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92,780 | The site: <https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/>
Relevant quotes:
>
> #### Is God real, or is he imaginary?
>
>
> Is God real, or is he imaginary? It is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself.
>
>
> If God is real and if God inspired the Bible, then we should worship God as the Bible demands. We should certainly post the Ten Commandments in our courthouses and shopping centers, put "In God We Trust" on the money and pray in our schools. We should focus our society on God and his infallible Word because our everlasting souls hang in the balance.
>
>
> On the other hand, if God is imaginary, then religion is a complete illusion. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are pointless. Belief in God is nothing but a silly superstition, and this superstition leads a significant portion of the population to be delusional.
>
>
> But how can we decide, conclusively, whether God is real or imaginary?
>
>
> Since we are intelligent human beings living in the 21st century, we should take the time to look at some data. That is what we are doing when we ask, **"Why won't God heal amputees?"**
>
>
> If you are an intelligent human being, and if you want to understand the true nature of God, you owe it to yourself to ask, "Why won't God heal amputees?"
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/))
>
>
>
>
> **Explaining the case of amputees**
>
>
> Just for a moment, I would ask you to consider the possibility of
> another explanation. If you believe in God, then this explanation will
> initially appear to be complete nonsense. However, it is interesting
> in light of the conversation we will be having in this book.
>
>
> One explanation for the evidence that we see before us is this:
>
>
> God exists, and God answers prayers, but for some reason God chooses
> to ignore the prayers of amputees. We don't have a good explanation
> for why God acts this way, and it does seem to contradict what Jesus
> teaches about prayer in the Bible, but clearly God has his divine
> reasons. **Now let's look at the situation with amputees from another**
> **point of view. This explanation is more straightforward**:
>
>
> **God is imaginary**. Let's look at what happens when we consider this
> explanation and see how it stacks up. Assume that God is imaginary.
> **The beauty of this explanation is that it fits the facts perfectly. In**
> **the case of amputees, it is a valid way to explain the reality that we**
> **see in our world. The logic goes like this:**
>
>
> **If God is imaginary, then he does not answer any prayers. Therefore,**
> **the prayers of amputees would go unanswered too. The thing that is so**
> **appealing about this explanation is that there is no hand waving.**
> **There are no contradictions. It is completely fair. There is no**
> **paradox. This explanation makes complete sense in light of the**
> **evidence we see in our world.** [...]
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god5.htm))
>
>
>
Feel free to visit the site to read the author's full exposition of their arguments.
**Question**: Have any Christian apologists published refutations of the objections posited by the site "Why Won't God Heal Amputees?"? If so, what are the most common counter-arguments?
**Note**: answers just sharing links without summarizing the main counter-arguments from notable Christian apologists are discouraged.
---
Related: [How do Christians rebut Matt Dillahunty's objection that the resurrection of Jesus is untestable, unfalsifiable and thus unreasonable to believe?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/89886/how-do-christians-rebut-matt-dillahuntys-objection-that-the-resurrection-of-jes) | 2022/09/27 | [
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] | Similar arguments could/have been made about other groups in other bad situations, so this really boils down to **Why doesn't God answer prayers** (in this case amputees, but there are plenty of other groups in worse conditions that similar questions could be asked).
This [answer](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/374/what-is-the-purpose-of-prayer/1116#1116) to 'What is the purpose of prayer?' has some good points:
>
> 1. **Prayer is more than just asking for things**. Tom Duckering's answer does a good job outlining this, but to gloss it again, prayer is communication with God which involves both talking to God and listening to him. As our primary form of communication with God, it reinforces in us our relationship with him in all its forms.
> 2. **Prayer does include asking for specific outcomes**. There are far too many examples to ignore: Abraham conversing with God over Sodom and Gomorrah, David pleading for Bathsheba's son, Hannah praying for a child, even Jesus praying that the cup be taken from him. God wants us to ask for things, even though he doesn't always give us what we ask for.
>
>
>
From OP:
>
> God chooses to ignore the prayers of amputees
>
>
>
'Unanswered' is not ignored. God knows what is best for us.
>
> God created us and knows infinitely more than we know. He knows what is best for us, and what would not be good for us. If you have children, when they were very small, sometimes they asked for things that would not be good for them, or would harm them. For good reasons sometimes parents do not always give their children what they ask for, when they ask for it. Parents give them what is best for them.
>
>
> It is the same way in our prayers to God. God gives us what is best for us. We are God’s children and He gives us what is best for us, and at a time when it is best for us. ...
>
>
> God's timetable is not the same as ours. He knows better than we do when is the best time for our prayers to be answered. (See Hebrews 6 :13-15). God is eternal and does not measure time as we do.1
>
>
>
CS Lewis wrote in [Problem of Pain](https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/lewiscs-problemofpain/lewiscs-problemofpain-00-h.html)
>
> “**If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what He wished. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both**.” This is the problem of pain, in its simplest form. ...
>
>
> On the one hand, if God is wiser than we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil....
>
>
> When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. ...
>
>
> Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
>
>
>
---
This post also assumes all amputees pray for the same outcome. There are amputees who pray in gratitude that it was just a limb/partial limb, not their life that was lost (or some other variation of gratitude).
1 [Why does God not answer my prayers?](https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/questions/why-does-god-not-answer-my-prayer) | The question assumes that there is no positive value to be mined in being an amputee, but that would privilege it as suffering, which I am sure is not the intent of the person asking. What amazes me in this is that someone would think this is a harder situation than the resurrections of dead people like Lazarus. Now, that does not happen often so it mainly establishes that God can do it and if HE does not do it before your general resurrection there is a reason.
I think the motive is to say, I will only accept someone else's miracle as a prod to Faith and nothing else. No wonder you have no faith then, right? You can be open to God giving you Faith but you can't put God to the test out of curiosity. |
92,780 | The site: <https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/>
Relevant quotes:
>
> #### Is God real, or is he imaginary?
>
>
> Is God real, or is he imaginary? It is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself.
>
>
> If God is real and if God inspired the Bible, then we should worship God as the Bible demands. We should certainly post the Ten Commandments in our courthouses and shopping centers, put "In God We Trust" on the money and pray in our schools. We should focus our society on God and his infallible Word because our everlasting souls hang in the balance.
>
>
> On the other hand, if God is imaginary, then religion is a complete illusion. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are pointless. Belief in God is nothing but a silly superstition, and this superstition leads a significant portion of the population to be delusional.
>
>
> But how can we decide, conclusively, whether God is real or imaginary?
>
>
> Since we are intelligent human beings living in the 21st century, we should take the time to look at some data. That is what we are doing when we ask, **"Why won't God heal amputees?"**
>
>
> If you are an intelligent human being, and if you want to understand the true nature of God, you owe it to yourself to ask, "Why won't God heal amputees?"
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/))
>
>
>
>
> **Explaining the case of amputees**
>
>
> Just for a moment, I would ask you to consider the possibility of
> another explanation. If you believe in God, then this explanation will
> initially appear to be complete nonsense. However, it is interesting
> in light of the conversation we will be having in this book.
>
>
> One explanation for the evidence that we see before us is this:
>
>
> God exists, and God answers prayers, but for some reason God chooses
> to ignore the prayers of amputees. We don't have a good explanation
> for why God acts this way, and it does seem to contradict what Jesus
> teaches about prayer in the Bible, but clearly God has his divine
> reasons. **Now let's look at the situation with amputees from another**
> **point of view. This explanation is more straightforward**:
>
>
> **God is imaginary**. Let's look at what happens when we consider this
> explanation and see how it stacks up. Assume that God is imaginary.
> **The beauty of this explanation is that it fits the facts perfectly. In**
> **the case of amputees, it is a valid way to explain the reality that we**
> **see in our world. The logic goes like this:**
>
>
> **If God is imaginary, then he does not answer any prayers. Therefore,**
> **the prayers of amputees would go unanswered too. The thing that is so**
> **appealing about this explanation is that there is no hand waving.**
> **There are no contradictions. It is completely fair. There is no**
> **paradox. This explanation makes complete sense in light of the**
> **evidence we see in our world.** [...]
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god5.htm))
>
>
>
Feel free to visit the site to read the author's full exposition of their arguments.
**Question**: Have any Christian apologists published refutations of the objections posited by the site "Why Won't God Heal Amputees?"? If so, what are the most common counter-arguments?
**Note**: answers just sharing links without summarizing the main counter-arguments from notable Christian apologists are discouraged.
---
Related: [How do Christians rebut Matt Dillahunty's objection that the resurrection of Jesus is untestable, unfalsifiable and thus unreasonable to believe?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/89886/how-do-christians-rebut-matt-dillahuntys-objection-that-the-resurrection-of-jes) | 2022/09/27 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/92780",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The question given wasn't why won't God heal amputees, but "Have any Christian apologists published refutations to the objections posited by the site "Why Won't God Heal Amputees?"?"
The answer is yes. Here are a few.
* [Why won’t God heal amputees?](https://www.gotquestions.org/God-heal-amputees.html) from GotQuestions.org.
* [Why won’t
God heal amputees?](https://answersingenesis.org/who-is-god/god-is-good/why-wont-god-heal-amputees/) from Answers In Genesis.
* [Why won’t God heal
amputees?](https://www.compellingtruth.org/God-heal-amputees.html) from Compelling Truth.
* [Why won’t God heal
amputees?](https://www.jonathanmorrow.org/why-wont-god-heal-amputees/) from Jonathan Morrow.
These are just the first few I saw by a simple web search on the phrase "Why won't God heal amputees?" I haven't evaluated the arguments, or verified whether they are comprehensive. But, anyway, the answer is clearly yes. | One Christian apologetics site I frequently use has published an article that refutes the arguments made by the anti-Christian website articles you refer to. The articles suggest that because God does not heal amputees this is proof that God does not exist, that prayer is useless, that so-called healings are coincidence, and that religion is a myth.
Got Questions counters by suggesting that the argument against the existence of God is based on seven false assumptions. Here is a brief summary with only a few partial quotes:
***Assumption 1: God has never healed an amputee:*** To say, "I have no empirical evidence that limbs can regenerate; therefore, no amputee has ever been healed in the history of the world" is to deny that Jesus healed lepers, many of whom would have lost facial features and hands and feet.
>
> In each case, the lepers were restored whole (Mark 1:40-42; Luke 17:12-14). Also, there is the case of the man with the shriveled hand (Matthew 12:9-13), and the restoration of Malchus’s severed ear (Luke 22:50-51), not to mention the fact that Jesus raised the dead (Matthew 11:5; John 11), which would undeniably be even more difficult than healing an amputee.
>
>
>
***Assumption 2: God’s goodness and love require Him to heal everyone:*** What a load of rubbish! If that were true then there would be no sickness, no disease and no death. Facts show that God is not duty-bound to save humans from the consequences of sin.
>
> Joni Eareckson Tada suffered a diving accident that left her a quadriplegic. In her book Joni, she relates how she visited faith healers many times and prayed desperately for the healing which never came. Finally, she accepted her condition as God’s will, and she writes, "The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that God doesn’t want everyone well. He uses our problems for His glory and our good" (p. 190).
>
>
>
***Assumption 3: God still performs miracles today just as He did in the past:*** In the Bible there are only four short periods of time in which miracles were widely performed. Since the death of the last apostle miracles are rare.
>
> Any ministry which claims to be led by a new breed of apostle or claims to possess the ability to heal is deceiving people. "Faith healers" play upon emotion and use the power of suggestion to produce unverifiable "healings." This is not to say that God does not heal people today—we believe He does—but not in the numbers or in the way that some people claim.
>
>
>
***Assumption 4: God is bound to say "yes" to any prayer offered in faith:*** After Jesus’ ascension, the apostles were given power to perform miracles as they spread the gospel (Acts 5:12). God is not bound to answer all prayers and sometimes the answer to a prayer made in faith is “No”.
>
> Jesus twice uses the phrase "in My name." This indicates the basis for the apostles’ prayers, but it also implies that whatever they prayed for should be consonant with Jesus’ will. A selfish prayer, for example, or one motivated by greed, cannot be said to be prayed in Jesus’ name.
>
>
>
***Assumption 5: God’s future healing (at the resurrection) cannot compensate for earthly suffering:*** Typical human reasoning, based on a total lack of spiritual vision and looking only to the short term, i.e., the here-and-now and not the here-and-after. Believers have God’s promise of future physical wholeness.
>
> Jesus said, "It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire" (Matthew 18:8). His words confirm the relative unimportance of our physical condition in this world, as compared to our eternal state. To enter life maimed (and then to be made whole) is infinitely better than to enter hell whole (to suffer for eternity).
>
>
>
***Assumption 6: God’s plan is subject to man’s approval:*** Really? Since when is the created in a position to make demands of his creator and tell Him what should, or should not be done?
>
> God is perfectly just (Psalm 11:7; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-6) and in His sovereignty answers to no one (Romans 9:20-21). A believer has faith in God’s goodness, even when circumstances make it difficult and reason seems to falter.
>
>
>
***Assumption 7: God does not exist:*** The whole point of the question asking why God does not heal amputees is based on the premise that God does not exist and that religion is a myth. This foregone conclusion is foundational to the argument. Here is the conclusion of the matter:
>
> God can heal amputees and will heal every one of them who trusts Christ as Saviour. The healing will come, not as the result of our demanding it now, but in God’s own time, possibly in this life, but definitely in heaven. Until that time, we walk by faith, trusting the God who redeems us in Christ and promises the resurrection of the body.
>
>
>
The personal testimony at the end of this Got Questions article is worth reading: <https://www.gotquestions.org/God-heal-amputees.html> |
92,780 | The site: <https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/>
Relevant quotes:
>
> #### Is God real, or is he imaginary?
>
>
> Is God real, or is he imaginary? It is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself.
>
>
> If God is real and if God inspired the Bible, then we should worship God as the Bible demands. We should certainly post the Ten Commandments in our courthouses and shopping centers, put "In God We Trust" on the money and pray in our schools. We should focus our society on God and his infallible Word because our everlasting souls hang in the balance.
>
>
> On the other hand, if God is imaginary, then religion is a complete illusion. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are pointless. Belief in God is nothing but a silly superstition, and this superstition leads a significant portion of the population to be delusional.
>
>
> But how can we decide, conclusively, whether God is real or imaginary?
>
>
> Since we are intelligent human beings living in the 21st century, we should take the time to look at some data. That is what we are doing when we ask, **"Why won't God heal amputees?"**
>
>
> If you are an intelligent human being, and if you want to understand the true nature of God, you owe it to yourself to ask, "Why won't God heal amputees?"
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/))
>
>
>
>
> **Explaining the case of amputees**
>
>
> Just for a moment, I would ask you to consider the possibility of
> another explanation. If you believe in God, then this explanation will
> initially appear to be complete nonsense. However, it is interesting
> in light of the conversation we will be having in this book.
>
>
> One explanation for the evidence that we see before us is this:
>
>
> God exists, and God answers prayers, but for some reason God chooses
> to ignore the prayers of amputees. We don't have a good explanation
> for why God acts this way, and it does seem to contradict what Jesus
> teaches about prayer in the Bible, but clearly God has his divine
> reasons. **Now let's look at the situation with amputees from another**
> **point of view. This explanation is more straightforward**:
>
>
> **God is imaginary**. Let's look at what happens when we consider this
> explanation and see how it stacks up. Assume that God is imaginary.
> **The beauty of this explanation is that it fits the facts perfectly. In**
> **the case of amputees, it is a valid way to explain the reality that we**
> **see in our world. The logic goes like this:**
>
>
> **If God is imaginary, then he does not answer any prayers. Therefore,**
> **the prayers of amputees would go unanswered too. The thing that is so**
> **appealing about this explanation is that there is no hand waving.**
> **There are no contradictions. It is completely fair. There is no**
> **paradox. This explanation makes complete sense in light of the**
> **evidence we see in our world.** [...]
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god5.htm))
>
>
>
Feel free to visit the site to read the author's full exposition of their arguments.
**Question**: Have any Christian apologists published refutations of the objections posited by the site "Why Won't God Heal Amputees?"? If so, what are the most common counter-arguments?
**Note**: answers just sharing links without summarizing the main counter-arguments from notable Christian apologists are discouraged.
---
Related: [How do Christians rebut Matt Dillahunty's objection that the resurrection of Jesus is untestable, unfalsifiable and thus unreasonable to believe?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/89886/how-do-christians-rebut-matt-dillahuntys-objection-that-the-resurrection-of-jes) | 2022/09/27 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/92780",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The question given wasn't why won't God heal amputees, but "Have any Christian apologists published refutations to the objections posited by the site "Why Won't God Heal Amputees?"?"
The answer is yes. Here are a few.
* [Why won’t God heal amputees?](https://www.gotquestions.org/God-heal-amputees.html) from GotQuestions.org.
* [Why won’t
God heal amputees?](https://answersingenesis.org/who-is-god/god-is-good/why-wont-god-heal-amputees/) from Answers In Genesis.
* [Why won’t God heal
amputees?](https://www.compellingtruth.org/God-heal-amputees.html) from Compelling Truth.
* [Why won’t God heal
amputees?](https://www.jonathanmorrow.org/why-wont-god-heal-amputees/) from Jonathan Morrow.
These are just the first few I saw by a simple web search on the phrase "Why won't God heal amputees?" I haven't evaluated the arguments, or verified whether they are comprehensive. But, anyway, the answer is clearly yes. | The question assumes that there is no positive value to be mined in being an amputee, but that would privilege it as suffering, which I am sure is not the intent of the person asking. What amazes me in this is that someone would think this is a harder situation than the resurrections of dead people like Lazarus. Now, that does not happen often so it mainly establishes that God can do it and if HE does not do it before your general resurrection there is a reason.
I think the motive is to say, I will only accept someone else's miracle as a prod to Faith and nothing else. No wonder you have no faith then, right? You can be open to God giving you Faith but you can't put God to the test out of curiosity. |
92,780 | The site: <https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/>
Relevant quotes:
>
> #### Is God real, or is he imaginary?
>
>
> Is God real, or is he imaginary? It is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself.
>
>
> If God is real and if God inspired the Bible, then we should worship God as the Bible demands. We should certainly post the Ten Commandments in our courthouses and shopping centers, put "In God We Trust" on the money and pray in our schools. We should focus our society on God and his infallible Word because our everlasting souls hang in the balance.
>
>
> On the other hand, if God is imaginary, then religion is a complete illusion. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are pointless. Belief in God is nothing but a silly superstition, and this superstition leads a significant portion of the population to be delusional.
>
>
> But how can we decide, conclusively, whether God is real or imaginary?
>
>
> Since we are intelligent human beings living in the 21st century, we should take the time to look at some data. That is what we are doing when we ask, **"Why won't God heal amputees?"**
>
>
> If you are an intelligent human being, and if you want to understand the true nature of God, you owe it to yourself to ask, "Why won't God heal amputees?"
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/))
>
>
>
>
> **Explaining the case of amputees**
>
>
> Just for a moment, I would ask you to consider the possibility of
> another explanation. If you believe in God, then this explanation will
> initially appear to be complete nonsense. However, it is interesting
> in light of the conversation we will be having in this book.
>
>
> One explanation for the evidence that we see before us is this:
>
>
> God exists, and God answers prayers, but for some reason God chooses
> to ignore the prayers of amputees. We don't have a good explanation
> for why God acts this way, and it does seem to contradict what Jesus
> teaches about prayer in the Bible, but clearly God has his divine
> reasons. **Now let's look at the situation with amputees from another**
> **point of view. This explanation is more straightforward**:
>
>
> **God is imaginary**. Let's look at what happens when we consider this
> explanation and see how it stacks up. Assume that God is imaginary.
> **The beauty of this explanation is that it fits the facts perfectly. In**
> **the case of amputees, it is a valid way to explain the reality that we**
> **see in our world. The logic goes like this:**
>
>
> **If God is imaginary, then he does not answer any prayers. Therefore,**
> **the prayers of amputees would go unanswered too. The thing that is so**
> **appealing about this explanation is that there is no hand waving.**
> **There are no contradictions. It is completely fair. There is no**
> **paradox. This explanation makes complete sense in light of the**
> **evidence we see in our world.** [...]
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god5.htm))
>
>
>
Feel free to visit the site to read the author's full exposition of their arguments.
**Question**: Have any Christian apologists published refutations of the objections posited by the site "Why Won't God Heal Amputees?"? If so, what are the most common counter-arguments?
**Note**: answers just sharing links without summarizing the main counter-arguments from notable Christian apologists are discouraged.
---
Related: [How do Christians rebut Matt Dillahunty's objection that the resurrection of Jesus is untestable, unfalsifiable and thus unreasonable to believe?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/89886/how-do-christians-rebut-matt-dillahuntys-objection-that-the-resurrection-of-jes) | 2022/09/27 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/92780",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | This question is but a specific case of *the problem of evil*, a matter which Christian apologists have responded to many times. I won't offer a lengthy discussion of the problem of evil here, but I'll offer a brief logical & theological refutation of this specific argument.
**Logical argument**
The argument is at its core attempting a reductio ad absurdum - endeavoring to show that, given xyz evidence, it is absurd to believe that God exists. However, what is presented here is not a valid reductive argument--the flaw is subtle, but crucial.
To construct a reductio ad absurdum argument against God one must begin by accepting, for sake of argument, that God exists. This is the way the first premise is formulated for any reductio ad absurdum--one must start by accepting the truth of the claim in question, in order to show via the absurdity that follows that the original premise should be rejected.
This reductive argument tacitly assumes--as most atheistic arguments do--that there is no afterlife, there is no eternity, and so any injustice not cured in this life will never be cured. This assumption destroys the reductio ad absurdum--to state the premises formally, this argument approaches the problem as follows:
P1: God exists
P2: There is no afterlife
The best the reductio ad absurdum can do is show that these premises cannot both be true; since no Bible-believing Christian would accept premise 2, the reductive argument is entirely ineffective.
The moment we open the door to an afterlife--especially an afterlife that is far greater in scope & duration than mortal life--theological explanations for human suffering in mortality abound. Atheists who do not wish to engage with theological arguments should not attempt reductio ad absurdum arguments against the existence of God, because they'll have to start by assuming (for sake of argument) that God exists. Once that premise is on the table, theological arguments are fair game, and the reductive argument will progress no further without responding to theology.
--
**Theological argument**
God is certainly capable of healing limbs that have suffered permanent damage (examples [here](https://www.ldsliving.com/the-revelation-that-saved-one-boy-shot-during-the-hauns-mill-massacre/s/89615) and [here](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/matt/12?lang=eng#p10)), but most of the time He chooses to wait before doing so. The maladies of this life are healed in the resurrection (see 1 Cor. 15:54); they are not always healed prior to that time.
The question then becomes why would God allow His children to experience temporary pain? (and mortal life starts looking extremely brief when stacked up next to eternity)
Any parent knows it would not be loving--in the long run--to shield their children from everything painful or difficult. Mortal parents certainly try to protect their children from injuries that will affect them through all of mortality, and our Eternal Parent offers protection from injuries that will affect us through all eternity, but a loving Father who wants us to grow will not withhold from us the very refiner's fire that will allow us to develop. I discuss suffering more extensively in this video on my channel: [The Parable of Ana and the Volcano](https://youtu.be/MMg7XCdIqwo).
To borrow an idea from Michelle Craig, *challenges are part of the reason we are here*.
Spencer W. Kimball effectively illustrated why a loving God should *not* remove every obstacle:
>
> If all the sick for whom we pray were healed, if all the righteous
> were protected and the wicked destroyed, the whole program of the
> Father would be annulled and the basic principle of the gospel, free
> agency, would be ended. No man would have to live by faith.
>
>
> If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of
> good, there could be no evil—all would do good but not because of the
> rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no
> development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only
> satanic controls.
>
>
> Should all prayers be immediately answered according to our selfish
> desires and our limited understanding, then there would be little or
> no suffering, sorrow, disappointment, or even death, and if these were
> not, there would also be no joy, success, resurrection, nor eternal
> life
>
>
> ...
>
>
> Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental
> anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we
> were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be
> excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make
> saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and
> self-mastery.
>
>
> ...
>
>
> I would likely have protected Paul against his woes if my power were
> boundless. I would surely have healed his “thorn in the flesh.” And in
> doing so I might have foiled the Lord’s program...Paul many times could have lost himself
> if he had been eloquent, well, handsome, and free from the things that
> made him humble.
>
>
> ...
>
>
> With such uncontrolled power, I surely would have felt to protect
> Christ from the agony in Gethsemane, the insults, the thorny crown,
> the indignities in the court, the physical injuries. I would have
> administered to his wounds and healed them, giving him cooling water
> instead of vinegar. **I might have saved him from suffering and death,
> and lost to the world his atoning sacrifice**. ([source](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-spencer-w-kimball/chapter-2?lang=eng))
>
>
>
My own experience gives me the conviction that God does hear & answer prayers, but He does not always give the answer I want. God *could* give us what we want today, but He loves us enough to offer something eternally better.
---
**Addendum--response to questions**
*Why would God heal other ailments but specifically exclude healing (in this life) for those who had a part of their body removed?*
I provided an example (linked) above that God has performed such healing and has not unilaterally excluded such injuries. That said, there are so many ways a human being can be injured it would be unrealistic (and contrary to the Biblical principal of faith) to believe in God if and only if He demonstrates His ability to heal at least one instance of every possible form of injury. I'm unaware of God ever raising from death a person who died while skydiving, but that does not lead me to conclude that He doesn't love these people or lacks the ability to heal this precise form of injury.
If God can raise the daughter of Jairus, the son of the widow of Nain, Lazarus, Eutychus, and Dorcas from death, I see no reason why He couldn't raise a skydiving victim from death if He saw fit to do so.
