JavaGL/ "jGL") is another Java 3D library with no hardware dependencies. It mimics OpenGL 1.\* API. It is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). | In a plug-in 2 JRE (1.6.0\_10+), you can use JWS extensions for embedded applets. This is important because JWS makes it much easier to ensure the correct binaries are on the run-time class path. AFAIU JOGL and Java 3D both offer JWS extensions for their APIs.
Should you choose to go that way, please make the applet has the draggable parameter added, so the end user might choose if they want a (mostly useless) browser window wrapped around a 3D animation. |
4,235,967 | I'd like to render a very simple 3D scene in a java applet. I could do all the math myself and render that to a bitmap, but as I'm sure I'm not the first person in history to have to draw a few cubes to the screen, I was wondering how this is usually done.
Every place I've read has said either Java3D or LWJGL, but as I understand it these rely on platform-dependent code and need to be installed separately from Java, making them both unsuitable for graphics.
So how is this usually done? | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4235967",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/238419/"
] | [This old page](http://www.garybeene.com/3d/3d-pure.htm "3D on the Web - Pure Java Applets") lists the demos/apps/libraries of 3D Java applets with no hardware dependencies. Unfortunately very few are open-source, others are not even downloadable.
Personally I recommend you to experiment with [Java 1.1 3D renderer by Ken Perlin](http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/render/ "Java 1.1 3D renderer"), which has source code available and free to use for academic purposes.
**EDIT**: [jGL](http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~robin/JavaGL/ "jGL") is another Java 3D library with no hardware dependencies. It mimics OpenGL 1.\* API. It is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). | I ran into similar problems when I needed to do some 3d rendering in an applet. My solution was to simply implement from scratch a 3d rendering library in Java. The fear was that it would be a poor performer but on an I5 processor, this proved to not be the case. The added advantage is that I was able to write the library in the way I always wanted graphics to be done. The real advantage,, though, is that it will run regardless of any need to have some graphics library installed on the client and without regard to any graphics card dependencies.
I will gladly share a subset of this code to anyone who wants to look at it. |
347,347 | Based on the [Scheduling Push Upgrades](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.packagingGuide.meta/packagingGuide/push_upgrade_scheduling.htm) and the [Push a Package Upgrade](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.sfdx_dev.meta/sfdx_dev/push_upgrade_intro_2GP.htm) documentation, while Salesforce UI to schedule push upgrades is available for first generation packages (1GP), for second generation packages (2GP) there is presently only a set of APIs.
Before I go off and create my own app to schedule/monitor 2GP push upgrades (looks like multiple days fo work to do):
1. Any expectation that Salesforce will build UI for this soon?
2. Anyone about to release some open source for this or post a free app on <https://appexchange.salesforce.com/>?
3. Does a commercial product have this capability already?
4. Or if you are *seriously* interested in sharing the work of building such an app comment here and we can figure out a way of getting in touch.
**PS** Also see [Can objects such as PackagePushRequest be made available in a scratch org?](https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/347352/can-objects-such-as-packagepushrequest-be-made-available-in-a-scratch-org) | 2021/06/19 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/347347",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/887/"
] | There is a Salesforce Labs application called [Package Visualizer](https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N4V00000FNBc0UAH) that offers, as part of its functionality, scheduling push upgrades for 2GP managed packages.
The [user guide](https://salesforce.quip.com/f3SWA340YbFH#OUNACAitjU9) for the application describes its push-related functionality. One thing to note is
>
> You can only select up to 10,000 Subscribers for a single Push Upgrade Request
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>
*Disclosure: I am a Salesforce employee, but am not an author of and have not used this application.* | >
> Any expectation that Salesforce will build UI for this soon?
>
>
>
No. As you probably know, Safe Harbor rules. They won't announce a UI for this until it's nearly ready. If you have an NDA and an inside contact, you can ask them yourself. I have such access, but I wouldn't be able to share that knowledge without written consent, so even if I asked for you, I would be neither able to confirm nor deny the possibility of a future UI.
>
> Anyone about to release some open source for this or post a free app on <https://appexchange.salesforce.com/>?
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>
I don't know of anyone doing it, but it would be pretty trivial to write.
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> Does a commercial product have this capability already?
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>
Again, I don't know of anyone aside from ytik that's working on such a thing, and only because they commented on your question.
>
> Or if you are *seriously* interested in sharing the work of building such an app comment here and we can figure out a way of getting in touch.
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You know how to reach me if you want to. Maybe ytik, you, and I could all collaborate on this (or anyone else who's interested). |
347,347 | Based on the [Scheduling Push Upgrades](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.packagingGuide.meta/packagingGuide/push_upgrade_scheduling.htm) and the [Push a Package Upgrade](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.sfdx_dev.meta/sfdx_dev/push_upgrade_intro_2GP.htm) documentation, while Salesforce UI to schedule push upgrades is available for first generation packages (1GP), for second generation packages (2GP) there is presently only a set of APIs.
Before I go off and create my own app to schedule/monitor 2GP push upgrades (looks like multiple days fo work to do):
1. Any expectation that Salesforce will build UI for this soon?
2. Anyone about to release some open source for this or post a free app on <https://appexchange.salesforce.com/>?
3. Does a commercial product have this capability already?
4. Or if you are *seriously* interested in sharing the work of building such an app comment here and we can figure out a way of getting in touch.
**PS** Also see [Can objects such as PackagePushRequest be made available in a scratch org?](https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/347352/can-objects-such-as-packagepushrequest-be-made-available-in-a-scratch-org) | 2021/06/19 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/347347",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/887/"
] | There is a Salesforce Labs application called [Package Visualizer](https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N4V00000FNBc0UAH) that offers, as part of its functionality, scheduling push upgrades for 2GP managed packages.
The [user guide](https://salesforce.quip.com/f3SWA340YbFH#OUNACAitjU9) for the application describes its push-related functionality. One thing to note is
>
> You can only select up to 10,000 Subscribers for a single Push Upgrade Request
>
>
>
*Disclosure: I am a Salesforce employee, but am not an author of and have not used this application.* | I decided to [publish my own application on AppExchange](https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N4V00000IZEacUAH) which allows to perform push upgrades for 2GMP and some more features, like extract information about Subscribers or Versions so that we could compare of how many subscribers different packages have.
I used that data to provide some Google Charts to my customer, however, I haven't included Google Charts functionality to the package.
