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2,732,276 | My friend was asked the following question: what's the difference between object language and object-oriented language?
It's a little unintelligible question. What does term «object language» correspond to? Does that mean «pure» object-oriented language, like the [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object... | 2010/04/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2732276",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/186787/"
] | * The term *object* does not have an official, widely used or otherwise well-known definition.
* The term *object language* does not have an official, widely used or otherwise well-known definition.
* The term *object-oriented* does have an official definition, but that is usually completely ignored, not widely used no... | I'd suspect that the interviewer was looking for a distinction between [object-based](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-based) and [object oriented](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming).
This is, for example, using structs in C, with no polymorphism or inheritance.
The difference between the tw... |
2,732,276 | My friend was asked the following question: what's the difference between object language and object-oriented language?
It's a little unintelligible question. What does term «object language» correspond to? Does that mean «pure» object-oriented language, like the [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object... | 2010/04/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2732276",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/186787/"
] | Unless the person was interviewed by a philosopher talking about an abstract metalanguage, or an old-school engineer talking about the end result a compiler produces, the question sounds like semantic masturbation by someone who doesn't speak the same language as the rest of the industry.
So in other words, the distin... | * The term *object* does not have an official, widely used or otherwise well-known definition.
* The term *object language* does not have an official, widely used or otherwise well-known definition.
* The term *object-oriented* does have an official definition, but that is usually completely ignored, not widely used no... |
3,673,184 | I lead a team of six developers, and over the last year we've migrated over to a Silverlight/WCF/C#/EF/SQL Server architecture for our development. We've now deployed 5 or 6 small apps using this architecture, and we are currently working on a larger system.
We've developed our own little solutions framework which we ... | 2010/09/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3673184",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/226235/"
] | ASP.NET MVC combined with some ORM is analogous to Ruby/Rails in the .NET world. I've been doing agile development with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ to SQL for the past couple of years with good results. I'd attribute my biggest productivity gains primarily to switching to a test-driven development paradigm and investing heavi... | Personally, I'm not aware of any such tool for .NET. But I would like to offer some food for thought.
I would suggest focusing on your architecture overall and determine just how "componentized" your system is. For example, have you utilized [design patterns](http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx) within you... |
3,673,184 | I lead a team of six developers, and over the last year we've migrated over to a Silverlight/WCF/C#/EF/SQL Server architecture for our development. We've now deployed 5 or 6 small apps using this architecture, and we are currently working on a larger system.
We've developed our own little solutions framework which we ... | 2010/09/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3673184",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/226235/"
] | ASP.NET MVC combined with some ORM is analogous to Ruby/Rails in the .NET world. I've been doing agile development with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ to SQL for the past couple of years with good results. I'd attribute my biggest productivity gains primarily to switching to a test-driven development paradigm and investing heavi... | Clear spec.
TDD (Test driven development) mixed with MDD (model driven development)
Source Control (as SVN and Mercurial)
Bug tracker seperated by application
Kind of following of the reported issue and commits done.
1 person in charge of cleaning the noise of the resquest formulation (ex: 3 department whant 3 new... |
3,673,184 | I lead a team of six developers, and over the last year we've migrated over to a Silverlight/WCF/C#/EF/SQL Server architecture for our development. We've now deployed 5 or 6 small apps using this architecture, and we are currently working on a larger system.
We've developed our own little solutions framework which we ... | 2010/09/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3673184",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/226235/"
] | ASP.NET MVC combined with some ORM is analogous to Ruby/Rails in the .NET world. I've been doing agile development with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ to SQL for the past couple of years with good results. I'd attribute my biggest productivity gains primarily to switching to a test-driven development paradigm and investing heavi... | 1. Ruby on Rails isn't that hot compared to .NET, the only advantage they had is that they started using an ORM (Active-Record) before .NET did.. But I see you are using EF, therefore you're pretty much on par.
2. Use a continuous integration server. This will make a build automatically each time somebody submits anyth... |
3,673,184 | I lead a team of six developers, and over the last year we've migrated over to a Silverlight/WCF/C#/EF/SQL Server architecture for our development. We've now deployed 5 or 6 small apps using this architecture, and we are currently working on a larger system.
We've developed our own little solutions framework which we ... | 2010/09/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3673184",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/226235/"
] | ASP.NET MVC combined with some ORM is analogous to Ruby/Rails in the .NET world. I've been doing agile development with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ to SQL for the past couple of years with good results. I'd attribute my biggest productivity gains primarily to switching to a test-driven development paradigm and investing heavi... | 10x ... non sense, although you can definitely get 10x differences both ways depending on the teams involved on each side ^-^
ps. I had to say it, for a real+good answer check tvanfosson's one. |
12,055,260 | I am using a windows service to run Quartz.NET jobs with the help of the Spring.NET integration.
I am facing the following two problems:
1. I am constantly adding / removing jobs (with new spring.net configurations for new business objects). That means that I need to stop the windows service and the running jobs eac... | 2012/08/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12055260",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/146533/"
] | AFAIK there is no way to do #1 without writing code to load the scheduler in a separate app domain and then managing the app domains yourself. This is not available in the Quartz.Net distribution, so you would have to do it yourself.
For item #2 you can set up clustered quartz servers, which would solve that problem. ... | If you don't want to set up the quartz clustered servers, another suggestion is to roll your own simple queue based architecture. Have a single lightweight scheduler service that pushes your jobs onto a queue (AWS/Azure queues work well) and then a pool of workers that can consume those jobs. I faced similar issues wit... |
32,423 | I was taught once by my trainer (he is 75 yrs old) how to train to get defined and how to train to get bulked.
1. Lower weights,more reps(like 15-20 reps) and slower+controlled movement to get defined
2. High weights,lesser reps(like 5-6 reps) and controlling only when you are under tension(the lift can be helped by a... | 2016/10/12 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/32423",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/23220/"
] | As a former Bodybuilder, I can relate to the comment by your trainer. His comment reflects one of the theories that was prevalent years ago. As Bodybuilding and Weight training evolved, there have been many advances in training theory. Some of the theories that we thought were valid are no longer the norm.
With respec... | Weightlifting will help you grow muscle mass when paired with an appropriate diet.
Your body-fat percentage determines how 'defined' your muscle look.
To increase weight, eat at a calorie surplus.
To grow muscle, eat at a calorie surplus and lift heavy weight.
To lose weight/reduce BF%, eat at a calorie cut and (op... |
32,423 | I was taught once by my trainer (he is 75 yrs old) how to train to get defined and how to train to get bulked.
1. Lower weights,more reps(like 15-20 reps) and slower+controlled movement to get defined
2. High weights,lesser reps(like 5-6 reps) and controlling only when you are under tension(the lift can be helped by a... | 2016/10/12 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/32423",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/23220/"
] | "Lower weights,more reps(like 15-20 reps) and slower+controlled movement to get defined"
Not necessarily, definition comes from lesser fat surrounding muscles.All you need to do is, get rid of the fat, and if you don't see the result, that means you have to build up muscles. That's simple. I have known several instruc... | Weightlifting will help you grow muscle mass when paired with an appropriate diet.
Your body-fat percentage determines how 'defined' your muscle look.
To increase weight, eat at a calorie surplus.
To grow muscle, eat at a calorie surplus and lift heavy weight.
To lose weight/reduce BF%, eat at a calorie cut and (op... |
5,313,593 | I wanted to create a service such that it could keep being launched from the activity with different arguments, and whenever any of the argument conditions is true, it would show notification specific to that argument.
Like if I want the phone to notify me when I'm at a specified location, and i can give multiple such... | 2011/03/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5313593",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/643339/"
] | This isn't really how services are designed. What you are looking for sounds much more like at [BroadcastReceiver](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/BroadcastReceiver.html). Using one of these, a single server can send and receive multiple notifications for different situations. Running several ser... | It will help if you can be more clear about your question. If it is about proximity alert, you might get help by looking at Reto's answer [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1113606/does-anyone-know-whether-the-android-addproximityalert-on-the-locationmanager-is). If it is about creating a service that Android w... |
20,230 | My fiancée and I adopted a Corgi mix about 8 months ago and haven't ever had her groomed and don't know much about her grooming history from her previous owner. We're going to the beach with her in a couple weeks and are worried about her overheating while she's down there.
Does she need to be groomed with a 'summer c... | 2018/04/23 | [
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/20230",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/users/12012/"
] | This is normal, just keep feeding her. My spiny flower mantis hasn't molted for about
four to five weeks (usually it's about every two) she will molt on her own time. If you
want to, you can feed her a lot of food, and that should speed it up, also keep the cage
a bit more humid when she's about to molt. | I recommend feeding her live insects. Her developmental problem may be due to her lack of essential nutrients. |
20,230 | My fiancée and I adopted a Corgi mix about 8 months ago and haven't ever had her groomed and don't know much about her grooming history from her previous owner. We're going to the beach with her in a couple weeks and are worried about her overheating while she's down there.
Does she need to be groomed with a 'summer c... | 2018/04/23 | [
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/20230",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/users/12012/"
] | It might be a little late now, but just for future reference if you plan on keeping mantises: never ever feed them cat food. They eat live insects like flies (fruit flies, green bottle flies, blue bottle flies), wax worms, small grasshoppers. These should be live and moving, as they hunt for these type of insects out i... | I recommend feeding her live insects. Her developmental problem may be due to her lack of essential nutrients. |
363,475 | How do you describe the verb "would return" in the following?
