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1,004,699 | I have a requirement to document the assembly dependencies in a vb6/dotnet application.
What techniques / tools are good for performing this sort of document.
I was planning on using Visio for drawing. | 2009/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1004699",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4490/"
] | As a start, try [Dependency Visualizer](http://www.codeplex.com/dependencyvisualizer). I've also used [GraphViz's Dot](http://www.graphviz.org) and some custom code for simple dependency generation. The custom code invoked SysInternal's depends.exe recursively and parsed the output. [.NET Reflector](http://www.red-gate... | Dependency visualizer is good for small projects. For projects or solutions with many inter dependencies it becomes too clumsy to even trace the dependency graph. |
1,004,699 | I have a requirement to document the assembly dependencies in a vb6/dotnet application.
What techniques / tools are good for performing this sort of document.
I was planning on using Visio for drawing. | 2009/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1004699",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4490/"
] | Have you had a look at [NDepend](http://www.ndepend.com/)? | To complete the Eric answer, NDepend comes indeed with a [dependency graph](http://www.ndepend.com/Doc_VS_Arch.aspx) coupled with a [dependency matrix](http://www.ndepend.com/Doc_Matrix.aspx).
![NDepend Dependency Matrix](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fpr6... |
1,004,699 | I have a requirement to document the assembly dependencies in a vb6/dotnet application.
What techniques / tools are good for performing this sort of document.
I was planning on using Visio for drawing. | 2009/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1004699",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4490/"
] | To complete the Eric answer, NDepend comes indeed with a [dependency graph](http://www.ndepend.com/Doc_VS_Arch.aspx) coupled with a [dependency matrix](http://www.ndepend.com/Doc_Matrix.aspx).
![NDepend Dependency Matrix](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fpr6... | Dependency visualizer is good for small projects. For projects or solutions with many inter dependencies it becomes too clumsy to even trace the dependency graph. |
1,004,699 | I have a requirement to document the assembly dependencies in a vb6/dotnet application.
What techniques / tools are good for performing this sort of document.
I was planning on using Visio for drawing. | 2009/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1004699",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4490/"
] | Well for .NET you could also try VS2010 Beta 1 and the Architecture Explorer [(Arch Explorer screen shots)](http://ajdotnet.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/visual-studio-2010-architecture-edition/).
As for VB6, I'd like to have a tool for that also. This tool from Microsoft [Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET Upgrade Asse... | You can create dependency graphs of .NET assemblies and application projects in VS 2010 Ultimate. You can generate assembly dependency graphs as one of the standard graphs, or you can use Architecture Explorer to browse your solution, select projects and the relationships that you want to visualize, and then create a d... |
1,004,699 | I have a requirement to document the assembly dependencies in a vb6/dotnet application.
What techniques / tools are good for performing this sort of document.
I was planning on using Visio for drawing. | 2009/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1004699",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4490/"
] | As a start, try [Dependency Visualizer](http://www.codeplex.com/dependencyvisualizer). I've also used [GraphViz's Dot](http://www.graphviz.org) and some custom code for simple dependency generation. The custom code invoked SysInternal's depends.exe recursively and parsed the output. [.NET Reflector](http://www.red-gate... | Have you had a look at [NDepend](http://www.ndepend.com/)? |
42,499 | Simon Blackburn is describing the Poetic Interpretation of ascending from Plato's Cave:
>
> Part of the charm of Plato is the sense of being in a world in which these fractures did not exist. Ours may be a world in which there is a division between fact on the one hand, and value on the other. But his world is, in th... | 2017/05/18 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/42499",
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] | "Does [Selfish desire has no place in the pure aesthetic experience] mean that purity comes with the consequence of selflessness? That if one is clean and pure they must be selfless?"
No, no, no. the causal relationship is the other way around. It is not the selflessness that allows you to experience purity, but it is... | I believe that the phrase explains that beauty in aesthetics is an a priori knowledge that is simultaneously the highest positive value and personification of truth. Aesthetics is an experiential phenomena that is external to ourselves and, ostensibly, is an appreciation for the truth of beauty (which is perceived as a... |
224,709 | I'm looking at writing a simple app indicator and I need it to update it's information whenever it's clicked on to open the menu. Is there any kind of on\_click action thing?
Let me rephrase it then: How to perform an action (any action) when the user clicks on the appindicator to open its menu? | 2012/12/02 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/224709",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/101066/"
] | An app indicator can only open its menu. It can't perform any other action and your program doesn't get notified when the menu is displayed.
You could either include some kind of "Update" menu item or find other events that trigger the update. | I have used the middle mouse click in one of my indicators to perform an action, so I think you could do the same... See related [answer](https://askubuntu.com/a/501050/67335).
*Note it only seems to work on Ubuntu (not Lubuntu/Xubuntu).* |
152,421 | What do you call the V-shaped figure one uses to check a checkbox? How about the X-shaped figure? | 2014/02/17 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/152421",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/11268/"
] | You might be looking for "check" or "tick", or "check mark" or "tick mark". | Do you mean a check mark (also called a tick)? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_mark>
The x-shaped mark can be called simply an x or a cross.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_mark> |
152,421 | What do you call the V-shaped figure one uses to check a checkbox? How about the X-shaped figure? | 2014/02/17 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/152421",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/11268/"
] | You might be looking for "check" or "tick", or "check mark" or "tick mark". | In the UK we were usually told to put [a tick or a cross](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=a%20tick%20or%20a%20cross&year_start=1930&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1;,a%20tick%20or%20a%20cross;,c0) in the appropriate box...
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/... |
333,467 | OK, I have an Alienware M14X and the keyboard backlight is always on and I can't turn it off... Google didn't me much. I want to turn it off because it's disturbing sometimes
I uninstalled Windows OS from my laptop so I can't really disable it from there | 2013/08/16 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/333467",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/180793/"
] | Change the color to black and it will be off. | For GNU-Linux systems you can use [alienware-kbl](http://rsm.imap.cc/software/gnu-linux/software/alienware-kbl). With that program you can control the lights of alienware computers. |
42 | One thing that we are starting to see are variations of the question of "what martial art should I practice." For example:
* [Is aikido a good addition to Karate? Or shoud I go for jiu-jitsu?](https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/94/is-aikido-a-good-addition-to-karate-or-shoud-i-go-for-jiu-jitsu)
* [Which m... | 2012/02/02 | [
"https://martialarts.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/42",
"https://martialarts.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | **"What martial arts focus on x?" -style questions**
Where x is "grappling" or "self-defense" or "high kicks" or "joint manipulation" seem perfectly valid to me. Some arts *do* focus on certain areas more than others. It seems plausible that the answers to these types of questions could provide valid, factual response... | I agree. The problem with these questions is that they are both subjective and too localised - the question of what martial art to practice depends on too many factors (age, location, past experience).
