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2,916,044 | I'm wondering if there is any news about a "Android Dev Phone 3"? Is an updated hardware of the "Android Dev Phone 2" that is coming soon? (probably an unlocked version of the Nexus One) | 2010/05/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2916044",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1406/"
] | The Nexus One IS the unlocked version of the Nexus One! It's sim unlocked and the bootloader is unlocked. | "The Nexus One is no longer available for direct purchase from Google, but will be made available through a partner for sale to registered developers. Please check back for more updates regarding developer availability."
<http://www.google.com/support/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=166508> |
312,683 | After asking the question *[Can we have a code only reason for deletion?](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/312678/can-we-have-a-code-only-reason-for-deletion)*, it seems to be clear that code-only answers should not be deleted.
**Why** are code-only answers in the low quality review queue, if they should not b... | 2015/12/17 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/312683",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> Why are code only answers in the low quality review queue, if they should not be deleted?
>
>
>
Because people flag them ;) Not everybody knows when to and when not to flag a post.
>
> Someone must be approving the flags?
>
>
>
When an answer is flagged as VLQ the answer goes into the LQ queue, the flag ... | Code-only answers is not a reason for deletion, but still a reason for improvement. They are in low quality queue because it is strongly suggested that they're should be improved with additional explanation. |
312,683 | After asking the question *[Can we have a code only reason for deletion?](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/312678/can-we-have-a-code-only-reason-for-deletion)*, it seems to be clear that code-only answers should not be deleted.
**Why** are code-only answers in the low quality review queue, if they should not b... | 2015/12/17 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/312683",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Generally, they get into the LQP queue because someone is silly enough to flag them as VLQ or NAA. Sometimes the automated heuristics shove them in, presumably because they're very short or something.
In any case, there are a few ways they can then leave the queue:
* Recommend Deletion/Delete consensus. This is almos... | >
> Why are code only answers in the low quality review queue, if they should not be deleted?
>
>
>
Because people flag them ;) Not everybody knows when to and when not to flag a post.
>
> Someone must be approving the flags?
>
>
>
When an answer is flagged as VLQ the answer goes into the LQ queue, the flag ... |
312,683 | After asking the question *[Can we have a code only reason for deletion?](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/312678/can-we-have-a-code-only-reason-for-deletion)*, it seems to be clear that code-only answers should not be deleted.
**Why** are code-only answers in the low quality review queue, if they should not b... | 2015/12/17 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/312683",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Generally, they get into the LQP queue because someone is silly enough to flag them as VLQ or NAA. Sometimes the automated heuristics shove them in, presumably because they're very short or something.
In any case, there are a few ways they can then leave the queue:
* Recommend Deletion/Delete consensus. This is almos... | Code-only answers is not a reason for deletion, but still a reason for improvement. They are in low quality queue because it is strongly suggested that they're should be improved with additional explanation. |
320 | We all love [Network Engineering Stack Exchange](http://networkengineering.stackexchange.com), but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site t... | 2014/02/10 | [
"https://networkengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/320",
"https://networkengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Final Results
=============
* [https url filtering on Cisco ASA 5520](https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5662/https-url-filtering-on-cisco-asa-5520)
**Net Score: 4** (Excellent: 4, Satisfactory: 3, Needs Improvement: 0)
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* [ProCurve CPU at 100% for several minutes after reboot](https://networ... | I think we need to be careful with both questions and answers in "best practices" Q&As.
(There are a lot of these -- here's an [ad hoc list](https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/search?q=best+practices)).
In some cases, there are published best practices (see [IETF BCPs](http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/bcplist.h... |
57,171 | An air suspension fork on one of my bikes starts showing its age: noticeable play, scratches on stanchions etc. It has not become less smooth and does not leak air so far, however.
I am starting to wonder how safe it is to continue using it, and what will happen when it "fails".
Possible outcomes of a non-catastrophi... | 2018/09/19 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/57171",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/26917/"
] | If compatibility is what you're after, you should know that it's not always necessary to use the same group. Many times, you can mix and match different groups, even different manufacturers.
As far as I know, all 10-speed Campy geartrain components should be compatible with each other. [You have to consider the capaci... | EDIT 2023: Compatibility was not a major issue when I originally wrote this answer but since then electronic shifting and some details in mechanical levers have changed things. See the [other answer](https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/a/87706/10595) and [this FAQ](https://www.velotech-cycling.ltd.uk/campagnolo_faq.shtm... |
57,171 | An air suspension fork on one of my bikes starts showing its age: noticeable play, scratches on stanchions etc. It has not become less smooth and does not leak air so far, however.
I am starting to wonder how safe it is to continue using it, and what will happen when it "fails".
Possible outcomes of a non-catastrophi... | 2018/09/19 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/57171",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/26917/"
] | If compatibility is what you're after, you should know that it's not always necessary to use the same group. Many times, you can mix and match different groups, even different manufacturers.
As far as I know, all 10-speed Campy geartrain components should be compatible with each other. [You have to consider the capaci... | As mentioned, Campagnolo doesn't have a groupset model number system that is public-facing, unlike Shimano. Thus, differentiation between different iterations (given the number of speeds) is more complex and requires detailed knowledge. If you are selling, provide as much information as you can. Many forums (e.g. Pacel... |
17,690 | **Scenario.**
I have decided that I should not buy widgets from Company X because I do not want to support various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets.
**Claim.** It is nonetheless morally permissible for me to buy stock in Company X, as long as I am buying that stock from a third party (ie, not from... | 2014/10/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17690",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/10476/"
] | The "Claim" makes little sense from a purely theoretical basis:
People forget what fiduciary action is. The leadership of a corporation whose stock you hold is legally bound to make you money when that is permissible, reasonable and within their charter. If they are getting away with behaving outside those bounds, the... | Firstly, the possible objection you raise does not really hold up since the market should price in such perceived liquidity issues, forcing the initial offer price of company Y to be as attractive as company Z.
There is a third scenario which you do not mention. Buying shares in evil company X allows you to do two thi... |
17,690 | **Scenario.**
I have decided that I should not buy widgets from Company X because I do not want to support various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets.
**Claim.** It is nonetheless morally permissible for me to buy stock in Company X, as long as I am buying that stock from a third party (ie, not from... | 2014/10/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17690",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/10476/"
] | The argument seems to lump all behaviors into one of three groups: moral, immoral, or neutral. It also assumes a tremendous amount of isolation. All of the decisions are based on dollars. Very little went to the question of what it means to own stock in X in the first place.
I do not see any reason why a person needs ... | If, as you stated, "Company X is evil", then you should not buy shares in that company, because to do so would ally you with evil.
However, your claim and argument are very loosely, even sloppily worded.
"various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets", in the Scenario suddenly transforms to "Since Com... |
17,690 | **Scenario.**
I have decided that I should not buy widgets from Company X because I do not want to support various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets.
**Claim.** It is nonetheless morally permissible for me to buy stock in Company X, as long as I am buying that stock from a third party (ie, not from... | 2014/10/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17690",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/10476/"
] | The answer to the main question is **yes**. It is immoral for **an individual** to buy stock from a company that, **he knows**, does "immoral" things.
The "claim" is false. It is **not morally permissible** to go through third parties to try to escape **personal** responsibility!
If you happen to own the stock of sai... | First of all, I apologize if I **sound** **dogmatic**, but under the light of the Marxian analysis, the selling or buying stock **itself** is the **abbreviated** **production process** as is G ( gold ( **input=investment** )) --> W (=Work=Production process) --->G' ( **Increased** gold **after** selling the products ).... |
17,690 | **Scenario.**
I have decided that I should not buy widgets from Company X because I do not want to support various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets.
**Claim.** It is nonetheless morally permissible for me to buy stock in Company X, as long as I am buying that stock from a third party (ie, not from... | 2014/10/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17690",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/10476/"
] | The answer to the main question is **yes**. It is immoral for **an individual** to buy stock from a company that, **he knows**, does "immoral" things.
The "claim" is false. It is **not morally permissible** to go through third parties to try to escape **personal** responsibility!
If you happen to own the stock of sai... | If, as you stated, "Company X is evil", then you should not buy shares in that company, because to do so would ally you with evil.
However, your claim and argument are very loosely, even sloppily worded.
"various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets", in the Scenario suddenly transforms to "Since Com... |
17,690 | **Scenario.**
I have decided that I should not buy widgets from Company X because I do not want to support various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets.
**Claim.** It is nonetheless morally permissible for me to buy stock in Company X, as long as I am buying that stock from a third party (ie, not from... | 2014/10/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17690",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/10476/"
] | The "Claim" makes little sense from a purely theoretical basis:
People forget what fiduciary action is. The leadership of a corporation whose stock you hold is legally bound to make you money when that is permissible, reasonable and within their charter. If they are getting away with behaving outside those bounds, the... | If, as you stated, "Company X is evil", then you should not buy shares in that company, because to do so would ally you with evil.
However, your claim and argument are very loosely, even sloppily worded.
"various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets", in the Scenario suddenly transforms to "Since Com... |
17,690 | **Scenario.**
I have decided that I should not buy widgets from Company X because I do not want to support various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets.
