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88,043 | This is a hypothetical situation for a potential story.
Let's say Bob is a minor whose parents have already pre-paid for him to attend a religious summer camp as daycare for the entirety of summer. Unfortunately, due to some assorted disagreements with the owners of the camp, Bob is no longer comfortable attending sai... | 2023/01/10 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/88043",
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] | >
> The real question is do they have to refund the rest of the summer camp fees if Bob is expelled due to his own intentional misbehavior?
>
>
>
Not if the contract was written by a good lawyer, or even by a merely competent lawyer. In that case, the contract will provide that there is to be no refund in the even... | Typically in this scenario, the expulsion of a child from a private organization with a paid fee for admittance will not be refunded to the parents as in this case, the camp may not be able to fill the vacancy left by the child in a manner that could be productive, especially given space availability meant that not all... |
88,043 | This is a hypothetical situation for a potential story.
Let's say Bob is a minor whose parents have already pre-paid for him to attend a religious summer camp as daycare for the entirety of summer. Unfortunately, due to some assorted disagreements with the owners of the camp, Bob is no longer comfortable attending sai... | 2023/01/10 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/88043",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
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] | You are only entitled to a refund if there is a "total failure of consideration"
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The child attended the camp, albeit briefly. Therefore, the camp has provided some of the consideration it was contracted to do, and there is no entitlement ... | >
> The real question is do they have to refund the rest of the summer camp fees if Bob is expelled due to his own intentional misbehavior?
>
>
>
Not if the contract was written by a good lawyer, or even by a merely competent lawyer. In that case, the contract will provide that there is to be no refund in the even... |
88,043 | This is a hypothetical situation for a potential story.
Let's say Bob is a minor whose parents have already pre-paid for him to attend a religious summer camp as daycare for the entirety of summer. Unfortunately, due to some assorted disagreements with the owners of the camp, Bob is no longer comfortable attending sai... | 2023/01/10 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/88043",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/861/"
] | >
> The real question is do they have to refund the rest of the summer camp fees if Bob is expelled due to his own intentional misbehavior?
>
>
>
Not if the contract was written by a good lawyer, or even by a merely competent lawyer. In that case, the contract will provide that there is to be no refund in the even... | As others pointed out, the most likely scenario is that there was a contract which would have said the camp doesn't provide refunds for bad behavior expulsions. Setting aside that for a moment, the other very important part of this is that the camp has the cash in hand. That means if Bob's parent demands a refund and t... |
88,043 | This is a hypothetical situation for a potential story.
Let's say Bob is a minor whose parents have already pre-paid for him to attend a religious summer camp as daycare for the entirety of summer. Unfortunately, due to some assorted disagreements with the owners of the camp, Bob is no longer comfortable attending sai... | 2023/01/10 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/88043",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/861/"
] | You are only entitled to a refund if there is a "total failure of consideration"
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The child attended the camp, albeit briefly. Therefore, the camp has provided some of the consideration it was contracted to do, and there is no entitlement ... | Typically in this scenario, the expulsion of a child from a private organization with a paid fee for admittance will not be refunded to the parents as in this case, the camp may not be able to fill the vacancy left by the child in a manner that could be productive, especially given space availability meant that not all... |
88,043 | This is a hypothetical situation for a potential story.
Let's say Bob is a minor whose parents have already pre-paid for him to attend a religious summer camp as daycare for the entirety of summer. Unfortunately, due to some assorted disagreements with the owners of the camp, Bob is no longer comfortable attending sai... | 2023/01/10 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/88043",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/861/"
] | Typically in this scenario, the expulsion of a child from a private organization with a paid fee for admittance will not be refunded to the parents as in this case, the camp may not be able to fill the vacancy left by the child in a manner that could be productive, especially given space availability meant that not all... | As others pointed out, the most likely scenario is that there was a contract which would have said the camp doesn't provide refunds for bad behavior expulsions. Setting aside that for a moment, the other very important part of this is that the camp has the cash in hand. That means if Bob's parent demands a refund and t... |
88,043 | This is a hypothetical situation for a potential story.
Let's say Bob is a minor whose parents have already pre-paid for him to attend a religious summer camp as daycare for the entirety of summer. Unfortunately, due to some assorted disagreements with the owners of the camp, Bob is no longer comfortable attending sai... | 2023/01/10 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/88043",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/861/"
] | You are only entitled to a refund if there is a "total failure of consideration"
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The child attended the camp, albeit briefly. Therefore, the camp has provided some of the consideration it was contracted to do, and there is no entitlement ... | As others pointed out, the most likely scenario is that there was a contract which would have said the camp doesn't provide refunds for bad behavior expulsions. Setting aside that for a moment, the other very important part of this is that the camp has the cash in hand. That means if Bob's parent demands a refund and t... |
29,605,019 | I need to checksum every single file on a given USB disk in a C# application. I suspect the bottleneck here is the actual read off the disk so I'm looking to make this as fast as possible.