Possibly a question "**How do I choose** what martial art to practice?" would be useful. Something like this would st... |
42 | One thing that we are starting to see are variations of the question of "what martial art should I practice." For example:
* [Is aikido a good addition to Karate? Or shoud I go for jiu-jitsu?](https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/94/is-aikido-a-good-addition-to-karate-or-shoud-i-go-for-jiu-jitsu)
* [Which m... | 2012/02/02 | [
"https://martialarts.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/42",
"https://martialarts.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | **"What martial arts focus on x?" -style questions**
Where x is "grappling" or "self-defense" or "high kicks" or "joint manipulation" seem perfectly valid to me. Some arts *do* focus on certain areas more than others. It seems plausible that the answers to these types of questions could provide valid, factual response... | 'What martial arts should I practice' is off-topic, because too personal - but this question comes up often, so the community should probably examine the possibility of a community wiki and/or a series of questions that can help someone decide. Not being able to offer insight into this question would be, I feel, a flaw... |
49,271 | Watching films of Miles Davis performing in the 50's and 60's I noticed that whenever his solo was done he would take his index finger and press it beneath his right ear. Sometimes he would also shake his head as if it were painful to do so. I'm not sure if he did this later in his career or not. He acted very differen... | 2016/10/03 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/49271",
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] | I believe it was to complaint to the band of some other aspect of the performance(intonation,rhythm, etc) he did not like. I do not have any specific source to back this at the moment, though I know that he was extremely sensitive of musicians playing slightly out of tune. | I always interpreted it as he was asking the band to "listen" - pay close attention to what is happening. |
49,271 | Watching films of Miles Davis performing in the 50's and 60's I noticed that whenever his solo was done he would take his index finger and press it beneath his right ear. Sometimes he would also shake his head as if it were painful to do so. I'm not sure if he did this later in his career or not. He acted very differen... | 2016/10/03 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/49271",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/23661/"
] | I believe it was to complaint to the band of some other aspect of the performance(intonation,rhythm, etc) he did not like. I do not have any specific source to back this at the moment, though I know that he was extremely sensitive of musicians playing slightly out of tune. | I would suspect that he had temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction and pain below the ear. It’s only a guess, but common to press or rub the muscles around that joint where the lower jaw (mandible) articulates with upper jaw. |
49,271 | Watching films of Miles Davis performing in the 50's and 60's I noticed that whenever his solo was done he would take his index finger and press it beneath his right ear. Sometimes he would also shake his head as if it were painful to do so. I'm not sure if he did this later in his career or not. He acted very differen... | 2016/10/03 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/49271",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/23661/"
] | Watching the Tonight Show from 1964, it seems he was angry about some aspect of the sound balance. When he does it during the blues, he changes where he's playing on the mic, putting his bell way past it, so maybe he thought he was way too hot and not balanced with the rest of the band. During So What, when he does it,... | I always interpreted it as he was asking the band to "listen" - pay close attention to what is happening. |
49,271 | Watching films of Miles Davis performing in the 50's and 60's I noticed that whenever his solo was done he would take his index finger and press it beneath his right ear. Sometimes he would also shake his head as if it were painful to do so. I'm not sure if he did this later in his career or not. He acted very differen... | 2016/10/03 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/49271",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/23661/"
] | I've seen him do this countless times and I believe it's either some tick, OR it's something he consciously does on purpose simply to add to the mysteriousness that of which is... Miles Davis. | I always interpreted it as he was asking the band to "listen" - pay close attention to what is happening. |
49,271 | Watching films of Miles Davis performing in the 50's and 60's I noticed that whenever his solo was done he would take his index finger and press it beneath his right ear. Sometimes he would also shake his head as if it were painful to do so. I'm not sure if he did this later in his career or not. He acted very differen... | 2016/10/03 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/49271",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/23661/"
] | The best I found via lmgtfy was these:
From [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/2kqxly/miles_davis_plugging_his_ears_during_a_lester/?st=itved15t&sh=8636e34b)
>
> I always heard Miles would cover his ears to hear the other soloist
> better.
>
>
>
OTOH, an [interview](http://hepcat1950.com/mdiv_sy.ht... | I would suspect that he had temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction and pain below the ear. It’s only a guess, but common to press or rub the muscles around that joint where the lower jaw (mandible) articulates with upper jaw. |
49,271 | Watching films of Miles Davis performing in the 50's and 60's I noticed that whenever his solo was done he would take his index finger and press it beneath his right ear. Sometimes he would also shake his head as if it were painful to do so. I'm not sure if he did this later in his career or not. He acted very differen... | 2016/10/03 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/49271",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/23661/"
] | The best I found via lmgtfy was these:
From [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/2kqxly/miles_davis_plugging_his_ears_during_a_lester/?st=itved15t&sh=8636e34b)
>
> I always heard Miles would cover his ears to hear the other soloist
> better.
>
>
>
OTOH, an [interview](http://hepcat1950.com/mdiv_sy.ht... | I always interpreted it as he was asking the band to "listen" - pay close attention to what is happening. |
49,271 | Watching films of Miles Davis performing in the 50's and 60's I noticed that whenever his solo was done he would take his index finger and press it beneath his right ear. Sometimes he would also shake his head as if it were painful to do so. I'm not sure if he did this later in his career or not. He acted very differen... | 2016/10/03 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/49271",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/23661/"
] | Watching the Tonight Show from 1964, it seems he was angry about some aspect of the sound balance. When he does it during the blues, he changes where he's playing on the mic, putting his bell way past it, so maybe he thought he was way too hot and not balanced with the rest of the band. During So What, when he does it,... | I believe it was to complaint to the band of some other aspect of the performance(intonation,rhythm, etc) he did not like. I do not have any specific source to back this at the moment, though I know that he was extremely sensitive of musicians playing slightly out of tune. |
49,271 | Watching films of Miles Davis performing in the 50's and 60's I noticed that whenever his solo was done he would take his index finger and press it beneath his right ear. Sometimes he would also shake his head as if it were painful to do so. I'm not sure if he did this later in his career or not. He acted very differen... | 2016/10/03 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/49271",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/23661/"
] | I've seen him do this countless times and I believe it's either some tick, OR it's something he consciously does on purpose simply to add to the mysteriousness that of which is... Miles Davis. | I would suspect that he had temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction and pain below the ear. It’s only a guess, but common to press or rub the muscles around that joint where the lower jaw (mandible) articulates with upper jaw. |
49,271 | Watching films of Miles Davis performing in the 50's and 60's I noticed that whenever his solo was done he would take his index finger and press it beneath his right ear. Sometimes he would also shake his head as if it were painful to do so. I'm not sure if he did this later in his career or not. He acted very differen... | 2016/10/03 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/49271",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/23661/"
] | Watching the Tonight Show from 1964, it seems he was angry about some aspect of the sound balance. When he does it during the blues, he changes where he's playing on the mic, putting his bell way past it, so maybe he thought he was way too hot and not balanced with the rest of the band. During So What, when he does it,... | I've seen him do this countless times and I believe it's either some tick, OR it's something he consciously does on purpose simply to add to the mysteriousness that of which is... Miles Davis. |
49,271 | Watching films of Miles Davis performing in the 50's and 60's I noticed that whenever his solo was done he would take his index finger and press it beneath his right ear. Sometimes he would also shake his head as if it were painful to do so. I'm not sure if he did this later in his career or not. He acted very differen... | 2016/10/03 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/49271",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/23661/"
] | Watching the Tonight Show from 1964, it seems he was angry about some aspect of the sound balance. When he does it during the blues, he changes where he's playing on the mic, putting his bell way past it, so maybe he thought he was way too hot and not balanced with the rest of the band. During So What, when he does it,... | I would suspect that he had temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction and pain below the ear. It’s only a guess, but common to press or rub the muscles around that joint where the lower jaw (mandible) articulates with upper jaw. |
30,654 | How would you describe the **Power Law** in simple words? The Wikipedia entry is too long and verbose. I would like to understand the concept of the power law and how and why it shows up everywhere.
For example, a recent Economist article **[Cry havoc! And let slip the maths of war](http://www.economist.com/node/18483... | 2011/04/03 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/30654",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/8941/"
] | Just to expand on Ross Millikan's answer. Power-laws are important and pop up all the time because they obey [scale-invariance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariance). Scale-invariance is the property that a system behaves the same when all length-scales are multiplied with a common factor. System show scale in... | An easy to read article with data: <http://www.jmir.org/2015/6/e160/> |
2,862,370 | I'm building a Route Planner Webapp using Spring/Hibernate/Tomcat and a mysql database,
I have a database containing read only data, such as Bus Stop Coordinates, Bus times which is never updated. I'm trying to make the app run faster, each time the application is run it will preform approx 1000 reads to the database ... | 2010/05/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2862370",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/310783/"
] | >
> I have setup a Ehcache which greatly improves the read from database times. I'm now setting terracotta + Ehcache distributed caching to share the cache with multiple Tomcat JVMs. This seems a bit complicated.
>
>
>
Since your data are read-only, I'm tempted to say that you could live without [distributed and r... | First of all mongodb is not a cache per se. its a persistent data store just like mysql is a persistent data store.
so now your question boils down to "should i use ehcache or redis". having used ehcache i can tell you that is a pretty good solution for a distributed cache that does replication/clustering, cache inval... |
2,862,370 | I'm building a Route Planner Webapp using Spring/Hibernate/Tomcat and a mysql database,
I have a database containing read only data, such as Bus Stop Coordinates, Bus times which is never updated. I'm trying to make the app run faster, each time the application is run it will preform approx 1000 reads to the database ... | 2010/05/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2862370",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/310783/"
] | if you want to try routing, you even might look at Neo4j, see [the blog on using an A\* algo for](http://blogs.neotechnology.com/peter/2010/04/cool-spatial-algos-with-neo4j-part1-routing-with-a.html) | First of all mongodb is not a cache per se. its a persistent data store just like mysql is a persistent data store.
so now your question boils down to "should i use ehcache or redis". having used ehcache i can tell you that is a pretty good solution for a distributed cache that does replication/clustering, cache inval... |
2,388 | This question has been closed as general reference: [Who is the cat in chapter 17 of Prisoner of Azkaban?](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26481/who-was-the-cat-in-the-chapter-17-of-3rd-book)
I think the question deserves downvotes but not close votes. If you see comments there, CVers have chosen Wikia and G... | 2012/11/03 | [
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2388",
"https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | The Wikipedia entry for [Prisoner of Azkaban](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_azkaban) describes clearly the relevant plot from chapter 17.