**Claim.** It is nonetheless morally permissible for me to buy stock in Company X, as long as I am buying that stock from a third party (ie, not from... | 2014/10/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17690",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/10476/"
] | Firstly, the possible objection you raise does not really hold up since the market should price in such perceived liquidity issues, forcing the initial offer price of company Y to be as attractive as company Z.
There is a third scenario which you do not mention. Buying shares in evil company X allows you to do two thi... | If, as you stated, "Company X is evil", then you should not buy shares in that company, because to do so would ally you with evil.
However, your claim and argument are very loosely, even sloppily worded.
"various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets", in the Scenario suddenly transforms to "Since Com... |
17,690 | **Scenario.**
I have decided that I should not buy widgets from Company X because I do not want to support various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets.
**Claim.** It is nonetheless morally permissible for me to buy stock in Company X, as long as I am buying that stock from a third party (ie, not from... | 2014/10/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17690",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/10476/"
] | Firstly, the possible objection you raise does not really hold up since the market should price in such perceived liquidity issues, forcing the initial offer price of company Y to be as attractive as company Z.
There is a third scenario which you do not mention. Buying shares in evil company X allows you to do two thi... | It can be worse than immoral. It can be immoral and hypocritical, for example when an organisation like the Church of England invests money in a company whose whole purpose is to cynically exploit the poorest citizens of the country with all means, legal or illegal, as the "payday loan" company Wonga.
And I mean "inv... |
17,690 | **Scenario.**
I have decided that I should not buy widgets from Company X because I do not want to support various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets.
**Claim.** It is nonetheless morally permissible for me to buy stock in Company X, as long as I am buying that stock from a third party (ie, not from... | 2014/10/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17690",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/10476/"
] | The "Claim" makes little sense from a purely theoretical basis:
People forget what fiduciary action is. The leadership of a corporation whose stock you hold is legally bound to make you money when that is permissible, reasonable and within their charter. If they are getting away with behaving outside those bounds, the... | The answer to the main question is **yes**. It is immoral for **an individual** to buy stock from a company that, **he knows**, does "immoral" things.
The "claim" is false. It is **not morally permissible** to go through third parties to try to escape **personal** responsibility!
If you happen to own the stock of sai... |
17,690 | **Scenario.**
I have decided that I should not buy widgets from Company X because I do not want to support various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets.
**Claim.** It is nonetheless morally permissible for me to buy stock in Company X, as long as I am buying that stock from a third party (ie, not from... | 2014/10/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17690",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/10476/"
] | The argument seems to lump all behaviors into one of three groups: moral, immoral, or neutral. It also assumes a tremendous amount of isolation. All of the decisions are based on dollars. Very little went to the question of what it means to own stock in X in the first place.
I do not see any reason why a person needs ... | The answer to the main question is **yes**. It is immoral for **an individual** to buy stock from a company that, **he knows**, does "immoral" things.
The "claim" is false. It is **not morally permissible** to go through third parties to try to escape **personal** responsibility!
If you happen to own the stock of sai... |
17,690 | **Scenario.**
I have decided that I should not buy widgets from Company X because I do not want to support various immoral things Company X does to produce said widgets.
**Claim.** It is nonetheless morally permissible for me to buy stock in Company X, as long as I am buying that stock from a third party (ie, not from... | 2014/10/19 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/17690",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/10476/"
] | The "Claim" makes little sense from a purely theoretical basis:
People forget what fiduciary action is. The leadership of a corporation whose stock you hold is legally bound to make you money when that is permissible, reasonable and within their charter. If they are getting away with behaving outside those bounds, the... | The argument seems to lump all behaviors into one of three groups: moral, immoral, or neutral. It also assumes a tremendous amount of isolation. All of the decisions are based on dollars. Very little went to the question of what it means to own stock in X in the first place.
I do not see any reason why a person needs ... |
356,827 | If I want to build up a sentence like;
"If you don't have a gift idea and want to pay much."
Does this "not" make both verbs (have - want) negative? It seems like it works but I still have doubts about it. Or what is the correct form of this grammar ? | 2016/11/03 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/356827",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/31739/"
] | **Sensory Memory**. Smell is called [olfactory memory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_memory), touch is called [haptic memory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_memory), hearing is called [echoic memory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoic_memory), and image is called [iconic memory](https://en.wikipedia.o... | There is the term [**involuntary memory**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_memory) that is the *memory that occurs when cues encountered in everyday life evoke recollections of the past without conscious effort.*
This is most notably described by Marcel Proust in his novel [*Remembrance of Things Past*](http... |
10,341,714 | my question is quite simple :
does google have an in app purchase service which , after the purchasing process is complete , will download the purchased content ?
if not , is there any other alternative?
the reason for this is to make the app as small as possible instead of having all of the purchased content within t... | 2012/04/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10341714",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/878126/"
] | What I've frequently seen is to provide your extra content as another app download in the playstore, which then uses IPC to communicate/transfer that extra content to the main app.
I've seen video players, for example, request that you download a secondary app to get specific codecs. Once the user has downloaded the c... | Yes.
It is also fully documented on android's developer repository, complete with guides on how to set it up, etc. Obviously if you utilize google they will take a cut. But if you made your own, you would still have to give a portion to your credit card processor. Best of luck:
<http://developer.android.com/guide/mar... |
112,979 | What's the difference between white sugar and (pure) refined sugar and which one is better for baking?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/p0hjS.jpg) [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vmWkg.jpg) | 2020/12/04 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/112979",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/3362/"
] | These are technical terms that are meaningful only in the original Thai. The English translations are meaningless and have no relevance to cooking.
<http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2552/E/132/15.PDF>
So you should say 'น้ำตาลทรายขาว' ('white sugar') and 'น้ำตาลทรายขาวบรสิทธุ' ('refined sugar')
น้ำตาลทรายข... | Interestingly Tesco don’t seem to have *any* white sugar under their own label in UK stores.
They sell a white British beet sugar and a white cane sugar under the brands ‘Silver Spoon’ and ‘Trade Aid UK’ respectively, but as both of the packets you show are illustrated with sugar canes that is unlikely to be the disti... |
44,057 | Are there some differences in sentences
>
> *You've got to be strong*.
>
>
>
and
>
> *You should be strong.*
>
>
>
Are they the same? | 2014/12/27 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/44057",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/3431/"
] | There are things we *need* to do, and there are things we *should* do. Think of "needs" as requirements, while "shoulds" are recommendations.
So, if you want to convey that it is absolutely essential to remain strong, use one of these:
>
> We need to be strong.
>
> We must be strong.
>
> We've got to be str... | Their meanings are the same, but their use contexts are slightly different.
While both mean roughly the same thing ('you need to become stronger'), 'you've got to' is more impassioned and more personal (and slightly more informal) than 'you should'. |
44,057 | Are there some differences in sentences
>
> *You've got to be strong*.
>
>
>
and
>
> *You should be strong.*
>
>
>
Are they the same? | 2014/12/27 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/44057",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/3431/"
] | There are things we *need* to do, and there are things we *should* do. Think of "needs" as requirements, while "shoulds" are recommendations.
So, if you want to convey that it is absolutely essential to remain strong, use one of these:
>
> We need to be strong.
>
> We must be strong.
>
> We've got to be str... | They're not the same.
>
> You've got to be strong.
>
>
>
This means that you *need* to be strong, that is that strength is a mandatory requirement for the situation.
This expression is often used in reference to emotional strength needed to weather a current or expected crisis, though of course it can refer to p... |
50,649 | I want to stack x number of photos to incrase the exposure of the final image. But I need to do it manually, I mean, using Photoshop but without using wizards.
My approach would be using a layer for each photo and aplying an alpha for each layer. I want every photo has the same weight in the final image, so it must be... | 2014/05/30 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/50649",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/28339/"
] | When you set the opacity of a layer 50%, what you get is 50% of that layer, and 50% of all the layers underneath it combined.
For this reason you should set the bottom layer to 100%, then layer above that to 50%. Now you have a perfect balance of the two layers. The layer above that should be set to 33%, meaning your ... | Do you mean like a multiple exposure? If so you want to not have a blank background layer but instead only have photo layers. To do that you can select your x images and open them as layers. I don't have LR or PS in front of me on this computer but in LR you can select multiple images and open them as layers in the sam... |
7,552 | I don't see why we shouldn't have Coffee.SE at least an option for people to vote up as an SE community we advertise for on P.SE
Can anybody (perhaps Robert Cartaino the diamond that deleted the post) tell me why it was removed? If not, I intend to just add it back, I think we definitely should be advertising Coffee.S... | 2015/08/20 | [
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7552",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/35276/"
] | If we cannot have a coffee ad, then we cannot use the current site icon either.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zjmuv.png)
All or nothing. | I don't agree with the decision to delete the ad. [Coffee is a fundamental portion of the lives of many programmers](https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7547/is-every-day-coffee-day). We discuss it in [The Whiteboard](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/21/the-whiteboard) often.
[@RobertCartar... |
7,552 | I don't see why we shouldn't have Coffee.SE at least an option for people to vote up as an SE community we advertise for on P.SE
Can anybody (perhaps Robert Cartaino the diamond that deleted the post) tell me why it was removed? If not, I intend to just add it back, I think we definitely should be advertising Coffee.S... | 2015/08/20 | [
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7552",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/35276/"
] | Culturally, caffeine and pizza are part of being a programmer. While it doesn't make for [good main site questions](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/286216/40980) (10k link) coffee, tea and other caffeine delivery mechanisms are a [documented part](http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/ISO-standard-cup-of-te... | I don't agree with the decision to delete the ad. [Coffee is a fundamental portion of the lives of many programmers](https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7547/is-every-day-coffee-day). We discuss it in [The Whiteboard](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/21/the-whiteboard) often.