I suspect this would be much quicker if I could read the files on the disk sequentially, in the actual order they appear on the di... | 2015/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/29605019",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1742551/"
] | Need to install SSDT tooling for VS 2013 <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dn864412> | VS2013 lists "SQL Server" after the "Visual F#" option in the "New Project" window. Clicking on this "SQL Server" option shows one template called "SQL Server Database Project".
Perhaps that option was not installed for your initial VS2013 installation. |
29,605,019 | I need to checksum every single file on a given USB disk in a C# application. I suspect the bottleneck here is the actual read off the disk so I'm looking to make this as fast as possible.
I suspect this would be much quicker if I could read the files on the disk sequentially, in the actual order they appear on the di... | 2015/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/29605019",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1742551/"
] | To me, it is listed under "Other Languages". I have VS 2013 professional
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eib72.jpg) | VS2013 lists "SQL Server" after the "Visual F#" option in the "New Project" window. Clicking on this "SQL Server" option shows one template called "SQL Server Database Project".
Perhaps that option was not installed for your initial VS2013 installation. |
29,605,019 | I need to checksum every single file on a given USB disk in a C# application. I suspect the bottleneck here is the actual read off the disk so I'm looking to make this as fast as possible.
I suspect this would be much quicker if I could read the files on the disk sequentially, in the actual order they appear on the di... | 2015/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/29605019",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1742551/"
] | Need to install SSDT tooling for VS 2013 <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dn864412> | Have you installed SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools: <http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=42313> |
29,605,019 | I need to checksum every single file on a given USB disk in a C# application. I suspect the bottleneck here is the actual read off the disk so I'm looking to make this as fast as possible.
I suspect this would be much quicker if I could read the files on the disk sequentially, in the actual order they appear on the di... | 2015/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/29605019",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1742551/"
] | To me, it is listed under "Other Languages". I have VS 2013 professional
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eib72.jpg) | Have you installed SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools: <http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=42313> |
64,653 | I am a working student (working in software engineering) and this year I'll be completing my CS Bachelor's degree in Italy. I am doing the online degree as I can't attend lectures, due to my job.
I would like to continue my studies with a Master's Degree in CS so I googled a bit and found out that [GaTech is offering... | 2016/03/06 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/64653",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/50346/"
] | In my opinion, Georgia Tech's Online Master of Computer Science will not help you get a computer science PhD in the US. Not because it's online, but because it's a *professional* master's program.
There are two types of master's degrees in computer science in the US:
* Thesis (aka research) masters degrees have a sig... | Perhaps the best course of action is to ask the faculty/graduate admissions at GaTech (or other school you are interested in) if if would make a difference to get into their PhD program, given your background.
A group of random gals and dudes on the ńet can't answer this with any certainty. If by chance somebody here ... |
57,276 | I collected a large amount of data for a research project at my university for a professor who is not my advisor. I was originally told that I would get the opportunity to collaborate on a manuscript. I would write one paper while the PI would write the other.
Now that I have collected huge amounts of data, it appear... | 2015/10/31 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/57276",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/43577/"
] | If you gathered data for a manuscript, you should generally be given a chance to participate in the writing of that manuscript and to become an author of the resulting paper. Moreover, it sounds like this was an explicit understanding at the time when you started the project, in which case it would be even more clearly... | Your situation is more than omnipresent. Sometimes people just forget about you; sometimes your text needs a serious proof-reading or adjustment prior to publication, so at the very end it is not actually yours; sometimes people are fantastically greedy, etc. I would not suggest to give rise to an intra-departamental q... |
10,760 | I wish I had a picture of this thing I saw, and I did try to video it, but then they hurtled very quickly out of sight.
Anyway, I will try to explain. . .
You know when you're up in a plane in the sky, you can see clouds in 'individual' balls? Well, it was about to rain yesterday and the sky was dark. Then suddenly... | 2017/07/07 | [
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/10760",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/users/8517/"
] | It's hard to visualize exactly what you saw, but typically in [convective clouds](http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/atmo202/Exer10dir/convectiveclouds.html), there is such significant motion that oftentimes very chaotic and varying cloud shapes will develop as a result, and they may move quite quickly due to the strong win... | I'm sorry, I'm going to respond to you here because I don't want to go and join the forum to be able to comment. Like I said earlier, I'm not a science-minded person and I was just looking for a quick once-off help here among you esteemed science people.
Well, I've gone through your detailed and impressive answer (th... |
3,709,987 | OK, so we are using entity framework and wish to expose data from these entities to consumers. This data is pretty common and although initially only consumed by WPF applications it could be consumed by other technologies such as Silverlight, ASP.NET, Office, etc in the future.
