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4 | I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here built a project using the systems above?
Observation: I'd like to start with a simple line-following vehicle and build up... | 2012/10/23 | [
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] | If you want a line-following robot, then something similar to an [m3pi](http://mbed.org/cookbook/m3pi) would be achievable. Photo-transistors seem to be very effective with a black-on-white track.
As for a microcontroller, Mario Markarian is probably right, it is down to personal preference and the project you are wor... | If you want to go further than using microcontrollers you could run ROS on you [Raspberry Pi](http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROSberryPi/Setting%20up%20ROS%20on%20RaspberryPi).
I have build several robots and a couple of other projects using a [RoboCard](http://robocard.dk/) (site in Danish, but can [be translated](http://tra... |
4 | I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here built a project using the systems above?
Observation: I'd like to start with a simple line-following vehicle and build up... | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/4",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/32/"
] | The Arduino is really an AVR Atmega328p. The Arduino is a fine off-the-shelf implementation of this microcontroller, but if you make many of them, you can buy the chip for less than $3 each in bulk, and it requires very little circuitry to run on its own -- a crystal and a couple of capacitors to run at 20 Mhz, or not ... | You should use an ARM. Then you can run full linux or android and have access to powerful libraries, high-level functional languages, and a package manager and community. You can use gcc or LLVM, and a modern debugger like gdb.
ARMs used to be too expensive and/or too big, but nowadays you can get an ARM for $5 that's... |
4 | I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here built a project using the systems above?
Observation: I'd like to start with a simple line-following vehicle and build up... | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/4",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/32/"
] | The Arduino is really an AVR Atmega328p. The Arduino is a fine off-the-shelf implementation of this microcontroller, but if you make many of them, you can buy the chip for less than $3 each in bulk, and it requires very little circuitry to run on its own -- a crystal and a couple of capacitors to run at 20 Mhz, or not ... | I would suggest using lower end Atmel AVRs for beginning robotics projects. An AVR can take a lot of abuse and can sink and source more current without burning out than the PIC microcontrollers I have used.
If you are going to be building multiple projects, you should consider investing in building your own breakout ... |
4 | I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here built a project using the systems above?
Observation: I'd like to start with a simple line-following vehicle and build up... | 2012/10/23 | [
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] | It really depends on the project.
For a line follower robot ( in your case ), using the Atmel's AVR series is the best choice. Specially ATMEGA16 or even ATMEGA32.
Because the line-follower is a small project and the Arduino is too much for it. And the other advantage of Atmega16 is that it is cheap. If it is broken... | If you want to go further than using microcontrollers you could run ROS on you [Raspberry Pi](http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROSberryPi/Setting%20up%20ROS%20on%20RaspberryPi).
I have build several robots and a couple of other projects using a [RoboCard](http://robocard.dk/) (site in Danish, but can [be translated](http://tra... |
4 | I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here built a project using the systems above?
Observation: I'd like to start with a simple line-following vehicle and build up... | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/4",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/32/"
] | You should use an ARM. Then you can run full linux or android and have access to powerful libraries, high-level functional languages, and a package manager and community. You can use gcc or LLVM, and a modern debugger like gdb.
ARMs used to be too expensive and/or too big, but nowadays you can get an ARM for $5 that's... | If you want to go further than using microcontrollers you could run ROS on you [Raspberry Pi](http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROSberryPi/Setting%20up%20ROS%20on%20RaspberryPi).
I have build several robots and a couple of other projects using a [RoboCard](http://robocard.dk/) (site in Danish, but can [be translated](http://tra... |
4 | I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here built a project using the systems above?
Observation: I'd like to start with a simple line-following vehicle and build up... | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/4",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/32/"
] | The Arduino is really an AVR Atmega328p. The Arduino is a fine off-the-shelf implementation of this microcontroller, but if you make many of them, you can buy the chip for less than $3 each in bulk, and it requires very little circuitry to run on its own -- a crystal and a couple of capacitors to run at 20 Mhz, or not ... | It really depends on the project.
For a line follower robot ( in your case ), using the Atmel's AVR series is the best choice. Specially ATMEGA16 or even ATMEGA32.
Because the line-follower is a small project and the Arduino is too much for it. And the other advantage of Atmega16 is that it is cheap. If it is broken... |
4 | I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here built a project using the systems above?
Observation: I'd like to start with a simple line-following vehicle and build up... | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/4",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/32/"
] | The Arduino is really an AVR Atmega328p. The Arduino is a fine off-the-shelf implementation of this microcontroller, but if you make many of them, you can buy the chip for less than $3 each in bulk, and it requires very little circuitry to run on its own -- a crystal and a couple of capacitors to run at 20 Mhz, or not ... | If you want a line-following robot, then something similar to an [m3pi](http://mbed.org/cookbook/m3pi) would be achievable. Photo-transistors seem to be very effective with a black-on-white track.
As for a microcontroller, Mario Markarian is probably right, it is down to personal preference and the project you are wor... |
4 | I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here built a project using the systems above?
Observation: I'd like to start with a simple line-following vehicle and build up... | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/4",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/32/"
] | I would suggest using lower end Atmel AVRs for beginning robotics projects. An AVR can take a lot of abuse and can sink and source more current without burning out than the PIC microcontrollers I have used.
If you are going to be building multiple projects, you should consider investing in building your own breakout ... | If you want to go further than using microcontrollers you could run ROS on you [Raspberry Pi](http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROSberryPi/Setting%20up%20ROS%20on%20RaspberryPi).
I have build several robots and a couple of other projects using a [RoboCard](http://robocard.dk/) (site in Danish, but can [be translated](http://tra... |
4 | I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here built a project using the systems above?
Observation: I'd like to start with a simple line-following vehicle and build up... | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/4",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/32/"
] | I built a line following robot with an Arduino before. It was really simple to do and all we used were color sensors on the bottom inputted in the Arduino, and then of course some motors for the wheels.
But using an Arduino allowed us to have plenty of room for other components we wanted to add on to make our robot d... | If you want to go further than using microcontrollers you could run ROS on you [Raspberry Pi](http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROSberryPi/Setting%20up%20ROS%20on%20RaspberryPi).
I have build several robots and a couple of other projects using a [RoboCard](http://robocard.dk/) (site in Danish, but can [be translated](http://tra... |
41,463 | I have an arduino Uno and nodemcu development board.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vsM3q.jpg)
I have an OV7076 camera and used with arduino UNO. It worked flawlessly with it and the code used is provided in the [Instructables tutorial][2] named as FromC... | 2017/07/10 | [
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] | Camera doesn't send data via Analog to Arduino.
A5 and A4 are I2C bus beside Analog.
NodeMCU has Software I2C protocol bus too, You can use D1 (GPIO 5) as CLK, and D2 (GPIO 4) as SDA.
see : <https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/doc/libraries.rst#i2c-wire-library> | I am suggesting you to buy NodeMCU because it is having inbuilt WIFI, you can connect NodeMcu to internet without much effort compare to connecting UNO to internet, and the best thing is NodeMCU is arduino compatible you can do all possible stuff that can be done with UNO. We can also program NodeMCU in 'C' language us... |
23,822 | I'd like to stay in the EU for some time, maybe get a residence permit if possible. The question is what are my healthcare options. As far as I know, citizens of EU countries can get public healthcare coverage. Can I get this by paying for it? Are there any alternatives for people with a residence permit yet without ci... | 2022/01/31 | [
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] | That's not exactly the way it works, health insurance is typically based on residence or (mandatory) contributions. I have varying level of familiarity with the healthcare system in half-a-dozen EU countries and I do not know a single one that would offer free coverage to citizens *qua* citizens.
In some cases, living... | Yes - you can get on local health insurance in some countries in the EU. It is managed on a country-by-country basis. I know Switzerland, for one, would require foreign nationals who get residency to purchase a local health insurance plan (<https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/versicherungen/krankenversicherung.html>).... |
14,520 | When I am pedaling hard and shift to a larger sprocket, the shift is not smooth or sometimes doesn't happen at all. Sometimes even double up-shifts don't work. There is no problem shifting when I test for it without riding. What could be the issue? | 2013/02/18 | [
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] | On ground, after shifting, look at your bike from the back. The sprocket into which you have attempted to shift, and the pulley in the derailleur should be aligned. If the pulley is more to the right than sprocket, you need to get it aligned to the sprocket, by tightening in the screw on shifter or on the rear deraille... | That is perfectly normal because when you are pedaling hard the chain is under tension and resists being moved by the derailleur. Before shifting to a higher gear slow your pedaling slightly. |
14,520 | When I am pedaling hard and shift to a larger sprocket, the shift is not smooth or sometimes doesn't happen at all. Sometimes even double up-shifts don't work. There is no problem shifting when I test for it without riding. What could be the issue? | 2013/02/18 | [
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] | After a lot of tinkering and research I found the derailleur was in the need of [indexing adjustment](http://sheldonbrown.com/derailer-adjustment.html). Just twisted the barrel adjuster anticlockwise a little and the gears are shifting promptly now. The above link advises that indexing adjustment is the most frequently... | That is perfectly normal because when you are pedaling hard the chain is under tension and resists being moved by the derailleur. Before shifting to a higher gear slow your pedaling slightly. |
316,749 | >
> It is now clear that no such creatures as vampires have been seen and none \_\_\_ in the world.