>
> While at his cabin, **Hermione discovers *Scabbers* in Hagrid's milk jug**.
> They leave, and Buckbeak is executed. As Ron, Harry, and Hermione are
> leaving Hagri... | >
> [We should only consider as general reference questions that can be easily answered by typing all or part of the question into Google](https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/689/3267)
>
>
>
[Who is the cat in Prisoner of Azkaban](https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=les;&gs_nf=3&tok=gtK427mJW24YjdkLF-IbcA&cp=3... |
29,642 | I noticed in the book "A Beautiful Mind", by Sylvia Nasar, that a recommendation letter, for PhD applications, written for John F. Nash runs as follows: *This man is a genius.*
Then, out of curiosity, I wonder that if such reference letters for PhD applications work in the present days?
Image taken from the [Graduat... | 2014/10/09 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29642",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/18107/"
] | Even though the event that inspired this questions may or may not have actually happened, the question is still a valid one.
I suspect it greatly depends on who wrote the recommendation. If the person writing that recommendation is a great authority in this field and is known for not giving praise easily, then such a... | A letter that simply states "This man is a genius" is not helpful for judging the likelihood of a PhD applicant being successful since it takes a lot more than genius to succeed at a PhD and genius is not a requirement for success. Further, the skills required to become "academically famous" do not necessarily make you... |
29,642 | I noticed in the book "A Beautiful Mind", by Sylvia Nasar, that a recommendation letter, for PhD applications, written for John F. Nash runs as follows: *This man is a genius.*
Then, out of curiosity, I wonder that if such reference letters for PhD applications work in the present days?
Image taken from the [Graduat... | 2014/10/09 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29642",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/18107/"
] | Even though the event that inspired this questions may or may not have actually happened, the question is still a valid one.
I suspect it greatly depends on who wrote the recommendation. If the person writing that recommendation is a great authority in this field and is known for not giving praise easily, then such a... | In my experience, most communities of high achieving people don't openly value intelligence. Generally they dismiss it and say that hard work and luck is what's really important. And they would laugh at you if you wrote your IQ score on your resume.
If someone said "Person X is very smart" and didn't write anything el... |
29,642 | I noticed in the book "A Beautiful Mind", by Sylvia Nasar, that a recommendation letter, for PhD applications, written for John F. Nash runs as follows: *This man is a genius.*
Then, out of curiosity, I wonder that if such reference letters for PhD applications work in the present days?
Image taken from the [Graduat... | 2014/10/09 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29642",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/18107/"
] | A letter that simply states "This man is a genius" is not helpful for judging the likelihood of a PhD applicant being successful since it takes a lot more than genius to succeed at a PhD and genius is not a requirement for success. Further, the skills required to become "academically famous" do not necessarily make you... | In my experience, most communities of high achieving people don't openly value intelligence. Generally they dismiss it and say that hard work and luck is what's really important. And they would laugh at you if you wrote your IQ score on your resume.
If someone said "Person X is very smart" and didn't write anything el... |
120,940 | I am creating a resumé. I want to know whether mentioning stackoverflow profile counts for much in terms of interview factors, e.g. showing my knowledgeability and performance. | 2012/02/01 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120940",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/177840/"
] | It entirely depends on the person who is going to interview you, I guess. And of course, what your profile looks like. In general, Stack Overflow has become a very well-known resource over the past years - especially in the US, there is a good chance your interviewer knows the site.
If you are referring to your [curre... | Currently the answer is No, as Pekka [already said](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/120941/152859).
However, if and when you will gain enough reputation you will be invited to create a professional profile [here](http://careers.stackoverflow.com/). ( Stack Overflow Careers site)
This can be introduced in job intervi... |
10,789 | I was riding late in the night and weather was colder than what we normally have.
(May not be cold for others, but it was cold for us, people used to with typical subcontinental weather. Temperature had dropped to 5 oC, which is wayyy cold for us)
While riding my way back home which takes hours, I kept on getting te... | 2016/02/04 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/10789",
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] | **EDIT:** Please also read the other answer, which tells you why wrong (well perhaps not for 100% of the cases=)
This is just *my* experience: I would warm up if I felt cold and had the opportunity to do so. Sure, slowly getting cold again is not comfortable, but staying cold for an even longer time is worse.
Anothe... | I think part of what is missing in your question and the answer by flawr is core body temperature.
When you first get cold your body automatically shunts blood away from the surface of your skin to decrease heat loss. As you get colder your core body temperature falls (you could think of it like the cold sinking in, ... |
1,435,959 | Does PHP have global variables that can be modified by one running script and read by another? | 2009/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1435959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | No, by design PHP is a "share nothing" architecture, which means nothing is shared between processes running at the same time or between requests running one after another. There are ways to share data, but you have to do it explicitly.
If you just want to share between 2 requests from the same user, sessions or cooki... | Not as such, but you can use cookies or sessions to maintain data for duration of a user's browsing experience, or you can write to a database or file on-disk if the information needs to persist beyond that. |
1,435,959 | Does PHP have global variables that can be modified by one running script and read by another? | 2009/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1435959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | Each request is handled by a php instance of its own. Global variables in php are only accessible from within the same php instance. However you can use something like the [memchached module](http://docs.php.net/memcached) to share data between different instances (which should usually be faster than writing the data t... | Global variables are bad in most programming. They're especially bad in multithreaded/multiuser systems like webapps. Avoid. If you must use global variables (rather than global constants) put them in a database with transactions guarding updates.
Since you talk about different scripts though, it sounds like what you ... |
1,435,959 | Does PHP have global variables that can be modified by one running script and read by another? | 2009/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1435959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/41021/"
] | Not as such, but you can use cookies or sessions to maintain data for duration of a user's browsing experience, or you can write to a database or file on-disk if the information needs to persist beyond that. | Global variables are bad in most programming. They're especially bad in multithreaded/multiuser systems like webapps. Avoid. If you must use global variables (rather than global constants) put them in a database with transactions guarding updates.
Since you talk about different scripts though, it sounds like what you ... |
1,435,959 | Does PHP have global variables that can be modified by one running script and read by another? | 2009/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1435959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/41021/"
] | Each request is handled by a php instance of its own. Global variables in php are only accessible from within the same php instance. However you can use something like the [memchached module](http://docs.php.net/memcached) to share data between different instances (which should usually be faster than writing the data t... | Not as such, but you can use cookies or sessions to maintain data for duration of a user's browsing experience, or you can write to a database or file on-disk if the information needs to persist beyond that. |
1,435,959 | Does PHP have global variables that can be modified by one running script and read by another? | 2009/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1435959",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/41021/"
] | You can actually do this using [shared memory](http://us.php.net/sem), or [APC](http://php.net/apc) (which is using shared memory itself). | Not as such, but you can use cookies or sessions to maintain data for duration of a user's browsing experience, or you can write to a database or file on-disk if the information needs to persist beyond that. |
314,892 | I've been using MongoDB on CentOS with ext4 for a few months now with no problems. I'm potentially going to be moving to Joyentcloud, and their SmartOS is based off of OpenSolaris and uses ZFS. I'm wondering if there could be some downsides to switching to this for MongoDB? | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/314892",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/8964/"
] | If you want all mails redirected to Gmail, then you can accept it there instead. Without redirecting. All mails are handled at Google directly. This is called [Google Apps](http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html) and is free for no charge for a limited amount of users. And as I understood you only have ... | MailEnable is a lightwieght and free Windows mail server, dead easy too
Google for it, you can set it up as easy or as complex as you like
Good luck |
130,682 | As far as I can see a cape and a hood are mostly identical type of clothing. Does that mean that they are synonyms? What's the difference between them?
I was watching the cartoon and the movie and she isn't wearing a hood, she wears a cape and a hat there. Why is her name Red Riding Hood, what does riding mean? And wh... | 2017/05/27 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/130682",
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] | Capes and hoods are not identical. They can be worn together, but they are separate pieces of clothing. Capes are sleeveless cloaks, often associated with superhero attire. Long, flowing pieces of material affixed to the neck/shoulder area in some fashion.
[](http... | A riding hood is [*an enveloping hood or hooded cloak worn for riding and as an outdoor wrap by women and children.* - M-W](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riding%20hood) This kind of garb was probably more common when people routinely got around on horseback (like in the days when popular old children's sto... |
2,410 | We often seem to accept the idea that there were periods of time in which the entire surface of Earth was frozen, for the most part. This implies that there were periods of time in which the entire surface was NOT frozen over. Thus, there must have been heat and energy present on the surface. How did all that energy mo... | 2014/08/27 | [
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2410",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com",
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] | I'm not quite sure if the question is asking about glacial, ice ages, or snowball Earth, and whether it's about the onset or end of a glacial period. I'll try to hit all three.