Typically you would build WCF services t... | 2010/09/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3709987",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86138/"
] | Personally I prefer your initial approach, but this is due to my desire to have strong control over the queries, and the processes that are used by my applications. i find that as I work with very large scale projects, it is helpful for me to have full control over the queries that are executed, etc. | Personally, I think your initial approach is stupid. That simple.
* Data Services allow the user to filter and query related data as he needs.
* Data Services have full tooling integration already - programming language (LINQ pass through), Reporting Services, Excel can work against them.
At the end of the day you ex... |
3,709,987 | OK, so we are using entity framework and wish to expose data from these entities to consumers. This data is pretty common and although initially only consumed by WPF applications it could be consumed by other technologies such as Silverlight, ASP.NET, Office, etc in the future.
Typically you would build WCF services t... | 2010/09/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3709987",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86138/"
] | Personally I prefer your initial approach, but this is due to my desire to have strong control over the queries, and the processes that are used by my applications. i find that as I work with very large scale projects, it is helpful for me to have full control over the queries that are executed, etc. | The data services are definitely a time saver, but the service itself shouldn't be exposed to clients directly, but through other services.
My approach would be to have layers of services: for example, your service is practically behaving as a data layer, and just as you don't expose database to clients, you don't exp... |
3,709,987 | OK, so we are using entity framework and wish to expose data from these entities to consumers. This data is pretty common and although initially only consumed by WPF applications it could be consumed by other technologies such as Silverlight, ASP.NET, Office, etc in the future.
Typically you would build WCF services t... | 2010/09/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3709987",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86138/"
] | Personally I prefer your initial approach, but this is due to my desire to have strong control over the queries, and the processes that are used by my applications. i find that as I work with very large scale projects, it is helpful for me to have full control over the queries that are executed, etc. | WCF Data Services is a great standardized way of getting your data in and out.
With that said WCF Services help you to have more control in case you need it. With a little bit of effort you can make WCF Data Services to work the same way though, but it is not available for you out of the box in any of the current ver... |
3,709,987 | OK, so we are using entity framework and wish to expose data from these entities to consumers. This data is pretty common and although initially only consumed by WPF applications it could be consumed by other technologies such as Silverlight, ASP.NET, Office, etc in the future.
Typically you would build WCF services t... | 2010/09/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3709987",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86138/"
] | I think you have a valid case for Data Services. They are designed to expose data in a standards friendly format to end users.
---
*With that being said, arguments against....*
The downside is you are basically giving them free reign to query the data however they want. As a result they can do stupid things and cau... | Personally, I think your initial approach is stupid. That simple.
* Data Services allow the user to filter and query related data as he needs.
* Data Services have full tooling integration already - programming language (LINQ pass through), Reporting Services, Excel can work against them.
At the end of the day you ex... |
3,709,987 | OK, so we are using entity framework and wish to expose data from these entities to consumers. This data is pretty common and although initially only consumed by WPF applications it could be consumed by other technologies such as Silverlight, ASP.NET, Office, etc in the future.
Typically you would build WCF services t... | 2010/09/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3709987",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86138/"
] | Personally, I think your initial approach is stupid. That simple.
* Data Services allow the user to filter and query related data as he needs.
* Data Services have full tooling integration already - programming language (LINQ pass through), Reporting Services, Excel can work against them.
At the end of the day you ex... | The data services are definitely a time saver, but the service itself shouldn't be exposed to clients directly, but through other services.
My approach would be to have layers of services: for example, your service is practically behaving as a data layer, and just as you don't expose database to clients, you don't exp... |
3,709,987 | OK, so we are using entity framework and wish to expose data from these entities to consumers. This data is pretty common and although initially only consumed by WPF applications it could be consumed by other technologies such as Silverlight, ASP.NET, Office, etc in the future.
Typically you would build WCF services t... | 2010/09/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3709987",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86138/"
] | Personally, I think your initial approach is stupid. That simple.
* Data Services allow the user to filter and query related data as he needs.
* Data Services have full tooling integration already - programming language (LINQ pass through), Reporting Services, Excel can work against them.
At the end of the day you ex... | WCF Data Services is a great standardized way of getting your data in and out.
With that said WCF Services help you to have more control in case you need it. With a little bit of effort you can make WCF Data Services to work the same way though, but it is not available for you out of the box in any of the current ver... |
3,709,987 | OK, so we are using entity framework and wish to expose data from these entities to consumers. This data is pretty common and although initially only consumed by WPF applications it could be consumed by other technologies such as Silverlight, ASP.NET, Office, etc in the future.
Typically you would build WCF services t... | 2010/09/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3709987",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86138/"
] | I think you have a valid case for Data Services. They are designed to expose data in a standards friendly format to end users.
---
*With that being said, arguments against....*
The downside is you are basically giving them free reign to query the data however they want. As a result they can do stupid things and cau... | The data services are definitely a time saver, but the service itself shouldn't be exposed to clients directly, but through other services.