Also I am thinking to allow options to install the package on one org and manage all devhubs from that single org by switching between orgs (this I have implemented in the beta version which is not yet published on AppExchange, the published version requires the org to have the Dev Hub feature enabled as well as 2GMP).
Feel free to comment out on this app. |
55,495 | I boil rice often and then store them. Next day when I take them out of the fridge, they are lumped together in one structure. I can heat them and then press them to separate them.
The same even happens within the pan in which I have cooked the rice, if I leave it alone for some 10s of minutes once the rice is ready.
What do I do to keep the rice separate? | 2015/03/07 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/55495",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/34059/"
] | To get very separate rice I use a long grain rice, pre-rinsed and cooked at a 2 to 1 ratio of water to rice by volume.
There are three factors that affect the tendency for rice to stick together:
* Length of the grain. Long grain is the least likely to stick together. Medium and short grain are starchier and are more likely to stick together.
* Amount of hydration. If your water to rice ratio is too high, it will cause even long grain rice to cake together.
* Cold rinsing. Rinsing your uncooked rice in cold water helps to wash away the excess starch. My basmati rice recipe calls for a rinse followed by soaking the rice in cold water for 30 min to an hour to ensure very fluffy separate rice. | So I know of two ways, one way is what happens with commercial Cantonese cooking:
1. Add rice and water to your rice cooker, and throw in a knob of butter, diced, mix it all amongst the rice so it will be vaguely even;
2. Cook rice as per normal.
Reasons: adding fats help to keep rice from sticking. They do this so they can make fried rice with fresh rice, rather than waiting for rice to stale for 1+ days in the fridge.
The other way is from Persian cooking:
1. Add rice and water to a pot and par-boil;
2. Once par-boiled, remove and steam the rest of the way.
1. Sometimes they will add some oil too.
Reasons: possibly adding fats too, but also, not oversaturating the rice with water will mean they are harder, and can retain their shape better.
Just a bit of a different take to @Chee's Burgers' answer. |
55,495 | I boil rice often and then store them. Next day when I take them out of the fridge, they are lumped together in one structure. I can heat them and then press them to separate them.
The same even happens within the pan in which I have cooked the rice, if I leave it alone for some 10s of minutes once the rice is ready.
What do I do to keep the rice separate? | 2015/03/07 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/55495",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/34059/"
] | To get very separate rice I use a long grain rice, pre-rinsed and cooked at a 2 to 1 ratio of water to rice by volume.
There are three factors that affect the tendency for rice to stick together:
* Length of the grain. Long grain is the least likely to stick together. Medium and short grain are starchier and are more likely to stick together.
* Amount of hydration. If your water to rice ratio is too high, it will cause even long grain rice to cake together.
* Cold rinsing. Rinsing your uncooked rice in cold water helps to wash away the excess starch. My basmati rice recipe calls for a rinse followed by soaking the rice in cold water for 30 min to an hour to ensure very fluffy separate rice. | I simply put the rice in a jar of water and shake like heck to rinse well i then use the two to one method and add a tiny bit of salt but most importantly a tablespoon of olive oil and another important thing to do is stir often . Another way i have heard of that i thought was crazy until i seen it done a couple of times is to put a wet teatowel on top of the pot. I am to scared of doing it this way as i dont want to burn the teatowel i am not sure but i think this is a middle eastern method ? But my freind cooked it like this once when he made a dish for me and him once and i have never had better rice |
55,495 | I boil rice often and then store them. Next day when I take them out of the fridge, they are lumped together in one structure. I can heat them and then press them to separate them.
The same even happens within the pan in which I have cooked the rice, if I leave it alone for some 10s of minutes once the rice is ready.
What do I do to keep the rice separate? | 2015/03/07 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/55495",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/34059/"
] | To get very separate rice I use a long grain rice, pre-rinsed and cooked at a 2 to 1 ratio of water to rice by volume.
There are three factors that affect the tendency for rice to stick together:
* Length of the grain. Long grain is the least likely to stick together. Medium and short grain are starchier and are more likely to stick together.
* Amount of hydration. If your water to rice ratio is too high, it will cause even long grain rice to cake together.
* Cold rinsing. Rinsing your uncooked rice in cold water helps to wash away the excess starch. My basmati rice recipe calls for a rinse followed by soaking the rice in cold water for 30 min to an hour to ensure very fluffy separate rice. | I use basmati (long and broken) as well as Round (Long as well as the round variety) for cooking.
For basmati, I recommend following the soaking and right proportions.
For brown rice:
With 3:1 ratio of Water to Rice, cook until two whistles in a pressure cooker. When the pressuring is complete, take off the cooker.
Open it.
Add cold water. Stir it once.
Drop it in a rice strainer.
Wait until the water is off the rice. Serve hot.
It makes fluffy rice without sticking at all.
You can ferment it at the end of the night and eat it in the morning as Kanji (south Indian- Keralite brown rice breakfast delicacy with fish/ green gram dish + pappad). It's YUM! |
55,495 | I boil rice often and then store them. Next day when I take them out of the fridge, they are lumped together in one structure. I can heat them and then press them to separate them.
The same even happens within the pan in which I have cooked the rice, if I leave it alone for some 10s of minutes once the rice is ready.
What do I do to keep the rice separate? | 2015/03/07 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/55495",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/34059/"
] | To get very separate rice I use a long grain rice, pre-rinsed and cooked at a 2 to 1 ratio of water to rice by volume.
There are three factors that affect the tendency for rice to stick together:
* Length of the grain. Long grain is the least likely to stick together. Medium and short grain are starchier and are more likely to stick together.
* Amount of hydration. If your water to rice ratio is too high, it will cause even long grain rice to cake together.
* Cold rinsing. Rinsing your uncooked rice in cold water helps to wash away the excess starch. My basmati rice recipe calls for a rinse followed by soaking the rice in cold water for 30 min to an hour to ensure very fluffy separate rice. | To tackle this problem, you need to understand what it is that causes rice to clump together. I will explain it later.
When cooking rice, I use basmati rice. It is important to know which rice you are using as some rice grains, such as a risotto rice are more starchy, in part due to their high surface area. For basmati I use 150g (or ml) water to every 100g of rice - do not use cups but use weight instead. Measure it out, and rinse off the excess rice flour using cold water. I add spices, and I add couple of tablespoons of butter for about 200g rice. The butter melts into the water. I use a saucepan with a glass top that allows me to see how it's getting along. If i see it bubbling up, i turn down the heat, it risks boiling over i take it off the hob and hold it above until it cools down a bit then replace it. When enough of the water is gone (about 8-10 minutes or so), i tilt the pan and see through the glass lid if the rice is done. If there is still water in the pan, then the rice is not done. If you see the rice slide, it's not yet done. Cooked rice wont slide. Heat it up on a very low simer temperature and wait for it to be firm. The minute it is firm, the heating stage is complete. Take it off the hob immediately. Now you move onto the cooling phase.