>
> Martin would get a minor penalty for the infraction, and during the ensuing power play, Zach Hyman would block a Brent Burns shot and drop to the ice in a heap. Both Hyman and Wingels **would return** later in the period.
>
>
> | 2016/12/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/363475",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/210867/"
] | I would call it "future historic," but **"future in the past"** is less ambiguous. All the verbs in that passage are the same: *would get, would block, would return.*
It is describing a future event from the point of view of the speaker, who is in the past.
>
> Jones thought about watching the match on TV. But he al... | The particular example here describes a hockey game between the Totonto Maple Leafs and the San Jose Sharks from a couple of days ago. I have seen sportswriters fall into this odd use of conditional in situations where they are recounting specific events and then want to jump ahead in their account to subsequent events... |
341,624 | I answered the question: [Why does word2vec use 2 representations for each word?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/41292858/) with:
>
> The prof from Stanford's [Natural Language Processing class](http://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html) gives
> an answer to that question [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhHOL3TNyJ... | 2017/01/15 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/341624",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2207693/"
] | I don't consider a link to a YouTube video to be an *answer*. Even if the video is absolutely wonderful, it must be *supplementary* to an answer. Answers must stand on their own.
In such cases, you have two options:
1. Post helpful links as comments, rather than answers.
2. Include—in the body of your answer—a *compl... | First, you should know that link-only answers are taken as low quality because
* links rot rendering the whole answer useless, and
* people ought to not have to jump to *another* site and peruse *their* information to get to answer.
I can't undelete to overrule a moderator's decision. Feel free to post a *new* answer... |
32,000 | I have an old Freehand file I have imported to Illustrator cs4 and then open and save with Illustrator cs6.
In Illustrator cs6 most of the text boxes have problems. The text overflows the text boxes, I mean that part of the text cannot be seen. For instance logos are without the last letter. If I adjust the text boxe... | 2014/05/30 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/32000",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/14874/"
] | I recently converted 40 old FreeHand 3 files to Illustrator CC-2014. Since FreeHandMX can't open these natively, I had to use FreeHand 8 (via Sheepshaver.) I was then able to open these directly into AI using this new converter plugin: [FreeHand Interface Plugin](http://www.tensai.co.uk/ai/index.php)
I also exported t... | It's not ideal, and not without a tonne of its own problems, but you could try pdf export from Freehand. Then Place into Illustrator.
You'll probably lose most editing ability and have to treat just about everything as curves. |
8,285,544 | I haven't tried D yet, but it seems like a very interesting language that has found some neat solutions to problems in C++. I'm curious, did it also make it possible to separate interface from implementation in templates? If yes, then how? | 2011/11/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8285544",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/627005/"
] | no any templates used are fully expanded at compile time
this means that the compiler needs to know the full code of the template making it impossible to keep it out of the `.di` files | At some point in processing the *use* of a template, D needs *all* the information *about* the template. However, there is no reason that this information need be encode as the original source code (OTOH, as an implementation detail, all current D compiler do require that). This is a fundamental issue of any language t... |
403,187 | Can you perform audits on Route53 to see what was changed in the DNS records? Can you block access to route53 using IAM?
I ask this because it wasn't possible a year ago. | 2012/06/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/403187",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/126391/"
] | >
> Can you perform audits on Route53 to see what was changed in the DNS records?
>
>
>
If you mean **who changed what**, you can use
**Cloudtrail** (it logs everything from all AWS services): <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/logging-using-cloudtrail.html>
**AWS Config**: <https://aws.am... | Yes, you can provide an IAM policy that excludes Route53.
No, I'm not aware of any built-in auditing. You could, though, set something up via the APIs to periodically export your records and audit changes on your end. |
166,714 | While the Condensed skill list seems to me to be (and its Core predecessor to have been) comprehensive enough to cover nearly all 'adventuring' activities with little to no alterations required, I have encountered a case for which I'm unsure which of the skills would be appropriate to use. That case in question involve... | 2020/03/23 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/166714",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/50419/"
] | Evil Hat says "Deceive".
------------------------
You may or may not have known, but Spirit of the Century, the pulp adventure game for Fate 3.0, had its own Gambling skill that was supposed to apply in situations like these - games of chance where it's possible to play your opponent, not your hand.
The Fate Core ski... | GM's call
---------
There is no particular skill explicitly covering card games, that means you, the GM, have to call for a reasonable roll. It doesn't have to "make the most sense", just be reasonable, like Investigate for bridge or Will for poker. If you can't figure it out, ask your players.
You can't choose "wron... |
166,714 | While the Condensed skill list seems to me to be (and its Core predecessor to have been) comprehensive enough to cover nearly all 'adventuring' activities with little to no alterations required, I have encountered a case for which I'm unsure which of the skills would be appropriate to use. That case in question involve... | 2020/03/23 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/166714",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/50419/"
] | Evil Hat says "Deceive".
------------------------
You may or may not have known, but Spirit of the Century, the pulp adventure game for Fate 3.0, had its own Gambling skill that was supposed to apply in situations like these - games of chance where it's possible to play your opponent, not your hand.
The Fate Core ski... | Depends on the Character's background / skills
----------------------------------------------
I do not know enough about Bridge or Sabbac to make a definite call here, but in real-life Poker one can focus / play different styles as well:
* make your opponents nervous / trick them & rely on the opponent to fall for it... |
828,086 | I am looking for a way to edit a piece of HTML (such as an email text) in a Windows app (either WinForms or WPF). So this should work not unlike the little editor I have available to myself right here on the stackoverflow site (well, except more wysiwyg, I guess), except I want to do the same thing in WPF/WinForms.
A... | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/828086",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | You could try the [ModelText HTML Control](http://www.modeltext.com/html/) (disclosure: I wrote it).
It *is* what you are asking for, and the only thing of its kind as far as I know: i.e. it's to edit HTML in Winforms, without depending on a browser and interop. | WinForms has a rich text control you can use to an extent, but any RTF to HTML would be third-party ([Here is just one example](http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2006/10/20/rtf_5F00_html.aspx)). I can't answer WPF, but it seems like the FlowDocument and RichTextBox would be the idea there. I think you'd have a simi... |
828,086 | I am looking for a way to edit a piece of HTML (such as an email text) in a Windows app (either WinForms or WPF). So this should work not unlike the little editor I have available to myself right here on the stackoverflow site (well, except more wysiwyg, I guess), except I want to do the same thing in WPF/WinForms.
A... | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/828086",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | For WPF you could use [Smith HTML Editor](http://smithhtmleditor.codeplex.com/) | WinForms has a rich text control you can use to an extent, but any RTF to HTML would be third-party ([Here is just one example](http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2006/10/20/rtf_5F00_html.aspx)). I can't answer WPF, but it seems like the FlowDocument and RichTextBox would be the idea there. I think you'd have a simi... |
828,086 | I am looking for a way to edit a piece of HTML (such as an email text) in a Windows app (either WinForms or WPF). So this should work not unlike the little editor I have available to myself right here on the stackoverflow site (well, except more wysiwyg, I guess), except I want to do the same thing in WPF/WinForms.
A... | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/828086",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | You could try the [ModelText HTML Control](http://www.modeltext.com/html/) (disclosure: I wrote it).
It *is* what you are asking for, and the only thing of its kind as far as I know: i.e. it's to edit HTML in Winforms, without depending on a browser and interop. | I used this HTML editor, based on the IE Web Browser control, in my WinForms app. It worked well, though there is a large 10MB COM Interop dependency file.
<http://www.codeproject.com/KB/edit/editor_in_windows_forms.aspx> |
828,086 | I am looking for a way to edit a piece of HTML (such as an email text) in a Windows app (either WinForms or WPF). So this should work not unlike the little editor I have available to myself right here on the stackoverflow site (well, except more wysiwyg, I guess), except I want to do the same thing in WPF/WinForms.
A... | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/828086",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | For WPF you could use [Smith HTML Editor](http://smithhtmleditor.codeplex.com/) | I used this HTML editor, based on the IE Web Browser control, in my WinForms app. It worked well, though there is a large 10MB COM Interop dependency file.
<http://www.codeproject.com/KB/edit/editor_in_windows_forms.aspx> |
828,086 | I am looking for a way to edit a piece of HTML (such as an email text) in a Windows app (either WinForms or WPF). So this should work not unlike the little editor I have available to myself right here on the stackoverflow site (well, except more wysiwyg, I guess), except I want to do the same thing in WPF/WinForms.
A... | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/828086",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | You could try the [ModelText HTML Control](http://www.modeltext.com/html/) (disclosure: I wrote it).
It *is* what you are asking for, and the only thing of its kind as far as I know: i.e. it's to edit HTML in Winforms, without depending on a browser and interop. | take a look at the HTMLTextbox library on codeplex (<http://winformhtmltextbox.codeplex.com/>). I know, it's also using a browser control but it's working great. I use it in my own applications (here an example: <http://www.code4ward.net/main/Flash/Gallery/large/5C9816C8-7C8F-4A47-8607.png>) |
828,086 | I am looking for a way to edit a piece of HTML (such as an email text) in a Windows app (either WinForms or WPF). So this should work not unlike the little editor I have available to myself right here on the stackoverflow site (well, except more wysiwyg, I guess), except I want to do the same thing in WPF/WinForms.
A... | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/828086",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | For WPF you could use [Smith HTML Editor](http://smithhtmleditor.codeplex.com/) | take a look at the HTMLTextbox library on codeplex (<http://winformhtmltextbox.codeplex.com/>). I know, it's also using a browser control but it's working great. I use it in my own applications (here an example: <http://www.code4ward.net/main/Flash/Gallery/large/5C9816C8-7C8F-4A47-8607.png>) |
828,086 | I am looking for a way to edit a piece of HTML (such as an email text) in a Windows app (either WinForms or WPF). So this should work not unlike the little editor I have available to myself right here on the stackoverflow site (well, except more wysiwyg, I guess), except I want to do the same thing in WPF/WinForms.
A... | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/828086",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | You could try the [ModelText HTML Control](http://www.modeltext.com/html/) (disclosure: I wrote it).
It *is* what you are asking for, and the only thing of its kind as far as I know: i.e. it's to edit HTML in Winforms, without depending on a browser and interop. | I have found this [editor](http://www.itwriting.com/htmleditor/) that does not requires Microsoft.mshtml. However, it requires some additional works to get a nice formatting buttons bar around. |
828,086 | I am looking for a way to edit a piece of HTML (such as an email text) in a Windows app (either WinForms or WPF). So this should work not unlike the little editor I have available to myself right here on the stackoverflow site (well, except more wysiwyg, I guess), except I want to do the same thing in WPF/WinForms.
A... | 2009/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/828086",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | For WPF you could use [Smith HTML Editor](http://smithhtmleditor.codeplex.com/) | I have found this [editor](http://www.itwriting.com/htmleditor/) that does not requires Microsoft.mshtml. However, it requires some additional works to get a nice formatting buttons bar around. |
1,294,486 | Every now and then and since the last week more often I get questions about HTTPS & SSL. So no I wanted to get more into it and looking for some good information about the subject.
Furthermore, I have develop on XAMPP and VISTA and I am looking for a good tutorial to get SSL working on this environment.
Has anyone g... | 2009/08/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1294486",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/80040/"
] | Do you need to use SelectedNode.Nodes.Add()? The Nodes.Add(...) operation can be performed on any TreeNode. So, if you can find the node at all, simply call node.Nodes.Add(..). You don't need to select it first.
Have a look at the documentation or intellisense information to see what the Find() method returns. | TreeView.Nodes.Find returns an array of nodes that match the string you specified. You can then use the Add method on the nodes to add sub-nodes, obviously if you have more than 1 node in the array then you have a non-unique situation so if you were looking for a specific node you'd need more information on which to id... |
8,410 | I am a 13-year-old boy of eighth standard. I am neither very unpopular, nor very popular in school. E.g., everyone knows me because I am a "good student"(because I get good grades), thus I am popular. But, I am not really good at gossip, chitchat etc, thus I am unpopular. Also, I think everyone likes me and stays by my... | 2017/12/24 | [
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/8410",
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com",
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Sound like classic bullying. Popular kids can be bullies.
You should not have to learn to be happy with it.
I suggest you keep a list of his bully actions and report to your teacher again. Ask to be moved.
If your teacher does nothing then you and your parents should talk to the principal.
Bullying is serious. ... | For rumors, I'd suggest you just ignore it. I know it looks like taking a coward's way out but school bullies thrive on attention. They would keep doing the same as long as they are getting a reaction from you. If you just laugh off the rumors, they stop being 'Fun' for the people spreading it.
However, you can't igno... |
8,410 | I am a 13-year-old boy of eighth standard. I am neither very unpopular, nor very popular in school. E.g., everyone knows me because I am a "good student"(because I get good grades), thus I am popular. But, I am not really good at gossip, chitchat etc, thus I am unpopular. Also, I think everyone likes me and stays by my... | 2017/12/24 | [
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/8410",
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com",
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Sound like classic bullying. Popular kids can be bullies.
You should not have to learn to be happy with it.
I suggest you keep a list of his bully actions and report to your teacher again. Ask to be moved.
If your teacher does nothing then you and your parents should talk to the principal.
Bullying is serious. ... | I agree with both answers so far, that it might be helpful to involve your parents.
Also, if you informed one staff person, who did nothing, then it's probably a good idea to inform someone different at the school this time.
Keeping a log, as suggested by @Paparazzi, is also a good idea.
If you can check what the ru... |
141,968 | For the following sentence, I can identify "This car" as the direct object of the verb "sell".
>
> Peter wants to sell this car.
>
>
>
However, if the sentence is changed as follows, does the verb "sell" still have direct object?
>
> This is the car that Peter wants to sell.
>
>
> | 2013/12/16 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/141968",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/53545/"
] | The weird part of your sentence is that you *tried* to test the device. I would expect the sentence to finish by noting there was a problem *with the testing*:
>
> I tried to test the device but found a problem that prevented me from completing the testing.
>
>
>
The other common difference is that a lot of Engli... | "There was not a problem to begin with but I tested the device anyway" is the right usage.The example you stated should be written as "I tested the device and there was no problem with it". Is this the answer you were looking for? This is what I understood from your question. |
141,968 | For the following sentence, I can identify "This car" as the direct object of the verb "sell".
>
> Peter wants to sell this car.
>
>
>
However, if the sentence is changed as follows, does the verb "sell" still have direct object?
>
> This is the car that Peter wants to sell.
>
>
> | 2013/12/16 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/141968",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/53545/"
] | The weird part of your sentence is that you *tried* to test the device. I would expect the sentence to finish by noting there was a problem *with the testing*:
>
> I tried to test the device but found a problem that prevented me from completing the testing.
>
>
>
The other common difference is that a lot of Engli... | There may have been a confusion. You can be expressing that you manage to test the device by saying so. Although we understand that you are saying that the device is in good condition. |
342,780 | I called out what I considered a snarky comment on this question:
<https://stackoverflow.com/q/41987326/438992>
The original poster has since deleted his comments and left me with serial downvotes in return. I've been trying pretty hard to be consistently nice lately, and attempting to moderate how people are coming ... | 2017/02/01 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342780",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/438992/"
] | No, it's not your job to call people out in comments and try to shame people for what you think is an inappropriate comment.
Flag the comment if you think that it's inappropriate and merits deletion.
If you think you can constructively point out a potential problem with a user's comment in way that they would find co... | >
> Or should they just be flagged, even if it's relatively minor snark, and not bother?
>
>
>
Yes, flag the comments as non-constructive (or rude if they cross the line), and walk away.
The problem is, if you respond to such comments it usually gets heated, ending with blood (i.e. revenge downvotes or alike).
I... |
12,165 | Is there any information about the calendar system used in Carthage ? Was it solar or lunar ? What date did Carthaginians took for a reference day (1st day of the 1st year) ? | 2014/03/22 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/12165",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/2652/"
] | The Carthaginians were culturally Phoenician, and most evidence I've come across points to the calendar being [lunisolar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar). There are some pretty strong indications that it would have been similar to (or evolved into) the Hebrew calendar, and there are [several month name... | The Carthaginians used the African calendar, also known as the "Coptic Calendar", which was based on the era of Nabonassar, which is the Babylonian calendar as adopted from the Chaldeans. The months of the ancient African calendar are as follows:
1. Thoth
2. Paophi
3. Athyr
4. Cohiac
5. Tybi
6. Mesir
7. Phamenoth
8. P... |
12,165 | Is there any information about the calendar system used in Carthage ? Was it solar or lunar ? What date did Carthaginians took for a reference day (1st day of the 1st year) ? | 2014/03/22 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/12165",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/2652/"
] | The Carthaginians were culturally Phoenician, and most evidence I've come across points to the calendar being [lunisolar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar). There are some pretty strong indications that it would have been similar to (or evolved into) the Hebrew calendar, and there are [several month name... | The lunisolar calendar began in the first iteration of the city-state Babylon, when the sun and moon were still synchronized to 30 days. It has, obviously, de-synchronized since. The queen of Babylon used the moon-based calendar to given names to the months so that her family would be each identified with a heavenly bo... |
12,165 | Is there any information about the calendar system used in Carthage ? Was it solar or lunar ? What date did Carthaginians took for a reference day (1st day of the 1st year) ? | 2014/03/22 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/12165",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/2652/"
] | The lunisolar calendar began in the first iteration of the city-state Babylon, when the sun and moon were still synchronized to 30 days. It has, obviously, de-synchronized since. The queen of Babylon used the moon-based calendar to given names to the months so that her family would be each identified with a heavenly bo... | The Carthaginians used the African calendar, also known as the "Coptic Calendar", which was based on the era of Nabonassar, which is the Babylonian calendar as adopted from the Chaldeans. The months of the ancient African calendar are as follows:
1. Thoth
2. Paophi
3. Athyr
4. Cohiac
5. Tybi
6. Mesir
7. Phamenoth
8. P... |
101,622 | In the spell ***Greater Invisibility*** the following effects are noted:
>
> You or a creature you touch becomes invisible until the spell ends. **Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is on the target’s person.**
>
>
>
In the second part of the effects, it states that anything is ... | 2017/06/15 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101622",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/34381/"
] | On Person is something in your possession
=========================================
In your possession means either in storage or actively being held by you (backpack vs holding a weapon.) This would be the case, otherwise going 'invisible' would leave you with either your weapon floating or things you're carrying sti... | ### It's probably best to interpret "on your person" literally.
If you lean a piece of wood up against your desk, it's not *on* your desk, it's *on* the floor. If you are supporting *at least* 50% of the weight of an object, then it can reasonably be said to be "on" your person (i.e. it's on you). If you wrap chains a... |
101,622 | In the spell ***Greater Invisibility*** the following effects are noted:
>
> You or a creature you touch becomes invisible until the spell ends. **Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is on the target’s person.**
>
>
>
In the second part of the effects, it states that anything is ... | 2017/06/15 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101622",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/34381/"
] | A simple test for borderline cases: Is the item under your control?