My approach would be to have layers of services: for example, your service is practically behaving as a data layer, and just as you don't expose database to clients, you don't exp... |
3,709,987 | OK, so we are using entity framework and wish to expose data from these entities to consumers. This data is pretty common and although initially only consumed by WPF applications it could be consumed by other technologies such as Silverlight, ASP.NET, Office, etc in the future.
Typically you would build WCF services t... | 2010/09/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3709987",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86138/"
] | I think you have a valid case for Data Services. They are designed to expose data in a standards friendly format to end users.
---
*With that being said, arguments against....*
The downside is you are basically giving them free reign to query the data however they want. As a result they can do stupid things and cau... | WCF Data Services is a great standardized way of getting your data in and out.
With that said WCF Services help you to have more control in case you need it. With a little bit of effort you can make WCF Data Services to work the same way though, but it is not available for you out of the box in any of the current ver... |
27,155 | In episode 102, during the Alabasta arc, Zoro says:
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> As for why I still stay with him... being by his side all this time's given me another goal to strive for.
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>
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Another translation I've seen of this is:
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> Since we've been together for so long another purpose is starting to emerge.
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>
>
This happe... | 2015/11/08 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/27155",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/17758/"
] | You're right. Zoro second goal is to make Luffy the King of Pirates. This has been demonstrated by him many times in the form of his loyalty
Here are a few instances where this has been demonstrated. As the [One Piece Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Roronoa_Zoro/Personality_and_Relationships#Luffy) puts it:
>
>... | i knew the answer.in the same episode another goal which zoro mentioned to chopper.the goal is to always keep sail with luffy.of course ace said to vivi that luffy has strange charm so people can want always with him.so zoro said to chopper the reason he cant answer the another goal to chopper because zoro want to chop... |
25,494 | i'd like to have the questions i already visited to be highlighted so it would be easier to scroll thorugh them espcially when new ones are arriving.
how about it? | 2009/10/11 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25494",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/133805/"
] | My browsers perfectly show the links I've visited, and I did not do anything fancy for that.
(Maybe you should set your browser to keep a longer history?) | You can use Greasemonkey or Stylish to change the a:visited links to something much more obnoxious if you like. I'm sure someone will come along with a script soon enough ;) |
7,265,432 | In [Securing an API: SSL & HTTP Basic Authentication vs Signature](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5511589/securing-an-api-ssl-http-basic-authentication-vs-signiture) HTTP Basic Authentication is cited as an adequate way to secure REST web service calls if the REST calls are made through SSL.
But it seems this met... | 2011/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7265432",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/455553/"
] | As long as 1 - 3 happen under SSL, the data will be safe over the wire to the server (assuming you trust the certificate authority)
During that process, the browser will hold those credentials in memory. You have no choice but to trust that if the user is going to enter the data.
It is the web sites code that determ... | I've no idea what you're protecting so I'l just toss some thoughts out.
SSL and TLS are not meaningful if you (or someone else who gives a hoot) aren't in control of the root list of the relying party. I say this because I expect that if you don't trust the guy with the key to the lock then you won't put your money in... |
102,916 | I'm going with an American friend from Belfast to Dublin by bus. Despite the lack of border control at the land border due to the Common Travel Area agreement, non-EU/EFTA nationals are supposed to get processed and stamped into Ireland even when entering from the UK - the Immigration section of the Gardai (Irish Polic... | 2017/09/28 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/102916",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/39782/"
] | So, just found the following on the [INIS website](http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/inis/pages/wp07000022):
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> If you arrive via the border with Northern Ireland, you must report to an immigration officer at Burgh Quay Registration Office Dublin or your local Garda Síochána (police) station as soon as possible.
>
>
>
I... | If you look at the [Aliens (Amendment) Order, 1975](http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1975/si/128/made/en/print) , point 5 has the following:
*5. (1) An alien coming from a place outside the State other than Great Britain or Northern Ireland shall, on arrival in the State, present himself to an immigration officer fo... |
63,067 | I had a slight bend with my mech hanger so I took off the rear mech to get the hanger out and fixed.
Now that the hanger is fixed, I noticed a U-shaped ring around the bottom of the bolt on the rear mech is preventing me from fully tightening the mech to the hanger.
There is a opening on the top that seems to fit a... | 2019/07/12 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/63067",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/44399/"
] | That black strip to which your derailleur is attached, which can be assumed to be the hanger, looks strangely narrow, like a metallic popsicle stick. Is that by chance a part related to the Shimano Direct Mount (TM) system? Some sort of adapter link plate? It seems incompatibly narrow for the derailleur: it's fitting e... | That ring is to keep the bolt captured on the derailleur body. Check to see if it is seated properly. It should lie in a groove, and not have ridden up on the thread at all.