Ice Ages and Milankovitch Cycles
--------------------------------
Ice ages are long spans of time that marked by periods of time during which... | What's not been touched yet, and the current answers do cover a lot of ground, is the variability of solar input.
Even IF the amount of energy radiated out by the earth remains the same (and it probably would, roughly), solar input is highly variable and is a major factor in determining the total energy budget of th... |
2,410 | We often seem to accept the idea that there were periods of time in which the entire surface of Earth was frozen, for the most part. This implies that there were periods of time in which the entire surface was NOT frozen over. Thus, there must have been heat and energy present on the surface. How did all that energy mo... | 2014/08/27 | [
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2410",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/users/813/"
] | I'm not quite sure if the question is asking about glacial, ice ages, or snowball Earth, and whether it's about the onset or end of a glacial period. I'll try to hit all three.
Ice Ages and Milankovitch Cycles
--------------------------------
Ice ages are long spans of time that marked by periods of time during which... | ,
I propose that the “snow ball Earth” was brought to a close by the dust from a huge meteorite (the largest known on Earth) impacting Australia (see <http://charles_w.tripod.com/antipode.html> ) settling onto the ice and melting it by a bare soil warming affect (see <http://charles_w.tripod.com/climate.html> ) and th... |
2,410 | We often seem to accept the idea that there were periods of time in which the entire surface of Earth was frozen, for the most part. This implies that there were periods of time in which the entire surface was NOT frozen over. Thus, there must have been heat and energy present on the surface. How did all that energy mo... | 2014/08/27 | [
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2410",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/users/813/"
] | I'm not quite sure if the question is asking about glacial, ice ages, or snowball Earth, and whether it's about the onset or end of a glacial period. I'll try to hit all three.
Ice Ages and Milankovitch Cycles
--------------------------------
Ice ages are long spans of time that marked by periods of time during which... | One cause of glaciation on earth is dust from volcanic activities ie you have heard the term volcanic or nuclear winter.
During glaciation continental plates with a mile or two of ice piled upon them increase vastly in weight and actually sink. When we see a rock we see a hard stone object, but that rock within the ea... |
2,410 | We often seem to accept the idea that there were periods of time in which the entire surface of Earth was frozen, for the most part. This implies that there were periods of time in which the entire surface was NOT frozen over. Thus, there must have been heat and energy present on the surface. How did all that energy mo... | 2014/08/27 | [
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2410",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/users/813/"
] | What's not been touched yet, and the current answers do cover a lot of ground, is the variability of solar input.
Even IF the amount of energy radiated out by the earth remains the same (and it probably would, roughly), solar input is highly variable and is a major factor in determining the total energy budget of th... | ,
I propose that the “snow ball Earth” was brought to a close by the dust from a huge meteorite (the largest known on Earth) impacting Australia (see <http://charles_w.tripod.com/antipode.html> ) settling onto the ice and melting it by a bare soil warming affect (see <http://charles_w.tripod.com/climate.html> ) and th... |
2,410 | We often seem to accept the idea that there were periods of time in which the entire surface of Earth was frozen, for the most part. This implies that there were periods of time in which the entire surface was NOT frozen over. Thus, there must have been heat and energy present on the surface. How did all that energy mo... | 2014/08/27 | [
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2410",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/users/813/"
] | What's not been touched yet, and the current answers do cover a lot of ground, is the variability of solar input.
Even IF the amount of energy radiated out by the earth remains the same (and it probably would, roughly), solar input is highly variable and is a major factor in determining the total energy budget of th... | One cause of glaciation on earth is dust from volcanic activities ie you have heard the term volcanic or nuclear winter.
During glaciation continental plates with a mile or two of ice piled upon them increase vastly in weight and actually sink. When we see a rock we see a hard stone object, but that rock within the ea... |
8,581 | ### Context:
I'm a Psychology PhD student. As with many psychology PhD students, I know how to perform various statistical analyses using statistical software, up to techniques such as PCA, classification trees, and cluster analysis.
But it's not really satisfying because though I can explain why I did an analysis and... | 2011/03/21 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/8581",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/3827/"
] | ### Overview:
* My impression is that your experience is common to a lot of students in the social sciences.
* The starting point is a motivation to learn.
* You can go down either **self-taught** or **formal instruction** routes.
### Formal instruction:
There are many options in this regard.
You might consider a ma... | I get the impression that you think that you can get insight into a statistical equation
by programming it into either R or C++; you can't. To understand a statistical equation,
find an "undergraduate" textbook with lots of homework problems at the end of each chapter that contains the equation, and then do the homewor... |
210,811 | So I created the text with the add text button - I'm using version 2.91 - then I went to the right tab with all the properties functions: world properties, materials properties, physics properties, etc., then I extruded the text a bit(stretched it).
Next, I went to the materials tab to color it, clicked on new , the s... | 2021/02/06 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/210811",
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] | You probably need to switch preview modes. Press Z in the 3D viewport and pick either "Material Preview" or "Rendered" from the pie menu. The Preview Modes and Viewport Shading Options can also be accessed from the 4 circles and the little down arrow, respectively, at the top right of the viewport:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3dQ7G.png) |
21,419 | For us IIS URL Rewrite module is the way to go.
How can sitemanager maintain Urls and publish on demand?
Do we need to make an exception in cd deployer to publish it to disk?
Before DXA we published Rewrite.config to filesystem and used that file from web.config.
With DXA it can be created [like this](http://www.... | 2021/01/24 | [
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com/questions/21419",
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] | You can publish the rewrite.config to the broker and extend something like the [URLRewrite.NET](https://github.com/Bikeman868/UrlRewrite.Net) module to load the configuration from the database instead of the filesystem. The cool thing is that you can use it ahead of the DXA Static context module and before DXA starts p... | Please refer to the link from the documentation [link](https://docs.sdl.com/792164/573605/sdl-digital-experience-accelerator-2-0/adding-a-redirect-page)
If you still want to manage the redirection you can use the re-write module on IIS web config |
21,419 | For us IIS URL Rewrite module is the way to go.
How can sitemanager maintain Urls and publish on demand?
Do we need to make an exception in cd deployer to publish it to disk?
Before DXA we published Rewrite.config to filesystem and used that file from web.config.
With DXA it can be created [like this](http://www.... | 2021/01/24 | [
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com/questions/21419",
"https://tridion.stackexchange.com",
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] | You can publish the rewrite.config to the broker and extend something like the [URLRewrite.NET](https://github.com/Bikeman868/UrlRewrite.Net) module to load the configuration from the database instead of the filesystem. The cool thing is that you can use it ahead of the DXA Static context module and before DXA starts p... | We have come across a legacy solution which was maintaining URL redirects and rewrites in a component and publish that as a config file to the file system (you need to configure .config extension in the storage config to publish this to the file system).
Here is an issue with this approach:
* The config file have it's... |
52,725 | John 1:29 KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 12:47 KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. | 2020/10/31 | [
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] | Does John teach Universalism? Yes and NO! Let me be more specific.
There is an important difference between the **provision** of salvation and the reality of salvation. The Bible clearly teaches that the **provision** of salvation is universal but the **actuality** is not. In the writings of John we have:
* John 1:29... | I believe the correct answer is YES.
In John 1:7
>
> The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that **all men through him might believe**.
>
>
>
John 3:17 states that God sent the Son, who is the God's Word to save the world
>
> For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,... |
52,725 | John 1:29 KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 12:47 KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. | 2020/10/31 | [
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] | Does John teach Universalism? Yes and NO! Let me be more specific.
There is an important difference between the **provision** of salvation and the reality of salvation. The Bible clearly teaches that the **provision** of salvation is universal but the **actuality** is not. In the writings of John we have:
* John 1:29... | The question is a bit ambiguous, for it gives two quotes - John 1:29 an John 12:47 - which have quite different connotations: the first clearly shows that according to John Jesus' ministry is for the entire world and not just for one chosen nation of Jews, and there are quite a few passages in John that confirm the sam... |
52,725 | John 1:29 KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 12:47 KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. | 2020/10/31 | [
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] | Does John teach Universalism? Yes and NO! Let me be more specific.
There is an important difference between the **provision** of salvation and the reality of salvation. The Bible clearly teaches that the **provision** of salvation is universal but the **actuality** is not. In the writings of John we have:
* John 1:29... | That the Father sent the Son to be the saviour of the world and that John declares of him ‘Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world’, does not suggest, in any way, a ‘Christian Universalism’, that is to say the notion that, automatically, all humankind shall be saved irrespective of their behaviour... |
52,725 | John 1:29 KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 12:47 KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. | 2020/10/31 | [
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] | John is a fascinating philosophical take. Its perception in scholarship has also evolved remarkably. Pretty much everything we thought we knew about John has changed in the 20th century, particularly since the 1980s. There has been new knowledge about John that has come from excavation of the pool of Bethesda to the re... | The greater question of the question posed is, ***“Does Scripture support the Universalism?”*** And do the passages-John 1:29 & 12:47 support the Universalism?