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I think this test is a little easier to adjudicate and is a little tighter than the "possession" and "50% support" tests. Simply enough, does the character have the ability to drop, t... | On Person is something in your possession
=========================================
In your possession means either in storage or actively being held by you (backpack vs holding a weapon.) This would be the case, otherwise going 'invisible' would leave you with either your weapon floating or things you're carrying sti... |
101,622 | In the spell ***Greater Invisibility*** the following effects are noted:
>
> You or a creature you touch becomes invisible until the spell ends. **Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is on the target’s person.**
>
>
>
In the second part of the effects, it states that anything is ... | 2017/06/15 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101622",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/34381/"
] | A simple test for borderline cases: Is the item under your control?
-------------------------------------------------------------------
I think this test is a little easier to adjudicate and is a little tighter than the "possession" and "50% support" tests. Simply enough, does the character have the ability to drop, t... | ### It's probably best to interpret "on your person" literally.
If you lean a piece of wood up against your desk, it's not *on* your desk, it's *on* the floor. If you are supporting *at least* 50% of the weight of an object, then it can reasonably be said to be "on" your person (i.e. it's on you). If you wrap chains a... |
623,741 | I have a 12 V DC motor whose direction is controlled by reversing polarity. I have a simple mechanical switching system that provides that function.
I have added an inexpensive wireless remote control that also provides this functionality.
When wired together to the motor, the remote works but if the switching side i... | 2022/06/16 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/623741",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/315816/"
] | It's a quirk of the way that the electricity supply industry has developed that domestic consumers are only billed for the active power they use.
Fortunately, this matches most of the generator's costs, the active power relates to the fuel required to drive the generators.
However, the transmission costs do not follo... | As you mention in your question, a power factor less than 1 means that more current is being drawn from the system than the minimum to supply the active power load. That results in increased power losses in the power system and need for larger cable current capacity.
Additionally, inductive reactive power flows result... |
45,616,604 | Julia doesn't support something like a **switch-case a control structure**, at least according to the current documentation of **Control Flow**?
**switch case** is a common **Flow Control** in imperative or object oriented languages, why not in julia?
Language supporting switch-case (not completed)
* C/C++
* Java
* ... | 2017/08/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/45616604",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/732454/"
] | The basic philosophy of julia is to provide most functionality as packages and keep the core (Base) ultra-lean. So the answer to "why doesn't Julia support X" is usually "Julia supports X via package Y". In this case, the Match.jl provides a switch-case like structure that is very powerful.
There is also a Switch.jl pa... | There is extensive discussion about including this in julia language. It will probably happen at some point but maybe not until after v1.0.
See here for the main discussion (includes links to other discussions): <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/18285>
& this one is informative too (but now closed in favour ... |
18,460,846 | I created a webpage containing various promoted link tiles. This page is my default page (when the user logons he/she is redirectedto this page). Based upon the group to which the user belongs I want to show some specific promoted link tiles and hide the rest of the promoted link tiles.
For example, my webpage contai... | 2013/08/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/18460846",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1492929/"
] | I'm using both of the solutions listed above on the same site to meet different needs.
I have one Promoted Links list that provides 'activity' links for a number of different user types. In order to keep the user experience simple for users I'm setting permissions on individual items in the Promoted Links list to hid... | Actually the above thing is not possible in SharePoint.
For every user there will we same page in SharePoint but depending upon the group to which a user belongs we can hide and show a promoted links.
First create some groups and assign user to a particular groups and than change the permission of promoted groups to s... |
18,460,846 | I created a webpage containing various promoted link tiles. This page is my default page (when the user logons he/she is redirectedto this page). Based upon the group to which the user belongs I want to show some specific promoted link tiles and hide the rest of the promoted link tiles.
For example, my webpage contai... | 2013/08/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/18460846",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1492929/"
] | I'm using both of the solutions listed above on the same site to meet different needs.
I have one Promoted Links list that provides 'activity' links for a number of different user types. In order to keep the user experience simple for users I'm setting permissions on individual items in the Promoted Links list to hid... | You can create different views for different users using SharePoint Designer.
Below are the step by step guides.
1. Click on any blank region of the Promoted Links. This will show the ribbon for that Promoted Link.
2. Click List tab on the ribbon.
3. Click Create View.
. I drew along a river in Google Earth, saved the line as a .kml file and then used the 'from KML' feature in ArcMaps10 to convert to a layer file. It worked, except ... | 2012/11/06 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/40443",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/12541/"
] | I can't help with your data, but maybe i can offer some advice for future digitising:
Did you know that you can add Bing maps or other basemaps directly in ArcGIS: [see this help entry](http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00sp0000001t000000.htm)
This way you can edit the data inside ArcGIS ... | you can try the Xtools extension which easily converts KML and KMZ file alongwith several functions
second google digitisation willl not be accurate always that will require allignment and scaling to my experience still accuracy is not workable for GIS always. |
63,972 | Say I am a U.S. Citizen and travel to another country, and while there I buy food at some restaurant or whatever that's no longer tangible; or maybe I buy something but only use it there and do not have anything on me upon return. Do I have to declare that? Or is "declaring" only for tangible items you're carrying with... | 2016/02/18 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/63972",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/39502/"
] | When you fly back to the US, you'll be given a Customs declaration form on the plane to fill out. It looks like [this](https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/CBP%20Form%206059B%20English%20%28Sample%20Watermark%29.pdf).
Question 15 is what you're interested in:
>
> The total value of all goods, including ... | You have to declare anything you bought abroad and bring back to the US (beyond your allowances).
You do not need to declare any goods you consumed, threw away, or gave away while abroad. |
25,277 | Can the Falcon Heavy rocket handle sending payloads past Jupiter like the Atlas V? | 2018/02/12 | [
"https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/25277",
"https://space.stackexchange.com",
"https://space.stackexchange.com/users/5772/"
] | SpaceX published numbers on their [website](http://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy) near the bottom of the page.
I snapped an image to show here, since their formatting is prettier than I can do in Markdown.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/we0wj.p... | Well, it looks like it can get 141,000 lbs into low earth orbit. That is quite a bit of mass. With the right second and third stages you should be able to get enough delta-v for deep space. It isn't demonstrated capability yet, but I'd be thunderstruck if there wasn't a road map for a variety of upper stages for variou... |
34,405,624 | I'd like, on "Release" button pressed, to trigger a server-side script of my own. I don't need to use big thing like Jenkins, I just need to run a simple script.
I looked into the documentation and found "Listeners" on earlier versions, but there is nothing in the doc for latest version.
Any idea? | 2015/12/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/34405624",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2667369/"
] | Can you wrap your remote script in an HTTP interface and trigger it via a webhook? <https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-apis/webhooks> | you can also use the script runner plugin for jira, which can execute a script with a ssh on a server or whatever you like |
197,789 | In the land of Dorn, there is an entire industry involving the wholesale of magical items. This industry employs individuals experienced in the art of magecraft to enchant mundane items or weapons and give them magical properties, or to create magical items from the ground up (fire-swords, invisible cloaks, etc). The a... | 2021/03/13 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/197789",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52361/"
] | **The Permanence Comes At A Cost**
The luxury items are linked to a specific mana signature, yes? How do you think the enchantment is maintained? Simply put, this link binds the mana of one specific person into it when first activated, then draws upon that person's mana to keep its enchantment "fresh" and functioning ... | Pounding a square peg into a round hole:
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Your common magical items can be likened to a child's toy made of soft materials, and with holes for variously-shaped pegs. Every peg is different, and you pound on the board with your peg until you get it through a hole somewhere. Takin... |
197,789 | In the land of Dorn, there is an entire industry involving the wholesale of magical items. This industry employs individuals experienced in the art of magecraft to enchant mundane items or weapons and give them magical properties, or to create magical items from the ground up (fire-swords, invisible cloaks, etc). The a... | 2021/03/13 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/197789",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52361/"
] | The nature of the spell requires some flaw in its perfection: it can not be used everywhere, at any time, by anyone.
One such flaw is that it is temporary.
Another such flaw is that it can only be used by people with a certain condition, such as this person here, or a member of this family.
It would also be possible... | Pounding a square peg into a round hole:
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Your common magical items can be likened to a child's toy made of soft materials, and with holes for variously-shaped pegs. Every peg is different, and you pound on the board with your peg until you get it through a hole somewhere. Takin... |
197,789 | In the land of Dorn, there is an entire industry involving the wholesale of magical items. This industry employs individuals experienced in the art of magecraft to enchant mundane items or weapons and give them magical properties, or to create magical items from the ground up (fire-swords, invisible cloaks, etc). The a... | 2021/03/13 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/197789",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52361/"
] | It's the difference between the power source of the items.
==========================================================
Your impermanent items are powered by "batteries". A reservoir of Mana that needs to be filled, then the item works. When this power is used up, it needs to be recharged.
As with electrical batterie... | Pounding a square peg into a round hole:
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Your common magical items can be likened to a child's toy made of soft materials, and with holes for variously-shaped pegs. Every peg is different, and you pound on the board with your peg until you get it through a hole somewhere. Takin... |
257,680 | I fixed a spot in the plaster and when I painted it you could see the raised edges. How do I fix that now that it’s been painted? | 2022/10/01 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/257680",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/157195/"
] | Just done that job this morning! Use sandpaper, with a block of wood bigger that the blemish, and, depending on the height of the plaster bump, start with maybe 180 grit, which will leave score marks. Keep the woodblock to reduce the gauge of sandpaper, knocking it regularly to dislodge stray plaster dust, until you're... | Sand it all lightly with 240 grit, sand the high spots flat, add plaster to the low spots.