[@RobertCartar... |
7,552 | I don't see why we shouldn't have Coffee.SE at least an option for people to vote up as an SE community we advertise for on P.SE
Can anybody (perhaps Robert Cartaino the diamond that deleted the post) tell me why it was removed? If not, I intend to just add it back, I think we definitely should be advertising Coffee.S... | 2015/08/20 | [
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7552",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/35276/"
] | No problem, I restored the ad (actually, I see another copy has already been posted).
Typically I will remove ads and comments soliciting users for ***proposals*** unless they are *directly* related to the subject of the site. With thousands of proposals vying for attention, supporters can sometimes get a bit overzea... | I don't agree with the decision to delete the ad. [Coffee is a fundamental portion of the lives of many programmers](https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7547/is-every-day-coffee-day). We discuss it in [The Whiteboard](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/21/the-whiteboard) often.
[@RobertCartar... |
7,552 | I don't see why we shouldn't have Coffee.SE at least an option for people to vote up as an SE community we advertise for on P.SE
Can anybody (perhaps Robert Cartaino the diamond that deleted the post) tell me why it was removed? If not, I intend to just add it back, I think we definitely should be advertising Coffee.S... | 2015/08/20 | [
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7552",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/35276/"
] | If we cannot have a coffee ad, then we cannot use the current site icon either.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zjmuv.png)
All or nothing. | Culturally, caffeine and pizza are part of being a programmer. While it doesn't make for [good main site questions](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/286216/40980) (10k link) coffee, tea and other caffeine delivery mechanisms are a [documented part](http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/ISO-standard-cup-of-te... |
7,552 | I don't see why we shouldn't have Coffee.SE at least an option for people to vote up as an SE community we advertise for on P.SE
Can anybody (perhaps Robert Cartaino the diamond that deleted the post) tell me why it was removed? If not, I intend to just add it back, I think we definitely should be advertising Coffee.S... | 2015/08/20 | [
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7552",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/35276/"
] | No problem, I restored the ad (actually, I see another copy has already been posted).
Typically I will remove ads and comments soliciting users for ***proposals*** unless they are *directly* related to the subject of the site. With thousands of proposals vying for attention, supporters can sometimes get a bit overzea... | Culturally, caffeine and pizza are part of being a programmer. While it doesn't make for [good main site questions](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/286216/40980) (10k link) coffee, tea and other caffeine delivery mechanisms are a [documented part](http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/ISO-standard-cup-of-te... |
40,700,752 | I want to develop an Alexa skill that is able to receive free text input from the user that doesn't necessarily map to an intent. Is this possible? | 2016/11/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/40700752",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7583/"
] | No, that is not possible. The closest thing is the 'literal' slot (input) type but that is now deprecated on the original USA region and was never supported on the other regions. | I have found that the custom slots return far more than the provided samples. |
131,414 | I would like to know if Android devices make active or passive scan when looking for the AP to connect. I've already made a test using Wireshark and wifi sniffer and it seems that while an iPhone sends Probe Request frames to discover available APs (active scan), my Android device sometimes sends Probe Request frame, b... | 2015/12/13 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/131414",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/141177/"
] | The only "official" explanation I found is in [this comment](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/a5ec95cdb1a7d2024249277dff1f99d0046c9b56) (dated July 2009) in the Git repositories on android:
>
> wifi: **WifiManager.startScan() will now do passive scans by default**.
>
>
> Active scans will... | I have been searching for the official document for an exact answer too. But I couldn't find any. Hence I'm writing this base my own assumption.
I believe a client device(mobile in this case) does both the active and passive scan.
My reasons are as below:
1. When a mobile activates the WiFi interface, it needs to sca... |
35,253,597 | I like to retrieve 2014-2015 tweets based on some search key for data mining.
I am using twitter4j(java) and calling API GET search/tweets.I am getting only last week tweets.Can anyone please suggest me the solution? | 2016/02/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/35253597",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3244108/"
] | [gnip](https://gnip.com/)
You got to pay for data older than about a week. | Via Gnip, you can order a one-time data pull (called a Historical PowerTrack One-Time Job). You provide the rule, and a data file will be sent back to you with download directions.
You can learn more about Historical PowerTrack [here](http://bit.do/GSWHPT) and [here](http://support.gnip.com/apis/historical_api/) |
43,771 | After using SO, for sometimes, I realize that I got some problems.
[Zen masters fighting each other](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2505697/how-to-code-feature-on-checking-visitor-ip-address-in-php) on one of my question. Every side have their own arguments and everybody seem right. Frankly, this confuses me: **H... | 2010/03/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43771",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/144744/"
] | Well, you can use <http://meta.stackoverflow.com> | Regarding your *second feature* (Btw, it's best to ask separate issues in separate questions), there is a timeline view of your question:
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/posts/2505697/timeline>
>
>
>
See here for more information:
>
> [Feedback Request: New Timeline Question View](https://meta.stackexchange.com/... |
43,771 | After using SO, for sometimes, I realize that I got some problems.
[Zen masters fighting each other](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2505697/how-to-code-feature-on-checking-visitor-ip-address-in-php) on one of my question. Every side have their own arguments and everybody seem right. Frankly, this confuses me: **H... | 2010/03/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43771",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/144744/"
] | The "**I choose this because**" feature is already there. Simply write a comment to the answer that you accepted with your reasoning, and possibly also on the answers that you decided not to accept. Also, you can upvote all of the answers which are helpful in solving your problem.
Regarding the "**sort based on timeli... | Regarding your *second feature* (Btw, it's best to ask separate issues in separate questions), there is a timeline view of your question:
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/posts/2505697/timeline>
>
>
>
See here for more information:
>
> [Feedback Request: New Timeline Question View](https://meta.stackexchange.com/... |
131,956 | When I do sports betting and the moneyline is -110, 110, I must win at least ~52.4% of the time to break even. The 2.4% goes to the bookmaker as their vigorish (or "rake", or "juice").
My stock broker says that stock trading is free. How can this be? Logically, they must somehow be getting some vigorish to keep their ... | 2020/10/15 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/131956",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/103306/"
] | The point is: you get enough shares to DEMAND a seat on the board. Board members are representatives of shareholders and generally "a few shares of a public company" is nothing. Zero. No One cares about you. This is like asking McDonalds to change the menu because you would possibly buy one of the new burgers. No, not ... | >
> Do I just call or email the CEO and mention that I am a shareholder who wants to become a director?
>
>
>
You could certainly try!
But, no, your few shares themselves won't do it except be a nice story that the executive team and board might find amusing enough to entertain.
The CEO is typically appointed by... |
3,329,428 | I read cheyenne server is going to implement it ( <http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html> ) , but for learning purpose I'd like more to see the shortest sample code of a websocket server and a websocket client in rebol / rebol or rebol / rebol view or rebol / javascript.
... | 2010/07/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3329428",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2687173/"
] | I write this by looking at this java example: <http://github.com/adamac/Java-WebSocket-client/blob/master/src/com/sixfire/websocket/WebSocket.java>
and tested only with this ws chat server <http://www.codeproject.com/KB/webservices/c_sharp_web_socket_server.aspx>
it supports framing (0x00 - - 0xFF), when you pick the... | I looked at this recently and writing a ws:// protocol does not look like it will take long, and looks to be quite straight forward. Perhaps you could try writing it yourself.
Well, since I wrote this, Endo has released his ws:// protocol
<http://www.moldibi.com/rebol/ws.html> |
38,128,166 | And how are we going to use Velocity with Spring after Spring 5.0? | 2016/06/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/38128166",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/637382/"
] | It looks like Jürgen Höller wants to get rid of Velocity alltogether, because it "dates back to 2010".
Support for it was deprecated in Spring 4.3, and will probably be removed in Spring 5.
<https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-13795> | In the accepted answer from @Olivier Croisier he states that the reason for depracating velocity was that it "dates back to 2010". While this doesn't seem a particularly valid reason to get rid of something (The C language dates back to 1972) that was actually Jurgen Hoeller's reason given in the issue description that... |
122,443 | I was wondering on how I'm able to join all of these separate objects into one, and be able to apply one material using a UV texture with a color grid? is there any tutorials on youtube? Im only used to maya UV texturing. thanks. | 2018/11/11 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/122443",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/62097/"
] | To join the objects, select them and then press CTRL + J.
but I imagine you only need a color grid material for all the objects in the scene and not really having them joined.
the easiest and fastest way to achieve this requires using and external addon.
<http://renderhjs.net/textools/blender/>
Once you have the addo... | In order to accomplish this, the easiest way is through the 'Texture Atlas' add-on.
1. Open user preferences Ctrl + Alt + U. Go to 'Addons' tab on the top bar. Search for 'Texture Atlas' and check the box to enable it.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q3... |
207,556 | Why did the directors kill off QuickSilver in *Avengers: Age of Ultron*?