It is important not to lift the lid during this process - which is why i recommend a glass lid, so you can see it. To clarify this is the correct amount of water to use. When the rice has boiled off, a lot of it will still be steam. You should not lift the top off the pan during this cooling process because the steam needs to continue cooking the rice. If you raise the lid, too much moisture will escape and the rice wont be cooked through.
Now when it's cooked, take it off the heat, and leave it to start cooling, after 10-15 minutes while the rice is still warm, run a fork edgeways through the rice so that you don't break any grains. When the grains break it releases starch and this causes more clumping together. Because of the butter you melted in earlier, running the fork through it is easy. Separate all the rice now.
When the rice cools, contrary to expectation, the butter will keep the grains separate. Essentially when the rice cools, the starch crystalises, causing grains of rice to cling together via a sticky starchy glue. The butter doesn't stop the starch from becoming sticky, but it does cause a barrier that stops this starch "glue" from connecting between grains.
Some people recommend straining rice first before cooking. I don't always do this unless I am at the end of a 5-10kg bag of rice, when there's a lot of starch down there. However I should. All the stickiness is caused by the starch around the rice grains. The less starch the less it will stick, but a lipid like barrier is best.
Apparently olive oil can be used too. However i get better results with butter.
The same strategy can be used for other starchy foods like pasta and potatoes.
Stickiness can also occur in rice because the ratio of water to rice is wrong, remember it's 150g of water to 100g of rice.
**New update to this:** using a pan that is too large means the steam is too thin and doesn't steam the rice properly. For 2 cups of rice, i find a 20cm saucepan is fine. Saucepans bigger than this cause me issues. |
55,495 | I boil rice often and then store them. Next day when I take them out of the fridge, they are lumped together in one structure. I can heat them and then press them to separate them.
The same even happens within the pan in which I have cooked the rice, if I leave it alone for some 10s of minutes once the rice is ready.
What do I do to keep the rice separate? | 2015/03/07 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/55495",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/34059/"
] | So I know of two ways, one way is what happens with commercial Cantonese cooking:
1. Add rice and water to your rice cooker, and throw in a knob of butter, diced, mix it all amongst the rice so it will be vaguely even;
2. Cook rice as per normal.
Reasons: adding fats help to keep rice from sticking. They do this so they can make fried rice with fresh rice, rather than waiting for rice to stale for 1+ days in the fridge.
The other way is from Persian cooking:
1. Add rice and water to a pot and par-boil;
2. Once par-boiled, remove and steam the rest of the way.
1. Sometimes they will add some oil too.
Reasons: possibly adding fats too, but also, not oversaturating the rice with water will mean they are harder, and can retain their shape better.
Just a bit of a different take to @Chee's Burgers' answer. | I simply put the rice in a jar of water and shake like heck to rinse well i then use the two to one method and add a tiny bit of salt but most importantly a tablespoon of olive oil and another important thing to do is stir often . Another way i have heard of that i thought was crazy until i seen it done a couple of times is to put a wet teatowel on top of the pot. I am to scared of doing it this way as i dont want to burn the teatowel i am not sure but i think this is a middle eastern method ? But my freind cooked it like this once when he made a dish for me and him once and i have never had better rice |
55,495 | I boil rice often and then store them. Next day when I take them out of the fridge, they are lumped together in one structure. I can heat them and then press them to separate them.
The same even happens within the pan in which I have cooked the rice, if I leave it alone for some 10s of minutes once the rice is ready.
What do I do to keep the rice separate? | 2015/03/07 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/55495",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/34059/"
] | So I know of two ways, one way is what happens with commercial Cantonese cooking:
1. Add rice and water to your rice cooker, and throw in a knob of butter, diced, mix it all amongst the rice so it will be vaguely even;
2. Cook rice as per normal.
Reasons: adding fats help to keep rice from sticking. They do this so they can make fried rice with fresh rice, rather than waiting for rice to stale for 1+ days in the fridge.
The other way is from Persian cooking:
1. Add rice and water to a pot and par-boil;
2. Once par-boiled, remove and steam the rest of the way.
1. Sometimes they will add some oil too.
Reasons: possibly adding fats too, but also, not oversaturating the rice with water will mean they are harder, and can retain their shape better.
Just a bit of a different take to @Chee's Burgers' answer. | I use basmati (long and broken) as well as Round (Long as well as the round variety) for cooking.
For basmati, I recommend following the soaking and right proportions.
For brown rice:
With 3:1 ratio of Water to Rice, cook until two whistles in a pressure cooker. When the pressuring is complete, take off the cooker.
Open it.
Add cold water. Stir it once.
Drop it in a rice strainer.
Wait until the water is off the rice. Serve hot.
It makes fluffy rice without sticking at all.
You can ferment it at the end of the night and eat it in the morning as Kanji (south Indian- Keralite brown rice breakfast delicacy with fish/ green gram dish + pappad). It's YUM! |
55,495 | I boil rice often and then store them. Next day when I take them out of the fridge, they are lumped together in one structure. I can heat them and then press them to separate them.
The same even happens within the pan in which I have cooked the rice, if I leave it alone for some 10s of minutes once the rice is ready.
What do I do to keep the rice separate? | 2015/03/07 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/55495",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/34059/"
] | So I know of two ways, one way is what happens with commercial Cantonese cooking:
1. Add rice and water to your rice cooker, and throw in a knob of butter, diced, mix it all amongst the rice so it will be vaguely even;
2. Cook rice as per normal.
Reasons: adding fats help to keep rice from sticking. They do this so they can make fried rice with fresh rice, rather than waiting for rice to stale for 1+ days in the fridge.
The other way is from Persian cooking:
1. Add rice and water to a pot and par-boil;
2. Once par-boiled, remove and steam the rest of the way.
1. Sometimes they will add some oil too.
Reasons: possibly adding fats too, but also, not oversaturating the rice with water will mean they are harder, and can retain their shape better.
Just a bit of a different take to @Chee's Burgers' answer. | To tackle this problem, you need to understand what it is that causes rice to clump together. I will explain it later.