*Does the reductive argument really require premise 2 above?*
Yes, consider what the argument would have to say otherwise. If we grant the possibility of an afterlife--for sake of math let's say the afterlife has a duration of 10^500,000 years (of course if we accept an eternal afterlife it's much longer than that)--the question becomes, how is it fair that:
* Person X suffers a grievous ailment for 50 years out of 10^500,000 while
* Person Y suffers a grievous ailment 0.5 years out of 10^500,000
The force of the original argument is lost.
*Why doesn't God just make people already in a state of eternal life?*
A more complete answer to this question would require a discussion of what is meant by eternal life--and I personally have a very high view of the term--but the short answer is:
* God is a loving parent who wants us to develop--life is about becoming, not filling a checklist, and the process is important (would any parent want their children to be born already as adults?)
* The objection that this means God is not Omnipotent is bogus--it's the same form of objection as claiming God is not Omnipotent because He cannot create a square circle. A square circle is a contradiction in terms, it's a meaningless combination of words. So too is the idea of a spiritually immature recipient of eternal life. | One Christian apologetics site I frequently use has published an article that refutes the arguments made by the anti-Christian website articles you refer to. The articles suggest that because God does not heal amputees this is proof that God does not exist, that prayer is useless, that so-called healings are coincidence, and that religion is a myth.
Got Questions counters by suggesting that the argument against the existence of God is based on seven false assumptions. Here is a brief summary with only a few partial quotes:
***Assumption 1: God has never healed an amputee:*** To say, "I have no empirical evidence that limbs can regenerate; therefore, no amputee has ever been healed in the history of the world" is to deny that Jesus healed lepers, many of whom would have lost facial features and hands and feet.
>
> In each case, the lepers were restored whole (Mark 1:40-42; Luke 17:12-14). Also, there is the case of the man with the shriveled hand (Matthew 12:9-13), and the restoration of Malchus’s severed ear (Luke 22:50-51), not to mention the fact that Jesus raised the dead (Matthew 11:5; John 11), which would undeniably be even more difficult than healing an amputee.
>
>
>
***Assumption 2: God’s goodness and love require Him to heal everyone:*** What a load of rubbish! If that were true then there would be no sickness, no disease and no death. Facts show that God is not duty-bound to save humans from the consequences of sin.
>
> Joni Eareckson Tada suffered a diving accident that left her a quadriplegic. In her book Joni, she relates how she visited faith healers many times and prayed desperately for the healing which never came. Finally, she accepted her condition as God’s will, and she writes, "The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that God doesn’t want everyone well. He uses our problems for His glory and our good" (p. 190).
>
>
>
***Assumption 3: God still performs miracles today just as He did in the past:*** In the Bible there are only four short periods of time in which miracles were widely performed. Since the death of the last apostle miracles are rare.
>
> Any ministry which claims to be led by a new breed of apostle or claims to possess the ability to heal is deceiving people. "Faith healers" play upon emotion and use the power of suggestion to produce unverifiable "healings." This is not to say that God does not heal people today—we believe He does—but not in the numbers or in the way that some people claim.
>
>
>
***Assumption 4: God is bound to say "yes" to any prayer offered in faith:*** After Jesus’ ascension, the apostles were given power to perform miracles as they spread the gospel (Acts 5:12). God is not bound to answer all prayers and sometimes the answer to a prayer made in faith is “No”.
>
> Jesus twice uses the phrase "in My name." This indicates the basis for the apostles’ prayers, but it also implies that whatever they prayed for should be consonant with Jesus’ will. A selfish prayer, for example, or one motivated by greed, cannot be said to be prayed in Jesus’ name.
>
>
>
***Assumption 5: God’s future healing (at the resurrection) cannot compensate for earthly suffering:*** Typical human reasoning, based on a total lack of spiritual vision and looking only to the short term, i.e., the here-and-now and not the here-and-after. Believers have God’s promise of future physical wholeness.
>
> Jesus said, "It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire" (Matthew 18:8). His words confirm the relative unimportance of our physical condition in this world, as compared to our eternal state. To enter life maimed (and then to be made whole) is infinitely better than to enter hell whole (to suffer for eternity).
>
>
>
***Assumption 6: God’s plan is subject to man’s approval:*** Really? Since when is the created in a position to make demands of his creator and tell Him what should, or should not be done?
>
> God is perfectly just (Psalm 11:7; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-6) and in His sovereignty answers to no one (Romans 9:20-21). A believer has faith in God’s goodness, even when circumstances make it difficult and reason seems to falter.
>
>
>
***Assumption 7: God does not exist:*** The whole point of the question asking why God does not heal amputees is based on the premise that God does not exist and that religion is a myth. This foregone conclusion is foundational to the argument. Here is the conclusion of the matter:
>
> God can heal amputees and will heal every one of them who trusts Christ as Saviour. The healing will come, not as the result of our demanding it now, but in God’s own time, possibly in this life, but definitely in heaven. Until that time, we walk by faith, trusting the God who redeems us in Christ and promises the resurrection of the body.
>
>
>
The personal testimony at the end of this Got Questions article is worth reading: <https://www.gotquestions.org/God-heal-amputees.html> |
92,780 | The site: <https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/>
Relevant quotes:
>
> #### Is God real, or is he imaginary?
>
>
> Is God real, or is he imaginary? It is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself.
>
>
> If God is real and if God inspired the Bible, then we should worship God as the Bible demands. We should certainly post the Ten Commandments in our courthouses and shopping centers, put "In God We Trust" on the money and pray in our schools. We should focus our society on God and his infallible Word because our everlasting souls hang in the balance.
>
>
> On the other hand, if God is imaginary, then religion is a complete illusion. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are pointless. Belief in God is nothing but a silly superstition, and this superstition leads a significant portion of the population to be delusional.
>
>
> But how can we decide, conclusively, whether God is real or imaginary?
>
>
> Since we are intelligent human beings living in the 21st century, we should take the time to look at some data. That is what we are doing when we ask, **"Why won't God heal amputees?"**
>
>
> If you are an intelligent human being, and if you want to understand the true nature of God, you owe it to yourself to ask, "Why won't God heal amputees?"
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/))
>
>
>
>
> **Explaining the case of amputees**
>
>
> Just for a moment, I would ask you to consider the possibility of
> another explanation. If you believe in God, then this explanation will
> initially appear to be complete nonsense. However, it is interesting
> in light of the conversation we will be having in this book.
>
>
> One explanation for the evidence that we see before us is this:
>
>
> God exists, and God answers prayers, but for some reason God chooses
> to ignore the prayers of amputees. We don't have a good explanation
> for why God acts this way, and it does seem to contradict what Jesus
> teaches about prayer in the Bible, but clearly God has his divine
> reasons. **Now let's look at the situation with amputees from another**
> **point of view. This explanation is more straightforward**:
>
>
> **God is imaginary**. Let's look at what happens when we consider this
> explanation and see how it stacks up. Assume that God is imaginary.
> **The beauty of this explanation is that it fits the facts perfectly. In**
> **the case of amputees, it is a valid way to explain the reality that we**
> **see in our world. The logic goes like this:**
>
>
> **If God is imaginary, then he does not answer any prayers. Therefore,**
> **the prayers of amputees would go unanswered too. The thing that is so**
> **appealing about this explanation is that there is no hand waving.**
> **There are no contradictions. It is completely fair. There is no**
> **paradox. This explanation makes complete sense in light of the**
> **evidence we see in our world.** [...]
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god5.htm))
>
>
>
Feel free to visit the site to read the author's full exposition of their arguments.
**Question**: Have any Christian apologists published refutations of the objections posited by the site "Why Won't God Heal Amputees?"? If so, what are the most common counter-arguments?
**Note**: answers just sharing links without summarizing the main counter-arguments from notable Christian apologists are discouraged.
---
Related: [How do Christians rebut Matt Dillahunty's objection that the resurrection of Jesus is untestable, unfalsifiable and thus unreasonable to believe?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/89886/how-do-christians-rebut-matt-dillahuntys-objection-that-the-resurrection-of-jes) | 2022/09/27 | [
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Got Questions counters by suggesting that the argument against the existence of God is based on seven false assumptions. Here is a brief summary with only a few partial quotes:
***Assumption 1: God has never healed an amputee:*** To say, "I have no empirical evidence that limbs can regenerate; therefore, no amputee has ever been healed in the history of the world" is to deny that Jesus healed lepers, many of whom would have lost facial features and hands and feet.
>
> In each case, the lepers were restored whole (Mark 1:40-42; Luke 17:12-14). Also, there is the case of the man with the shriveled hand (Matthew 12:9-13), and the restoration of Malchus’s severed ear (Luke 22:50-51), not to mention the fact that Jesus raised the dead (Matthew 11:5; John 11), which would undeniably be even more difficult than healing an amputee.
>
>
>
***Assumption 2: God’s goodness and love require Him to heal everyone:*** What a load of rubbish! If that were true then there would be no sickness, no disease and no death. Facts show that God is not duty-bound to save humans from the consequences of sin.
>
> Joni Eareckson Tada suffered a diving accident that left her a quadriplegic. In her book Joni, she relates how she visited faith healers many times and prayed desperately for the healing which never came. Finally, she accepted her condition as God’s will, and she writes, "The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that God doesn’t want everyone well. He uses our problems for His glory and our good" (p. 190).
>
>
>
***Assumption 3: God still performs miracles today just as He did in the past:*** In the Bible there are only four short periods of time in which miracles were widely performed. Since the death of the last apostle miracles are rare.
>
> Any ministry which claims to be led by a new breed of apostle or claims to possess the ability to heal is deceiving people. "Faith healers" play upon emotion and use the power of suggestion to produce unverifiable "healings." This is not to say that God does not heal people today—we believe He does—but not in the numbers or in the way that some people claim.
>
>
>
***Assumption 4: God is bound to say "yes" to any prayer offered in faith:*** After Jesus’ ascension, the apostles were given power to perform miracles as they spread the gospel (Acts 5:12). God is not bound to answer all prayers and sometimes the answer to a prayer made in faith is “No”.
>
> Jesus twice uses the phrase "in My name." This indicates the basis for the apostles’ prayers, but it also implies that whatever they prayed for should be consonant with Jesus’ will. A selfish prayer, for example, or one motivated by greed, cannot be said to be prayed in Jesus’ name.
>
>
>
***Assumption 5: God’s future healing (at the resurrection) cannot compensate for earthly suffering:*** Typical human reasoning, based on a total lack of spiritual vision and looking only to the short term, i.e., the here-and-now and not the here-and-after. Believers have God’s promise of future physical wholeness.
>
> Jesus said, "It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire" (Matthew 18:8). His words confirm the relative unimportance of our physical condition in this world, as compared to our eternal state. To enter life maimed (and then to be made whole) is infinitely better than to enter hell whole (to suffer for eternity).
>
>
>
***Assumption 6: God’s plan is subject to man’s approval:*** Really? Since when is the created in a position to make demands of his creator and tell Him what should, or should not be done?
>
> God is perfectly just (Psalm 11:7; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-6) and in His sovereignty answers to no one (Romans 9:20-21). A believer has faith in God’s goodness, even when circumstances make it difficult and reason seems to falter.
>
>
>
***Assumption 7: God does not exist:*** The whole point of the question asking why God does not heal amputees is based on the premise that God does not exist and that religion is a myth. This foregone conclusion is foundational to the argument. Here is the conclusion of the matter:
>
> God can heal amputees and will heal every one of them who trusts Christ as Saviour. The healing will come, not as the result of our demanding it now, but in God’s own time, possibly in this life, but definitely in heaven. Until that time, we walk by faith, trusting the God who redeems us in Christ and promises the resurrection of the body.
>
>
>
The personal testimony at the end of this Got Questions article is worth reading: <https://www.gotquestions.org/God-heal-amputees.html> | The question assumes that there is no positive value to be mined in being an amputee, but that would privilege it as suffering, which I am sure is not the intent of the person asking. What amazes me in this is that someone would think this is a harder situation than the resurrections of dead people like Lazarus. Now, that does not happen often so it mainly establishes that God can do it and if HE does not do it before your general resurrection there is a reason.
I think the motive is to say, I will only accept someone else's miracle as a prod to Faith and nothing else. No wonder you have no faith then, right? You can be open to God giving you Faith but you can't put God to the test out of curiosity. |
92,780 | The site: <https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/>
Relevant quotes:
>
> #### Is God real, or is he imaginary?
>
>
> Is God real, or is he imaginary? It is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself.
>
>
> If God is real and if God inspired the Bible, then we should worship God as the Bible demands. We should certainly post the Ten Commandments in our courthouses and shopping centers, put "In God We Trust" on the money and pray in our schools. We should focus our society on God and his infallible Word because our everlasting souls hang in the balance.
>
>
> On the other hand, if God is imaginary, then religion is a complete illusion. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are pointless. Belief in God is nothing but a silly superstition, and this superstition leads a significant portion of the population to be delusional.
>
>
> But how can we decide, conclusively, whether God is real or imaginary?
>
>
> Since we are intelligent human beings living in the 21st century, we should take the time to look at some data. That is what we are doing when we ask, **"Why won't God heal amputees?"**
>
>
> If you are an intelligent human being, and if you want to understand the true nature of God, you owe it to yourself to ask, "Why won't God heal amputees?"
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/))
>
>
>
>
> **Explaining the case of amputees**
>
>
> Just for a moment, I would ask you to consider the possibility of
> another explanation. If you believe in God, then this explanation will
> initially appear to be complete nonsense. However, it is interesting
> in light of the conversation we will be having in this book.
>
>
> One explanation for the evidence that we see before us is this:
>
>
> God exists, and God answers prayers, but for some reason God chooses
> to ignore the prayers of amputees. We don't have a good explanation
> for why God acts this way, and it does seem to contradict what Jesus
> teaches about prayer in the Bible, but clearly God has his divine
> reasons. **Now let's look at the situation with amputees from another**
> **point of view. This explanation is more straightforward**:
>
>
> **God is imaginary**. Let's look at what happens when we consider this
> explanation and see how it stacks up. Assume that God is imaginary.
> **The beauty of this explanation is that it fits the facts perfectly. In**
> **the case of amputees, it is a valid way to explain the reality that we**
> **see in our world. The logic goes like this:**
>
>
> **If God is imaginary, then he does not answer any prayers. Therefore,**
> **the prayers of amputees would go unanswered too. The thing that is so**
> **appealing about this explanation is that there is no hand waving.**
> **There are no contradictions. It is completely fair. There is no**
> **paradox. This explanation makes complete sense in light of the**
> **evidence we see in our world.** [...]
>
>
> ([source](https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god5.htm))
>
>
>
Feel free to visit the site to read the author's full exposition of their arguments.
**Question**: Have any Christian apologists published refutations of the objections posited by the site "Why Won't God Heal Amputees?"? If so, what are the most common counter-arguments?
**Note**: answers just sharing links without summarizing the main counter-arguments from notable Christian apologists are discouraged.
---
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] | This question is but a specific case of *the problem of evil*, a matter which Christian apologists have responded to many times. I won't offer a lengthy discussion of the problem of evil here, but I'll offer a brief logical & theological refutation of this specific argument.
**Logical argument**
The argument is at its core attempting a reductio ad absurdum - endeavoring to show that, given xyz evidence, it is absurd to believe that God exists. However, what is presented here is not a valid reductive argument--the flaw is subtle, but crucial.
To construct a reductio ad absurdum argument against God one must begin by accepting, for sake of argument, that God exists. This is the way the first premise is formulated for any reductio ad absurdum--one must start by accepting the truth of the claim in question, in order to show via the absurdity that follows that the original premise should be rejected.
This reductive argument tacitly assumes--as most atheistic arguments do--that there is no afterlife, there is no eternity, and so any injustice not cured in this life will never be cured. This assumption destroys the reductio ad absurdum--to state the premises formally, this argument approaches the problem as follows:
P1: God exists
P2: There is no afterlife
The best the reductio ad absurdum can do is show that these premises cannot both be true; since no Bible-believing Christian would accept premise 2, the reductive argument is entirely ineffective.
The moment we open the door to an afterlife--especially an afterlife that is far greater in scope & duration than mortal life--theological explanations for human suffering in mortality abound. Atheists who do not wish to engage with theological arguments should not attempt reductio ad absurdum arguments against the existence of God, because they'll have to start by assuming (for sake of argument) that God exists. Once that premise is on the table, theological arguments are fair game, and the reductive argument will progress no further without responding to theology.
--
**Theological argument**
God is certainly capable of healing limbs that have suffered permanent damage (examples [here](https://www.ldsliving.com/the-revelation-that-saved-one-boy-shot-during-the-hauns-mill-massacre/s/89615) and [here](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/matt/12?lang=eng#p10)), but most of the time He chooses to wait before doing so. The maladies of this life are healed in the resurrection (see 1 Cor. 15:54); they are not always healed prior to that time.
The question then becomes why would God allow His children to experience temporary pain? (and mortal life starts looking extremely brief when stacked up next to eternity)
Any parent knows it would not be loving--in the long run--to shield their children from everything painful or difficult. Mortal parents certainly try to protect their children from injuries that will affect them through all of mortality, and our Eternal Parent offers protection from injuries that will affect us through all eternity, but a loving Father who wants us to grow will not withhold from us the very refiner's fire that will allow us to develop. I discuss suffering more extensively in this video on my channel: [The Parable of Ana and the Volcano](https://youtu.be/MMg7XCdIqwo).
To borrow an idea from Michelle Craig, *challenges are part of the reason we are here*.
Spencer W. Kimball effectively illustrated why a loving God should *not* remove every obstacle:
>
> If all the sick for whom we pray were healed, if all the righteous
> were protected and the wicked destroyed, the whole program of the
> Father would be annulled and the basic principle of the gospel, free
> agency, would be ended. No man would have to live by faith.
>
>
> If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of
> good, there could be no evil—all would do good but not because of the
> rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no
> development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only
> satanic controls.
>
>
> Should all prayers be immediately answered according to our selfish
> desires and our limited understanding, then there would be little or
> no suffering, sorrow, disappointment, or even death, and if these were
> not, there would also be no joy, success, resurrection, nor eternal
> life
>
>
> ...
>
>
> Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental
> anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we
> were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be
> excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make
> saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and
> self-mastery.
>
>
> ...
>
>
> I would likely have protected Paul against his woes if my power were
> boundless. I would surely have healed his “thorn in the flesh.” And in
> doing so I might have foiled the Lord’s program...Paul many times could have lost himself
> if he had been eloquent, well, handsome, and free from the things that
> made him humble.
>
>
> ...
>
>
> With such uncontrolled power, I surely would have felt to protect
> Christ from the agony in Gethsemane, the insults, the thorny crown,
> the indignities in the court, the physical injuries. I would have
> administered to his wounds and healed them, giving him cooling water
> instead of vinegar. **I might have saved him from suffering and death,
> and lost to the world his atoning sacrifice**. ([source](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-spencer-w-kimball/chapter-2?lang=eng))
>
>
>
My own experience gives me the conviction that God does hear & answer prayers, but He does not always give the answer I want. God *could* give us what we want today, but He loves us enough to offer something eternally better.
---
**Addendum--response to questions**
*Why would God heal other ailments but specifically exclude healing (in this life) for those who had a part of their body removed?*
I provided an example (linked) above that God has performed such healing and has not unilaterally excluded such injuries. That said, there are so many ways a human being can be injured it would be unrealistic (and contrary to the Biblical principal of faith) to believe in God if and only if He demonstrates His ability to heal at least one instance of every possible form of injury. I'm unaware of God ever raising from death a person who died while skydiving, but that does not lead me to conclude that He doesn't love these people or lacks the ability to heal this precise form of injury.
If God can raise the daughter of Jairus, the son of the widow of Nain, Lazarus, Eutychus, and Dorcas from death, I see no reason why He couldn't raise a skydiving victim from death if He saw fit to do so.
*Does the reductive argument really require premise 2 above?*
Yes, consider what the argument would have to say otherwise. If we grant the possibility of an afterlife--for sake of math let's say the afterlife has a duration of 10^500,000 years (of course if we accept an eternal afterlife it's much longer than that)--the question becomes, how is it fair that:
* Person X suffers a grievous ailment for 50 years out of 10^500,000 while
* Person Y suffers a grievous ailment 0.5 years out of 10^500,000
The force of the original argument is lost.
*Why doesn't God just make people already in a state of eternal life?*
A more complete answer to this question would require a discussion of what is meant by eternal life--and I personally have a very high view of the term--but the short answer is:
* God is a loving parent who wants us to develop--life is about becoming, not filling a checklist, and the process is important (would any parent want their children to be born already as adults?)
* The objection that this means God is not Omnipotent is bogus--it's the same form of objection as claiming God is not Omnipotent because He cannot create a square circle. A square circle is a contradiction in terms, it's a meaningless combination of words. So too is the idea of a spiritually immature recipient of eternal life. | The question assumes that there is no positive value to be mined in being an amputee, but that would privilege it as suffering, which I am sure is not the intent of the person asking. What amazes me in this is that someone would think this is a harder situation than the resurrections of dead people like Lazarus. Now, that does not happen often so it mainly establishes that God can do it and if HE does not do it before your general resurrection there is a reason.
I think the motive is to say, I will only accept someone else's miracle as a prod to Faith and nothing else. No wonder you have no faith then, right? You can be open to God giving you Faith but you can't put God to the test out of curiosity. |
33,792 | I deleted an old answer that had a -3 score, and didn't get a peer pressure badge.
If it's not intended to be awarded more than once, it loses its reason to be, that is encouraging people to delete (what the community considers) bad posts.
Should it be awarded more than once or not? If it is, could it become like the [troll cap](http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/introducing_the_troll_cap.php)? | 2009/12/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33792",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/1782/"
] | It's awarded just once. I'm tempted to say it should be awarded for each -3 post you delete, but I'm not so sure that's something we want to celebrate more often. | [It's not awarded more than once](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10026/which-badges-are-awarded-only-once). It's also one of those badges that aren't awarded instantly, but rather seem to be awarded on a batch basis some minutes to hours later.
I don't really see the value in awarding this one more than once -- it corresponds more to a particular behaviour that you have done, rather than corresponding to a particular question or answer (as the multiply-awarded badges do). |
33,792 | I deleted an old answer that had a -3 score, and didn't get a peer pressure badge.
If it's not intended to be awarded more than once, it loses its reason to be, that is encouraging people to delete (what the community considers) bad posts.
Should it be awarded more than once or not? If it is, could it become like the [troll cap](http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/introducing_the_troll_cap.php)? | 2009/12/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33792",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/1782/"
] | [It's not awarded more than once](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10026/which-badges-are-awarded-only-once). It's also one of those badges that aren't awarded instantly, but rather seem to be awarded on a batch basis some minutes to hours later.
I don't really see the value in awarding this one more than once -- it corresponds more to a particular behaviour that you have done, rather than corresponding to a particular question or answer (as the multiply-awarded badges do). | This would encourage some users to try and rack up the most Peer Pressure badges on the site. No thanks. |
33,792 | I deleted an old answer that had a -3 score, and didn't get a peer pressure badge.
If it's not intended to be awarded more than once, it loses its reason to be, that is encouraging people to delete (what the community considers) bad posts.
Should it be awarded more than once or not? If it is, could it become like the [troll cap](http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/introducing_the_troll_cap.php)? | 2009/12/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33792",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/1782/"
] | It's awarded just once. I'm tempted to say it should be awarded for each -3 post you delete, but I'm not so sure that's something we want to celebrate more often. | This would encourage some users to try and rack up the most Peer Pressure badges on the site. No thanks. |
52,059 | I'm at a loss for where to get the best information about the meaning, likely causes, and possible solutions to resolve COM errors when all you have is the HRESULT.
Searching Google for terms like '80004027' is just about useless as it sends you to random discussion groups where 90% of the time, the question 'What does 80004027 mean?' is not answered.
What is a good resource for this? Why isn't MSDN the top Google result? | 2008/09/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/52059",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1341/"
] | I always use WinError.h. That has the vast majority of Windows error codes of all sorts.
A key indicator to look out for is the Facility part of the code: the second most-significant byte. That is, 0x80nnmmmm, where nn is the Facility. That tells you which component generated the code. Anything with a facility of 7 is a Windows error code repackaged as an HRESULT, and you should convert the low word to decimal and look it up in WinError.h. There are also error ranges that appear in their own headers (e.g. anything from 12000 - 12999 is a WinInet error code and you should look it up in WinInet.h).
Looking up the error code will give you the symbolic name, which might be found in more documentation than the code itself or the wording of the error message.
FACILITY\_ITF (which has the value 4, so these HRESULTs start 0x8004) indicates that the error is defined by the interface you're using; you'll have to check with that interface to find out what it means.
Finally, COM also offers the interface IErrorInfo to retrieve extended error information: call GetErrorInfo to retrieve the error object. You'll have to query for ISupportErrorInfo and call that interface's InterfaceSupportsErrorInfo method to determine whether the interface you called actually set the error object (and of course, if it was template code, it could be lying). | [Structure of COM Error Code](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms690088.aspx)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Second in Google results for COM Error Code. |
52,059 | I'm at a loss for where to get the best information about the meaning, likely causes, and possible solutions to resolve COM errors when all you have is the HRESULT.
Searching Google for terms like '80004027' is just about useless as it sends you to random discussion groups where 90% of the time, the question 'What does 80004027 mean?' is not answered.
What is a good resource for this? Why isn't MSDN the top Google result? | 2008/09/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/52059",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1341/"
] | I always use WinError.h. That has the vast majority of Windows error codes of all sorts.