Pointless to have a "main" character killed off after one movie. | 2019/03/20 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/207556",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/113114/"
] | This is what Marvel producer Kevin Feige said about the death [here](http://www.mtv.com/news/2150560/avengers-age-of-ultron-quicksilver/):
>
> "It adds stakes to the ending of the film," he said, adding that it also serves as a way "to show repercussions to Ultron's actions, and also in a way to solidify Scarlet Witc... | So official answer is that Marvel could only use the two characters, Scarlet Witch and Quick Silver, for one movie, and had to give ONE of them back to Fox. Since they decided that Scarlet Witch fit into the MCU storyline, so they killed off Quicksilver and gave him a way into the MCU. |
20,006 | I have an http proxy, which works OK, but there are some address on my lan which provides some web services.
I want to configure my device so that for some range of addresses the proxy is bypassed.
I have tried with 10.0.0.0/8, but it doesn't work! | 2012/02/28 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20006",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/1863/"
] | Yes. This is definitely possible, requiring no modifications or drivers on the PC. As the OP mentions, the USB identification on the phone end is ultimately done in software (in this file <https://github.com/android/kernel_msm/blob/android-msm-2.6.35/drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c>), and it could be modified to identif... | At a minimum, this would require both software on the phone and on the PC. The 2 pieces of software would have to communicate with each other. Nothing like this, that I know of currently, exists.
And for the PC to think that the device is truly a keyboard, it would require a new driver that would tell the PC that the... |
20,006 | I have an http proxy, which works OK, but there are some address on my lan which provides some web services.
I want to configure my device so that for some range of addresses the proxy is bypassed.
I have tried with 10.0.0.0/8, but it doesn't work! | 2012/02/28 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20006",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/1863/"
] | This doesn't exactly answer your question, but it might help in your use case.
Maybe you want to have a look at [InputStick](http://inputstick.com). It'll be a USB thumb drive that you pair to Android via Bluetooth. Plugged into a computer it emulates a generic USB HID to send keyboard strokes. An advanced Java API w... | At a minimum, this would require both software on the phone and on the PC. The 2 pieces of software would have to communicate with each other. Nothing like this, that I know of currently, exists.
And for the PC to think that the device is truly a keyboard, it would require a new driver that would tell the PC that the... |
20,006 | I have an http proxy, which works OK, but there are some address on my lan which provides some web services.
I want to configure my device so that for some range of addresses the proxy is bypassed.
I have tried with 10.0.0.0/8, but it doesn't work! | 2012/02/28 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20006",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/1863/"
] | Yes. This is definitely possible, requiring no modifications or drivers on the PC. As the OP mentions, the USB identification on the phone end is ultimately done in software (in this file <https://github.com/android/kernel_msm/blob/android-msm-2.6.35/drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c>), and it could be modified to identif... | This doesn't exactly answer your question, but it might help in your use case.
Maybe you want to have a look at [InputStick](http://inputstick.com). It'll be a USB thumb drive that you pair to Android via Bluetooth. Plugged into a computer it emulates a generic USB HID to send keyboard strokes. An advanced Java API w... |
20,006 | I have an http proxy, which works OK, but there are some address on my lan which provides some web services.
I want to configure my device so that for some range of addresses the proxy is bypassed.
I have tried with 10.0.0.0/8, but it doesn't work! | 2012/02/28 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20006",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/1863/"
] | Yes. This is definitely possible, requiring no modifications or drivers on the PC. As the OP mentions, the USB identification on the phone end is ultimately done in software (in this file <https://github.com/android/kernel_msm/blob/android-msm-2.6.35/drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c>), and it could be modified to identif... | Have you tried [Unified Remote](http://www.unifiedremote.com/). This is a great tool to use phone as keyboard and mouse. It doesn't use USB but wifi instead. There is an app on phone and computer that work together. Works great for me. Also if you get full version you get integration with many common applications. |
20,006 | I have an http proxy, which works OK, but there are some address on my lan which provides some web services.
I want to configure my device so that for some range of addresses the proxy is bypassed.
I have tried with 10.0.0.0/8, but it doesn't work! | 2012/02/28 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20006",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/1863/"
] | Yes. This is definitely possible, requiring no modifications or drivers on the PC. As the OP mentions, the USB identification on the phone end is ultimately done in software (in this file <https://github.com/android/kernel_msm/blob/android-msm-2.6.35/drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c>), and it could be modified to identif... | I was searching for something similar and found <https://github.com/pelya/android-keyboard-gadget>. Seems the same thing can be used in your case.
In brief, what I got is you have to write the USB driver in the Android kernel to detect the device as HID. |
20,006 | I have an http proxy, which works OK, but there are some address on my lan which provides some web services.
I want to configure my device so that for some range of addresses the proxy is bypassed.
I have tried with 10.0.0.0/8, but it doesn't work! | 2012/02/28 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20006",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/1863/"
] | Yes. This is definitely possible, requiring no modifications or drivers on the PC. As the OP mentions, the USB identification on the phone end is ultimately done in software (in this file <https://github.com/android/kernel_msm/blob/android-msm-2.6.35/drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c>), and it could be modified to identif... | It's now >six
years later and
somewhere in between someone created the [Keepass2 USB Keyboard
Plugin](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Keepass2%20USB%20Keyboard) for [Keepass2Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2android.keepass2android).
Wanted to add this
information here for the sake of completene... |
20,006 | I have an http proxy, which works OK, but there are some address on my lan which provides some web services.
I want to configure my device so that for some range of addresses the proxy is bypassed.
I have tried with 10.0.0.0/8, but it doesn't work! | 2012/02/28 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20006",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/1863/"
] | This doesn't exactly answer your question, but it might help in your use case.
Maybe you want to have a look at [InputStick](http://inputstick.com). It'll be a USB thumb drive that you pair to Android via Bluetooth. Plugged into a computer it emulates a generic USB HID to send keyboard strokes. An advanced Java API w... | Have you tried [Unified Remote](http://www.unifiedremote.com/). This is a great tool to use phone as keyboard and mouse. It doesn't use USB but wifi instead. There is an app on phone and computer that work together. Works great for me. Also if you get full version you get integration with many common applications. |
20,006 | I have an http proxy, which works OK, but there are some address on my lan which provides some web services.
I want to configure my device so that for some range of addresses the proxy is bypassed.
I have tried with 10.0.0.0/8, but it doesn't work! | 2012/02/28 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20006",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/1863/"
] | This doesn't exactly answer your question, but it might help in your use case.
Maybe you want to have a look at [InputStick](http://inputstick.com). It'll be a USB thumb drive that you pair to Android via Bluetooth. Plugged into a computer it emulates a generic USB HID to send keyboard strokes. An advanced Java API w... | I was searching for something similar and found <https://github.com/pelya/android-keyboard-gadget>. Seems the same thing can be used in your case.
In brief, what I got is you have to write the USB driver in the Android kernel to detect the device as HID. |
20,006 | I have an http proxy, which works OK, but there are some address on my lan which provides some web services.
I want to configure my device so that for some range of addresses the proxy is bypassed.
I have tried with 10.0.0.0/8, but it doesn't work! | 2012/02/28 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20006",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/1863/"
] | This doesn't exactly answer your question, but it might help in your use case.
Maybe you want to have a look at [InputStick](http://inputstick.com). It'll be a USB thumb drive that you pair to Android via Bluetooth. Plugged into a computer it emulates a generic USB HID to send keyboard strokes. An advanced Java API w... | It's now >six
years later and
somewhere in between someone created the [Keepass2 USB Keyboard
Plugin](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Keepass2%20USB%20Keyboard) for [Keepass2Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2android.keepass2android).
Wanted to add this
information here for the sake of completene... |
31,015,417 | We're developing our custom Android ROM and we're interested to provide Over-The-Air (OTA) updates to our clients. Can someone point me a detailed step-to-step on how to create an OTA update for a custom Android Open-Source Project (AOSP)? I've already read the Google [**documentation**](https://source.android.com/devi... | 2015/06/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/31015417",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1299275/"
] | Not really the official way, but [this project](https://github.com/tgalal/inception) does a similar thing. | to create an OTA update for your custom ROM, you need target file, when you create your rom, inside
>
> out/target/product/device\_name/obj/PACKAGE/target-something/
>
>
>
you will have the 'target.zip' file. you have to use this file to create your OTA package. you have to pass the target.zip file to a script ca... |
6,449 | Based on my understanding, Product owner, Scrum Master and Development team are the major roles in a Scrum team. I have to setup a .Net Scrum team with 5-8 members. I don't have enough knowledge about Scrum. Can any one please give a solution for this problems?
* What are the key roles that should be in a Scrum team?
... | 2012/09/01 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/6449",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/4546/"
] | Core Roles in Scrum
-------------------
>
> What are the key roles that should be in a Scrum team?
>
>
>
Scrum defines only three [core roles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29#Core_roles) for the framework.
1. A Product Owner, whose role is somewhat of an amalgamation of a traditional Product... | To quote [the Scrum Guide](http://www.scrum.org/Scrum-Guides), "Scrum recognizes no titles for Development Team members other than Developer, regardless of the work being performed by the person; there are no exceptions to this rule;" In that regard, it would be counter-productive to restrict developers into specific d... |
6,449 | Based on my understanding, Product owner, Scrum Master and Development team are the major roles in a Scrum team. I have to setup a .Net Scrum team with 5-8 members. I don't have enough knowledge about Scrum. Can any one please give a solution for this problems?