When cooking rice, I use basmati rice. It is important to know which rice you are using as some rice grains, such as a risotto rice are more starchy, in part due to their high surface area. For basmati I use 150g (or ml) water to every 100g of rice - do not use cups but use weight instead. Measure it out, and rinse off the excess rice flour using cold water. I add spices, and I add couple of tablespoons of butter for about 200g rice. The butter melts into the water. I use a saucepan with a glass top that allows me to see how it's getting along. If i see it bubbling up, i turn down the heat, it risks boiling over i take it off the hob and hold it above until it cools down a bit then replace it. When enough of the water is gone (about 8-10 minutes or so), i tilt the pan and see through the glass lid if the rice is done. If there is still water in the pan, then the rice is not done. If you see the rice slide, it's not yet done. Cooked rice wont slide. Heat it up on a very low simer temperature and wait for it to be firm. The minute it is firm, the heating stage is complete. Take it off the hob immediately. Now you move onto the cooling phase.
It is important not to lift the lid during this process - which is why i recommend a glass lid, so you can see it. To clarify this is the correct amount of water to use. When the rice has boiled off, a lot of it will still be steam. You should not lift the top off the pan during this cooling process because the steam needs to continue cooking the rice. If you raise the lid, too much moisture will escape and the rice wont be cooked through.
Now when it's cooked, take it off the heat, and leave it to start cooling, after 10-15 minutes while the rice is still warm, run a fork edgeways through the rice so that you don't break any grains. When the grains break it releases starch and this causes more clumping together. Because of the butter you melted in earlier, running the fork through it is easy. Separate all the rice now.
When the rice cools, contrary to expectation, the butter will keep the grains separate. Essentially when the rice cools, the starch crystalises, causing grains of rice to cling together via a sticky starchy glue. The butter doesn't stop the starch from becoming sticky, but it does cause a barrier that stops this starch "glue" from connecting between grains.
Some people recommend straining rice first before cooking. I don't always do this unless I am at the end of a 5-10kg bag of rice, when there's a lot of starch down there. However I should. All the stickiness is caused by the starch around the rice grains. The less starch the less it will stick, but a lipid like barrier is best.
Apparently olive oil can be used too. However i get better results with butter.
The same strategy can be used for other starchy foods like pasta and potatoes.
Stickiness can also occur in rice because the ratio of water to rice is wrong, remember it's 150g of water to 100g of rice.
**New update to this:** using a pan that is too large means the steam is too thin and doesn't steam the rice properly. For 2 cups of rice, i find a 20cm saucepan is fine. Saucepans bigger than this cause me issues. |
71,265 | I am just curious if last minute hotel deals is actually a thing. I am not a big traveler and have no clue.
But in theory if a hotel has a bunch of empty rooms for the current day, it would make sense to rent them at a reduced rate as opposed to letting them be empty.
Is this actually a thing that could be leveraged?
I am going on a road trip, and the last leg of the trip could take many variations on a moments notice and was wondering if this is something I could take advantage of. | 2016/06/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/71265",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/41666/"
] | After seeing the comments here, I tried it myself.
---
Can you get it? - Yes you can, still today.
-------------------------------------------
I asked in China Eastern and Korean Air, both in economy and large cabin, in 2016.
You can ask an attendant once you finish eating, and he/she kindly starts to check if they can serve it for you.
However, whether it is only a main dish or whole dish depends on the airline (and attendant oneself and also random chance). In China Eastern I only got a main dish, but I didn't like to bother to complaining about it (and it was enough), so didn't make any further actions.
When you ask, the tips by other answers would likely work to your favor; be polite, wait for the end of the distribution of meal, and don't disturb. However, I want to add one more tips; you shouldn't ask it shortly before the start of collections of finished meal. In this case, attendants have to care about *only you* once after they finish collecting all the other passangers' meal. So make sure your second meal is going to be collected with others'.
However, some airlines don't allow it for whatever reasons. I asked at Asiana Airlines a few times (different flight, route, and crew) but I got declined in all of them. In fact when I asked one attendant she immediately got to ask a more elderly attendant (maybe a chief) and the answer was NO. So in these airlines, you could never get an extra meal, unfortunately... | Airlines: Emirates
Route: Dubai to India (CCU)
Well, I got encouraged by the answers here and asked.
The answer was a "No".
In the airlines defense, I asked for a Hindu meal, which maybe was limited in number.
But, guess what my co-passenger told me.
If you had asked it in your flight from Dubai to some western country they would be more than willing to serve you.
But here you are going back to the third world. You are lucky the "No" was not a rude one.
Ouch... :( |
71,265 | I am just curious if last minute hotel deals is actually a thing. I am not a big traveler and have no clue.
But in theory if a hotel has a bunch of empty rooms for the current day, it would make sense to rent them at a reduced rate as opposed to letting them be empty.
Is this actually a thing that could be leveraged?
I am going on a road trip, and the last leg of the trip could take many variations on a moments notice and was wondering if this is something I could take advantage of. | 2016/06/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/71265",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/41666/"
] | A cabin crew member here...
In general, flight attendants will be happy to give you the extra meal after the service is done, because they know it will be [thrown after landing](https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/19850/do-airlines-recycle-uneaten-unopened-pre-packaged-food/19852#19852) anyway. Out of experience, there are always some extra meals, at least one or two. Sometimes passengers simply do not take a meal, some other times there's just an extra meal or two loaded for whatever reason. In some other flights, there's a shortage actually. They usually cover for this by using the crew meals, and this is rare anyway.
Is it ok?
---------
Yes, nothing wrong with it, flight attendants will not think badly of you. As long as you ask nicely, of course. One more thing, all the meals usually get heated at the same time. Once heated they are good to be eaten for a certain time, then they can't be served to passengers. So, if you feel you want an extra meal, ask for it. I have seen so much food being wasted while I was sure many people were hungry but were shy just like you.
When to ask
-----------
When they are serving you, give them a hint that you would love to have an extra meal if it's possible after they are done. Personally, when this happens I might give them right away if I know that there are extra meals. Otherwise, I will just wait until service is done and then come back with the extra meal, or apologize if I couldn't find any.
Note: I am talking about full-service airlines. For budget airlines where food is bought onboard, you can pay extra and get more food. That's a different story. | After seeing the comments here, I tried it myself.
---
Can you get it? - Yes you can, still today.
-------------------------------------------
I asked in China Eastern and Korean Air, both in economy and large cabin, in 2016.