Make sure the B-screw tab (at 9 o-clock relative to the derailleur bolt in your photo) is located on the hanger properly. The derailleur body rot... |
36,905 | I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop and I just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04. However, now my wireless card doesn't work whereas it worked just fine in 10.10 and 10.04. Any ideas? It works fine when I hardwire. | 2011/04/25 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/36905",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/14943/"
] | open synaptic package manager, and install b43, do NOT install the driver from the Additional drivers. You'll need to start the wireless with Fn+F2 each boot, still looking for a solution for that issue. But that is the way I make my broadcom bcm4311 working in my Dell Inspiron 1501. | I had the same problem with my Inspiron E1505 wireless card. What worked for me was I removed the driver using the Additional Drivers program and then installed the firmware-b43-installer package. Upon reboot the card worked beautifully |
99,489 | I am a 2nd year PhD student.
I regret my choice of grad school severely. The program here has a good reputation and I have no idea how or why it has a good reputation. The program here is absolutely terrible. The location is terrible and depressing, classes are completely useless, the qual system is really terrible (I... | 2017/11/27 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/99489",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/83444/"
] | I think the first thing is to take a break - a week away from your department, in which you read no email and keep contact with no one there. From the text of the question, I understand you may be stressed and burnt out, so you do need the break. If you forget these breaks, burnout can become depression, which would co... | You have to make a choice: quit and find something else or stay and take the best of it. Staying and not enjoying it is just a waste of time.
Btw, what is your PhD about? |
9,445,828 | Can the A star algorithm implemented using HashMaps instead of ArrayLists? | 2012/02/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9445828",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1211649/"
] | First of all, A star is not related to any specific data structure. I implemented it using an Array list and Sorted List( for storing the open nodes in sorted order). You can implement it according to your need | I think what you are talking about is a heap, or say a priority queue. The best-first search approach requires you pick the node from the open set with the least cost. A heap allows to do O(log N) insertion and look up the current best node at O(1). |
128,649 | In an electrically charged black hole, such as the one described by the [Reissner-Nordström metric](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reissner%E2%80%93Nordstr%C3%B6m_metric) (i.e. with no angular momentum), where would the electric charge be situated (neglecting any charged particles falling into the black hole)? | 2014/07/29 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/128649",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/56299/"
] | Depending on how you feel philosophically about these things, either on the horizon or at the central singularity. | There is no charge anywhere in the charged black hole solutions (the divergence of the electric field is zero everywhere). [Gauss's law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss's_law) applied to any surface enclosing the singularity will tell you that all of the charge is inside that surface. However the singularity itself ... |
919,514 | I added a checkbox to my list, just like there is a checkbox in a People and Groups list:[alt text http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/605/ss20090528093906.png](http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/605/ss20090528093906.png)
However in my list I want to save the selected value to database. But I have no idea how. I was figuring i... | 2009/05/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/919514",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50173/"
] | Use jQuery and the SharePoint web services - attach a click handler to the checkboxes and include code that finds the item id from the same row - easy enough to locate in firebug.
There's some sample code for the web service part on my blog:
<http://tqcblog.com/2009/05/04/sharepoint-discussion-with-jquery> | you could implement an ItemEventReceiver that does the database stuff for you and attach it to your list. The ItemEventReceiver should listen onto the ItemAdded, ItemUpdated and ItemDeleted event so you can react on these different situations and write the information into your database.
For more information about ev... |
919,514 | I added a checkbox to my list, just like there is a checkbox in a People and Groups list:[alt text http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/605/ss20090528093906.png](http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/605/ss20090528093906.png)
However in my list I want to save the selected value to database. But I have no idea how. I was figuring i... | 2009/05/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/919514",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50173/"
] | YOu could use jQuery, add a click event to all checkboxes with jQuery, and have the click event perform an AJAX call to webservice you write and deploy to Sharepoint. You can use the Content Editor Webpart to inject Javascript in the page. Deploy the webservice as a feature. | you could implement an ItemEventReceiver that does the database stuff for you and attach it to your list. The ItemEventReceiver should listen onto the ItemAdded, ItemUpdated and ItemDeleted event so you can react on these different situations and write the information into your database.
For more information about ev... |
919,514 | I added a checkbox to my list, just like there is a checkbox in a People and Groups list:[alt text http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/605/ss20090528093906.png](http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/605/ss20090528093906.png)
However in my list I want to save the selected value to database. But I have no idea how. I was figuring i... | 2009/05/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/919514",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50173/"
] | Use jQuery and the SharePoint web services - attach a click handler to the checkboxes and include code that finds the item id from the same row - easy enough to locate in firebug.