* What are the key roles that should be in a Scrum team?
... | 2012/09/01 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/6449",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/4546/"
] | To quote [the Scrum Guide](http://www.scrum.org/Scrum-Guides), "Scrum recognizes no titles for Development Team members other than Developer, regardless of the work being performed by the person; there are no exceptions to this rule;" In that regard, it would be counter-productive to restrict developers into specific d... | >
> What are the key roles that should be in a Scrum team?
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
Product Owners, Developers and Quality Assurance people are key to the success of .NET stack based projects. Note that, I have not mentioned Scrum Master role. I will explain it later.
If the ... |
6,449 | Based on my understanding, Product owner, Scrum Master and Development team are the major roles in a Scrum team. I have to setup a .Net Scrum team with 5-8 members. I don't have enough knowledge about Scrum. Can any one please give a solution for this problems?
* What are the key roles that should be in a Scrum team?
... | 2012/09/01 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/6449",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/4546/"
] | Core Roles in Scrum
-------------------
>
> What are the key roles that should be in a Scrum team?
>
>
>
Scrum defines only three [core roles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29#Core_roles) for the framework.
1. A Product Owner, whose role is somewhat of an amalgamation of a traditional Product... | >
> What are the key roles that should be in a Scrum team?
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
Product Owners, Developers and Quality Assurance people are key to the success of .NET stack based projects. Note that, I have not mentioned Scrum Master role. I will explain it later.
If the ... |
11,688 | My dog is 16 and for the past year she has been having many accidents inside due to her age. I clean it up as soon as it happens, but if I'm not home, it's apparently left long enough for a stain to set, so now my tiles have this terrible grayish stain build up, and I need to clean it. I've tried a baking soda and pero... | 2016/03/13 | [
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/11688",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/users/6837/"
] | I know this sounds crazy, but a brilliant solvent for urine is … urine.
Seriously!
Next time she has an accident while you're there, pull on your rubber gloves and use a thin absorbent sponge cloth to mop up all the fresh urine. Then use the sponge cloth to re-wet a historic stained area.
Initially, just work on an ... | As with any product that you would put on your carpet, flooring, or furniture, please test for colorfastness. To test for colorfastness, mix a small amount of the solution and place on a hidden area of your carpet. Wait 24 hours or until carpet is dry before proceeding to full treatment.
We recommend extreme caution w... |
11,688 | My dog is 16 and for the past year she has been having many accidents inside due to her age. I clean it up as soon as it happens, but if I'm not home, it's apparently left long enough for a stain to set, so now my tiles have this terrible grayish stain build up, and I need to clean it. I've tried a baking soda and pero... | 2016/03/13 | [
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/11688",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/users/6837/"
] | Have you tried [Nature's Miracle](http://www.natures-miracle.com/)?
I've used it for years to get stains and odors out of hardwood, carpet, linens and it's always worked great. Even on older, set-in stains Nature's Miracle has been helpful. | As with any product that you would put on your carpet, flooring, or furniture, please test for colorfastness. To test for colorfastness, mix a small amount of the solution and place on a hidden area of your carpet. Wait 24 hours or until carpet is dry before proceeding to full treatment.
We recommend extreme caution w... |
20,761 | At this link they show the major holdings for the technology index fund (XLK):
<http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/q/hl?s=XLK>
Now let us say the major holding AAPL keeps going down. At what point would the index rearrange itself (either by removing AAPL or decreasing the percentage) so that the overall index stays heal... | 2013/02/18 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/20761",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/2991/"
] | An index will drop a company for several reasons:
* They don't meet the size criteria. Too big or too small
* They don't meet the sector criteria. If Apple dropped all hardware and became a music publisher they wouldn't be a technology company.
* They don't meet the regional requirement. Some indexes are country or r... | [S & P Index Announcements](http://www.standardandpoors.com/indices/index-announcements/en/us) would have notes on when there are changes to the index. For example in the S & P Small-cap 600 there is a change that takes affect on Feb. 19, 2013.
As for how index funds handle changes to the fund, this depends a bit on t... |
163,122 | When i click on the buy button in the software center it instructs me to login, however as i'm using Keepass for saving my passwords i would like to paste it in but it wont let me...
the same applies to gwibber when i try to input my facebook password.
it is possible to input manually but since i picked a long passwo... | 2012/07/13 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/163122",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/36744/"
] | I solved this problem by using keepassx instead of keepass. | If you tried pasting through the popup menu, well I'd say that is reasonable for a password field to have the Paste entry disabled. In some cases the keyboard shortcuts might work, so try Ctrl+V and Shift+Ins. |
163,122 | When i click on the buy button in the software center it instructs me to login, however as i'm using Keepass for saving my passwords i would like to paste it in but it wont let me...
the same applies to gwibber when i try to input my facebook password.
it is possible to input manually but since i picked a long passwo... | 2012/07/13 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/163122",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/36744/"
] | I solved this problem by using keepassx instead of keepass. | I also experience the scenario in Gwibber where I copy the username/password from Keepass but cannot paste into login fields using the mouse paste menu or ctrl + v. The workaround to this is to
* copy the login detail (user name or password) from within Keepass per usual
* switch to a text editor such as gedit
* check... |
146,383 | I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but...
I need a scanner (paper feed scanner) where depending on either a barcode, or number, or some identifier on the paper being scanned, creates a PDF file with a name based on that identifier.
For example: If I scanned a page with the number 12345 on t... | 2010/05/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146383",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/9918/"
] | If you looking for document scanner that has the capability to do batch separation using barcode and rename them base on barcode and zoned OCR you can try to do it with Fujitsu Scanner bundled with its software scan all pro. Other choice is you are using Kodak scanner with kodak capture but the software is sold separat... | Have you looked at things like [Readiris](http://www.irislink.com/c2-1584-189/Readiris-12---OCR-Software-------Convert-your-Paper-Documents-into-Editable-Text-.aspx) or [SimpleOCR](http://SimpleOCR) or [other](http://www.topocr.com/download.html) [OCR](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition) [altern... |
146,383 | I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but...
I need a scanner (paper feed scanner) where depending on either a barcode, or number, or some identifier on the paper being scanned, creates a PDF file with a name based on that identifier.
For example: If I scanned a page with the number 12345 on t... | 2010/05/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146383",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/9918/"
] | Have you looked at things like [Readiris](http://www.irislink.com/c2-1584-189/Readiris-12---OCR-Software-------Convert-your-Paper-Documents-into-Editable-Text-.aspx) or [SimpleOCR](http://SimpleOCR) or [other](http://www.topocr.com/download.html) [OCR](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition) [altern... | Sorry for answering a 3 year old thread, but I was in search of something like this too in the place I work in. After some research, I stumbled upon [Batch Scan To Pdf](http://www.batchscantopdf.com) that exactly does what you need in your description. Instead of regular barcodes however, they use QR-Codes. They are S... |
146,383 | I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but...
I need a scanner (paper feed scanner) where depending on either a barcode, or number, or some identifier on the paper being scanned, creates a PDF file with a name based on that identifier.
For example: If I scanned a page with the number 12345 on t... | 2010/05/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146383",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/9918/"
] | If you looking for document scanner that has the capability to do batch separation using barcode and rename them base on barcode and zoned OCR you can try to do it with Fujitsu Scanner bundled with its software scan all pro. Other choice is you are using Kodak scanner with kodak capture but the software is sold separat... | Sorry for answering a 3 year old thread, but I was in search of something like this too in the place I work in. After some research, I stumbled upon [Batch Scan To Pdf](http://www.batchscantopdf.com) that exactly does what you need in your description. Instead of regular barcodes however, they use QR-Codes. They are S... |
88 | Sorry for the catchy title. I want to understand, what should one have to do to disprove the Church-Turing thesis? Somewhere I read it's mathematically impossible to do it! Why?
Turing, Rosser etc used different terms to
differentiate between: "what can be computed" and "what can be
computed by a Turing machine".
Tur... | 2010/08/17 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/88",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Disproving the Church-Turing thesis seems indeed extremely unlikely and conceptually very hard to imagine. There are various "hypothetical physical worlds" which are in some tension with the Church-Turing thesis (but whether they contradict it is by itself an interesting philosophical question). A paper by Pitowsky "[T... | Regarding the *Extended* Church-Turing Thesis (meant as "A probabilistic Turing machine can efficiently simulate any physically computable function."):
One possibility is the difference between classical and quantum computers. Specifically the question, "Is there a task that quantum computers can perform that classica... |
88 | Sorry for the catchy title. I want to understand, what should one have to do to disprove the Church-Turing thesis? Somewhere I read it's mathematically impossible to do it! Why?
Turing, Rosser etc used different terms to
differentiate between: "what can be computed" and "what can be
computed by a Turing machine".
Tur... | 2010/08/17 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/88",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Disproving the Church-Turing thesis seems indeed extremely unlikely and conceptually very hard to imagine. There are various "hypothetical physical worlds" which are in some tension with the Church-Turing thesis (but whether they contradict it is by itself an interesting philosophical question). A paper by Pitowsky "[T... | The following papers from Selim Akl may be of interest and relevant to the discussion:
Akl, S.G., "Three counterexamples to dispel the myth of the universal computer", Parallel Processing Letters, Vol. 16, No. 3, September 2006, pp. 381 - 403.
