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177,686 | The inhabitants of a small city carved into the side of a cliff are blind and use echolocation to navigate.
There is a lot of empty space, around a kilometer of between the cliff side where the village resides and the other cliff side, in other words a 1km valley.
Will echolocation still work effectively in this kind o... | 2020/06/01 | [
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] | Yes, in combination with other skills
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Your residents are going to use a combination of techniques to navigate. Echolocation is a way of avoiding obstacles, not of navigating over longer distances. In the Wikipedia image below, the bat can tell that there's a box ahead on its left,... | The power level of the echolocation signal in bats is similar to that of the sounds the human voice can produce (order of 100 decibels). This allows the animals to perceive objects over distances never recorded to be further than 20 meters. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22978903/>
Regardless bats have also speciall... |
177,686 | The inhabitants of a small city carved into the side of a cliff are blind and use echolocation to navigate.
There is a lot of empty space, around a kilometer of between the cliff side where the village resides and the other cliff side, in other words a 1km valley.
Will echolocation still work effectively in this kind o... | 2020/06/01 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/177686",
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] | Anecdotally: probably. Compare [the Horseshoe Canyon Ranch](https://horseshoecanyonduderanch.com), which is in the Ozarks. The [Louisiana Center for the Blind](http://louisianacenter.org) takes blind trainees there annually, with lots of room for said trainees to wander off unsupervised between (and sometimes during) s... | The power level of the echolocation signal in bats is similar to that of the sounds the human voice can produce (order of 100 decibels). This allows the animals to perceive objects over distances never recorded to be further than 20 meters. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22978903/>
Regardless bats have also speciall... |
177,686 | The inhabitants of a small city carved into the side of a cliff are blind and use echolocation to navigate.
There is a lot of empty space, around a kilometer of between the cliff side where the village resides and the other cliff side, in other words a 1km valley.
Will echolocation still work effectively in this kind o... | 2020/06/01 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/177686",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/75712/"
] | There are some exceptional real worlds cases of humans using echolocation, take a look at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation> to see a few. There are videos where people avoid obstacles, sink basket balls and take hikes along rocky paths. In a demonstration in a documentary I can't recall the name of Ben... | The power level of the echolocation signal in bats is similar to that of the sounds the human voice can produce (order of 100 decibels). This allows the animals to perceive objects over distances never recorded to be further than 20 meters. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22978903/>
Regardless bats have also speciall... |
49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | 2015/07/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49185",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
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] | The following is predicated on the assumption that the reviewer comments indeed concern mostly editorial matters which can be resolved through modest amounts of text editing (your examples look like that), and do not raise any substantial issues (an example of which would be where reviewers ask you to carry out additio... | To be honest, I don't think a comments like
>
> the paper does not provide any example of the tasks presented during
> the user study. It would greatly improve the quality of the paper if
> the authors could at least provide one such example
>
>
>
are incorrect. Although you described your surveys briefly, the... |
49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | 2015/07/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49185",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/14017/"
] | A simple rule of thumb can help to handle reviewer comments:
"The reviewers are always right, even when they are wrong."
This means that when reviewers make wrong assumptions or draw wrong conclusions, apparently the article is not clear enough and allowed them to do so.
Mostly, in my experience, the solution that wo... | To be honest, I don't think a comments like
>
> the paper does not provide any example of the tasks presented during
> the user study. It would greatly improve the quality of the paper if
> the authors could at least provide one such example
>
>
>
are incorrect. Although you described your surveys briefly, the... |
49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | 2015/07/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49185",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/14017/"
] | The following is predicated on the assumption that the reviewer comments indeed concern mostly editorial matters which can be resolved through modest amounts of text editing (your examples look like that), and do not raise any substantial issues (an example of which would be where reviewers ask you to carry out additio... | If the article is accepted and there is no rebuttal phase or step and you really had a section that called out the tasks, ignore that part of the review. If there's an opportunity to rebut, or this is a journal where the editor needs a response, then write back to the editor that you have already provided example tasks... |
49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | 2015/07/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49185",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/14017/"
] | I almost *never* ignore a reviewer comment. Even if the reviewer is simply wrong, the way in which they are wrong usually points out a way that some significant subpopulation of readers is likely to misread the paper.
Given this, when a reviewer seems to have simply overlooked a chunk of the paper, I will generally fi... | Being a researcher myself and having seen how the review process is done, I know that there are reviewers that give the review task to their students and these students who are not experts evaluate papers written by other serious researchers. Of course, later on the original reviewer also does a check on the reviews wr... |
49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | 2015/07/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49185",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/14017/"
] | I almost *never* ignore a reviewer comment. Even if the reviewer is simply wrong, the way in which they are wrong usually points out a way that some significant subpopulation of readers is likely to misread the paper.
Given this, when a reviewer seems to have simply overlooked a chunk of the paper, I will generally fi... | If the article is accepted and there is no rebuttal phase or step and you really had a section that called out the tasks, ignore that part of the review. If there's an opportunity to rebut, or this is a journal where the editor needs a response, then write back to the editor that you have already provided example tasks... |
49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | 2015/07/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49185",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/14017/"
] | A simple rule of thumb can help to handle reviewer comments:
"The reviewers are always right, even when they are wrong."
This means that when reviewers make wrong assumptions or draw wrong conclusions, apparently the article is not clear enough and allowed them to do so.
Mostly, in my experience, the solution that wo... | If the article is accepted and there is no rebuttal phase or step and you really had a section that called out the tasks, ignore that part of the review. If there's an opportunity to rebut, or this is a journal where the editor needs a response, then write back to the editor that you have already provided example tasks... |
49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | 2015/07/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49185",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/14017/"
] | A simple rule of thumb can help to handle reviewer comments:
"The reviewers are always right, even when they are wrong."
This means that when reviewers make wrong assumptions or draw wrong conclusions, apparently the article is not clear enough and allowed them to do so.
Mostly, in my experience, the solution that wo... | The following is predicated on the assumption that the reviewer comments indeed concern mostly editorial matters which can be resolved through modest amounts of text editing (your examples look like that), and do not raise any substantial issues (an example of which would be where reviewers ask you to carry out additio... |
49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | 2015/07/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49185",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/14017/"
] | Being a researcher myself and having seen how the review process is done, I know that there are reviewers that give the review task to their students and these students who are not experts evaluate papers written by other serious researchers. Of course, later on the original reviewer also does a check on the reviews wr... | To be honest, I don't think a comments like
>
> the paper does not provide any example of the tasks presented during
> the user study. It would greatly improve the quality of the paper if
> the authors could at least provide one such example
>
>
>
are incorrect. Although you described your surveys briefly, the... |
49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | 2015/07/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49185",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/14017/"
] | I almost *never* ignore a reviewer comment. Even if the reviewer is simply wrong, the way in which they are wrong usually points out a way that some significant subpopulation of readers is likely to misread the paper.
Given this, when a reviewer seems to have simply overlooked a chunk of the paper, I will generally fi... | The following is predicated on the assumption that the reviewer comments indeed concern mostly editorial matters which can be resolved through modest amounts of text editing (your examples look like that), and do not raise any substantial issues (an example of which would be where reviewers ask you to carry out additio... |
49,185 | *As this has happened to me several times for different papers now, I am not describing a specific case here, but the abstract aspects that were common to all situations.*
Occasionally, in the "Tasks" or "Materials" section of the "Evaluation" or "User Study" chapter, papers of mine contain statements such as:
* "Fig... | 2015/07/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49185",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/14017/"
] | I almost *never* ignore a reviewer comment. Even if the reviewer is simply wrong, the way in which they are wrong usually points out a way that some significant subpopulation of readers is likely to misread the paper.
Given this, when a reviewer seems to have simply overlooked a chunk of the paper, I will generally fi... | To be honest, I don't think a comments like
>
> the paper does not provide any example of the tasks presented during
> the user study. It would greatly improve the quality of the paper if
> the authors could at least provide one such example
>
>
>
are incorrect. Although you described your surveys briefly, the... |
192,514 | Currently one of the websites I'm visiting blocks all VPN traffic from services like privateinternetaccess, torguard, and other vpn providers. How can one prevent VPN detection without exposing their IP address?
The service I'm trying to use is banned in my country, which is why I need to use a VPN, but it seems that... | 2018/08/28 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/192514",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/20141/"
] | Lets handle this question as two different:
>
> How can they even detect that I'm coming from a VPN?
>
>
>
It's not that hard to look if someone is coming from a VPN provider. Most of them are using static IP addresses. There are lists of their exit gateways. They block this IP and no one can come through. Even i... | One thing you could try
=======================
*I have to make a few assumptions to answer this question, considering I do not know what measures the website has in place to avoid access through a VPN. As a result, this method may or may not work.*
If you are able to find a cheap VPS host, you could setup your own V... |
18,705 | Taking several notable real life inspirations from the animal kingdom I like to design a realistic Dragon towering any creature ever lived but has a nasty habit of generating sonic boom every where in its wake. What are the prerequisites my Dragon have to evolve in order to attain supersonic flight?
I think it's must... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18705",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/8400/"
] | **Dragons would need to have a reason to be supersonic in order to evolve to do so.**
Being able to fly at supersonic speeds will have incredibly high metabolic and structural costs for the dragon. In order for one to evolve these traits, we need to answer the following question: why do supersonic dragons produce more... | Actually I think a smaller dragon would be more likely to achieve these high flight speeds. If for no other reason than it can help them escape larger dragons and can be used as a weapon.
