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108,609 | I have a mysterious problem with my XP laptop. Since a) installing the latest windows updates and b) using Picasa 3.6 to look through dozens of GB of photos for faces, it now takes ages (first time: 45mins, second time: 10 mins) to get from login to a populated desktop. The whole time the hard drive light is on.
I am... | 2010/02/14 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/108609",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3856/"
] | * check your event log.
* use **[Bootvis](http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/BootVis.shtml)** to find the culprit(s).
* use **[Autoruns](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx)** to disable the programs causing the delay (and other unwanted/unnecessary programs). | The answer was actually to ininstall ThinkVantage Access Connections (the Thinkpad WiFi utility). No idea why it started playing up so badly.
The first answer is more useful in general though, so I won't tick this as the accepted answer. |
35,893,973 | The information about ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0 (aka MVC 6) is a little light from Microsoft, so there's a few questions still unanswered. One question I have is in regards to backwards compatibility and upgradability. It's known that WebForms is not part of ASP.NET Core 1.0.
What is unclear is whether ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0... | 2016/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/35893973",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7831/"
] | No it won't.
MVC 6/MVC Core 1.0 is aimed at, and only compatible with ASP.NET Core. | You are going to have to do a manual upgrade / conversion of your application.
you basically have three options,
1: convert everything in one shot.
2: convert as your go and have your site be actually two sites that work together until you finish the conversion
3: stick with what you have and do not upgrade.
many ... |
35,893,973 | The information about ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0 (aka MVC 6) is a little light from Microsoft, so there's a few questions still unanswered. One question I have is in regards to backwards compatibility and upgradability. It's known that WebForms is not part of ASP.NET Core 1.0.
What is unclear is whether ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0... | 2016/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/35893973",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7831/"
] | No it won't.
MVC 6/MVC Core 1.0 is aimed at, and only compatible with ASP.NET Core. | It wont support. That is one of the reason they decided to make it core 1.0 instead of asp.net 5 |
534,543 | I have **Cisco Catalyst 2960-s** switch and I want to configure *three Vlans* (A; B; C)
I want to :
* *Allow* traffic between A and B
* *Allow* traffic between A and C
* *Block* traffic between C and B
or if there is other method to permit/deny access between switch ports. | 2013/08/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/534543",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/187570/"
] | **- Power off a host.** - To test high-availability and admission control.
**- Power off a switch.** - To test failover links.
**- Disconnect data and storage network cables independently.** - To test resiliency, load balancing and datastore heartbeat/host isolation state. Also storage controller failover. | When we test failure scenarios we start by removing individual wires/fibres, then whole NICs/HBAs, then servers, then switches - i.e. small to large - simply because if the platform can't handle the small then testing on the large will be pointless.
That said I can't see any issues with your setup, not as you've expla... |
534,543 | I have **Cisco Catalyst 2960-s** switch and I want to configure *three Vlans* (A; B; C)
I want to :
* *Allow* traffic between A and B
* *Allow* traffic between A and C
* *Block* traffic between C and B
or if there is other method to permit/deny access between switch ports. | 2013/08/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/534543",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/187570/"
] | **- Power off a host.** - To test high-availability and admission control.
**- Power off a switch.** - To test failover links.
**- Disconnect data and storage network cables independently.** - To test resiliency, load balancing and datastore heartbeat/host isolation state. Also storage controller failover. | I more go on the big approach - unplug a server and on the next try storage and on the last one a switch - or in any other order - if the system survives that -> all good. But if you do have a lot of time (and someone to pay for it), you can try each small problem on it's own...
Tsg |
534,543 | I have **Cisco Catalyst 2960-s** switch and I want to configure *three Vlans* (A; B; C)
I want to :
* *Allow* traffic between A and B
* *Allow* traffic between A and C
* *Block* traffic between C and B
or if there is other method to permit/deny access between switch ports. | 2013/08/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/534543",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/187570/"
] | When we test failure scenarios we start by removing individual wires/fibres, then whole NICs/HBAs, then servers, then switches - i.e. small to large - simply because if the platform can't handle the small then testing on the large will be pointless.
That said I can't see any issues with your setup, not as you've expla... | I more go on the big approach - unplug a server and on the next try storage and on the last one a switch - or in any other order - if the system survives that -> all good. But if you do have a lot of time (and someone to pay for it), you can try each small problem on it's own...
Tsg |
15,353 | I grew up in a western country raised in a western atmosphere with a western mentality. I'm talking things like the pyramid of needs and how apparently self-gratification and personal success are the highest on the checklist. I grew up with an attitude that stressed individuality above everything else, self-accomplishm... | 2016/06/03 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/15353",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/7115/"
] | This is an old question, but just popped up at the beginning of my feed.
I am not sure about a handout, but the book on the subject by Alan Wallace is ***The Seven-Point Mind Training: A Tibetan Method For Cultivating Mind And Heart***
The kindle or paperback is available on Amazon. | [there are texts here on lojong](https://studybuddhism.com/en/tibetan-buddhism/mind-training)
Dr. Berzin is a guru of a tibetan Mahayana lineage and offers lojong training on his website under Tibetan Mind training. There are also audio files for the mind training lectures on his Soundcloud Study Buddhism. |
1,795,690 | when studying about xml vulnerabilities , i came accross coercive parsing attack.
can anybody say what exactly is Coercive parsing attack(in SOA applications). How does the attack take place? How can one implement this attack using xml parser in java? | 2009/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1795690",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/218431/"
] | Because web services need to consume messages and XML documents it is possible to create XML documents which may strain the consuming systems as they try to validate and route it. Send enough of those documents at once and the consuming system may use up all its resources trying to work out if the messages are good or ... | Generally applications use document type definitions(DTDs) for backward compatibility.
XML definitions allow the use of element "CDATA" which allows illegal characters '<','&'.
**All text in an xml document will be parsed by parser. But text inside te cdata section will be ignored by parsers which allows the att... |
1,795,690 | when studying about xml vulnerabilities , i came accross coercive parsing attack.
can anybody say what exactly is Coercive parsing attack(in SOA applications). How does the attack take place? How can one implement this attack using xml parser in java? | 2009/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1795690",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/218431/"
] | For an example implementation of this attack, see the "Billion Laughs Attack."
For a full discussion of the attack, how to test for it, and basic defenses, see the ["Web Security Testing Cookbook" recipe on Malicious XML.](http://books.google.com/books?id=VmrSJ3V-s_MC&lpg=PT116&dq=web%20security%20testing%20cookbook%2... | Because web services need to consume messages and XML documents it is possible to create XML documents which may strain the consuming systems as they try to validate and route it. Send enough of those documents at once and the consuming system may use up all its resources trying to work out if the messages are good or ... |
1,795,690 | when studying about xml vulnerabilities , i came accross coercive parsing attack.
can anybody say what exactly is Coercive parsing attack(in SOA applications). How does the attack take place? How can one implement this attack using xml parser in java? | 2009/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1795690",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/218431/"
] | For an example implementation of this attack, see the "Billion Laughs Attack."
For a full discussion of the attack, how to test for it, and basic defenses, see the ["Web Security Testing Cookbook" recipe on Malicious XML.](http://books.google.com/books?id=VmrSJ3V-s_MC&lpg=PT116&dq=web%20security%20testing%20cookbook%2... | Generally applications use document type definitions(DTDs) for backward compatibility.
XML definitions allow the use of element "CDATA" which allows illegal characters '<','&'.
**All text in an xml document will be parsed by parser. But text inside te cdata section will be ignored by parsers which allows the att... |
148,566 | In 2.79, I could get easily acceptable quality from the native renderer. I'd like to move to 2.80 but can't get a good quality render from cycles and eevee is far worse.
The files below are an old practice image that used many of the basic techniques that I needed to practice. I'm more interested in technical drawing... | 2019/08/14 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/148566",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/76016/"
] | Either crank up your samples or try denoising with AI or Photoshop / AfterEffects.
The former takes a little longer to render, the latter produces artifacts at times.
I am not too sure about the current implementation of denoising into cycles, but there is an addon called dnoise you could try out. Otherwise go into th... | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mmp9j.jpg)
Hi Perry, linked is your file with material setups for EEVEE and Cycles. This is by no means the only way of doing this, and you will see I have a few different setups available for the glass material. I won't be able to ho... |
655,589 | I am currently studying Graph Theory and want to know the difference in between Path , Cycle and Circuit.
I know the difference between Path and the cycle but What is the Circuit actually mean. | 2014/01/29 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/655589",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122373/"
] | All of these are sequences of vertices and edges. They have the following properties :
1. **Walk** : Vertices may repeat. Edges may repeat (Closed or Open)
2. **Trail** : Vertices may repeat. Edges cannot repeat (Open)
3. **Circuit** : Vertices may repeat. Edges cannot repeat (Closed)
4. **Path** : Vertice... | In a circuit we have can repeated vertices, but we cannot in a cycle. |
655,589 | I am currently studying Graph Theory and want to know the difference in between Path , Cycle and Circuit.
I know the difference between Path and the cycle but What is the Circuit actually mean. | 2014/01/29 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/655589",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122373/"
] | In a circuit we have can repeated vertices, but we cannot in a cycle. | cycle is a closed path with no vertices repeated. |
655,589 | I am currently studying Graph Theory and want to know the difference in between Path , Cycle and Circuit.