>
>
> A. was found
>
>
> B. have been found
>
>
>
I chose B, but the answer is A. I don't see the necessity to use the past tense here. Besides, allowing for that "have been seen" is already mentioned, I think i... | 2022/06/06 | [
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] | "Creatures" is plural, so "was" cannot be used in the sentence. Therefore the answer is B. It means that no creatures such as vampires were found from the past all the way to the present. | There are two issues here: tense and number.
The preceding clause ("that no such creatures as vampires have been seen") is in the present perfect tense, and, as Kate Bunting notes in a comment, there does not seem to be any reason to use a different tense for the current clause. Therefore, answer choice B seems better... |
51,512 | For some months, I'm renting an apartment in the Canary Islands. It looks like the plugs are not grounded. For example, when I connect my laptop, a ThinkPad T420si, then I feel an unpleasant sensation on my bare legs when connected to mains ([220V/50Hz](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A4nder%C3%BCbersicht_Steckertype... | 2014/10/12 | [
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] | This is not about grounding, or perhaps it is...
Lets start with your connectors: Do you have AC-connectors at your devices with or without grounding pin? Laptop psu may have a protective earth connection, a phone charger won't have one. I've never seen a phone charger with protective earth connection.
Both PSUs are ... | Steps to go through:
1. Turn off the power to an outlet that is causing you problems. (Fusebox/main switch)
2. Check the exterior of the outlet for presence of a metal grounding element/grounding pin/whatever you have over there.
3. Open the outlet, check to see if there's proper wiring: all three pins connected.
4. C... |
20,710 | After around 15 minutes of playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2, my computer completely locks up with the game's image on screen and the last second of sound constantly looping. I have to hard restart the machine to get it to come back.
I'm not sure if this issue is isolated to BF:BC2 but it's the only game I've been pl... | 2011/04/23 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/20710",
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] | Your temps are mostly fine, maybe the CPU is a bit hot, if these are idle temperatures.
Seems like it's the RAM or the CPU.
GPU faults don't act up like that.
So, you setup an isolated stress test for each suspect.
**RAM:**
Download memtest86+ and install it on a medium and boot your system with it. I'd suggest ... | Here's the way that I would recommend you troubleshoot this:
1. Unplug all USB devices, with the exception of keyboard and mouse.
2. Update the video driver.
3. Update Windows via Windows update.
4. If all of the above fail, remove all the extra hardware that you aren't using from the computer (i.e. extra sound cards... |
20,710 | After around 15 minutes of playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2, my computer completely locks up with the game's image on screen and the last second of sound constantly looping. I have to hard restart the machine to get it to come back.
I'm not sure if this issue is isolated to BF:BC2 but it's the only game I've been pl... | 2011/04/23 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/20710",
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] | Your temps are mostly fine, maybe the CPU is a bit hot, if these are idle temperatures.
Seems like it's the RAM or the CPU.
GPU faults don't act up like that.
So, you setup an isolated stress test for each suspect.
**RAM:**
Download memtest86+ and install it on a medium and boot your system with it. I'd suggest ... | I had this issue and resolved it by disabling my motherboards onboard realetek sound and fitting a pci soundcard (Creative Labs).
Hope this helps |
78,579 | In one of my projects my requirement is to insert/add more than 15000 records/entries at one og in a custom list.
After searching some of the blogs i found some useful information about adding bulk entries in custom list.I tried to add by the batch files, i called processbatchdata method for bulk entries.
Referred li... | 2013/10/01 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/78579",
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] | If you are complaining about 2 minutes being slow for 5k items, presumably this isn't a one time import - you may consider looking at [Business Connectivity Services](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798319.aspx) to connect directly to your external data source. | Is this a frequent step or just a one time task?
If it's frequent, I recommend NOT doing this in SharePoint! Sorry, I don't have a good answer. I would revisit the requirements and look at farming this high amount of data into another SQL database and use BCS to connect and manage the data.
I strongly oppose high am... |
2,676,057 | Feel free to close and/or redirect if this has been asked, but here's my situation:
I've got an application that will require doing a bunch of small units of work (polling a web service until something is done, then parsing about 1MB worth of XML and putting it in a database). I want to have a simple async queueing me... | 2010/04/20 | [
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] | There's [celery](http://ask.github.com/celery/getting-started/introduction.html).
You could break it down into 2 different `Tasks`: one to poll the web service and queue the second task, which would be in charge of parsing the XML and persisting it. | This problem sounds like a pretty good candidate for Python's built-in (2.6+ anyway) multiprocessing module: <http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html>
A simple solution would be to create a process Pool and use your main program to poll for the XML chunks. Once it has them it can then pass them off to the ... |
9,874 | I can't remember when and where I had this discussion, but I remember being corrected when I was speaking by a stranger saying that it is never correct to say *give me half of this*; instead, the grammatically correct phrase would be *give me one half of this*. I've never been a pro at where numbers fit in with the Eng... | 2011/01/25 | [
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] | I had this situation recently. It was so embarrassing when the saleslady told her co-workers about what I said.
I asked her to give me one half kilo (1/2 kilo) of prawns and 3 pieces of fish. She ended up giving me one and one half kilo of prawns. When she asked for the payments and I asked the amount, i freaked out. ... | You don't need the 'one' in expressions like 'give me half a cookie'. Where you do need the 'one' is in when units of measurement are involved, like "please give me one half pound of sugar". You can use 'a' instead of 'one', but leaving out any determiner is wrong.
Correct:
>
> Give me one half pound of sugar.
>
... |
9,874 | I can't remember when and where I had this discussion, but I remember being corrected when I was speaking by a stranger saying that it is never correct to say *give me half of this*; instead, the grammatically correct phrase would be *give me one half of this*. I've never been a pro at where numbers fit in with the Eng... | 2011/01/25 | [
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] | It is perfectly acceptable to say "give me half of that". In English, "half" in understood on its own to mean "[one of two equal parts of something](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half "Half - Definition, Merriam-Webster Dictionary\"")".
To put it another way:
* It would make no sense to say "give me no ha... | You don't need the 'one' in expressions like 'give me half a cookie'. Where you do need the 'one' is in when units of measurement are involved, like "please give me one half pound of sugar". You can use 'a' instead of 'one', but leaving out any determiner is wrong.
Correct:
>
> Give me one half pound of sugar.
>
... |
9,874 | I can't remember when and where I had this discussion, but I remember being corrected when I was speaking by a stranger saying that it is never correct to say *give me half of this*; instead, the grammatically correct phrase would be *give me one half of this*. I've never been a pro at where numbers fit in with the Eng... | 2011/01/25 | [
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] | *Comment posted as answer - as requested*
In idiomatic usage, you would seldom say 'one half of this'. You might say 'give me one half-pound pack of sugar' but the hyphen shows that it is a different construct. You might say 'give me one third of that' (as opposed to 'two thirds of that'), but with halves, the alterna... | If you are discussing arithmetic, it is always correct to stipulate a numerator and a denominator. "Give me half an apple" is fine, but "what is half plus a third?" is incorrect and should be "what is one-half plus one-third?" |
9,874 | I can't remember when and where I had this discussion, but I remember being corrected when I was speaking by a stranger saying that it is never correct to say *give me half of this*; instead, the grammatically correct phrase would be *give me one half of this*. I've never been a pro at where numbers fit in with the Eng... | 2011/01/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9874",
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] | It is perfectly acceptable to say "give me half of that". In English, "half" in understood on its own to mean "[one of two equal parts of something](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half "Half - Definition, Merriam-Webster Dictionary\"")".
To put it another way:
* It would make no sense to say "give me no ha... | *Comment posted as answer - as requested*
In idiomatic usage, you would seldom say 'one half of this'. You might say 'give me one half-pound pack of sugar' but the hyphen shows that it is a different construct. You might say 'give me one third of that' (as opposed to 'two thirds of that'), but with halves, the alterna... |
9,874 | I can't remember when and where I had this discussion, but I remember being corrected when I was speaking by a stranger saying that it is never correct to say *give me half of this*; instead, the grammatically correct phrase would be *give me one half of this*. I've never been a pro at where numbers fit in with the Eng... | 2011/01/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9874",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/4064/"
] | *Comment posted as answer - as requested*
In idiomatic usage, you would seldom say 'one half of this'. You might say 'give me one half-pound pack of sugar' but the hyphen shows that it is a different construct. You might say 'give me one third of that' (as opposed to 'two thirds of that'), but with halves, the alterna... | You don't need the 'one' in expressions like 'give me half a cookie'. Where you do need the 'one' is in when units of measurement are involved, like "please give me one half pound of sugar". You can use 'a' instead of 'one', but leaving out any determiner is wrong.
Correct:
>
> Give me one half pound of sugar.
>
... |
9,874 | I can't remember when and where I had this discussion, but I remember being corrected when I was speaking by a stranger saying that it is never correct to say *give me half of this*; instead, the grammatically correct phrase would be *give me one half of this*. I've never been a pro at where numbers fit in with the Eng... | 2011/01/25 | [
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] | There is no need to say "one half" there. "Give me half of that" is sufficient. | You don't need the 'one' in expressions like 'give me half a cookie'. Where you do need the 'one' is in when units of measurement are involved, like "please give me one half pound of sugar". You can use 'a' instead of 'one', but leaving out any determiner is wrong.