Akl, S.G., "Even accelerating machines are not universal", International J... |
88 | Sorry for the catchy title. I want to understand, what should one have to do to disprove the Church-Turing thesis? Somewhere I read it's mathematically impossible to do it! Why?
Turing, Rosser etc used different terms to
differentiate between: "what can be computed" and "what can be
computed by a Turing machine".
Tur... | 2010/08/17 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/88",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Regarding the *Extended* Church-Turing Thesis (meant as "A probabilistic Turing machine can efficiently simulate any physically computable function."):
One possibility is the difference between classical and quantum computers. Specifically the question, "Is there a task that quantum computers can perform that classica... | The following papers from Selim Akl may be of interest and relevant to the discussion:
Akl, S.G., "Three counterexamples to dispel the myth of the universal computer", Parallel Processing Letters, Vol. 16, No. 3, September 2006, pp. 381 - 403.
Akl, S.G., "Even accelerating machines are not universal", International J... |
88 | Sorry for the catchy title. I want to understand, what should one have to do to disprove the Church-Turing thesis? Somewhere I read it's mathematically impossible to do it! Why?
Turing, Rosser etc used different terms to
differentiate between: "what can be computed" and "what can be
computed by a Turing machine".
Tur... | 2010/08/17 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/88",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | As far as I understand, the "impossibility" of proving or disproving the thesis is that there is no formal definition of "effectively calculable". Today, we take it to be precisely "computable by a Turing machine", but that rather begs the question.
Models of computation that are strictly more powerful than a Turing ... | The following papers from Selim Akl may be of interest and relevant to the discussion:
Akl, S.G., "Three counterexamples to dispel the myth of the universal computer", Parallel Processing Letters, Vol. 16, No. 3, September 2006, pp. 381 - 403.
Akl, S.G., "Even accelerating machines are not universal", International J... |
88 | Sorry for the catchy title. I want to understand, what should one have to do to disprove the Church-Turing thesis? Somewhere I read it's mathematically impossible to do it! Why?
Turing, Rosser etc used different terms to
differentiate between: "what can be computed" and "what can be
computed by a Turing machine".
Tur... | 2010/08/17 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/88",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Disproving the Church-Turing thesis seems indeed extremely unlikely and conceptually very hard to imagine. There are various "hypothetical physical worlds" which are in some tension with the Church-Turing thesis (but whether they contradict it is by itself an interesting philosophical question). A paper by Pitowsky "[T... | The Church-Turing thesis has been proved for all practical purposes.
<http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.146.5402>
Dershowitz and Gurevich, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 2008.
(This reference discusses the history of Church's and Turing's work, and argues for a separation between "Church's Thesis"... |
88 | Sorry for the catchy title. I want to understand, what should one have to do to disprove the Church-Turing thesis? Somewhere I read it's mathematically impossible to do it! Why?
Turing, Rosser etc used different terms to
differentiate between: "what can be computed" and "what can be
computed by a Turing machine".
Tur... | 2010/08/17 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/88",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Regarding the *Extended* Church-Turing Thesis (meant as "A probabilistic Turing machine can efficiently simulate any physically computable function."):
One possibility is the difference between classical and quantum computers. Specifically the question, "Is there a task that quantum computers can perform that classica... | The Church-Turing thesis has been proved for all practical purposes.
<http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.146.5402>
Dershowitz and Gurevich, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 2008.
(This reference discusses the history of Church's and Turing's work, and argues for a separation between "Church's Thesis"... |
88 | Sorry for the catchy title. I want to understand, what should one have to do to disprove the Church-Turing thesis? Somewhere I read it's mathematically impossible to do it! Why?
Turing, Rosser etc used different terms to
differentiate between: "what can be computed" and "what can be
computed by a Turing machine".
Tur... | 2010/08/17 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/88",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Disproving the Church-Turing thesis seems indeed extremely unlikely and conceptually very hard to imagine. There are various "hypothetical physical worlds" which are in some tension with the Church-Turing thesis (but whether they contradict it is by itself an interesting philosophical question). A paper by Pitowsky "[T... | A new paper presented at [DCM2011](http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jkrivine/conferences/DCM2011/DCM_2011.html): [A Formalization and Proof of the Extended Church-Turing Thesis](http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~nachumd/papers/ECTT.pdf) (Nachum Dershowitz and Evgenia Falkovich) |
264,021 | The leader of our clan left the clan and went to another clan. He is an awesome lvl 118 player. I also left the clan and tried to join other clans, but everyone declined it l. Now my mail box is full with **"Clan Request Declined"**. So is there a way I can recover his mail to see which clan he went to?
The player's n... | 2016/04/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/264021",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/139312/"
] | No, there's no way to get back old mail that got deleted. It's also not possible to search for a particular player (although it is an often requested feature...). If you didn't note the clan tag or clan name, and you aren't friends on social media (ie, Facebook or Game Center), then you aren't likely to find this playe... | Join your old clan and look at the chat. Find the notification saying that he left the clan. Click the notification and click profile or view clan. Then bookmark the clan. |
52,621 | I was just given a used Arturia Mini Brute to mess around with. What basic equipment do I need to amplify/hear the sound produced? I have already purchased headphones. If it is not obvious, I have almost no experience with electronics. | 2017/01/24 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/52621",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/36319/"
] | According to the "main features" information at the bottom of <https://www.arturia.com/products/hardware-synths/minibrute/overview> it has a 1/4" audio output, and a 1/4" headphone output.
Most "consumer quality" headphones have a smaller 3.5mm plug, which is the standard size on cellphones, etc. If that is what you h... | Just plug in your headphones and let the fun begin. |
863,715 | In MS Word.
If heading one is numbered using roman numbers, when the figure caption also includes chapter numbers, roman numbers will be used like this: "II-1", but what I want is "2-1". How can I achieve this?
 | 2015/01/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/863715",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/166876/"
] | I've got a better solution:
Number the chapter headers with Arabic numerals and then use hidden formatting (ctrl+shift+h) to hide the number and manually write "Chapter I", "Chapter II", etc. It's not the prettiest solution, but I think it's the easiest. ToC should use whatever you've written there so you can manuall... | You can right click on the header number and select "adjust list indents" and then check the box that says "Legal Style Numbering". Then you can right click on the style in the ribbon and select "Update X to match section". |
863,715 | In MS Word.
If heading one is numbered using roman numbers, when the figure caption also includes chapter numbers, roman numbers will be used like this: "II-1", but what I want is "2-1". How can I achieve this?
 | 2015/01/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/863715",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/166876/"
] | I've got a better solution:
Number the chapter headers with Arabic numerals and then use hidden formatting (ctrl+shift+h) to hide the number and manually write "Chapter I", "Chapter II", etc. It's not the prettiest solution, but I think it's the easiest. ToC should use whatever you've written there so you can manuall... | You only need to make a new level numbering and new heading. For example, if your numbering thant link to heading is until heading 3, you could add level 4 for new heading that you make for figure. For example you make a new heading and name it as Figure. Then link the level 4 numbering to Figure heading. The issues co... |
386,517 | In one of my tests at school, there was this multiple choice question which asked students to choose answer having the same meaning with this sentence "Men hold no better positions in society than women do."
The answers were:
A. Women are in better positions in society than men are
B. Women and men hold the same... | 2017/04/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/386517",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/233286/"
] | The question is flawed and impossible to answer
-----------------------------------------------
StoneyB is correct here, **none** of the answers are correct. The question, as it is currently asked, has no answer.
---
Let's think about this before we even address the question itself. When comparing two specific posit... | I think you may have misunderstood the question, either that or there was an error on your exam.
>
> (1) Men hold no better positions in society than women do
>
>
>
is not synonymous with
>
> (2) Women are in better positions in society than men are
>
>
>
Logically if (1) is true, (2) can still be true. ... |
109,944 | In the show Jessica Jones, in the last two episodes Kilgrave takes steps to enhance his powers, which leads to him
>
> being able to control people through phones, loudspeakers, tvs, and other electronic communication devices. He uses a phone call in the hospital, which is Jessica's first realization he can use elec... | 2015/12/08 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109944",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14343/"
] | It doesn't get transmitted electronically, though it's not clear at all from the scene.
Kilgrave's power is
>
> a virus that his body continuously emits into the air around him.
>
>
>
Once you are exposed, you become very open to suggestions from Kilgrave's voice. His power is only limited by those people who ... | Those in Kilgrave's presence (e.g. those that are
>
> infected by the virus he exudes)
>
>
>
are prone to following his verbal commands. This also extends to commands given to other people to pass on as well as commands heard via phone/microphone, etc.
The key factor is that people must have been in his physic... |
55,643 | Scenario: I have a generation ship moving between two star systems. Given that such a ship needs to have a completely self sufficient life cycle system to make it viable, ejecting mass continuously does not seem to me to be a very viable option for acceleration.
With this given scenario what other methods can be used ... | 2016/09/18 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/55643",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/27250/"
] | The best way to conserve mass is to use external energy to accelerate the ship.