I know the difference between Path and the cycle but What is the Circuit actually mean. | 2014/01/29 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/655589",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122373/"
] | Usually a path in general is same as a walk which is just a sequence of vertices such that adjacent vertices are connected by edges. Think of it as just traveling around a graph along the edges with no restrictions.
Some books, however, refer to a path as a "simple" path. In that case when we say a path we mean that *... | cycle is a closed path with no vertices repeated. |
655,589 | I am currently studying Graph Theory and want to know the difference in between Path , Cycle and Circuit.
I know the difference between Path and the cycle but What is the Circuit actually mean. | 2014/01/29 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/655589",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122373/"
] | Different books have different terminology in some books a simple path means in which none of the edges are repeated and a circuit is a path which begins and ends at same vertex,and circuit and cycle are same thing in these books.
Books which use the term walk have different definitions of path and circuit,here, walk ... | In a circuit we have can repeated vertices, but we cannot in a cycle. |
655,589 | I am currently studying Graph Theory and want to know the difference in between Path , Cycle and Circuit.
I know the difference between Path and the cycle but What is the Circuit actually mean. | 2014/01/29 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/655589",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122373/"
] | Usually a path in general is same as a walk which is just a sequence of vertices such that adjacent vertices are connected by edges. Think of it as just traveling around a graph along the edges with no restrictions.
Some books, however, refer to a path as a "simple" path. In that case when we say a path we mean that *... | In a circuit we have can repeated vertices, but we cannot in a cycle. |
655,589 | I am currently studying Graph Theory and want to know the difference in between Path , Cycle and Circuit.
I know the difference between Path and the cycle but What is the Circuit actually mean. | 2014/01/29 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/655589",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/122373/"
] | All of these are sequences of vertices and edges. They have the following properties :
1. **Walk** : Vertices may repeat. Edges may repeat (Closed or Open)
2. **Trail** : Vertices may repeat. Edges cannot repeat (Open)
3. **Circuit** : Vertices may repeat. Edges cannot repeat (Closed)
4. **Path** : Vertice... | Usually a path in general is same as a walk which is just a sequence of vertices such that adjacent vertices are connected by edges. Think of it as just traveling around a graph along the edges with no restrictions.
Some books, however, refer to a path as a "simple" path. In that case when we say a path we mean that *... |
8,071 | I have a connection between a Drupal User and a CiviCRM contact that I would like to remove. I found [this Q&A](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/3878/how-to-disconnect-civi-contact-record-from-drupal-user) which describes how to do that on the database level.
I was however wondering if there is any way to ... | 2015/12/03 | [
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/8071",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/users/483/"
] | This is just a top-of-the-head thought and I am not sure I've thought through all the ramifications, but could you:
1. Create a new contact (blank, essentially, or with the same name)
2. Run a search that pulls both of these, and select to merge them
3. Flip the contacts so the old contact is considered the duplicate... | There is no way to do this via the UI. I am not sure what to suggest if you don't have easy access to the db. |
23,699 | Kiddo is a little over seven-months old. We've been trying to get him on semi-solid foods for about a month now, trying once a day or every couple of days. We've tried the standard stuff: baby oatmeal, rice cereal and packaged pureed fruits. It's not too hard to get the stuff in his mouth, but then he'll just sit with ... | 2016/01/19 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/23699",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/20329/"
] | He may just not be ready. It takes a lot of muscles and coordination to swallow, especially if you have to get the stuff from the front of your mouth to the back, and kids learn how at different ages. At 7 months, I don't think there's anything to worry about. I'd start meals with breastmilk or formula, then offer soli... | Something I've always done with my little one is to say the word "Chew!" in between making over emphasised chewing motions with my mouth, and then "Swallow!" and making a big gulping swallow so he can see my neck moving. It often amuses him as if it's a bit of a game but does seem to work as it shows by example.
Also i... |
23,699 | Kiddo is a little over seven-months old. We've been trying to get him on semi-solid foods for about a month now, trying once a day or every couple of days. We've tried the standard stuff: baby oatmeal, rice cereal and packaged pureed fruits. It's not too hard to get the stuff in his mouth, but then he'll just sit with ... | 2016/01/19 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/23699",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/20329/"
] | He may just not be ready. It takes a lot of muscles and coordination to swallow, especially if you have to get the stuff from the front of your mouth to the back, and kids learn how at different ages. At 7 months, I don't think there's anything to worry about. I'd start meals with breastmilk or formula, then offer soli... | When we first started our children on semi-solids, my wife expressed some breast milk and mixed this in. It worked extremely well. It has a familiar taste then, so they know what to do with it. |
147,898 | I downloaded an animation from mixamo and made a repeating action of the walk cycle. But I can't find a master bone or parent bone to move the model along a path. It is just walking in place. When I try to add a new bone, parent it to the rest of the bones, and key frame it to move forward it deforms the animation. How... | 2019/08/08 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/147898",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/48452/"
] | You can easily find in the outliner which bone is the highest in the hierarchy. It is the Hips. But if you want to make it move you better animate the whole armature in object mode instead of moving the root bone far away from the object's origin.
[](h... | Thanks to FFeller for leading me to the answer. I should have shown in my original post what happens when I try to animate the armature in object mode. I included below a link to a video showing what happens. The model should be moving in a straight line but it keeps jumping backwards and repeating.
I noticed there we... |
2,638 | I caught this question which was highlighted on the SE network:
[So, what is the advantage of using the terminal?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/106039/so-what-is-the-advantage-of-using-the-terminal)
There's a user Mehrdad who has been posting comments attacking the CLI-oriented linux in favor of GUI-oriented Windo... | 2012/02/22 | [
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/2638",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/users/47366/"
] | I have dropped a notice and will purge the comments from that answer later on.
The user has already been contacted and we will keep an eye on the situation.
Please feel free to contact any of the moderators any time with situations like this on meta or more directly try the general chat room. | >
> What is the next step?
>
>
>
Exactly what you've done. We'll deal with it now.
\* *Puts his boots on* |
262,718 | I would like to know if there is any standard functionality or any possible custom solution for making an email notification to the admin of the org when any data on account or other object is being exported from salesforce. Any tool can be utilised either the dataloader, Ant migration or else for exporting purpose but... | 2019/05/16 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/262718",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/48502/"
] | No.
===
If you're concerned about users using these kind of tools, you can (a) run reports to see how users are logging in, (b) block logins from certain types of applications for some or all users, and/or (c) disable API Access entirely for users. It's a lot easier to simply configure your org correctly and hand out ... | You cannot send an email to an admin for the scenario you have here.
You can though alternatively use [**Event Monitoring**](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/event_monitoring/event_monitoring_intro) to monitor activities in your Org.
It helps you to find out a User's activities which are logged... |
73,694 | Ingrid and her neighbor Fatima have a long standing dispute. One day Ingrid's dog bites Fatima.
Aside from civil liability, are there circumstances where Ingrid might face assault charges, including "deadly weapon" or "first degree" (depending on the state)?
Some potential facts to consider:
1. Ingrid's dog has no... | 2021/10/14 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/73694",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/34620/"
] | [washington](/questions/tagged/washington "show questions tagged 'washington'")
Under the laws of Washington State, USA, a dog can be considered a deadly weapon. See [*State v. Hoeldt*, 139 Wash. App. 225 (2007)](https://casetext.com/case/state-v-hoeldt). Hoeldt allegedly released a dog which attacked a police officer... | There is no special crime "assault with a deadly weapon" in Washington state, but "deadly weapon" figures into the definition of [1st and 2nd degree assault](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9A.36). Third degree assault refers (as a possibility) to "weapon", and the relevant potentially applicable clause is... |
500,533 | PWM Freq : 30 HZ and 5% Duty cycle, uC internal ADC sampling time is configurable.
any limitations with ADC sampling time & Duty cycle of PWM should be considered for choosing RC ? | 2020/05/19 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/500533",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/252849/"
] | A rule of thumb is to use a 10:1 ratio of PWM frequency to filter cutoff. This will reduce ripple so that you have a nice "flat" signal.
So for your values that would be an RC cutoff of 3Hz, which is pretty low and will result in long settling times whenever the duty cycle changes.
If your system allows it, I would r... | This sounds like an RC servo control signal (0.5 to 2 ms or so pulse width every 30 ms) not a true PWM signal.
Smoothing it adequately to read with an ADC with any accuracy is a losing game unless you can tolerate settling times of about a second per Aaron's answer.
Instead, use a timer peripheral on your MCU to meas... |
4,477 | Just wondering about the idea, what if stack exchange platform would be used for candidates to answer citizens questions.
Some changes would need to be made to the platform.
* Only eligible voters can ask questions.
* Only eligible voters can vote on questions and answers
* Only candidates can answer questions.
* Com... | 2020/07/10 | [
"https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4477",
"https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/33168/"
] | It doesn't work, because it doesn't fit the model:
>
> Ask questions, get answers, no distractions
>
>
>
A politician isn't interested in answering the question. A politician wants to get votes.
>
> Good answers are voted up and rise to the top.
>
>
>
But if questions and answers are partisan, then "popular... | If you can guarantee that 80% of the people voting in the election will read the politician's posting, it will be used.
If you can deliver only .0008% viewership, forget about it. |
4,477 | Just wondering about the idea, what if stack exchange platform would be used for candidates to answer citizens questions.
Some changes would need to be made to the platform.
* Only eligible voters can ask questions.