Correct:
>
> Give me one half pound of sugar.
>
... |
9,874 | I can't remember when and where I had this discussion, but I remember being corrected when I was speaking by a stranger saying that it is never correct to say *give me half of this*; instead, the grammatically correct phrase would be *give me one half of this*. I've never been a pro at where numbers fit in with the Eng... | 2011/01/25 | [
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] | I had this situation recently. It was so embarrassing when the saleslady told her co-workers about what I said.
I asked her to give me one half kilo (1/2 kilo) of prawns and 3 pieces of fish. She ended up giving me one and one half kilo of prawns. When she asked for the payments and I asked the amount, i freaked out. ... | If you are discussing arithmetic, it is always correct to stipulate a numerator and a denominator. "Give me half an apple" is fine, but "what is half plus a third?" is incorrect and should be "what is one-half plus one-third?" |
9,874 | I can't remember when and where I had this discussion, but I remember being corrected when I was speaking by a stranger saying that it is never correct to say *give me half of this*; instead, the grammatically correct phrase would be *give me one half of this*. I've never been a pro at where numbers fit in with the Eng... | 2011/01/25 | [
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] | There is no need to say "one half" there. "Give me half of that" is sufficient. | If you are discussing arithmetic, it is always correct to stipulate a numerator and a denominator. "Give me half an apple" is fine, but "what is half plus a third?" is incorrect and should be "what is one-half plus one-third?" |
9,874 | I can't remember when and where I had this discussion, but I remember being corrected when I was speaking by a stranger saying that it is never correct to say *give me half of this*; instead, the grammatically correct phrase would be *give me one half of this*. I've never been a pro at where numbers fit in with the Eng... | 2011/01/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9874",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/4064/"
] | There is no need to say "one half" there. "Give me half of that" is sufficient. | I had this situation recently. It was so embarrassing when the saleslady told her co-workers about what I said.
I asked her to give me one half kilo (1/2 kilo) of prawns and 3 pieces of fish. She ended up giving me one and one half kilo of prawns. When she asked for the payments and I asked the amount, i freaked out. ... |
9,874 | I can't remember when and where I had this discussion, but I remember being corrected when I was speaking by a stranger saying that it is never correct to say *give me half of this*; instead, the grammatically correct phrase would be *give me one half of this*. I've never been a pro at where numbers fit in with the Eng... | 2011/01/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9874",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/4064/"
] | It is perfectly acceptable to say "give me half of that". In English, "half" in understood on its own to mean "[one of two equal parts of something](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half "Half - Definition, Merriam-Webster Dictionary\"")".
To put it another way:
* It would make no sense to say "give me no ha... | If you are discussing arithmetic, it is always correct to stipulate a numerator and a denominator. "Give me half an apple" is fine, but "what is half plus a third?" is incorrect and should be "what is one-half plus one-third?" |
1,337 | When asking an "ID My Bike" question what information about the bike should I include?
Would a good "ID My Bike" question need all of the following or are there a few key things that would offer the best chance of an ID? Maybe something like - if these three things are included the chance of ID is 50/50. If these two... | 2019/05/28 | [
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1337",
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/users/41662/"
] | In order to ID a bike a question **must have**:
At least one clear picture.
If there is no picture there is zero chance of providing an ID. The question will be closed.
The picture should be high resolution (any modern smart-phone will work)
In the picture the bike should be:
- well lit
- right side up (sitt... | First, accept that the chances of your bike manufacturer, brand or model being identified are low, effectively zero in many cases (repainted BMX frames, generic 80's drop bar ten-speeds, 90's inexpensive hybrids ...)
Having seen a great many id-my-bike questions on this site I think the goal is not so much getting the... |
1,337 | When asking an "ID My Bike" question what information about the bike should I include?
Would a good "ID My Bike" question need all of the following or are there a few key things that would offer the best chance of an ID? Maybe something like - if these three things are included the chance of ID is 50/50. If these two... | 2019/05/28 | [
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1337",
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/users/41662/"
] | First, accept that the chances of your bike manufacturer, brand or model being identified are low, effectively zero in many cases (repainted BMX frames, generic 80's drop bar ten-speeds, 90's inexpensive hybrids ...)
Having seen a great many id-my-bike questions on this site I think the goal is not so much getting the... | This answer emphasizes a few things in other answers for clarity. In general, we ask for clear photographs of the entire bike, and preferably some close ups of select parts as well. Be aware that these are usually necessary *but not sufficient* to ID a manufacturer, model, and year. Identifying a manufacturer is easier... |
1,337 | When asking an "ID My Bike" question what information about the bike should I include?
Would a good "ID My Bike" question need all of the following or are there a few key things that would offer the best chance of an ID? Maybe something like - if these three things are included the chance of ID is 50/50. If these two... | 2019/05/28 | [
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1337",
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/users/41662/"
] | In order to ID a bike a question **must have**:
At least one clear picture.
If there is no picture there is zero chance of providing an ID. The question will be closed.
The picture should be high resolution (any modern smart-phone will work)
In the picture the bike should be:
- well lit
- right side up (sitt... | **Photos**
a. the first photo should be a clear and well lit shot of the right-hand side of the bike. Ideally it should be sunlit or good incandescent or LED lighting. Avoid fluorescent tube lighting at all costs.
b. the bike should be clean-ish. Doesn't have to be concours level but we need to see the details and sm... |
1,337 | When asking an "ID My Bike" question what information about the bike should I include?
Would a good "ID My Bike" question need all of the following or are there a few key things that would offer the best chance of an ID? Maybe something like - if these three things are included the chance of ID is 50/50. If these two... | 2019/05/28 | [
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1337",
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/users/41662/"
] | **Photos**
a. the first photo should be a clear and well lit shot of the right-hand side of the bike. Ideally it should be sunlit or good incandescent or LED lighting. Avoid fluorescent tube lighting at all costs.
b. the bike should be clean-ish. Doesn't have to be concours level but we need to see the details and sm... | This answer emphasizes a few things in other answers for clarity. In general, we ask for clear photographs of the entire bike, and preferably some close ups of select parts as well. Be aware that these are usually necessary *but not sufficient* to ID a manufacturer, model, and year. Identifying a manufacturer is easier... |
1,337 | When asking an "ID My Bike" question what information about the bike should I include?
Would a good "ID My Bike" question need all of the following or are there a few key things that would offer the best chance of an ID? Maybe something like - if these three things are included the chance of ID is 50/50. If these two... | 2019/05/28 | [
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1337",
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/users/41662/"
] | In order to ID a bike a question **must have**:
At least one clear picture.
If there is no picture there is zero chance of providing an ID. The question will be closed.
The picture should be high resolution (any modern smart-phone will work)
In the picture the bike should be:
- well lit
- right side up (sitt... | This answer emphasizes a few things in other answers for clarity. In general, we ask for clear photographs of the entire bike, and preferably some close ups of select parts as well. Be aware that these are usually necessary *but not sufficient* to ID a manufacturer, model, and year. Identifying a manufacturer is easier... |
57,588 | I observed that dictators often appoint highly educated and qualified technocrats as advisors or spokespersons.
For example,
* Dr. Gowher Rizvi, advisor to Sheikh Hasina, Ph.D. from Oxford University.
* Ibrahim Kalin, spokesperson of Erdogan, Ph.D. from George Washington University.
* Bouthaina Shaaban, advisor to Ba... | 2020/09/28 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/57588",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/32479/"
] | >
> Do dictators find such people, Or, those people find dictators?
>
>
>
It's mutual.
Dictators need someone to "make the trains run on time" and operating a modern state is a complex enterprise beyond the capacity of the ambitious soldiers and politicians who usually end up as dictators to do without expert adv... | A simple factual analysis leads to the following conclusion: the autocratic power that dictators hold may not have been granted through a process reflecting the will of some concept of majority of the citizens in the country but, see, their decisions are not based on their whims or personal interests, but on solid tech... |
650,215 | I came across the term "Particle Phenomenology", which is "the application of theoretical physics to experimental data by making quantitative predictions based upon known theories" (quote from Wikipedia).
It appears to be a field between particle experiment and particle theory. My question is: who contributes to the f... | 2021/07/08 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/650215",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/210948/"
] | I copy here from a [prominent US university.](https://phy.princeton.edu/research/research-areas/particle-phenomenology)
>
> Particle physics phenomenolog*y is the field of theoretical physics* that focuses on the observable consequences of the fundamental particles of Nature and their interactions. The recent discove... | >
> It appears to be a field between particle experiment and particle theory.
>
>
>
Exactly. There is one big gray wash from engineering to experimental (particle) physics to phenomenology to theoretical physics to mathematics that defining clear boundaries between those is a moot exercise.
Typically when particl... |
10,521 | I just want to know whether both the usages are right or not. Also, do these usages depend on geography? | 2011/01/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10521",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/1749/"
] | It's a noun so it's necessary to specify the quantity. "One hundred" is the same as saying "a hundred," just like if you had six hundred it would be necessary to say "six hundred." The same rule applies to other nouns; you don't say "I have dollar" you say "I have one dollar" and you don't say "I have car" you say "I h... | 'Hundred' is a noun, not a quantity. Thus it needs a determiner like 'a' or 'one' to function as a quantity. 'Dozen' is functionally similar. |
10,521 | I just want to know whether both the usages are right or not. Also, do these usages depend on geography? | 2011/01/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10521",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/1749/"
] | 'Hundred' is a noun, not a quantity. Thus it needs a determiner like 'a' or 'one' to function as a quantity. 'Dozen' is functionally similar. | Hundred in English signifies a unit of 10x10, 100. If you want to think about it mathematically, one hundred is 1x100. Two hundred is 2x100, or 200. In English you must specify how many units of 10x10 you have if you wish to make sense. Oyu can't just tell me that you have the unit 10x10, you need to say how many.