Sand flat with 240 grit or finer.,
inspect the flatness using with light from a low angle.
repeat as necessary.
Seal, and repaint. |
5,004,548 | I don't have an iPhone 4 with me right now and I am trying to find a documentation that shows the ranges of yaw, pitch and roll and the correspondent positions of the device.
I know that the accelerometer varies from -1 to +1 but on my tests yesterday on my iPhone, showed me that the roll varies from -M\_PI to +M\_PI,... | 2011/02/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5004548",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/316469/"
] | This is not a full answer, but in the interest of starting the ball rolling:
I'm assuming you are talking about the device attitude rather than the raw gyro data.
Anecdotally (I have an ipod touch 4 gen sitting in front of me displaying these values):
pitch: looks to be a range of -(M\_PI/2) -> +(M\_PI/2) although m... | I have recently faced the same problem for an iOS app that counts the number of flips that the phone does. Apple has rejected it so I have published it on GitHub, may be useful for you:
***Flip Your Phone!*** - <https://github.com/apascual/flip-your-phone>
I never thought on the solution using the gravity Z variable,... |
175,853 | I have two points that form 1 line. I want to find a point that creates a perpendicular line.
Here is an image showing what I am looking for:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hz9OF.jpg)
How do I find the red point to form a perpendicular line? | 2019/09/28 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/175853",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/104456/"
] | These are 'margins'. In the inspector, you can find them under the 'extra settings' section. This is what [the documentation](http://digitalnativestudios.com/textmeshpro/docs/textmeshpro-component/) says about them:
>
> The Margins values can be used to add some space between the text and the content bounds. You can ... | It's like a bounding box for the text.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iDs3z.png)
If you narrow it the text will overflow,
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MWgO8.png)
And here in the set... |
368,587 | I don't have a Switch Online subscription, and have no intention of getting one, so the only way (aside from physical LAN meetups) that I can get fruit that isn't native to my island is to use Nook Miles Tickets and visit random islands.
This seems to have worked to get me coconuts and pears, but despite many Random I... | 2020/04/22 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/368587",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/21195/"
] | No, unfortunately you'll not be able to get all 6 fruit types without using online services.
Currently, the game will let you get only 4 different fruits with local play:
1. Your native fruit
2. The fruit your mom sent via e-mail
3. Coconuts on mystery islands (using [Nook-Miles Tickets](https://www.polygon.com/animal... | Yes, although it's rare. The game is designed and balanced to be able to fully experience everything (except the obvious multiplayer), without a subscription. nook islands will have different fruit on them as special islands. Most often you will only get your native fruit, but I was able to get all except 1 fruit throu... |
312,511 | In Access 2007. How can I make the a value from a list box link to the form that the list box is on. Sub-form are no problem, you create the form, then when you add the sub form it asks you what field to link with. But I need to use a list box, when the form opens, the records in the list box should be only those relat... | 2011/07/19 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/312511",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/88007/"
] | There is no LinkChild/LinkMaster for listboxes, so no automatic way to filter the contents of the listbox like there is with subforms. The fact that you want to filter the listbox is perhaps a clue that you should consider whether or not you should be using a subform instead.
Anyway, if you insist on doing it, you hav... | Same issue here. I've tried the Forms!MyForm!MyControl method on the listbox rowsource and it simply doesn't run. The listbox displays all the records in the related table.
I know a subform is the "right" way to do it but they are so ugly, clunky to work with, and risky.
I've already created a different way to enter ... |
28,318,182 | I need to automate a manual process in which a user need to login on several wesite with specific username and password and also checks some links(shared locations). If everything is normal then user send a mail to the specific group in table format.
Can anyone give me any idea, how to start the automation process. I a... | 2015/02/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28318182",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2600074/"
] | Here's what I would do:
* Set up a headless Ubuntu machine (either on-premise or in the cloud)
* Install [Jenkins](http://jenkins-ci.org/ "Jenkins")
* Get familiar with creating Jenkins jobs and configuring them to email your group upon success or failure
* Install the [PhantomJS web browser](http://phantomjs.org/) on... | I think bat won't help you because it can't actually interact with a browser e.g. to enter username and password.
I'd go with [AutoIt](http://www.autoitscript.com/site). It's simple and powerfull and has a nice [framework for browser interaction](http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/IE%20Management.ht... |
60,960 | In following the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I notice that fishing rights in UK waters is a sticking point, e.g.
>
> But the two sides have yet to narrow gaps on two of the thorniest issues: fishing rights in British waters and the level playing field.
>
>
> An EU official told Reuters the bloc had rejected Britai... | 2020/12/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60960",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/22967/"
] | BBC has a pretty good [article](https://www.bbc.com/news/46401558) on this.
2 key points:
>
> This is particularly important, because most of the fish landed by UK fishermen is exported (while most of the fish eaten in the UK is imported).
>
>
> And of all those exported fish, roughly three quarters are sold withi... | It’s not a symmetrical situation. The EU wants to fish in UK waters, and doesn’t need market access to the UK for its fish. The UK wants market access to the EU, but doesn’t need to fish in EU waters. The obvious deal is to trade UK access to EU markets for EU access to UK waters, but the UK is resisting that. |
60,960 | In following the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I notice that fishing rights in UK waters is a sticking point, e.g.
>
> But the two sides have yet to narrow gaps on two of the thorniest issues: fishing rights in British waters and the level playing field.
>
>
> An EU official told Reuters the bloc had rejected Britai... | 2020/12/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60960",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/22967/"
] | Because the UKs [Exclusive Economic Zone](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone) covers most of the decent fishing grounds in and around the North Sea, and north of Ireland, making it a much sought after right to fish in this area.
Without access to it, EU fishing rights are significantly reduced, hu... | It’s not a symmetrical situation. The EU wants to fish in UK waters, and doesn’t need market access to the UK for its fish. The UK wants market access to the EU, but doesn’t need to fish in EU waters. The obvious deal is to trade UK access to EU markets for EU access to UK waters, but the UK is resisting that. |
60,960 | In following the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I notice that fishing rights in UK waters is a sticking point, e.g.
>
> But the two sides have yet to narrow gaps on two of the thorniest issues: fishing rights in British waters and the level playing field.
>
>
> An EU official told Reuters the bloc had rejected Britai... | 2020/12/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60960",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/22967/"
] | A bunch of issues:
* Under EU rules, there could be foreign-owned ships [registered](https://www.bbc.com/news/52420116) under the UK flag. UK fishermen **sold** their quotas in the 1990s, which was legal back then. These rights should not simply be expropriated without fair compensation.
* While the UK was in the EU, ... | Except for salmon, mackerel and cod\*, the British don't eat fish or shellfish, the result being that at present most of the fish the UK catches is exported (with 75% of exports going to the EU, and exports to the EU exceeding those from it by 60%\*\*) and most of the fish eaten in the UK is imported. (UK sea fisheries... |
60,960 | In following the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I notice that fishing rights in UK waters is a sticking point, e.g.
>
> But the two sides have yet to narrow gaps on two of the thorniest issues: fishing rights in British waters and the level playing field.
>
>
> An EU official told Reuters the bloc had rejected Britai... | 2020/12/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60960",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/22967/"
] | Except for salmon, mackerel and cod\*, the British don't eat fish or shellfish, the result being that at present most of the fish the UK catches is exported (with 75% of exports going to the EU, and exports to the EU exceeding those from it by 60%\*\*) and most of the fish eaten in the UK is imported. (UK sea fisheries... | Lots of good answers already but one basic fact needs to be highlighted: EU fisheries (and not only French fisheries) depend on access to British waters. It's that simple and it's *the* problem with “agree[ing] to only fish in their territorial waters”.
You can make a lot of arguments based on sovereignty, morality, h... |
60,960 | In following the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I notice that fishing rights in UK waters is a sticking point, e.g.
>
> But the two sides have yet to narrow gaps on two of the thorniest issues: fishing rights in British waters and the level playing field.
>
>
> An EU official told Reuters the bloc had rejected Britai... | 2020/12/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60960",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/22967/"
] | A bunch of issues:
* Under EU rules, there could be foreign-owned ships [registered](https://www.bbc.com/news/52420116) under the UK flag. UK fishermen **sold** their quotas in the 1990s, which was legal back then. These rights should not simply be expropriated without fair compensation.
* While the UK was in the EU, ... | BBC has a pretty good [article](https://www.bbc.com/news/46401558) on this.
2 key points:
>
> This is particularly important, because most of the fish landed by UK fishermen is exported (while most of the fish eaten in the UK is imported).
>
>
> And of all those exported fish, roughly three quarters are sold withi... |
60,960 | In following the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I notice that fishing rights in UK waters is a sticking point, e.g.
>
> But the two sides have yet to narrow gaps on two of the thorniest issues: fishing rights in British waters and the level playing field.
>
>
> An EU official told Reuters the bloc had rejected Britai... | 2020/12/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60960",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/22967/"
] | It’s not a symmetrical situation. The EU wants to fish in UK waters, and doesn’t need market access to the UK for its fish. The UK wants market access to the EU, but doesn’t need to fish in EU waters. The obvious deal is to trade UK access to EU markets for EU access to UK waters, but the UK is resisting that. | Lots of good answers already but one basic fact needs to be highlighted: EU fisheries (and not only French fisheries) depend on access to British waters. It's that simple and it's *the* problem with “agree[ing] to only fish in their territorial waters”.