**1. The Universalism** (differ from the Universal atonement)
The modern-day Universalism -Christian Universalism - is a specific theological term for a belie... |
52,725 | John 1:29 KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 12:47 KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. | 2020/10/31 | [
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] | The greater question of the question posed is, ***“Does Scripture support the Universalism?”*** And do the passages-John 1:29 & 12:47 support the Universalism?
**1. The Universalism** (differ from the Universal atonement)
The modern-day Universalism -Christian Universalism - is a specific theological term for a belie... | The question is a bit ambiguous, for it gives two quotes - John 1:29 an John 12:47 - which have quite different connotations: the first clearly shows that according to John Jesus' ministry is for the entire world and not just for one chosen nation of Jews, and there are quite a few passages in John that confirm the sam... |
52,725 | John 1:29 KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 12:47 KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. | 2020/10/31 | [
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] | Does John teach Universalism? Yes and NO! Let me be more specific.
There is an important difference between the **provision** of salvation and the reality of salvation. The Bible clearly teaches that the **provision** of salvation is universal but the **actuality** is not. In the writings of John we have:
* John 1:29... | The greater question of the question posed is, ***“Does Scripture support the Universalism?”*** And do the passages-John 1:29 & 12:47 support the Universalism?
**1. The Universalism** (differ from the Universal atonement)
The modern-day Universalism -Christian Universalism - is a specific theological term for a belie... |
52,725 | John 1:29 KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 12:47 KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. | 2020/10/31 | [
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] | Does John teach Universalism? Yes and NO! Let me be more specific.
There is an important difference between the **provision** of salvation and the reality of salvation. The Bible clearly teaches that the **provision** of salvation is universal but the **actuality** is not. In the writings of John we have:
* John 1:29... | John is a fascinating philosophical take. Its perception in scholarship has also evolved remarkably. Pretty much everything we thought we knew about John has changed in the 20th century, particularly since the 1980s. There has been new knowledge about John that has come from excavation of the pool of Bethesda to the re... |
52,725 | John 1:29 KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 12:47 KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. | 2020/10/31 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/52725",
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] | That the Father sent the Son to be the saviour of the world and that John declares of him ‘Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world’, does not suggest, in any way, a ‘Christian Universalism’, that is to say the notion that, automatically, all humankind shall be saved irrespective of their behaviour... | The question is a bit ambiguous, for it gives two quotes - John 1:29 an John 12:47 - which have quite different connotations: the first clearly shows that according to John Jesus' ministry is for the entire world and not just for one chosen nation of Jews, and there are quite a few passages in John that confirm the sam... |
52,725 | John 1:29 KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 12:47 KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. | 2020/10/31 | [
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] | I believe the correct answer is YES.
In John 1:7
>
> The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that **all men through him might believe**.
>
>
>
John 3:17 states that God sent the Son, who is the God's Word to save the world
>
> For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,... | The greater question of the question posed is, ***“Does Scripture support the Universalism?”*** And do the passages-John 1:29 & 12:47 support the Universalism?
**1. The Universalism** (differ from the Universal atonement)
The modern-day Universalism -Christian Universalism - is a specific theological term for a belie... |
52,725 | John 1:29 KJV
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 12:47 KJV
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. | 2020/10/31 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/52725",
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] | That the Father sent the Son to be the saviour of the world and that John declares of him ‘Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world’, does not suggest, in any way, a ‘Christian Universalism’, that is to say the notion that, automatically, all humankind shall be saved irrespective of their behaviour... | The greater question of the question posed is, ***“Does Scripture support the Universalism?”*** And do the passages-John 1:29 & 12:47 support the Universalism?
**1. The Universalism** (differ from the Universal atonement)
The modern-day Universalism -Christian Universalism - is a specific theological term for a belie... |
54,006 | Does Virgin Galatic go into space high enough to experience real weightlessness?
A CNBC article states it's more microgravity centrifugal:
>
> The spacecraft essentially does a slow back flip at the edge of space, with passengers spending a few minutes floating in microgravity
>
>
>
*[How SpaceX, Virgin Galactic... | 2021/07/06 | [
"https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/54006",
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"https://space.stackexchange.com/users/42278/"
] | Yes, for a few minutes. It is similar to what is done in a zero gravity airplane flight, but a longer period of time.
Also, orbital weightlessness is basically the same thing, the spacecraft and you are falling at the same rate. | Virgin Galactic's flights are sub-orbital and pass below the [Kármán line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line) (about 100 km up), so technically the passengers don't qualify as astronauts in space, but while they experience weightlessness, this is a consequence of the trajectory of their spacecraft rat... |
54,006 | Does Virgin Galatic go into space high enough to experience real weightlessness?
A CNBC article states it's more microgravity centrifugal:
>
> The spacecraft essentially does a slow back flip at the edge of space, with passengers spending a few minutes floating in microgravity
>
>
>
*[How SpaceX, Virgin Galactic... | 2021/07/06 | [
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] | This is a point worth emphasizing: When you dive off a high dive, or go on a free fall ride at an amusement park, or fly on Virgin Galactic, you are experiencing weightlessness in exactly the same way as the astronauts on the ISS.
At the height of the ISS, the earth's gravity is about [90% of what it is at sea level](... | Virgin Galactic's flights are sub-orbital and pass below the [Kármán line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line) (about 100 km up), so technically the passengers don't qualify as astronauts in space, but while they experience weightlessness, this is a consequence of the trajectory of their spacecraft rat... |
177,098 | <https://stackoverflow.com/a/16086837/438992> (10k+)
The question is (redux) "Is there an advantage/difference" but it's a simple shortcut method, and the says so explicitly. Few of the other answers offer significantly more information, except for Stefan's.
At least partially I suspect it's some intra-user hostility... | 2013/04/18 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/177098",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/168933/"
] | It seems to me that your answer is too terse to qualify. 'The docs'? The docs of what? I know you mean jQuery, but to the google-landing reader, it's potentially opaque. A slightly more verbose formulation ("They do exactly the same thing, one is a notational shortcut for the other, see the jQuery doc") would pass in m... | Since it was my question, I would say that my only gripe with your answer was that I was interested in the theoretical, not the practical differences, and why people would have a preference. I stated in the question that I knew both methods worked, so while I didn't necessarily agree that yours wasn't a valid answer, i... |
177,098 | <https://stackoverflow.com/a/16086837/438992> (10k+)
The question is (redux) "Is there an advantage/difference" but it's a simple shortcut method, and the says so explicitly. Few of the other answers offer significantly more information, except for Stefan's.
At least partially I suspect it's some intra-user hostility... | 2013/04/18 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/177098",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/168933/"
] | It seems to me that your answer is too terse to qualify. 'The docs'? The docs of what? I know you mean jQuery, but to the google-landing reader, it's potentially opaque. A slightly more verbose formulation ("They do exactly the same thing, one is a notational shortcut for the other, see the jQuery doc") would pass in m... | I was going to answer "Too terse", but that was too terse. |
19,204 | There is a study that users do not go past top 3-5 pages in a Google search, on which predominantly everybody would agree. If you would get your best results - it means to be within the top 5 page at least. Merely users abandon to search or change the query if the results do not get laid in the first few pages. In that... | 2012/03/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19204",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11604/"
] | You have to realize that Google's or Bing's job as search engine is not worry about the behavior of their users with regards to how deep they are willing to dig to get results.
Their role is provide relevant search results based upon the keywords entered and the matching SEO of the site.Though Google (and Bing) use [... | Users often do not find a good result in the first page - this depends on how specific of a result they are looking for and how many false matches fit their query.
I personally often go through a few pages of search results before refining the search query to try and improve the quality of the results. |
19,204 | There is a study that users do not go past top 3-5 pages in a Google search, on which predominantly everybody would agree. If you would get your best results - it means to be within the top 5 page at least. Merely users abandon to search or change the query if the results do not get laid in the first few pages. In that... | 2012/03/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19204",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11604/"
] | Why not show them? The data is there, and on the first dozens of pages it's still pretty relevant. In terms of UI it doesn't cost you anything because you're using the same paging control that lets the users navigate through the first pages. If you tell your users that you've got millions of results but you only let th... | Users often do not find a good result in the first page - this depends on how specific of a result they are looking for and how many false matches fit their query.