[Robert L Forward](http://www.transorbital.net/Library/D001_AxA.html) had designed a multi stage lightsail which allowed ships to accelerate, and then, by detaching portions of the sail and using them to reflect laser energy back to the st... | A rocket *does* accelerate in space. Momentum of hot gas out the back = forward momentum. Change the burn rate and you change the momentum (i.e., accelerate). Also, the mass of the rocket changes as fuel is being burnt, so at a constant burn rate, the rocket accelerates naturally. |
55,643 | Scenario: I have a generation ship moving between two star systems. Given that such a ship needs to have a completely self sufficient life cycle system to make it viable, ejecting mass continuously does not seem to me to be a very viable option for acceleration.
With this given scenario what other methods can be used ... | 2016/09/18 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/55643",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/27250/"
] | The best way to conserve mass is to use external energy to accelerate the ship.
[Robert L Forward](http://www.transorbital.net/Library/D001_AxA.html) had designed a multi stage lightsail which allowed ships to accelerate, and then, by detaching portions of the sail and using them to reflect laser energy back to the st... | * [Lightsails](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail), possibly powered by a laser launch system.
* Variants like a [magnetic sail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail).
* [Bussard Ramjets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet).
* Accept that you will need fuel or [reaction mass](https://en.wikipedia... |
55,643 | Scenario: I have a generation ship moving between two star systems. Given that such a ship needs to have a completely self sufficient life cycle system to make it viable, ejecting mass continuously does not seem to me to be a very viable option for acceleration.
With this given scenario what other methods can be used ... | 2016/09/18 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/55643",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/27250/"
] | The best way to conserve mass is to use external energy to accelerate the ship.
[Robert L Forward](http://www.transorbital.net/Library/D001_AxA.html) had designed a multi stage lightsail which allowed ships to accelerate, and then, by detaching portions of the sail and using them to reflect laser energy back to the st... | You can accelerate prior to the interstellar portion of the mission. This could be done with [booster rockets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Booster) like many real-world missions, or it could be done with a [space tug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tug) (which is really just a variatio... |
56,473,986 | I have a text file ar. 50 GB size.
I used to process it through TextPipe but atm only mac is available and no TextPipe access.
Is it possible to initiate regex search in this file with good results saving to some other file per matching line?
I was thinking about vim editor but have no sufficient knowledge on where to ... | 2019/06/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/56473986",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9629120/"
] | You cannot cache this class, because that implies serializing it, and the class contains explicit methods that prevent certain properties from being included in the serialized string. In fact, the only property that *is* included, is `query` (the input query that caused the result).
You might be able to cache the Quer... | In the case this is an Ajax-Controller you might want to cache the generated JSON response. |
280,176 | I can't find a proper \*.exe for Excel in the usual places:
* "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office
* "c:\program files\microsoft office\office12\excel.exe"
Does anybody know where I would find the Excel executable for a Windows Vista machine? For that matter, also invoke Excel to ope... | 2011/05/06 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/280176",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/6229/"
] | Just add this line to your batch file:
* START "name of spreadsheet.xls"
This will use the default file association to open the file. If you need a specific version though, then you'll need to find the appropriate .EXE file which might be under a sub-directory called "Common" or "Common files" which should be somewhe... | I just stumbled across this amazingly clear Microsoft Support article: [Command-line switches for Microsoft Office products](https://support.office.com/en-us/article/command-line-switches-for-microsoft-office-products-079164cd-4ef5-4178-b235-441737deb3a6) It lists executable names and paths for Office 2007, 2010, 2013,... |
162,289 | Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different set of problems.
In my c... | 2021/02/05 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/162289",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/134845/"
] | I suggest that you don't lose a lot of sleep over something that happened several years ago. While you may have crossed a line, your description suggests it wasn't a bright line. Assuming your description is honest, you started out (probably) appropriately looking for alternate explanations of the material, not solutio... | The exam had no clear policy, so formally you did nothing wrong.
More in detail:
>
> I also was in the habit of consulting other websites to help me
> whenever the textbook wasn't enough.
>
>
>
You were consulting other sources because you felt the textbook was not enough. It all boils down to that. It is perfec... |
162,289 | Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different set of problems.
In my c... | 2021/02/05 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/162289",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/134845/"
] | A take-home test is not, as a more formal test or exam would be, strictly a test of knowledge.
It tests the synthesis of your knowledge and resourcefulness in a fixed time frame, in all respects no different than an essay.
Anyone who gave a test of that nature should expect the student to make use of all available re... | >
> Unethical?
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>
>
Given what the professor had directed you to do, I'd say no. I would even be of two minds regarding the unethicality of consulting a textbook during a take-home-only exam.
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> Was what I did dishonest?
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>
>
You were not maximally forthcoming - by your own standard. I guess that's what's... |
162,289 | Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different set of problems.
In my c... | 2021/02/05 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/162289",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/134845/"
] | I suggest that you don't lose a lot of sleep over something that happened several years ago. While you may have crossed a line, your description suggests it wasn't a bright line. Assuming your description is honest, you started out (probably) appropriately looking for alternate explanations of the material, not solutio... | I would say that it's generally understood that on a take-home test you can use some external literature.
Typically with a take-home exam that takes a day or more, the expectation is that:
* Open-book: you're allowed to use the handbook for the course, as well as your lecture notes, and any recorded lectures and so f... |
162,289 | Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different set of problems.
In my c... | 2021/02/05 | [
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"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/134845/"
] | It’s not unethical to *accidentally* benefit from anything, since the fact of such a thing happening is, as the word suggests, accidental. You didn’t mean to cheat, and it was the professor’s idiosyncratic testing policy that set up the perfect storm of circumstances that caused this “accident” to happen: note that the... | I would say that it's generally understood that on a take-home test you can use some external literature.
Typically with a take-home exam that takes a day or more, the expectation is that:
* Open-book: you're allowed to use the handbook for the course, as well as your lecture notes, and any recorded lectures and so f... |
162,289 | Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different set of problems.
In my c... | 2021/02/05 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/162289",
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] | A take-home test is not, as a more formal test or exam would be, strictly a test of knowledge.
It tests the synthesis of your knowledge and resourcefulness in a fixed time frame, in all respects no different than an essay.
Anyone who gave a test of that nature should expect the student to make use of all available re... | If you found how to solve the problem it is all ok. I see the problem only if someone else did the work for you. Why is that? The exam is there to prepare you for your future job and problems that you would face at your work.
Your boss will not tell you: please solve this but don't look at Wikipedia, do not use Google... |
162,289 | Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different set of problems.
In my c... | 2021/02/05 | [
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] | I suggest that you don't lose a lot of sleep over something that happened several years ago. While you may have crossed a line, your description suggests it wasn't a bright line. Assuming your description is honest, you started out (probably) appropriately looking for alternate explanations of the material, not solutio... | >
> Unethical?
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Given what the professor had directed you to do, I'd say no. I would even be of two minds regarding the unethicality of consulting a textbook during a take-home-only exam.
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> Was what I did dishonest?
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You were not maximally forthcoming - by your own standard. I guess that's what's... |
162,289 | Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different set of problems.
In my c... | 2021/02/05 | [
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] | I would say that it's generally understood that on a take-home test you can use some external literature.
Typically with a take-home exam that takes a day or more, the expectation is that:
* Open-book: you're allowed to use the handbook for the course, as well as your lecture notes, and any recorded lectures and so f... | If you found how to solve the problem it is all ok. I see the problem only if someone else did the work for you. Why is that? The exam is there to prepare you for your future job and problems that you would face at your work.
Your boss will not tell you: please solve this but don't look at Wikipedia, do not use Google... |
162,289 | Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different set of problems.
In my c... | 2021/02/05 | [
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] | The exam had no clear policy, so formally you did nothing wrong.
More in detail:
>
> I also was in the habit of consulting other websites to help me
> whenever the textbook wasn't enough.
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>
>
You were consulting other sources because you felt the textbook was not enough. It all boils down to that. It is perfec... | If you found how to solve the problem it is all ok. I see the problem only if someone else did the work for you. Why is that? The exam is there to prepare you for your future job and problems that you would face at your work.
Your boss will not tell you: please solve this but don't look at Wikipedia, do not use Google... |
162,289 | Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different set of problems.
In my c... | 2021/02/05 | [
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] | I suggest that you don't lose a lot of sleep over something that happened several years ago. While you may have crossed a line, your description suggests it wasn't a bright line. Assuming your description is honest, you started out (probably) appropriately looking for alternate explanations of the material, not solutio... | It’s not unethical to *accidentally* benefit from anything, since the fact of such a thing happening is, as the word suggests, accidental. You didn’t mean to cheat, and it was the professor’s idiosyncratic testing policy that set up the perfect storm of circumstances that caused this “accident” to happen: note that the... |
162,289 | Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different set of problems.
In my c... | 2021/02/05 | [
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] | I would say that it's generally understood that on a take-home test you can use some external literature.
Typically with a take-home exam that takes a day or more, the expectation is that:
* Open-book: you're allowed to use the handbook for the course, as well as your lecture notes, and any recorded lectures and so f... | The exam had no clear policy, so formally you did nothing wrong.
More in detail:
>
> I also was in the habit of consulting other websites to help me
> whenever the textbook wasn't enough.
>
>
>
You were consulting other sources because you felt the textbook was not enough. It all boils down to that. It is perfec... |
1,263 | I suggest that tag-wikis and guidelines for writing great tag wikis should be included in the FAQ for all the users to see.I am aware that the link to [this blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/redesigned-tags-page/) is provided on the *edit-tag-wiki* page.