You can make a lot of arguments based on sovereignty, morality, h... |
60,960 | In following the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I notice that fishing rights in UK waters is a sticking point, e.g.
>
> But the two sides have yet to narrow gaps on two of the thorniest issues: fishing rights in British waters and the level playing field.
>
>
> An EU official told Reuters the bloc had rejected Britai... | 2020/12/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60960",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/22967/"
] | A bunch of issues:
* Under EU rules, there could be foreign-owned ships [registered](https://www.bbc.com/news/52420116) under the UK flag. UK fishermen **sold** their quotas in the 1990s, which was legal back then. These rights should not simply be expropriated without fair compensation.
* While the UK was in the EU, ... | It’s not a symmetrical situation. The EU wants to fish in UK waters, and doesn’t need market access to the UK for its fish. The UK wants market access to the EU, but doesn’t need to fish in EU waters. The obvious deal is to trade UK access to EU markets for EU access to UK waters, but the UK is resisting that. |
60,960 | In following the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I notice that fishing rights in UK waters is a sticking point, e.g.
>
> But the two sides have yet to narrow gaps on two of the thorniest issues: fishing rights in British waters and the level playing field.
>
>
> An EU official told Reuters the bloc had rejected Britai... | 2020/12/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60960",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/22967/"
] | BBC has a pretty good [article](https://www.bbc.com/news/46401558) on this.
2 key points:
>
> This is particularly important, because most of the fish landed by UK fishermen is exported (while most of the fish eaten in the UK is imported).
>
>
> And of all those exported fish, roughly three quarters are sold withi... | Lots of good answers already but one basic fact needs to be highlighted: EU fisheries (and not only French fisheries) depend on access to British waters. It's that simple and it's *the* problem with “agree[ing] to only fish in their territorial waters”.
You can make a lot of arguments based on sovereignty, morality, h... |
60,960 | In following the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I notice that fishing rights in UK waters is a sticking point, e.g.
>
> But the two sides have yet to narrow gaps on two of the thorniest issues: fishing rights in British waters and the level playing field.
>
>
> An EU official told Reuters the bloc had rejected Britai... | 2020/12/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60960",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/22967/"
] | BBC has a pretty good [article](https://www.bbc.com/news/46401558) on this.
2 key points:
>
> This is particularly important, because most of the fish landed by UK fishermen is exported (while most of the fish eaten in the UK is imported).
>
>
> And of all those exported fish, roughly three quarters are sold withi... | Except for salmon, mackerel and cod\*, the British don't eat fish or shellfish, the result being that at present most of the fish the UK catches is exported (with 75% of exports going to the EU, and exports to the EU exceeding those from it by 60%\*\*) and most of the fish eaten in the UK is imported. (UK sea fisheries... |
60,960 | In following the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I notice that fishing rights in UK waters is a sticking point, e.g.
>
> But the two sides have yet to narrow gaps on two of the thorniest issues: fishing rights in British waters and the level playing field.
>
>
> An EU official told Reuters the bloc had rejected Britai... | 2020/12/17 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60960",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/22967/"
] | A bunch of issues:
* Under EU rules, there could be foreign-owned ships [registered](https://www.bbc.com/news/52420116) under the UK flag. UK fishermen **sold** their quotas in the 1990s, which was legal back then. These rights should not simply be expropriated without fair compensation.
* While the UK was in the EU, ... | Because the UKs [Exclusive Economic Zone](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone) covers most of the decent fishing grounds in and around the North Sea, and north of Ireland, making it a much sought after right to fish in this area.
Without access to it, EU fishing rights are significantly reduced, hu... |
122,552 | I have a screen in my app as shown below. The requirement is to place a toolbar with 2 buttons:
1. One button displaying the currently active list/deck of drugs (it is the one with 'Pediatric Drugs' where he can click to view a list of available decks).
2. A smaller button to add a new drug to the deck/list.
My opin... | 2018/12/04 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/122552",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/121249/"
] | Buttons have a primary role in the conversation between a user and the system, so I always try and design them in a way that they are very 'obviously' buttons, stand out, and placing them in a place where users don't have to hunt for them.
When I feel my buttons are overcrowding my UI, I try to balance the layout with... | You are effectively using a Bottom Navigation for the content title: consider using the Toolbar title for the content title and exposing other options in a Tab Navigation below it (replace the search input, moving search into Toolbar as an action if need be) OR as a Bottom Navigation.
For the `Add Drug` button, you ma... |
521,962 | I am currently installing html tidy from the textfx plugin. The Notepad++ version I am running is 6.2.3. I created the folder Config/tidy in plugins and put the two files(HTMLTIDY.cfg, libtidy.dll) in there.
However, I still get the message "UNKNOWN EXCEPTION!"
I appreaciate your answers!!! | 2012/12/20 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/521962",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | For [**Notepadd++**](http://notepad-plus-plus.org/), this *HTML Tidy* version is a recent *HTML5 W3C* version:
[**A new HTML-Tidy plugin**](http://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/discussion/482781/thread/2eeba3f3/)
The second post states the current version is [**0.2**](https://github.com/downloads/davegb3/NppTidy2/Ti... | I had unknown exception on notepad++ v6.5.5 start. not sure the cause. Just went to plugin manager checked all plugins and reinstalled them. Exception gone. |
62,261 | The Lockheed Constellation has an enormously long nose gear, which causes the aircraft to slant appreciably backwards when sitting on the ground:
**L-049**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/V51db.jpg)
(Image by Greg and Cindy at [Flickr](https://www.flic... | 2019/04/10 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/62261",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/22726/"
] | The Connie's fuselage has a subtle S shaped contour which was intended to conform somewhat to the upwash ahead of the wing and downwash aft of the wing, with a final upturn at the end to place the horizontal tail at the desired vertical location.
[](h... | You can see that the underside of the Connie's fuselage ahead of the wing root is contoured upwards to begin the taper which ends at the tip of the plane's nose. The other planes had constant-section fuselages ahead of the wing root, in which the nose does not begin to taper down until just aft of the cockpit.
To mai... |
15,858 | After having read the introductions of the Wikipedia articles about "sonar" and "ultrasonic sensor", it is still not clear to me what the differences between the two are. In the context of robotics, is there any difference between these two sensors (terms)? | 2018/06/14 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/15858",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Sonar, as used in robotics means having an ultrasonic emitter and and ultrasonic receiver. There are also some sonar with a single emitter/receiver.
However, they all use ultrasonic sound waves to sense the distance to an object. Well, actually they really sense the time between the emission of the ultrasonic wave and... | The main difference is, SONAR (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) is used underwater and uses low frequency sounds (100-500Hz) as well as high frequency sounds (ultrasound, etc).
Ultrasonic sensors are used mostly over the terrain and limited to high frequency sounds. |
15,858 | After having read the introductions of the Wikipedia articles about "sonar" and "ultrasonic sensor", it is still not clear to me what the differences between the two are. In the context of robotics, is there any difference between these two sensors (terms)? | 2018/06/14 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/15858",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Sonar, as used in robotics means having an ultrasonic emitter and and ultrasonic receiver. There are also some sonar with a single emitter/receiver.
However, they all use ultrasonic sound waves to sense the distance to an object. Well, actually they really sense the time between the emission of the ultrasonic wave and... | Ultrasonic means above audible range,
Sonar may be within the audible range
In my opinion the ultrasonic being more precise also may come with higher price. |
15,858 | After having read the introductions of the Wikipedia articles about "sonar" and "ultrasonic sensor", it is still not clear to me what the differences between the two are. In the context of robotics, is there any difference between these two sensors (terms)? | 2018/06/14 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/15858",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Sonar, as used in robotics means having an ultrasonic emitter and and ultrasonic receiver. There are also some sonar with a single emitter/receiver.
However, they all use ultrasonic sound waves to sense the distance to an object. Well, actually they really sense the time between the emission of the ultrasonic wave and... | In terms of functionality, an ultrasonic sensor performs a single distance measurement in a given direction (strictly speaking, such a sensor emits a sound cone, the angle of which depends on how the sensor is implemented).
A SONAR, on the other hand, seems to generally refer to a device that performs aggregated range... |
15,858 | After having read the introductions of the Wikipedia articles about "sonar" and "ultrasonic sensor", it is still not clear to me what the differences between the two are. In the context of robotics, is there any difference between these two sensors (terms)? | 2018/06/14 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/15858",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The main difference is, SONAR (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) is used underwater and uses low frequency sounds (100-500Hz) as well as high frequency sounds (ultrasound, etc).
Ultrasonic sensors are used mostly over the terrain and limited to high frequency sounds. | In terms of functionality, an ultrasonic sensor performs a single distance measurement in a given direction (strictly speaking, such a sensor emits a sound cone, the angle of which depends on how the sensor is implemented).
A SONAR, on the other hand, seems to generally refer to a device that performs aggregated range... |
15,858 | After having read the introductions of the Wikipedia articles about "sonar" and "ultrasonic sensor", it is still not clear to me what the differences between the two are. In the context of robotics, is there any difference between these two sensors (terms)? | 2018/06/14 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/15858",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Ultrasonic means above audible range,
Sonar may be within the audible range
In my opinion the ultrasonic being more precise also may come with higher price. | In terms of functionality, an ultrasonic sensor performs a single distance measurement in a given direction (strictly speaking, such a sensor emits a sound cone, the angle of which depends on how the sensor is implemented).