* Only eligible voters can vote on questions and answers
* Only candidates can answer questions.
* Com... | 2020/07/10 | [
"https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4477",
"https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/33168/"
] | It doesn't work, because it doesn't fit the model:
>
> Ask questions, get answers, no distractions
>
>
>
A politician isn't interested in answering the question. A politician wants to get votes.
>
> Good answers are voted up and rise to the top.
>
>
>
But if questions and answers are partisan, then "popular... | There is no way to verify that Biden or Trump are actually answering questions under that format. A benefit of the live debates is that voters get to see their candidates respond to questions in real time and in their "own words." Granted, the answers are rehearsed.
Let's say, for argument's sake, that a candidate was... |
4,477 | Just wondering about the idea, what if stack exchange platform would be used for candidates to answer citizens questions.
Some changes would need to be made to the platform.
* Only eligible voters can ask questions.
* Only eligible voters can vote on questions and answers
* Only candidates can answer questions.
* Com... | 2020/07/10 | [
"https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4477",
"https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/33168/"
] | If you can guarantee that 80% of the people voting in the election will read the politician's posting, it will be used.
If you can deliver only .0008% viewership, forget about it. | There is no way to verify that Biden or Trump are actually answering questions under that format. A benefit of the live debates is that voters get to see their candidates respond to questions in real time and in their "own words." Granted, the answers are rehearsed.
Let's say, for argument's sake, that a candidate was... |
29,265 | I can't really tell what someone means when he says "you could do worse than [x]." [Live example](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2058247/successor-of-msxsl-exe):
>
> If you are just interested in a simple command line processor which uses MSXML 6 then you could do worse than using a simple JScript application.
>... | 2011/06/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/29265",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/8278/"
] | This is an example of *litotes*, which is stating a positive through a negative. It just means that [X] is not bad, that there are many alternatives that are worse.
In the sentence you link to
>
> If you are just interested in a simple command line processor which uses MSXML 6 then you could do worse than using a si... | It's a indirect compliment. You can go check out this link => <http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic24532.html> for more explanations. |
29,265 | I can't really tell what someone means when he says "you could do worse than [x]." [Live example](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2058247/successor-of-msxsl-exe):
>
> If you are just interested in a simple command line processor which uses MSXML 6 then you could do worse than using a simple JScript application.
>... | 2011/06/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/29265",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/8278/"
] | This is an example of *litotes*, which is stating a positive through a negative. It just means that [X] is not bad, that there are many alternatives that are worse.
In the sentence you link to
>
> If you are just interested in a simple command line processor which uses MSXML 6 then you could do worse than using a si... | My favorite term for this sort of left-handed compliment (technically called a *[litotes](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/litotes)*, as @Robusto pointed out) is "**[praising with faint damns](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924489,00.html)**", a humorous inversion of the better-known "**[damn wi... |
29,265 | I can't really tell what someone means when he says "you could do worse than [x]." [Live example](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2058247/successor-of-msxsl-exe):
>
> If you are just interested in a simple command line processor which uses MSXML 6 then you could do worse than using a simple JScript application.
>... | 2011/06/09 | [
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] | This is an example of *litotes*, which is stating a positive through a negative. It just means that [X] is not bad, that there are many alternatives that are worse.
In the sentence you link to
>
> If you are just interested in a simple command line processor which uses MSXML 6 then you could do worse than using a si... | Another example of litotes is the cliché you've seen many times: "x is no small thing!" as in "to move the earth, no matter the lever, is no small thing." |
45,079 | Because /i y u/ behave so differently to the other French vowels /ɛ ɑ œ ɔ/, which all have tense and nasal variants, while also being symmetrical to the semivowels /j ɥ w/, it is attractive to render them as the same.
I did see that there are minimal pairs like /lu.a/ vs /lwa/, but couldn't they be rendered as /lu.ua/... | 2022/08/28 | [
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] | It is in fact proposed, in Schane (1968) that French glides derive from vowels. Morin (1971: "Computer experiments in generative phonology: Low-level French phonology") pursues this further to handle some problems (formally restricting where the rule applies), followed by Dell (1972: "Une regle d‘effacement de i en fra... | /**lu.ua**/ (*loup où ah*) is not the same as /**lu.a**/ (*loua*).
If you want to avoid /**lwa**/ for ***loi***, you would want to use the non-syllabic diacritic: /**lu̯a**/ or a lower or upper tie bar /**lo͜a**/ /**lo͡a**/ to make clear it's a single syllable word and not the potentially two syllable ***loua***, argu... |
23,685 | The project is to rotate a load using a motor with a varying speed between like *2000-10000 rpm*.
I'm using a **flange coupling** to attach the cylindrical tube to the motor. Since I will rotate it to high speed, I think I need to tightly and safely attach the load to the motor.
Do you have any suggestion on what co... | 2018/09/10 | [
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/23685",
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] | One can use the Flange Coupling with Key feature and Axis Support Fixed Seat.
Like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qtpBZ.jpg)
This design includes both. Also, one can find these off the shelf according to dimension requirements, or one can design... | The safest way to attach a non-symmetrical load (such as that shown in your photo) that spins that fast (up to 10,000rpm) will be to mount it to a solid base, using bearings or similar, such that its weight is supported separately from the motor shaft. This will minimise vibrations/oscillations of the load.
As a resul... |
23,685 | The project is to rotate a load using a motor with a varying speed between like *2000-10000 rpm*.
I'm using a **flange coupling** to attach the cylindrical tube to the motor. Since I will rotate it to high speed, I think I need to tightly and safely attach the load to the motor.
Do you have any suggestion on what co... | 2018/09/10 | [
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/23685",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com",
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] | One can use the Flange Coupling with Key feature and Axis Support Fixed Seat.
Like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qtpBZ.jpg)
This design includes both. Also, one can find these off the shelf according to dimension requirements, or one can design... | Normally, you would use two grub screws at 90 degrees to each other, to secure the load onto the motor shaft. I have done this to attach a stainless steel flywheel on a motor spinning at 6,000 rpm and it's holding just fine.
To give it extra strength, you can also use something like Loctite 638 to glue the flange coup... |
23,685 | The project is to rotate a load using a motor with a varying speed between like *2000-10000 rpm*.
I'm using a **flange coupling** to attach the cylindrical tube to the motor. Since I will rotate it to high speed, I think I need to tightly and safely attach the load to the motor.
Do you have any suggestion on what co... | 2018/09/10 | [
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/23685",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users/1368/"
] | The safest way to attach a non-symmetrical load (such as that shown in your photo) that spins that fast (up to 10,000rpm) will be to mount it to a solid base, using bearings or similar, such that its weight is supported separately from the motor shaft. This will minimise vibrations/oscillations of the load.
As a resul... | Normally, you would use two grub screws at 90 degrees to each other, to secure the load onto the motor shaft. I have done this to attach a stainless steel flywheel on a motor spinning at 6,000 rpm and it's holding just fine.
To give it extra strength, you can also use something like Loctite 638 to glue the flange coup... |
26,354 | I am presently not working, and my job is just to look after my 15 months baby 24/7 which is making me frustrated, and I am staying with my in-laws with the constant whining of my mother-in-law.
I feel I am not able to find personal time to relax or do what I like to do. Even though I get time to relax when my baby i... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/26354",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/23568/"
] | I found that switching to e-Books (e.g. through the Kindle, iBooks, or Kobo apps on your phone, or tabled, or through dedicated readers) helps a situation such as you describe a bit, in that **when** you have a moment of time, you can immediately pick up your book at the exact spot you stopped before. | You could spend a large part of each day with your infant strapped to your back while you pursue any one of hundreds of activities.
I have seen young women with a baby in a front or back sling happily throwing pots, pruning plants, baking bread, hiking, shopping, and so forth. You could hand out flyers at the mall. S... |
26,354 | I am presently not working, and my job is just to look after my 15 months baby 24/7 which is making me frustrated, and I am staying with my in-laws with the constant whining of my mother-in-law.
I feel I am not able to find personal time to relax or do what I like to do. Even though I get time to relax when my baby i... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/26354",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
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] | I think the critical part to finding more time is to let go of the need to "just to look after your child". As parents we might think that doing constant activities with and for the child is our job, when in fact:
>
> The more we do (or toys do)…
>
>
> * the less our child does
> * the more our child thinks she ne... | You need to not take care of the baby 24/7. That is NOT your job. If you spouse work, and you don't, it is your job to take care of the baby while he is not there (so maybe 10 hours a day?).
**When you both are home the baby is taken care of by both of you!**
It also sounds like you are unable to relax with your in-l... |
26,354 | I am presently not working, and my job is just to look after my 15 months baby 24/7 which is making me frustrated, and I am staying with my in-laws with the constant whining of my mother-in-law.
I feel I am not able to find personal time to relax or do what I like to do. Even though I get time to relax when my baby i... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/26354",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/23568/"
] | I think the critical part to finding more time is to let go of the need to "just to look after your child". As parents we might think that doing constant activities with and for the child is our job, when in fact:
>
> The more we do (or toys do)…
>
>
> * the less our child does
> * the more our child thinks she ne... | Give the kid to the mother in law for a couple of hours per day, getting out of the house if necessary for some alone time. However, you will have to live with the mother in law taking care of the kid her way during those hours. |
26,354 | I am presently not working, and my job is just to look after my 15 months baby 24/7 which is making me frustrated, and I am staying with my in-laws with the constant whining of my mother-in-law.