Ex... |
10,521 | I just want to know whether both the usages are right or not. Also, do these usages depend on geography? | 2011/01/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10521",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/1749/"
] | It's a noun so it's necessary to specify the quantity. "One hundred" is the same as saying "a hundred," just like if you had six hundred it would be necessary to say "six hundred." The same rule applies to other nouns; you don't say "I have dollar" you say "I have one dollar" and you don't say "I have car" you say "I h... | Hundred in English signifies a unit of 10x10, 100. If you want to think about it mathematically, one hundred is 1x100. Two hundred is 2x100, or 200. In English you must specify how many units of 10x10 you have if you wish to make sense. Oyu can't just tell me that you have the unit 10x10, you need to say how many.
Ex... |
1,302,927 | ### Background
By default, Microsoft [BitLocker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker) does not allow the user to enable full disk encryption (FDE) of the system disk, unless the PC has a compatible [TPM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module).
However, if the "Allow BitLocker without a compatible ... | 2018/03/13 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1302927",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | You cannot make your own startup key or import startup keys, BUT:
>
> When encrypting a drive with BitLocker, so as to require a startup
> key, can the user specify her own custom startup key (e.g. if she has
> previously generated one with the wizard and wants to use it on
> additional PCs), or must she accept th... | To answer your question:
>
> When encrypting a drive with BitLocker, so as to require a startup key, can the user specify her own custom startup key (e.g. if she has previously generated one with the wizard and wants to use it on additional PCs), or must she accept the key generated by the BitLocker wizard?
>
>
>
... |
91,635 | I work in an office with 8 people.
We have no allocated seating. Which I am quite cool with. However, recently the tidiness has gotten quite out of hand. Papers, coffee stains, and some brochures scatter over the tables.
It's quite a rude shock when I almost put my laptop down on someone's old coffee stain in the mor... | 2017/05/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91635",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/70574/"
] | The answer would be either:
1. To hire a cleaner
2. Have allocated desks | You didn't mention any communication with the other 7 members of your work space, so I would suggest that as a first step.
This is very similar to sharing an apartment with roommates, or having a common area. Sometimes you just need to set out rules for everyone to follow to maintain cleanliness. You could even provi... |
91,635 | I work in an office with 8 people.
We have no allocated seating. Which I am quite cool with. However, recently the tidiness has gotten quite out of hand. Papers, coffee stains, and some brochures scatter over the tables.
It's quite a rude shock when I almost put my laptop down on someone's old coffee stain in the mor... | 2017/05/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91635",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/70574/"
] | The answer would be either:
1. To hire a cleaner
2. Have allocated desks | Those who refuse to return the space they are using for the day back to a neutral clean environment are likely doing so as a way to make the free seating arrangement painful.
If all the work environments were equal in resources, space, and comfort; and the work required in the morning and the evening to convert those... |
91,635 | I work in an office with 8 people.
We have no allocated seating. Which I am quite cool with. However, recently the tidiness has gotten quite out of hand. Papers, coffee stains, and some brochures scatter over the tables.
It's quite a rude shock when I almost put my laptop down on someone's old coffee stain in the mor... | 2017/05/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91635",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/70574/"
] | The answer would be either:
1. To hire a cleaner
2. Have allocated desks | It's the <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons> .
Make it the Owner's problem, everyone's problem, or keep it to yourself (see who cracks first).
Don't be Felix and live with Oscar. |
91,635 | I work in an office with 8 people.
We have no allocated seating. Which I am quite cool with. However, recently the tidiness has gotten quite out of hand. Papers, coffee stains, and some brochures scatter over the tables.
It's quite a rude shock when I almost put my laptop down on someone's old coffee stain in the mor... | 2017/05/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91635",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/70574/"
] | You didn't mention any communication with the other 7 members of your work space, so I would suggest that as a first step.
This is very similar to sharing an apartment with roommates, or having a common area. Sometimes you just need to set out rules for everyone to follow to maintain cleanliness. You could even provi... | Those who refuse to return the space they are using for the day back to a neutral clean environment are likely doing so as a way to make the free seating arrangement painful.
If all the work environments were equal in resources, space, and comfort; and the work required in the morning and the evening to convert those... |
91,635 | I work in an office with 8 people.
We have no allocated seating. Which I am quite cool with. However, recently the tidiness has gotten quite out of hand. Papers, coffee stains, and some brochures scatter over the tables.
It's quite a rude shock when I almost put my laptop down on someone's old coffee stain in the mor... | 2017/05/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91635",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/70574/"
] | You didn't mention any communication with the other 7 members of your work space, so I would suggest that as a first step.
This is very similar to sharing an apartment with roommates, or having a common area. Sometimes you just need to set out rules for everyone to follow to maintain cleanliness. You could even provi... | It's the <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons> .
Make it the Owner's problem, everyone's problem, or keep it to yourself (see who cracks first).
Don't be Felix and live with Oscar. |
1,782,545 | How / where do I store settings in a windows mobile 6 application (targeting compact framework 3.5)?
Is there some mechanism like the properties.settings for desktop? | 2009/11/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1782545",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7021/"
] | Unfortunately, the System.Configuration is missing from .NET Compact Framework.
You can use the [Smart Device Framework](http://www.opennetcf.com/Products/SmartDeviceFramework/tabid/65/Default.aspx) or you can just create a class that stores your settings and the save it and load it using a [XmlSerializer](http://msdn... | It would be best to use the config settings class to do the job for you. Alternatively, for more flexibility, use an INI class handler (there are a good few out there, look for Windows mobile platform portability). [Nini](http://nini.sourceforge.net/) would be your best bet! Hope this helps, Best regards,
Tom. |
1,782,545 | How / where do I store settings in a windows mobile 6 application (targeting compact framework 3.5)?
Is there some mechanism like the properties.settings for desktop? | 2009/11/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1782545",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7021/"
] | Or just store the stuff in the registry, which is what I ended up doing. | It would be best to use the config settings class to do the job for you. Alternatively, for more flexibility, use an INI class handler (there are a good few out there, look for Windows mobile platform portability). [Nini](http://nini.sourceforge.net/) would be your best bet! Hope this helps, Best regards,
Tom. |
115,147 | Every time I go to break a block in Minecraft it opens the in-game menu.
I don't know how to stop this from happening, any ideas? | 2013/04/25 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/115147",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/47528/"
] | Try looking at your controls, I think that you have it so that if you left-click it opens the menu instead of Esc. | It's a Java bug. Try downloading and installing a different (newer, older, whatever) Java VM. As a workaround, hit more slowly, one click at a time. The bug seems to trigger when you hold the mouse button down for repeated clicks. |
49,802 | I am in a home loan with my ex-partner in joint tenancy. She is the primary on the loan paperwork. I would like to remove myself from the loan. Is that possible? She does not want to refinance in her name only but rather just remove me from the original which I am fine with. | 2015/07/12 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/49802",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/30310/"
] | This will be up to the bank. Ask them, but if they are unwilling then refinancing or selling the house are the only other options. Even changing the title does not release you from the loan obligation. | Both people are responsible for the loan, it doesn't matter who is prime. The lender can ding both parties credit reports for failure to pay. It can force payment from either party.
They are unlikely to want to let one party out of the deal unless they have done an updated review of the solo persons finances and credi... |
151,126 | I need to put a quote in my research paper. My friends give me different answers so I'm confused now...
Would it be
>
> According to "Title", "blah blah blah."
>
>
>
or
>
> According to "Title," "blah blah blah."
>
>
> | 2014/02/11 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/151126",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/65365/"
] | Depends on the context. Imagine the sentence doesn't have quotes:
>
> According to Fred, astrophysics is a rapidly growing field.
>
>
>
You can substitute "Fred" for anything, including some title. Note that the comma would be where it is, regardless of what you substitute for the word Fred. The comma is not part... | In American English, according to most style manuals, punctuation marks are placed inside of the quotes. For more information see [here](https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp) and [here](http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around-quotation-marks.html). |
63,946 | Hi I just wanted some feedback on a DDOS preventing php script that I'm designing. It quite simple and I wanted some feedback on whether you guys think it would be effective.
I'm currently using the [ulogin framework](http://ulogin.sourceforge.net/) as a base and have implemented API Key's. At the moment the user will... | 2014/07/25 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/63946",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Your code is good for monitoring users activity on the server but to be honest, It can't help preventing DDOS attacks since the aim of DDOS attacks is to send tons of requests to the server to make it too busy to respond to its intended users.
your code seems to be doing lots of checking to determine if the number o... | the hosting company won't do a lot for you in terms of DDoS. As soon as it gets to large (which with most hosting is small) and/or floods the ISP they will blackhole you. Try something like Prolexic or Akamai (the later doing API with their new release). good luck. |
128,855 | I try to help some people with basic English, and I'm not able to explain why "Everyone" takes a "s" with the simple present verb, and why "People" takes no "s".