I personally often go through a few pages of search results before refining the search query to try and improve the quality of the results. |
19,204 | There is a study that users do not go past top 3-5 pages in a Google search, on which predominantly everybody would agree. If you would get your best results - it means to be within the top 5 page at least. Merely users abandon to search or change the query if the results do not get laid in the first few pages. In that... | 2012/03/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19204",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11604/"
] | It's a way to improve search result quality by letting users explore information found in long tail of the result.
More importantly, having long tail mitigates a dangerous feedback loop in which the first few pages results get disproportionately higher ranking. | Users often do not find a good result in the first page - this depends on how specific of a result they are looking for and how many false matches fit their query.
I personally often go through a few pages of search results before refining the search query to try and improve the quality of the results. |
19,204 | There is a study that users do not go past top 3-5 pages in a Google search, on which predominantly everybody would agree. If you would get your best results - it means to be within the top 5 page at least. Merely users abandon to search or change the query if the results do not get laid in the first few pages. In that... | 2012/03/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19204",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11604/"
] | Search engines such as Google or Bing devote their resources to having high-precision queries for common, precision-oriented information needs. Think of them as recommender systems for popular documents. This works great when you're interested (as many people seem to be) in what Britney Spears is up to, for example.
I... | Users often do not find a good result in the first page - this depends on how specific of a result they are looking for and how many false matches fit their query.
I personally often go through a few pages of search results before refining the search query to try and improve the quality of the results. |
19,204 | There is a study that users do not go past top 3-5 pages in a Google search, on which predominantly everybody would agree. If you would get your best results - it means to be within the top 5 page at least. Merely users abandon to search or change the query if the results do not get laid in the first few pages. In that... | 2012/03/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19204",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11604/"
] | You have to realize that Google's or Bing's job as search engine is not worry about the behavior of their users with regards to how deep they are willing to dig to get results.
Their role is provide relevant search results based upon the keywords entered and the matching SEO of the site.Though Google (and Bing) use [... | Why not show them? The data is there, and on the first dozens of pages it's still pretty relevant. In terms of UI it doesn't cost you anything because you're using the same paging control that lets the users navigate through the first pages. If you tell your users that you've got millions of results but you only let th... |
19,204 | There is a study that users do not go past top 3-5 pages in a Google search, on which predominantly everybody would agree. If you would get your best results - it means to be within the top 5 page at least. Merely users abandon to search or change the query if the results do not get laid in the first few pages. In that... | 2012/03/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19204",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11604/"
] | You have to realize that Google's or Bing's job as search engine is not worry about the behavior of their users with regards to how deep they are willing to dig to get results.
Their role is provide relevant search results based upon the keywords entered and the matching SEO of the site.Though Google (and Bing) use [... | It's a way to improve search result quality by letting users explore information found in long tail of the result.
More importantly, having long tail mitigates a dangerous feedback loop in which the first few pages results get disproportionately higher ranking. |
19,204 | There is a study that users do not go past top 3-5 pages in a Google search, on which predominantly everybody would agree. If you would get your best results - it means to be within the top 5 page at least. Merely users abandon to search or change the query if the results do not get laid in the first few pages. In that... | 2012/03/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19204",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11604/"
] | You have to realize that Google's or Bing's job as search engine is not worry about the behavior of their users with regards to how deep they are willing to dig to get results.
Their role is provide relevant search results based upon the keywords entered and the matching SEO of the site.Though Google (and Bing) use [... | Search engines such as Google or Bing devote their resources to having high-precision queries for common, precision-oriented information needs. Think of them as recommender systems for popular documents. This works great when you're interested (as many people seem to be) in what Britney Spears is up to, for example.
I... |
19,204 | There is a study that users do not go past top 3-5 pages in a Google search, on which predominantly everybody would agree. If you would get your best results - it means to be within the top 5 page at least. Merely users abandon to search or change the query if the results do not get laid in the first few pages. In that... | 2012/03/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19204",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11604/"
] | Why not show them? The data is there, and on the first dozens of pages it's still pretty relevant. In terms of UI it doesn't cost you anything because you're using the same paging control that lets the users navigate through the first pages. If you tell your users that you've got millions of results but you only let th... | It's a way to improve search result quality by letting users explore information found in long tail of the result.
More importantly, having long tail mitigates a dangerous feedback loop in which the first few pages results get disproportionately higher ranking. |
19,204 | There is a study that users do not go past top 3-5 pages in a Google search, on which predominantly everybody would agree. If you would get your best results - it means to be within the top 5 page at least. Merely users abandon to search or change the query if the results do not get laid in the first few pages. In that... | 2012/03/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19204",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11604/"
] | Search engines such as Google or Bing devote their resources to having high-precision queries for common, precision-oriented information needs. Think of them as recommender systems for popular documents. This works great when you're interested (as many people seem to be) in what Britney Spears is up to, for example.
I... | It's a way to improve search result quality by letting users explore information found in long tail of the result.
More importantly, having long tail mitigates a dangerous feedback loop in which the first few pages results get disproportionately higher ranking. |
10,141 | This is a very grey area, because while excel is fun to enter, and play around with, often times it's seen as a pseudo-programming language.
In Excel, one can drag-down formulas to automatically match cell entries, and other minor patterns. Usually, these formulas are dragged to the bottom of the input index, or (of... | 2016/09/22 | [
"https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10141",
"https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Just count the bytes
--------------------
This is a common question for oddball languages, from Scratch to Minecraft to Lego WeDo. The answer is usually ([from what I've seen](https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9680/14215)) to just count the bytes of the saved file.
It's a simple method, easily understood by a... | Score as a polynomial
---------------------
The way I wanted to suggest scoring these is to leave the score as a polynomial.
for example, say you have some code in excel like the following:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eJfDg.png)
because "=(some m... |
10,141 | This is a very grey area, because while excel is fun to enter, and play around with, often times it's seen as a pseudo-programming language.
In Excel, one can drag-down formulas to automatically match cell entries, and other minor patterns. Usually, these formulas are dragged to the bottom of the input index, or (of... | 2016/09/22 | [
"https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10141",
"https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Scored answers must be keyboard-only
------------------------------------
Given that the [`Range`](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff838238.aspx) operator exists that can replace the mouse drag-down operation, and the arrow keys can move between cells to (for example) enter multiple snippets of code in... | Score as a polynomial
---------------------
The way I wanted to suggest scoring these is to leave the score as a polynomial.
for example, say you have some code in excel like the following:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eJfDg.png)
because "=(some m... |
10,141 | This is a very grey area, because while excel is fun to enter, and play around with, often times it's seen as a pseudo-programming language.
In Excel, one can drag-down formulas to automatically match cell entries, and other minor patterns. Usually, these formulas are dragged to the bottom of the input index, or (of... | 2016/09/22 | [
"https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10141",
"https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Scored answers must be keyboard-only
------------------------------------
Given that the [`Range`](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff838238.aspx) operator exists that can replace the mouse drag-down operation, and the arrow keys can move between cells to (for example) enter multiple snippets of code in... | Just count the bytes
--------------------
This is a common question for oddball languages, from Scratch to Minecraft to Lego WeDo. The answer is usually ([from what I've seen](https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9680/14215)) to just count the bytes of the saved file.
It's a simple method, easily understood by a... |
9,949,461 | I want to start developing graphic programing using OpenGl
To kick start I am following [OpenGL](http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Getting_started)
I came across programing with GLUT and without GLUT but as being new to OpenGL in am even more confuse how to go with it? | 2012/03/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9949461",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1278178/"
] | GLUT is the **OpenGL Utility Toolkit**
It does stuff like this:
* Multiple windows for OpenGL rendering
* Callback driven event processing
* Sophisticated input devices
* An 'idle' routine and timers
* A simple, cascading pop-up menu facility
* Utility routines to generate various solid and wire frame objects
* Supp... | GLUT was designed as a lib for simple demos and tutorials. Maybe one cannot create full AAA game title using it... but for learning/teaching it is a great tool.
GLUT is very old right now, so look for FreeGlut which is an alternative that handles not only basic GLUT features but also gives some more advanced features:... |
277,767 | If an educational company described their session methodology as "high in reach" does it mean:
1. the size of the audience
2. the effectiveness of the training
3. other?
The original sentence in a press release was just "Our trainings are low in cost, high in reach".
I see that this comparison with cost is sometimes... | 2015/10/04 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/277767",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | It's a somewhat vague term, and can be interpreted in several ways. But think of a person simply jumping to touch the highest point on a wall that they can achieve. "High in reach" basically means challenging you to reach as far up as you can. | "High in reach" in this context would mean the goals are high but within reach. It's a motivational phrase that you have high and lofty goals but with your abilities they are well within reach, or that you are well within your ability to meet those goals. |
277,767 | If an educational company described their session methodology as "high in reach" does it mean:
1. the size of the audience
2. the effectiveness of the training
3. other?