There's some sample code for the web service part on my blog:
<http://tqcblog.com/2009/05/04/sharepoint-discussion-with-jquery> | YOu could use jQuery, add a click event to all checkboxes with jQuery, and have the click event perform an AJAX call to webservice you write and deploy to Sharepoint. You can use the Content Editor Webpart to inject Javascript in the page. Deploy the webservice as a feature. |
11,537 | I notice that Portugal had a very high interest rate on its national bond issues back in 2012 but since then it has drawn down significantly:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9sj62.png)
How were they able to decrease the interest rate? | 2016/04/12 | [
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/11537",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/users/1448/"
] | 1.- The government imposed an austerity program and, in exchange, received assistance from the IMF and the EU.
2.- The ECB made it clear that it would do whatever as necessary to save the Euro, even buying sovereign bonds of Euro countries.
3.- A general improvement in financial conditions around 2013 throughout the ... | Quite simple, though a very bad solution. The ECB creates money out of nothing and uses it to buy government bonds... So by printing money they create 'artificial demand', no one in their right minds would buy Portugal's debt, they will never be able to repay it, their economy (and most of Europe's economies) are dead ... |
524,919 | I had been wondering for quite some time on how to manager memory in my next project. Which is writing a DSL in C/C++.
It can be done in any of the three ways.
1. Reference counted C or C++.
2. Garbage collected C.
3. In C++, copying class and structures from stack to stack and managing strings separately with some k... | 2009/02/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/524919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50542/"
] | Why would garbage collected C be faster than C++? The only garbage collectors available for C are pretty inefficient things, more designed to plug memory leaks than to actually improve the quality of your code.
In any case, C++ has the potential for reaching better performance with less code (note that it's only a pot... | If you don't want to explicitly manage memory, don't use C/C++. There are plenty of languages with either reference counting or compiler-supported garbage collectors that will probably work much better for you.
C/C++ are designed in an environment where the programmer manages their own memory. Trying to retrofit GC o... |
524,919 | I had been wondering for quite some time on how to manager memory in my next project. Which is writing a DSL in C/C++.
It can be done in any of the three ways.
1. Reference counted C or C++.
2. Garbage collected C.
3. In C++, copying class and structures from stack to stack and managing strings separately with some k... | 2009/02/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/524919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50542/"
] | uh ... It depends how *you* write the garbage collection system for your DSL. Neither C or C++ comes with a garbage collection facility built-in but either could be used to write a very efficient or a very inefficient garbage collector. Writing such a thing, by the way, is a non-trivial task.
DSLs are often written i... | Most non GC languages will allocate and de-allocate the memory as needed and no longer needed. GC'd languages usually allocate large chunks of memory before hand and only free the memory when idle and not in the middle of a intensive task so I am going to **yes if GC kicks in at correct time.**
The D programming langu... |
524,919 | I had been wondering for quite some time on how to manager memory in my next project. Which is writing a DSL in C/C++.
It can be done in any of the three ways.
1. Reference counted C or C++.
2. Garbage collected C.
3. In C++, copying class and structures from stack to stack and managing strings separately with some k... | 2009/02/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/524919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50542/"
] | It all depends! That's a pretty open question. It needs an essay to answer it!
Hey.. here's one somebody prepared earlier:
<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2552>
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/issues.html>
It depends how big your objects are, how many of them there are, how fast they're being all... | Neither C nor C++ will give you garbage for free. What they will give you is memory allocation libraries (which provide malloc/free, etc). There are many online resources to algorithms for writing garbage collection libraries. A good start is [link text](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science... |
524,919 | I had been wondering for quite some time on how to manager memory in my next project. Which is writing a DSL in C/C++.
It can be done in any of the three ways.
1. Reference counted C or C++.
2. Garbage collected C.
3. In C++, copying class and structures from stack to stack and managing strings separately with some k... | 2009/02/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/524919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50542/"
] | uh ... It depends how *you* write the garbage collection system for your DSL. Neither C or C++ comes with a garbage collection facility built-in but either could be used to write a very efficient or a very inefficient garbage collector. Writing such a thing, by the way, is a non-trivial task.
DSLs are often written i... | I suggest that if you have written a program where memory allocation and deallocation (explicitly or GC'ed) is the bottleneck, then you should re-think your architecture, design and implementation. |
524,919 | I had been wondering for quite some time on how to manager memory in my next project. Which is writing a DSL in C/C++.
It can be done in any of the three ways.
1. Reference counted C or C++.
2. Garbage collected C.
3. In C++, copying class and structures from stack to stack and managing strings separately with some k... | 2009/02/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/524919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50542/"
] | It all depends! That's a pretty open question. It needs an essay to answer it!
Hey.. here's one somebody prepared earlier:
<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2552>
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/issues.html>
It depends how big your objects are, how many of them there are, how fast they're being all... | I suggest that if you have written a program where memory allocation and deallocation (explicitly or GC'ed) is the bottleneck, then you should re-think your architecture, design and implementation. |
524,919 | I had been wondering for quite some time on how to manager memory in my next project. Which is writing a DSL in C/C++.
It can be done in any of the three ways.