I feel that creating/editing tag-wikis are one of... | 2013/05/15 | [
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] | IMO the FAQ is for the most important things. Tag wikis are relatively obscure -- asking and answering is what is important (and common) and that's what the faq deals with. The faq is for new users; and new users probably shouldn't be dealing with the tag wikis.
If you wish, you may write up a [faq-proposed](https://s... | >
> I feel that creating/editing tag-wikis are one of the most ignored
> features especially on Sec.SE.
>
>
>
I disagree. The current situation is just fine. We discuss tags here on Meta.Sec.SE and The DMZ. We're a relatively small site (less than 9k questions), and that process is sufficient.
The system is work... |
4,298,966 | Basically I'm trying to draw a sequence of lines on a Canvas object with a short pause in between each line being drawn. Unfortunately as I have it now it does pause but I don't see any of the intermediate steps, which is to say I see it before and after it's drawn but nothing in between. I've tried System.Timers.Timer... | 2010/11/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4298966",
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] | have you tried putting your drawing sequence in a storyboard? you can stop/start them pretty much at will, or just time them to what you want. | Controls in winforms do not play nice with threads. There is a timer class specifically made for working with winform controls.
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.timer.aspx>
It can be found in your toolbox in VS |
4,298,966 | Basically I'm trying to draw a sequence of lines on a Canvas object with a short pause in between each line being drawn. Unfortunately as I have it now it does pause but I don't see any of the intermediate steps, which is to say I see it before and after it's drawn but nothing in between. I've tried System.Timers.Timer... | 2010/11/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4298966",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/161638/"
] | In WPF, I would recommend using System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer instead.
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.threading.dispatchertimer.aspx> | Controls in winforms do not play nice with threads. There is a timer class specifically made for working with winform controls.
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.timer.aspx>
It can be found in your toolbox in VS |
4,298,966 | Basically I'm trying to draw a sequence of lines on a Canvas object with a short pause in between each line being drawn. Unfortunately as I have it now it does pause but I don't see any of the intermediate steps, which is to say I see it before and after it's drawn but nothing in between. I've tried System.Timers.Timer... | 2010/11/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4298966",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/161638/"
] | have you tried putting your drawing sequence in a storyboard? you can stop/start them pretty much at will, or just time them to what you want. | In WPF, I would recommend using System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer instead.
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.threading.dispatchertimer.aspx> |
19,682 | Which VHDL synthesis tools support the VHDL 2008 fixed and floating
point types as described at [vhdl.org/fphdl](http://www.vhdl.org/fphdl/)? The
VHDL.org site states "all these packages are designed to be synthesizable in
VHDL-93". Which tools have yield successful results synthesizing the
VHDL-2008 fixed-point and ... | 2011/09/19 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/19682",
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] | Yes, VHDL-2008 was ratified
>
> "In February 2008, Accellera approved VHDL 4.0 also informally known
> as VHDL 2008, which addressed more than 90 issues discovered during
> the trial period for version 3.0 and includes enhanced generic types.
> In 2008, Accellera released VHDL 4.0 to the IEEE for balloting for
> ... | I have used the VHDL fixed-point libraries in Altera's Quartus II (v9.1), with a Cyclone III. They synthesized an IIR filter and an LMS adaptive filter fairly efficiently - I noticed no major difference in resource usage compared to my previous implementation using numeric\_std.
So, I am confident that Quartus support... |
19,682 | Which VHDL synthesis tools support the VHDL 2008 fixed and floating
point types as described at [vhdl.org/fphdl](http://www.vhdl.org/fphdl/)? The
VHDL.org site states "all these packages are designed to be synthesizable in
VHDL-93". Which tools have yield successful results synthesizing the
VHDL-2008 fixed-point and ... | 2011/09/19 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/19682",
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] | This doesn't answer your question *exactly*, but ANY working VHDL 93 synthesizer will work with fixed and floating point VHDL libraries under VHDL 93. To get these, see <http://www.eda.org/fphdl/>. | I have used the VHDL fixed-point libraries in Altera's Quartus II (v9.1), with a Cyclone III. They synthesized an IIR filter and an LMS adaptive filter fairly efficiently - I noticed no major difference in resource usage compared to my previous implementation using numeric\_std.
So, I am confident that Quartus support... |
29,670 | My internal model of academia is that (1) as a group we are one of the most tolerant of biological and philosophical differences (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, and religion) and (2) that we are likely to take extreme views on issues related to our research. I have no evidence for either of these and they seem poten... | 2014/10/09 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29670",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/929/"
] | There is [a recent study](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2063742) which generated quite a bit of noise and seems to indicate that racial and gender biases do indeed exist in academia (at least in the U.S.). The researchers sent e-mails to professors pretending to be a prospective graduate student, a... | As a matter of fact, academics tend to be quite left-leaning, especially in fields like sociology. ([Here](http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/07/23/why-do-sociologists-lean-left-really-left/ "Here's")'s an article about this, with links to multiple studies.) Sadly, they're not abnormally likely to be tolerant of c... |
29,670 | My internal model of academia is that (1) as a group we are one of the most tolerant of biological and philosophical differences (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, and religion) and (2) that we are likely to take extreme views on issues related to our research. I have no evidence for either of these and they seem poten... | 2014/10/09 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29670",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/929/"
] | There is [a recent study](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2063742) which generated quite a bit of noise and seems to indicate that racial and gender biases do indeed exist in academia (at least in the U.S.). The researchers sent e-mails to professors pretending to be a prospective graduate student, a... | David French is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonpartisan group that monitors free speech on campus. In [a 2005 interview with ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=461497&page=1), French argued that "the universities have been so captured by the left point of view, that ... |
29,670 | My internal model of academia is that (1) as a group we are one of the most tolerant of biological and philosophical differences (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, and religion) and (2) that we are likely to take extreme views on issues related to our research. I have no evidence for either of these and they seem poten... | 2014/10/09 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29670",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/929/"
] | There is [a recent study](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2063742) which generated quite a bit of noise and seems to indicate that racial and gender biases do indeed exist in academia (at least in the U.S.). The researchers sent e-mails to professors pretending to be a prospective graduate student, a... | I think it might depend on the field. For example, if you are in a Biology department, you're likely to be labeled as "ignorant", "dumb", or "coward" if you are Christian (or Jewish, or Muslim or any religion that believes in a God who creates), regardless of whether you believe in evolution or not, and regardless of w... |
29,670 | My internal model of academia is that (1) as a group we are one of the most tolerant of biological and philosophical differences (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, and religion) and (2) that we are likely to take extreme views on issues related to our research. I have no evidence for either of these and they seem poten... | 2014/10/09 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29670",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/929/"
] | As a matter of fact, academics tend to be quite left-leaning, especially in fields like sociology. ([Here](http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/07/23/why-do-sociologists-lean-left-really-left/ "Here's")'s an article about this, with links to multiple studies.) Sadly, they're not abnormally likely to be tolerant of c... | David French is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonpartisan group that monitors free speech on campus. In [a 2005 interview with ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=461497&page=1), French argued that "the universities have been so captured by the left point of view, that ... |
29,670 | My internal model of academia is that (1) as a group we are one of the most tolerant of biological and philosophical differences (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, and religion) and (2) that we are likely to take extreme views on issues related to our research. I have no evidence for either of these and they seem poten... | 2014/10/09 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29670",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/929/"
] | As a matter of fact, academics tend to be quite left-leaning, especially in fields like sociology. ([Here](http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/07/23/why-do-sociologists-lean-left-really-left/ "Here's")'s an article about this, with links to multiple studies.) Sadly, they're not abnormally likely to be tolerant of c... | I think it might depend on the field. For example, if you are in a Biology department, you're likely to be labeled as "ignorant", "dumb", or "coward" if you are Christian (or Jewish, or Muslim or any religion that believes in a God who creates), regardless of whether you believe in evolution or not, and regardless of w... |
29,670 | My internal model of academia is that (1) as a group we are one of the most tolerant of biological and philosophical differences (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, and religion) and (2) that we are likely to take extreme views on issues related to our research. I have no evidence for either of these and they seem poten... | 2014/10/09 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29670",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/929/"
] | David French is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonpartisan group that monitors free speech on campus. In [a 2005 interview with ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=461497&page=1), French argued that "the universities have been so captured by the left point of view, that ... | I think it might depend on the field. For example, if you are in a Biology department, you're likely to be labeled as "ignorant", "dumb", or "coward" if you are Christian (or Jewish, or Muslim or any religion that believes in a God who creates), regardless of whether you believe in evolution or not, and regardless of w... |
132,162 | Edit: Let me first thank all of you for being patient with me (I’m by no means a physicist) and for answering my question. This is an update to my previous question. I’ve done some research and to the best of my knowledge the idea that multiple universes could exist is a result of cosmic inflation and the principles of... | 2018/12/05 | [
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] | **It's almost certainly not possible to provide a plausible scientific explanation**
I'm afraid that (especially with the science based tag) the answer will be that there is no plausible explanation for how human beings might travel the multiverse.
I am very sure that (like the [Ansible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... | Travelling the multiverse is currently magic because our physic and mathematical models are not up to the task of adequately representing fifth or higher order dimensions required to plot an exit point and return safely. So you could do a cheat and "find" an ancient artifact that acts as a portal (tv shows such as Slid... |
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