I explained "Everyone" as a group, and group means a plural, but have a singular form. Example: a football team.
But with "people", my explanation get confu... | 2017/05/09 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/128855",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/46339/"
] | "Everyone" is equivalent to "Every person". Although we are talking about multiple people, we are grammatically using a singular.
* Everyone (singular) **works** overtime today.
* Every person (singular) **works** overtime today.
"People", on the other hand, is the plural for "person". "Persons" *can be* correct in c... | Almost all English plural nouns end in *s* or *es* but there are about 20 or so nouns with irregular plurals (that aren't stolen from Latin) - and *people* is one of them. So it's treated the same way as a noun with *s* or *es* on the end.
*Everyone* is really the two words "every one" run together. So it's really *on... |
620,827 | I'm a bit hung up on the idea of forces at either end of a spring being equal, surely by extending the spring you are moving its centre of mass and hence applying a resultant force on it. I get it when the spring is not extending or has already extended, but while it is extending surely the force pulling the molecules ... | 2021/03/13 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/620827",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/291944/"
] | >
> I'm a bit hung up on the idea of forces at either end of a spring
> being equal, surely by extending the spring you are moving its centre
> of mass and hence applying a resultant force on it.
>
>
>
Yes.
If the spring is *being extended* then almost by definition its Centre of Mass (in the case of a **massive ... | The forces are equal at the ends because if they were not one end or the other would move.
If you replace the spring with an elastic string , it is easier to see that the tension in the string is the same all over. And also in the spring (which is a hard kind of curly string) the tension (force) is equal along the leng... |
62,067 | **Question**: when did someone first call the astronomical objects that orbit planets "moons"? More precisely, I'm probably looking for the first use of *lunae* in this context. I assume that "moons" would have been a translation of the Latin word which astronomers tended to prefer.
**Presumed, but Incorrect Answer**:... | 2020/12/02 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/62067",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/44571/"
] | [Chistiaan Huygens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens#Saturn%27s_rings_and_Titan) in 1656 is the first documented evidence.
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The invention of the telescope limits this to after 1610. Since Galileo was the first to observe such objects, it was Kepler who in 1611 called them satellites in his *Narrati... | A publication from 1665, [Philosophical Transactions](https://books.google.com/books?id=4u2DURXGT-IC&pg=PA72&dq=moons%20satellites%20%20jupiter&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwik7-WEsK7tAhXNop4KHd16DnIQuwUwAXoECAIQBg#v=onepage&q=moons%20satellites%20%20jupiter&f=true), in an article which tosses about nam... |
19,502,359 | I'd like to see the number of visitors on a specific page (for which I have URL).
I don't find in Analytics where to enter a URL in order to look for statistics for this specific page. | 2013/10/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/19502359",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1422096/"
] | Go to Behavior > Site Content > All Pages and put your URI into the search box. | As Blexy already [answered](https://stackoverflow.com/a/19502866/1476885), go to "Behavior > Site Content > All Pages".
Just pay attention that "Behavior" appears two times in the left sidebar and we need to click on the second option:
[](https://i.stack.imgur... |
19,502,359 | I'd like to see the number of visitors on a specific page (for which I have URL).
I don't find in Analytics where to enter a URL in order to look for statistics for this specific page. | 2013/10/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/19502359",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1422096/"
] | Go to Behavior > Site Content > All Pages and put your URI into the search box. | If you want to know the number of ***visitors*** (as is titled in the question) and not the number of ***pageviews***, then you'll need to create a custom report.
Terminology
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Google Analytics has changed the terminology they use within the reports. Now, visits is named "[sessions](https://support.goo... |
4,615,401 | Consider the following statement:
>
> The king of France is bald.
>
>
>
We know that France does not currently have a king, so what is the truth value of this statement? If it is true, then its negation must be false, so the king of France is **not** bald is false, But when France does not have a king, does it ma... | 2023/01/10 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4615401",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/1010242/"
] | Insofar as this is not just a question about linguistics, the way this sort of issue is handled in mathematics is that to even use the word "the" to refer to a mathematical object is to make an implicit claim that that object both exists and is unique, e.g. when we speak of "*the* cyclic group of order $n$" and so fort... | (Updated screenshot from proof checker)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vUyI7.png)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6FKEd.png) |
69,477 | I create PDF files from my Adobe Illustrator files by saving as. I would prefer it to create the pdf file and retain the AI file but sometimes it converts the ai file to a pdf. Not all the time, only sometimes. Why is this? Is there a way to create PDF files without having it convert your current artboard to a PDF file... | 2016/04/05 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/69477",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/64031/"
] | When you Save As, it may "replace" your file in Illustrator but your original file will still exist (and you can open it back up). So if your file is AI and you save as PDF the AI file will still exist.
You can always use "Save A Copy..." instead if you prefer to keep the original open while saving the other format.
... | You may need to save/name it in different format one for viewing .pdf type & another for editing .ai type. Hope this helps. Thanks |
11,529 | I would like to change the image next to the search box to a styled input button.
Do I need to create a new delegate control to do this? Can I do this with css, if so how?
This is the standard search UI
This is the desired css button look
![e... | 2011/04/20 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/11529",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/3083/"
] | The image is rendered using an tag which you cannot modify using just CSS. You could either
* A - Use some jQuery to modify the HTML for the searchbox. You can target the srch-gosearchimg CSS class to modify the image tag and point it to another source image.
* B - Use a delegate control to replace the entire searchbo... | I don't think this quite answered the original question. The author asked how to change the OOB image and script click event, with a styled INPUT TYPE=BUTTON.
The options/suggestions given relied on simply changing the image and not the actual markup rendered by the SearchBoxEx control (which is the underlying SP serv... |
11,529 | I would like to change the image next to the search box to a styled input button.
Do I need to create a new delegate control to do this? Can I do this with css, if so how?
This is the standard search UI
This is the desired css button look
![e... | 2011/04/20 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/11529",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/3083/"
] | The image is rendered using an tag which you cannot modify using just CSS. You could either
* A - Use some jQuery to modify the HTML for the searchbox. You can target the srch-gosearchimg CSS class to modify the image tag and point it to another source image.
* B - Use a delegate control to replace the entire searchbo... | Just throwing this into the discussion...
Erik Swenson did 2 great blog posts regarding how to change the way the OOTB search box looks like:
<http://erikswenson.blogspot.com/2011/02/sharepoint-2010-large-search-box-scopes.html>
and
<http://erikswenson.blogspot.com/2011/02/sharepoint-2010-large-search-box.html>
Seems t... |
378,109 | How do I check for remaining days of Remote Desktop Services grace period if the server is also a Domain Controller (so I cannot logon as local admin)? | 2012/04/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/378109",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/41450/"
] | I've discovered this is an error due to PLESK (and the user), and because there isn't much documentation on it, I think this post is worth keeping.
Because I had the vhost domain of the email address I was sending to established in PLESK, it tried to revert to a local Postfix search when it recognized the tail end of ... | I had this issue too. Any email being sent to my company domain was being sent locally. This is (I believe) because in Plesk (yes it's a Plesk issue).
So basically it's going oh soandso@company.com is the registered user lets send any @company.com emails locally or something like that.
Anyway, I have had to fix thi... |
22,640 | Does anyone make a single fiber cwdm 10g sfp or xfp that will do 10g over a single fiber using a single 1510nm wavelength? | 2015/09/18 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/22640",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/19145/"
] | Single fiber **and** single wavelength are **fundamentally incompatible.** You either need two fibers (send at each end connected to receive at the other end) and one wavelength is fine, or you need two different wavelengths so that data can travel both ways over the same fiber without conflict.
10Gb does not include... | As Ecnerwal states, you can't transmit signal with the same wavelength in both directions.
I'm pretty sure you know how one-eyed SFPs work, but here (<http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/interfaces-modules/transceiver-modules/data_sheet_c78-455693.pdf>) you can find a diagram explaining it on page 3.
If... |
22,640 | Does anyone make a single fiber cwdm 10g sfp or xfp that will do 10g over a single fiber using a single 1510nm wavelength? | 2015/09/18 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/22640",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/19145/"
] | Single fiber **and** single wavelength are **fundamentally incompatible.** You either need two fibers (send at each end connected to receive at the other end) and one wavelength is fine, or you need two different wavelengths so that data can travel both ways over the same fiber without conflict.
10Gb does not include... | Single Fiber, Single Wavelength,CWDM Transceivers have been commercially available for years, some with built-in Micro-OTDR Fast Fiber Fault Finder technology, but so far only for 1 Gbps to 3 Gbps applications. |
22,640 | Does anyone make a single fiber cwdm 10g sfp or xfp that will do 10g over a single fiber using a single 1510nm wavelength? | 2015/09/18 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/22640",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/19145/"
] | Single fiber **and** single wavelength are **fundamentally incompatible.** You either need two fibers (send at each end connected to receive at the other end) and one wavelength is fine, or you need two different wavelengths so that data can travel both ways over the same fiber without conflict.
10Gb does not include... | They're called BiDi optical transceivers. [I see some](http://connect.physicsworld.com/sfp-plus-10gsrlrmlrerzrcwdmdwdmbidi-transceivers/2003609.article) 1270nm / 1330nm Bi-Directional 40km Single Mode but I don't see any 1510nm.