I don't think the dragon could reach these speeds by flapping their wings alone, especially since most dragons would already need ... |
18,705 | Taking several notable real life inspirations from the animal kingdom I like to design a realistic Dragon towering any creature ever lived but has a nasty habit of generating sonic boom every where in its wake. What are the prerequisites my Dragon have to evolve in order to attain supersonic flight?
I think it's must... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18705",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/8400/"
] | Taking the speed of a perigrine falcon as 1/3rd the speed of sound.
We know that the force of acceleration is proportional to mass.
We know that the force opposing this (air resistance) is proportional to surface area and the square of velocity.
We can rearrange those to say that velocity is proportional to SQRT(mas... | Well, the big problem here is air resistance. Falling objects top out at a speed of somewhat above 500 km/h because of air resistance. Sound of speed is 1200 km/h. So it would need immense energy to speed up above that limit. Luckily there is an easy way around it: just decrease the air pressure. To get still enough ox... |
18,705 | Taking several notable real life inspirations from the animal kingdom I like to design a realistic Dragon towering any creature ever lived but has a nasty habit of generating sonic boom every where in its wake. What are the prerequisites my Dragon have to evolve in order to attain supersonic flight?
I think it's must... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18705",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/8400/"
] | The real issue behind your dragon problem isn't biological - it's mechanical. The fastest animal on earth is the Peregrine Falcon, which can only reach speeds of 389 KM/H while going at full-dive, which is several magnitudes slower than needed. Simply put, an organic life form could not possibly achieve supersonic spee... | What if the dragons utilize their standard, magically hot fire to **modify themselves** for supersonic flight?
Arcane knowledge of metallurgy and surgery, passed down through the ages, is used to augment their bones with titanium alloys bathed in dragonfire, strengthening their frames for the ordeal while being hollow... |
18,705 | Taking several notable real life inspirations from the animal kingdom I like to design a realistic Dragon towering any creature ever lived but has a nasty habit of generating sonic boom every where in its wake. What are the prerequisites my Dragon have to evolve in order to attain supersonic flight?
I think it's must... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18705",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/8400/"
] | I was going to post this as a comment on @Zibbobz's answer, however it kind of grew to being its own answer.
If there was some local fauna which was kind of like kelp. With pockets of hydrogen gas to help hold it's self up. The plant would have evolved this to help them scatter their seeds or pollen over a very large ... | If you are only concerned about the boom and do not necessarily need flight, you could consider different methods of creating a sonic boom.
One scenario that is not so far-fetched and actually might have happened is that dinosaurs with very long tails could have flicked them like a bullwhip, accelerating the tip of th... |
18,705 | Taking several notable real life inspirations from the animal kingdom I like to design a realistic Dragon towering any creature ever lived but has a nasty habit of generating sonic boom every where in its wake. What are the prerequisites my Dragon have to evolve in order to attain supersonic flight?
I think it's must... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18705",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/8400/"
] | What if the dragons utilize their standard, magically hot fire to **modify themselves** for supersonic flight?
Arcane knowledge of metallurgy and surgery, passed down through the ages, is used to augment their bones with titanium alloys bathed in dragonfire, strengthening their frames for the ordeal while being hollow... | Well, the big problem here is air resistance. Falling objects top out at a speed of somewhat above 500 km/h because of air resistance. Sound of speed is 1200 km/h. So it would need immense energy to speed up above that limit. Luckily there is an easy way around it: just decrease the air pressure. To get still enough ox... |
18,705 | Taking several notable real life inspirations from the animal kingdom I like to design a realistic Dragon towering any creature ever lived but has a nasty habit of generating sonic boom every where in its wake. What are the prerequisites my Dragon have to evolve in order to attain supersonic flight?
I think it's must... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18705",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/8400/"
] | I was going to post this as a comment on @Zibbobz's answer, however it kind of grew to being its own answer.
If there was some local fauna which was kind of like kelp. With pockets of hydrogen gas to help hold it's self up. The plant would have evolved this to help them scatter their seeds or pollen over a very large ... | Taking the speed of a perigrine falcon as 1/3rd the speed of sound.
We know that the force of acceleration is proportional to mass.
We know that the force opposing this (air resistance) is proportional to surface area and the square of velocity.
We can rearrange those to say that velocity is proportional to SQRT(mas... |
18,705 | Taking several notable real life inspirations from the animal kingdom I like to design a realistic Dragon towering any creature ever lived but has a nasty habit of generating sonic boom every where in its wake. What are the prerequisites my Dragon have to evolve in order to attain supersonic flight?
I think it's must... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18705",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/8400/"
] | **Dragons would need to have a reason to be supersonic in order to evolve to do so.**
Being able to fly at supersonic speeds will have incredibly high metabolic and structural costs for the dragon. In order for one to evolve these traits, we need to answer the following question: why do supersonic dragons produce more... | A creature meeting your size, speed, and strength requirements would have to be composed of extremely lightweight tissues, most notably including the skeleton (which must be able to handle the physical stresses of accelerating to supersonic speeds rapidly) and muscles (which must be able to convert the creature's bioch... |
18,705 | Taking several notable real life inspirations from the animal kingdom I like to design a realistic Dragon towering any creature ever lived but has a nasty habit of generating sonic boom every where in its wake. What are the prerequisites my Dragon have to evolve in order to attain supersonic flight?
I think it's must... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18705",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/8400/"
] | If you are only concerned about the boom and do not necessarily need flight, you could consider different methods of creating a sonic boom.
One scenario that is not so far-fetched and actually might have happened is that dinosaurs with very long tails could have flicked them like a bullwhip, accelerating the tip of th... | A creature meeting your size, speed, and strength requirements would have to be composed of extremely lightweight tissues, most notably including the skeleton (which must be able to handle the physical stresses of accelerating to supersonic speeds rapidly) and muscles (which must be able to convert the creature's bioch... |
18,705 | Taking several notable real life inspirations from the animal kingdom I like to design a realistic Dragon towering any creature ever lived but has a nasty habit of generating sonic boom every where in its wake. What are the prerequisites my Dragon have to evolve in order to attain supersonic flight?
I think it's must... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18705",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/8400/"
] | I was going to post this as a comment on @Zibbobz's answer, however it kind of grew to being its own answer.
If there was some local fauna which was kind of like kelp. With pockets of hydrogen gas to help hold it's self up. The plant would have evolved this to help them scatter their seeds or pollen over a very large ... | A creature meeting your size, speed, and strength requirements would have to be composed of extremely lightweight tissues, most notably including the skeleton (which must be able to handle the physical stresses of accelerating to supersonic speeds rapidly) and muscles (which must be able to convert the creature's bioch... |
18,705 | Taking several notable real life inspirations from the animal kingdom I like to design a realistic Dragon towering any creature ever lived but has a nasty habit of generating sonic boom every where in its wake. What are the prerequisites my Dragon have to evolve in order to attain supersonic flight?
I think it's must... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18705",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/8400/"
] | I was going to post this as a comment on @Zibbobz's answer, however it kind of grew to being its own answer.
If there was some local fauna which was kind of like kelp. With pockets of hydrogen gas to help hold it's self up. The plant would have evolved this to help them scatter their seeds or pollen over a very large ... | Well, the big problem here is air resistance. Falling objects top out at a speed of somewhat above 500 km/h because of air resistance. Sound of speed is 1200 km/h. So it would need immense energy to speed up above that limit. Luckily there is an easy way around it: just decrease the air pressure. To get still enough ox... |
66,275 | I'm building what will be a PDF in Sketch 3.
I want to create a button (a rectangle box with "sign up" inside) that launches a mailto link when the person reading it clicks on it.
I can't figure out how to 1) add links in Sketch, or 2) make the entire button (including the border of the rectangle box) clickable, vs... | 2016/02/01 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/66275",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/58412/"
] | After creating PDF without links, open it in Adobe Acrobat and choose the place where you want to link like in the image below:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qZuY7.png)
Then choose Create Link in the menu and select the option "Open a Web Page":
[![en... | Found this on the Sketch Talk forum. Just confirmed that it works, even with mailto: links.
"Easiest way (which is how I did it in Illustrator too) is to paste the URL you want over the text you want to hyperlink, change the URL color to the same as the background, and send it to the back underneath the original text ... |
66,275 | I'm building what will be a PDF in Sketch 3.
I want to create a button (a rectangle box with "sign up" inside) that launches a mailto link when the person reading it clicks on it.
I can't figure out how to 1) add links in Sketch, or 2) make the entire button (including the border of the rectangle box) clickable, vs... | 2016/02/01 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/66275",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/58412/"
] | After creating PDF without links, open it in Adobe Acrobat and choose the place where you want to link like in the image below:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qZuY7.png)
Then choose Create Link in the menu and select the option "Open a Web Page":
[![en... | A simple solution is for this problem is here
<https://youtu.be/WLggIppVE1w> |
66,275 | I'm building what will be a PDF in Sketch 3.
I want to create a button (a rectangle box with "sign up" inside) that launches a mailto link when the person reading it clicks on it.
I can't figure out how to 1) add links in Sketch, or 2) make the entire button (including the border of the rectangle box) clickable, vs... | 2016/02/01 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/66275",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/58412/"
] | You can actually create a hyperlink in Sketch without using Acrobat.