A key indicator to look out for is the Facility part of the code: the second most-significant byte. That is, 0x80nnmmmm, where nn is the Facility. That tells you which component generated the code. Anything with a facility of 7 is a Windows error code repackaged as an HRESULT, and you should convert the low word to decimal and look it up in WinError.h. There are also error ranges that appear in their own headers (e.g. anything from 12000 - 12999 is a WinInet error code and you should look it up in WinInet.h).
Looking up the error code will give you the symbolic name, which might be found in more documentation than the code itself or the wording of the error message.
FACILITY\_ITF (which has the value 4, so these HRESULTs start 0x8004) indicates that the error is defined by the interface you're using; you'll have to check with that interface to find out what it means.
Finally, COM also offers the interface IErrorInfo to retrieve extended error information: call GetErrorInfo to retrieve the error object. You'll have to query for ISupportErrorInfo and call that interface's InterfaceSupportsErrorInfo method to determine whether the interface you called actually set the error object (and of course, if it was template code, it could be lying). | Good link from Prakash (I wasn't aware of the RCNr stuff - I thought those bytes were part of the facility - but that's only true in 16 bit Windows it seems.)
Often these unknown codes are specific to the interface/component you're using. The facility would be set to FACILITY\_ITF. I have an old program HRPlus ([link?](http://www.simtel.net/product.php%5Bid%5D8407%5Bcid%5D228%5BSiteID%5Dsimtel.net)) that parses HRESULTs. |
33,286,725 | I've been browsing through the GCC source code and I've been stumped on how to extract these. Can anyone provide a list or information on how to extract these peepholes (assembly rewrite optimizations)?
GCC code: <https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc>
**Edit**: To clarify, a "peephole" is defined to be a find and replace pattern with some associated side conditions for the rewrite to be valid (often just some register/flags liveness information). | 2015/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/33286725",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/814454/"
] | You need to authenticate with the Gmail SMTP server in order to send mail.
This means either using your Google account password (or better - a Google account password for a new account with no sensitive information in it), or an app password if you have 2FA enabled on your Google account. | The Google account password does not work anymore. For Gmail personal users, you have to use the "App password". For paid Google Workspace users, there are more options, such as "Less secure apps" or "Google SMTP relay service". See <https://www.cubebackup.com/blog/how-to-use-google-smtp-service-to-send-emails-for-free/> for more information. |
33,286,725 | I've been browsing through the GCC source code and I've been stumped on how to extract these. Can anyone provide a list or information on how to extract these peepholes (assembly rewrite optimizations)?
GCC code: <https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc>
**Edit**: To clarify, a "peephole" is defined to be a find and replace pattern with some associated side conditions for the rewrite to be valid (often just some register/flags liveness information). | 2015/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/33286725",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/814454/"
] | You need to authenticate with the Gmail SMTP server in order to send mail.
This means either using your Google account password (or better - a Google account password for a new account with no sensitive information in it), or an app password if you have 2FA enabled on your Google account. | [Since May 2022, Google stopped providing access to less secure apps](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en)
Steps to generate an app password to integrate programmatically
---------------------------------------------------------------
1. Go to the Google account.
2. On the left navigation panel, click Security.
3. On the "Signing in to Google" panel, click App passwords. If prompted, enter your password.
Note: If you can't get to the page, 2-Step Verification is:
Not set up for your account
4. Make sure Mail or Other (custom name) is selected in the Select app drop-down menu. If you seelcted Mail, choose a computer or device from the Select device menu. If you selected Other (custom name), type the application name (like "My Mail Program").
5. Click Generate.
Use the generated password displayed BOTH IN IMAP and SMTP section in your email account settings in Program SMTP Setting. |
33,286,725 | I've been browsing through the GCC source code and I've been stumped on how to extract these. Can anyone provide a list or information on how to extract these peepholes (assembly rewrite optimizations)?
GCC code: <https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc>
**Edit**: To clarify, a "peephole" is defined to be a find and replace pattern with some associated side conditions for the rewrite to be valid (often just some register/flags liveness information). | 2015/10/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/33286725",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/814454/"
] | [Since May 2022, Google stopped providing access to less secure apps](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en)
Steps to generate an app password to integrate programmatically
---------------------------------------------------------------
1. Go to the Google account.
2. On the left navigation panel, click Security.
3. On the "Signing in to Google" panel, click App passwords. If prompted, enter your password.
Note: If you can't get to the page, 2-Step Verification is:
Not set up for your account
4. Make sure Mail or Other (custom name) is selected in the Select app drop-down menu. If you seelcted Mail, choose a computer or device from the Select device menu. If you selected Other (custom name), type the application name (like "My Mail Program").
5. Click Generate.
Use the generated password displayed BOTH IN IMAP and SMTP section in your email account settings in Program SMTP Setting. | The Google account password does not work anymore. For Gmail personal users, you have to use the "App password". For paid Google Workspace users, there are more options, such as "Less secure apps" or "Google SMTP relay service". See <https://www.cubebackup.com/blog/how-to-use-google-smtp-service-to-send-emails-for-free/> for more information. |
9,261 | What is the earliest block in the blockchain that has a spent coinbase? I have manually looked at the first dozen or so but they are all unspent. | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9261",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/3997/"
] | The first transaction, [Satoshi sending 10 BTC to Hal Finney](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0), was recorded in [block 170](https://blockchain.info/block-index/171/00000000d1145790a8694403d4063f323d499e655c83426834d4ce2f8dd4a2ee). | As Dust noted above, it does appear that 10 coins that were generated in Block 9, were sent to someone in [Block 170](http://blockexplorer.com/address/12cbQLTFMXRnSzktFkuoG3eHoMeFtpTu3S), transaction [f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16](http://blockexplorer.com/tx/f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16#i172) and which if what Hal says is true (I have no reason to believe its not) then Hal's address is [1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3](http://blockexplorer.com/address/1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3) and he didn't spend/move them again until 16 Nov 2010, which would coincide with the his comings and goings on the bitcoin scene. |
108,818 | If I use diodes in a switched DC-DC converter like the output diode on a Buck converter, and the converter switching rate is 50KHZ, how do i choose the right diode? what do I have to look for in the diode DataSheet? | 2014/05/01 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/108818",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/41246/"
] | Current capability (which will depend on temperature), reverse recovery time, forward voltage at the expected currents, reverse leakage (heavily dependent on temperature). PIV (Peak Inverse Voltage) rating.
Generally you'd use a Schottky diode for 50kHz unless it was relatively high voltage, then you'd use an ultra-fast recovery silicon diode.
The considerations are similar regardless of voltage or current, but the parts will be quite different for a 5V/1A circuit vs. a 500V/0.1A or 2V/100A circuit (in the latter case, you'd probably want to use a synchronous rectifier and eschew the diode entirely). | For step down converters, choose max V from 40 to 100V then max Iavg, package ... SMT preferred over THT, low voltage drop at peak I x Thermal Resistance (deg C/W) < 50'C and fast recovery time <500ns. This reduces options from thousands to hundreds. Then choose stock on hand and price. For 50kHz anything <500ns is good. Best depends on all the above tradeoffs, but don't ignore temperature effects.
[DG options](http://www.digikey.com/product-search/download.csv?FV=fff40015,fff8007f,fffc001f,fffc0059,fffc040a,e480002,e480006,e480014,e480016,e48001c,e480020,e480023,e48002f&k=Diode&mnonly=0&newproducts=0&ColumnSort=0&page=2&stock=1&pbfree=0&rohs=0&quantity=0&ptm=0&fid=0&pageSize=25) |
2,206,454 | I've created a pdf with a table using itextsharp. I found an example at <http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ch05.html>. Now I'd like to read data from the table again using itextsharp. I can't find any documentation on how to read this data. Can someone give me an example? | 2010/02/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2206454",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/159153/"
] | Unfortunately you can't do this in iTextSharp. The section entitled ["Advanced: reading PDF" on the iTextSharp page](http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ch01.html) at SourceForge says:
>
> The pdf format is just a canvas where
> text and graphics are placed without
> any structure information. As such
> there aren't any 'iText-objects' in a
> PDF file. In each page there will
> probably be a number of 'Strings', but
> you can't reconstruct a phrase or a
> paragraph using these strings. There
> are probably a number of lines drawn,
> but you can't retrieve a Table-object
> based on these lines. In short:
> parsing the content of a PDF-file is
> NOT POSSIBLE with iText. Post your
> question on the newsgroup
> news://comp.text.pdf and maybe you
> will get some answers from people that
> have built tools that can parse PDF
> and extract some of its contents, but
> don't expect tools that will perform a
> bullet-proof conversion to structured
> text.
>
>
> | I also need to read the data from the PDF. What I ended up doing was converting the PDF to text and then string parse the result to get to the data.
In my scenario I wanted to take the data in the tables and convert them to Excel. |
12,558 | I'm a Tor newbie that wants to use Tor to log in to a few communities online, and I have a few questions about the safety of it. Before you say anything, I won't use sites like Facebook that know my real life identity, or sites that are very important (like online banking). I'm generally not doing anything too interesting over Tor and don't expect to be especially targeted by hackers or law enforcement.
As I understand it, when logging in to a website, my username and password can be stolen when I send them through Tor. What is the likelihood of this, and steps can I take to minimize such risk?
If I change my password immediately after logging in, will that prevent hackers from getting in, or will Tor continue to transmit these details while I use the website?
I understand Tor reroutes my traffic every 10 minutes. Will this also re-transfer my details, making it more likely to get routed through a malicious node the longer I stay on the site? Can I prevent re-routing, so that only 1 exit node can potentially see my details, instead of 100+? Besides, some websites automatically log out if the IP address changes, which is just annoying.
Can I store a cookie with my login details on my computer, so that I don't have to log in every time I start the browser? I understand that this will somewhat reduce my privacy.
Or would it be better to leave the Tor browser running throughout the day, so that I only have to log in once? Would that not compromise my anonymity, in other words, the longer I stay on the site, the more likely the NSA or someone else will connect the start node and the end node?
Thanks for any replies. | 2016/09/07 | [
"https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/12558",
"https://tor.stackexchange.com",
"https://tor.stackexchange.com/users/14257/"
] | Welcome to Tor community! So - step by step to your questions:
* No information, *including* login and password can be stolen if it's transferred via HTTPS **and** the certificate genuinity is verified. Use Perspectives project and/or Convergence to check it all up locally and in decentralised manner - it will save your day not just inside Tor, btw.
* Tor is a very configurable tool, and it can be tuned up to change it's circuits in a decent privacy-oriented manner, so password change will not be intercepted. **However it does not negate a need in two-factor authentication**. Google Authenticator is free and easy to use and adopt, for example.
* No cookies! **Ever!** It's not so laborious to type your password.
* It's better to use a dedicated Tor node of yours running 24/7/365 and route all your traffic through it - I'm doing it myself on Orange Pi PC single-board computer. Feel free to ask and I'll give you all the details how to do it if you need.
Post Scriptum. If you have any further questions - ask them! I'll be glad to help you | I would like to add 1 tiny part in this and that is about storing passwords. I might be old fashion but i never ever ever store passwords anywhere everything can be hacked. I simply write them down in a book. You have to break into my house to search for it to get the passwords. :) |
45,866 | In Visual Studio I have a solution containing two features with their Scope set to "Web". These two features work as expected but the only thing that is going "wrong" is that they are activated when I deploy the solution. This shouldn't be happening since I set the property "Activate On Default" to "False.
At first I thought this was my fault since the features had already been installed when I set those properties to false. Then I deactivated and uninstalled both features (succesfully) to try again but upon deployment they are still activated.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or how I can solve this issue?
Thanks in advance! | 2012/09/18 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/45866",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/10675/"
] | Activate On Default only works when the feature scope is set to Farm or Web Application.
[Here's a blog with a solution.](http://devramblings.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/activate-on-default/) | Be aware that Visual Studio is doing the activation for you. The Visual Studio behavior is controlled via the "Active Deployment Configuration." There is a configuration named "No Activation" that will only deploy the solution, allowing you to activate as needed. |
52,846,338 | Is there any way I can **stop the whole robot test execution** with **PASS** status?
For some specific reasons, I need to stop the whole test but still get a GREEN report.
Currently I am using *FATAL ERROR* which will raise a assertion error and return FAIL to report.
I was trying to create a user keyword to do this, but I am not really familiar with the robot error handling process, could anyone help?
There's an attribute **ROBOT\_EXIT\_ON\_FAILURE** in BuiltIn.py, and I am thinking about to create another attribute like **ROBOT\_EXIT\_ON\_SUCCESS**, but have no idea how to.
Environment: robotframework==3.0.2 with Python 3.6.5 | 2018/10/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/52846338",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9466840/"
] | There is nothing built-in to support this. By design, a fatal error will cause all remaining tests and suites to have a FAIL status.
Just about your only choice is to write a keyword that sets a global variable, and then have every test include a setup that uses [pass execution if](http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/libraries/BuiltIn.html#Pass%20Execution%20If) to skip the test if the flag is set. | If I understood you correctly, you need to pass the test execution forcefully and return green status for that test, is that right? You have a built in keyword "Pass Execution" for that. Did you try using that? |
4,899 | I read this comment on [Mount Everest climb cost and total time](https://travel.stackexchange.com/q/65756/1810):
>
> If you are asking this question on a generic travel forum like this, one has to wonder if you have enough climbing experience for such an expedition. – user13044 ↵ Mar 27 '16 at 14:38
>
>
>
I flagged the comment as "This comment adds nothing to the question and instead is a personal attack." but my flag got denied without any reason given. Why? | 2018/12/16 | [
"https://travel.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4899",
"https://travel.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1810/"
] | I handled that flag and I did not think that comment an personal attack.
And seeing the 47 upvotes on the comment, I would be doing a bad service to remove it on a flag which is not clear.
To tell you truth, if I had seen the question when it was newly posted, I might have posted a comment like the one we are talking about, warning the OP that there are real dangers they might not have considered.
So even without all upvotes I might have left the comment.
If your question is why was there no reason given for denying the flag? We as mods can give a reason but most of the time I do only use that option if a person repeatedly flags for the same kind of problem which I do not see as a good reason to flag.
More as a 'please stop flagging for this reason' rather than explaining why I did not delete that particular comment.
PS, Adding a reason for handling flags on comments is not possible, only for flags on questions or answers. | I agree with you that this was "too personal" comment.
But moderators agree with comment's author on the comment's meaning. For this case we know that "meta consensus" is to defend the comment.
The same would be expected with good joke. Every joke harms somebody, but would it be removed depends on moderator's sense of humor. |
337,069 | A gentle yet comprehensive introduction to the concept of abelian and non-abelian statistics will be much appreciated. | 2017/06/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/337069",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/117097/"
] | Abelian
-------
* According to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyon#Abelian_anyons), quasiparticles whose statistics range between Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics are called anyons; these particles may only exist in two dimensions. These particles obey fractional statistics, so called because they have fractional spin; see Frank Wilczek's [Quantum Mechanics of Fractional-Spin Particles](http://www.ifi.unicamp.br/%7Emtamash/f689_mecquant_i/prl49_957.pdf) where he also coins the term anyon.
* In the same vein, see Jon Magne Leinaas and Jan Myrheim's paper [On the Theory of Identical Particles](http://www.ifi.unicamp.br/%7Ecabrera/teaching/referencia.pdf) where they showed quasiparticles can indeed be observed in two dimensions.
Non-abelian
-----------
* According to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyon#Abelian_anyons), in 1988, Jurg Frohlich showed that non-abelian statistics existed and were valid, in his paper [Statistics of Fields, the Yang-Baxter Equation, and the Theory of Knots and Links](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4613-0729-7_4) (note there's a paywall there).
* Again according to wikipedia, Gregory Moore, Nicholas Read, and Xiao-Geng Wen showed non-abelian statistics can be realized in the fractional quantum Hall effect, and wrote two papers, [Non-Abelian Statistics in the Fractional Quantum Hall States](http://dao.mit.edu/%7Ewen/pub/nab.pdf) (Wen) and [Nonabelions In the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect](http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/%7Egmoore/MooreReadNonabelions.pdf) (Read and Moore; see section 2.1 in particular).
Other/general
-------------
* [Fractional Statistics and Quantum Theory](https://books.google.com/books?id=tA23CgAAQBAJ&dq=Fractional+Statistics+and+Quantum+Theory) (book) by Avinash Khare covers, as the title indicates, anyons and their statistics. The copyright is 1997, so it won't talk much about the applications of anyons to quantum computing; however, it covers pretty much every topic related to abelian/non-abelian statistics as far as I can tell, so if you're willing to pay money (the Google Books sample is decent, but doesn't include every page, obviously) this is probably your **best bet**. If you do decide this is what you want, the [hardcover copy on Amazon](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/9810225229) is $25, so not too bad compared to a lot of technical books. *Mathematical Reviews* said
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> The overall style is clear and pedagogical, with emphasis on symmetry and simplicity.
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* If you wish to read about the construction of quantum computation theory using anyons, the paper [Topological quantum computation](http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2003-40-01/S0273-0979-02-00964-3/S0273-0979-02-00964-3.pdf) will be of use.
* A set of lectures transcribed into a paper on arXiv called [Introduction to abelian and non-abelian anyons](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.09260.pdf) can be found, and they appear to cover all topics of interest.
* A powerpoint for a talk on [Fractional Quantum Statistics](http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/%7Epelster/Anyon1/hansson.pdf) also appears to cover everything of interest, though as a powerpoint it may not describe everything in complete detail.
I'll add more papers/books/resources as I find them. Hope these help! | I'll give you what resources I have on this topic:
**General Reviews**
1. [Lecture Notes on Anyonic Defects in Condensed Matter](http://theory.fi.infn.it/SFTschool/SFT_2015/LectureNotes/Berg1-2.pdf)
Lecture notes from a summer school in Florence. A good reference for Majorana zero modes and anyonic defects in condensed matter systems. Large amount of detail--pretty clear.
2. [Braiding with Majorana Fermions](https://www.csee.umbc.edu/~lomonaco/pubs/QITSpie2016.pdf)
A good, simple introduction to braiding with anyons and its connection to Majorana fermions. Applications to quantum computing included.
3. [An Anyon Primer](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9209066)
Excellent introduction to the field with problems, though it can get a little advanced in some places. Applications to the fractional quantum hall effect included.
4. [Quantiki's Introduction to Anyons](https://www.quantiki.org/wiki/anyons)
Brief, but possibly a solid starting point. Good links and references as well.
5. [This StackExchange question](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/5029/how-non-abelian-anyons-arise-in-solid-state-systems) on non-Abelian anyons in solid state physics might also be useful. [See also this StackExchange question](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/61915/some-questions-about-anyons?rq=1) for some nice clarifications and links.
**Presentations**
6. [Fractional Quantum Statistics](http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~pelster/Anyon1/hansson.pdf)
Great presentation on anyons and fractional statistics. Very simple and easily understood. Draws analogies and examples from simple quantum systems. An undergraduate with a background in Griffiths could understand the majority of this presentation.
7. [Fractional Statistics in Two Dimensions: Anyon There?](http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/videos/fractional-statistics-two-dimensions-anyon-there)
Video introducing the concept of anyons to a general audience, from the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. Connections to superconductors are drawn.
**Books**
8. [Fractional Statistics and Anyon Superconductivity](https://books.google.com/books/about/Fractional_Statistics_and_Anyon_Supercon.html?id=MHf9sBNPszkC)
Good introduction to the subject by Frank Wilczek, but a bit dated. Has a nice selection of original papers on the topic.
9. [Anyons: Quantum Mechanics of Particles with Fractional Statistics](https://books.google.com/books?id=BHQKBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=anyons&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj02qizmK3UAhXBOT4KHY3cATsQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=anyons&f=false)
By far the best resource on this list. Alberto Lerda's book is *the* book on anyonic physics, and the best, clearest resource on the subject. Covers a wide range of subject matter, and is understandable at the advanced undergraduate level.
I hope these help. Sorry if there are some duplicates with heather's reply--I tried to list resources that I've found helpful in my own study of fractional statistics. |
3,498,494 | i just need to know what happens when you create a RSS feed in Liferay?
Is the configuration data for the feed (Structure, template, friendly url of the portlet...) stored on the DB or in a file?And, in both cases, where the data is stored exactly? | 2010/08/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3498494",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/397861/"
] | they are stored in the DB, if anyone is interested!
Update: i will detail the answer more if anyone is interested. They are stored in the table JournalFeeds. | In liferay RSS feed are stored under **web content** in a **feed** tab You can display these feeds using rss portlet. |
163,907 | I have a smoke animation in blender.
I wonder if it is possible to split the baking process of Physics / Smoke Simulation on several machines.
Can I run part of the simulation like Frame 1 to 100 on one machine and Frame 100 to 200 on another machine while combining both caches to one simulation from 1 to 200 later on? If yes how can I do that?
If no, do you know another option to speedup baking a simulation with the help of multiple machines?
Thanks,
Danny | 2020/01/15 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/163907",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/87047/"
] | As far as I know this is fundamentally impossible.
Physics simulations are sequential data, that means each frame depends heavily on the previous one.
To calculate what happens at any given moment you need to know what happened before, so you must have position and status information about every intervening element in the simulation to know where they were and calculate where they will be next.
Without that you can't have just pull out of thin air how a simulation looks at a random point in time without knowing exactly how it was an instant before.
This makes it impossible for a computer to calculate "frame 100" from scratch without having frame 099, or 099 without 098, and so on till the beginning of the simulation from a known "rest position". | Sorry, but I'm afraid not with Blender, either in the old Smoke sim or in Mantaflow.
Here's what happens if you attempt to split the frame range-
<https://youtu.be/GME_JfkQ9UY>
Fluid sims (in my limited understanding) are based around vector fields, as you can see when you bake they seem to get slower as they progress (and the vector fields become larger and more complex), and are effectively built up sequentially. So as you can see in the above video, if you start simulating from frame 25 rather than frame 1, the simulation has no clue what happened from frame 1 to 25- because it has not been simulated.
The only way I know of to use multiple machines to do fluid/smoke sims is to get you wallet out and use Houdini. <https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/dyno/distribute.html>
We may get GPU accelerated baking in the future, but that would be up to the Developers of Mantaflow itself, and then the Blender implementation of Mantaflow supporting it. |
5,721,857 | We use iReport to enable our customers to generate catalogs for print for their products. This process works GREAT. One of the things we've struggled with is how to create a table of contents for these product catalogs.
I decided to use the Scriptlet functionality to give this a shot. Note that our reports are all master-detail in nature, in that there is a master report and a subreport.
At first, I attached the scriptlet to the master report, and tried to find a way to collect all of the product numbers in the detail report, then pass that value back to the master report. I can't figure out how to get the detail information back to the master report, as it appears that you can only pass default variables from the subreport back to the master (eg PAGE\_NUMBER, COLUMN\_NUMBER, PAGE\_COUNT, COLUMN\_COUNT).
So then I tried attaching the Scriptlet to the detail report. Well, the detail report doesn't know what page the master is on, so I started passing the master's page\_number into a variable in the detail report. That worked great, except that sometimes the detail can overflow to the point that page numbers from the master are skipped. In other words, if a subreport returns more than two pages worth of data, you are going to miss a page number when the subreport is called the next time.
So how to do this? | 2011/04/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5721857",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/465986/"
] | I found an approach that worked, similar to one of my ideas above. First of all, I could NOT get a subreport to return a value to the calling report, and then retrieve that value using getVariableValue from inside a scriptlet. I tried forever, and I just could not get that to work.
Instead, I went with the approach where I attached the same scriptlet to both the master and subreports. The scriptlet has a *class* variable where I can keep a running tally of all the product numbers I encounter in the detail, and this code goes inside the afterDetailEval() method of the scriptlet. Note that I only want this code to run for the subreport, so I do a check to see if a particular detail field, which will never be null, is present. If it's not, I don't run the code. So when that event is called by the master report, the code doesn't run.
Now for the part that I learned from the example. The admirable side-effect programming in the example is that there is a line of dimensions 1x1 that contains a call to a custom scriptlet method in the "Print When Expression" property. That's a great idea! So this custom method returns false no matter what, and the line never prints. I did the same thing in the Page Footer band, and this method collects the values from the class variable, determines the page, and stores the results in a hash. Then it resets the class variable.
In the Report Summary band, I have another line that will never print, that calls another custom method. All I do here is iterate through a map of product numbers and show all the pages each one appears on. Done! | There is an example of **tables of contents** (with subreport) in project folder **jasperreports-x.x.x/demo/samples/tableofcontents**.
And see the hyperlink example also.
**Hyperlinks, Anchors and Bookmarks**
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> JasperReports allows you to create drill-down reports, which introduce tables of contents
> in your documents or redirect viewers to external documents using special report elements called hyperlinks.
>
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> |
12,049 | How do I change light bulbs that are 20 feet off the ground and pointing up (in a vanity fixture)? Does anyone know of a bulb changing kit that has some kind of arm attachment that will allow me to reach down inside and unscrew the bulb? | 2012/02/06 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/12049",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/5181/"
] | If you don't want to get an 20' extension ladder (which can be very difficult to transport home from the store), then you can get one of the [Little Giant](http://www.littlegiantladder.com/) or [Werner](http://us.wernerco.com/products/climbing-equipment/multi-purpose-ladders) multi-ladders:
Or you can get the werner folding ladder:
But, a good ladder will pay off in more ways than just this - cleaning gutters, etc. | If you are unable to access them yourself, using a ladder or lift for instance, you can hire an electrician or lighting service to change them for you. They will bring the necessary equipment to your home and perform the lightbulb maintenance. Some have annual maintenance plans which will take care of one or more fixtures for a nominal fee.