### [Cisco SFP-10G-BX40D-I and SFP-10G-BX40U-I (for 40Km Single-Fiber Bidirectional Applic... |
22,640 | Does anyone make a single fiber cwdm 10g sfp or xfp that will do 10g over a single fiber using a single 1510nm wavelength? | 2015/09/18 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/22640",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/19145/"
] | They're called BiDi optical transceivers. [I see some](http://connect.physicsworld.com/sfp-plus-10gsrlrmlrerzrcwdmdwdmbidi-transceivers/2003609.article) 1270nm / 1330nm Bi-Directional 40km Single Mode but I don't see any 1510nm.
### [Cisco SFP-10G-BX40D-I and SFP-10G-BX40U-I (for 40Km Single-Fiber Bidirectional Applic... | As Ecnerwal states, you can't transmit signal with the same wavelength in both directions.
I'm pretty sure you know how one-eyed SFPs work, but here (<http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/interfaces-modules/transceiver-modules/data_sheet_c78-455693.pdf>) you can find a diagram explaining it on page 3.
If... |
22,640 | Does anyone make a single fiber cwdm 10g sfp or xfp that will do 10g over a single fiber using a single 1510nm wavelength? | 2015/09/18 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/22640",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/19145/"
] | They're called BiDi optical transceivers. [I see some](http://connect.physicsworld.com/sfp-plus-10gsrlrmlrerzrcwdmdwdmbidi-transceivers/2003609.article) 1270nm / 1330nm Bi-Directional 40km Single Mode but I don't see any 1510nm.
### [Cisco SFP-10G-BX40D-I and SFP-10G-BX40U-I (for 40Km Single-Fiber Bidirectional Applic... | Single Fiber, Single Wavelength,CWDM Transceivers have been commercially available for years, some with built-in Micro-OTDR Fast Fiber Fault Finder technology, but so far only for 1 Gbps to 3 Gbps applications. |
141,704 | One may find this question a duplicate, but my search through CrossValidated did not give satisfactory result. So I am posting this question and explaining what I want.
I need a book such that if one studies it - one knows he has no "white spots" in basic stats. On modern probability, in my opinion, the book of Olav K... | 2015/03/14 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/141704",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/71150/"
] | Presumably the person who asked this question is long gone, but for future reference I will mention a book here. Note: I have not read this book.
*Theoretical Statistics: Topics for a Core Course*, by Robert W. Keener. Amazon: [link.](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B00DGER7WG)
I quote the last three li... | Peter Bickel and Kjell Doksum wrote *Mathematical Statistics* [*Volume 1*](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1498723802) and [*Volume 2.*](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1498722687) The two books form a comprehensive guide to modern (frequentist) statistical methods at a level of mathematical sophistic... |
171,843 | I have handed in my resignation to a Dutch company which I am currently working for, however, I misunderstood the contractual notice period. In the contract it says I must provide "one calendar month" of notice. I took this to mean that if I hand in my notice on the 20th of April, I would continue to work until the 20t... | 2021/04/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/171843",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/125595/"
] | You won't lose your vacation days. You must take your required minimal number of yearly vacation days within 6 months (so, before *July* 1), which, for a 40 hour/week contract is 20 vacation days. (For vacation days above legal, it depends on the company; for the company I work for, that's 5 years). But that's irreleva... | >
> Is the company allowed to deny my use of those holidays during the leaving period?
>
>
>
No. See for example: <https://www.legalexpatdesk.nl/holidays/>
However that doesn't mean they won't try anyway and the key question for you is "What to do if they deny it ".
1. Read through your employee handbook and you... |
10,178 | [I asked this question here](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/197833/find-recommended-system-requirements-for-all-owned-games) about trying to locate a summary of hardware requirements for all of my steam games. It eventually got closed as a recommendation question. I don't feel that I'm looking for any hardw... | 2015/01/01 | [
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10178",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/39471/"
] | IMO, No - It shouldn't have been closed. (It's not off-topic)
-------------------------------------------------------------
*I have no idea why it was voted to be closed for "recommendations", even though it's a question about finding information; basically what the developer recommends using.*
Your question was (in ... | It was completely on-topic. Your question was not a recommendation, it was:
>
> Can Steam do this thing? If so, how?
>
>
>
Questions about using Steam are completely on-topic here (it's gaming related).
Unfortunately, casually skimming the question and the title does give the impression that you're looking for a... |
266,839 | A few minutes ago, a [question about *"double compilation"*](https://stackoverflow.com/q/24965167/2344584) was posted. The OP read an article claiming that passing an already compiled executable through GCC for a second time results in a 2x speed boost and asked how that was possible.
Double compilation is clearly imp... | 2014/07/25 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/266839",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2344584/"
] | If such an article actually *exists*, then you should probably answer the question and point out why it's bunk (assuming it is).
If the article *doesn't* exist, then it's not a real question. Either close it as unclear and note that such an article should be linked to / cited so that folks can effectively answer the q... | Whether or not the article exists the hoax/mistake is circulating. Otherwise the person asking the question would not have heard it.
It's worth debunking such obviously false claims, whether backed by an article or not...as we don't know how far the false information may have spread.
(Obviously something as ludicrous... |
266,839 | A few minutes ago, a [question about *"double compilation"*](https://stackoverflow.com/q/24965167/2344584) was posted. The OP read an article claiming that passing an already compiled executable through GCC for a second time results in a 2x speed boost and asked how that was possible.
Double compilation is clearly imp... | 2014/07/25 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/266839",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2344584/"
] | If such an article actually *exists*, then you should probably answer the question and point out why it's bunk (assuming it is).
If the article *doesn't* exist, then it's not a real question. Either close it as unclear and note that such an article should be linked to / cited so that folks can effectively answer the q... | It's a similar case to [Which is faster: while(1) or while(2)?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24848359/which-is-faster-while1-or-while2)
Such questions should exist on SO, just to provide the reference to the future visitors that it's a hoax. A hoax must be demented publicly, because otherwise anyone googling fo... |
266,839 | A few minutes ago, a [question about *"double compilation"*](https://stackoverflow.com/q/24965167/2344584) was posted. The OP read an article claiming that passing an already compiled executable through GCC for a second time results in a 2x speed boost and asked how that was possible.
Double compilation is clearly imp... | 2014/07/25 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/266839",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2344584/"
] | Whether or not the article exists the hoax/mistake is circulating. Otherwise the person asking the question would not have heard it.
It's worth debunking such obviously false claims, whether backed by an article or not...as we don't know how far the false information may have spread.
(Obviously something as ludicrous... | It's a similar case to [Which is faster: while(1) or while(2)?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24848359/which-is-faster-while1-or-while2)
Such questions should exist on SO, just to provide the reference to the future visitors that it's a hoax. A hoax must be demented publicly, because otherwise anyone googling fo... |
49,341 | I'm wondering why some people release software as freeware, yet they don't release the source code. Why is that? I can think of some reasons, yet most of them don't make very much sense. Why would you want to keep the source closed but let the program be freely available (free of charge, not free as in freedom)? | 2011/02/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49341",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12750/"
] | One I don't see here yet - because the source code has value in itself, separate from the application as a whole.
If you have useful libraries that you've written, you're likely to use them even in projects that you intend to give away. That doesn't mean you're willing to give that library source code away. And withou... | Despite the general bad idea that security-through-obscurity is, in the malware removal field, its a constant cat and mouse game between those of us who write analysis/removal tools, and those writing cleverer and cleverer malware. Sometimes we release a tool freely to users to use, but try to obfuscate the tool's oper... |
49,341 | I'm wondering why some people release software as freeware, yet they don't release the source code. Why is that? I can think of some reasons, yet most of them don't make very much sense. Why would you want to keep the source closed but let the program be freely available (free of charge, not free as in freedom)? | 2011/02/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49341",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12750/"
] | One of my favorite productivity tools is freeware. I asked the author about the source one time, and he said he couldn't release it because it contains a lot of proprietary code that belongs to his employer. So I suppose that his employer doesn't mind it being used in a free tool, but that it's also being used in their... | One I don't see here yet - because the source code has value in itself, separate from the application as a whole.
If you have useful libraries that you've written, you're likely to use them even in projects that you intend to give away. That doesn't mean you're willing to give that library source code away. And withou... |
49,341 | I'm wondering why some people release software as freeware, yet they don't release the source code. Why is that? I can think of some reasons, yet most of them don't make very much sense. Why would you want to keep the source closed but let the program be freely available (free of charge, not free as in freedom)? | 2011/02/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49341",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12750/"
] | One of my favorite productivity tools is freeware. I asked the author about the source one time, and he said he couldn't release it because it contains a lot of proprietary code that belongs to his employer. So I suppose that his employer doesn't mind it being used in a free tool, but that it's also being used in their... | I have several freeware apps for which I wont provide source code. The main reason is because they share large amounts of code with commercial applications. Consider something like a document viewer... that still needs the rendering system of its commercial cousin, a document creator. Another reason is some of the apps... |
49,341 | I'm wondering why some people release software as freeware, yet they don't release the source code. Why is that? I can think of some reasons, yet most of them don't make very much sense. Why would you want to keep the source closed but let the program be freely available (free of charge, not free as in freedom)? | 2011/02/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49341",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12750/"
] | There have been 2 great answers so far but here are my reasons that I can see:
1. It is more trouble than it is worth.
2. They use the freemium model
3. Don't feel they should
For #1, if the product is free and the person isn't seeing any profits from it, they may not feel like having to deal with hosting the source ... | Despite the general bad idea that security-through-obscurity is, in the malware removal field, its a constant cat and mouse game between those of us who write analysis/removal tools, and those writing cleverer and cleverer malware. Sometimes we release a tool freely to users to use, but try to obfuscate the tool's oper... |
49,341 | I'm wondering why some people release software as freeware, yet they don't release the source code. Why is that? I can think of some reasons, yet most of them don't make very much sense. Why would you want to keep the source closed but let the program be freely available (free of charge, not free as in freedom)? | 2011/02/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49341",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12750/"
] | Hmm, what comes to my mind is
* Because you want to retain some measure of control over the product
* Because you want to reserve the possibility / right to charge for the product in the future
* Because you're ashamed of your source code
* Because you want to make sure you are credited for the product, and it doesn't... | I provide open source code as sort of a community service idea, and as a portfolio idea.