[Here is how it works in GIF](https://media.giphy.com/media/uTZ5XNlsMTyM2hNdZd/giphy.gif)
1. Paste the link from the browser.
2. Right click on text **AND** Select the text -> **Make link**.
3. Select the text and replace it with whatever you want.... | Found this on the Sketch Talk forum. Just confirmed that it works, even with mailto: links.
"Easiest way (which is how I did it in Illustrator too) is to paste the URL you want over the text you want to hyperlink, change the URL color to the same as the background, and send it to the back underneath the original text ... |
66,275 | I'm building what will be a PDF in Sketch 3.
I want to create a button (a rectangle box with "sign up" inside) that launches a mailto link when the person reading it clicks on it.
I can't figure out how to 1) add links in Sketch, or 2) make the entire button (including the border of the rectangle box) clickable, vs... | 2016/02/01 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/66275",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/58412/"
] | Found this on the Sketch Talk forum. Just confirmed that it works, even with mailto: links.
"Easiest way (which is how I did it in Illustrator too) is to paste the URL you want over the text you want to hyperlink, change the URL color to the same as the background, and send it to the back underneath the original text ... | A simple solution is for this problem is here
<https://youtu.be/WLggIppVE1w> |
66,275 | I'm building what will be a PDF in Sketch 3.
I want to create a button (a rectangle box with "sign up" inside) that launches a mailto link when the person reading it clicks on it.
I can't figure out how to 1) add links in Sketch, or 2) make the entire button (including the border of the rectangle box) clickable, vs... | 2016/02/01 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/66275",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
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] | You can actually create a hyperlink in Sketch without using Acrobat.
[Here is how it works in GIF](https://media.giphy.com/media/uTZ5XNlsMTyM2hNdZd/giphy.gif)
1. Paste the link from the browser.
2. Right click on text **AND** Select the text -> **Make link**.
3. Select the text and replace it with whatever you want.... | A simple solution is for this problem is here
<https://youtu.be/WLggIppVE1w> |
7,218,984 | So I'm using [cocoahttpserver](http://code.google.com/p/cocoahttpserver/) in my iphone application. I have the webserver working. But for now I need to identify my ip address and port number before an outside browser can access anything I create.
I would like to have my users connect via a human readable domain name.... | 2011/08/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7218984",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/565887/"
] | It sounds like you're looking for a dynamic DNS client for iPhone. A couple quick Google searches turned up these:
iDynDNS: <http://code.google.com/p/idyndns/>
EasyDNS: <http://gavcode.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/automatic-easydns-on-iphone/>
List of dynamic DNS providers: <http://dnslookup.me/dynamic-dns/> | If it's feasible, you could set up your own domain server, put the iPhone's IP address in that, and have the local machines refer to that DNS server first. Of course, I suspect you don't have an local servers of any description -- that's why you'd be using your iPhone, of all things, as a server; if so, you'd have to f... |
7,218,984 | So I'm using [cocoahttpserver](http://code.google.com/p/cocoahttpserver/) in my iphone application. I have the webserver working. But for now I need to identify my ip address and port number before an outside browser can access anything I create.
I would like to have my users connect via a human readable domain name.... | 2011/08/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7218984",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/565887/"
] | Technically, you can; and here is a [related video](http://vimeo.com/1555410).
The idea is that hosting a domain would need a static IP address.
A static IP addresses needs to be assigned by your ISP, or a dynamic ISP provider.
As long as you can bind one particular IP address to your iPhone, every kind of applicati... | If it's feasible, you could set up your own domain server, put the iPhone's IP address in that, and have the local machines refer to that DNS server first. Of course, I suspect you don't have an local servers of any description -- that's why you'd be using your iPhone, of all things, as a server; if so, you'd have to f... |
153,174 | I'm using relays to drive a circuit of solenoids. Do I really need flyback diodes on the controlled circuit if there are only solenoids on it? The driving circuit is already protected by flybacks.
[simulate this circuit](/plugins/schematics?image=http%3a%2f%2fi.stack.... | 2015/02/08 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/153174",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/66267/"
] | A MOV or snubber or bipolar TVS will usually extend the life of the relay contact. At 24VAC it may not be that important. Personally, I would consider a bipolar TVS.
It won't affect the relay directly, but if the controlling circuitry is poorly designed you may see effects from switching such an inductive load (micro... | The relay contacts should be snubbed with a (bipolar) TVS device or R/C snubber network; this will protect the contacts from arcing damage/wear (pitting, etal) and extend their life *dramatically* in this service. See Chapter 7 of [Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0470... |
153,174 | I'm using relays to drive a circuit of solenoids. Do I really need flyback diodes on the controlled circuit if there are only solenoids on it? The driving circuit is already protected by flybacks.
[simulate this circuit](/plugins/schematics?image=http%3a%2f%2fi.stack.... | 2015/02/08 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/153174",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/66267/"
] | A MOV or snubber or bipolar TVS will usually extend the life of the relay contact. At 24VAC it may not be that important. Personally, I would consider a bipolar TVS.
It won't affect the relay directly, but if the controlling circuitry is poorly designed you may see effects from switching such an inductive load (micro... | It depends on many factors, including AC or DC operation, voltage, current, solenoid inductance, relay contact construction and relay contact material.
First: your show your solenoids having only 1 uH inductance. I don't believe that is anywhere near close to their actual value - several hundred milli-Henrys on throug... |
153,174 | I'm using relays to drive a circuit of solenoids. Do I really need flyback diodes on the controlled circuit if there are only solenoids on it? The driving circuit is already protected by flybacks.
[simulate this circuit](/plugins/schematics?image=http%3a%2f%2fi.stack.... | 2015/02/08 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/153174",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/66267/"
] | It depends on many factors, including AC or DC operation, voltage, current, solenoid inductance, relay contact construction and relay contact material.
First: your show your solenoids having only 1 uH inductance. I don't believe that is anywhere near close to their actual value - several hundred milli-Henrys on throug... | The relay contacts should be snubbed with a (bipolar) TVS device or R/C snubber network; this will protect the contacts from arcing damage/wear (pitting, etal) and extend their life *dramatically* in this service. See Chapter 7 of [Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0470... |
99,997 | We are designing a flow where the user is expected to enter some additional mandatory data after entering some other data. For example, the user enters amount in a field and does a TAB-OUT. We want the system to automatically pop-up a modal window to tell the system certain mandatory information about the source of fun... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/99997",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
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] | I think this is a marketing strategy, they want to keep the transactions friendly and in this case the accent is on the action, not on the money.
They explain how to fill the input with the placeholder and I'm sure they have a solution to insert the sum separately in the database.
I don't find this wrong or counter-... | Putting multiple data types into a single field definitely does have issues, when storing and recovering from the database, one merged it'll be very problematic separating the data.
However I think they might be trying a natural language approach for this field.
e.g. <http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/NaturalLanguageFor... |
99,997 | We are designing a flow where the user is expected to enter some additional mandatory data after entering some other data. For example, the user enters amount in a field and does a TAB-OUT. We want the system to automatically pop-up a modal window to tell the system certain mandatory information about the source of fun... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/99997",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/91913/"
] | Putting multiple data types into a single field definitely does have issues, when storing and recovering from the database, one merged it'll be very problematic separating the data.
However I think they might be trying a natural language approach for this field.
e.g. <http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/NaturalLanguageFor... | I don't think it is the best pattern here but it is not an anti pattern. If a field did not have mixed data there would be not need for parsers.
* query statement for a database (SQL)
* programming language
* Number of document management applications use a search syntax with
multiple field types. It is part of them ... |
99,997 | We are designing a flow where the user is expected to enter some additional mandatory data after entering some other data. For example, the user enters amount in a field and does a TAB-OUT. We want the system to automatically pop-up a modal window to tell the system certain mandatory information about the source of fun... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/99997",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/91913/"
] | Yes, this **PROBABLY is an anti pattern**. Please note the PROBABLY word, because anti-patterns are usually measured on client's side. But given the information you provided and with some experience on my back, I'd bet money this is like the definition of an anti pattern: something that looks like a great idea at first... | Putting multiple data types into a single field definitely does have issues, when storing and recovering from the database, one merged it'll be very problematic separating the data.
However I think they might be trying a natural language approach for this field.
e.g. <http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/NaturalLanguageFor... |
99,997 | We are designing a flow where the user is expected to enter some additional mandatory data after entering some other data. For example, the user enters amount in a field and does a TAB-OUT. We want the system to automatically pop-up a modal window to tell the system certain mandatory information about the source of fun... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/99997",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/91913/"
] | I think this is a marketing strategy, they want to keep the transactions friendly and in this case the accent is on the action, not on the money.
They explain how to fill the input with the placeholder and I'm sure they have a solution to insert the sum separately in the database.
I don't find this wrong or counter-... | I don't think it is the best pattern here but it is not an anti pattern. If a field did not have mixed data there would be not need for parsers.
* query statement for a database (SQL)
* programming language
* Number of document management applications use a search syntax with
multiple field types. It is part of them ... |
99,997 | We are designing a flow where the user is expected to enter some additional mandatory data after entering some other data. For example, the user enters amount in a field and does a TAB-OUT. We want the system to automatically pop-up a modal window to tell the system certain mandatory information about the source of fun... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/99997",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/91913/"
] | Yes, this **PROBABLY is an anti pattern**. Please note the PROBABLY word, because anti-patterns are usually measured on client's side. But given the information you provided and with some experience on my back, I'd bet money this is like the definition of an anti pattern: something that looks like a great idea at first... | I think this is a marketing strategy, they want to keep the transactions friendly and in this case the accent is on the action, not on the money.