The original sentence in a press release was just "Our trainings are low in cost, high in reach".
I see that this comparison with cost is sometimes... | 2015/10/04 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/277767",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/139423/"
] | "High in reach" is a non-idiomatic way of saying that it *reaches* many people. This uses the word *reach* in the following sense:
>
> **reach** *noun*
> 2 The extent or range of something's application, effect, or influence.
> ‘he told a story to illustrate the reach of his fame’
> [- ODO](https://en.oxforddictio... | "High in reach" in this context would mean the goals are high but within reach. It's a motivational phrase that you have high and lofty goals but with your abilities they are well within reach, or that you are well within your ability to meet those goals. |
277,767 | If an educational company described their session methodology as "high in reach" does it mean:
1. the size of the audience
2. the effectiveness of the training
3. other?
The original sentence in a press release was just "Our trainings are low in cost, high in reach".
I see that this comparison with cost is sometimes... | 2015/10/04 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/277767",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/139423/"
] | "High in reach" is a non-idiomatic way of saying that it *reaches* many people. This uses the word *reach* in the following sense:
>
> **reach** *noun*
> 2 The extent or range of something's application, effect, or influence.
> ‘he told a story to illustrate the reach of his fame’
> [- ODO](https://en.oxforddictio... | It's a somewhat vague term, and can be interpreted in several ways. But think of a person simply jumping to touch the highest point on a wall that they can achieve. "High in reach" basically means challenging you to reach as far up as you can. |
22,260 | There's a certain kind of people who like to hoard whatever limited resources they get "just in case"; they usually end up never using them, always waiting for bigger emergency. On the other hand, there are game mechanics based on spending some limited resourse: like bennies in Savage Worlds, fortune points in Warhamme... | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/22260",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/3406/"
] | Since Fate points are mentioned, I'm going to mention the angle offered by the great [fate](/questions/tagged/fate "show questions tagged 'fate'") based game [diaspora](/questions/tagged/diaspora "show questions tagged 'diaspora'"). In Diaspora, players start every session with five Fate points. It does not matter if t... | **Give out bennies like candy.** No, really. As long as your PCs are comfortable with the "refresh rate" of their valuable resources, they stop being all that valuable.
Don't forget to award the antagonists with something also - more mooks, more bennies, whatever. Your players should not feel the game suddenly becomin... |
22,260 | There's a certain kind of people who like to hoard whatever limited resources they get "just in case"; they usually end up never using them, always waiting for bigger emergency. On the other hand, there are game mechanics based on spending some limited resourse: like bennies in Savage Worlds, fortune points in Warhamme... | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/22260",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/3406/"
] | Since Fate points are mentioned, I'm going to mention the angle offered by the great [fate](/questions/tagged/fate "show questions tagged 'fate'") based game [diaspora](/questions/tagged/diaspora "show questions tagged 'diaspora'"). In Diaspora, players start every session with five Fate points. It does not matter if t... | Something I do with fate points is impose a five point limit. So, the only way they can get additional points is to spend what they have first. |
22,260 | There's a certain kind of people who like to hoard whatever limited resources they get "just in case"; they usually end up never using them, always waiting for bigger emergency. On the other hand, there are game mechanics based on spending some limited resourse: like bennies in Savage Worlds, fortune points in Warhamme... | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/22260",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/3406/"
] | **Give out bennies like candy.** No, really. As long as your PCs are comfortable with the "refresh rate" of their valuable resources, they stop being all that valuable.
Don't forget to award the antagonists with something also - more mooks, more bennies, whatever. Your players should not feel the game suddenly becomin... | Another possibility besides "limited inventory/carry weight" and "expiry date" is **inflation**. Have the resources become worth less, the more the game advances.
At the start of the game, 10 gold is a lot of money. Mid-campaign, every common thief carries 50 gold, shopkeepers have raised their prices. You were better... |
22,260 | There's a certain kind of people who like to hoard whatever limited resources they get "just in case"; they usually end up never using them, always waiting for bigger emergency. On the other hand, there are game mechanics based on spending some limited resourse: like bennies in Savage Worlds, fortune points in Warhamme... | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/22260",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/3406/"
] | Interesting question and one that I'm gonna have to solve soon too for my gaming group has similar issues (They don't hoard. They sell it all to buy permanent magic items. But as you can see at least half of the solution I've adopted will apply to both situations.)
This mission/session only
-------------------------
... | Another possibility besides "limited inventory/carry weight" and "expiry date" is **inflation**. Have the resources become worth less, the more the game advances.
At the start of the game, 10 gold is a lot of money. Mid-campaign, every common thief carries 50 gold, shopkeepers have raised their prices. You were better... |
22,260 | There's a certain kind of people who like to hoard whatever limited resources they get "just in case"; they usually end up never using them, always waiting for bigger emergency. On the other hand, there are game mechanics based on spending some limited resourse: like bennies in Savage Worlds, fortune points in Warhamme... | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/22260",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/3406/"
] | I don't think you should think of this as a "trick". I think the players are being rational. They are doing all right without spending the resources, and they have no idea what is coming up, that may require them.
So just make it rational to spend them. Have lasting rewards that make spending them worthwhile even whe... | Are you trying to change your players'/characters' personalities? Maybe! (Of course since it's an RPG that could be fun... read on)
Your question is asking about fungible resources, has no uniquenesss value, but *stores* value, and can be *spent* to gain some benefit... hey, sounds a lot like the economic definition o... |
22,260 | There's a certain kind of people who like to hoard whatever limited resources they get "just in case"; they usually end up never using them, always waiting for bigger emergency. On the other hand, there are game mechanics based on spending some limited resourse: like bennies in Savage Worlds, fortune points in Warhamme... | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/22260",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/3406/"
] | I don't think you should think of this as a "trick". I think the players are being rational. They are doing all right without spending the resources, and they have no idea what is coming up, that may require them.
So just make it rational to spend them. Have lasting rewards that make spending them worthwhile even whe... | Interesting question and one that I'm gonna have to solve soon too for my gaming group has similar issues (They don't hoard. They sell it all to buy permanent magic items. But as you can see at least half of the solution I've adopted will apply to both situations.)
This mission/session only
-------------------------
... |
22,260 | There's a certain kind of people who like to hoard whatever limited resources they get "just in case"; they usually end up never using them, always waiting for bigger emergency. On the other hand, there are game mechanics based on spending some limited resourse: like bennies in Savage Worlds, fortune points in Warhamme... | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/22260",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/3406/"
] | Guarantee Results for Fate/Bennies/Roll Bonuses
-----------------------------------------------
We play D&D4e. I grant my players +1/-1 tokens for role-playing, doing out-of-character tasks (such as uploading photos, completing character histories, etc.), leveling, milestones, quests, etc. These tokens can by used to ... | Are you trying to change your players'/characters' personalities? Maybe! (Of course since it's an RPG that could be fun... read on)
Your question is asking about fungible resources, has no uniquenesss value, but *stores* value, and can be *spent* to gain some benefit... hey, sounds a lot like the economic definition o... |
22,260 | There's a certain kind of people who like to hoard whatever limited resources they get "just in case"; they usually end up never using them, always waiting for bigger emergency. On the other hand, there are game mechanics based on spending some limited resourse: like bennies in Savage Worlds, fortune points in Warhamme... | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/22260",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/3406/"
] | Before any change, talk with your players to let them know it's a problem. If they don't fix it themselves, then here's a few options:
1. Limit the maximum number of beanies a player can have at any time.
2. Limit the number of total beanies available to all the players. Once they're in the players hands, no more are ... | Are you trying to change your players'/characters' personalities? Maybe! (Of course since it's an RPG that could be fun... read on)
Your question is asking about fungible resources, has no uniquenesss value, but *stores* value, and can be *spent* to gain some benefit... hey, sounds a lot like the economic definition o... |
22,260 | There's a certain kind of people who like to hoard whatever limited resources they get "just in case"; they usually end up never using them, always waiting for bigger emergency. On the other hand, there are game mechanics based on spending some limited resourse: like bennies in Savage Worlds, fortune points in Warhamme... | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/22260",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/3406/"
] | It's their bennies to hoard, if they so wish. Personally, I wouldn't push or try to trick them as GM, but I would reinforce the benefits when the other players spend them. | Another possibility besides "limited inventory/carry weight" and "expiry date" is **inflation**. Have the resources become worth less, the more the game advances.