A SONAR, on the other hand, seems to generally refer to a device that performs aggregated range... |
15,240 | I'm planning to incarcerate a supervillain who has the ability to [attract and control metal.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_%28comics%29) As a minimum, I'd quite like to light his cell but obviously putting even small amounts of metal into his proximity (100+ metres) is extremely dangerous.
**Is there a way of... | 2015/04/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15240",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9255/"
] | **Based on the excellent comments above - and a h/t to @JohnD + @NickAlexeev**
We have a power source;
[Algae-Based, Non-Metallic Batteries](http://gas2.org/2009/09/11/algae-based-non-metallic-batteries-could-revolutionize-energy-storage-industry/)
Wiring and connectors;
[carbon-fibre wires](http://en.wikiped... | You could use the electricity to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen, transport the gas along a plastic tube to a ceramic nozzle where they burn and heat a carbon sheet to incandescence.
There is nothing sci-fi about this- oxyhydrogen torches have been commercially available for decades and the remainder is no p... |
15,240 | I'm planning to incarcerate a supervillain who has the ability to [attract and control metal.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_%28comics%29) As a minimum, I'd quite like to light his cell but obviously putting even small amounts of metal into his proximity (100+ metres) is extremely dangerous.
**Is there a way of... | 2015/04/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15240",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9255/"
] | No need to invent anything crazy, **just use fiber optics**. Instead of running tubes of water to conduct electricity, just run bundles of fiber optic cable carrying the light generated from normal electric light bulbs. Using electrical lights means this *is* an electrical system that meets your requirements.
Such lig... | olde-school
===========
Transmit power wirelessly. RF, microwaves, etc. Google Nikola Tesla for inspiration. This way the fancy non-metallic components can be isolated by distance.
Collect the radiated power with a non-metallic (carbon?) coil.
Convert to light using a plain old Edison-style light bulb with a carbon ... |
15,240 | I'm planning to incarcerate a supervillain who has the ability to [attract and control metal.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_%28comics%29) As a minimum, I'd quite like to light his cell but obviously putting even small amounts of metal into his proximity (100+ metres) is extremely dangerous.
**Is there a way of... | 2015/04/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15240",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9255/"
] | If your super-hero controls metals thru magnetic fields you cannot use electricity. Any current generates a magnetic field around the conductor.
If your super-hero power comes from another, less ortodox method of controlling metals, then your only choice is semiconductors or ion conduction :
1. Gross bars of graphit... | **Based on the excellent comments above - and a h/t to @JohnD + @NickAlexeev**
We have a power source;
[Algae-Based, Non-Metallic Batteries](http://gas2.org/2009/09/11/algae-based-non-metallic-batteries-could-revolutionize-energy-storage-industry/)
Wiring and connectors;
[carbon-fibre wires](http://en.wikiped... |
15,240 | I'm planning to incarcerate a supervillain who has the ability to [attract and control metal.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_%28comics%29) As a minimum, I'd quite like to light his cell but obviously putting even small amounts of metal into his proximity (100+ metres) is extremely dangerous.
**Is there a way of... | 2015/04/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15240",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9255/"
] | No need to invent anything crazy, **just use fiber optics**. Instead of running tubes of water to conduct electricity, just run bundles of fiber optic cable carrying the light generated from normal electric light bulbs. Using electrical lights means this *is* an electrical system that meets your requirements.
Such lig... | You could use the electricity to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen, transport the gas along a plastic tube to a ceramic nozzle where they burn and heat a carbon sheet to incandescence.
There is nothing sci-fi about this- oxyhydrogen torches have been commercially available for decades and the remainder is no p... |
15,240 | I'm planning to incarcerate a supervillain who has the ability to [attract and control metal.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_%28comics%29) As a minimum, I'd quite like to light his cell but obviously putting even small amounts of metal into his proximity (100+ metres) is extremely dangerous.
**Is there a way of... | 2015/04/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15240",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9255/"
] | No need to invent anything crazy, **just use fiber optics**. Instead of running tubes of water to conduct electricity, just run bundles of fiber optic cable carrying the light generated from normal electric light bulbs. Using electrical lights means this *is* an electrical system that meets your requirements.
Such lig... | **Based on the excellent comments above - and a h/t to @JohnD + @NickAlexeev**
We have a power source;
[Algae-Based, Non-Metallic Batteries](http://gas2.org/2009/09/11/algae-based-non-metallic-batteries-could-revolutionize-energy-storage-industry/)
Wiring and connectors;
[carbon-fibre wires](http://en.wikiped... |
15,240 | I'm planning to incarcerate a supervillain who has the ability to [attract and control metal.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_%28comics%29) As a minimum, I'd quite like to light his cell but obviously putting even small amounts of metal into his proximity (100+ metres) is extremely dangerous.
**Is there a way of... | 2015/04/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15240",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9255/"
] | If your super-hero controls metals thru magnetic fields you cannot use electricity. Any current generates a magnetic field around the conductor.
If your super-hero power comes from another, less ortodox method of controlling metals, then your only choice is semiconductors or ion conduction :
1. Gross bars of graphit... | You could use the electricity to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen, transport the gas along a plastic tube to a ceramic nozzle where they burn and heat a carbon sheet to incandescence.
There is nothing sci-fi about this- oxyhydrogen torches have been commercially available for decades and the remainder is no p... |
15,240 | I'm planning to incarcerate a supervillain who has the ability to [attract and control metal.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_%28comics%29) As a minimum, I'd quite like to light his cell but obviously putting even small amounts of metal into his proximity (100+ metres) is extremely dangerous.
**Is there a way of... | 2015/04/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15240",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9255/"
] | No need to invent anything crazy, **just use fiber optics**. Instead of running tubes of water to conduct electricity, just run bundles of fiber optic cable carrying the light generated from normal electric light bulbs. Using electrical lights means this *is* an electrical system that meets your requirements.
Such lig... | If your super-hero controls metals thru magnetic fields you cannot use electricity. Any current generates a magnetic field around the conductor.
If your super-hero power comes from another, less ortodox method of controlling metals, then your only choice is semiconductors or ion conduction :
1. Gross bars of graphit... |
15,240 | I'm planning to incarcerate a supervillain who has the ability to [attract and control metal.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_%28comics%29) As a minimum, I'd quite like to light his cell but obviously putting even small amounts of metal into his proximity (100+ metres) is extremely dangerous.
**Is there a way of... | 2015/04/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15240",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9255/"
] | **Based on the excellent comments above - and a h/t to @JohnD + @NickAlexeev**
We have a power source;
[Algae-Based, Non-Metallic Batteries](http://gas2.org/2009/09/11/algae-based-non-metallic-batteries-could-revolutionize-energy-storage-industry/)
Wiring and connectors;
[carbon-fibre wires](http://en.wikiped... | olde-school
===========
Transmit power wirelessly. RF, microwaves, etc. Google Nikola Tesla for inspiration. This way the fancy non-metallic components can be isolated by distance.
Collect the radiated power with a non-metallic (carbon?) coil.
Convert to light using a plain old Edison-style light bulb with a carbon ... |
15,240 | I'm planning to incarcerate a supervillain who has the ability to [attract and control metal.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_%28comics%29) As a minimum, I'd quite like to light his cell but obviously putting even small amounts of metal into his proximity (100+ metres) is extremely dangerous.
**Is there a way of... | 2015/04/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15240",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9255/"
] | Why use electricity at all when you can use a [Chemiluminescent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemiluminescence) fluid like that found in glow sticks?
There are a number of different chemical reactions that give off light, you can pump the chemicals in through two plastic (or glass) pipes and mix it wherever you want... | You could use the electricity to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen, transport the gas along a plastic tube to a ceramic nozzle where they burn and heat a carbon sheet to incandescence.
There is nothing sci-fi about this- oxyhydrogen torches have been commercially available for decades and the remainder is no p... |
15,240 | I'm planning to incarcerate a supervillain who has the ability to [attract and control metal.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_%28comics%29) As a minimum, I'd quite like to light his cell but obviously putting even small amounts of metal into his proximity (100+ metres) is extremely dangerous.
**Is there a way of... | 2015/04/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15240",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/9255/"
] | olde-school
===========
Transmit power wirelessly. RF, microwaves, etc. Google Nikola Tesla for inspiration. This way the fancy non-metallic components can be isolated by distance.
Collect the radiated power with a non-metallic (carbon?) coil.
Convert to light using a plain old Edison-style light bulb with a carbon ... | You could use the electricity to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen, transport the gas along a plastic tube to a ceramic nozzle where they burn and heat a carbon sheet to incandescence.
There is nothing sci-fi about this- oxyhydrogen torches have been commercially available for decades and the remainder is no p... |
54,589 | I recently have tried to connect an LCD to my Arduino Uno. [The tutorial](https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HelloWorld?from=Tutorial.LiquidCrystal)
tells me I need a 220 Ohm resistor, but the only ones I have are 330 Ohm. Does it matter?
Here's the Fritzing diagram by the way:
[![enter image description here](https:... | 2018/07/19 | [
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/54589",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/users/48180/"
] | No, it doesn't matter. That resistor is just for the backlight LEDs. The larger the resistor the dimmer the backlight will be. As @VE7JRO suggests, you can always put two 330Ω resistors in parallel, which will halve the resistance to 165Ω, which will give a brighter backlight. | Nope. The lcd has backlight led which needs to powered separately. More resistance, dimmer it will be. Higher voltage decreases life span of your lcd backlit. |
2,844,257 | I'm looking to start using javascript on the server, most likely with node.js, as well as use websockets to communicate with clients. However, there doesn't seem to be a lot of information about encrypted websocket communication using TLS and the wss:// handler. In fact the only server that I've seen explicitly support... | 2010/05/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2844257",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/111716/"
] | TLS/SSL support works for this websocket implementation in Node.js, I just tested it: <https://github.com/Worlize/WebSocket-Node/issues/29> | Well you have [stream.setSecure()](http://nodejs.org/api.html#stream-setencoding-213) and [server.setSecure()](http://nodejs.org/api.html#server-listen-156).