They explain how to fill the input with the placeholder and I'm sure they have a solution to insert the sum separately in the database.
I don't find this wrong or counter-... |
99,997 | We are designing a flow where the user is expected to enter some additional mandatory data after entering some other data. For example, the user enters amount in a field and does a TAB-OUT. We want the system to automatically pop-up a modal window to tell the system certain mandatory information about the source of fun... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/99997",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/91913/"
] | I think this is a marketing strategy, they want to keep the transactions friendly and in this case the accent is on the action, not on the money.
They explain how to fill the input with the placeholder and I'm sure they have a solution to insert the sum separately in the database.
I don't find this wrong or counter-... | It's not because it's mixed values, but because it's pretty unclear what that input field needs to be valid.
Instead of just showing that placeholder, it should have probably been designed as such:
This actually makes it very clear what to input, because it guides you t... |
99,997 | We are designing a flow where the user is expected to enter some additional mandatory data after entering some other data. For example, the user enters amount in a field and does a TAB-OUT. We want the system to automatically pop-up a modal window to tell the system certain mandatory information about the source of fun... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/99997",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/91913/"
] | Yes, this **PROBABLY is an anti pattern**. Please note the PROBABLY word, because anti-patterns are usually measured on client's side. But given the information you provided and with some experience on my back, I'd bet money this is like the definition of an anti pattern: something that looks like a great idea at first... | I don't think it is the best pattern here but it is not an anti pattern. If a field did not have mixed data there would be not need for parsers.
* query statement for a database (SQL)
* programming language
* Number of document management applications use a search syntax with
multiple field types. It is part of them ... |
99,997 | We are designing a flow where the user is expected to enter some additional mandatory data after entering some other data. For example, the user enters amount in a field and does a TAB-OUT. We want the system to automatically pop-up a modal window to tell the system certain mandatory information about the source of fun... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/99997",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/91913/"
] | It's not because it's mixed values, but because it's pretty unclear what that input field needs to be valid.
Instead of just showing that placeholder, it should have probably been designed as such:
This actually makes it very clear what to input, because it guides you t... | I don't think it is the best pattern here but it is not an anti pattern. If a field did not have mixed data there would be not need for parsers.
* query statement for a database (SQL)
* programming language
* Number of document management applications use a search syntax with
multiple field types. It is part of them ... |
99,997 | We are designing a flow where the user is expected to enter some additional mandatory data after entering some other data. For example, the user enters amount in a field and does a TAB-OUT. We want the system to automatically pop-up a modal window to tell the system certain mandatory information about the source of fun... | 2016/10/04 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/99997",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/91913/"
] | Yes, this **PROBABLY is an anti pattern**. Please note the PROBABLY word, because anti-patterns are usually measured on client's side. But given the information you provided and with some experience on my back, I'd bet money this is like the definition of an anti pattern: something that looks like a great idea at first... | It's not because it's mixed values, but because it's pretty unclear what that input field needs to be valid.
Instead of just showing that placeholder, it should have probably been designed as such:
This actually makes it very clear what to input, because it guides you t... |
1,236 | If we disregard deals, players accidentally mucking winning hands, and time-limited tournaments, in order to win a poker tournament, you must win the very last hand of the tournament. In order to win the last hand, exactly one of these statements must be true:
1. You were the underdog, and you won the hand. (You got l... | 2013/03/22 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/1236",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/828/"
] | The common conditions/rules of being independent from luck in the tournament:
1) You are playing tournament with deep stacks and reasonable blind level lengths. It means turbo tournaments with 5 minutes per level contain enough luck-dependent situations. Not playing "turbos" will allow to avoid rapid short stack prefl... | Your partition (underdog/favorite, hand won/lost) won't reveals many things as you will have to work on average. This will give you the performance of your hand range (supposed constant) versus and average hand range met in tournaments. A long term moving average will give you the evolution of your handrange performanc... |
1,236 | If we disregard deals, players accidentally mucking winning hands, and time-limited tournaments, in order to win a poker tournament, you must win the very last hand of the tournament. In order to win the last hand, exactly one of these statements must be true:
1. You were the underdog, and you won the hand. (You got l... | 2013/03/22 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/1236",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/828/"
] | The common conditions/rules of being independent from luck in the tournament:
1) You are playing tournament with deep stacks and reasonable blind level lengths. It means turbo tournaments with 5 minutes per level contain enough luck-dependent situations. Not playing "turbos" will allow to avoid rapid short stack prefl... | If you are willing to go all in getting 3:2 then the chance of winning all of 5 is only 8%. Basically you need to suck out 2/5 meaning you defy odds and win the two you should have lost. Basically you need to get lucky 2/5 of the time.
If you manage to play all in only 5 pots getting 4:1 then you only need to suck ou... |
1,236 | If we disregard deals, players accidentally mucking winning hands, and time-limited tournaments, in order to win a poker tournament, you must win the very last hand of the tournament. In order to win the last hand, exactly one of these statements must be true:
1. You were the underdog, and you won the hand. (You got l... | 2013/03/22 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/1236",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/828/"
] | Your partition (underdog/favorite, hand won/lost) won't reveals many things as you will have to work on average. This will give you the performance of your hand range (supposed constant) versus and average hand range met in tournaments. A long term moving average will give you the evolution of your handrange performanc... | If you are willing to go all in getting 3:2 then the chance of winning all of 5 is only 8%. Basically you need to suck out 2/5 meaning you defy odds and win the two you should have lost. Basically you need to get lucky 2/5 of the time.
If you manage to play all in only 5 pots getting 4:1 then you only need to suck ou... |
19,829,676 | Is there any charting library which provides an `odometer` like in this [image](http://static4.depositphotos.com/1024437/363/v/950/depositphotos_3631665-Black-and-Red-Odometer.jpg)?
I've gone through Highcharts but there sint like this. Where can I ... | 2013/11/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/19829676",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1457252/"
] | I used an SVG library before named RaphaelJS to generate cool charts. | * You may want to look and adapt the Google [Chart's Gauge](http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/gauge.html).
* [RGraph](http://www.cmsws.com/examples/applications/rgraph/RGraph_20091010/) has an [odometer](http://www.cmsws.com/examples/applications/rgraph/RGraph_20091010/examples/odo.html) plot
... |
1,397 | I know I could just carry a bottle, but scavenging is much more fun. What is a good source of vitamin C in the wild? Have spruce needles really got enough? | 2012/04/27 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/1397",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/432/"
] | [Pine needle tea](http://www.practicalprimitive.com/skillofthemonth/pineneedletea.html) is a good solution which is available year round in areas where pines grow. Do be careful to identify properly, and take care to not guzzle the stuff down... too much is bad for you. However this is the easiest to find and pine need... | All types of berries are your answer here! Pretty much any (edible) variety contains a large amount of vitamin C - blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries for instance. (Blackberries and raspberries seem to be especially prevalent at the right time of the year here in the UK.) And they're tasty too.
Of co... |
1,397 | I know I could just carry a bottle, but scavenging is much more fun. What is a good source of vitamin C in the wild? Have spruce needles really got enough? | 2012/04/27 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/1397",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com",
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] | All types of berries are your answer here! Pretty much any (edible) variety contains a large amount of vitamin C - blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries for instance. (Blackberries and raspberries seem to be especially prevalent at the right time of the year here in the UK.) And they're tasty too.
Of co... | [Scurvy Grass Sorrell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis_enneaphylla) has leaves rich in Vitamin C, and got its name from sailors travelling round Cape Horn who would eat the leaves to avoid scurvy.
It tastes pretty good, despite what the Wikipedia page says, but I'm not sure how widespread it is outside South Ameri... |
1,397 | I know I could just carry a bottle, but scavenging is much more fun. What is a good source of vitamin C in the wild? Have spruce needles really got enough? | 2012/04/27 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/1397",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com",
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] | All types of berries are your answer here! Pretty much any (edible) variety contains a large amount of vitamin C - blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries for instance. (Blackberries and raspberries seem to be especially prevalent at the right time of the year here in the UK.) And they're tasty too.
Of co... | There are many sources of vitamin C in the wild. Some of the tricks that I have come across is to know how to extract it in ways that do not destroy the vitamin C. Berries are great in vitamin C and may be eaten raw. However there are a great variety of other sources of vitamin C in the wild.
>
> Let’s take a look at... |
1,397 | I know I could just carry a bottle, but scavenging is much more fun. What is a good source of vitamin C in the wild? Have spruce needles really got enough? | 2012/04/27 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/1397",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/432/"
] | [Pine needle tea](http://www.practicalprimitive.com/skillofthemonth/pineneedletea.html) is a good solution which is available year round in areas where pines grow. Do be careful to identify properly, and take care to not guzzle the stuff down... too much is bad for you. However this is the easiest to find and pine need... | [Scurvy Grass Sorrell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis_enneaphylla) has leaves rich in Vitamin C, and got its name from sailors travelling round Cape Horn who would eat the leaves to avoid scurvy.