I feel I am not able to find personal time to relax or do what I like to do. Even though I get time to relax when my baby i... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/26354",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/23568/"
] | I 100% agree with all the posts above!
A couple of things to add. First, I'm not going to advise regarding your disatisfaction with your mother-in-law because that's, like, a whole different issue. Second, it sounds like there's some stuff going on under the surface. Like, the lack of a hobby is a symptom of a larger ... | Would part-time child care be an option? Even if its just a few hours a week, it would give you time to get away from the house, your baby and your mother-in-law.
Also, if you can find something that involves getting out of the house on a regular basis, like a class, then you could rope your MIL in as a baby-sitter. |
26,354 | I am presently not working, and my job is just to look after my 15 months baby 24/7 which is making me frustrated, and I am staying with my in-laws with the constant whining of my mother-in-law.
I feel I am not able to find personal time to relax or do what I like to do. Even though I get time to relax when my baby i... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/26354",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/23568/"
] | I think the critical part to finding more time is to let go of the need to "just to look after your child". As parents we might think that doing constant activities with and for the child is our job, when in fact:
>
> The more we do (or toys do)…
>
>
> * the less our child does
> * the more our child thinks she ne... | **Based on my experience**
Answering this as someone who decided to quit work and be a stay at home mum to raise my son. Leaving work can be frustrating especially when you know you're not used to being a stay at home mum.
At first I thought I couldn't make it but I gathered courage by simply looking for a hobby like... |
26,354 | I am presently not working, and my job is just to look after my 15 months baby 24/7 which is making me frustrated, and I am staying with my in-laws with the constant whining of my mother-in-law.
I feel I am not able to find personal time to relax or do what I like to do. Even though I get time to relax when my baby i... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/26354",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/23568/"
] | Give the kid to the mother in law for a couple of hours per day, getting out of the house if necessary for some alone time. However, you will have to live with the mother in law taking care of the kid her way during those hours. | You could spend a large part of each day with your infant strapped to your back while you pursue any one of hundreds of activities.
I have seen young women with a baby in a front or back sling happily throwing pots, pruning plants, baking bread, hiking, shopping, and so forth. You could hand out flyers at the mall. S... |
26,354 | I am presently not working, and my job is just to look after my 15 months baby 24/7 which is making me frustrated, and I am staying with my in-laws with the constant whining of my mother-in-law.
I feel I am not able to find personal time to relax or do what I like to do. Even though I get time to relax when my baby i... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/26354",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/23568/"
] | I think the critical part to finding more time is to let go of the need to "just to look after your child". As parents we might think that doing constant activities with and for the child is our job, when in fact:
>
> The more we do (or toys do)…
>
>
> * the less our child does
> * the more our child thinks she ne... | Would part-time child care be an option? Even if its just a few hours a week, it would give you time to get away from the house, your baby and your mother-in-law.
Also, if you can find something that involves getting out of the house on a regular basis, like a class, then you could rope your MIL in as a baby-sitter. |
26,354 | I am presently not working, and my job is just to look after my 15 months baby 24/7 which is making me frustrated, and I am staying with my in-laws with the constant whining of my mother-in-law.
I feel I am not able to find personal time to relax or do what I like to do. Even though I get time to relax when my baby i... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/26354",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/23568/"
] | Give the kid to the mother in law for a couple of hours per day, getting out of the house if necessary for some alone time. However, you will have to live with the mother in law taking care of the kid her way during those hours. | You need to not take care of the baby 24/7. That is NOT your job. If you spouse work, and you don't, it is your job to take care of the baby while he is not there (so maybe 10 hours a day?).
**When you both are home the baby is taken care of by both of you!**
It also sounds like you are unable to relax with your in-l... |
26,354 | I am presently not working, and my job is just to look after my 15 months baby 24/7 which is making me frustrated, and I am staying with my in-laws with the constant whining of my mother-in-law.
I feel I am not able to find personal time to relax or do what I like to do. Even though I get time to relax when my baby i... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/26354",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/23568/"
] | I think the critical part to finding more time is to let go of the need to "just to look after your child". As parents we might think that doing constant activities with and for the child is our job, when in fact:
>
> The more we do (or toys do)…
>
>
> * the less our child does
> * the more our child thinks she ne... | **Your baby is a hobby!**
Your beautiful child is a commitment. At 15 months, you've been through the infant stage, one of the tougher ones. Your child is around the point where he'll/she'll be walking.
*This is the fun part!*
You're almost at the point where you can take your baby to the park. He'll want to take l... |
26,354 | I am presently not working, and my job is just to look after my 15 months baby 24/7 which is making me frustrated, and I am staying with my in-laws with the constant whining of my mother-in-law.
I feel I am not able to find personal time to relax or do what I like to do. Even though I get time to relax when my baby i... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/26354",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/23568/"
] | **Your baby is a hobby!**
Your beautiful child is a commitment. At 15 months, you've been through the infant stage, one of the tougher ones. Your child is around the point where he'll/she'll be walking.
*This is the fun part!*
You're almost at the point where you can take your baby to the park. He'll want to take l... | You need to not take care of the baby 24/7. That is NOT your job. If you spouse work, and you don't, it is your job to take care of the baby while he is not there (so maybe 10 hours a day?).
**When you both are home the baby is taken care of by both of you!**
It also sounds like you are unable to relax with your in-l... |
39,322,148 | I would like to implement a typical CAD software and therefore need an edge detection algorithm to draw the silhouette of various meshes. Silhouette includes outline, ridges and creases of various objects. Here is an example of a cube created in Blender where the silhouette is made of thick orange lines:
[![enter imag... | 2016/09/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/39322148",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/804969/"
] | From your sample pictures I infer that you want to enhance
* the silhouette edges, i.e. those that belong to the outline of the projections,
* the salient edges, i.e. those that join two angled faces.
The former are determined by looking at the orientation of the faces: a face is "facing" when the observer is outsid... | Consider freestyle
<https://www.blender.org/manual/en/render/freestyle/index.html>
>
> Freestyle is an edge- and line-based non-photorealistic (NPR) rendering >engine. It relies on mesh data and z-depth information to draw lines on >selected edge types. Various line styles can be added to produce >artistic (“hand dra... |
11,094 | I'm looking for the EV3-G control block for the HiTechnic Color Sensor V2, previously distributed by HiTechnic (<https://www.hitechnic.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?key=NCO1038&preadd=action>), apparently now distributed by Modern Robotics (<https://modernroboticsinc.com/product/hitechnic-nxt-color-sensor-v2/>).
Many websi... | 2019/03/24 | [
"https://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/11094",
"https://bricks.stackexchange.com",
"https://bricks.stackexchange.com/users/11446/"
] | Hitechnic.com now points to modernroboticsinc.com. You can find the Hitechnic EV3 color sensor block here:
<https://modernroboticsinc.com/download/hitechnic-ev3-color-sensor-block/>
All available downloads are available and searchable here:
<https://modernroboticsinc.com/downloads/> | Thank you! The answer from jncraton did the trick.
Summary: the direct download for the EV3 sensor block for the HiTechnic Color Sensor V2 is here:
<https://www.hitechnic.com/upload/545-HiTechnicEV3Color.zip>
The zip archive includes three files:
(1) instructions (HTColorREADME.txt)
(2) the control block (HTColor.ev... |
220,429 | It'd be nice to see reputation updates in the app, as we get on both the desktop and mobile sites.
**Mock-up of how this would look:**
>
> 
>
>
>
**Other possible icon states:**
>
> ![reputa... | 2014/02/11 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/220429",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/248072/"
] | The beta version of the app now has an achievements button that can be used to access our shiny new achievements screen:
 | Some kind of reputation activity is something we're planning on for post 1.0 (which is coming soon!). As soon as we get through the release, we'll be prioritizing a pretty heft list of stuff we want to do. When we have a concrete direction for this, I (or someone) will come back and tag it [status-planned](/questions/t... |
1,008,335 | I am trying to deploy my MVC app on a subdomain, unfortunately I get 404 errors.
I tried to find out if it's MVC itself that can't handle being hosted on a subdomain.
I uploaded the standard bare MVC webapp that you get when you start a new project. The index page loads, but all the other pages that require actual ro... | 2009/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1008335",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | I had this problem with a shared hosting provider. I had to get them to change the Application Pool to "Integrated Mode" instead of "Classic" mode in iis7 for it to work. Not sure why, haven't really looked into IIS7 that much | Is this a shared host where the subdomain is resolved via URL rewriting to point to a sub folder?
MVC doesn't care what the domain name is. I've used it with a couple different subdomains, but they were not on the type of host that would be rewritting to a sub folder. |
4,202 | I know some skills are best learned while a person is very young, like a second language, or absolute pitch. What are some other skills that are best learned while young and can be beneficial to a person? My thinking is that since those skills can only be learned while young, then that would be the time to focus and te... | 2012/01/30 | [
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] | Beside language and musical skills, one thing that is never thought in schools is *character* or *assertiveness* skills, they present a challenge as sometimes the parents don't posses them, although there are many good books on the topic (just check an online book store and read the ratings!). *Meta* self-help books su... | Kindness, following directions (need for school and business, not just discipline), sharing, group 'work', sportsmanship, kindness (o-did I already say this), empathy, creative play (work), kindness (o-did I say this again), problem solving skills, how to deal with difficult people, kindness (again).