You can ask an attendant once you finish eating, and he/she kindly starts to check if they can serve it for you.
However, whether it is only a main dish or whole dish depends on the airline (and attendant oneself and also random chance). In China Eastern I only got a main dish, but I didn't like to bother to complaining about it (and it was enough), so didn't make any further actions.
When you ask, the tips by other answers would likely work to your favor; be polite, wait for the end of the distribution of meal, and don't disturb. However, I want to add one more tips; you shouldn't ask it shortly before the start of collections of finished meal. In this case, attendants have to care about *only you* once after they finish collecting all the other passangers' meal. So make sure your second meal is going to be collected with others'.
However, some airlines don't allow it for whatever reasons. I asked at Asiana Airlines a few times (different flight, route, and crew) but I got declined in all of them. In fact when I asked one attendant she immediately got to ask a more elderly attendant (maybe a chief) and the answer was NO. So in these airlines, you could never get an extra meal, unfortunately... |
71,265 | I am just curious if last minute hotel deals is actually a thing. I am not a big traveler and have no clue.
But in theory if a hotel has a bunch of empty rooms for the current day, it would make sense to rent them at a reduced rate as opposed to letting them be empty.
Is this actually a thing that could be leveraged?
I am going on a road trip, and the last leg of the trip could take many variations on a moments notice and was wondering if this is something I could take advantage of. | 2016/06/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/71265",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/41666/"
] | **Yes you can ask.** And **I have successfully asked for extra food in the past** (i.e. over the last five years and as recent as a month ago). One time when asking for a second sandwich I was even proactively offered a third one later on. I also typically ask for two beverages and never had that refused.
Of course they have no obligation to give you extra food but on a full service airline they are usually happy to. (Since you mention a first meal I assume you are on a full service airline. If you had to pay for your first meal, you'll have to pay for the second as well.)
A good strategy is to **ask when they have just finished distributing meals and you have already finished yours** or if you already know to be hungry, you could tell them **when you get the meal that you would be interested in a second serving.**
Be nice, don't interrupt and you have good chances. | Airlines: Emirates
Route: Dubai to India (CCU)
Well, I got encouraged by the answers here and asked.
The answer was a "No".
In the airlines defense, I asked for a Hindu meal, which maybe was limited in number.
But, guess what my co-passenger told me.
If you had asked it in your flight from Dubai to some western country they would be more than willing to serve you.
But here you are going back to the third world. You are lucky the "No" was not a rude one.
Ouch... :( |
71,265 | I am just curious if last minute hotel deals is actually a thing. I am not a big traveler and have no clue.
But in theory if a hotel has a bunch of empty rooms for the current day, it would make sense to rent them at a reduced rate as opposed to letting them be empty.
Is this actually a thing that could be leveraged?
I am going on a road trip, and the last leg of the trip could take many variations on a moments notice and was wondering if this is something I could take advantage of. | 2016/06/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/71265",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/41666/"
] | **Yes you can ask.** And **I have successfully asked for extra food in the past** (i.e. over the last five years and as recent as a month ago). One time when asking for a second sandwich I was even proactively offered a third one later on. I also typically ask for two beverages and never had that refused.
Of course they have no obligation to give you extra food but on a full service airline they are usually happy to. (Since you mention a first meal I assume you are on a full service airline. If you had to pay for your first meal, you'll have to pay for the second as well.)
A good strategy is to **ask when they have just finished distributing meals and you have already finished yours** or if you already know to be hungry, you could tell them **when you get the meal that you would be interested in a second serving.**
Be nice, don't interrupt and you have good chances. | After seeing the comments here, I tried it myself.
---
Can you get it? - Yes you can, still today.
-------------------------------------------
I asked in China Eastern and Korean Air, both in economy and large cabin, in 2016.
You can ask an attendant once you finish eating, and he/she kindly starts to check if they can serve it for you.
However, whether it is only a main dish or whole dish depends on the airline (and attendant oneself and also random chance). In China Eastern I only got a main dish, but I didn't like to bother to complaining about it (and it was enough), so didn't make any further actions.
When you ask, the tips by other answers would likely work to your favor; be polite, wait for the end of the distribution of meal, and don't disturb. However, I want to add one more tips; you shouldn't ask it shortly before the start of collections of finished meal. In this case, attendants have to care about *only you* once after they finish collecting all the other passangers' meal. So make sure your second meal is going to be collected with others'.
However, some airlines don't allow it for whatever reasons. I asked at Asiana Airlines a few times (different flight, route, and crew) but I got declined in all of them. In fact when I asked one attendant she immediately got to ask a more elderly attendant (maybe a chief) and the answer was NO. So in these airlines, you could never get an extra meal, unfortunately... |
71,265 | I am just curious if last minute hotel deals is actually a thing. I am not a big traveler and have no clue.
But in theory if a hotel has a bunch of empty rooms for the current day, it would make sense to rent them at a reduced rate as opposed to letting them be empty.
Is this actually a thing that could be leveraged?
I am going on a road trip, and the last leg of the trip could take many variations on a moments notice and was wondering if this is something I could take advantage of. | 2016/06/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/71265",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/41666/"
] | Nothing wrong with asking - treating cabin crew as humans (be nice, be polite, don't stress them if you see they are busy, wait for your turn) will get you a long way. You'd be amazed what is possible. One nice passenger offsets many rude ones - be the nice one! | After seeing the comments here, I tried it myself.
---
Can you get it? - Yes you can, still today.
-------------------------------------------
I asked in China Eastern and Korean Air, both in economy and large cabin, in 2016.
You can ask an attendant once you finish eating, and he/she kindly starts to check if they can serve it for you.
However, whether it is only a main dish or whole dish depends on the airline (and attendant oneself and also random chance). In China Eastern I only got a main dish, but I didn't like to bother to complaining about it (and it was enough), so didn't make any further actions.
When you ask, the tips by other answers would likely work to your favor; be polite, wait for the end of the distribution of meal, and don't disturb. However, I want to add one more tips; you shouldn't ask it shortly before the start of collections of finished meal. In this case, attendants have to care about *only you* once after they finish collecting all the other passangers' meal. So make sure your second meal is going to be collected with others'.
However, some airlines don't allow it for whatever reasons. I asked at Asiana Airlines a few times (different flight, route, and crew) but I got declined in all of them. In fact when I asked one attendant she immediately got to ask a more elderly attendant (maybe a chief) and the answer was NO. So in these airlines, you could never get an extra meal, unfortunately... |
71,265 | I am just curious if last minute hotel deals is actually a thing. I am not a big traveler and have no clue.