If you'd rather spend more now to make the job easier for you in the future, you can have an electrician install a lowerable lighting fixture for you. A hand operated, or motorized, cable will lower the light so you can perform bulb maintenance at a more convenient height for you, and then will raise the light to the operating position for use. These are not inexpensive, but there are situations where using a ladder is unsafe, or bringing in such a large ladder would pose risk to the walls or other objects in the affected room.
Consider in investing in long life bulbs so you won't have to perform the maintenance often. Some LED bulbs will perform well for many years of continuous use. Another option is to install brighter incandescent bulbs than you need, then use a dimmer to bring them down to the light level you require, which will extend the life of some of these bulbs. Soft start circuits can also extend the life of incandescent bulbs, as can professional dimmers. While there are LED bulbs which promise 100,000 hour lifetimes, be skeptical of these claims - they may operate that long if they are never turned off, and in good laboratory environmental conditions, but keep in mind that these estimates are theoretical - the bulbs have only been around for a few years, none have been tested for 20+ years. |
182,989 | Is it safe to de-fragment your disk when you have low disk space? What could be the consequences? What are the advantages and disadvantages of de-fragmenting. Is it possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days? Can de-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete? Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation? Will it reclaim my Disk-space? | 2010/08/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/182989",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/46669/"
] | " Is it Safe to De-fragment your Disk when you have low disk space, what could be the consequences?"
The defragmenter will not complete the defrag efficiently if you have low free space if you use the Windows defragger. But you can run a third party automatic defragger which defrags under less than 5% free space and get the job done without any problems.
"What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of De-fragmenting.Is it Possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days. can De-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete. Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation. Will it reclaim my Disk-space."
There are no disadvantages, advantages are that the performance will be smooth and data access fast.
With intelligent automatic defrag technology it's also possible to have a program defrag in the background without being resource intensive and will also defrag very fast as compared to the built-in program. Defrag doesn't create any new diskspace and there is no risk of data loss. Just ensure that you have a power backup for the PC. | I only had defrag data loss one time in my life, it was because I had low disk space and tried to cancel the defrag because it was so slow, unfortunately it corrupted a critical system file, but like I said this only happened to me once in thousands of defrag routines. Defrag does not reclaim any disk space, it just consolidates the files on the hard drive. You need to do a disk clean up to gain disk space.
<http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000528.htm>
. |
182,989 | Is it safe to de-fragment your disk when you have low disk space? What could be the consequences? What are the advantages and disadvantages of de-fragmenting. Is it possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days? Can de-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete? Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation? Will it reclaim my Disk-space? | 2010/08/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/182989",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/46669/"
] | >
> Is it safe to de-fragment your disk when you have low disk space? What could be the consequences?
>
>
>
It depends on the drive. Defragmenting with low space will cause it to take exponentially longer to finish because there is less room to move files around. This is usually not *harmful*, only inconvenient because of the performance hit, but it *could* be harmful if the drive uses flash-memory like a flash-drive, memory card, or SSD due to their [limited number of write cycles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Memory_wear), which would cause it wear out faster than if you avoided defragmenting.
>
> What are the advantages and disadvantages of de-fragmenting.
>
>
>
If the drive is a traditional hard-drive with spinning platters and moving heads, then keeping the files contiguous (all in a row) will help avoid seek times which can improve performance whereas having the file spread out all over the disk would require more time to read all the pieces. If the drive is a solid-state drive like a flash-drive, memory card, or SSD, then there is no performance advantage.
An advantage that *all* kinds of drives will have from defragmentation is an increase in data-recovery success. If a file is fragmented, then recovering a lost/deleted/etc. file is highly unlikely, but if the file is contiguous, then it becomes much more likely to succeed.
What you choose to do will depend on what kind of drive it is and what is stored on it (i.e., how important are the files, will you need to do data-recovery, how frequently do the files change and/or are written, etc.)
>
> Is it possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days?
>
>
>
That depends on what you mean. You can defragment at any time, but as files are modified, the program needs to constantly update its disk-map to know what the disk looks like. Back in Windows 98, this was often manifest by the defrag program constantly starting over from the beginning every few seconds because something wrote to the drive, so users would have to try their best to quit every program possible before running it. These days, it is not made obvious, but the same thing is basically occurring behind the scenes, but defrag programs are a little more intelligent and can dynamically adapt to disk changes without having to start over from scratch (though you will often have to refresh/reread/re-analyse the disk to see the current status).
It is usually easiest/safest to just stop the defrag operation and start a new one later on, even if the system is in standby during the break.
>
> Can de-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete?
>
>
>
The more free space you have, the faster and easier the defrag will be regardless of the size. Some programs may have different types of defrag options that let you reduce the amount of work, but in general, the larger the disk, the longer it takes. Of course keeping the drive defragmented regularly will reduce the amount of work that needs to be done to just the files that have become fragmented since the last defrag.
>
> Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation?
>
>
>
Of course; it is always *possible* to lose files in general. Not surprisingly, because defragmentation moves files around, it has a higher risk of losing files than in general, however most (if not all) defrag programs (at least any reputable one) will *copy* the file to the new location before deleting the original. The better ones implement a sort of [ACID](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID) system to make the moves transactional (i.e., they make sure that the new files is completely written and linked before removing the old on).
To minimize chances of problems, there are a few simple things that you can do/avoid when defragmenting:
* Never do it during storms or while on low-battery (i.e., a chance of the system shutting down abnormally during defrag).
* Quit as many programs as possible before defragging to reduce locked files, disk writes, and system crashes.
* Maximize free space.
* Perform the defrag regularly to minimize how much needs to be defragged.
>
> Will it reclaim my Disk-space?
>
>
>
Huh? No, not generally. Defragmenting only makes sure that files are stored contiguously (i.e., all in a single row) as opposed to being spread out all over the disk.
In addition to making the files contiguous, it can also make the free space contiguous which while not creating *new* free space, makes *better* free space because new files can be written contiguously instead of having to be fragmented.
That said, it *is* possible to *gain new* free space under very specific circumstances. If you are using an NTFS volume and the MFT happens to bloat up excessively, then certain defrag programs *claim* that they can in addition to defragging, actually *compact* the MFT by removing old, redundant, obsolete data. This is not technically defragmentation, it is *compaction*; like the difference between registry defragging and compaction. While this *could* result in some extra space, it is usually not a whole lot, and more importantly, I have yet to see it actually work (my NTFS volume has an abnormally large 644MB! MFT and I have not been able to shrink it back down with anything). | As i understand..... Defrag has no risk.Yes it takes hell a lot of time.while you save a file datas are written here and there over the spinning media where it finds empty space.so when you read that particular file data has to retrieved from so many places as it was not written in sequence which makes the program consume more time. By de fragmenting system pick up the fragments and arrange in an order which makes the systems read files faster.Thats it. |
182,989 | Is it safe to de-fragment your disk when you have low disk space? What could be the consequences? What are the advantages and disadvantages of de-fragmenting. Is it possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days? Can de-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete? Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation? Will it reclaim my Disk-space? | 2010/08/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/182989",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/46669/"
] | " Is it Safe to De-fragment your Disk when you have low disk space, what could be the consequences?"
The defragmenter will not complete the defrag efficiently if you have low free space if you use the Windows defragger. But you can run a third party automatic defragger which defrags under less than 5% free space and get the job done without any problems.
"What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of De-fragmenting.Is it Possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days. can De-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete. Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation. Will it reclaim my Disk-space."
There are no disadvantages, advantages are that the performance will be smooth and data access fast.
With intelligent automatic defrag technology it's also possible to have a program defrag in the background without being resource intensive and will also defrag very fast as compared to the built-in program. Defrag doesn't create any new diskspace and there is no risk of data loss. Just ensure that you have a power backup for the PC. | >
> Is it safe to de-fragment your disk when you have low disk space? What could be the consequences?
>
>
>
It depends on the drive. Defragmenting with low space will cause it to take exponentially longer to finish because there is less room to move files around. This is usually not *harmful*, only inconvenient because of the performance hit, but it *could* be harmful if the drive uses flash-memory like a flash-drive, memory card, or SSD due to their [limited number of write cycles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Memory_wear), which would cause it wear out faster than if you avoided defragmenting.
>
> What are the advantages and disadvantages of de-fragmenting.
>
>
>
If the drive is a traditional hard-drive with spinning platters and moving heads, then keeping the files contiguous (all in a row) will help avoid seek times which can improve performance whereas having the file spread out all over the disk would require more time to read all the pieces. If the drive is a solid-state drive like a flash-drive, memory card, or SSD, then there is no performance advantage.
An advantage that *all* kinds of drives will have from defragmentation is an increase in data-recovery success. If a file is fragmented, then recovering a lost/deleted/etc. file is highly unlikely, but if the file is contiguous, then it becomes much more likely to succeed.
What you choose to do will depend on what kind of drive it is and what is stored on it (i.e., how important are the files, will you need to do data-recovery, how frequently do the files change and/or are written, etc.)
>
> Is it possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days?
>
>
>
That depends on what you mean. You can defragment at any time, but as files are modified, the program needs to constantly update its disk-map to know what the disk looks like. Back in Windows 98, this was often manifest by the defrag program constantly starting over from the beginning every few seconds because something wrote to the drive, so users would have to try their best to quit every program possible before running it. These days, it is not made obvious, but the same thing is basically occurring behind the scenes, but defrag programs are a little more intelligent and can dynamically adapt to disk changes without having to start over from scratch (though you will often have to refresh/reread/re-analyse the disk to see the current status).
It is usually easiest/safest to just stop the defrag operation and start a new one later on, even if the system is in standby during the break.
>
> Can de-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete?
>
>
>
The more free space you have, the faster and easier the defrag will be regardless of the size. Some programs may have different types of defrag options that let you reduce the amount of work, but in general, the larger the disk, the longer it takes. Of course keeping the drive defragmented regularly will reduce the amount of work that needs to be done to just the files that have become fragmented since the last defrag.
>
> Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation?
>
>
>
Of course; it is always *possible* to lose files in general. Not surprisingly, because defragmentation moves files around, it has a higher risk of losing files than in general, however most (if not all) defrag programs (at least any reputable one) will *copy* the file to the new location before deleting the original. The better ones implement a sort of [ACID](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID) system to make the moves transactional (i.e., they make sure that the new files is completely written and linked before removing the old on).
To minimize chances of problems, there are a few simple things that you can do/avoid when defragmenting:
* Never do it during storms or while on low-battery (i.e., a chance of the system shutting down abnormally during defrag).
* Quit as many programs as possible before defragging to reduce locked files, disk writes, and system crashes.
* Maximize free space.
* Perform the defrag regularly to minimize how much needs to be defragged.
>
> Will it reclaim my Disk-space?
>
>
>
Huh? No, not generally. Defragmenting only makes sure that files are stored contiguously (i.e., all in a single row) as opposed to being spread out all over the disk.
In addition to making the files contiguous, it can also make the free space contiguous which while not creating *new* free space, makes *better* free space because new files can be written contiguously instead of having to be fragmented.
That said, it *is* possible to *gain new* free space under very specific circumstances. If you are using an NTFS volume and the MFT happens to bloat up excessively, then certain defrag programs *claim* that they can in addition to defragging, actually *compact* the MFT by removing old, redundant, obsolete data. This is not technically defragmentation, it is *compaction*; like the difference between registry defragging and compaction. While this *could* result in some extra space, it is usually not a whole lot, and more importantly, I have yet to see it actually work (my NTFS volume has an abnormally large 644MB! MFT and I have not been able to shrink it back down with anything). |
182,989 | Is it safe to de-fragment your disk when you have low disk space? What could be the consequences? What are the advantages and disadvantages of de-fragmenting. Is it possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days? Can de-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete? Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation? Will it reclaim my Disk-space? | 2010/08/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/182989",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/46669/"
] | The most annoying consequence will be that defragmenting (since there will be files moved around) will be very slow and take a horrable amount of time. Advantages are, that your files are not fragmented on the harddisc and this will lead to a speedup unfortunatly with very low disk space the fragmentation effects increase dramaticly so that your hard disk will get fragmented again very fast and all defragmenting will be for nothing.
There are some commercial programs who promise better results, but i can't tell you if they are any good.
And to the last question: it will not recraim your disk space. The amount of free space will stay the same. | As i understand..... Defrag has no risk.Yes it takes hell a lot of time.while you save a file datas are written here and there over the spinning media where it finds empty space.so when you read that particular file data has to retrieved from so many places as it was not written in sequence which makes the program consume more time. By de fragmenting system pick up the fragments and arrange in an order which makes the systems read files faster.Thats it. |
182,989 | Is it safe to de-fragment your disk when you have low disk space? What could be the consequences? What are the advantages and disadvantages of de-fragmenting. Is it possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days? Can de-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete? Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation? Will it reclaim my Disk-space? | 2010/08/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/182989",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/46669/"
] | " Is it Safe to De-fragment your Disk when you have low disk space, what could be the consequences?"
The defragmenter will not complete the defrag efficiently if you have low free space if you use the Windows defragger. But you can run a third party automatic defragger which defrags under less than 5% free space and get the job done without any problems.
"What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of De-fragmenting.Is it Possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days. can De-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete. Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation. Will it reclaim my Disk-space."
There are no disadvantages, advantages are that the performance will be smooth and data access fast.
With intelligent automatic defrag technology it's also possible to have a program defrag in the background without being resource intensive and will also defrag very fast as compared to the built-in program. Defrag doesn't create any new diskspace and there is no risk of data loss. Just ensure that you have a power backup for the PC. | As i understand..... Defrag has no risk.Yes it takes hell a lot of time.while you save a file datas are written here and there over the spinning media where it finds empty space.so when you read that particular file data has to retrieved from so many places as it was not written in sequence which makes the program consume more time. By de fragmenting system pick up the fragments and arrange in an order which makes the systems read files faster.Thats it. |
182,989 | Is it safe to de-fragment your disk when you have low disk space? What could be the consequences? What are the advantages and disadvantages of de-fragmenting. Is it possible to resume de-fragmentation of a disk after a few days? Can de-fragmentation of large disks be simplified as it takes lot of time to complete? Is it possible to lose data after de-fragmentation? Will it reclaim my Disk-space? | 2010/08/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/182989",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/46669/"
] | The most annoying consequence will be that defragmenting (since there will be files moved around) will be very slow and take a horrable amount of time. Advantages are, that your files are not fragmented on the harddisc and this will lead to a speedup unfortunatly with very low disk space the fragmentation effects increase dramaticly so that your hard disk will get fragmented again very fast and all defragmenting will be for nothing.
There are some commercial programs who promise better results, but i can't tell you if they are any good.
And to the last question: it will not recraim your disk space. The amount of free space will stay the same. | I only had defrag data loss one time in my life, it was because I had low disk space and tried to cancel the defrag because it was so slow, unfortunately it corrupted a critical system file, but like I said this only happened to me once in thousands of defrag routines. Defrag does not reclaim any disk space, it just consolidates the files on the hard drive. You need to do a disk clean up to gain disk space.
<http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000528.htm>
. |
7,110,720 | In Groovy++ I often hear of the term Annotations. Can anyone explain me what is that in simple terms? | 2011/08/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7110720",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/576682/"
] | In short **It's a way to label a piece of code.** But it's not Groovy specific thing.
These labels can be used as meta-data by other applications to perform tasks like identifying unit test, dependency injection, or just a way to tell someone that a method is deprecated.
[Here](http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/annotations.html) is a link to some java documentation. | Some basic info to get you started.
<http://groovy.codehaus.org/Annotations+with+Groovy> |
58,636 | I am trying to install Windows 2008 server on a HP Proliant DL180 G5. There is no built-in DVD reader so I need to use my LaCie USB one.
When I put the CD in and boot from the USB DVD on the server, I get the error message:
Boot Failed! Please insert boot media in selected boot device.
So I tried with another Windows bootable CD and still no luck.
What I've done then, I copied the installation DVD on my 16go USB key. Again, impossible to boot from the USB Key.
I have 2 147go SAS 15k HDD on my server. They are not showing in the Bios. I was wondering if this is a reason why nothing will boot on it.
I am trying to find a way to deploy Windows 2008 server on my HP server as soon as possible.
If you guys have ideas, feel free to let me know :)
Best regards,
David.
System Information:
HP Proliant DL180 G5
Quad-Core 2.5
4GO Ram
2x 147GO SAS 15k
P.S. This is my first installation ever on SAS/SCSI HDD.
Thanks a bunch!
Edit:
Well, my bad! I purchased a new USB DVD and now I can install Windows 2008 server.
Thanks a bunch for your help! | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/58636",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/18316/"
] | You'll probably need to go into the BIOS and enable it to boot off the USB drive. | I suspect Mr. Denny's nailed it.
Also look for a bootup message about a boot menu (F12 is popular) to see if you can pop up a menu of available boot devices.
Not trying to be a jerk, but did you boot another computer from that DVD or USB to make sure it's happy? I only say this because I've spun my wheels in this manner a few times. ;) |
58,636 | I am trying to install Windows 2008 server on a HP Proliant DL180 G5. There is no built-in DVD reader so I need to use my LaCie USB one.
When I put the CD in and boot from the USB DVD on the server, I get the error message:
Boot Failed! Please insert boot media in selected boot device.
So I tried with another Windows bootable CD and still no luck.
What I've done then, I copied the installation DVD on my 16go USB key. Again, impossible to boot from the USB Key.
I have 2 147go SAS 15k HDD on my server. They are not showing in the Bios. I was wondering if this is a reason why nothing will boot on it.
I am trying to find a way to deploy Windows 2008 server on my HP server as soon as possible.
If you guys have ideas, feel free to let me know :)
Best regards,
David.
System Information:
HP Proliant DL180 G5
Quad-Core 2.5
4GO Ram
2x 147GO SAS 15k
P.S. This is my first installation ever on SAS/SCSI HDD.
Thanks a bunch!
Edit:
Well, my bad! I purchased a new USB DVD and now I can install Windows 2008 server.
Thanks a bunch for your help! | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/58636",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/18316/"
] | You'll probably need to go into the BIOS and enable it to boot off the USB drive. | Have you made your USB key bootable? I usually use [mkbt](http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/). You'll also need to ensure the BIOS is set to allow boot from USB |
58,636 | I am trying to install Windows 2008 server on a HP Proliant DL180 G5. There is no built-in DVD reader so I need to use my LaCie USB one.
When I put the CD in and boot from the USB DVD on the server, I get the error message:
Boot Failed! Please insert boot media in selected boot device.
So I tried with another Windows bootable CD and still no luck.
What I've done then, I copied the installation DVD on my 16go USB key. Again, impossible to boot from the USB Key.
I have 2 147go SAS 15k HDD on my server. They are not showing in the Bios. I was wondering if this is a reason why nothing will boot on it.
I am trying to find a way to deploy Windows 2008 server on my HP server as soon as possible.
If you guys have ideas, feel free to let me know :)
Best regards,
David.
System Information:
HP Proliant DL180 G5
Quad-Core 2.5
4GO Ram
2x 147GO SAS 15k
P.S. This is my first installation ever on SAS/SCSI HDD.
Thanks a bunch!
Edit:
Well, my bad! I purchased a new USB DVD and now I can install Windows 2008 server.
Thanks a bunch for your help! | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/58636",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/18316/"
] | You'll probably need to go into the BIOS and enable it to boot off the USB drive. | You need to make the USB key bootable first.
You can do this by following these steps:
--please note that this process will format the USB key
1. Open a command prompt (an administrator command prompt if using Vista/Win7/Server 2008)
2. enter diskpart by typing in the following command: diskpart
3. find out which disk is the USB key by entering: list disk
4. note the disk number of the USB key (we'll use [diskNumber] as a placeholder in the next step)
5. select disk [diskNumber]
6. clean
7. create partition primary
8. select partition 1
9. active
10. format fs=fat32
11. assign
12. exit
Copy the files from the installation media to the USB key and you should be good to go. |
58,636 | I am trying to install Windows 2008 server on a HP Proliant DL180 G5. There is no built-in DVD reader so I need to use my LaCie USB one.
When I put the CD in and boot from the USB DVD on the server, I get the error message:
Boot Failed! Please insert boot media in selected boot device.
So I tried with another Windows bootable CD and still no luck.
What I've done then, I copied the installation DVD on my 16go USB key. Again, impossible to boot from the USB Key.
I have 2 147go SAS 15k HDD on my server. They are not showing in the Bios. I was wondering if this is a reason why nothing will boot on it.
I am trying to find a way to deploy Windows 2008 server on my HP server as soon as possible.
If you guys have ideas, feel free to let me know :)
Best regards,
David.
System Information:
HP Proliant DL180 G5
Quad-Core 2.5
4GO Ram
2x 147GO SAS 15k
P.S. This is my first installation ever on SAS/SCSI HDD.
Thanks a bunch!
Edit:
Well, my bad! I purchased a new USB DVD and now I can install Windows 2008 server.
Thanks a bunch for your help! | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/58636",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/18316/"
] | You'll probably need to go into the BIOS and enable it to boot off the USB drive. | When you boot from the USB drive does it say **no boot media**. What software are you using to create the DVD image installed on the USB drive ?.
This might help
1. Set BIOS to boot from removable
media *ie: USB drive.*
2. Create an ISO of the DVD/CD with a
tool like [InfraRecorder](http://infrarecorder.org/) using the
**Read Disc** feature.
3. Reformat the USB drive, better be
safe than sorry.
4. Then use a tool like [Unetbootin](http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to
install the ISO image you created
with InfraRecoder on the USB key.
And reboot. |
58,636 | I am trying to install Windows 2008 server on a HP Proliant DL180 G5. There is no built-in DVD reader so I need to use my LaCie USB one.
When I put the CD in and boot from the USB DVD on the server, I get the error message:
Boot Failed! Please insert boot media in selected boot device.
So I tried with another Windows bootable CD and still no luck.
What I've done then, I copied the installation DVD on my 16go USB key. Again, impossible to boot from the USB Key.
I have 2 147go SAS 15k HDD on my server. They are not showing in the Bios. I was wondering if this is a reason why nothing will boot on it.
I am trying to find a way to deploy Windows 2008 server on my HP server as soon as possible.
If you guys have ideas, feel free to let me know :)
Best regards,
David.
System Information:
HP Proliant DL180 G5
Quad-Core 2.5
4GO Ram
2x 147GO SAS 15k
P.S. This is my first installation ever on SAS/SCSI HDD.
Thanks a bunch!
Edit:
Well, my bad! I purchased a new USB DVD and now I can install Windows 2008 server.
Thanks a bunch for your help! | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/58636",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/18316/"
] | I suspect Mr. Denny's nailed it.
Also look for a bootup message about a boot menu (F12 is popular) to see if you can pop up a menu of available boot devices.
Not trying to be a jerk, but did you boot another computer from that DVD or USB to make sure it's happy? I only say this because I've spun my wheels in this manner a few times. ;) | When you boot from the USB drive does it say **no boot media**. What software are you using to create the DVD image installed on the USB drive ?.
This might help
1. Set BIOS to boot from removable
media *ie: USB drive.*
2. Create an ISO of the DVD/CD with a
tool like [InfraRecorder](http://infrarecorder.org/) using the
**Read Disc** feature.
3. Reformat the USB drive, better be
safe than sorry.
4. Then use a tool like [Unetbootin](http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to
install the ISO image you created
with InfraRecoder on the USB key.
And reboot. |
58,636 | I am trying to install Windows 2008 server on a HP Proliant DL180 G5. There is no built-in DVD reader so I need to use my LaCie USB one.
When I put the CD in and boot from the USB DVD on the server, I get the error message:
Boot Failed! Please insert boot media in selected boot device.
So I tried with another Windows bootable CD and still no luck.
What I've done then, I copied the installation DVD on my 16go USB key. Again, impossible to boot from the USB Key.
I have 2 147go SAS 15k HDD on my server. They are not showing in the Bios. I was wondering if this is a reason why nothing will boot on it.
I am trying to find a way to deploy Windows 2008 server on my HP server as soon as possible.
If you guys have ideas, feel free to let me know :)
Best regards,
David.
System Information:
HP Proliant DL180 G5
Quad-Core 2.5
4GO Ram
2x 147GO SAS 15k
P.S. This is my first installation ever on SAS/SCSI HDD.
Thanks a bunch!
Edit:
Well, my bad! I purchased a new USB DVD and now I can install Windows 2008 server.
Thanks a bunch for your help! | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/58636",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/18316/"
] | Have you made your USB key bootable? I usually use [mkbt](http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/). You'll also need to ensure the BIOS is set to allow boot from USB | When you boot from the USB drive does it say **no boot media**. What software are you using to create the DVD image installed on the USB drive ?.
This might help
1. Set BIOS to boot from removable
media *ie: USB drive.*
2. Create an ISO of the DVD/CD with a
tool like [InfraRecorder](http://infrarecorder.org/) using the
**Read Disc** feature.
3. Reformat the USB drive, better be
safe than sorry.
4. Then use a tool like [Unetbootin](http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to
install the ISO image you created
with InfraRecoder on the USB key.
And reboot. |
58,636 | I am trying to install Windows 2008 server on a HP Proliant DL180 G5. There is no built-in DVD reader so I need to use my LaCie USB one.
When I put the CD in and boot from the USB DVD on the server, I get the error message:
Boot Failed! Please insert boot media in selected boot device.
So I tried with another Windows bootable CD and still no luck.
What I've done then, I copied the installation DVD on my 16go USB key. Again, impossible to boot from the USB Key.