I can give sugges... |
126,478 | I'm new to guitar. I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes. Can someone explain how I can get my guitar tuning to
F, Bb, D, F, Bb, F (Capo on 1). | 2022/12/20 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/126478",
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] | I am going on the assumption that your notes are in order of low to high pitch. Standard tuning on guitar low to high is E,A,D,G,B,E. With the capo off the tuning you want is E,A,C#,E,A,E. This means from standard tuning the 2 lowest strings and the high string need no change. The D string must be tuned down a semitone... | John's answer is spot on. But I question why one would want to tune down a bit only to use a capo to bring it all up a semitone. That difference won't particularly affect the tension of the strings, so why not simply tune open to what is effectively B♭ open tuning? Maybe this doesn't answer the question directly, but -... |
126,478 | I'm new to guitar. I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes. Can someone explain how I can get my guitar tuning to
F, Bb, D, F, Bb, F (Capo on 1). | 2022/12/20 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/126478",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/89796/"
] | I am going on the assumption that your notes are in order of low to high pitch. Standard tuning on guitar low to high is E,A,D,G,B,E. With the capo off the tuning you want is E,A,C#,E,A,E. This means from standard tuning the 2 lowest strings and the high string need no change. The D string must be tuned down a semitone... | As I don't understand what your ultimate intention is, let me give you the basics so you can work it out yourself:
>
> I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes.
>
>
>
When you pluck each string individually, without pressing anywhere on the fretboard, and if your guitar is tuned ... |
126,478 | I'm new to guitar. I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes. Can someone explain how I can get my guitar tuning to
F, Bb, D, F, Bb, F (Capo on 1). | 2022/12/20 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/126478",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/89796/"
] | I am going on the assumption that your notes are in order of low to high pitch. Standard tuning on guitar low to high is E,A,D,G,B,E. With the capo off the tuning you want is E,A,C#,E,A,E. This means from standard tuning the 2 lowest strings and the high string need no change. The D string must be tuned down a semitone... | This is less me answering your question than figuring out your context.
>
> F Bb D F Bb F (Capo on 1)
>
>
>
Remove the capo and we get
>
> E A C# E A E
>
>
>
That's likely high-to-low. Guitarists tend to talk tunings low-to-high, but this is fine. Then we get that C# on the G string, and that's awful sharp.... |
126,478 | I'm new to guitar. I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes. Can someone explain how I can get my guitar tuning to
F, Bb, D, F, Bb, F (Capo on 1). | 2022/12/20 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/126478",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/89796/"
] | John's answer is spot on. But I question why one would want to tune down a bit only to use a capo to bring it all up a semitone. That difference won't particularly affect the tension of the strings, so why not simply tune open to what is effectively B♭ open tuning? Maybe this doesn't answer the question directly, but -... | As I don't understand what your ultimate intention is, let me give you the basics so you can work it out yourself:
>
> I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes.
>
>
>
When you pluck each string individually, without pressing anywhere on the fretboard, and if your guitar is tuned ... |
126,478 | I'm new to guitar. I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes. Can someone explain how I can get my guitar tuning to
F, Bb, D, F, Bb, F (Capo on 1). | 2022/12/20 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/126478",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/89796/"
] | ### Frame challenge: As a beginner, you definitely shouldn't
Using altered tunings is a common technique for advanced guitar players. When you've been playing several years and you're used to finding different chord forms all round the neck, you're probably ready to think about trying alternate tunings.
As a beginner... | John's answer is spot on. But I question why one would want to tune down a bit only to use a capo to bring it all up a semitone. That difference won't particularly affect the tension of the strings, so why not simply tune open to what is effectively B♭ open tuning? Maybe this doesn't answer the question directly, but -... |
126,478 | I'm new to guitar. I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes. Can someone explain how I can get my guitar tuning to
F, Bb, D, F, Bb, F (Capo on 1). | 2022/12/20 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/126478",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/89796/"
] | This is less me answering your question than figuring out your context.
>
> F Bb D F Bb F (Capo on 1)
>
>
>
Remove the capo and we get
>
> E A C# E A E
>
>
>
That's likely high-to-low. Guitarists tend to talk tunings low-to-high, but this is fine. Then we get that C# on the G string, and that's awful sharp.... | As I don't understand what your ultimate intention is, let me give you the basics so you can work it out yourself:
>
> I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes.
>
>
>
When you pluck each string individually, without pressing anywhere on the fretboard, and if your guitar is tuned ... |
126,478 | I'm new to guitar. I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes. Can someone explain how I can get my guitar tuning to
F, Bb, D, F, Bb, F (Capo on 1). | 2022/12/20 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/126478",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
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] | ### Frame challenge: As a beginner, you definitely shouldn't
Using altered tunings is a common technique for advanced guitar players. When you've been playing several years and you're used to finding different chord forms all round the neck, you're probably ready to think about trying alternate tunings.
As a beginner... | As I don't understand what your ultimate intention is, let me give you the basics so you can work it out yourself:
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> I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes.
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>
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When you pluck each string individually, without pressing anywhere on the fretboard, and if your guitar is tuned ... |
126,478 | I'm new to guitar. I don’t really understand the tuning and its relationship with music notes. Can someone explain how I can get my guitar tuning to
F, Bb, D, F, Bb, F (Capo on 1). | 2022/12/20 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/126478",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/89796/"
] | ### Frame challenge: As a beginner, you definitely shouldn't
Using altered tunings is a common technique for advanced guitar players. When you've been playing several years and you're used to finding different chord forms all round the neck, you're probably ready to think about trying alternate tunings.
As a beginner... | This is less me answering your question than figuring out your context.
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> F Bb D F Bb F (Capo on 1)
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>
>
Remove the capo and we get
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> E A C# E A E
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>
>
That's likely high-to-low. Guitarists tend to talk tunings low-to-high, but this is fine. Then we get that C# on the G string, and that's awful sharp.... |
19,743 | Currently I'm rolling my own score and leader board functionality in my FB canvas game.
In my game, users can see what score they have, in addition I have a public leader board where everybody can see all scores from all other users.(I also have possibility for each user to set themselves as anonymous in the leader ... | 2011/11/14 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/19743",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/10771/"
] | I think there are two basic problems with a global leaderboard:
1. [Cheating](https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/4181/how-can-i-prevent-cheating-on-global-highscore-tables).
2. And from a design standpoint, what does it do for the game experience? I would argue it actually detracts from a player's experience,... | I'm a bit late to this question as I've only just started considering the same question myself. I've just launched a game on FB which we created a global leaderboard for, but it also has the option to display just the friends scores. The FB score and achievements API does look good, but I know for my own game (puzzle g... |
4,152,400 | I have implemented an InApp Purchase Store in my app. I have English and German as languages. But I always get the German titles and descriptions from the SKProducts. I am calling the right localizedDescription localizedTitle methods, so this should be not the problem, according to the documentation.
Can anybody help ... | 2010/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4152400",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/155663/"
] | App Store seems to return localized strings based on user country, rather than user-selected language in Settings.app. In other words, if you shop in the German store, you will get German localized strings from App Store. | Tried with the language setting in the setting and it didn't work for SKProduct's localizedTitle (still display the english product title).
In order to change the country for App Store, I had to go to iTunes on my phone, log out my current account. select create a new apple ID -> select country -> next. Then relaunch a... |
68,799 | This question is based on travelling between the UK and Cancun, Mexico.
On the way out (UK -> Mexico) I purchased 200 cigarettes in the duty free shop at LGW. Some (at the current rate c. 50% by the time I fly back in 6 days) will have been smoked, leaving a remaining quantity. Will these count towards/against any dut... | 2016/05/22 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/68799",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/43916/"
] | No, the limit is a total amount you can bring in, regardless of where or when on your trip you bought them - so if the limit is 200, and you've got 100 left from your outbound trip, you can buy another 100 on the way back to take you back up to 200. | I've previously been interested in a related question, which is if I buy an item tax free at the airport, such as a laptop or phone, am I supposed to declare it when I return home? I found a link that seems to answer both questions:
<http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20080814090357/http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/ch... |
16,180 | My 1997 Honda Accord came with a 115/70/14 donut spare tire. I had to use it for the first time recently, and it is now totally dead and needs to be replaced.
I looked on Ebay and there are a few people selling 115/70/14 Accord donut tires. But there are also a few people selling different sized Accord donut spares th... | 2015/03/30 | [
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/16180",
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com",
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/users/6536/"
] | There is a huge pile of information about tire sizing around the internet. I'll attempt to summarize its application here.
Tires have 3 numbers, which work together to describe the tire's size. The first number is the section width, the second number is the sidewall ratio and the third number is the rim diameter.
**S... | **tl; dr** You can run it, but there is a cost.
You'd need to double check to ensure the rotations per mile (RPM) are almost/nearly the same (if not exactly). If it's off by more than a few percentage, you are going to have a problem with your anti-lock brakes (ABS) throwing codes on you. If you run a mis-matched donu... |
16,180 | My 1997 Honda Accord came with a 115/70/14 donut spare tire. I had to use it for the first time recently, and it is now totally dead and needs to be replaced.
I looked on Ebay and there are a few people selling 115/70/14 Accord donut tires. But there are also a few people selling different sized Accord donut spares th... | 2015/03/30 | [
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/16180",
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com",
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/users/6536/"
] | There is a huge pile of information about tire sizing around the internet. I'll attempt to summarize its application here.