1. Reference counted C or C++.
2. Garbage collected C.
3. In C++, copying class and structures from stack to stack and managing strings separately with some k... | 2009/02/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/524919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50542/"
] | Why would garbage collected C be faster than C++? The only garbage collectors available for C are pretty inefficient things, more designed to plug memory leaks than to actually improve the quality of your code.
In any case, C++ has the potential for reaching better performance with less code (note that it's only a pot... | >
> A related side question. Will malloc/free be slower than allocating a big chuck at the begining of the program and running my own memory manager over it? .NET seems to do it. But I am confused why we can't count on OS to do this job better and faster than what we can do ourselves.
>
>
>
The problem with lettin... |
524,919 | I had been wondering for quite some time on how to manager memory in my next project. Which is writing a DSL in C/C++.
It can be done in any of the three ways.
1. Reference counted C or C++.
2. Garbage collected C.
3. In C++, copying class and structures from stack to stack and managing strings separately with some k... | 2009/02/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/524919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50542/"
] | uh ... It depends how *you* write the garbage collection system for your DSL. Neither C or C++ comes with a garbage collection facility built-in but either could be used to write a very efficient or a very inefficient garbage collector. Writing such a thing, by the way, is a non-trivial task.
DSLs are often written i... | Neither C nor C++ will give you garbage for free. What they will give you is memory allocation libraries (which provide malloc/free, etc). There are many online resources to algorithms for writing garbage collection libraries. A good start is [link text](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science... |
524,919 | I had been wondering for quite some time on how to manager memory in my next project. Which is writing a DSL in C/C++.
It can be done in any of the three ways.
1. Reference counted C or C++.
2. Garbage collected C.
3. In C++, copying class and structures from stack to stack and managing strings separately with some k... | 2009/02/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/524919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50542/"
] | With most garbage collection implementations, allocation can see a speed improvement, but then you have the additional cost of the collection phase which can be triggered at any point in your program's execution, leading to a sudden (seemingly random) delay.
As for your second question, it depends on your memory manag... | >
> A related side question. Will malloc/free be slower than allocating a big chuck at the begining of the program and running my own memory manager over it? .NET seems to do it. But I am confused why we can't count on OS to do this job better and faster than what we can do ourselves.
>
>
>
The problem with lettin... |
524,919 | I had been wondering for quite some time on how to manager memory in my next project. Which is writing a DSL in C/C++.
It can be done in any of the three ways.
1. Reference counted C or C++.
2. Garbage collected C.
3. In C++, copying class and structures from stack to stack and managing strings separately with some k... | 2009/02/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/524919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50542/"
] | It all depends! That's a pretty open question. It needs an essay to answer it!
Hey.. here's one somebody prepared earlier:
<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2552>
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/issues.html>
It depends how big your objects are, how many of them there are, how fast they're being all... | Most non GC languages will allocate and de-allocate the memory as needed and no longer needed. GC'd languages usually allocate large chunks of memory before hand and only free the memory when idle and not in the middle of a intensive task so I am going to **yes if GC kicks in at correct time.**
The D programming langu... |
524,919 | I had been wondering for quite some time on how to manager memory in my next project. Which is writing a DSL in C/C++.
It can be done in any of the three ways.
1. Reference counted C or C++.
2. Garbage collected C.
3. In C++, copying class and structures from stack to stack and managing strings separately with some k... | 2009/02/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/524919",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50542/"
] | It all depends! That's a pretty open question. It needs an essay to answer it!
Hey.. here's one somebody prepared earlier:
<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2552>
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/issues.html>
It depends how big your objects are, how many of them there are, how fast they're being all... | Why would garbage collected C be faster than C++? The only garbage collectors available for C are pretty inefficient things, more designed to plug memory leaks than to actually improve the quality of your code.
In any case, C++ has the potential for reaching better performance with less code (note that it's only a pot... |
210,047 | Is it possible to write your own filters for Thunderbird, I don't care what language is used.
I want to be able to do a full analysis of the email (headers and text) and take certain actions based on the content.
Bonus points if I'm able to compare the current email with older received messages (mainly to remove dupl... | 2010/11/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/210047",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/2013/"
] | No, this doesn't seem to be possible.
Such processing is probably easiest to do on the mail server, with stuff like [procmail](http://www.procmail.org), [Courier maildrop](http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop), [amavisd-new](http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd), etc.
Amavisd-new is specifically designed to pass mail to... | With the extension:
<http://mesquilla.com/extensions/filtaquilla/>
you can create JavaScript and/or external files to execute, so it looks like a solid "maybe" |
210,047 | Is it possible to write your own filters for Thunderbird, I don't care what language is used.
I want to be able to do a full analysis of the email (headers and text) and take certain actions based on the content.