I have 2 147go SAS 15k HDD on my server. They are not showing in the Bios. I was wondering if this is a reason why nothing will boot on it.
I am trying to find a way to deploy Windows 2008 server on my HP server as soon as possible.
If you guys have ideas, feel free to let me know :)
Best regards,
David.
System Information:
HP Proliant DL180 G5
Quad-Core 2.5
4GO Ram
2x 147GO SAS 15k
P.S. This is my first installation ever on SAS/SCSI HDD.
Thanks a bunch!
Edit:
Well, my bad! I purchased a new USB DVD and now I can install Windows 2008 server.
Thanks a bunch for your help! | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/58636",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/18316/"
] | You need to make the USB key bootable first.
You can do this by following these steps:
--please note that this process will format the USB key
1. Open a command prompt (an administrator command prompt if using Vista/Win7/Server 2008)
2. enter diskpart by typing in the following command: diskpart
3. find out which disk is the USB key by entering: list disk
4. note the disk number of the USB key (we'll use [diskNumber] as a placeholder in the next step)
5. select disk [diskNumber]
6. clean
7. create partition primary
8. select partition 1
9. active
10. format fs=fat32
11. assign
12. exit
Copy the files from the installation media to the USB key and you should be good to go. | When you boot from the USB drive does it say **no boot media**. What software are you using to create the DVD image installed on the USB drive ?.
This might help
1. Set BIOS to boot from removable
media *ie: USB drive.*
2. Create an ISO of the DVD/CD with a
tool like [InfraRecorder](http://infrarecorder.org/) using the
**Read Disc** feature.
3. Reformat the USB drive, better be
safe than sorry.
4. Then use a tool like [Unetbootin](http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to
install the ISO image you created
with InfraRecoder on the USB key.
And reboot. |
304,989 | See the title. You could imagine that I am asking about an AM radio, but I will use a simpler example with a lock-in amplifier.
Let's say that I have a lock-in amplifier with a reference frequency of 330 Hz. If I take that signal and modulate it at 0.01 Hz and connect that to the input of the lock-in, then look at the DC output of, say, the X channel, I can see that modulation, even if the lock-in is AC coupled, with a cutoff frequency of 1 Hz (3 orders of magnitude higher).
I do not understand why this is. It seems to me to be the same as an AM radio. If you have a 500 kHz carrier frequency modulated by your signal, if you connect that to a bandpass filter, you still get your signal out, right?
So, to rephrase my question: why is the signal of interest not filtered out in both of the above cases?
Thanks! | 2017/05/12 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/304989",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/148981/"
] | In the frequency domain, AM modulation ("multiplication") is the convolution of the modulated signal with the carrier. Thus, the Fourier Transform energy is at the carrier frequency, and has the bandwidth of the original signal.
So, as long as the width of your lock-in filter is as wide as the bandwidth of the original signal, you don't lose signal. | >
> Let's say that I have a lock-in amplifier with a reference frequency
> of 330 Hz. If I take that signal and modulate it at 0.01 Hz and
> connect that to the input of the lock-in, then look at the DC output
> of, say, the X channel, I can see that modulation, even if the lock-in
> is AC coupled, with a cutoff frequency of 1 Hz (3 orders of magnitude
> higher).
>
>
>
A lock in amplifier actually demodulates the modulation (0.01 Hz) and presents it to you as seen on your X output. It doesn't just filter it. You cannot filter a plain ordinary AM waveform and hope to recover the baseband (modulation) without a demodulator.
Your understanding is flawed. Modulation doesn't create a baseband signal; it creates sidebands around the carrier hence, when you amplitude modulated 300 Hz with 0.01 Hz you would have sidebands at 299.99 Hz and 300.01 Hz. These easily pass through a 1 Hz filter. |
304,989 | See the title. You could imagine that I am asking about an AM radio, but I will use a simpler example with a lock-in amplifier.
Let's say that I have a lock-in amplifier with a reference frequency of 330 Hz. If I take that signal and modulate it at 0.01 Hz and connect that to the input of the lock-in, then look at the DC output of, say, the X channel, I can see that modulation, even if the lock-in is AC coupled, with a cutoff frequency of 1 Hz (3 orders of magnitude higher).
I do not understand why this is. It seems to me to be the same as an AM radio. If you have a 500 kHz carrier frequency modulated by your signal, if you connect that to a bandpass filter, you still get your signal out, right?
So, to rephrase my question: why is the signal of interest not filtered out in both of the above cases?
Thanks! | 2017/05/12 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/304989",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/148981/"
] | >
> If you have a 500 kHz carrier frequency modulated by your signal, if
> you connect that to a bandpass filter, you still get your signal out,
> right?
>
>
>
No. The original modulating waveform is filtered out. However the Amplitude Modulation process creates *sidebands* above and below the carrier frequency. If these are inside the bandwidth of the output filter then they will be preserved. When this is demodulated you get back (an approximation of) the baseband signal.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/v7JbF.gif) | >
> Let's say that I have a lock-in amplifier with a reference frequency
> of 330 Hz. If I take that signal and modulate it at 0.01 Hz and
> connect that to the input of the lock-in, then look at the DC output
> of, say, the X channel, I can see that modulation, even if the lock-in
> is AC coupled, with a cutoff frequency of 1 Hz (3 orders of magnitude
> higher).
>
>
>
A lock in amplifier actually demodulates the modulation (0.01 Hz) and presents it to you as seen on your X output. It doesn't just filter it. You cannot filter a plain ordinary AM waveform and hope to recover the baseband (modulation) without a demodulator.
Your understanding is flawed. Modulation doesn't create a baseband signal; it creates sidebands around the carrier hence, when you amplitude modulated 300 Hz with 0.01 Hz you would have sidebands at 299.99 Hz and 300.01 Hz. These easily pass through a 1 Hz filter. |
242,493 | I'm considering a metal hip roof for a new build with a rectangular footprint (no valleys) and the wider sides will face north and south.
There doesn't seem to be much of a consensus among home builders on the internet, except perhaps a recommendation for moderately pitched roofs in the range 4/12 (18.43 degrees) to 6/12 (26.57 degrees). Some home builder website suggestions include 15 to 20, 25, or 30 degrees for the best roof pitch to withstand strong winds. Wikipedia (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_roof>) mentions an angle greater than 35 degrees is necessary for hurricane regions. | 2022/01/08 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/242493",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/146895/"
] | 0.6° or 1% (1:100 slope) (normally considered "flat" but you need some slope for water to run off) would be "best" for winds (least exposed area to wind pressure) and indeed you'll find plenty of flat concrete roofs in the tropical hurricane belt.
Flat roofs are less than ideal on other considerations - as with most things, you have trade-offs. | Structural engineers base their calculations on the “exposed side” of a building. That is to say, the higher the roof, the stronger the building (material and connections) need to be.
Also, most roofing manufacturers require additional membrane protection under metal roofing or shingles when the roof slope is less than 4:12.
Also, buildings less than 3:1 in length to width can use the standard structural values for wood and steel. When you exceed those dimensions you need to use different values and provide additional connections to transfer the loads to the groud, such as blocking all edges of wall sheathing, diagonal bracing, etc. (See IBC Table 2305.2.3)
Likewise, special requirements are required around large windows and doors, especially if there’s more than one window or door on the short side. |
242,493 | I'm considering a metal hip roof for a new build with a rectangular footprint (no valleys) and the wider sides will face north and south.
There doesn't seem to be much of a consensus among home builders on the internet, except perhaps a recommendation for moderately pitched roofs in the range 4/12 (18.43 degrees) to 6/12 (26.57 degrees). Some home builder website suggestions include 15 to 20, 25, or 30 degrees for the best roof pitch to withstand strong winds. Wikipedia (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_roof>) mentions an angle greater than 35 degrees is necessary for hurricane regions. | 2022/01/08 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/242493",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/146895/"
] | 0.6° or 1% (1:100 slope) (normally considered "flat" but you need some slope for water to run off) would be "best" for winds (least exposed area to wind pressure) and indeed you'll find plenty of flat concrete roofs in the tropical hurricane belt.
Flat roofs are less than ideal on other considerations - as with most things, you have trade-offs. | I am not an expert but the optimum pitch to minimize uplift (for a single storey dwelling with a hip roof) would likely be around 20 degrees (e.g. <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40091-019-0227-3> ; <http://web.mit.edu/parmstr/Public/NRCan/CanBldgDigests/cbd068_e.html>). A steeper slope like the 35 degrees suggested in the Wikipedia webpage might be useful in hurricane regions but elsewhere the additional expense may not be justifiable. Also, wind uplift pressure generally increases with angles greater than 45 degrees and with angles smaller than 20 degrees. A flat roof (<10 degrees) would experience the greatest suction effect but as Ecnerwal, Lee Sam and crip659 point out a roof's resistance to being torn off also depends on building materials and other structural factors. |
26,623,595 | I want to configure Python/Jython in IBM BPM, so that these files can directly executed from process app. How can I do that?
How to setup this entry in WebSphere Application Server? | 2014/10/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/26623595",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3978364/"
] | You can use the same key and then just insert the new bin. This will update the existing record with the new bin. The way you are proceeding about it is correct. | As per Aerospike [documentation](https://www.aerospike.com/docs/guide/single.html), behaviour of update and replace is mentioned below:
**update** : If the record exists, then add or update the specified bins. Bins that are not specified, will remain intact.
**replace** : If the record exists, then write the specified bins, replacing all prexisting bins.
Therefore, if you just specify the third bin, it will work. It will also work if you specify all three bins and make update or replace call. |
165,126 | How can I find the GUID of an MSI package? I would like to script the removal of a program on a large number of desktops by using:
>
> msiexec.exe /x *ProductCode*
>
>
>
Any reason why this would not work for any applications listed in "Add/Remove Programs?" | 2010/07/29 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/165126",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/49571/"
] | There is also a very helpful GUI tool called Product Browser which appears to be made by Microsoft or at least an employee of Microsoft.
It can be found on Github here [Product Browser](https://github.com/suyouquan/SQLSetupTools)
The latest version as of (10/9/20) is available [here](https://github.com/suyouquan/SQLSetupTools#product-browser-22)
I personally had a very easy time locating the GUID I needed with this. | [Revision Number Summary Property](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371255%28VS.85%29.aspx):
>
> [T]he Revision Number Summary property
> lists the product code GUIDs [...]
>
>
> |
165,126 | How can I find the GUID of an MSI package? I would like to script the removal of a program on a large number of desktops by using:
>
> msiexec.exe /x *ProductCode*
>
>
>
Any reason why this would not work for any applications listed in "Add/Remove Programs?" | 2010/07/29 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/165126",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/49571/"
] | A light-weight freeware tool like [InstEd](http://www.instedit.com) can be used. Just open the MSI, on the "Tables" tab, click on "Property" on the left, then on the right, locate "ProductCode". | [Revision Number Summary Property](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371255%28VS.85%29.aspx):
>
> [T]he Revision Number Summary property
> lists the product code GUIDs [...]
>
>
> |
113,498 | What do people think about having a tag called something like 'basic'? This tag would encompass questions that can be answered quickly/simply by someone familiar with the language/technology. Perhaps the nature of the tag itself means it would be a big fail as it's so subjective....but it might allow responders to quickly identify those questions that can be answered quickly and clearly. It could also encourage more people to contribute, even if they're not experts. I saw the question on 'Beginner' tags, but the wording of 'basic' suggests something a little bit different, and might be attractive to people not enamored of the loaded word 'beginner'. Just a thought.... | 2011/11/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/113498",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/173166/"
] | I don't think this is beneficial.
* From my experience, the easy questions get answers fairly quickly anyway, so it won't help the one asking.
* For people looking to answer, I think that only they can know what they know, and expecting someone else, specifically a user who doesn't know the answer to his own question, to decide if it is "basic" is also unhelpful.
* I think that reading questions (and answers) that are beyond your current knowledge level is a fine way to learn.
* You can still edit and refine the harder questions, therefore limiting the eyes those questions/answers get is, again, not beneficial. | We already have a [basic](/questions/tagged/basic "show questions tagged 'basic'") tag for a language called [BASIC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC), if this means anything.
But seriously, for the purposes you propose it'd be too much of a meta tag to be useful enough to the question. A beginner question is as deserving of answers as a more advanced question is. And who's to say whether a question is easy enough or not?
Read [this blog post about meta tags](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags). |
113,498 | What do people think about having a tag called something like 'basic'? This tag would encompass questions that can be answered quickly/simply by someone familiar with the language/technology. Perhaps the nature of the tag itself means it would be a big fail as it's so subjective....but it might allow responders to quickly identify those questions that can be answered quickly and clearly. It could also encourage more people to contribute, even if they're not experts. I saw the question on 'Beginner' tags, but the wording of 'basic' suggests something a little bit different, and might be attractive to people not enamored of the loaded word 'beginner'. Just a thought.... | 2011/11/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/113498",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/173166/"
] | I don't think this is beneficial.
* From my experience, the easy questions get answers fairly quickly anyway, so it won't help the one asking.
* For people looking to answer, I think that only they can know what they know, and expecting someone else, specifically a user who doesn't know the answer to his own question, to decide if it is "basic" is also unhelpful.
* I think that reading questions (and answers) that are beyond your current knowledge level is a fine way to learn.
* You can still edit and refine the harder questions, therefore limiting the eyes those questions/answers get is, again, not beneficial. | There is a programming language called Basic, this would lead to confusion
As @Mr.Wizard says it is not beneficial to say it is a basic question, if it is a basic question it will be answered quickly anyway. |
113,498 | What do people think about having a tag called something like 'basic'? This tag would encompass questions that can be answered quickly/simply by someone familiar with the language/technology. Perhaps the nature of the tag itself means it would be a big fail as it's so subjective....but it might allow responders to quickly identify those questions that can be answered quickly and clearly. It could also encourage more people to contribute, even if they're not experts. I saw the question on 'Beginner' tags, but the wording of 'basic' suggests something a little bit different, and might be attractive to people not enamored of the loaded word 'beginner'. Just a thought.... | 2011/11/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/113498",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/173166/"
] | I don't think this is beneficial.
* From my experience, the easy questions get answers fairly quickly anyway, so it won't help the one asking.
* For people looking to answer, I think that only they can know what they know, and expecting someone else, specifically a user who doesn't know the answer to his own question, to decide if it is "basic" is also unhelpful.
* I think that reading questions (and answers) that are beyond your current knowledge level is a fine way to learn.
* You can still edit and refine the harder questions, therefore limiting the eyes those questions/answers get is, again, not beneficial. | The entire concept is deeply flawed. Presumably, the person asking the question isn't familiar enough with the subject matter to answer it, so how are they familiar enough with the subject matter to know whether it's a basic question?
If the person asking a question knows enough to consider it "basic", they should probably be able to find the answer out for themselves. |
113,498 | What do people think about having a tag called something like 'basic'? This tag would encompass questions that can be answered quickly/simply by someone familiar with the language/technology. Perhaps the nature of the tag itself means it would be a big fail as it's so subjective....but it might allow responders to quickly identify those questions that can be answered quickly and clearly. It could also encourage more people to contribute, even if they're not experts. I saw the question on 'Beginner' tags, but the wording of 'basic' suggests something a little bit different, and might be attractive to people not enamored of the loaded word 'beginner'. Just a thought.... | 2011/11/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/113498",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/173166/"
] | We already have a [basic](/questions/tagged/basic "show questions tagged 'basic'") tag for a language called [BASIC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC), if this means anything.
But seriously, for the purposes you propose it'd be too much of a meta tag to be useful enough to the question. A beginner question is as deserving of answers as a more advanced question is. And who's to say whether a question is easy enough or not?
Read [this blog post about meta tags](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags). | There is a programming language called Basic, this would lead to confusion
As @Mr.Wizard says it is not beneficial to say it is a basic question, if it is a basic question it will be answered quickly anyway. |
113,498 | What do people think about having a tag called something like 'basic'? This tag would encompass questions that can be answered quickly/simply by someone familiar with the language/technology. Perhaps the nature of the tag itself means it would be a big fail as it's so subjective....but it might allow responders to quickly identify those questions that can be answered quickly and clearly. It could also encourage more people to contribute, even if they're not experts. I saw the question on 'Beginner' tags, but the wording of 'basic' suggests something a little bit different, and might be attractive to people not enamored of the loaded word 'beginner'. Just a thought.... | 2011/11/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/113498",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/173166/"
] | We already have a [basic](/questions/tagged/basic "show questions tagged 'basic'") tag for a language called [BASIC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC), if this means anything.
But seriously, for the purposes you propose it'd be too much of a meta tag to be useful enough to the question. A beginner question is as deserving of answers as a more advanced question is. And who's to say whether a question is easy enough or not?
Read [this blog post about meta tags](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags). | The entire concept is deeply flawed. Presumably, the person asking the question isn't familiar enough with the subject matter to answer it, so how are they familiar enough with the subject matter to know whether it's a basic question?
If the person asking a question knows enough to consider it "basic", they should probably be able to find the answer out for themselves. |
623,784 | I am contemplating doing something barbaric.
A computer, with obsolete / discontinued software that requires a Windows XP 32 bit environment, lost it motherboard. As a short term fix a Windows 7 64 bit machine running a virtual machine of XP is running the software; but the software disconnects / crashes from the server several times a day. (The Win7 machine was an under used machine.)
What is the best way to extract the drivers from the Win7 machine for installation on the hard disk of the Windows XP machine? I assume that the Windows XP hard drive will need its license rearmed / reset.
I've backed up business files and taken a mirror of the drive | 2013/07/24 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/623784",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/8982/"
] | I would try these steps:
1. Is there a native version which will run on win 7 - x64?
Since you wrote *obsolete/ discontinued software* the answer is most probably no, but this would be the best solution as [XP will no longer be supported in a year](http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/endofsupport.aspx). (So you either need new software in 2014, or you will need to run it in a computer with its network and USB ports glued shut.
2. If you still have the installer, configure a full virtual PC and install the software. There are plenty of ways to do this, e.g. [Vmware player](http://www.vmware.com/products/player/), [virtual box](https://www.virtualbox.org/), ...
3. Run it in XP mode or the integrated sort-of-XP virtual machine. I think this is what you are doing and what is failing.
4. Run the original installation of the dead machine on new hardware.
5. Run the original installation of the dead machine on a vm (phys2virt conversion).
Steps 4 and 5 should be easy if you still could boot the old disk and run the [sysprep](http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=11282) command found on XP prof. CDs. (That will clear hardware information and easy the installation on new hardware (Either real of 'vm-hardware')). | Just plug it in and see if it boots. That's the true barbaric way to do it.
Chances are though that xp just doesn't have drivers that support the hardware and you're completely hosed. |
17,773 | When I'm playing as the gunner of my team in [Harm's Way](http://www.giantbomb.com/harms-way/61-33354/), a free XBLA title, I routinely get a notification on my screen that says:
>
> ***Your Driver Needs Help!***
>
>
>
What kind of trouble is my driver in? Is he under fire? Or has he merely been bumped? Gone off the track? Maybe just fallen back a position in the race? Knowing what triggers these notifications would make it much easier to 'help' my driver. | 2011/03/06 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/17773",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3114/"
] | You get the notification when your driver is under fire from another turret.
Be sure to position yourself so that you can shoot players in other turrets and stop them from hurting your driver. You will be able to see other players controlling turrets marked with their screen name:
In the picture above you can see that AridSpider and coma buNNy are in turrets that are attacking drivers (friendly marked in green). Firing at these turrets will prevent other players from using them, saving your poor driver.
[This video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vhm-hYVSlU) has many examples of the notification popping up, all when the driver is damaged by another player's turret. | I was under the impression it happens when your driver is under fire, but I haven't confirmed it.
Most of the time, I 'ignored' it by just trying to blast away competition (turrets first then cars). |
34,310,914 | *Edit: this is not a duplicate of [Determine if an image exists within a larger image, and if so, find it, using Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29663764/determine-if-an-image-exists-within-a-larger-image-and-if-so-find-it-using-py) since **I do not know the pattern beforehand***
Suppose I have a big image (usually a picture taken with a camera so it might be a bit noisy, but let's assume it's not for now) made up of multiple smaller images all equal among themselves, something like
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0V2bB.png)
I need to find the contour of each one of those. The first step is recognizing that there's a recurring image (or unknown pattern) in the 2D image. How can I achieve this first step?
I did read around that I might use a FFT of the original image and search for duplicate frequencies, would that be a feasible approach?
To build a bit on the problem: I do not know the image beforehand, nor its size or how many will there be on the big image. The images can be shot from camera so they might be noisy. The images won't overlap. | 2015/12/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/34310914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3834459/"
] | You can try to use described keypoints (Sift/SURF/ORB/etc.) to find features in the image and try to detect the same features in the image.
You can see such a result in [How to find euclidean distance between keypoints of a single image in opencv](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26543880/how-to-find-euclidean-distance-between-keypoints-of-a-single-image-in-opencv/26547225#26547225) where 3x the same image is present and features are detected and linked between those subimages automatically.
In your image the result looks like
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tf5QM.png)
so you can see that the different occurances of the same pattern is indeed automatically detected and linked.
Next steps would be to group features to objects, so that the "whole" pattern can be extracted. Once you have a candidate for a pattern, you can extract a homography for each occurance of the pattern (with one reference candidate pattern) to verify that it is a pattern. One open problem is how to find such candidates. Maybe it is worth trying to find "parallel features", so keypoint matches that have parallel lines and/or same length lines (see image). Or maybe there is some graph theory approach.
All in all, this whole approach will have some advantages and disadvantes:
**Advantages:**
* real world applicability - Sift and other keypoints are working quite well even with noise and some perspective effects, so chances are increased to find such patterns.
**Disadvantages**
* slow
* parametric (define what it means that two features are successfully
matched)
* not suitable for all kind of patterns - your pattern must have some extractable keypoints
Those are some thoughts and probably not complete ;)
Unfortunately no full code yet for your concrete task, but I hope the idea is clear. | For such a clean image, it suffices to segment the patterns by blob analysis and to compare the segments or ROI that contain them. The size is a first matching criterion. The SAD, SSD or correlation similarity scores can do finer comparison.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nUZbJ.png)
In practice you will face more difficulties such as
* not possible to segment the patterns
* geometric variations in size/orientation
* partial occlusion
* ...
Handling these is out of the scope of this answer; it makes things much harder than in the "toy" case. |
34,310,914 | *Edit: this is not a duplicate of [Determine if an image exists within a larger image, and if so, find it, using Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29663764/determine-if-an-image-exists-within-a-larger-image-and-if-so-find-it-using-py) since **I do not know the pattern beforehand***
Suppose I have a big image (usually a picture taken with a camera so it might be a bit noisy, but let's assume it's not for now) made up of multiple smaller images all equal among themselves, something like
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0V2bB.png)
I need to find the contour of each one of those. The first step is recognizing that there's a recurring image (or unknown pattern) in the 2D image. How can I achieve this first step?
I did read around that I might use a FFT of the original image and search for duplicate frequencies, would that be a feasible approach?
To build a bit on the problem: I do not know the image beforehand, nor its size or how many will there be on the big image. The images can be shot from camera so they might be noisy. The images won't overlap. | 2015/12/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/34310914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3834459/"
] | For such a clean image, it suffices to segment the patterns by blob analysis and to compare the segments or ROI that contain them. The size is a first matching criterion. The SAD, SSD or correlation similarity scores can do finer comparison.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nUZbJ.png)
In practice you will face more difficulties such as
* not possible to segment the patterns
* geometric variations in size/orientation
* partial occlusion
* ...
Handling these is out of the scope of this answer; it makes things much harder than in the "toy" case. | The goal is to find several equal or very similar patterns which are not known before in a picture. As it is this problem is still a bit ill posed.
* Are the patterns exactly equal or only similar (added noise maybe)?
* Do you want to have the largest possible patterns or are smaller subpatterns okay too or are all possible patterns needed? Reason is that of course each pattern could consist of equal patterns too.
* Is the background always that simple (completely white) or can it be much more difficult? What do we know about it?
* Are the patterns always equally oriented, equally scaled, non-overlapping?
For the simple case of non-overlapping patterns with simple background, the answer of [Yves Daoust](https://stackoverflow.com/a/34311086/1536976) using segmentation is well performing but fails if patterns are very close or overlapping.
For other cases the idea of the keypoints by [Micka](https://stackoverflow.com/a/34314697/1536976) will help but might not perform well if there is noise or might be slow.
I have one alternative: look at correlations of subblocks of the image.
In pseudocode:
* Divide the image in overlapping areas of size MxN for a suitable M,N (pixel width and height chosen to be approximately the size of the desired pattern)
* Correlate each subblock with the whole image. Look for local maxima in the correlation. The position of these maxima denotes the position of similar regions.
* Choose a global threshold on all correlations (smartly somehow) and find sets of equal patterns.
* Determine the fine structure of these patterns by shanging the shape from rectangular (bounding box) to a more sophisticaed shape (maybe by looking at the shape of the peaks in the correlation)
* In case the approximate size of the desired patterns is not known before, try with large values of M, N and go down to smaller ones.
* To speed up the whole process start on a coarse scale (downscaled version of the image) and then process finer scales only where needed. Needs balancing of zooming in and performing correlations.
Sorry, I cannot make this a full Matlab project right now, but I hope this helps you. |
34,310,914 | *Edit: this is not a duplicate of [Determine if an image exists within a larger image, and if so, find it, using Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29663764/determine-if-an-image-exists-within-a-larger-image-and-if-so-find-it-using-py) since **I do not know the pattern beforehand***
Suppose I have a big image (usually a picture taken with a camera so it might be a bit noisy, but let's assume it's not for now) made up of multiple smaller images all equal among themselves, something like
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0V2bB.png)
I need to find the contour of each one of those. The first step is recognizing that there's a recurring image (or unknown pattern) in the 2D image. How can I achieve this first step?