Tires have 3 numbers, which work together to describe the tire's size. The first number is the section width, the second number is the sidewall ratio and the third number is the rim diameter.
**S... | Most donut spares are a smaller diameter than the original tire. If the vehicle has a donut spare this is smaller in diameter then I wouldn't consider it to be a metric of consideration.
My recommendation would be to retain that diameter.
I think the only relevant piece to this is, if you have a greater width of tir... |
109,334 | I work in an organization which creates many integrated systems products - i.e. it is complete products with mechanical/system/electronics/software being designed and manufactured. At the moment most teams are organized around projects in a cross functional way. The advantage of an organization like this is that people... | 2011/09/19 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/109334",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/17922/"
] | The best type of team structure to use isn't necessarily one of cost-benefit, but instead on the organizational culture currently in place, the characteristics of the employees, and the type of project being conducted. Because of these variables, there's no way to say that a particular strategy or approach is best, but... | While you can have cross functional teams it also doesn't hurt to staff those teams with multiple part-time engineers. You could for example put Bob on project a and project b and also put Jane on project a and project b. This way they are distributed, however, if you have projects that are small enough to build out wi... |
90,584 | Can I license different parts of my code (different classes) under different licenses?
E.g. I have downloaded and modified a class which licensed under the BSD 3 point.
Can I then say, file AObject.class is BSD, and BObject.class is LGPL (or MIT, or MPL, or PD, etc etc) | 2011/07/07 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/90584",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/3139/"
] | You can license code you write with whatever combination of licenses you please. However this may not make sense.
For example if you license one file with the GPL and another with a closed source license no one is going to be able to use your code as a whole. People will be able to take your GPL code and use it separa... | I believe this really depends on which license is being applied where.
My understanding is you cannot use license X is it steps on license Y toes.
However, I did find some good information here: [Multi-licensing Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing) |
90,584 | Can I license different parts of my code (different classes) under different licenses?
E.g. I have downloaded and modified a class which licensed under the BSD 3 point.
Can I then say, file AObject.class is BSD, and BObject.class is LGPL (or MIT, or MPL, or PD, etc etc) | 2011/07/07 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/90584",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/3139/"
] | You can license code you write with whatever combination of licenses you please. However this may not make sense.
For example if you license one file with the GPL and another with a closed source license no one is going to be able to use your code as a whole. People will be able to take your GPL code and use it separa... | Technically a piece of source is a document which can be copyrighted. So technically you can do so, but you'd have to be able to use both licenses at the same time when using your code in the end product. So practically the separation can best be made at a compilation unit such as a dll, which contains (or should conta... |
90,584 | Can I license different parts of my code (different classes) under different licenses?
E.g. I have downloaded and modified a class which licensed under the BSD 3 point.
Can I then say, file AObject.class is BSD, and BObject.class is LGPL (or MIT, or MPL, or PD, etc etc) | 2011/07/07 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/90584",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/3139/"
] | You can license code you write with whatever combination of licenses you please. However this may not make sense.
For example if you license one file with the GPL and another with a closed source license no one is going to be able to use your code as a whole. People will be able to take your GPL code and use it separa... | The issue of license compatibility aside, you can certainly license different portions of your code differently and this is quite common for commercial software that has Open Source integrated into it. One project I was on included the [mingw](http://www.mingw.org/) compiler as part of the installation as well as [ACE]... |
35,847,529 | I would like to create a service to toggle policies on and off by QName from an external system. Primarily, I want to disable the auditable policies which prevents my external system from pushing in content and setting the modified/created dates. I am aware of the [BehaviourFilter](http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/Alfr... | 2016/03/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/35847529",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1324773/"
] | Alfresco's auditable policies are so often subject for irritations and the needed work arounds are unnecessary waste of time. I'd like to discuss a solution which is more work but which may avoid the trouble in future with more flexibility since Alfresco combined two things which shouldn't be combined:
* modified and ... | It's good that you're aware about the BehaviourFilter, but you're probably missing the point why you shouldn't be totally disable the policy for a time-period and then re-enabling it. If by chance the external system sends a signal to disable the policy and parallel a user is using Alfresco and uploading, that means th... |
16,373 | I am a German PhD student in South America and am worried about whether my PhD title will be accepted in Germany (as Dr.) and internationally in general.
If you successfully complete a PhD in the EU, you are allowed to carry the title "Dr.", as any PhD in Germany does.
I am working in a faculty with a professor with ... | 2014/01/30 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16373",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/11404/"
] | >
> Did I make a mistake in my career planning in that the only title that is worth carrying (until full tenure, I guess) I can’t carry without a large number of not-so-fancy accessories?
>
>
>
No. You make the good old German mistake of thinking that ‘carrying’ the title has any relevance whatsoever. You will hav... | To address your last question: the international community is *not* as strict as Germany. Here in the US, there are no formal regulations on the use of the title. If you hold an earned doctorate from a reasonable university somewhere in the world, nobody is going to complain about your use of "Dr." or "Ph.D." or both. ... |
16,373 | I am a German PhD student in South America and am worried about whether my PhD title will be accepted in Germany (as Dr.) and internationally in general.
If you successfully complete a PhD in the EU, you are allowed to carry the title "Dr.", as any PhD in Germany does.
I am working in a faculty with a professor with ... | 2014/01/30 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16373",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/11404/"
] | How your PhD is counted depends a lot on from which country you obtained it. Currently, degrees from Australia, Canada, Japan, Israel, and most doctoral-granting American universities are recognized as fully equivalent to "Dr." Beyond that, however, the PhD is listed as a PhD, so long as it's been granted by an institu... | >
> Did I make a mistake in my career planning in that the only title that is worth carrying (until full tenure, I guess) I can’t carry without a large number of not-so-fancy accessories?
>
>
>
No. You make the good old German mistake of thinking that ‘carrying’ the title has any relevance whatsoever. You will hav... |
16,373 | I am a German PhD student in South America and am worried about whether my PhD title will be accepted in Germany (as Dr.) and internationally in general.
If you successfully complete a PhD in the EU, you are allowed to carry the title "Dr.", as any PhD in Germany does.
I am working in a faculty with a professor with ... | 2014/01/30 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16373",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/11404/"
] | How your PhD is counted depends a lot on from which country you obtained it. Currently, degrees from Australia, Canada, Japan, Israel, and most doctoral-granting American universities are recognized as fully equivalent to "Dr." Beyond that, however, the PhD is listed as a PhD, so long as it's been granted by an institu... | To address your last question: the international community is *not* as strict as Germany. Here in the US, there are no formal regulations on the use of the title. If you hold an earned doctorate from a reasonable university somewhere in the world, nobody is going to complain about your use of "Dr." or "Ph.D." or both. ... |
153,917 | I'm new to Drupal and want to create a sort option (to sort some Forum topics) so that a user can select any topic and apply it.
Here is an image to better illustrate this:
How to make such sort option? | 2015/04/04 | [
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/153917",
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com",
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com/users/45900/"
] | It's really up to you what you want to do but the way I see it, if a user goes to a random non-existing path on your site they will get a 404 error, so if the rabbit hole page is a page the user should never be able to get to then it should also be a 404 error because as far as that user is concerned it is not a valid ... | Usually I would recommend a 301 redirect – if the contennt really has moved to a new location. But in this case, redirecting from various pages to the front page, a 301 would **not** be recommendable – at least **from a SEO point of view**. When a search engine reads a 301, it interpretes it as "*this content has move ... |
91,793 | What is the standard practice if I can no longer find students that contributed to a paper that we would like to publish now? The students contributed data, but obviously had nothing to do with writing the paper. Still, I feel that they deserve authorship. I can no longer find a current email address for them. Should I... | 2017/07/06 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/91793",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/75693/"
] | This is a tricky one! Since some venues may require each author to sign over copyright, it complicates matters above and beyond the ethical question of what is right.
If you feel they deserve authorship, you should IMHO make a good faith effort to find them (web search, ask the university for contact info, etc). But ... | The next answer assumes that the policy of the venue is silent about such situations (otherwise you simply follow the written guidelines). Moreover, let's assume that you failed to find the students or their representatives in reasonable time (otherwise contact these people and proceed from there). To find the people, ... |
91,793 | What is the standard practice if I can no longer find students that contributed to a paper that we would like to publish now? The students contributed data, but obviously had nothing to do with writing the paper. Still, I feel that they deserve authorship. I can no longer find a current email address for them. Should I... | 2017/07/06 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/91793",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/75693/"
] | This is a tricky one! Since some venues may require each author to sign over copyright, it complicates matters above and beyond the ethical question of what is right.
If you feel they deserve authorship, you should IMHO make a good faith effort to find them (web search, ask the university for contact info, etc). But ... | This is a difficult one, but I think in the end you have no choice but to put them in the acknowledgements if you cannot contact them, with an appropriate note regarding the level of their contributions. **You should do your best to find them** (social media? Contact other past students? Google?), but sometimes this mi... |
91,793 | What is the standard practice if I can no longer find students that contributed to a paper that we would like to publish now? The students contributed data, but obviously had nothing to do with writing the paper. Still, I feel that they deserve authorship. I can no longer find a current email address for them. Should I... | 2017/07/06 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/91793",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/75693/"
] | The next answer assumes that the policy of the venue is silent about such situations (otherwise you simply follow the written guidelines). Moreover, let's assume that you failed to find the students or their representatives in reasonable time (otherwise contact these people and proceed from there). To find the people, ... | This is a difficult one, but I think in the end you have no choice but to put them in the acknowledgements if you cannot contact them, with an appropriate note regarding the level of their contributions. **You should do your best to find them** (social media? Contact other past students? Google?), but sometimes this mi... |
1,331 | Is there a way to create custom delegate control in sub-sites without having to restart the IIS server?