But in theory if a hotel has a bunch of empty rooms for the current day, it would make sense to rent them at a reduced rate as opposed to letting them be empty.
Is this actually a thing that could be leveraged?
I am going on a road trip, and the last leg of the trip could take many variations on a moments notice and was wondering if this is something I could take advantage of. | 2016/06/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/71265",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/41666/"
] | A cabin crew member here...
In general, flight attendants will be happy to give you the extra meal after the service is done, because they know it will be [thrown after landing](https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/19850/do-airlines-recycle-uneaten-unopened-pre-packaged-food/19852#19852) anyway. Out of experience, there are always some extra meals, at least one or two. Sometimes passengers simply do not take a meal, some other times there's just an extra meal or two loaded for whatever reason. In some other flights, there's a shortage actually. They usually cover for this by using the crew meals, and this is rare anyway.
Is it ok?
---------
Yes, nothing wrong with it, flight attendants will not think badly of you. As long as you ask nicely, of course. One more thing, all the meals usually get heated at the same time. Once heated they are good to be eaten for a certain time, then they can't be served to passengers. So, if you feel you want an extra meal, ask for it. I have seen so much food being wasted while I was sure many people were hungry but were shy just like you.
When to ask
-----------
When they are serving you, give them a hint that you would love to have an extra meal if it's possible after they are done. Personally, when this happens I might give them right away if I know that there are extra meals. Otherwise, I will just wait until service is done and then come back with the extra meal, or apologize if I couldn't find any.
Note: I am talking about full-service airlines. For budget airlines where food is bought onboard, you can pay extra and get more food. That's a different story. | I recall once that a special-order meal got mixed up and there weren't enough of them (vegetarian), so the cabin crew scrounged around and came up with a couple meals' worth of snacks and the safe sides of extra meals for that person, instead... and with the offer of more, if they were still hungry after.
Obviously this was something of a special circumstance, but the point is that those snacks would still have been on the plane, if the original meal hadn't been mixed up. If someone asked politely, there's a pretty good chance those extra snacks, or the other portions of the extra meals, could still have gone to someone else if they were still hungry even on that flight.
The cabin crew usually do their best to accommodate requests like that if you ask politely. They may be willing to put in a little more effort, like borrowing snacks from a higher class, if they know there is a reason for the request - something like a person being hungrier because they couldn't eat before the plane for whatever reason, or needing a larger meal to balance their blood sugar or to replace part of the meal they cannot eat. It might matter how long the plane ride is (and thus, how long until they know you can find something else), or probably a whole host of reasons based on how someone looks or asks, and how urgent or casual the crew thinks the request is. |
71,265 | I am just curious if last minute hotel deals is actually a thing. I am not a big traveler and have no clue.
But in theory if a hotel has a bunch of empty rooms for the current day, it would make sense to rent them at a reduced rate as opposed to letting them be empty.
Is this actually a thing that could be leveraged?
I am going on a road trip, and the last leg of the trip could take many variations on a moments notice and was wondering if this is something I could take advantage of. | 2016/06/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/71265",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/41666/"
] | A cabin crew member here...
In general, flight attendants will be happy to give you the extra meal after the service is done, because they know it will be [thrown after landing](https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/19850/do-airlines-recycle-uneaten-unopened-pre-packaged-food/19852#19852) anyway. Out of experience, there are always some extra meals, at least one or two. Sometimes passengers simply do not take a meal, some other times there's just an extra meal or two loaded for whatever reason. In some other flights, there's a shortage actually. They usually cover for this by using the crew meals, and this is rare anyway.
Is it ok?
---------
Yes, nothing wrong with it, flight attendants will not think badly of you. As long as you ask nicely, of course. One more thing, all the meals usually get heated at the same time. Once heated they are good to be eaten for a certain time, then they can't be served to passengers. So, if you feel you want an extra meal, ask for it. I have seen so much food being wasted while I was sure many people were hungry but were shy just like you.
When to ask
-----------
When they are serving you, give them a hint that you would love to have an extra meal if it's possible after they are done. Personally, when this happens I might give them right away if I know that there are extra meals. Otherwise, I will just wait until service is done and then come back with the extra meal, or apologize if I couldn't find any.
Note: I am talking about full-service airlines. For budget airlines where food is bought onboard, you can pay extra and get more food. That's a different story. | There are "extra" meals so you can certainly ask.
If you are say, a first class passenger, the extra meal will be given to you almost as a matter of course if requested. You have "first dibs" on this (and other) privileges.
If you are "coach" class, your request will be granted more often than not. A problem might arise if first class, or other coach passengers asked ahead of you, and they're "out." This might be particularly true of a certain meal, as opposed to "meals" generally.
The alternative to giving away an extra meal is that it is thrown away. Most attendants would rather give the meal to someone than to discard it. You will not be charged.
Note: This answer does not apply to "food for purchase" situations. Then you do have to pay for each meal that you eat. |
71,265 | I am just curious if last minute hotel deals is actually a thing. I am not a big traveler and have no clue.
But in theory if a hotel has a bunch of empty rooms for the current day, it would make sense to rent them at a reduced rate as opposed to letting them be empty.
Is this actually a thing that could be leveraged?
I am going on a road trip, and the last leg of the trip could take many variations on a moments notice and was wondering if this is something I could take advantage of. | 2016/06/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/71265",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/41666/"
] | After seeing the comments here, I tried it myself.
---
Can you get it? - Yes you can, still today.
-------------------------------------------
I asked in China Eastern and Korean Air, both in economy and large cabin, in 2016.
You can ask an attendant once you finish eating, and he/she kindly starts to check if they can serve it for you.
However, whether it is only a main dish or whole dish depends on the airline (and attendant oneself and also random chance). In China Eastern I only got a main dish, but I didn't like to bother to complaining about it (and it was enough), so didn't make any further actions.
When you ask, the tips by other answers would likely work to your favor; be polite, wait for the end of the distribution of meal, and don't disturb. However, I want to add one more tips; you shouldn't ask it shortly before the start of collections of finished meal. In this case, attendants have to care about *only you* once after they finish collecting all the other passangers' meal. So make sure your second meal is going to be collected with others'.