It tastes pretty good, despite what the Wikipedia page says, but I'm not sure how widespread it is outside South Ameri... |
1,397 | I know I could just carry a bottle, but scavenging is much more fun. What is a good source of vitamin C in the wild? Have spruce needles really got enough? | 2012/04/27 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/1397",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/432/"
] | [Pine needle tea](http://www.practicalprimitive.com/skillofthemonth/pineneedletea.html) is a good solution which is available year round in areas where pines grow. Do be careful to identify properly, and take care to not guzzle the stuff down... too much is bad for you. However this is the easiest to find and pine need... | There are many sources of vitamin C in the wild. Some of the tricks that I have come across is to know how to extract it in ways that do not destroy the vitamin C. Berries are great in vitamin C and may be eaten raw. However there are a great variety of other sources of vitamin C in the wild.
>
> Let’s take a look at... |
53,996 | Was the original release of Empire Strikes Back called Episode V in 1980? Or was this added in a later re-release?
Did the original opening crawl actually start out with
>
> *Star Wars
>
> Episode V
>
> The Empire Strikes Back*
>
>
>
or just
>
> *Star Wars
>
> The Empire Strikes Back*
>
>
>
or ... | 2014/04/14 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53996",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/25014/"
] | *Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope* was the only live-action feature length Star Wars film to ever be released without an episode number or subtitle.
Per the Wikipedia entry for [Star Wars (Film)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%5fWars%5f%28film%29)
>
> The film was originally released as Star Wars, without "Episo... | It was released as Episode V although Lucas toyed with it being Episode II in the beginning.
It is not quite the grand vision some would make out hence why the prequels contradict so much. |
53,996 | Was the original release of Empire Strikes Back called Episode V in 1980? Or was this added in a later re-release?
Did the original opening crawl actually start out with
>
> *Star Wars
>
> Episode V
>
> The Empire Strikes Back*
>
>
>
or just
>
> *Star Wars
>
> The Empire Strikes Back*
>
>
>
or ... | 2014/04/14 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53996",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/25014/"
] | *Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope* was the only live-action feature length Star Wars film to ever be released without an episode number or subtitle.
Per the Wikipedia entry for [Star Wars (Film)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%5fWars%5f%28film%29)
>
> The film was originally released as Star Wars, without "Episo... | I saw The Empire Strikes Back in May 1980 and it indeed had the "Episode V:" prefix in the title of the opening crawl. It's true it had working titles of Star Wars 2 and other variations in other countries. The leak of the title in January 1978 by The Hollywood Reporter and official announcement by Lucasfilm a few mont... |
53,996 | Was the original release of Empire Strikes Back called Episode V in 1980? Or was this added in a later re-release?
Did the original opening crawl actually start out with
>
> *Star Wars
>
> Episode V
>
> The Empire Strikes Back*
>
>
>
or just
>
> *Star Wars
>
> The Empire Strikes Back*
>
>
>
or ... | 2014/04/14 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53996",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/25014/"
] | It was released as Episode V although Lucas toyed with it being Episode II in the beginning.
It is not quite the grand vision some would make out hence why the prequels contradict so much. | I saw The Empire Strikes Back in May 1980 and it indeed had the "Episode V:" prefix in the title of the opening crawl. It's true it had working titles of Star Wars 2 and other variations in other countries. The leak of the title in January 1978 by The Hollywood Reporter and official announcement by Lucasfilm a few mont... |
39,084 | Ideally I'd like to turn the screen off too to save power! | 2009/09/10 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/39084",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/9529/"
] | Right-click on the Power Icon in the systray and select Power Options.
Look at the available Plans. Select Change Options for the current Plan.
From here you can set how long the computer waits before it turns off its display and how long it will wait una... | I'm not sure where the setting would be in Windows 7, but on my XP laptop in the power saver settings you can change the behavior when you close the laptop. Just tell it to stay on when that happens. I believe it should still turn off the screen, but otherwise it will stay on.
Just make sure you have the laptop plugge... |
110,835 | The Protagonist in Tenet takes part in the car chase twice—forwards in time (regular Protagonist) and backwards in time (inverted Protagonist).
The inverted protagonist walks out of the shipping container and starts "driving" a *regular* car. As he drives away from the container the regular skid marks disappear. This ... | 2020/09/12 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/110835",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/45269/"
] | Because this will-be-blown-up car has not been driven by the inverted protagonist yet.
From the normal timeline, what we experience as the end of a sequence is the start of a sequence of the inverted timeline.
Therefore, in the normal timeline, the end of the car chase is marked by the protagonist becomes the inverte... | First of all, please note, that [**interactions between regular and inverted objects are inconsistent** in the film](https://old.reddit.com/r/tenet/comments/ilaaba/tenet_is_a_perfect_time_travel_film_with_zero/g4xwyrk/) ([archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200914072236/https://old.reddit.com/r/tenet/comments/ilaab... |
61,085 | This inconsistency is very confusing to me. Socrates takes pride in knowing that he knows nothing. But if that is the case, how is he able to, as he often does, give book-length of "truth" (as opposed to "opinions" which Socrates/Plato despises) to his friends, as in Republic, Apologies etc. on significant topics such ... | 2019/03/13 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/61085",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/37062/"
] | The Platonic Socrates did not claim that he knew nothing.
=========================================================
When asked by Chaerephon whether there were any wiser than Socrates, the Delphic Oracle replied that there was no one wiser (Apology, 21A). This puzzled Socrates, who thought he had no wisdom at all. He ... | There is no inconsistency.
First of all, we have to consider that the "real" [Socrates](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/) and the [main character](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/#Soc) in many Plato's dialogues, called Socrates, are obviously linked but not exactly the same person.
Plato had pers... |
327,575 | So I have an Acer laptop that has both an HDD and SSD. I have been having trouble dual booting Ubuntu with Windows. For some reason Ubuntu does not recognize Windows and I do not want to wipe out windows hard drive... Ive done this 3 times already on accident ha(First time I lost Windows 8 but I hated it anyway). I was... | 2013/08/01 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/327575",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/180569/"
] | 1. Not to mess up with Windows while installing Ubuntu, do the partitions with Gparted THEN do a custom installation using the new partitions.
2. Grub2 should find the OS whatever disk they are on. Just make sure to install the grub to the 1st disk in the boot order. | Since both the operating systems are on different hard drives, I think the BIOS will always check 1 disk before the other. And whichever OS it sees on that disk, it will boot into. One option to pick the OS at boot-up is to switch the boot-order when you boot. There is usually a small time-frame during boot-up in which... |
9,136,466 | I've been getting in to mongo, but coming from RDBMS background facing the probably obvious questions with regards to denormalisation and general data modelling.
If I have a document type with an array of sub docs, each sub doc has a status code.
In The relational world I would add a foreign key to the record, Status... | 2012/02/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9136466",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/280192/"
] | >
> Or should the transaction history be a separate collection with a onjid referencing the person?
>
>
>
Probably, I think [this S/O question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4662530/how-should-i-implement-this-schema-in-mongodb/4684647#4684647) may help you understand why.
>
> if the status doc is modified... | All your "how to model this or that" can't really be answered, because good schema design depends on so many factors (access patters, hardware characteristics, is cluster used, etc).
>
> if the status doc is modified I'd then need to modified the denormalised data?
>
>
>
Usually yes, that's the drawback of denorm... |
9,136,466 | I've been getting in to mongo, but coming from RDBMS background facing the probably obvious questions with regards to denormalisation and general data modelling.
If I have a document type with an array of sub docs, each sub doc has a status code.
In The relational world I would add a foreign key to the record, Status... | 2012/02/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9136466",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/280192/"
] | All your "how to model this or that" can't really be answered, because good schema design depends on so many factors (access patters, hardware characteristics, is cluster used, etc).
>
> if the status doc is modified I'd then need to modified the denormalised data?
>
>
>
Usually yes, that's the drawback of denorm... | While it's true that schema design does take into account many factors, the need to denormalize data usually comes up somewhere. I tend to take advantage of denormalization in my apps that use MongoDB because I feel it lends itself well storing denormalized data:
* no additional column maintenance
* support for hashes... |
9,136,466 | I've been getting in to mongo, but coming from RDBMS background facing the probably obvious questions with regards to denormalisation and general data modelling.
If I have a document type with an array of sub docs, each sub doc has a status code.
In The relational world I would add a foreign key to the record, Status... | 2012/02/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9136466",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/280192/"
] | >
> Or should the transaction history be a separate collection with a onjid referencing the person?
>
>
>
Probably, I think [this S/O question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4662530/how-should-i-implement-this-schema-in-mongodb/4684647#4684647) may help you understand why.
>
> if the status doc is modified... | While it's true that schema design does take into account many factors, the need to denormalize data usually comes up somewhere. I tend to take advantage of denormalization in my apps that use MongoDB because I feel it lends itself well storing denormalized data:
* no additional column maintenance
* support for hashes... |
24,536 | The proposition "from" is could be used to indicate the source. In this example (context is soccer, or association football):
>
> [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina_v_England_(1986_FIFA_World_Cup)#Lineker.27s_goal_and_Argentine_victory)
>
> "England were unable to score an equaliser - Olarticoechea ma... | 2014/05/30 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/24536",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6362/"
] | I agree with your parsing of (*he and Lineker) (jumped (for (the ball (from another cross))))*
as opposed to the alternate given by @Jay of *(he and Lineker) (jumped (for (the ball)) (from another cross))*. The natural assumption is that the ball came from the cross, not that the players came from the cross; especially... | I take it this is from the description of a football (soccer) game? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the terminology of the sport. But assuming that, as you say, a "cross" is an action ...