I'm guessing you should be able to use one of those (specially the last one) to use TLS in websockets since in the end a websocket is just a normal http connecti... |
5,839 | What heat should I use to BBQ (gas/charcoal grill) red/green bell peppers?
Should it be:
* direct or indirect
* high/medium/low
* duration? | 2010/08/23 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/5839",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/79/"
] | **Roasting**
I use direct heat, medium-high to high, specifically I use my grill but I've seen people set them directly on a gas stove burner (this seems like a fire hazard, so don't walk away). You could also broil them very close to the broiler, or roast them, but roasting will take longer than direct heat methods.
... | Use a medium-high direct heat until they look how you want them to look. |
191,509 | My laptop has this crackling sound on the right speakers no matter the volume. The noise is not heard with a headset. I noticed this after updating my software to the latest one. | 2015/06/14 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/191509",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/131871/"
] | To isolate whether this is truly a hardware or software problem..
* Launch /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup.app
* If it doesn't already show, select Audio Devices from the window menu
* Select your Speaker output on the left Sidebar; the tab on the right should show Output highlighted & Input greyed out
* Bott... | Because you said it dosen't present on a headset I would check the speakers out prior to doing any sort of complex testing.
Plug your speakers into another source like an iPod/iPad, another Mac/PC or anything you can find with audio out.
If the symptoms still present, then the problem is your speakers. |
278,260 | 1. He just fired his assistant.
2. He's (he has) just fired his assistant.
(Don't know if it's relevant, but he fired his assistant minutes before this is being said.)
* Which is technically correct?
* If both, what's the difference between them?
* Which is (more) natural? | 2021/03/19 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/278260",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/131312/"
] | They're both grammatically correct.
One difference to me, as a native speaker, is that "He just fired his assistant" sounds less casual and more serious/respectful than "He's just fired his assistant."
The first one is more natural in a typical casual or professional conversation.
If you're speaking from a position ... | From looking at this website: [English Tenses](https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/tenses)
**He fired his assistant** is the *simple past tense*. The action happened in the past but no information is conveyed about how long ago in the past.
**He has fired his assistant** is the *present perfect simple tense*. Th... |
319,882 | Going to that link shows me the folder and I can save the constituent files one by one...but How do I use an ftp client (like winscp for example) or something else to access the folder and just copy the whole thing. I don't have any username and/or password just that (public) ftp address. | 2011/08/06 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/319882",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/94754/"
] | Apparently with Winscp..one can just do :username--> anonymous and leave the password field blank and then proceed as normal. This is similar to what Pavek said but someone else might find the details I've provided useful.
Of the windows solutions suggested, this seems to be the simplest.
Thanks everyone. | How are you currently trying to access the FTP site? Try using a FTP client such as [FileZilla](http://filezilla-project.org/), which is free, or [CuteFTP](http://www.globalscape.com/downloads/) which has a cost but is another good one. |
319,882 | Going to that link shows me the folder and I can save the constituent files one by one...but How do I use an ftp client (like winscp for example) or something else to access the folder and just copy the whole thing. I don't have any username and/or password just that (public) ftp address. | 2011/08/06 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/319882",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/94754/"
] | How are you currently trying to access the FTP site? Try using a FTP client such as [FileZilla](http://filezilla-project.org/), which is free, or [CuteFTP](http://www.globalscape.com/downloads/) which has a cost but is another good one. | FTP programs should have "anonymous login" for instance my linux program called "GNOME Commander" has possibility to login to public FTP. I believe this feature is among all programs. |
319,882 | Going to that link shows me the folder and I can save the constituent files one by one...but How do I use an ftp client (like winscp for example) or something else to access the folder and just copy the whole thing. I don't have any username and/or password just that (public) ftp address. | 2011/08/06 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/319882",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/94754/"
] | Apparently with Winscp..one can just do :username--> anonymous and leave the password field blank and then proceed as normal. This is similar to what Pavek said but someone else might find the details I've provided useful.
Of the windows solutions suggested, this seems to be the simplest.
Thanks everyone. | FTP programs should have "anonymous login" for instance my linux program called "GNOME Commander" has possibility to login to public FTP. I believe this feature is among all programs. |
319,882 | Going to that link shows me the folder and I can save the constituent files one by one...but How do I use an ftp client (like winscp for example) or something else to access the folder and just copy the whole thing. I don't have any username and/or password just that (public) ftp address. | 2011/08/06 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/319882",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/94754/"
] | How are you currently trying to access the FTP site? Try using a FTP client such as [FileZilla](http://filezilla-project.org/), which is free, or [CuteFTP](http://www.globalscape.com/downloads/) which has a cost but is another good one. | Just type "\download.siteXYZ.com" in "Run Prompt" and it should take to you this directory with the windows explorer. |
319,882 | Going to that link shows me the folder and I can save the constituent files one by one...but How do I use an ftp client (like winscp for example) or something else to access the folder and just copy the whole thing. I don't have any username and/or password just that (public) ftp address. | 2011/08/06 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/319882",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/94754/"
] | Apparently with Winscp..one can just do :username--> anonymous and leave the password field blank and then proceed as normal. This is similar to what Pavek said but someone else might find the details I've provided useful.
Of the windows solutions suggested, this seems to be the simplest.
Thanks everyone. | Just type "\download.siteXYZ.com" in "Run Prompt" and it should take to you this directory with the windows explorer. |
191,444 | I have 2 shapefiles: shapefile A (yellow) and shapefile B (purple). I already did some basic data cleanup on shapefile A, but now want to use shapefile B because it has less overlaps between polygons.
How can I detect the difference between the 2 shapefiles? Basically I want to remove the differences. So in the follow... | 2016/04/27 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/191444",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/4585/"
] | I found a simple answer to my question. I just added an additional tag for each URL. I used the same url in the example for simplicity sake.
**Windyty Wind Map Forecasts**
**Windyty Wind Map Forecasts**
**Windyty Wind Map Forecasts**
**Windyty Wind Map Forecasts**
**Windyty Wind Map Forecasts**
**Windyty Win... | I figured the ioQuery question. The function did not like the "-" in the text. |
2,005,585 | does redirecting from grid using javascript increase performance in asp.net | 2010/01/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2005585",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/228718/"
] | Yes it definetly does increase your performance as there is no postback, user doesn't have to wait. There is no server side processing as well.
Happy coding. | If your javascript redirect is saving a postback then its definitely improvement in performance otherwise not. |
2,005,585 | does redirecting from grid using javascript increase performance in asp.net | 2010/01/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2005585",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/228718/"
] | Reloading a grid using javascript would increase performance. Redirecting to another page using javascript, in replacement of a hyperlink or something, would not be much difference. | If your javascript redirect is saving a postback then its definitely improvement in performance otherwise not. |
146,925 | I have received call from international number (0012024558888). After receiving it I cut the call as it was irrelevant to me and I did not give any information to them. Now I doubt it as spam/scam call. My question is that can they hack personal information from my mobile (like messages etc,.)? | 2017/01/01 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/146925",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/134912/"
] | Very unlikely. I have never heard of an exploit in any cellphone operating system which can be exploited by taking a call from a malicious caller. If there were something like that, it would likely have made some news headlines, because it would be a huge vulnerability which would affect millions of end-users and would... | AFAIK, as Philipp said, there are no known exploits from simply receiving a phone call. It is possible to exfiltrate data from a compromised computer via a voice channel but that isn't really very useful with a mobile phone as you would be unlikely to know whether the phone was in the vicinity of the machine.
It might... |
47,074,058 | This is deliberately a quite general question but even after spending some time to read about the question it is still unclear to me in which cases I should definitely spend (a reasonable amount of) time to convert my R codes in Julia and others for which it is not worth it?
Could you provide some real-life examples f... | 2017/11/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/47074058",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3507085/"
] | Depends what you're going to be using the code for. In general I'd say no. I've migrated 95% of my workflow from R to Julia, but the only existing code base I've ported is my published R package (to a published julia package).
On the other hand, I ported my R analysis code to Julia halfway through this project (<http:/... | It is one question, whether or not to code primarily in Julia or in R but a whole different one, whether you want to transfer your finished R code to Julia. If you chose to write it in R primarily, it is probably because you are more proficient in R than in Julia. Thus you have quite some good chance of improving your ... |
3,670 | Allowed: How do I make dish X have lower sodium.
Not Allowed: Name a dish of type Y that has low sodium.
I realize that's in our printed rules, but it does feel very arbitrary to me; you can ask for help modifying a dish, but you can't ask for suggestions of a dish that fits your criteria in the first place.
[As an ... | 2020/12/13 | [
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3670",
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/users/7180/"
] | I think this really depends on what "type Y" is. If it's at all a broad category, naming low-sodium dishes of type Y becomes a bunch of answers listing different things and voting breaks down in multiple ways. Most of the time the categories for questions like that are indeed broad, and even if they aren't obviously br... | I admit, our site (and its parent network) is quite structured, we have a lot of rules, and if you don't know all of them, the result of applying them might look strange.
One important thing to know: we are not trying to accommodate all possible questions, but only these at which we are good (description of "good" fol... |
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