However, some airlines don't allow it for whatever reasons. I asked at Asiana Airlines a few times (different flight, route, and crew) but I got declined in all of them. In fact when I asked one attendant she immediately got to ask a more elderly attendant (maybe a chief) and the answer was NO. So in these airlines, you could never get an extra meal, unfortunately... | I recall once that a special-order meal got mixed up and there weren't enough of them (vegetarian), so the cabin crew scrounged around and came up with a couple meals' worth of snacks and the safe sides of extra meals for that person, instead... and with the offer of more, if they were still hungry after.
Obviously this was something of a special circumstance, but the point is that those snacks would still have been on the plane, if the original meal hadn't been mixed up. If someone asked politely, there's a pretty good chance those extra snacks, or the other portions of the extra meals, could still have gone to someone else if they were still hungry even on that flight.
The cabin crew usually do their best to accommodate requests like that if you ask politely. They may be willing to put in a little more effort, like borrowing snacks from a higher class, if they know there is a reason for the request - something like a person being hungrier because they couldn't eat before the plane for whatever reason, or needing a larger meal to balance their blood sugar or to replace part of the meal they cannot eat. It might matter how long the plane ride is (and thus, how long until they know you can find something else), or probably a whole host of reasons based on how someone looks or asks, and how urgent or casual the crew thinks the request is. |
71,265 | I am just curious if last minute hotel deals is actually a thing. I am not a big traveler and have no clue.
But in theory if a hotel has a bunch of empty rooms for the current day, it would make sense to rent them at a reduced rate as opposed to letting them be empty.
Is this actually a thing that could be leveraged?
I am going on a road trip, and the last leg of the trip could take many variations on a moments notice and was wondering if this is something I could take advantage of. | 2016/06/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/71265",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/41666/"
] | There are "extra" meals so you can certainly ask.
If you are say, a first class passenger, the extra meal will be given to you almost as a matter of course if requested. You have "first dibs" on this (and other) privileges.
If you are "coach" class, your request will be granted more often than not. A problem might arise if first class, or other coach passengers asked ahead of you, and they're "out." This might be particularly true of a certain meal, as opposed to "meals" generally.
The alternative to giving away an extra meal is that it is thrown away. Most attendants would rather give the meal to someone than to discard it. You will not be charged.
Note: This answer does not apply to "food for purchase" situations. Then you do have to pay for each meal that you eat. | Airlines: Emirates
Route: Dubai to India (CCU)
Well, I got encouraged by the answers here and asked.
The answer was a "No".
In the airlines defense, I asked for a Hindu meal, which maybe was limited in number.
But, guess what my co-passenger told me.
If you had asked it in your flight from Dubai to some western country they would be more than willing to serve you.
But here you are going back to the third world. You are lucky the "No" was not a rude one.
Ouch... :( |
71,265 | I am just curious if last minute hotel deals is actually a thing. I am not a big traveler and have no clue.
But in theory if a hotel has a bunch of empty rooms for the current day, it would make sense to rent them at a reduced rate as opposed to letting them be empty.
Is this actually a thing that could be leveraged?
I am going on a road trip, and the last leg of the trip could take many variations on a moments notice and was wondering if this is something I could take advantage of. | 2016/06/12 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/71265",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/41666/"
] | A cabin crew member here...
In general, flight attendants will be happy to give you the extra meal after the service is done, because they know it will be [thrown after landing](https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/19850/do-airlines-recycle-uneaten-unopened-pre-packaged-food/19852#19852) anyway. Out of experience, there are always some extra meals, at least one or two. Sometimes passengers simply do not take a meal, some other times there's just an extra meal or two loaded for whatever reason. In some other flights, there's a shortage actually. They usually cover for this by using the crew meals, and this is rare anyway.
Is it ok?
---------
Yes, nothing wrong with it, flight attendants will not think badly of you. As long as you ask nicely, of course. One more thing, all the meals usually get heated at the same time. Once heated they are good to be eaten for a certain time, then they can't be served to passengers. So, if you feel you want an extra meal, ask for it. I have seen so much food being wasted while I was sure many people were hungry but were shy just like you.
When to ask
-----------
When they are serving you, give them a hint that you would love to have an extra meal if it's possible after they are done. Personally, when this happens I might give them right away if I know that there are extra meals. Otherwise, I will just wait until service is done and then come back with the extra meal, or apologize if I couldn't find any.
Note: I am talking about full-service airlines. For budget airlines where food is bought onboard, you can pay extra and get more food. That's a different story. | Nothing wrong with asking - treating cabin crew as humans (be nice, be polite, don't stress them if you see they are busy, wait for your turn) will get you a long way. You'd be amazed what is possible. One nice passenger offsets many rude ones - be the nice one! |
23,372 | Could we get a list of excellent web development podcasts to subscribe to?
I will mark this as a community wiki and add to it as new suggestions come in.
Suggestions so far;
* [SitePoint](http://www.sitepoint.com/category/podcast/)
* [Boagworld](http://boagworld.com/podcast-archive/) | 2011/12/14 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/23372",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/1240/"
] | The [Sitepoint Podcast](http://www.sitepoint.com/category/podcast/) is very good. | 1. [Syntax.](https://syntax.fm/)
2. [Codepen Radio](https://blog.codepen.io/radio/)
3. [FullStack Radio](http://www.fullstackradio.com/)
4. [ShopTalk](https://shoptalkshow.com/)
5. [Javascript Jabber](https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/) |
2,512,718 | I wrote a PHP shell script which include queuing jobs in centOS with 'at' command.
The queue jobs may vary in time and contents which means the system need to keep quite a large number of jobs.
The application logic will also be a bit difficult to setup with cronjob.
Is there a limit in number of queue jobs in centOS or is there any alternative way of queuing jobs? | 2010/03/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2512718",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/298819/"
] | [Douglas Crockford's](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford) - [Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language](http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html) would be a good place to start.
I learned a lot of useful information in regards to code convention through his [video tutorials](http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111593/1710507), which I suggest viewing. I posted the link to the first video out of the four in the series.
Also, as suggested by [Ben](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2512713/where-do-i-find-a-good-explanation-of-javascript-ese/2512727#2512727), (*which is a book I would also highly recommend*) is Douglas Crockford's book [JavaScript: The Good Parts](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0596517742)
If you want to find good explanations on jQuery, check out the creator, lead developer and fellow [StackOverflower](https://stackoverflow.com/users/6524/john-resig) [John Resig's website/personal blog](http://ejohn.org/). | I would also recommend "Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja" by John Resig. It will be out in July this year and would definitely be an excellent resource.