I have full admin/SharePoint designer access to the sub-site, just not the IIS installation.
Also Is there a way to obtain the parent site WSDL asmx without having access to the parent SharePoint site, but having fu... | 2010/02/01 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/1331",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/234/"
] | Working with delegate controls is just one of the main developer changes which requires an IISReset or recycling the app pool for the current site unfortunately. This is because SharePoint agressively caches a great deal of "infrequently changing" data for performance.
Sorry, can't help on your other question. | i havent tested this, but as long as your delegate control is placed in partially trusted location (bin) and not global assembly cache (GAC) i cant see why it shouldnt work without an IISRESET. But i would have to test it to be sure. EDIT: ok chris piped in with his answer while i was writing this. He sounds kind of co... |
1,331 | Is there a way to create custom delegate control in sub-sites without having to restart the IIS server?
I have full admin/SharePoint designer access to the sub-site, just not the IIS installation.
Also Is there a way to obtain the parent site WSDL asmx without having access to the parent SharePoint site, but having fu... | 2010/02/01 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/1331",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/234/"
] | Working with delegate controls is just one of the main developer changes which requires an IISReset or recycling the app pool for the current site unfortunately. This is because SharePoint agressively caches a great deal of "infrequently changing" data for performance.
Sorry, can't help on your other question. | I think I have seen scenarios where there is no need to iisreset/recycle app pool with delegate controls.
Perhaps it matters whether it's an assembly based control vs ascx based control or as Anders mentioned, whether it's in the GAC vs the bin. |
1,331 | Is there a way to create custom delegate control in sub-sites without having to restart the IIS server?
I have full admin/SharePoint designer access to the sub-site, just not the IIS installation.
Also Is there a way to obtain the parent site WSDL asmx without having access to the parent SharePoint site, but having fu... | 2010/02/01 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/1331",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/234/"
] | i havent tested this, but as long as your delegate control is placed in partially trusted location (bin) and not global assembly cache (GAC) i cant see why it shouldnt work without an IISRESET. But i would have to test it to be sure. EDIT: ok chris piped in with his answer while i was writing this. He sounds kind of co... | I think I have seen scenarios where there is no need to iisreset/recycle app pool with delegate controls.
Perhaps it matters whether it's an assembly based control vs ascx based control or as Anders mentioned, whether it's in the GAC vs the bin. |
89,094 | My wife and I rent a duplex in an old neighborhood of Honolulu, HI. We have talked about mounting our 55" XBR-55X810C Sony 4K TV since we bought it, and yesterday we bought a mount on a whim. It's a Stanley tilting mount for 32" up to 70" TV's up to 90 pounds in weight. The XBR-55X810C specs say it's 38.2 pounds. Here ... | 2016/04/21 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/89094",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/52954/"
] | It sounds like you have solid 13/16" thick plywood for a wall. If that is the case, I'd drill holes matching holes in the mount all the way through, get four metal bolts, four matching nuts and eight washers, and hang the mount on the wall, securing with nuts from the opposite side of the wall and using threadlocker on... | Since you posted the picture, I can see that the wall is actually normal, and there most-likely *are* studs in it. The stud finder may be having difficulty finding the studs through the panelling; it takes some skill to use a stud finder, especially with panelling, more especially if the panelling is thick (like 3/4").... |
365,476 | I'm trying to install the latest beta on my MacBook and always get the message at the end:
>
> macOS Catalina beta could not be verified
>
>
>
Any suggestions how to solve this? | 2019/07/27 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/365476",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/86225/"
] | I just retied and it worked out of the box.
Don't know what the error was, I did not change nothing. | Are you scripting your download:
* [Is there a script I can use to download the Mojave installer without being signed in to the App Store?](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/337450/is-there-a-script-i-can-use-to-download-the-mojave-installer-without-being-signe)
That can help isolate things in my experience. |
365,476 | I'm trying to install the latest beta on my MacBook and always get the message at the end:
>
> macOS Catalina beta could not be verified
>
>
>
Any suggestions how to solve this? | 2019/07/27 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/365476",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/86225/"
] | I just retied and it worked out of the box.
Don't know what the error was, I did not change nothing. | change Date&Time to “Apple Americas / U.S. .....” |
16,416,787 | I am experimenting a lot these days, and one of the things I wanted to do is combine two popular NoSQL databases, namely Neo4j and MongoDB. Simply because I feel they complement eachother perfectly. The first class citizens in Neo4j, the relations, are imo exactly what's missing in MongoDB, whereas MongoDb allows me to... | 2013/05/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16416787",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1758916/"
] | Pieter-Jan,
if you are able to use Neo4j 2.0 you can implement a Schema-Index-Provider (which is really easy) that creates your documents transactionally in MongoDB.
As Neo4j makes its index providers transactional (since the beginning), we did that with Lucene and there is one for Redis too (needs to be updated). Bu... | Although I'm a huge fan of both technologies, I think a better option for you could be [OrientDB](http://www.orientdb.org/). It's a graph (as Neo4) and document (as MongoDB) database in one and supports ACID transactions. Sounds like a perfect match for your needs. |
16,416,787 | I am experimenting a lot these days, and one of the things I wanted to do is combine two popular NoSQL databases, namely Neo4j and MongoDB. Simply because I feel they complement eachother perfectly. The first class citizens in Neo4j, the relations, are imo exactly what's missing in MongoDB, whereas MongoDb allows me to... | 2013/05/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16416787",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1758916/"
] | Although I'm a huge fan of both technologies, I think a better option for you could be [OrientDB](http://www.orientdb.org/). It's a graph (as Neo4) and document (as MongoDB) database in one and supports ACID transactions. Sounds like a perfect match for your needs. | As posted here <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23465663/what-is-the-best-practice-to-combine-neo4j-and-mongodb?lq=1>, you might have a look on Structr.
Its backend can be regarded as a Document database around Neo4j. It's fully transactional and open-source. |
16,416,787 | I am experimenting a lot these days, and one of the things I wanted to do is combine two popular NoSQL databases, namely Neo4j and MongoDB. Simply because I feel they complement eachother perfectly. The first class citizens in Neo4j, the relations, are imo exactly what's missing in MongoDB, whereas MongoDb allows me to... | 2013/05/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16416787",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1758916/"
] | Pieter-Jan,
if you are able to use Neo4j 2.0 you can implement a Schema-Index-Provider (which is really easy) that creates your documents transactionally in MongoDB.
As Neo4j makes its index providers transactional (since the beginning), we did that with Lucene and there is one for Redis too (needs to be updated). Bu... | As posted here <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23465663/what-is-the-best-practice-to-combine-neo4j-and-mongodb?lq=1>, you might have a look on Structr.
Its backend can be regarded as a Document database around Neo4j. It's fully transactional and open-source. |
221,952 | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GdZn6.png)
I applied transparent because I wanted the roof to be transparent.
But even the shadows fade.
I want the roof shadow to be the same as the column shadow. | 2021/05/09 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/221952",
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] | To make the roof transparent (or semi-transparent as you have it) but opaque in the shadows you can use the *Ray Depth* output of the *Light Path* node.
But, this gives you a value of 0 or 1 which in your case means your roof will be completely invisible but have a shadow, because for the camera the *Mix Shader* is us... | A full shadow from a glass roof is physically incorrect, but it can probably be done. There is a node with Boolean outputs on wether the ray is actually coming straight from the camera or not. I think it’s called Ray Info but I’m not sure. Might be Light Path. Try configurations with that. |
42,969 | Helicopters can autorotate back to earth in case of emergency. The FAA recommends a flight profile similar to the following procedure:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jATGq.png)
Notice that in section (2) there is forward speed: vertical autorotation is... | 2017/08/15 | [
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] | There are three good reasons to avoid Vertical Autorotation.
First, Vertical Autorotation is way more likely to lead to a Vortex Ring condition where the air exiting the rotor disk gets recirculated back through the rotor disk. The recirculated air in the Vortex Ring then limits the amount of airflow/energy available ... | Rotor rpm control is by collective. No vortex ring in autorotation..since Air is flowing in wrong direction. Vertical autorotation is possible but risky since limited excess energy, greater energy with airspeed ,so you have more energy for the flare, allows margins for errors during flares. and you can pick your landin... |
42,969 | Helicopters can autorotate back to earth in case of emergency. The FAA recommends a flight profile similar to the following procedure:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jATGq.png)
Notice that in section (2) there is forward speed: vertical autorotation is... | 2017/08/15 | [
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] | You have to consider the power required by the helicopter in flight, represented by the red curve in the graph.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jQQlj.png)
The blue line is the power provided by the rotor in autorotation. As you can see at zero airspeed ... | There are many wrong answers in this thread but I want to address one that any rated helicopter pilot should be able to answer (which judging by the answers in this thread may be not as true as I’m hoping) and that is:
YOU CANNOT GET VORTEX RING STATE IN AN AUTOROTATION
The three things you need for VRS or “Settling ... |
42,969 | Helicopters can autorotate back to earth in case of emergency. The FAA recommends a flight profile similar to the following procedure:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jATGq.png)
Notice that in section (2) there is forward speed: vertical autorotation is... | 2017/08/15 | [
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] | During autorotation, forward speed is used to control rotor head speed. In auto, the engine is disconnected (in the case of tail rotor failure) or just plain dead, so it can't be used to control rotor speed.