I did read around that I might use a FFT of the original image and search for duplicate frequencies, would that be a feasible approach?
To build a bit on the problem: I do not know the image beforehand, nor its size or how many will there be on the big image. The images can be shot from camera so they might be noisy. The images won't overlap. | 2015/12/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/34310914",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3834459/"
] | You can try to use described keypoints (Sift/SURF/ORB/etc.) to find features in the image and try to detect the same features in the image.
You can see such a result in [How to find euclidean distance between keypoints of a single image in opencv](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26543880/how-to-find-euclidean-distance-between-keypoints-of-a-single-image-in-opencv/26547225#26547225) where 3x the same image is present and features are detected and linked between those subimages automatically.
In your image the result looks like
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tf5QM.png)
so you can see that the different occurances of the same pattern is indeed automatically detected and linked.
Next steps would be to group features to objects, so that the "whole" pattern can be extracted. Once you have a candidate for a pattern, you can extract a homography for each occurance of the pattern (with one reference candidate pattern) to verify that it is a pattern. One open problem is how to find such candidates. Maybe it is worth trying to find "parallel features", so keypoint matches that have parallel lines and/or same length lines (see image). Or maybe there is some graph theory approach.
All in all, this whole approach will have some advantages and disadvantes:
**Advantages:**
* real world applicability - Sift and other keypoints are working quite well even with noise and some perspective effects, so chances are increased to find such patterns.
**Disadvantages**
* slow
* parametric (define what it means that two features are successfully
matched)
* not suitable for all kind of patterns - your pattern must have some extractable keypoints
Those are some thoughts and probably not complete ;)
Unfortunately no full code yet for your concrete task, but I hope the idea is clear. | The goal is to find several equal or very similar patterns which are not known before in a picture. As it is this problem is still a bit ill posed.
* Are the patterns exactly equal or only similar (added noise maybe)?
* Do you want to have the largest possible patterns or are smaller subpatterns okay too or are all possible patterns needed? Reason is that of course each pattern could consist of equal patterns too.
* Is the background always that simple (completely white) or can it be much more difficult? What do we know about it?
* Are the patterns always equally oriented, equally scaled, non-overlapping?
For the simple case of non-overlapping patterns with simple background, the answer of [Yves Daoust](https://stackoverflow.com/a/34311086/1536976) using segmentation is well performing but fails if patterns are very close or overlapping.
For other cases the idea of the keypoints by [Micka](https://stackoverflow.com/a/34314697/1536976) will help but might not perform well if there is noise or might be slow.
I have one alternative: look at correlations of subblocks of the image.
In pseudocode:
* Divide the image in overlapping areas of size MxN for a suitable M,N (pixel width and height chosen to be approximately the size of the desired pattern)
* Correlate each subblock with the whole image. Look for local maxima in the correlation. The position of these maxima denotes the position of similar regions.
* Choose a global threshold on all correlations (smartly somehow) and find sets of equal patterns.
* Determine the fine structure of these patterns by shanging the shape from rectangular (bounding box) to a more sophisticaed shape (maybe by looking at the shape of the peaks in the correlation)
* In case the approximate size of the desired patterns is not known before, try with large values of M, N and go down to smaller ones.
* To speed up the whole process start on a coarse scale (downscaled version of the image) and then process finer scales only where needed. Needs balancing of zooming in and performing correlations.
Sorry, I cannot make this a full Matlab project right now, but I hope this helps you. |
81,073 | I know that progressive jpegs download in multiple passes, and optimized are smaller (and thus faster to finish downloading), but does anyone have any hard data or best practices on *which type users actually prefer*? | 2015/07/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81073",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68259/"
] | Here's an alternative perspective on it. Not an absolute rule, but a thing to keep in mind.
**It depends on what the image is for. Content, or decoration?**
If it's a background or other design element, use progressive, so the page looks okay-ish as soon as possible. If it's an element that moves stuff around, it needs to be there ASAP so people don't mis-press a button due to layout shifting. (been there a couple of times on mobile.)
If it's content the user is going to download, or consciously pay attention to, use regular JPGs. This communicates to the user that it's not yet finished, that they have to wait a bit. This stops them from saving an unfinished download, and they won't experience the site as bad quality but the server/connection. | I'm having trouble finding a definitive, recent answer but from what I can tell, Mobile Safari, to pick just one mobile browser, supports progressive JPGs, but doesn't actually load them progressively--meaning it just waits for it to download entirely, then displays it.
So it seems that the visual progressive loading feature simply isn't all that relative today, making the benefit much less appealing.
That said, making a JPG progressive *may* help compress it's total size, so by all means, that's still a benefit, but it's probably just not a big enough benefit where it's caught on widely.
Also, as stated in my comment, I don't think this is a 'vs.' issue. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'optimized' a JPG can be both progressive *and* optimized. In fact, any image format for your web site should be optimized. |
81,073 | I know that progressive jpegs download in multiple passes, and optimized are smaller (and thus faster to finish downloading), but does anyone have any hard data or best practices on *which type users actually prefer*? | 2015/07/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81073",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68259/"
] | Let's start with the difference between progressive and non-progressive JPEG files.
Non-progressive JPG files ar not by definition smallers than progressive JPEG files. A rule of thumb found by Stoyan Stefanov is that JPEG files smaller than 10K are best compressed non-progressive JPEG, but that bigger JPEG files become smaller when stored as progressive JPEG.[source](http://www.bookofspeed.com/chapter5.html) see the chapter progressive JPEG.
So if you just want the smallest download non-progressive is not always the best choice.
This 2012 article goes into more detail [Progressive jpegs a new best practice](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2012/progressive-jpegs-a-new-best-practice/)
Tip if you want even smaller JPEG files use [mozjpeg](https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg)
But now to anwser your question.
You wanted to know if anyone has actually done any research on user preferences.
Well actually someone did.
You can read an article on the research by Tammy Everts here: [Progressive image rendering: Good or evil?](http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2014/09/17/progressive-image-rendering-good-evil/) It contains a link to where you can obtain the full report.
Spoiler: users seem to prefer baseline JPEG files over progressive. | I'm having trouble finding a definitive, recent answer but from what I can tell, Mobile Safari, to pick just one mobile browser, supports progressive JPGs, but doesn't actually load them progressively--meaning it just waits for it to download entirely, then displays it.
So it seems that the visual progressive loading feature simply isn't all that relative today, making the benefit much less appealing.
That said, making a JPG progressive *may* help compress it's total size, so by all means, that's still a benefit, but it's probably just not a big enough benefit where it's caught on widely.
Also, as stated in my comment, I don't think this is a 'vs.' issue. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'optimized' a JPG can be both progressive *and* optimized. In fact, any image format for your web site should be optimized. |
81,073 | I know that progressive jpegs download in multiple passes, and optimized are smaller (and thus faster to finish downloading), but does anyone have any hard data or best practices on *which type users actually prefer*? | 2015/07/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81073",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68259/"
] | I'm having trouble finding a definitive, recent answer but from what I can tell, Mobile Safari, to pick just one mobile browser, supports progressive JPGs, but doesn't actually load them progressively--meaning it just waits for it to download entirely, then displays it.
So it seems that the visual progressive loading feature simply isn't all that relative today, making the benefit much less appealing.
That said, making a JPG progressive *may* help compress it's total size, so by all means, that's still a benefit, but it's probably just not a big enough benefit where it's caught on widely.
Also, as stated in my comment, I don't think this is a 'vs.' issue. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'optimized' a JPG can be both progressive *and* optimized. In fact, any image format for your web site should be optimized. | The main difference is that when the picture (jpeg file) is export as "progressive" is going to load the full size image with reduced quality, while if it's export as "optimize" is going to load section by section from top to bottom. |
81,073 | I know that progressive jpegs download in multiple passes, and optimized are smaller (and thus faster to finish downloading), but does anyone have any hard data or best practices on *which type users actually prefer*? | 2015/07/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81073",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68259/"
] | Here's an alternative perspective on it. Not an absolute rule, but a thing to keep in mind.
**It depends on what the image is for. Content, or decoration?**
If it's a background or other design element, use progressive, so the page looks okay-ish as soon as possible. If it's an element that moves stuff around, it needs to be there ASAP so people don't mis-press a button due to layout shifting. (been there a couple of times on mobile.)
If it's content the user is going to download, or consciously pay attention to, use regular JPGs. This communicates to the user that it's not yet finished, that they have to wait a bit. This stops them from saving an unfinished download, and they won't experience the site as bad quality but the server/connection. | +1 to DA01
If OP is referring to reduced file size as "optimized" then here are some standard practices when saving as JPEG.
1. Don't embed color profiles. Browsers these days have better ICC
profile support.
2. Export image as sRGB
3. Set metadata to none
4. [Set quality at 65%](http://laurashoe.com/2011/10/18/jpeg-quality-compression-lightroom/). More about quality settings can be found [here](http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/export-quality-tester).
5. Ensure the file size and dimensions are in scope of your requirement. i.e. don't export a 2000x3000px image for a mobile website.
More about Optimizing images [Guide by Google](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/optimizing-content-efficiency/image-optimization?hl=en). |
81,073 | I know that progressive jpegs download in multiple passes, and optimized are smaller (and thus faster to finish downloading), but does anyone have any hard data or best practices on *which type users actually prefer*? | 2015/07/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81073",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68259/"
] | Let's start with the difference between progressive and non-progressive JPEG files.
Non-progressive JPG files ar not by definition smallers than progressive JPEG files. A rule of thumb found by Stoyan Stefanov is that JPEG files smaller than 10K are best compressed non-progressive JPEG, but that bigger JPEG files become smaller when stored as progressive JPEG.[source](http://www.bookofspeed.com/chapter5.html) see the chapter progressive JPEG.
So if you just want the smallest download non-progressive is not always the best choice.
This 2012 article goes into more detail [Progressive jpegs a new best practice](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2012/progressive-jpegs-a-new-best-practice/)
Tip if you want even smaller JPEG files use [mozjpeg](https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg)
But now to anwser your question.
You wanted to know if anyone has actually done any research on user preferences.
Well actually someone did.
You can read an article on the research by Tammy Everts here: [Progressive image rendering: Good or evil?](http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2014/09/17/progressive-image-rendering-good-evil/) It contains a link to where you can obtain the full report.
Spoiler: users seem to prefer baseline JPEG files over progressive. | +1 to DA01
If OP is referring to reduced file size as "optimized" then here are some standard practices when saving as JPEG.
1. Don't embed color profiles. Browsers these days have better ICC
profile support.
2. Export image as sRGB
3. Set metadata to none
4. [Set quality at 65%](http://laurashoe.com/2011/10/18/jpeg-quality-compression-lightroom/). More about quality settings can be found [here](http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/export-quality-tester).
5. Ensure the file size and dimensions are in scope of your requirement. i.e. don't export a 2000x3000px image for a mobile website.
More about Optimizing images [Guide by Google](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/optimizing-content-efficiency/image-optimization?hl=en). |
81,073 | I know that progressive jpegs download in multiple passes, and optimized are smaller (and thus faster to finish downloading), but does anyone have any hard data or best practices on *which type users actually prefer*? | 2015/07/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81073",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68259/"
] | +1 to DA01
If OP is referring to reduced file size as "optimized" then here are some standard practices when saving as JPEG.
1. Don't embed color profiles. Browsers these days have better ICC
profile support.
2. Export image as sRGB
3. Set metadata to none
4. [Set quality at 65%](http://laurashoe.com/2011/10/18/jpeg-quality-compression-lightroom/). More about quality settings can be found [here](http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/export-quality-tester).
5. Ensure the file size and dimensions are in scope of your requirement. i.e. don't export a 2000x3000px image for a mobile website.
More about Optimizing images [Guide by Google](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/optimizing-content-efficiency/image-optimization?hl=en). | The main difference is that when the picture (jpeg file) is export as "progressive" is going to load the full size image with reduced quality, while if it's export as "optimize" is going to load section by section from top to bottom. |
81,073 | I know that progressive jpegs download in multiple passes, and optimized are smaller (and thus faster to finish downloading), but does anyone have any hard data or best practices on *which type users actually prefer*? | 2015/07/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81073",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68259/"
] | Let's start with the difference between progressive and non-progressive JPEG files.
Non-progressive JPG files ar not by definition smallers than progressive JPEG files. A rule of thumb found by Stoyan Stefanov is that JPEG files smaller than 10K are best compressed non-progressive JPEG, but that bigger JPEG files become smaller when stored as progressive JPEG.[source](http://www.bookofspeed.com/chapter5.html) see the chapter progressive JPEG.
So if you just want the smallest download non-progressive is not always the best choice.
This 2012 article goes into more detail [Progressive jpegs a new best practice](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2012/progressive-jpegs-a-new-best-practice/)
Tip if you want even smaller JPEG files use [mozjpeg](https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg)
But now to anwser your question.
You wanted to know if anyone has actually done any research on user preferences.
Well actually someone did.
You can read an article on the research by Tammy Everts here: [Progressive image rendering: Good or evil?](http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2014/09/17/progressive-image-rendering-good-evil/) It contains a link to where you can obtain the full report.
Spoiler: users seem to prefer baseline JPEG files over progressive. | Here's an alternative perspective on it. Not an absolute rule, but a thing to keep in mind.
**It depends on what the image is for. Content, or decoration?**
If it's a background or other design element, use progressive, so the page looks okay-ish as soon as possible. If it's an element that moves stuff around, it needs to be there ASAP so people don't mis-press a button due to layout shifting. (been there a couple of times on mobile.)
If it's content the user is going to download, or consciously pay attention to, use regular JPGs. This communicates to the user that it's not yet finished, that they have to wait a bit. This stops them from saving an unfinished download, and they won't experience the site as bad quality but the server/connection. |
81,073 | I know that progressive jpegs download in multiple passes, and optimized are smaller (and thus faster to finish downloading), but does anyone have any hard data or best practices on *which type users actually prefer*? | 2015/07/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81073",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68259/"
] | Here's an alternative perspective on it. Not an absolute rule, but a thing to keep in mind.
**It depends on what the image is for. Content, or decoration?**
If it's a background or other design element, use progressive, so the page looks okay-ish as soon as possible. If it's an element that moves stuff around, it needs to be there ASAP so people don't mis-press a button due to layout shifting. (been there a couple of times on mobile.)
If it's content the user is going to download, or consciously pay attention to, use regular JPGs. This communicates to the user that it's not yet finished, that they have to wait a bit. This stops them from saving an unfinished download, and they won't experience the site as bad quality but the server/connection. | The main difference is that when the picture (jpeg file) is export as "progressive" is going to load the full size image with reduced quality, while if it's export as "optimize" is going to load section by section from top to bottom. |
81,073 | I know that progressive jpegs download in multiple passes, and optimized are smaller (and thus faster to finish downloading), but does anyone have any hard data or best practices on *which type users actually prefer*? | 2015/07/06 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81073",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68259/"
] | Let's start with the difference between progressive and non-progressive JPEG files.
Non-progressive JPG files ar not by definition smallers than progressive JPEG files. A rule of thumb found by Stoyan Stefanov is that JPEG files smaller than 10K are best compressed non-progressive JPEG, but that bigger JPEG files become smaller when stored as progressive JPEG.[source](http://www.bookofspeed.com/chapter5.html) see the chapter progressive JPEG.
So if you just want the smallest download non-progressive is not always the best choice.
This 2012 article goes into more detail [Progressive jpegs a new best practice](http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2012/progressive-jpegs-a-new-best-practice/)
Tip if you want even smaller JPEG files use [mozjpeg](https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg)
But now to anwser your question.
You wanted to know if anyone has actually done any research on user preferences.
Well actually someone did.
You can read an article on the research by Tammy Everts here: [Progressive image rendering: Good or evil?](http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2014/09/17/progressive-image-rendering-good-evil/) It contains a link to where you can obtain the full report.
Spoiler: users seem to prefer baseline JPEG files over progressive. | The main difference is that when the picture (jpeg file) is export as "progressive" is going to load the full size image with reduced quality, while if it's export as "optimize" is going to load section by section from top to bottom. |
133,292 | What does "school lunch" mean in American English? Is it ambiguous between a lunch provided by a school and a lunch prepared at home like a bag lunch? | 2017/06/22 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/133292",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/3865/"
] | A school lunch can either be:
* a lunch prepared and served in the school cafeteria, or
* a lunch prepared at home and taken to school to be eaten there.
When I hear the term "school lunch," I typically think of the former meaning first. However, as was stated in a comment by @userr2684291, the latter meaning is still valid. (Just because a phrase **usually** means one thing doesn't mean it **never** means another.) Here are a couple quotes that use the term in this way:
>
> *When I was in the second grade, my mom packed my school lunch every day in a brown paper bag*. (Aegina Angeliades, *My Skin Don't Fit*, 2014)
>
>
> *If you need fresh ideas for making healthy school lunches, leftovers can save the day*. ([VegKitchen website](http://www.vegkitchen.com/recipes/leftover-heaven-ideas-for-school-and-brown-bag-lunches/))
>
>
>
---
As a footnote, you should remember that any two-word term like "school lunch" may have more than one meaning. Moreover, when you say "in American English," you should know that [**regionalisms** may and often do apply](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_vocabularies_of_American_English#Regionalisms).
*Hotdish and a frappe for lunch, anyone?* | I'm not American but "**[school lunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_meal)**" is a meal, typically in the middle or beginning of the school day, provided to students at school. That's what Wikipedia says.
Your second description "*lunch prepared at home like a bag lunch*" is actually a "**[packed lunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packed_lunch)**" (or **bag lunch** in North America) - a lunch prepared at home and carried to be eaten somewhere else, such as school, a workplace, or at an outing. As says Wikipedia. |
133,292 | What does "school lunch" mean in American English? Is it ambiguous between a lunch provided by a school and a lunch prepared at home like a bag lunch? | 2017/06/22 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/133292",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/3865/"
] | I'm not American but "**[school lunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_meal)**" is a meal, typically in the middle or beginning of the school day, provided to students at school. That's what Wikipedia says.
Your second description "*lunch prepared at home like a bag lunch*" is actually a "**[packed lunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packed_lunch)**" (or **bag lunch** in North America) - a lunch prepared at home and carried to be eaten somewhere else, such as school, a workplace, or at an outing. As says Wikipedia. | To add on to the other answers: "School lunch" is ambiguous. It could be provided by the school for the midday meal, or one that you bring with you to eat at school. Without context, you don't know for sure which is meant, or even if there is any relevant difference.
In addition, "school lunch" (commonly "lunchtime") can also be the *time period* during which students normally eat the midday meal, and then go play or talk or whatever else they are permitted to do during that break time. Example:
>
> Mister Potter. As you have been told, **school lunch** is for eating or playing with your friends. It is not for drawing magic circles and transforming your fellow students into newts. We are not that kind of school.
>
>
>
Again, context is important to understand which is meant. |
133,292 | What does "school lunch" mean in American English? Is it ambiguous between a lunch provided by a school and a lunch prepared at home like a bag lunch? | 2017/06/22 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/133292",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/3865/"
] | A school lunch can either be:
* a lunch prepared and served in the school cafeteria, or
* a lunch prepared at home and taken to school to be eaten there.
When I hear the term "school lunch," I typically think of the former meaning first. However, as was stated in a comment by @userr2684291, the latter meaning is still valid. (Just because a phrase **usually** means one thing doesn't mean it **never** means another.) Here are a couple quotes that use the term in this way:
>
> *When I was in the second grade, my mom packed my school lunch every day in a brown paper bag*. (Aegina Angeliades, *My Skin Don't Fit*, 2014)
>
>
> *If you need fresh ideas for making healthy school lunches, leftovers can save the day*. ([VegKitchen website](http://www.vegkitchen.com/recipes/leftover-heaven-ideas-for-school-and-brown-bag-lunches/))
>
>
>
---
As a footnote, you should remember that any two-word term like "school lunch" may have more than one meaning. Moreover, when you say "in American English," you should know that [**regionalisms** may and often do apply](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_vocabularies_of_American_English#Regionalisms).
*Hotdish and a frappe for lunch, anyone?* | ***School lunch is the meal eaten at school.***
Now here in this sentence it doesn't say anything if the lunch is provided by the school authority or prepared at some other place with the objective of eating it at school.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yf7tW.jpg)
So the school lunch is the typical lunch that is packed at home to be eaten at school, or provided by the school itself to be eaten at lunch break at the school.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IWVoc.jpg)
>
> It's estimated that 30.6 million students in the US get their lunches
> in the school cafeteria versus bringing it from home. (*[Source](http://www.businessinsider.com/school-lunches-in-the-us-compared-to-other-countries-2015-2 "Here's how school lunch in the US stacks up against what's served in the rest of the world")*).
>
>
> |
133,292 | What does "school lunch" mean in American English? Is it ambiguous between a lunch provided by a school and a lunch prepared at home like a bag lunch? | 2017/06/22 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/133292",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/3865/"
] | ***School lunch is the meal eaten at school.***
Now here in this sentence it doesn't say anything if the lunch is provided by the school authority or prepared at some other place with the objective of eating it at school.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yf7tW.jpg)
So the school lunch is the typical lunch that is packed at home to be eaten at school, or provided by the school itself to be eaten at lunch break at the school.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IWVoc.jpg)
>
> It's estimated that 30.6 million students in the US get their lunches
> in the school cafeteria versus bringing it from home. (*[Source](http://www.businessinsider.com/school-lunches-in-the-us-compared-to-other-countries-2015-2 "Here's how school lunch in the US stacks up against what's served in the rest of the world")*).
>
>
> | To add on to the other answers: "School lunch" is ambiguous. It could be provided by the school for the midday meal, or one that you bring with you to eat at school. Without context, you don't know for sure which is meant, or even if there is any relevant difference.
In addition, "school lunch" (commonly "lunchtime") can also be the *time period* during which students normally eat the midday meal, and then go play or talk or whatever else they are permitted to do during that break time. Example:
>
> Mister Potter. As you have been told, **school lunch** is for eating or playing with your friends. It is not for drawing magic circles and transforming your fellow students into newts. We are not that kind of school.
>
>
>
Again, context is important to understand which is meant. |
133,292 | What does "school lunch" mean in American English? Is it ambiguous between a lunch provided by a school and a lunch prepared at home like a bag lunch? | 2017/06/22 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/133292",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/3865/"
] | A school lunch can either be:
* a lunch prepared and served in the school cafeteria, or
* a lunch prepared at home and taken to school to be eaten there.
When I hear the term "school lunch," I typically think of the former meaning first. However, as was stated in a comment by @userr2684291, the latter meaning is still valid. (Just because a phrase **usually** means one thing doesn't mean it **never** means another.) Here are a couple quotes that use the term in this way:
>
> *When I was in the second grade, my mom packed my school lunch every day in a brown paper bag*. (Aegina Angeliades, *My Skin Don't Fit*, 2014)
>
>
> *If you need fresh ideas for making healthy school lunches, leftovers can save the day*. ([VegKitchen website](http://www.vegkitchen.com/recipes/leftover-heaven-ideas-for-school-and-brown-bag-lunches/))
>
>
>
---
As a footnote, you should remember that any two-word term like "school lunch" may have more than one meaning. Moreover, when you say "in American English," you should know that [**regionalisms** may and often do apply](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_vocabularies_of_American_English#Regionalisms).
*Hotdish and a frappe for lunch, anyone?* | To add on to the other answers: "School lunch" is ambiguous. It could be provided by the school for the midday meal, or one that you bring with you to eat at school. Without context, you don't know for sure which is meant, or even if there is any relevant difference.
In addition, "school lunch" (commonly "lunchtime") can also be the *time period* during which students normally eat the midday meal, and then go play or talk or whatever else they are permitted to do during that break time. Example:
>
> Mister Potter. As you have been told, **school lunch** is for eating or playing with your friends. It is not for drawing magic circles and transforming your fellow students into newts. We are not that kind of school.
>
>
>
Again, context is important to understand which is meant. |
28,382 | [Vastu shastra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastu_shastra) (*vāstu śāstra*) is "a traditional Hindu system of architecture".
Did Lord Buddha debunk vasthu shastra? If not, what are some teachings made by Lord Buddha on the same? If Buddhism does not have an opinion on the topic, opinions of members are appreciated | 2018/07/26 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/28382",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/3597/"
] | **Did Lord Buddha debunk vasthu shastra?**
Vastu Shashtra is set of instructions on how to build your house or buildings, it has nothing to do with anything the Buddha dealt with, the Buddha lived in open air and if at all anything was built for Him, the Buddha was gifted parks for His monks, so I don't know if He would have directly addressed anything from Vastu Shastra as much as He would have addressed about '*Hemaghna*' (Metallurgy). So there is nothing to be debunked, it's not a theory.
**If not, what are some teachings made by Lord Buddha on the same?**
But if Buddha had to give advice about all the claims that Vastu Shashtra I believe Buddha would have given the same advise as he gave to the [Kalamas](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.065.than.html).
>
> "So, as I said, Kalamas: 'Don't go by reports, by legends, by
> traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by
> analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by
> the thought, "This contemplative is our teacher." When you know for
> yourselves that, "These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are
> blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these
> qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering" —
> then you should abandon them.' Thus was it said. And in reference to
> this was it said.
>
>
> "Now, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by
> scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by
> agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought,
> 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves
> that, 'These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless;
> these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted
> & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness' — then you should enter
> & remain in them.