The quote does not say that the ball came from a cross. It says that they jumped from a cross. "For the ball" is a prepositional phras... |
24,536 | The proposition "from" is could be used to indicate the source. In this example (context is soccer, or association football):
>
> [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina_v_England_(1986_FIFA_World_Cup)#Lineker.27s_goal_and_Argentine_victory)
>
> "England were unable to score an equaliser - Olarticoechea ma... | 2014/05/30 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/24536",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6362/"
] | The word *from* is used to indicate who passed the ball (Barnes). In sports, a pass (or throw) uses the same prepositions as a birthday present:
>
> a gift from my brother to my sister
>
> a touchdown pass from Manning to Harrison
>
> a scoring pass from Orr to Esposito
>
> a crossing pass from Barnes to ... | I take it this is from the description of a football (soccer) game? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the terminology of the sport. But assuming that, as you say, a "cross" is an action ...
The quote does not say that the ball came from a cross. It says that they jumped from a cross. "For the ball" is a prepositional phras... |
32,105 | In the question; [Hollow-boned Humanoids](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13619/hollow-boned-humanoids) Nathaniels humanoids were a flying mammal species called soarfolk. But let's say that I want a sapient mammal to have hollow bones but not fly.
These furred, sapient mammals are called Lokk, they e... | 2015/12/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32105",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/11049/"
] | Maybe while living in the jungles they were arboreal and the lighter animals were able to stay higher in the trees, or be able to 'flee' across smaller branches in the trees allowing them to live, as they 'ran' from predators.
So like flying, staying up higher in the trees would encourage lighter bodies, but having h... | Overall, make weight a major concern in some way, while maintaining that there is an advantage in having more upright height on land (*To keep them bi-pedal*).
The easiest way to do so is if gravity were considerably stronger, which may or may not be considered "Earth-*like*". There would be more advantage to have str... |
32,105 | In the question; [Hollow-boned Humanoids](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13619/hollow-boned-humanoids) Nathaniels humanoids were a flying mammal species called soarfolk. But let's say that I want a sapient mammal to have hollow bones but not fly.
These furred, sapient mammals are called Lokk, they e... | 2015/12/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32105",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/11049/"
] | Overall, make weight a major concern in some way, while maintaining that there is an advantage in having more upright height on land (*To keep them bi-pedal*).
The easiest way to do so is if gravity were considerably stronger, which may or may not be considered "Earth-*like*". There would be more advantage to have str... | Perhaps there are poisonous gases created by underground bacteria in the forest floor which are fatal to your Lokk, and those gases dissipate in sunlight (i.e. concentrations would readily reach non-fatal levels as one approaches the top of the jungle.
If combined with plants whose branches retract upon sufficient jar... |
32,105 | In the question; [Hollow-boned Humanoids](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13619/hollow-boned-humanoids) Nathaniels humanoids were a flying mammal species called soarfolk. But let's say that I want a sapient mammal to have hollow bones but not fly.
These furred, sapient mammals are called Lokk, they e... | 2015/12/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32105",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/11049/"
] | Overall, make weight a major concern in some way, while maintaining that there is an advantage in having more upright height on land (*To keep them bi-pedal*).
The easiest way to do so is if gravity were considerably stronger, which may or may not be considered "Earth-*like*". There would be more advantage to have str... | You have 2 big problems to overcome
The easier reason bats don't have hollow bones is that mammals have fewer bones than most vertebrates and bone marrow is where our blood is made, birds have moved the bulk of their marrow to only a few select bones and use nucleated blood cells (so blood can make more blood) to [com... |
32,105 | In the question; [Hollow-boned Humanoids](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13619/hollow-boned-humanoids) Nathaniels humanoids were a flying mammal species called soarfolk. But let's say that I want a sapient mammal to have hollow bones but not fly.
These furred, sapient mammals are called Lokk, they e... | 2015/12/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32105",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/11049/"
] | Maybe while living in the jungles they were arboreal and the lighter animals were able to stay higher in the trees, or be able to 'flee' across smaller branches in the trees allowing them to live, as they 'ran' from predators.
So like flying, staying up higher in the trees would encourage lighter bodies, but having h... | Perhaps there are poisonous gases created by underground bacteria in the forest floor which are fatal to your Lokk, and those gases dissipate in sunlight (i.e. concentrations would readily reach non-fatal levels as one approaches the top of the jungle.
If combined with plants whose branches retract upon sufficient jar... |
32,105 | In the question; [Hollow-boned Humanoids](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13619/hollow-boned-humanoids) Nathaniels humanoids were a flying mammal species called soarfolk. But let's say that I want a sapient mammal to have hollow bones but not fly.
These furred, sapient mammals are called Lokk, they e... | 2015/12/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32105",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/11049/"
] | Maybe while living in the jungles they were arboreal and the lighter animals were able to stay higher in the trees, or be able to 'flee' across smaller branches in the trees allowing them to live, as they 'ran' from predators.
So like flying, staying up higher in the trees would encourage lighter bodies, but having h... | You have 2 big problems to overcome
The easier reason bats don't have hollow bones is that mammals have fewer bones than most vertebrates and bone marrow is where our blood is made, birds have moved the bulk of their marrow to only a few select bones and use nucleated blood cells (so blood can make more blood) to [com... |
32,105 | In the question; [Hollow-boned Humanoids](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13619/hollow-boned-humanoids) Nathaniels humanoids were a flying mammal species called soarfolk. But let's say that I want a sapient mammal to have hollow bones but not fly.
These furred, sapient mammals are called Lokk, they e... | 2015/12/23 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32105",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/11049/"
] | You have 2 big problems to overcome
The easier reason bats don't have hollow bones is that mammals have fewer bones than most vertebrates and bone marrow is where our blood is made, birds have moved the bulk of their marrow to only a few select bones and use nucleated blood cells (so blood can make more blood) to [com... | Perhaps there are poisonous gases created by underground bacteria in the forest floor which are fatal to your Lokk, and those gases dissipate in sunlight (i.e. concentrations would readily reach non-fatal levels as one approaches the top of the jungle.
If combined with plants whose branches retract upon sufficient jar... |
1,333,377 | Is there a way to *monitor* how an installer for Windows writes its own stuff inside the registry?
Is there also a way to monitor which files are written on the disk? | 2018/06/22 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1333377",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/916839/"
] | [Revo Uninstaller](https://www.revouninstaller.com/) will track an installation and show you all files and registry entries that are written during an installation. | Use a software that does Registry Snapshots like [RegShot2](https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2505).
>
> Regshot2 Unicode is a registry change and file system change detection
> diff tool that takes snapshots, generates HTML reports, and creates
> automatic REG undo/redo scripts. The program can save/load snaps... |
1,333,377 | Is there a way to *monitor* how an installer for Windows writes its own stuff inside the registry?
Is there also a way to monitor which files are written on the disk? | 2018/06/22 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1333377",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/916839/"
] | [Revo Uninstaller](https://www.revouninstaller.com/) will track an installation and show you all files and registry entries that are written during an installation. | The best tool for this is process explorer by Windows Sysinternals. It's free tools that can view file and registry handles of any program running on the system.
Here's the link:
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-utilities>)
[Here's an image of the open handles of Explorer.exe](http... |
1,333,377 | Is there a way to *monitor* how an installer for Windows writes its own stuff inside the registry?
Is there also a way to monitor which files are written on the disk? | 2018/06/22 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1333377",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/916839/"
] | Use [Process Monitor](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon) for this purpose. RegMon and FileMon are merged into this and it can now be used to monitor process, registry and files. | Use a software that does Registry Snapshots like [RegShot2](https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2505).
>
> Regshot2 Unicode is a registry change and file system change detection
> diff tool that takes snapshots, generates HTML reports, and creates
> automatic REG undo/redo scripts. The program can save/load snaps... |
1,333,377 | Is there a way to *monitor* how an installer for Windows writes its own stuff inside the registry?
Is there also a way to monitor which files are written on the disk? | 2018/06/22 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1333377",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/916839/"
] | Use [Process Monitor](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon) for this purpose. RegMon and FileMon are merged into this and it can now be used to monitor process, registry and files. | The best tool for this is process explorer by Windows Sysinternals. It's free tools that can view file and registry handles of any program running on the system.
Here's the link:
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-utilities>)
[Here's an image of the open handles of Explorer.exe](http... |
1,333,377 | Is there a way to *monitor* how an installer for Windows writes its own stuff inside the registry?
Is there also a way to monitor which files are written on the disk? | 2018/06/22 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1333377",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/916839/"
] | Use a software that does Registry Snapshots like [RegShot2](https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2505).
>
> Regshot2 Unicode is a registry change and file system change detection
> diff tool that takes snapshots, generates HTML reports, and creates
> automatic REG undo/redo scripts. The program can save/load snaps... | The best tool for this is process explorer by Windows Sysinternals. It's free tools that can view file and registry handles of any program running on the system.
Here's the link:
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-utilities>)
[Here's an image of the open handles of Explorer.exe](http... |
493,959 | This question has always been around my head.
Can someone create a new product based on an existing open source project?