In a vertical descent, the rotor head will eventually overspeed from the air rushing past the blades, and the ... | Rotor rpm control is by collective. No vortex ring in autorotation..since Air is flowing in wrong direction. Vertical autorotation is possible but risky since limited excess energy, greater energy with airspeed ,so you have more energy for the flare, allows margins for errors during flares. and you can pick your landin... |
42,969 | Helicopters can autorotate back to earth in case of emergency. The FAA recommends a flight profile similar to the following procedure:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jATGq.png)
Notice that in section (2) there is forward speed: vertical autorotation is... | 2017/08/15 | [
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] | During autorotation, forward speed is used to control rotor head speed. In auto, the engine is disconnected (in the case of tail rotor failure) or just plain dead, so it can't be used to control rotor speed.
In a vertical descent, the rotor head will eventually overspeed from the air rushing past the blades, and the ... | There are many wrong answers in this thread but I want to address one that any rated helicopter pilot should be able to answer (which judging by the answers in this thread may be not as true as I’m hoping) and that is:
YOU CANNOT GET VORTEX RING STATE IN AN AUTOROTATION
The three things you need for VRS or “Settling ... |
42,969 | Helicopters can autorotate back to earth in case of emergency. The FAA recommends a flight profile similar to the following procedure:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jATGq.png)
Notice that in section (2) there is forward speed: vertical autorotation is... | 2017/08/15 | [
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] | You have to consider the power required by the helicopter in flight, represented by the red curve in the graph.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jQQlj.png)
The blue line is the power provided by the rotor in autorotation. As you can see at zero airspeed ... | Rotor rpm control is by collective. No vortex ring in autorotation..since Air is flowing in wrong direction. Vertical autorotation is possible but risky since limited excess energy, greater energy with airspeed ,so you have more energy for the flare, allows margins for errors during flares. and you can pick your landin... |
9,300,323 | For some reasons I have to stick at Python 3.2. Unfortunately `wxPython` doesn't support python 3.
So which GUI framework should I choose? | 2012/02/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9300323",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/967164/"
] | Depends on your requirements. If [TkInter](http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/tkinter.html) does the job, it will be the least hassle since it comes with Python. Otherwise, go for [PyQt](http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro). | You can also use GTK 3 through [PyGObject](https://live.gnome.org/PyGObject) ([turorial here](http://readthedocs.org/docs/python-gtk-3-tutorial/en/latest/index.html)). |
1,285 | Suppose there is a physical theory that predicts that the observable physical laws differ when applied to the observer himself rather than to the other people, for any given observer.
Would existence of such theory invalidate the applicability of scientific method?
I am referring to [a paper by Thomas Breuer](https:... | 2011/09/15 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1285",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/796/"
] | >
> So my question is whether this result disproves usefulness, credibility or validity of scientific method?
>
>
>
It would problematize the scientific method **only for those cases where results are not repeatable through controlled observation**.
Most (if not all) mysterious quantum effects disappear at the le... | It is no problem at all: once you have discovered that you can't measure things, you ask other people to do the measurements for you. This happens *all the time*. Maybe you don't have the right camera, or you don't have a particle accelerator, or you use a CCD camera instead of your eye to capture some photons.
Also, ... |
1,285 | Suppose there is a physical theory that predicts that the observable physical laws differ when applied to the observer himself rather than to the other people, for any given observer.
Would existence of such theory invalidate the applicability of scientific method?
I am referring to [a paper by Thomas Breuer](https:... | 2011/09/15 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1285",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/796/"
] | >
> So my question is whether this result disproves usefulness, credibility or validity of scientific method?
>
>
>
It would problematize the scientific method **only for those cases where results are not repeatable through controlled observation**.
Most (if not all) mysterious quantum effects disappear at the le... | >
> So my question is whether this result disproves usefulness, credibility or validity of scientific method?
>
>
>
At the worst, it only means that the scientific method is in some need of revision.
Understand that what we call the scientific method is, even at the present, in no way the provably-best method tha... |
58,023 | I like to know what you guys think about using feedback as a verb. I've seen it a whole lot in writing and email communications. What would be other alternatives?
Your input is appreciated.
Thank you, | 2015/05/30 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/58023",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
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] | There are plenty of situations in which new verbs can be created in English. If a noun such as "feedback" is used as a verb enough times and it sounds ok to enough people then it will be accepted as a verb. The verb "to google" comes to mind. If it doesn't sound ok to anybody then it will be considered wrong. The noun ... | Feedback is a verb phrase. If you want to change the verb's tense, number, *et cetera*, you should modify "feed" separately from "back". For example:
* Feedback loops occur when the output from a system is fed back into the system. |
58,023 | I like to know what you guys think about using feedback as a verb. I've seen it a whole lot in writing and email communications. What would be other alternatives?
Your input is appreciated.
Thank you, | 2015/05/30 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/58023",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/18585/"
] | There are plenty of situations in which new verbs can be created in English. If a noun such as "feedback" is used as a verb enough times and it sounds ok to enough people then it will be accepted as a verb. The verb "to google" comes to mind. If it doesn't sound ok to anybody then it will be considered wrong. The noun ... | *Feed back* (or *feed-back*) is already a verb in English.
If someone wants to spell it as *feedback* and extend its usage to mean *to provide feedback*, that is fine, but it would only be an extension of an already existing verb.
Both *feedback* (also spelled *feed-back*) as a noun and as a (phrasal) verb exist fro... |
58,023 | I like to know what you guys think about using feedback as a verb. I've seen it a whole lot in writing and email communications. What would be other alternatives?
Your input is appreciated.
Thank you, | 2015/05/30 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/58023",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/18585/"
] | *Feed back* (or *feed-back*) is already a verb in English.
If someone wants to spell it as *feedback* and extend its usage to mean *to provide feedback*, that is fine, but it would only be an extension of an already existing verb.
Both *feedback* (also spelled *feed-back*) as a noun and as a (phrasal) verb exist fro... | Feedback is a verb phrase. If you want to change the verb's tense, number, *et cetera*, you should modify "feed" separately from "back". For example:
* Feedback loops occur when the output from a system is fed back into the system. |
37,108 | I've already seen this question: [Problems with a slipping seatpost](https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/8090/problems-with-a-slipping-seatpost)
The main difference is that I have an aluminium frameset and a forged alloy seatpost - lightweight clamp.
After every couple hundred miles on my commuter (particul... | 2016/02/11 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/37108",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
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] | I had an exactly same problem: Ritchey WCS seatpost, Merida frame (both alu alloy) and a lightweight clamp, like in @Frisbee's answer. What I tried:
1. Beefy clamp with various torque settings. Didn't help at all.
2. PVC tape. Helped, but didn't last long.
3. More torque on a lightweight clamp. I snapped it in half wi... | I would try a beefier clamp
This is your lightweight clamp
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4bMnm.jpg)
This is a beefy clamp
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/alryH.jpg)
Based on jus... |
37,108 | I've already seen this question: [Problems with a slipping seatpost](https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/8090/problems-with-a-slipping-seatpost)
The main difference is that I have an aluminium frameset and a forged alloy seatpost - lightweight clamp.
After every couple hundred miles on my commuter (particul... | 2016/02/11 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/37108",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/12673/"
] | After trying a chunkier clamp and hairspray, I found [this](http://www.evanscycles.com/products/ritchey/liquid-torque-5gr-bag-ec057869)
Clamp did not help much, the hairspray was better, but I was a little concerned about the solvent stuff in the aerosol.
The Liquid Torque has been applied and I have done over 120 ... | I would try a beefier clamp
This is your lightweight clamp
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4bMnm.jpg)
This is a beefy clamp
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/alryH.jpg)
Based on jus... |
7,617 | Is it possible that the socket orientation (in Europe: one pin 230V, the other ground) can have an effect (albeit very small) on the amplifier behavior of a very old stereo sound system? What is, if any, the underlying reason ? | 2010/12/07 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/7617",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/1272/"
] | I can think in one effect but only for a very specific hardware. If You're using a [capacitive supply](http://electroschematics.com/5678/capacitor-power-supply/) with a [half-wave rectifier](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier#Half-wave_rectification) - In this case the circuit ground is connected directly at one of... | I would imagine this could introduce some unexpected ground loops and so increase both hum and noise levels. - especially if the amp is connected to other kit with hot (live) and neutral (connected to ground/earth) wired the other way round. |
36,408 | I have an aluminium bearing holder attached to one end of an aluminium plate as follows:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/026xMl.png)
The bearing holder is attached to the plate by two bolts on the bottom. The intended setup is to attach a relatively he... | 2020/06/25 | [
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/36408",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com",
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] | Lead can be held safely... Just don't eat it and wash your hands. If it is old, is most likely contains some trace amount of lead, as it was a common additive to make machining easier. | your tests suggest that the pipe is just iron or steel and safe to hold. Certain special steel alloys called *free-machining steel* or *ledloy* have lead in them but they are not used to make pipe. |
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