>
>
> **He told them to use common sense.**
>
>
>
**If Buddhism does not have an opinion on the topic, opinions of members are appreciated**
It is a **bogus pseudoscience**, if at all of any value it's just of some aesthetic value to build temples.
For e.g. according to VS the main door of the house should always be facing towards north direction to bring prosperity and all the positive things to house, now if that would have been case it should have been valid all over the world, then all the houses in the US and Europe who are not having north facing front door should have been relatively poor and all houses in India with such a door should have been relatively rich. But such is not the case. If it would have been the case, such kind of statistical data would have been available by now.
Besides the use of the terms like positive energy is very meaningless. So, if not by Buddha, it can be debunked by any high schooler. | Vatthu-vijja is the pali equivalent of Vastu-vidya (or shastra) and, as mentioned above, refers to “architecture” as both science and a means of livelihood. It is well-known that in ancient India numerous ‘guilds’ of various crafts and arts exists. They travelled around the country, and possibly the world, in order to distribute and provide their skills and services. One type of such guilds was the builders guild, specialised in temple architecture and city planning.
In the context of Buddhism, Vatthu-vijja occurs in a couple of Suttas. Note: these sources all apply to Theravada Buddhism.
First, in the Brahma-Jāla Sutta (chapter 1) *vatthuvijja* is mentioned in a lengthy list of ‘wrong means of livelihood’ applicable to Brahmans that are ‘living on food provided by the faithful’:
>
> ...
>
> (16) Looking at the knuckles, &c., and, after muttering a charm,
> divining whether a man is well born or lucky or not.
>
> **(17) Determining whether the site, for a proposed house or pleasance, is lucky or not**.
>
> (18) Advising on customary law.
>
> ...
>
> [(source)](https://www.wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book/the-brahmaj%C4%81la-sutta/d/doc52024.html#note-t-32275)
>
>
>
In his notes, the translator T. W. Rhys Davids says:
>
> Vatthu-vijjā [...] The craft is further explained by Buddhaghosa in his comment on the **Mahā-parinibbāna Sutta I, 26**. Its success depended on the belief that the sites were haunted by spirits.
>
> [(source)](https://www.wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book/the-brahmaj%C4%81la-sutta/d/doc52024.html#note-e-32275)
>
>
>
Upon looking at Buddhaghosa’s commentary on the above-mentioned chapter of the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, we find the following:
>
> At that time Sunidha and Vassakāra, the chief ministers of Māgadha, **were building a fortress at Pāṭaligāma to repel the Vajjians**, and there were many deities who inhabited the area.
>
>
>
> Now, **wherever a place is occupied by powerful deities, they bend the minds of the most powerful kings and ministers to build dwelling-places there**, and deities of middling and inferior power bend in a similar way the minds of middling or inferior kings and ministers.
>
>
>
> The Blessed One, with his divine eye, surpassing the vision of ordinary men, saw those deities occupying Pāṭaligāma. He rose early in the morning, saying to Ānanda: “Who is it then, Ānanda, who is building a fortress at Pāṭaligāma?”
>
>
> “Sunidha and Vassakāra, Venerable sir, **the chief ministers of Māgadha, are building a fortress there to keep back the Vajjians**.”
>
>
> “They act, Ānanda, as if they had consulted with the gods of Tāvatiṃsa.
>
>
> [Telling him what he had seen, and of the influence the deities, he added]:
>
>
> “Among the famous residences of the Noble Ones, and as far as trade extends, this will become the chief city of Pāṭaliputta, a centre for trade. However, three dangers will affect Pāṭaliputta: fire, flood, and internal dissension.”
>
>
> [(source: page 25)](http://www.aimwell.org/An%20Exposition%20of%20the%20Mahaparinibbana%20Sutta.pdf)
>
>
>
So there you go, Vastu-shastra was a common concept in Buddhism. At the very least, the profession and purpose of architecture (vastu) was known to the Buddhist authors. |
28,382 | [Vastu shastra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastu_shastra) (*vāstu śāstra*) is "a traditional Hindu system of architecture".
Did Lord Buddha debunk vasthu shastra? If not, what are some teachings made by Lord Buddha on the same? If Buddhism does not have an opinion on the topic, opinions of members are appreciated | 2018/07/26 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/28382",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/3597/"
] | The Indian Vasthu Shastra and the Chinese Feng Shui are known as geomancy in English.
In DN 2, this is known as "[vatthuvijjā](https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/vatthuvijja#pali)" in Pali, which in Sanskrit is presumably, "vasthuvidya" or, knowledge or science of vasthu (the science of building sites).
The Buddha forbade monks from practising geomancy in [DN 2](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.02.0.than.html) (translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu), calling it an "animal art" or "debased art":
>
> "Whereas some contemplatives & brahmans, living off food given in
> faith, maintain themselves by wrong livelihood, by such **"animal"
> arts** as: reading marks on the limbs [e.g., palmistry]; reading omens
> and signs; interpreting celestial events [falling stars, comets];
> interpreting dreams; reading features of the body [e.g., phrenology];
> reading marks on cloth gnawed by mice; offering fire oblations,
> oblations from a ladle, oblations of husks, rice powder, rice grains,
> ghee, and oil; offering oblations from the mouth; offering
> blood-sacrifices; making predictions based on the fingertips;
> **geomancy**; making predictions for state officials; laying demons in a cemetery; placing spells on spirits; earth-skills [divining water
> and gems?]; snake-skills, poison-skills, scorpion-skills, rat-skills,
> bird-skills, crow-skills; predicting life spans; giving protective
> charms; casting horoscopes — **he abstains from wrong livelihood, from
> "animal" arts such as these**.
>
>
>
[Another translation](https://suttacentral.net/dn2/en/bodhi) of DN 2 by Bhikkhu Bodhi:
>
> “Whereas some recluses and brahmins, while living on the food offered
> by the faithful, earn their living by a wrong means of livelihood, by
> such **debased arts** as:
>
>
> * prophesying long life, prosperity etc., or the reverse, from the marks on a person’s limbs, hands, feet, etc.;
> * divining by means of omens and signs;
> * making auguries on the basis of thunderbolts and celestial portents;
> * interpreting ominous dreams;
> * telling fortunes from marks on the body;
> * making auguries from the marks on cloth gnawed by mice;
> * offering fire oblations;
> * offering oblations from a ladle;
> * offering oblations of husks, rice powder, rice grains, ghee and oil to the gods;
> * offering oblations from the mouth;
> * offering blood-sacrifices to the gods;
> * making predictions based on the fingertips;
> * **determining whether the site for a proposed house or garden is propitious or not;**
> * making predictions for officers of state;
> * laying demons in a cemetery;
> * laying ghosts;
> * knowledge of charms to be pronounced by one living in an earthen house;
> * snake charming;
> * the poison craft, scorpion craft, rat craft, bird craft, crow craft;
> * foretelling the number of years that a man has to live;
> * reciting charms to give protection from arrows;
> * reciting charms to understand the language of animals
>
>
> **he abstains from such wrong means of livelihood, from such debased
> arts. This too pertains to his moral discipline.**
>
>
> | Vatthu-vijja is the pali equivalent of Vastu-vidya (or shastra) and, as mentioned above, refers to “architecture” as both science and a means of livelihood. It is well-known that in ancient India numerous ‘guilds’ of various crafts and arts exists. They travelled around the country, and possibly the world, in order to distribute and provide their skills and services. One type of such guilds was the builders guild, specialised in temple architecture and city planning.
In the context of Buddhism, Vatthu-vijja occurs in a couple of Suttas. Note: these sources all apply to Theravada Buddhism.
First, in the Brahma-Jāla Sutta (chapter 1) *vatthuvijja* is mentioned in a lengthy list of ‘wrong means of livelihood’ applicable to Brahmans that are ‘living on food provided by the faithful’:
>
> ...
>
> (16) Looking at the knuckles, &c., and, after muttering a charm,
> divining whether a man is well born or lucky or not.
>
> **(17) Determining whether the site, for a proposed house or pleasance, is lucky or not**.
>
> (18) Advising on customary law.
>
> ...
>
> [(source)](https://www.wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book/the-brahmaj%C4%81la-sutta/d/doc52024.html#note-t-32275)
>
>
>
In his notes, the translator T. W. Rhys Davids says:
>
> Vatthu-vijjā [...] The craft is further explained by Buddhaghosa in his comment on the **Mahā-parinibbāna Sutta I, 26**. Its success depended on the belief that the sites were haunted by spirits.
>
> [(source)](https://www.wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book/the-brahmaj%C4%81la-sutta/d/doc52024.html#note-e-32275)
>
>
>
Upon looking at Buddhaghosa’s commentary on the above-mentioned chapter of the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, we find the following:
>
> At that time Sunidha and Vassakāra, the chief ministers of Māgadha, **were building a fortress at Pāṭaligāma to repel the Vajjians**, and there were many deities who inhabited the area.
>
>
>
> Now, **wherever a place is occupied by powerful deities, they bend the minds of the most powerful kings and ministers to build dwelling-places there**, and deities of middling and inferior power bend in a similar way the minds of middling or inferior kings and ministers.
>
>
>
> The Blessed One, with his divine eye, surpassing the vision of ordinary men, saw those deities occupying Pāṭaligāma. He rose early in the morning, saying to Ānanda: “Who is it then, Ānanda, who is building a fortress at Pāṭaligāma?”
>
>
> “Sunidha and Vassakāra, Venerable sir, **the chief ministers of Māgadha, are building a fortress there to keep back the Vajjians**.”
>
>
> “They act, Ānanda, as if they had consulted with the gods of Tāvatiṃsa.
>
>
> [Telling him what he had seen, and of the influence the deities, he added]:
>
>
> “Among the famous residences of the Noble Ones, and as far as trade extends, this will become the chief city of Pāṭaliputta, a centre for trade. However, three dangers will affect Pāṭaliputta: fire, flood, and internal dissension.”
>
>
> [(source: page 25)](http://www.aimwell.org/An%20Exposition%20of%20the%20Mahaparinibbana%20Sutta.pdf)
>
>
>
So there you go, Vastu-shastra was a common concept in Buddhism. At the very least, the profession and purpose of architecture (vastu) was known to the Buddhist authors. |
346,455 | I have to open an .asp file to print it. I have tried renaming it to .pdf but that didn't work. Is there a work about on Ubuntu 13.04 for opening these files? | 2013/09/16 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/346455",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/42094/"
] | It looks like `.asp` is a special type of webpage. You should be able to open it through a web browser to view it and be able to print from there.
[reference](http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/asp "fileinfo.com") | .asp is a plain text file, you can open it in gedit without any problem. |
187,330 | I am constructing a signal generator using a kit. Upon soldering it together, I have encountered a problem. The board is marked with two potentiometer slots, identical except for the values named on the board: 50K for the amplitude control and 1K for the offset control. I have two potentiometers, nearly identical. One of them is completely unmarked. The other has B503 etched on the back. How can I tell which one is 50K and which is 1K?
Thanks. | 2015/08/25 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/187330",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/84047/"
] | It won't work as you wish - the ground in the circuit must be connected to the most negative supply rail i.e. the -5V rail. You might be able to couple your audio to the circuit thru a capacitor but it could be quite noisy. This could be overcome with an audio coupling transformer but, maybe just try running it from a single 5V rail (yes it will work at 5V or even 4V for some versions) then consider using a boost regulator to give you a clean (after extra filtering) 10V or 12V. | I've seen this amp operating with positive and negative rail supply
I've seen this amp operating with positive and negative rail supply
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zRamh9HMQc>
which should be no surprise really. Then you don't need the output capacitor. |
7,357,548 | I have an application developed using the 2.0 framework, then I need to migrate it into 3.5 framework? is there any fastest way and best approach to do this? | 2011/09/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7357548",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/335160/"
] | There is no migration. .NET 3.5 is .NET 2.0 SP2 plus some new assemblies. | Open your project in Visual Studio (keep a backup) then goto project properties and set the target .net framework to 3.5.
save your settings and then compile the project, if you find any errors resolve them and you are good to go. |
7,357,548 | I have an application developed using the 2.0 framework, then I need to migrate it into 3.5 framework? is there any fastest way and best approach to do this? | 2011/09/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7357548",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/335160/"
] | There is no migration. .NET 3.5 is .NET 2.0 SP2 plus some new assemblies. | I think you have to use the VS IDE to change the .NET edtion,if you change the .net edition,it may cause some bug,so,after you changed it,you'd better rebuild the solution at first. |
155,432 | I am looking to use a piece of wood to lay under my sofa cushions because it sinks to much when you sit on it. I can't afford a new sofa so I was told I could use a piece of wood under the cushions. I need it to support a person 300 lbs- 400 lbs. They are disabled and do a lot of sitting. | 2019/01/21 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/155432",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/95956/"
] | I would keep the WD40 as far away from food and food preparation equipment as possible. The [MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet)](https://www.wd40.com/files/pdf/msds-wd453764182.pdf) for WD-40 as published by the manufacturer states:
**Emergency Overview:**
DANGER! Harmful or fatal if swallowed. May cause eye irritation. Avoid eye contact. Use with adequate
ventilation. | I use barbeque cleaner and it works wonders especially if you let it soak for few hours.
After you clean off the barbeque cleaner, wash the hobs of with soapy water.
Just make sure you rinse it out very well before you turn the hobs on again. |
155,432 | I am looking to use a piece of wood to lay under my sofa cushions because it sinks to much when you sit on it. I can't afford a new sofa so I was told I could use a piece of wood under the cushions. I need it to support a person 300 lbs- 400 lbs. They are disabled and do a lot of sitting. | 2019/01/21 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/155432",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/95956/"
] | I would keep the WD40 as far away from food and food preparation equipment as possible. The [MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet)](https://www.wd40.com/files/pdf/msds-wd453764182.pdf) for WD-40 as published by the manufacturer states:
**Emergency Overview:**
DANGER! Harmful or fatal if swallowed. May cause eye irritation. Avoid eye contact. Use with adequate
ventilation. | WD40 is a good product but it's nothing special for removing rust. There are similar lubricants sold that are labelled "food safe" for use in commercial kitchens. (You're going to wind up washing off whatever you use, and I doubt traces of WD40 would be dangerous at all, but why even take a chance.)
A lot of food safe lubricants you'll find are silicone-based, I'd avoid those for this purpose.
Plain mineral oil is sold in pharmacies, and it's one of the main ingredients in WD40 and many other lubricants. In addition to the medicinal uses, it's used on cutting boards and that kind of thing, it would certainly be safe. It should work fine to loosen rust.
For that matter, any vegetable oil will soften the rust the same way, although it might not be as good as mineral oil. Canola oil was used as an industrial oil before it was used as a food oil.
If there's oil - whether it's WD40 or mineral oil or vegetable oil - on a heating element, it will burn off when the temperature exceeds the flash point of that oil. You'll want to remove as much as possible simply by washing with soap, dish soap should be fine, then drying immediately. |
155,432 | I am looking to use a piece of wood to lay under my sofa cushions because it sinks to much when you sit on it. I can't afford a new sofa so I was told I could use a piece of wood under the cushions. I need it to support a person 300 lbs- 400 lbs. They are disabled and do a lot of sitting. | 2019/01/21 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/155432",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/95956/"
] | WD40 is a good product but it's nothing special for removing rust. There are similar lubricants sold that are labelled "food safe" for use in commercial kitchens. (You're going to wind up washing off whatever you use, and I doubt traces of WD40 would be dangerous at all, but why even take a chance.)
A lot of food safe lubricants you'll find are silicone-based, I'd avoid those for this purpose.
Plain mineral oil is sold in pharmacies, and it's one of the main ingredients in WD40 and many other lubricants. In addition to the medicinal uses, it's used on cutting boards and that kind of thing, it would certainly be safe. It should work fine to loosen rust.
For that matter, any vegetable oil will soften the rust the same way, although it might not be as good as mineral oil. Canola oil was used as an industrial oil before it was used as a food oil.
If there's oil - whether it's WD40 or mineral oil or vegetable oil - on a heating element, it will burn off when the temperature exceeds the flash point of that oil. You'll want to remove as much as possible simply by washing with soap, dish soap should be fine, then drying immediately. | I use barbeque cleaner and it works wonders especially if you let it soak for few hours.
After you clean off the barbeque cleaner, wash the hobs of with soapy water.
Just make sure you rinse it out very well before you turn the hobs on again. |
2,573 | I'm not per say a GIS guru, I'm more of a user of the technology. On a recent project we were asked to analyze, provide, and submit all our analysis using a [Double Stereo projection](http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Double_Stereographic). What are the main advantages of using it vs. UTM, or any other projection. | 2010/10/14 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/2573",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/127/"
] | As far as I can tell, "Double Stereographic" is identical to stereographic. Stereographic projections are favored for work around the poles because the meridians radiate in straight lines around the projected pole. The projection is conformal, implying the meridians also have the correct relative directions, too.
In the stereographic projection, all geodesics on the sphere are projected either to portions of lines or portions of circles in the plane. (This is because the formula for the projection is particularly simple.) A rotation of the sphere can be computed as a *fractional linear transformation* of the plane, which is the fundamental operation of inversive geometry. Thus, certain natural operations on the sphere are easily and directly computed and visualized in a stereographic projection.
In mathematics the stereographic projection is a fundamental tool: it creates a conformal one-to-one correspondence between the sphere and the plane with a "point at infinity". This unifies many aspects of complex analysis and algebraic geometry. | Double Stereographic vs Stereographic.
Mathematically a stereographic projection is directly projecting the sphere to the plane. A double projection is projecting to another mathematical spheroid first (Guassian Spheroid). Both projection centers are located on opposite the tangent point of the plane (ie on the other side of the planet).
Why use either of these methods? The Canadian Province of New Brunswick uses a unique projection (NB Double Stereographic) because of the unique shape of NB (almost a square) this projection allows for minimal distortion around a circle with a scale factor of 1. Basically it is used in this case because NB straddles multiple UTM zones and it is convenient to use NB Double given the shape and population distribution in the province. It wouldn't be an ideal projection for a long skinny jurisdiction, as for say in Chile or Japan etc. |
122,523 | I'm about a year and a half out of college, and in that year I've worked for and left an insurance company through which I got my Series 63 and my Life, Health, and Annuities license. Like most life insurance companies, this company paid me only commission, and so I had to leave it for a teaching position because of that uncertainty in my pay.
I do not want to teach at all, but every time I apply for unlicensed banking positions (financial advisor training programs, private banking positions, financial advisor assistant positions, etc) I get rejected almost always within a day of submitting my application.
I want to know what the issue could be. Is it a resume or cover letter issue? Should I apply to licensed positions, even though I don't have a Series 7, or should I explore other options in finance?
For more background, aside from the licenses I have B.Sc.'s in math and physics, and have some experience in tax preparation. I would appreciate any advice that this board can offer. | 2018/11/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122523",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/72856/"
] | You don't write where you are. I am sure the situation is different in many countries.
But in my experience there must be something seriously wrong with you or with the way you present yourself, or maybe with records about you.
In many countries almost anybody can get a job as a financial advisors - just with commissions.
I would ask someone, maybe a person who is working for years in a managements position, to have a look at your documents. Do you write in color? Lots of spelling mistakes? Is your resume different than standard (to the standard where you live)?
Do you have any bad entries for not paying the bank, a police record, etc.? | There's several factors at play I can see here.
You have one financial-related position, and it's at best tangentially related to more general finance jobs and it's hard to see that offering much in your favor. You were there less than 18 months, had to leave because (forgive me if this sounds harsh, I'm just trying to look at it as a hiring manager might) you couldn't succeed at it. Shifted to a non-finance job which you are now trying to leave to shift career *again*.
None of these are out and out deal-breakers, after all commission-only jobs are easy to get but often difficult to succeed in and it's not that unusual for people just starting out in their career to take some time to "settle" but they do have negative connotations and since your (limited) experience isn't hugely relevant to general finance jobs it's a tough sell to compare you positively with someone who is, say, just graduating.
So what can you do to make yourself a more appealing prospect?
Well, I would look to bolster your resume in the ways that you can, I'm not sure what college degree you have but perhaps some sort of relevant financial course, or look into taking your Series 7 yourself. This will not only improve your employability purely from a qualification and skills perspective but also will show a degree of commitment to the financial services arena that will help dispel the "can't make up their mind" impression. |
9,791 | What are reasons for someone to do Pilates as his or her main fitness activity (like how other people do strength training, yoga, or running)? What does doing Pilates entail? | 2012/11/21 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/9791",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/2094/"
] | The overall number 1 reason to choose ANY activity for fitness:
***You Enjoy It***
Nothing is more important than finding an activity that you discover you like doing and are eager to come back to each week. You won't make a permanent positive change in your life otherwise.
Now, reasons you might choose to try out Pilates and see if it's that kind of activity for you:
1. Good posture has positive side effects in many other areas of your life. It affects people's impression when they see or meet you. It prevents discomfort and chronic injury from office work. There are plenty of full length books on the benefits of good posture.
2. Learning to habituate biomechanically correct movement improves your performance in every other athletic endeavour. Dedicated pilates study will make flawless form in a movement like the barbell squat feel like a totally normal natural thing you do. Watch some video of an elite strength athlete like Mariusz Pudzianowski competing, notice the absolute perfection of movements even while doing totally absurd things. Learn to move properly as a matter of habit, rather than something you focus on for certain specific exercises then go back to having turned in hips and rolled in shoulders the rest of the day.
3. The right selection of equipment can provide strength training in muscles that are so weak it's almost impossible to work them without having other muscles take over and compensate. If you're coming from being sedentary, you definitely have some muscle groups that are like this.
4. Likewise the right selection of equipment can provide plenty of resistance for strength training push and pull compound body movements in all planes. If your goal is primarily putting on muscle mass, would using a barbell be faster? Of course, but it's not the one and only option for getting stronger. A Pilates program will combine strength training with balance, posture, mobility, flexibility etc. (As opposed to a program where you might say "I move a barbell for strength then do these other accessory exercises to keep those other things in line.")
5. You can participate in progressive classes where you learn new things about moving and about your body as time goes on. Variety is important for some people, learning more, new, harder ways to say, do a lower body push movement, may (or may not) be more rewarding for you than the powerlifting approach of pursuing ever-greater weights in the same set of core movements.
6. It is difficult to explain and I don't have references to research, but you're just plain happier and more functional when your hips aren't tight and your sacrum is properly aligned. There are lots of theories on the effect such as clearing up "neuromotor static noise" that have various levels of research around them. I can just tell you anecdotally it has been true for me.
**Footnote 1:** As you indicated, I am referring to Pilates practice as the primary, not only exercise. I do personally also do the major compound body movements with dumbbell/barbell for additional strength work, but time-wise I put much more into Pilates than moving iron. It simply shifts the emphasis off of adding muscle and onto those other things. I am not saying that *only* Pilates does those things and barbell training does not, it's just, how do you want to balance where you put your effort among all these competing concerns? Do you want to get stronger and have your posture gradually improve as a side effect, or fix your posture and get gradually stronger as a side effect? I find more time on these aspects and less on straight strength works for me.
**Footnote 2:** I am of course referring to studying the Pilates method in an equipped studio with a good instructor. Not flopping around on the floor of the living in front of a DVD "toning your tummy" with 2-lb. neoprene dumbbells :) | The overall number 1 reason to choose ANY activity for fitness:
***It causes the desired adaptation in your body***
Nothing is more important than finding an activity that causes the adaptations that move you toward your goals. You won't make a permanent positive change in your life otherwise.
There is no good reason a person to choose pilates as their *main fitness activity* (assuming the goal is fitness, rather than pleasure, or for a feeling of doing something useful).
It perhaps would be useful or pleasing as a supplementary activity, but *for a main activity*, strength training, cardiovascular conditioning, or a sport that works these attributes work would always be better alternatives to pilates. |
56,455 | I want to assemble several cameras, triggered by a single remote. Is this possible?
The trigger doesn't have to be wireless, because the cameras will be very near to each other. The cameras need to be very cheap, because I'll be needing 50 of them. | 2014/11/05 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/56455",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/22343/"
] | This is the product recommended by Chris Breeze and Eric Pare at Xangle amongst others - the Esper Triggerbox <https://www.esperhq.com/product/triggerbox/>
The ESPER TriggerBox is the world’s leading programmable multi-camera shutter release controller. Up to 6 cameras can be connected to each TriggerBox and it allows multiple camera to be fired simultaneously or with programmed sequences and offsets + multiple TriggerBoxes can be linked together to synchronise larger multiple camera setups and they neatly stack together, a bit like LEGO bricks! [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YFFtf.jpg) | It can be done with GoPro cameras, and the [GoPro wifi remote](http://shop.gopro.com/accessories/smart-remote/ARMTE-002.html). You can pair one remote to multiple cameras, apparently you can control up to 50 cameras at once. See [Controlling Multiple Cameras with One Wi-Fi Remote](http://gopro.com/support/articles/controlling-individual-cameras-with-the-wi-fi-remote-when-multiple-cameras-are-paired)
Though it wouldn't be cheap, if you need to buy 50 of them. The cheapest current model would be the Hero3 White edition, which has wifi built in. Or you could use an older HD Hero or HD Hero 2 with the wifi bacpac, but these are now discontinued and getting harder to find.
This video is a nice example of using 52 GoPro cameras for a "bullet time" effect. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKtAuflyc5w> |
56,455 | I want to assemble several cameras, triggered by a single remote. Is this possible?