Say you want to create an "Apaxe webserver" that is basically Apache with your some extra plugins ( say support for ASP or something similar )
Is this possible?
Would you be able to create a clo... | 2009/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/493959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20654/"
] | It really depends on the license the open source project uses.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer; you should always read the license for full details.
If a project is under the GPL, then anything you derive from it must also be released under the GPL (or a compatible license, and if it is released at all). You're still a... | Isn't that essentially what red hat does? Even though they have fedora, they are charging money for their linux distribution. Granted, they've written a lot of code for it, it's still based on open source-stuff. |
493,959 | This question has always been around my head.
Can someone create a new product based on an existing open source project?
Say you want to create an "Apaxe webserver" that is basically Apache with your some extra plugins ( say support for ASP or something similar )
Is this possible?
Would you be able to create a clo... | 2009/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/493959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20654/"
] | Nothing prevents clone products appearing on the market. Look at all the various linux distributions, for example. The X.org project was forked from XFree86. And so on.
It happens relatively infrequently, though, for a couple of reasons:
* The original project has the first-to-market advantage
* The original is usual... | >
> What prevents from similar ( clone ) products from appearing in the market?
>
>
>
Nothing. The *real* question is: How can a similar cloned product get more popular than the original product?
Some cases where somebody might clone/fork a project:
* Picking up a dead open source project and continuing its deve... |
493,959 | This question has always been around my head.
Can someone create a new product based on an existing open source project?
Say you want to create an "Apaxe webserver" that is basically Apache with your some extra plugins ( say support for ASP or something similar )
Is this possible?
Would you be able to create a clo... | 2009/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/493959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20654/"
] | Generally, my read of the licenses is:
1. You can make a derivative work of any project based on one of the popular licenses (i.e. GPL, LGPL, Apache, MIT, BSD).
2. You may charge money for at least the distribution & packaging of your derivative work.
3. Depending on the license, you may also have to distribute your m... | Isn't that essentially what red hat does? Even though they have fedora, they are charging money for their linux distribution. Granted, they've written a lot of code for it, it's still based on open source-stuff. |
493,959 | This question has always been around my head.
Can someone create a new product based on an existing open source project?
Say you want to create an "Apaxe webserver" that is basically Apache with your some extra plugins ( say support for ASP or something similar )
Is this possible?
Would you be able to create a clo... | 2009/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/493959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20654/"
] | Here's my 10,000 foot view of open source licenses:
"Real" open source licenses (eg: MIT, BSD, Apache I think, etc.):
You can do whatever you want with licensing derived works. It can be closed, open, etc. The license places no restrictions on your licensing of derived works.
"Restricted" open source licenses (eg: GP... | Isn't that essentially what red hat does? Even though they have fedora, they are charging money for their linux distribution. Granted, they've written a lot of code for it, it's still based on open source-stuff. |
493,959 | This question has always been around my head.
Can someone create a new product based on an existing open source project?
Say you want to create an "Apaxe webserver" that is basically Apache with your some extra plugins ( say support for ASP or something similar )
Is this possible?
Would you be able to create a clo... | 2009/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/493959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20654/"
] | >
> What prevents from similar ( clone ) products from appearing in the market?
>
>
>
Nothing. The *real* question is: How can a similar cloned product get more popular than the original product?
Some cases where somebody might clone/fork a project:
* Picking up a dead open source project and continuing its deve... | Isn't that essentially what red hat does? Even though they have fedora, they are charging money for their linux distribution. Granted, they've written a lot of code for it, it's still based on open source-stuff. |
493,959 | This question has always been around my head.
Can someone create a new product based on an existing open source project?
Say you want to create an "Apaxe webserver" that is basically Apache with your some extra plugins ( say support for ASP or something similar )
Is this possible?
Would you be able to create a clo... | 2009/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/493959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20654/"
] | Red Hat (and most of the other Linux vendors) charge for support, not for their software - which is primarily how companies can make money off of code that is GPL licensed. | Isn't that essentially what red hat does? Even though they have fedora, they are charging money for their linux distribution. Granted, they've written a lot of code for it, it's still based on open source-stuff. |
493,959 | This question has always been around my head.
Can someone create a new product based on an existing open source project?
Say you want to create an "Apaxe webserver" that is basically Apache with your some extra plugins ( say support for ASP or something similar )
Is this possible?
Would you be able to create a clo... | 2009/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/493959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20654/"
] | Nothing prevents clone products appearing on the market. Look at all the various linux distributions, for example. The X.org project was forked from XFree86. And so on.
It happens relatively infrequently, though, for a couple of reasons:
* The original project has the first-to-market advantage
* The original is usual... | Red Hat (and most of the other Linux vendors) charge for support, not for their software - which is primarily how companies can make money off of code that is GPL licensed. |
493,959 | This question has always been around my head.
Can someone create a new product based on an existing open source project?
Say you want to create an "Apaxe webserver" that is basically Apache with your some extra plugins ( say support for ASP or something similar )
Is this possible?
Would you be able to create a clo... | 2009/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/493959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20654/"
] | Nothing prevents clone products appearing on the market. Look at all the various linux distributions, for example. The X.org project was forked from XFree86. And so on.
It happens relatively infrequently, though, for a couple of reasons:
* The original project has the first-to-market advantage
* The original is usual... | look at MyEclipse, its really just eclipse+free plugins+myeclipse's plugins and it cost some money. |
493,959 | This question has always been around my head.
Can someone create a new product based on an existing open source project?
Say you want to create an "Apaxe webserver" that is basically Apache with your some extra plugins ( say support for ASP or something similar )
Is this possible?
Would you be able to create a clo... | 2009/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/493959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20654/"
] | Nothing prevents clone products appearing on the market. Look at all the various linux distributions, for example. The X.org project was forked from XFree86. And so on.
It happens relatively infrequently, though, for a couple of reasons:
* The original project has the first-to-market advantage
* The original is usual... | It really depends on the license the open source project uses.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer; you should always read the license for full details.
If a project is under the GPL, then anything you derive from it must also be released under the GPL (or a compatible license, and if it is released at all). You're still a... |
493,959 | This question has always been around my head.
Can someone create a new product based on an existing open source project?
Say you want to create an "Apaxe webserver" that is basically Apache with your some extra plugins ( say support for ASP or something similar )
Is this possible?
Would you be able to create a clo... | 2009/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/493959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20654/"
] | Nothing prevents clone products appearing on the market. Look at all the various linux distributions, for example. The X.org project was forked from XFree86. And so on.
It happens relatively infrequently, though, for a couple of reasons:
* The original project has the first-to-market advantage
* The original is usual... | Here's my 10,000 foot view of open source licenses:
"Real" open source licenses (eg: MIT, BSD, Apache I think, etc.):
You can do whatever you want with licensing derived works. It can be closed, open, etc. The license places no restrictions on your licensing of derived works.
"Restricted" open source licenses (eg: GP... |
320,163 | My source is a desktop computer power supply,
It's output is 5 v ,45 amps dc.
I want it to be converted to 20khz or more frequency ac current with same or less volt and same current.
Edit:- I am trying to make a rTMS. Which would change it's poles at 20khz. My electromagnets would be 2,10000 turns coils. Wires used... | 2017/07/24 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/320163",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/157892/"
] | **You are in over your head**
First piece of advise: Do not attempt to make home-made medical equipment from an old computer supply. The are many ways that can go horribly wrong, and some of them can kill you or your patient.
**The inductance problem**
You say you will have two coils of 10k turns and an (inner?) dia... | This smells like a major [XY problem](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem), but an [H-bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_bridge) would solve this *Y* question.
Now, when you've revealed your X, I'll still say that it's an H-bridge that you want, but that the inductance of the coi... |
320,163 | My source is a desktop computer power supply,
It's output is 5 v ,45 amps dc.
I want it to be converted to 20khz or more frequency ac current with same or less volt and same current.
Edit:- I am trying to make a rTMS. Which would change it's poles at 20khz. My electromagnets would be 2,10000 turns coils. Wires used... | 2017/07/24 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/320163",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/157892/"
] | **You are in over your head**
First piece of advise: Do not attempt to make home-made medical equipment from an old computer supply. The are many ways that can go horribly wrong, and some of them can kill you or your patient.
**The inductance problem**
You say you will have two coils of 10k turns and an (inner?) dia... | I would use a H-bridge as suggested, or if you use suitable values you may get away with something self resonant (but then the frequency may be effected by external factors)... But the real issue (other than lack of detail in your question) is:
**Do you really want to be stimulating your brain with a homebrew device u... |
16,264,366 | When I use Clojure with the (Sun/Oracle) Hotspot VM, what other software components are required, at a minimum, by Clojure? Are all those (minimal) components Open Source?
I see that the [Hotspot VM is Open Source](http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/) but I don't think any Java libraries are included in that compo... | 2013/04/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16264366",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/156550/"
] | There's good news and bad news and good news.
* The Oracle distributions of Java includes the full Java SE libraries. In fact, any Java distribution does.
* But ... the Oracle distributions is not totally open source. Certainly, the source code bundle that is included in a Java 7 Hotspot JDK says this in the source co... | A build of OpenJDK - either prebuilt from a Linux distro, such as RedHat's IcedTea, or built by hand from source (which with the new build-infra build is trivial - see AdoptOpenJDK for details) is all that you need to run Clojure.