If I was selling software directly - I don't, I'm employed in a position where the company sells the product, not me - I would *more* than happy to sell my software as closed source. Allowing competitors to look over my code and ... |
49,341 | I'm wondering why some people release software as freeware, yet they don't release the source code. Why is that? I can think of some reasons, yet most of them don't make very much sense. Why would you want to keep the source closed but let the program be freely available (free of charge, not free as in freedom)? | 2011/02/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49341",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12750/"
] | I have several freeware apps for which I wont provide source code. The main reason is because they share large amounts of code with commercial applications. Consider something like a document viewer... that still needs the rendering system of its commercial cousin, a document creator. Another reason is some of the apps... | Despite the general bad idea that security-through-obscurity is, in the malware removal field, its a constant cat and mouse game between those of us who write analysis/removal tools, and those writing cleverer and cleverer malware. Sometimes we release a tool freely to users to use, but try to obfuscate the tool's oper... |
49,341 | I'm wondering why some people release software as freeware, yet they don't release the source code. Why is that? I can think of some reasons, yet most of them don't make very much sense. Why would you want to keep the source closed but let the program be freely available (free of charge, not free as in freedom)? | 2011/02/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49341",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12750/"
] | One I don't see here yet - because the source code has value in itself, separate from the application as a whole.
If you have useful libraries that you've written, you're likely to use them even in projects that you intend to give away. That doesn't mean you're willing to give that library source code away. And withou... | I have several freeware apps for which I wont provide source code. The main reason is because they share large amounts of code with commercial applications. Consider something like a document viewer... that still needs the rendering system of its commercial cousin, a document creator. Another reason is some of the apps... |
49,341 | I'm wondering why some people release software as freeware, yet they don't release the source code. Why is that? I can think of some reasons, yet most of them don't make very much sense. Why would you want to keep the source closed but let the program be freely available (free of charge, not free as in freedom)? | 2011/02/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49341",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12750/"
] | One of my favorite productivity tools is freeware. I asked the author about the source one time, and he said he couldn't release it because it contains a lot of proprietary code that belongs to his employer. So I suppose that his employer doesn't mind it being used in a free tool, but that it's also being used in their... | There have been 2 great answers so far but here are my reasons that I can see:
1. It is more trouble than it is worth.
2. They use the freemium model
3. Don't feel they should
For #1, if the product is free and the person isn't seeing any profits from it, they may not feel like having to deal with hosting the source ... |
49,341 | I'm wondering why some people release software as freeware, yet they don't release the source code. Why is that? I can think of some reasons, yet most of them don't make very much sense. Why would you want to keep the source closed but let the program be freely available (free of charge, not free as in freedom)? | 2011/02/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49341",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12750/"
] | One I don't see here yet - because the source code has value in itself, separate from the application as a whole.
If you have useful libraries that you've written, you're likely to use them even in projects that you intend to give away. That doesn't mean you're willing to give that library source code away. And withou... | I provide open source code as sort of a community service idea, and as a portfolio idea.
If I was selling software directly - I don't, I'm employed in a position where the company sells the product, not me - I would *more* than happy to sell my software as closed source. Allowing competitors to look over my code and ... |
49,341 | I'm wondering why some people release software as freeware, yet they don't release the source code. Why is that? I can think of some reasons, yet most of them don't make very much sense. Why would you want to keep the source closed but let the program be freely available (free of charge, not free as in freedom)? | 2011/02/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49341",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12750/"
] | I provide open source code as sort of a community service idea, and as a portfolio idea.
If I was selling software directly - I don't, I'm employed in a position where the company sells the product, not me - I would *more* than happy to sell my software as closed source. Allowing competitors to look over my code and ... | Despite the general bad idea that security-through-obscurity is, in the malware removal field, its a constant cat and mouse game between those of us who write analysis/removal tools, and those writing cleverer and cleverer malware. Sometimes we release a tool freely to users to use, but try to obfuscate the tool's oper... |
17,354 | I am making a donation page in wordpress using civicrm (latest version for wordpress). For someone who comes to the page for the first time I would like to give them the option of signing up for a newsletter.
The issue is that at this stage they have not signed up yet so they are not in the database. I have a profile... | 2017/02/22 | [
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/17354",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/users/4344/"
] | I have a fully working donation page set up in civicrm where:
* there is a Financial Type "Donations" set up in
Administer/civicontribute/financial type.
* Financial Type is set up in the relevant Contribution Page as "Donations".
* A Profile is attached to the contribution page that collects
information in fields suc... | The answer peterb gives is correct. One other possible reason you're seeing this is because the URL you're using has "&cid=0" at the end, which is a special parameter meant to cause the behavior you're seeing. Try removing that parameter if it exists AND accessing the page while not logged in; that should fix you up. |
81,014 | For example:
[](https://i.imgur.com/YnInEl3.gif)
My explanation of what's happening in the gif: When a title has been hovered for a short amount of time, that title expands, pushing other content off the screen and grabbing the user's attention.
I've read that taking... | 2015/07/05 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81014",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68212/"
] | As always it depends. The reason it's not a best practice is because a hover state can be attained in multiple unintended ways, including scrolling as in the example you listed.
In the case of Netflix, they undoubtedly knew the consequences. That's likely why the hover state has such a short timer before activating, ... | Dark patterns FTW?
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The problem with moving things around on hover is that the targets jump. This isn't really a problem for the item being expanded. As Jamezrp pointed out, that may be intentional. Maybe Netflix is using a dark pattern to try to increase engagement. I say *dark* because it's not an ... |
81,014 | For example:
[](https://i.imgur.com/YnInEl3.gif)
My explanation of what's happening in the gif: When a title has been hovered for a short amount of time, that title expands, pushing other content off the screen and grabbing the user's attention.
I've read that taking... | 2015/07/05 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81014",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68212/"
] | Is hover the *only* way you can find out that information? Would someone on a tablet, or someone using keyboard without a mouse be able to find that full information without having to select that item fully?
If hover is just one way to display it - an enhancement, so to speak - then it is OK. But if you *have* to use... | Dark patterns FTW?
==================
The problem with moving things around on hover is that the targets jump. This isn't really a problem for the item being expanded. As Jamezrp pointed out, that may be intentional. Maybe Netflix is using a dark pattern to try to increase engagement. I say *dark* because it's not an ... |
10,986,968 | We are doing UI screens for WPF application on Laptop But we are planing to give demo on 22"inch Monitor. Here Dimensions are getting changed when we see UI screens on 22"inch Monitor. How can I make same UI screen apperance on both Laptop and 22" inch Monitor? please help me here.... | 2012/06/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10986968",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1420601/"
] | Are you using an absolute layout, where specific X/Y/Height/Width is being defined for every control? If you use other types of layouts, they are more relative to window height/width and automatically handle these issues. | Wrap your entire application in the [Viewbox](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.viewbox.aspx) control. As long as you don't have rasterized images, nothing will look stretched. |
328,103 | First of all, I don't know if this kind of question is allowed here, so sorry if it isn't.
I am looking for a 7400 series register which has common in and out pins (like for the RAM ou EEPROM: ) with a load signal and a store signal. I searched on Google but I didn't ... | 2017/09/07 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/328103",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/139408/"
] | After deeper research on the Wikipedia list of the 7400 series (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_7400_series_integrated_circuits>), I found out the 74299 which has common in/out pins.
I searched with the wrong keyword which should have been "bidirectionnal register". | There isn't a register that has common input and output pins, but you can certainly wire up a '373 or '374 (8-bit latch or register with tristate outputs) to achieve that functionality:
[simulate this circuit](/plugins/schematics?image=http%3a%2f%2fi.stack.imgur.com%2... |
5,195 | I have just purchased a new CF card for my DSLR. I tested it using Xbench (Mac OS X) and it performs as expected. However, I'd like to do a "surface scan" (moving platter term) to check for "bad sectors" (moving platter term). I could bash script a processes using dd, but I get the feeling that there is a better way ou... | 2010/11/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/5195",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/2363/"
] | As the controller can move the blocks wherever it wants (see wear leveling), the only chance for a whole read/write-test ist to fill the disk up and then compare. Several times with different patterns of course to be sure.
And still you won't catch faulty regions, as they are hidden too by the controller as long as he... | I found this on google, I'm not using sd cards for cameras' storage but instead I got my class 10 32 gigs sdhc sandisk completely corrupted after less then 2 years of use on my samsung galaxy S2.