The trigger doesn't have to be wireless, because the cameras will be very near to each other. The cameras need to be very cheap, because I'll be needing 50 of them. | 2014/11/05 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/56455",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/22343/"
] | If cost is a central concern, then you might want to investigate a DIY route. Using a platform such as [Arduino](http://www.adafruit.com/category/17), you can [purchase basic cameras](http://www.adafruit.com/search?q=camera&b=1), and using the Arduino board, trigger them together in a variety of ways...really only your imagination is your limit here. As most of these cameras are very small, it should be easy to pack them together.
I have linked to Adafruit for these items, but there are hundreds of vendors for Arduino or Raspberry Pi products. | It can be done with GoPro cameras, and the [GoPro wifi remote](http://shop.gopro.com/accessories/smart-remote/ARMTE-002.html). You can pair one remote to multiple cameras, apparently you can control up to 50 cameras at once. See [Controlling Multiple Cameras with One Wi-Fi Remote](http://gopro.com/support/articles/controlling-individual-cameras-with-the-wi-fi-remote-when-multiple-cameras-are-paired)
Though it wouldn't be cheap, if you need to buy 50 of them. The cheapest current model would be the Hero3 White edition, which has wifi built in. Or you could use an older HD Hero or HD Hero 2 with the wifi bacpac, but these are now discontinued and getting harder to find.
This video is a nice example of using 52 GoPro cameras for a "bullet time" effect. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKtAuflyc5w> |
56,455 | I want to assemble several cameras, triggered by a single remote. Is this possible?
The trigger doesn't have to be wireless, because the cameras will be very near to each other. The cameras need to be very cheap, because I'll be needing 50 of them. | 2014/11/05 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/56455",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/22343/"
] | If cost is a central concern, then you might want to investigate a DIY route. Using a platform such as [Arduino](http://www.adafruit.com/category/17), you can [purchase basic cameras](http://www.adafruit.com/search?q=camera&b=1), and using the Arduino board, trigger them together in a variety of ways...really only your imagination is your limit here. As most of these cameras are very small, it should be easy to pack them together.
I have linked to Adafruit for these items, but there are hundreds of vendors for Arduino or Raspberry Pi products. | Breeze Systems makes [software for controlling multiple cameras](http://breezesys.com/MultiCamera/psr_index.htm) at once. It's worth looking at their site if only for inspiration.
Keep in mind that cheap cameras may not have a remote shutter release option; if this is for a one-time event, you might be better off renting a set of more capable cameras. |
56,455 | I want to assemble several cameras, triggered by a single remote. Is this possible?
The trigger doesn't have to be wireless, because the cameras will be very near to each other. The cameras need to be very cheap, because I'll be needing 50 of them. | 2014/11/05 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/56455",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/22343/"
] | If cost is a central concern, then you might want to investigate a DIY route. Using a platform such as [Arduino](http://www.adafruit.com/category/17), you can [purchase basic cameras](http://www.adafruit.com/search?q=camera&b=1), and using the Arduino board, trigger them together in a variety of ways...really only your imagination is your limit here. As most of these cameras are very small, it should be easy to pack them together.
I have linked to Adafruit for these items, but there are hundreds of vendors for Arduino or Raspberry Pi products. | This is the product recommended by Chris Breeze and Eric Pare at Xangle amongst others - the Esper Triggerbox <https://www.esperhq.com/product/triggerbox/>
The ESPER TriggerBox is the world’s leading programmable multi-camera shutter release controller. Up to 6 cameras can be connected to each TriggerBox and it allows multiple camera to be fired simultaneously or with programmed sequences and offsets + multiple TriggerBoxes can be linked together to synchronise larger multiple camera setups and they neatly stack together, a bit like LEGO bricks! [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YFFtf.jpg) |
56,455 | I want to assemble several cameras, triggered by a single remote. Is this possible?
The trigger doesn't have to be wireless, because the cameras will be very near to each other. The cameras need to be very cheap, because I'll be needing 50 of them. | 2014/11/05 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/56455",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/22343/"
] | This is the product recommended by Chris Breeze and Eric Pare at Xangle amongst others - the Esper Triggerbox <https://www.esperhq.com/product/triggerbox/>
The ESPER TriggerBox is the world’s leading programmable multi-camera shutter release controller. Up to 6 cameras can be connected to each TriggerBox and it allows multiple camera to be fired simultaneously or with programmed sequences and offsets + multiple TriggerBoxes can be linked together to synchronise larger multiple camera setups and they neatly stack together, a bit like LEGO bricks! [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YFFtf.jpg) | Breeze Systems makes [software for controlling multiple cameras](http://breezesys.com/MultiCamera/psr_index.htm) at once. It's worth looking at their site if only for inspiration.
Keep in mind that cheap cameras may not have a remote shutter release option; if this is for a one-time event, you might be better off renting a set of more capable cameras. |
56,455 | I want to assemble several cameras, triggered by a single remote. Is this possible?
The trigger doesn't have to be wireless, because the cameras will be very near to each other. The cameras need to be very cheap, because I'll be needing 50 of them. | 2014/11/05 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/56455",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/22343/"
] | If cost is a central concern, then you might want to investigate a DIY route. Using a platform such as [Arduino](http://www.adafruit.com/category/17), you can [purchase basic cameras](http://www.adafruit.com/search?q=camera&b=1), and using the Arduino board, trigger them together in a variety of ways...really only your imagination is your limit here. As most of these cameras are very small, it should be easy to pack them together.
I have linked to Adafruit for these items, but there are hundreds of vendors for Arduino or Raspberry Pi products. | If you want to go the low cost route Mike's Cool Stuff shows a design for doing this. It is fairly complex and requires detailed elecronics knowledge to create. He avoids using costly modules such as wifi, uses low cost camera modules and tackles subtle issues such as power drain, sequence triggers etc. <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvyslu65V3s> |
5,740 | I have a rather large balcony and love onions. Is it possible to grow bulb onions in a container? What would the minimum dimensions of a container have to be to grow them? Could they be co-planted with something else to maximize space? | 2013/02/02 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/5740",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/1433/"
] | Yes you can grow onions in containers. You can usually buy onion sets from local stores which will produce a good size onion much faster than starting from seed. Garlic works as well. We are currently growing it in 2 inch diameter pots from a clove bought from the store.
With containers, bigger is better subject to some limitations.
* wet soil is heavy. Check the load limits for your balcony if you are above ground level
* soil much deeper than twelve to eighteen inches will not be used except by trees or shrubs.
* make sure you have adequate access to water. Even large containers dry out and in hot summer conditions regular watering is essential.
* in regards to recommended size that is dependent on a number of factors. At least twelve inches deep and eight to twelve inches wide but bigger is better.
* you should be able to intercrop with lettuce and radishes as these grow fast and should be harvested before the onions get too big.
I hope some of the other vegetable gardeners will add their ideas on what else you can grow. | I've been container gardening for a number of years, as I'm limited in the available space I have at my town center terraced house. The containers are all at the back of my south-facing house. I also have a small plastic green house. In the containers I grow onion sets, spring onions, lettuce, beetroot, asparagus, potatoes, strawberries, a gooseberry bush, an apple tree, a cherry tree, two pear trees. In the green house I have two fig trees and two goji berries.
Results are slower than in the open ground, but it provides me with an adequate supply for a period of the year. Though crops are not as heavy with the restriction of space, so you can possibly grow any vegetable you may wish and the same is with fruit.
Best of luck, and happy gardening |
5,740 | I have a rather large balcony and love onions. Is it possible to grow bulb onions in a container? What would the minimum dimensions of a container have to be to grow them? Could they be co-planted with something else to maximize space? | 2013/02/02 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/5740",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/1433/"
] | Yes you can grow onions in containers. You can usually buy onion sets from local stores which will produce a good size onion much faster than starting from seed. Garlic works as well. We are currently growing it in 2 inch diameter pots from a clove bought from the store.
With containers, bigger is better subject to some limitations.
* wet soil is heavy. Check the load limits for your balcony if you are above ground level
* soil much deeper than twelve to eighteen inches will not be used except by trees or shrubs.
* make sure you have adequate access to water. Even large containers dry out and in hot summer conditions regular watering is essential.
* in regards to recommended size that is dependent on a number of factors. At least twelve inches deep and eight to twelve inches wide but bigger is better.
* you should be able to intercrop with lettuce and radishes as these grow fast and should be harvested before the onions get too big.
I hope some of the other vegetable gardeners will add their ideas on what else you can grow. | I've grown onions in containers for several summers. They do grow quite well, but I have noticed that they don't grow near as large as they do if grown in the ground. The pots I've used are about 15" in diameter, and I've grown about 4 -5 onions in them, depending on how large you want the onions to get. It's nice too, because you can use the onion tops for salads and such! I've also grown them around a pepper plant (with the pepper plant in the middle) and it doesn't seem to affect the growth of either, so it's a win/win situation! |
66,436,356 | I would like to export all the data from a database to a new one with SQL Server Manager studio.
I used import and export assistant (taks -> export data) but after the import when I try to save new data
I have insertion error due to identity column error when I try to insert data:
>
> com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: Unable to insert null value in column 'id'
>
>
>
Although I specified to keep identity insert before the export.
I would like to export data in a new database with all the Identities column constraints. | 2021/03/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66436356",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7666069/"
] | If you want to move all data completely from a database. Task->Export is one Option(since the issue which you face is not clear) you can try other option to take backup(.bak file) and restore it to the new database.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BxmSR.png) | Thank you for your help, the problem wasn't clear.
I actually needed to export an azure database to a SQL server database.
I used another export process : microsoft.github.io/AzureTipsAndTricks/blog/tip140.html and now the exported local database is working |
33,551 | I'm about to enter a role as project manager. I have attended a lot of projects with quite a span of aspects, constraints, contents, parties and whatever and also had some technical leadership tasks but this time it would be the very first time to receive the label "project manager".
While I'm thinking about it (I have some weeks/months left, it'll be mainly about software and electronics) I oscillate between "this is incredibly difficult, I wasn't aware of that.." and "this is so trivial, what's the deal?".
Actually, the project constraints (time, budget..) have to be met by everyone, so what is the real task despite of having a kickoff meeting, distributing tasks and occasional meetings about the status?
What I especially wonder about are the followings:
* How do I "make" others do their work? I mean it's ultimately their job but when someone is slow, maybe due to reasons like it's more difficult than expected or whatever, what could a project manager do then?
* Projects always have some kind of uncertainty and in my opinion it is nearly impossible to check all possible risks and minimize them. I'm especially thinking about some projects in the past which involved chemical experiments (which were quite a hazzle and turned from 2-3 months to 12-18 months..) and also mechanical engineering where single pieces also took way longer due to occupied machines, limitd materials and so on. You can hardly make an external workshop work faster when it's simply not possible and replacing one with another will quite a while to discuss and set up everything so there would hardly be any acceleration.
Wanna' share some minds and/or experiences? | 2021/12/27 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/33551",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/42335/"
] | No project has a 100% chance of success. So there's that.
For R&D, the project itself is not the product. It is research and development. It's a service-oriented project. Therefore, you would be reimbursed for the service, not what is produced or not produced. The output for a service-oriented project is a change in state. For R&D, that state is knowledge. At the end of an R&D project, the customer is smarter than before the project on whatever the customer was researching.
Therefore, you would create the type of reimbursement to be consistent with a service, which is typically cost plus fee on a time basis, i.e., T&M. | Good answers; I thought I might provide a different view.
I'd write my project as to test one (or more) hypothesis.
>
> At the end of this project, we will verify or refute the hypothesis that it is possible to X (e.g. spawn a root shell using CVE-YY-xxxx).
>
>
>
I guess at a basic level, I'm challenging the validity of "then the client will have lost money with a non-working product. " - validating or refuting a hypothesis should both have value. |
33,551 | I'm about to enter a role as project manager. I have attended a lot of projects with quite a span of aspects, constraints, contents, parties and whatever and also had some technical leadership tasks but this time it would be the very first time to receive the label "project manager".
While I'm thinking about it (I have some weeks/months left, it'll be mainly about software and electronics) I oscillate between "this is incredibly difficult, I wasn't aware of that.." and "this is so trivial, what's the deal?".
Actually, the project constraints (time, budget..) have to be met by everyone, so what is the real task despite of having a kickoff meeting, distributing tasks and occasional meetings about the status?
What I especially wonder about are the followings:
* How do I "make" others do their work? I mean it's ultimately their job but when someone is slow, maybe due to reasons like it's more difficult than expected or whatever, what could a project manager do then?
* Projects always have some kind of uncertainty and in my opinion it is nearly impossible to check all possible risks and minimize them. I'm especially thinking about some projects in the past which involved chemical experiments (which were quite a hazzle and turned from 2-3 months to 12-18 months..) and also mechanical engineering where single pieces also took way longer due to occupied machines, limitd materials and so on. You can hardly make an external workshop work faster when it's simply not possible and replacing one with another will quite a while to discuss and set up everything so there would hardly be any acceleration.
Wanna' share some minds and/or experiences? | 2021/12/27 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/33551",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/42335/"
] | No project has a 100% chance of success. So there's that.
For R&D, the project itself is not the product. It is research and development. It's a service-oriented project. Therefore, you would be reimbursed for the service, not what is produced or not produced. The output for a service-oriented project is a change in state. For R&D, that state is knowledge. At the end of an R&D project, the customer is smarter than before the project on whatever the customer was researching.
Therefore, you would create the type of reimbursement to be consistent with a service, which is typically cost plus fee on a time basis, i.e., T&M. | Can you divide the project into phases and tasks?
Can you provide a report, a review, prototype software and its code or some other deliverables of value for the customer?
You may be able to mitigate the risks by doing that.
Are you supposed to be an expert with the domain knowledge? Or you are expected to carry out research on behalf of the customer? Then they can pay for your time, but also will want to have the ownership intellectual property and created associated with it.
You should also manage the customer's expectation and try to negotiate the best outcome for both parties. |
33,551 | I'm about to enter a role as project manager. I have attended a lot of projects with quite a span of aspects, constraints, contents, parties and whatever and also had some technical leadership tasks but this time it would be the very first time to receive the label "project manager".
While I'm thinking about it (I have some weeks/months left, it'll be mainly about software and electronics) I oscillate between "this is incredibly difficult, I wasn't aware of that.." and "this is so trivial, what's the deal?".
Actually, the project constraints (time, budget..) have to be met by everyone, so what is the real task despite of having a kickoff meeting, distributing tasks and occasional meetings about the status?
What I especially wonder about are the followings:
* How do I "make" others do their work? I mean it's ultimately their job but when someone is slow, maybe due to reasons like it's more difficult than expected or whatever, what could a project manager do then?
* Projects always have some kind of uncertainty and in my opinion it is nearly impossible to check all possible risks and minimize them. I'm especially thinking about some projects in the past which involved chemical experiments (which were quite a hazzle and turned from 2-3 months to 12-18 months..) and also mechanical engineering where single pieces also took way longer due to occupied machines, limitd materials and so on. You can hardly make an external workshop work faster when it's simply not possible and replacing one with another will quite a while to discuss and set up everything so there would hardly be any acceleration.
Wanna' share some minds and/or experiences? | 2021/12/27 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/33551",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/42335/"
] | In addition to the good answers already given (T&M is the way to go) you should also put emphasis on customer expectation management. From the beginning, make it clear that you promise knowledge gain, not a finished product.
If the problem is one where it is known that solutions exist (for example because the big players in the field have them) and you just don't know how they do it, it's much more difficult. Your customer may expect you to build something they know can be built, but you may not be able to do that (as it requires R&D on your part, and you can't be sure that the R&D will lead to you being able to build the desired product). Your customer needs to be aware of those constraints before starting the project, as they may decide to look elsewhere, for example buying finished software, or contracting with someone else who already has experience in building such applications. Although that would mean you lose the contract, it might be better to be honest and spare the customer a disppointment. | I would expect any research project to be done on a daily or hourly rate. It's implicitly the nature of R&D that the work is what matters and the outcome is uncertain, so the work is what you should be paid for. A Kanban-style, continuous delivery approach makes sense for R&D: prioritise the items of value, inspect and adapt as you go. |
33,551 | I'm about to enter a role as project manager. I have attended a lot of projects with quite a span of aspects, constraints, contents, parties and whatever and also had some technical leadership tasks but this time it would be the very first time to receive the label "project manager".
While I'm thinking about it (I have some weeks/months left, it'll be mainly about software and electronics) I oscillate between "this is incredibly difficult, I wasn't aware of that.." and "this is so trivial, what's the deal?".
Actually, the project constraints (time, budget..) have to be met by everyone, so what is the real task despite of having a kickoff meeting, distributing tasks and occasional meetings about the status?
What I especially wonder about are the followings:
* How do I "make" others do their work? I mean it's ultimately their job but when someone is slow, maybe due to reasons like it's more difficult than expected or whatever, what could a project manager do then?
* Projects always have some kind of uncertainty and in my opinion it is nearly impossible to check all possible risks and minimize them. I'm especially thinking about some projects in the past which involved chemical experiments (which were quite a hazzle and turned from 2-3 months to 12-18 months..) and also mechanical engineering where single pieces also took way longer due to occupied machines, limitd materials and so on. You can hardly make an external workshop work faster when it's simply not possible and replacing one with another will quite a while to discuss and set up everything so there would hardly be any acceleration.
Wanna' share some minds and/or experiences? | 2021/12/27 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/33551",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/42335/"
] | Good answers; I thought I might provide a different view.
I'd write my project as to test one (or more) hypothesis.
>
> At the end of this project, we will verify or refute the hypothesis that it is possible to X (e.g. spawn a root shell using CVE-YY-xxxx).
>
>
>
I guess at a basic level, I'm challenging the validity of "then the client will have lost money with a non-working product. " - validating or refuting a hypothesis should both have value. | Can you divide the project into phases and tasks?
Can you provide a report, a review, prototype software and its code or some other deliverables of value for the customer?
You may be able to mitigate the risks by doing that.
Are you supposed to be an expert with the domain knowledge? Or you are expected to carry out research on behalf of the customer? Then they can pay for your time, but also will want to have the ownership intellectual property and created associated with it.
You should also manage the customer's expectation and try to negotiate the best outcome for both parties. |
33,551 | I'm about to enter a role as project manager. I have attended a lot of projects with quite a span of aspects, constraints, contents, parties and whatever and also had some technical leadership tasks but this time it would be the very first time to receive the label "project manager".
While I'm thinking about it (I have some weeks/months left, it'll be mainly about software and electronics) I oscillate between "this is incredibly difficult, I wasn't aware of that.." and "this is so trivial, what's the deal?".
Actually, the project constraints (time, budget..) have to be met by everyone, so what is the real task despite of having a kickoff meeting, distributing tasks and occasional meetings about the status?
What I especially wonder about are the followings:
* How do I "make" others do their work? I mean it's ultimately their job but when someone is slow, maybe due to reasons like it's more difficult than expected or whatever, what could a project manager do then?
* Projects always have some kind of uncertainty and in my opinion it is nearly impossible to check all possible risks and minimize them. I'm especially thinking about some projects in the past which involved chemical experiments (which were quite a hazzle and turned from 2-3 months to 12-18 months..) and also mechanical engineering where single pieces also took way longer due to occupied machines, limitd materials and so on. You can hardly make an external workshop work faster when it's simply not possible and replacing one with another will quite a while to discuss and set up everything so there would hardly be any acceleration.
Wanna' share some minds and/or experiences? | 2021/12/27 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/33551",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/42335/"
] | In addition to the good answers already given (T&M is the way to go) you should also put emphasis on customer expectation management. From the beginning, make it clear that you promise knowledge gain, not a finished product.
If the problem is one where it is known that solutions exist (for example because the big players in the field have them) and you just don't know how they do it, it's much more difficult. Your customer may expect you to build something they know can be built, but you may not be able to do that (as it requires R&D on your part, and you can't be sure that the R&D will lead to you being able to build the desired product). Your customer needs to be aware of those constraints before starting the project, as they may decide to look elsewhere, for example buying finished software, or contracting with someone else who already has experience in building such applications. Although that would mean you lose the contract, it might be better to be honest and spare the customer a disppointment. | Can you divide the project into phases and tasks?
Can you provide a report, a review, prototype software and its code or some other deliverables of value for the customer?
You may be able to mitigate the risks by doing that.
Are you supposed to be an expert with the domain knowledge? Or you are expected to carry out research on behalf of the customer? Then they can pay for your time, but also will want to have the ownership intellectual property and created associated with it.
You should also manage the customer's expectation and try to negotiate the best outcome for both parties. |
33,551 | I'm about to enter a role as project manager. I have attended a lot of projects with quite a span of aspects, constraints, contents, parties and whatever and also had some technical leadership tasks but this time it would be the very first time to receive the label "project manager".
While I'm thinking about it (I have some weeks/months left, it'll be mainly about software and electronics) I oscillate between "this is incredibly difficult, I wasn't aware of that.." and "this is so trivial, what's the deal?".
Actually, the project constraints (time, budget..) have to be met by everyone, so what is the real task despite of having a kickoff meeting, distributing tasks and occasional meetings about the status?
What I especially wonder about are the followings:
* How do I "make" others do their work? I mean it's ultimately their job but when someone is slow, maybe due to reasons like it's more difficult than expected or whatever, what could a project manager do then?
* Projects always have some kind of uncertainty and in my opinion it is nearly impossible to check all possible risks and minimize them. I'm especially thinking about some projects in the past which involved chemical experiments (which were quite a hazzle and turned from 2-3 months to 12-18 months..) and also mechanical engineering where single pieces also took way longer due to occupied machines, limitd materials and so on. You can hardly make an external workshop work faster when it's simply not possible and replacing one with another will quite a while to discuss and set up everything so there would hardly be any acceleration.
Wanna' share some minds and/or experiences? | 2021/12/27 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/33551",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/42335/"
] | No project has a 100% chance of success. So there's that.
For R&D, the project itself is not the product. It is research and development. It's a service-oriented project. Therefore, you would be reimbursed for the service, not what is produced or not produced. The output for a service-oriented project is a change in state. For R&D, that state is knowledge. At the end of an R&D project, the customer is smarter than before the project on whatever the customer was researching.
Therefore, you would create the type of reimbursement to be consistent with a service, which is typically cost plus fee on a time basis, i.e., T&M. | I would expect any research project to be done on a daily or hourly rate. It's implicitly the nature of R&D that the work is what matters and the outcome is uncertain, so the work is what you should be paid for. A Kanban-style, continuous delivery approach makes sense for R&D: prioritise the items of value, inspect and adapt as you go. |
33,551 | I'm about to enter a role as project manager. I have attended a lot of projects with quite a span of aspects, constraints, contents, parties and whatever and also had some technical leadership tasks but this time it would be the very first time to receive the label "project manager".
While I'm thinking about it (I have some weeks/months left, it'll be mainly about software and electronics) I oscillate between "this is incredibly difficult, I wasn't aware of that.." and "this is so trivial, what's the deal?".
Actually, the project constraints (time, budget..) have to be met by everyone, so what is the real task despite of having a kickoff meeting, distributing tasks and occasional meetings about the status?
What I especially wonder about are the followings:
* How do I "make" others do their work? I mean it's ultimately their job but when someone is slow, maybe due to reasons like it's more difficult than expected or whatever, what could a project manager do then?
* Projects always have some kind of uncertainty and in my opinion it is nearly impossible to check all possible risks and minimize them. I'm especially thinking about some projects in the past which involved chemical experiments (which were quite a hazzle and turned from 2-3 months to 12-18 months..) and also mechanical engineering where single pieces also took way longer due to occupied machines, limitd materials and so on. You can hardly make an external workshop work faster when it's simply not possible and replacing one with another will quite a while to discuss and set up everything so there would hardly be any acceleration.
Wanna' share some minds and/or experiences? | 2021/12/27 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/33551",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/42335/"
] | Good answers; I thought I might provide a different view.
I'd write my project as to test one (or more) hypothesis.
>
> At the end of this project, we will verify or refute the hypothesis that it is possible to X (e.g. spawn a root shell using CVE-YY-xxxx).
>
>
>
I guess at a basic level, I'm challenging the validity of "then the client will have lost money with a non-working product. " - validating or refuting a hypothesis should both have value. | I would expect any research project to be done on a daily or hourly rate. It's implicitly the nature of R&D that the work is what matters and the outcome is uncertain, so the work is what you should be paid for. A Kanban-style, continuous delivery approach makes sense for R&D: prioritise the items of value, inspect and adapt as you go. |
4,541 | Romans 8:11 appears in the following context:
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> 9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. 10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. 12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. [***-Romans 8:11***](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%208:9-13&version=NASB)
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My question is: In verse 11, is Paul referring to the **future** resurrection, or **present** life by the Spirit? (I have always taken it to mean the former, but the context caused me to consider the latter.)
I know both could be said to be true, but I am wondering what Paul was actually referring to in this statement. | 2013/03/28 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/4541",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/529/"
] | I think Paul is talking about the future resurrection, but with a very real sense of that future resurrection being something inevitable - giving us certainty, purpose, and hope in the present time.
A few verses later we read about having been adopted as sons:
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> 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. (Romans 8:15-17, ESV)
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This gives us certainty that we have been adopted as sons, but then there's a clarification a few verses later:
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> And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. (Romans 8:23, ESV)
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So we see that we are still waiting for adoption! We are at once adopted and waiting for adoption. In a sense, our adoption papers have been signed, we've been given a new family, but we're still in the orphanage. Though we have a future which we eagerly await, we have a present life which is filled with purpose and hope because of the firstfruits of the Spirit, the promise of things to come. | From the verse itself, it appears that the apostle is referring to the future resurrection: If the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then this same Holy Spirit who raised Christ [II Cor.4:14; Eph.1:20] *from the dead* *also will make alive* [Rom.4:17; Jn.5:21; I Cor.15:22; or, give life to] your *mortal* bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you. |
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