Else, Douglas Crockford "JavaScript:The good parts" is excellent. |
2,512,718 | I wrote a PHP shell script which include queuing jobs in centOS with 'at' command.
The queue jobs may vary in time and contents which means the system need to keep quite a large number of jobs.
The application logic will also be a bit difficult to setup with cronjob.
Is there a limit in number of queue jobs in centOS or is there any alternative way of queuing jobs? | 2010/03/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2512718",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/298819/"
] | I really like this article:
[A re-introduction to JavaScript](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript) | First off, start using JSLint on all your code, for at least a week (<http://www.jslint.com>). I'm not going to say you should use it constantly, forever and ever, and it's perfect, because it's not. But, it will help you learn *a lot* about JavaScript, if you take the time to read what it says, and understand why. Even if you disagree, which you may, understand the reasoning behind each message. Then you can decide if it's a tool you'd like to continue using.
The other first step is to pick up a copy of *JavaScript: The Good Parts*. This is by far the best book on JavaScript. It's short, very easy to read, and really will help you learn better JavaScript. <http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748>
Other than that, there are a lot of good blogs to follow. You can find these via google, but I'd look at *Perfection Kills* and John Resig's blog, in particular. I think mine is pretty good too, you can find it via my profile if you're interested :) |
2,512,718 | I wrote a PHP shell script which include queuing jobs in centOS with 'at' command.
The queue jobs may vary in time and contents which means the system need to keep quite a large number of jobs.
The application logic will also be a bit difficult to setup with cronjob.
Is there a limit in number of queue jobs in centOS or is there any alternative way of queuing jobs? | 2010/03/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2512718",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/298819/"
] | [Douglas Crockford's](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford) - [Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language](http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html) would be a good place to start.
I learned a lot of useful information in regards to code convention through his [video tutorials](http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111593/1710507), which I suggest viewing. I posted the link to the first video out of the four in the series.
Also, as suggested by [Ben](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2512713/where-do-i-find-a-good-explanation-of-javascript-ese/2512727#2512727), (*which is a book I would also highly recommend*) is Douglas Crockford's book [JavaScript: The Good Parts](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0596517742)
If you want to find good explanations on jQuery, check out the creator, lead developer and fellow [StackOverflower](https://stackoverflow.com/users/6524/john-resig) [John Resig's website/personal blog](http://ejohn.org/). | The more you work with JavaScript/jQuery - especially working with other people's code - the more of the style you will pick up. I recommend reading though the documentation on the jQuery website and maybe picking up a book on Javascript. Then just keep working with it. Also, make sure you keep looking at other people's code - read through the source code of some of the jQuery plugins you are using, and seek out examples online for 'best practices'. |
2,512,718 | I wrote a PHP shell script which include queuing jobs in centOS with 'at' command.
The queue jobs may vary in time and contents which means the system need to keep quite a large number of jobs.
The application logic will also be a bit difficult to setup with cronjob.
Is there a limit in number of queue jobs in centOS or is there any alternative way of queuing jobs? | 2010/03/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2512718",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/298819/"
] | <http://eloquentjavascript.net/>
It may be a little wordy, but it gives you some excellent examples that will stick with ya. | First off, start using JSLint on all your code, for at least a week (<http://www.jslint.com>). I'm not going to say you should use it constantly, forever and ever, and it's perfect, because it's not. But, it will help you learn *a lot* about JavaScript, if you take the time to read what it says, and understand why. Even if you disagree, which you may, understand the reasoning behind each message. Then you can decide if it's a tool you'd like to continue using.
The other first step is to pick up a copy of *JavaScript: The Good Parts*. This is by far the best book on JavaScript. It's short, very easy to read, and really will help you learn better JavaScript. <http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748>
Other than that, there are a lot of good blogs to follow. You can find these via google, but I'd look at *Perfection Kills* and John Resig's blog, in particular. I think mine is pretty good too, you can find it via my profile if you're interested :) |
2,512,718 | I wrote a PHP shell script which include queuing jobs in centOS with 'at' command.
The queue jobs may vary in time and contents which means the system need to keep quite a large number of jobs.
The application logic will also be a bit difficult to setup with cronjob.
Is there a limit in number of queue jobs in centOS or is there any alternative way of queuing jobs? | 2010/03/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2512718",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/298819/"
] | <http://eloquentjavascript.net/>
It may be a little wordy, but it gives you some excellent examples that will stick with ya. | The more you work with JavaScript/jQuery - especially working with other people's code - the more of the style you will pick up. I recommend reading though the documentation on the jQuery website and maybe picking up a book on Javascript. Then just keep working with it. Also, make sure you keep looking at other people's code - read through the source code of some of the jQuery plugins you are using, and seek out examples online for 'best practices'. |
2,512,718 | I wrote a PHP shell script which include queuing jobs in centOS with 'at' command.
The queue jobs may vary in time and contents which means the system need to keep quite a large number of jobs.
The application logic will also be a bit difficult to setup with cronjob.
Is there a limit in number of queue jobs in centOS or is there any alternative way of queuing jobs? | 2010/03/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2512718",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/298819/"
] | [Douglas Crockford's](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford) - [Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language](http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html) would be a good place to start.
I learned a lot of useful information in regards to code convention through his [video tutorials](http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111593/1710507), which I suggest viewing. I posted the link to the first video out of the four in the series.
Also, as suggested by [Ben](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2512713/where-do-i-find-a-good-explanation-of-javascript-ese/2512727#2512727), (*which is a book I would also highly recommend*) is Douglas Crockford's book [JavaScript: The Good Parts](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0596517742)
If you want to find good explanations on jQuery, check out the creator, lead developer and fellow [StackOverflower](https://stackoverflow.com/users/6524/john-resig) [John Resig's website/personal blog](http://ejohn.org/). | I really like this article:
[A re-introduction to JavaScript](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript) |
2,512,718 | I wrote a PHP shell script which include queuing jobs in centOS with 'at' command.
The queue jobs may vary in time and contents which means the system need to keep quite a large number of jobs.
The application logic will also be a bit difficult to setup with cronjob.
Is there a limit in number of queue jobs in centOS or is there any alternative way of queuing jobs? | 2010/03/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2512718",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/298819/"
] | The book *Pro Javascript Design Patterns* is a great resource:
<http://jsdesignpatterns.com/> | I would also recommend "Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja" by John Resig. It will be out in July this year and would definitely be an excellent resource.
Else, Douglas Crockford "JavaScript:The good parts" is excellent. |
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