At the start of the game, 10 gold is a lot of money. Mid-campaign, every common thief carries 50 gold, shopkeepers have raised their prices. You were better... |
22,260 | There's a certain kind of people who like to hoard whatever limited resources they get "just in case"; they usually end up never using them, always waiting for bigger emergency. On the other hand, there are game mechanics based on spending some limited resourse: like bennies in Savage Worlds, fortune points in Warhamme... | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/22260",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/3406/"
] | *Is there maybe some sort of trick to encourage resource spending?*
Yeah - have a look at real life first. What prevents you from hoarding anything you can afford to acquire? Two things:
1. storage space/costs.
2. some goods have a "best before" date (or require even more storage resources)
Note that 2 applies even... | **Give out bennies like candy.** No, really. As long as your PCs are comfortable with the "refresh rate" of their valuable resources, they stop being all that valuable.
Don't forget to award the antagonists with something also - more mooks, more bennies, whatever. Your players should not feel the game suddenly becomin... |
3 | This is a question that has been posted at many different forums, I thought maybe someone here would have a better or more conceptual answer than I have seen before:
Why do physicists care about representations of Lie groups? For myself, when I think about a representation that means there is some sort of group acting... | 2010/11/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | Let me give a try.
When we construct a theory, we suspect that the objects it deals with can be rather complicated. It is natural that we want to find the simplest «building blocks» which the complicated objects are made of. If our theory were absolutely arbitrary, we won't be able to classify these simple building blo... | The vector space that is being acted on typically is a Hilbert space of states in quantum mechanics; very roughly, there's a basis of this vector space which is in one-to-one correspondence with the set of possibilities for a physical system. The simplest example to try to get your head around is that of the spin 1/2 p... |
3 | This is a question that has been posted at many different forums, I thought maybe someone here would have a better or more conceptual answer than I have seen before:
Why do physicists care about representations of Lie groups? For myself, when I think about a representation that means there is some sort of group acting... | 2010/11/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | The vector space that is being acted on typically is a Hilbert space of states in quantum mechanics; very roughly, there's a basis of this vector space which is in one-to-one correspondence with the set of possibilities for a physical system. The simplest example to try to get your head around is that of the spin 1/2 p... | See the [Wigner theorem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_theorem), it explain rigorously the relationship between a group of symmetries and states of a physical particle. |
3 | This is a question that has been posted at many different forums, I thought maybe someone here would have a better or more conceptual answer than I have seen before:
Why do physicists care about representations of Lie groups? For myself, when I think about a representation that means there is some sort of group acting... | 2010/11/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | Let me give a try.
When we construct a theory, we suspect that the objects it deals with can be rather complicated. It is natural that we want to find the simplest «building blocks» which the complicated objects are made of. If our theory were absolutely arbitrary, we won't be able to classify these simple building blo... | See the [Wigner theorem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_theorem), it explain rigorously the relationship between a group of symmetries and states of a physical particle. |
5,253,732 | I want to put some restrictions to the images uploaded by the users, so the script that process them never runs out of memory.
The images that take more memory, are the ones with higher resolution. They don't need to have a big size in bytes. For example, a 46kb image, with 4000x2500 resolution, and some transparencie... | 2011/03/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5253732",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/459537/"
] | Generally, the rule of thumb is, width x height x 4 (rgba) for both the source and destination images, and don't forget about the amount of memory the script itself has already consumed. | Using the GD library once the file has been uploaded you can use [getimagesize()](http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getimagesize.php). You can then check the height and width to determine if you want to process it or return an error, it also returns the number of bits used per color if you want to take that into ac... |
72,774 | Im developing an application to print flight paths on a world map.
To do this i need a dataset to describe the latitude and longitude of various coastlines (and country borders if possible) of the world so I can plot them.
Is there anywhere on the web I can find this kind of data? (preferably free/cheap)
Thanks! | 2013/09/28 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72774",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/22430/"
] | Check NOAA's [GSHHG](http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html) (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database).
The database is constantly being updated and maintained (latest update since Im answering this Q: July 1, 2013)
GSHHG is:
>
> a high-resolution geography data set ama... | GSHHG is definitive your first choice, but depend on the scale you need take also a look at <http://www.naturalearthdata.com/> |
72,774 | Im developing an application to print flight paths on a world map.
To do this i need a dataset to describe the latitude and longitude of various coastlines (and country borders if possible) of the world so I can plot them.
Is there anywhere on the web I can find this kind of data? (preferably free/cheap)
Thanks! | 2013/09/28 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72774",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/22430/"
] | Check NOAA's [GSHHG](http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html) (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database).
The database is constantly being updated and maintained (latest update since Im answering this Q: July 1, 2013)
GSHHG is:
>
> a high-resolution geography data set ama... | Check Out <https://osmdata.openstreetmap.de/> for both WSG84 and Mercator Projection. |
72,774 | Im developing an application to print flight paths on a world map.
To do this i need a dataset to describe the latitude and longitude of various coastlines (and country borders if possible) of the world so I can plot them.
Is there anywhere on the web I can find this kind of data? (preferably free/cheap)
Thanks! | 2013/09/28 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72774",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/22430/"
] | Natural Earth would be the place to go. The data is open source and generalised for use at different scales.
<http://naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors> | Check NOAA's [GSHHG](http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html) (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database).
The database is constantly being updated and maintained (latest update since Im answering this Q: July 1, 2013)
GSHHG is:
>
> a high-resolution geography data set ama... |
72,774 | Im developing an application to print flight paths on a world map.
To do this i need a dataset to describe the latitude and longitude of various coastlines (and country borders if possible) of the world so I can plot them.
Is there anywhere on the web I can find this kind of data? (preferably free/cheap)
Thanks! | 2013/09/28 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72774",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/22430/"
] | Check out <https://osmdata.openstreetmap.de/> from Jochen Topf. The data has been derived from OpenStreetMap ways tagged with natural=coastline. See also the data update. | GSHHG is definitive your first choice, but depend on the scale you need take also a look at <http://www.naturalearthdata.com/> |
72,774 | Im developing an application to print flight paths on a world map.
To do this i need a dataset to describe the latitude and longitude of various coastlines (and country borders if possible) of the world so I can plot them.
Is there anywhere on the web I can find this kind of data? (preferably free/cheap)
Thanks! | 2013/09/28 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72774",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/22430/"
] | Natural Earth would be the place to go. The data is open source and generalised for use at different scales.
<http://naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors> | GSHHG is definitive your first choice, but depend on the scale you need take also a look at <http://www.naturalearthdata.com/> |
72,774 | Im developing an application to print flight paths on a world map.
To do this i need a dataset to describe the latitude and longitude of various coastlines (and country borders if possible) of the world so I can plot them.
Is there anywhere on the web I can find this kind of data? (preferably free/cheap)
Thanks! | 2013/09/28 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72774",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/22430/"
] | Check out <https://osmdata.openstreetmap.de/> from Jochen Topf. The data has been derived from OpenStreetMap ways tagged with natural=coastline. See also the data update. | Check Out <https://osmdata.openstreetmap.de/> for both WSG84 and Mercator Projection. |
72,774 | Im developing an application to print flight paths on a world map.
To do this i need a dataset to describe the latitude and longitude of various coastlines (and country borders if possible) of the world so I can plot them.
Is there anywhere on the web I can find this kind of data? (preferably free/cheap)
Thanks! | 2013/09/28 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72774",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/22430/"
] | Natural Earth would be the place to go. The data is open source and generalised for use at different scales.
<http://naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors> | Check out <https://osmdata.openstreetmap.de/> from Jochen Topf. The data has been derived from OpenStreetMap ways tagged with natural=coastline. See also the data update. |
72,774 | Im developing an application to print flight paths on a world map.
To do this i need a dataset to describe the latitude and longitude of various coastlines (and country borders if possible) of the world so I can plot them.
Is there anywhere on the web I can find this kind of data? (preferably free/cheap)
Thanks! | 2013/09/28 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72774",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/22430/"
] | Natural Earth would be the place to go. The data is open source and generalised for use at different scales.
<http://naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors> | Check Out <https://osmdata.openstreetmap.de/> for both WSG84 and Mercator Projection. |
231,661 | Could you tell me what’s wrong in this phrase:
"In this database, there are failed copies of the file."
Is it grammatically correct to write "In this database" at the beggining of a sentence?
Thank you. | 2015/03/04 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/231661",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/112554/"
] | You can keep the original-
* In this database there are failed copies of the file.
In this database, there are failed copies of the file.
>
> or can rephrase it to-
>
>
> * The failed copies of the file are in this database.
>
>
> | I think it's fine. Maybe you can drop that comma if you decide to say: "There are failed copies of the file in this database." Otherwise, I believe it's grammatically correct. |
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