You should not attempt to subset the Java class libraries - this will cause you a great ... |
94,335 | *Part of the [everyday object series](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/search?q=body%3A%22everyday+object+series%22+is%3Aquestion)*
>
> I present to you: the everyday fay.
>
> Its ancestor was born on the very first day.
>
> It lives alone, but can work well in a team,
>
> Only comes alive when its foot... | 2020/02/28 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/94335",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/57005/"
] | I believe this is
>
> A lightbulb
>
>
>
Its ancestor was born on the very first day.
>
> The sun, our world’s original light source
>
>
>
It lives alone, but can work well in a team,
>
> One bulb per socket, but multi-socket fixtures provide more light
>
>
>
Only comes alive when its foot is engulf... | It sounds like a
>
> transistor
>
>
>
I present to you: the everyday fay.
Its ancestor was born on the very first day.
>
> perhaps this references the electron?
>
>
>
It lives alone, but can work well in a team,
>
> A transistor is standalone, but works well in a circuit
>
>
>
Only comes alive when... |
27,313,145 | I keep seeing
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> Keywords
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I had a friend say for me to click 'Search Engine Optimisaion > Queries' in Analytics and then link it to Google Webmaster Tools.
I did this a few days ... | 2014/12/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/27313145",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Keyword (not provided) occurs for all Google searches now. It only affects the organic results, not the paid. It works by directing traffic through a redirect that strips off the keyword parameter, but keeps the other referrer information, so you at least still know it is coming from Google search.
You can't get rid o... | This is a security thing.
If the search came from SSL Search on <https://www.google.com> Note the HTTPS not HTTP then the data is not shown to you. Google stores it as (Not provided). Webmaster toosl should be set up the same as this is a Google thing.
Google Analytics blog post : [Making search more secure: Access... |
27,313,145 | I keep seeing
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under my
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> Keywords
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section so I'm unable to see what people are searching for when Googling my website.
I had a friend say for me to click 'Search Engine Optimisaion > Queries' in Analytics and then link it to Google Webmaster Tools.
I did this a few days ... | 2014/12/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/27313145",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | What you did was connecting the Search Console to Analytics. Here you get the Search Console Analytics Data in Google Analytics, but under a new Tab:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IQ8KW.png)
The Problem here is, that you don´t see the behavioural and ... | This is a security thing.
If the search came from SSL Search on <https://www.google.com> Note the HTTPS not HTTP then the data is not shown to you. Google stores it as (Not provided). Webmaster toosl should be set up the same as this is a Google thing.
Google Analytics blog post : [Making search more secure: Access... |
27,313,145 | I keep seeing
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under my
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> Keywords
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section so I'm unable to see what people are searching for when Googling my website.
I had a friend say for me to click 'Search Engine Optimisaion > Queries' in Analytics and then link it to Google Webmaster Tools.
I did this a few days ... | 2014/12/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/27313145",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Keyword (not provided) occurs for all Google searches now. It only affects the organic results, not the paid. It works by directing traffic through a redirect that strips off the keyword parameter, but keeps the other referrer information, so you at least still know it is coming from Google search.
You can't get rid o... | As mentioned in some of the other answers, Google intentionally discontinued providing keywords when someone is referred from their search engine to a result page for privacy reasons.
There is no way around this within Google Analytics. There are some other methods for best guess using Webmaster Tools as also mentione... |
27,313,145 | I keep seeing
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> (not provided)
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under my
>
> Keywords
>
>
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section so I'm unable to see what people are searching for when Googling my website.
I had a friend say for me to click 'Search Engine Optimisaion > Queries' in Analytics and then link it to Google Webmaster Tools.
I did this a few days ... | 2014/12/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/27313145",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Keyword (not provided) occurs for all Google searches now. It only affects the organic results, not the paid. It works by directing traffic through a redirect that strips off the keyword parameter, but keeps the other referrer information, so you at least still know it is coming from Google search.
You can't get rid o... | What you did was connecting the Search Console to Analytics. Here you get the Search Console Analytics Data in Google Analytics, but under a new Tab:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IQ8KW.png)
The Problem here is, that you don´t see the behavioural and ... |
27,313,145 | I keep seeing
>
> (not provided)
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under my
>
> Keywords
>
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section so I'm unable to see what people are searching for when Googling my website.
I had a friend say for me to click 'Search Engine Optimisaion > Queries' in Analytics and then link it to Google Webmaster Tools.
I did this a few days ... | 2014/12/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/27313145",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | What you did was connecting the Search Console to Analytics. Here you get the Search Console Analytics Data in Google Analytics, but under a new Tab:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IQ8KW.png)
The Problem here is, that you don´t see the behavioural and ... | As mentioned in some of the other answers, Google intentionally discontinued providing keywords when someone is referred from their search engine to a result page for privacy reasons.
There is no way around this within Google Analytics. There are some other methods for best guess using Webmaster Tools as also mentione... |
159,129 | I have a website on which we have recently enabled SSL. In most browsers, this works fine: our scripts and stylesheets are imported using HTTPS and most browsers load pages successfully. However, in some circumstances, secure pages will load without page styling or JavaScript.
One place we've reproduced this consisten... | 2010/07/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/159129",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/45255/"
] | This turned out to be a problem with how we set up the certificate on our static content server. It was set up in Lighttpd such that Safari could not follow the certification chain to the intermediary cert from the root cert. We had to stack the certs in a single file and move the server cert to a pem file. Afterward, ... | Did you put hardcoded references to the files with the full url? eg '<http://server/file.cs>'
If the browser refuses to show insecure content for a secure web page then you will get the problem you describe. |
159,129 | I have a website on which we have recently enabled SSL. In most browsers, this works fine: our scripts and stylesheets are imported using HTTPS and most browsers load pages successfully. However, in some circumstances, secure pages will load without page styling or JavaScript.
One place we've reproduced this consisten... | 2010/07/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/159129",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/45255/"
] | This turned out to be a problem with how we set up the certificate on our static content server. It was set up in Lighttpd such that Safari could not follow the certification chain to the intermediary cert from the root cert. We had to stack the certs in a single file and move the server cert to a pem file. Afterward, ... | I had the same problem with nginx. According to DigiCert and the nginx docs, the site certificate and the intermediate certificate need to be concatenated:
<http://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-nginx.htm>
<http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSslModule>
cat intermediate\_certificate.crt >> your\_domain\_name.cr... |
22,372 | I'm my experience, I found its customary to give at least two weeks notice when separating from your employer. How does this work when you're in a position with access to all systems?
There have been two other individuals in my time at my current employer that quit on the spot. When I enquired about this, a coworker ... | 2014/04/08 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22372",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/18597/"
] | It is very unlikely that those individuals gave zero notice. What almost certainly happened is that they gave the expected amount of notice, but the company decided not to require them to work that notice. That option is always open to a company, and is frequently used when the employee has access to confidential infor... | It depends on how bureaucratic the company is (regarding the access). it might take them a while to revoke the access. Also it depends on how critical your role is and what kind of mentoring you need to organize for whoever will take care of your responsibilities once you leave (or how you are going to document things ... |
55,045 | I understand the idea behind the commit phase, but when a site can easily spend weeks in the commit phase, isn't there a big danger that it's going to lose momentum? That all those who signed up for it forget about the site's existence? That some of them move on?
It doesn't really matter that you had 3000 people commi... | 2010/06/25 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55045",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/33213/"
] | It is already happening in my opinion. All the people that advocated a site during the proposal stage, and wrote answers, and discussed, and voted... then for a too long time has nothing to do.
I think that the proposal and commitment phase should somehow overlap a bit. | The appearance of a question on the new Area51 discussion site, [Is the reputation requirement during the commit phase too strict?](https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55/is-the-reputation-requirement-during-the-commit-phase-too-strict), reminded me of this one.
We've seen enough sites go under the bridge ... |
55,045 | I understand the idea behind the commit phase, but when a site can easily spend weeks in the commit phase, isn't there a big danger that it's going to lose momentum? That all those who signed up for it forget about the site's existence? That some of them move on?
It doesn't really matter that you had 3000 people commi... | 2010/06/25 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55045",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/33213/"
] | It is already happening in my opinion. All the people that advocated a site during the proposal stage, and wrote answers, and discussed, and voted... then for a too long time has nothing to do.
I think that the proposal and commitment phase should somehow overlap a bit. | Proposal: [**Genealogy & Family History**](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/43502/genealogy-family-history)
So we work hard to get it to go quickly up to 50% Commitment and then the brakes of the train stop as there are no more people with 200+ Rep available .... 51% ... 52% ... 52% ... 52% ... rigor mortis
... |
55,045 | I understand the idea behind the commit phase, but when a site can easily spend weeks in the commit phase, isn't there a big danger that it's going to lose momentum? That all those who signed up for it forget about the site's existence? That some of them move on?
It doesn't really matter that you had 3000 people commi... | 2010/06/25 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55045",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/33213/"
] | I think the solution would be to actually create a proposal site in private beta stage right after definition stage, so there will be real questions and real people answering them, not fake questions and undecided committers. Then in couple of weeks it will be clear whether or not this site idea is picked up and ready ... | The appearance of a question on the new Area51 discussion site, [Is the reputation requirement during the commit phase too strict?](https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55/is-the-reputation-requirement-during-the-commit-phase-too-strict), reminded me of this one.
We've seen enough sites go under the bridge ... |
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