I am using badblocks to see where the first badblocks start and then I will make partitions around that area if possible. t... |
5,195 | I have just purchased a new CF card for my DSLR. I tested it using Xbench (Mac OS X) and it performs as expected. However, I'd like to do a "surface scan" (moving platter term) to check for "bad sectors" (moving platter term). I could bash script a processes using dd, but I get the feeling that there is a better way ou... | 2010/11/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/5195",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/2363/"
] | As the controller can move the blocks wherever it wants (see wear leveling), the only chance for a whole read/write-test ist to fill the disk up and then compare. Several times with different patterns of course to be sure.
And still you won't catch faulty regions, as they are hidden too by the controller as long as he... | Reading your comment below the question, I believe [F3](https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3) does exactly what you want. It compiles on Linux/Mac OS X and is also available via Homebrew. |
5,195 | I have just purchased a new CF card for my DSLR. I tested it using Xbench (Mac OS X) and it performs as expected. However, I'd like to do a "surface scan" (moving platter term) to check for "bad sectors" (moving platter term). I could bash script a processes using dd, but I get the feeling that there is a better way ou... | 2010/11/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/5195",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/2363/"
] | Flash memory does not work the same way as disks with platters. The concept of a "bad sector" does not really exist with flash memory. These days, with flash memory and SSD's, the built-in controller takes care of identifying and marking off unusable blocks of memory, dynamically moving data around to mitigate block wr... | I found this on google, I'm not using sd cards for cameras' storage but instead I got my class 10 32 gigs sdhc sandisk completely corrupted after less then 2 years of use on my samsung galaxy S2.
I am using badblocks to see where the first badblocks start and then I will make partitions around that area if possible. t... |
5,195 | I have just purchased a new CF card for my DSLR. I tested it using Xbench (Mac OS X) and it performs as expected. However, I'd like to do a "surface scan" (moving platter term) to check for "bad sectors" (moving platter term). I could bash script a processes using dd, but I get the feeling that there is a better way ou... | 2010/11/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/5195",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/2363/"
] | Flash memory does not work the same way as disks with platters. The concept of a "bad sector" does not really exist with flash memory. These days, with flash memory and SSD's, the built-in controller takes care of identifying and marking off unusable blocks of memory, dynamically moving data around to mitigate block wr... | Reading your comment below the question, I believe [F3](https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3) does exactly what you want. It compiles on Linux/Mac OS X and is also available via Homebrew. |
5,195 | I have just purchased a new CF card for my DSLR. I tested it using Xbench (Mac OS X) and it performs as expected. However, I'd like to do a "surface scan" (moving platter term) to check for "bad sectors" (moving platter term). I could bash script a processes using dd, but I get the feeling that there is a better way ou... | 2010/11/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/5195",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/2363/"
] | Reading your comment below the question, I believe [F3](https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3) does exactly what you want. It compiles on Linux/Mac OS X and is also available via Homebrew. | I found this on google, I'm not using sd cards for cameras' storage but instead I got my class 10 32 gigs sdhc sandisk completely corrupted after less then 2 years of use on my samsung galaxy S2.
I am using badblocks to see where the first badblocks start and then I will make partitions around that area if possible. t... |
26,374,112 | I basically want to create a timer. I have a textview where I need to show a timer like "Updating your location in 2min 29 secs" and I want the timer to decreament For eg 2min 28secs followed by 2min 27 secs.
And I want to update it even when the user is not using my app (I dont want it to update in real sense what I... | 2014/10/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/26374112",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3064175/"
] | The most efficient way in my opinion is using [scheduleAtFixedRate](http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Timer.html#scheduleAtFixedRate%28java.util.TimerTask,%20long,%20long%29) when your activity is in foreground and when it is going to background you do not need any services you can just save the current ... | You could use a service and send intents that your activity receives (the one with the TextView) using **LocalBroadcastManager**. You should register a *BroadcastReceiver* inside *Activity.onResume()*, and unregister it inside *onPause()*.
Using a **TimerTask** should be the default approach but you must be aware that... |
88,886 | I have a portrait with a blurred background. I'd like to use this to create a mask or for alpha channel or to erase the background.
So after editing I want to have an image with perfect white or transparency where was the background and keep the face unchanged.
Is it possible?
What I tried yet:
* made the image cop... | 2017/04/23 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/88886",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/25684/"
] | A little confused about your question: are you attempting to keep the face and remove the existing background? Are you having difficulty making a decent selection?
If the above is correct, you'll want to make a selection of the face.There are a multitude of ways to do that in Photoshop. In this case,you'll want to ma... | As others pointed out, the best way would be to learn:
1. How to use masks
2. Make and enhance selections in Photoshop
This is **THE** major first step when learning how to edit an image, beyond the classic and global adjustments, such as contrast, luminosity, curves or B&W conversion.
Concerning your image, **Photo... |
10,850 | I am publishing everything in the broker database and able to fetch entire component value with the help of ComponentPresentation class and ComponentFactory class. I am using ComponentPresentation.getContent(true) method to fetch the entire content. But my requirement is to retrieve some specific field value from one o... | 2015/01/20 | [
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com/questions/10850",
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com",
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com/users/1390/"
] | In broker final content (xml or html as per your architecture) is published. individual field values (as key values) are not published, so
You can not directly fetch any component value. you have to parse your Xml/Html to get that field value.
one of the possible way could be to use metadata, to directly fetch the v... | Somewhere in your solution you need to transform your "naked" content into it's presentation form (usually HTML for web purposes; either directly or via ASP.Net/JSP). With Tridion this is traditionally the responsibility of your page and component templates.
Recently another approach has gained momentum which is DD4T... |
10,850 | I am publishing everything in the broker database and able to fetch entire component value with the help of ComponentPresentation class and ComponentFactory class. I am using ComponentPresentation.getContent(true) method to fetch the entire content. But my requirement is to retrieve some specific field value from one o... | 2015/01/20 | [
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com/questions/10850",
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com",
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com/users/1390/"
] | When you publish a ComponentPresentation, Tridion renders the data from the component using the component template. The structure of the component as stored in the content manager is not available to you in the broker, just the rendered output.
The solution depends rather on what you are trying to do. If you just nee... | Somewhere in your solution you need to transform your "naked" content into it's presentation form (usually HTML for web purposes; either directly or via ASP.Net/JSP). With Tridion this is traditionally the responsibility of your page and component templates.
Recently another approach has gained momentum which is DD4T... |
50,364 | I've wandered into some dungeon and encountered some necromancers or bandits. I killed some with sneak attack by bow and some turned hostile and they rush to me and I killed them directly. When I sleep, there are no Dark Brotherhood members approaching me. Why? | 2012/02/10 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/50364",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/7993/"
] | According to the [Elder Scrolls wiki](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:A_Knife_in_the_Dark),
>
> you must murder someone in cold blood. In other words, you must murder an innocent without provocation (note that Bandits and the like do not count as the required murder). Once the deed is done, regardless of who is the... | You have to murder someone who is not by default hostile to you, for example a random townsperson. You will get a message on your screen that you've been "witnessed by unseen forces" and after you go to sleep you will be contacted. |
50,364 | I've wandered into some dungeon and encountered some necromancers or bandits. I killed some with sneak attack by bow and some turned hostile and they rush to me and I killed them directly. When I sleep, there are no Dark Brotherhood members approaching me. Why? | 2012/02/10 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/50364",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/7993/"
] | You have to murder someone who is not by default hostile to you, for example a random townsperson. You will get a message on your screen that you've been "witnessed by unseen forces" and after you go to sleep you will be contacted. | The one you kill must be an innocent.
I wanted to do the Brotherhood quest early in the game because it bugs me to be a murderer. So, I killed that drug dealer (sells skooma and poisons at night) who stands outside the north wall of the Imperial City, but even though he had not gone aggro on me, his death did not count... |
50,364 | I've wandered into some dungeon and encountered some necromancers or bandits. I killed some with sneak attack by bow and some turned hostile and they rush to me and I killed them directly. When I sleep, there are no Dark Brotherhood members approaching me. Why? | 2012/02/10 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/50364",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/7993/"
] | According to the [Elder Scrolls wiki](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:A_Knife_in_the_Dark),
>
> you must murder someone in cold blood. In other words, you must murder an innocent without provocation (note that Bandits and the like do not count as the required murder). Once the deed is done, regardless of who is the... | The one you kill must be an innocent.
I wanted to do the Brotherhood quest early in the game because it bugs me to be a murderer. So, I killed that drug dealer (sells skooma and poisons at night) who stands outside the north wall of the Imperial City, but even though he had not gone aggro on me, his death did not count... |
5,988,673 | iam developing WPF product. I want to protect my .net source code from reverse enginering
Please advice me | 2011/05/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5988673",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/714681/"
] | You would use an obfuscator. There are a lot of them on the market, just google.
For example, Visual Studio used to ship with the [Dotfuscator Community Edition](http://www.preemptive.com/products/dotfuscator). I never used it, so I can't say anything about its quality.
This blog post shows the possible ways to t... | In the end it will always be possible to reverse engineer the code. Obfuscation can help but your code will never completely be protected.
The only way to fully protect the code is by not deploying it but instead keeping it on a server. |
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