Bonus points if I'm able to compare the current email with older received messages (mainly to remove dupl... | 2010/11/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/210047",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/2013/"
] | You could look for a POP3/IMAP proxy that has the scriptable filtering capabilities you need. It could be a proxy which runs on the same PC as Thunderbird. | With the extension:
<http://mesquilla.com/extensions/filtaquilla/>
you can create JavaScript and/or external files to execute, so it looks like a solid "maybe" |
107,235 | Hermione was able to go into boys' dorm. I remember her talking with Harry and Ron while sitting on one of the bed in Harry's room in Gryffindor Tower. On the other hand, stairs didn't allow Harry and Ron to go into girls' dorm. The reason given was: Boys aren't trustworthy.
But, if I was at Hogwarts, provided that I ... | 2015/11/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107235",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/"
] | >
> He bounded forwards, pulled open the door and set off up the **spiral staircase**.
>
>
> *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* - p.314 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 17, *Educational Decree Number Twenty-four*
>
>
>
I don't think a broom would fit up the staircase. Possibly through the windows, but I would ima... | I have trouble believing that if stairs could turn themselves into a slide, that there would not be some other form of charm or enchantment on the stairwell itself to prevent such an action.
I am unaware of anything even remotely canonical that would suggest this though - as a franchise, Harry Potter kept itself remar... |
107,235 | Hermione was able to go into boys' dorm. I remember her talking with Harry and Ron while sitting on one of the bed in Harry's room in Gryffindor Tower. On the other hand, stairs didn't allow Harry and Ron to go into girls' dorm. The reason given was: Boys aren't trustworthy.
But, if I was at Hogwarts, provided that I ... | 2015/11/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107235",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/"
] | I have trouble believing that if stairs could turn themselves into a slide, that there would not be some other form of charm or enchantment on the stairwell itself to prevent such an action.
I am unaware of anything even remotely canonical that would suggest this though - as a franchise, Harry Potter kept itself remar... | Yes, they can. If it is emergency, boys, especially prefects or headboys can fly towards girls dormitory. The magic in staircase is just a warning for boys that they cannot enter there without emergency as girls want more privacy compared to boys and puberty controls boys more than girls. However, if a boy use broomsti... |
107,235 | Hermione was able to go into boys' dorm. I remember her talking with Harry and Ron while sitting on one of the bed in Harry's room in Gryffindor Tower. On the other hand, stairs didn't allow Harry and Ron to go into girls' dorm. The reason given was: Boys aren't trustworthy.
But, if I was at Hogwarts, provided that I ... | 2015/11/09 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107235",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/"
] | >
> He bounded forwards, pulled open the door and set off up the **spiral staircase**.
>
>
> *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* - p.314 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 17, *Educational Decree Number Twenty-four*
>
>
>
I don't think a broom would fit up the staircase. Possibly through the windows, but I would ima... | Yes, they can. If it is emergency, boys, especially prefects or headboys can fly towards girls dormitory. The magic in staircase is just a warning for boys that they cannot enter there without emergency as girls want more privacy compared to boys and puberty controls boys more than girls. However, if a boy use broomsti... |
20,703 | When are P channel mosfets used instead of N channel mosfets?
When should you NOT use a P channel mosfet instead of a N channel mosfet, and vice versa?
When should you use a Jfet?
I just want to get a good comparison going between the different channel mosfets. | 2011/10/10 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/20703",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/2050/"
] | JFETs are rarely used (hard to find nowadays) but do have a place in high-speed analog circuits where they can be used as current sources or signal buffers.
Otherwise, a similar question has been asked before: [Switching DC with MOSFET: p-Channel or n-Channel; Low Side Load or High Side Load?](https://electronics.stac... | A P Channel MOSFET tends to be used to connect a high level "rail" to a load.
You should use it when this best describes the circuit condition.
It's turn on signals are negative relative to the rail it is connected to.
An N Channel MOSFET tends to be used to connect ground to a load which is connected to a hi... |
15,952,538 | I need to make a 3D animation across the web, android and iOS platforms. My question is, is it possible to use WebGL to make the animations in native android and iOS apps? As I would write the animation once and it would in theory port to the android and iOS with out any problems or am I going to have to simply use the... | 2013/04/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15952538",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1638809/"
] | Disclaimer: I work for ludei
So, that's exactly what [a company called ludei is preparing to launch](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/25/ludei-to-add-webgl-3d-support-this-summer-as-it-opens-up-its-html5-game-platform-to-more-titles/) ;)
We have it working on Android 2.3 (even on a Nexus One!) through 4.2, and ... | WebGL is not fully supported on all browsers, however both Android and iOS have native OpenGL views that can be used (and will provide a much faster experience than WebGL). Once your environments are set up for each platform, using the same code will be mostly trivial.
Although cocos2d-x does not support 3D animations... |
15,952,538 | I need to make a 3D animation across the web, android and iOS platforms. My question is, is it possible to use WebGL to make the animations in native android and iOS apps? As I would write the animation once and it would in theory port to the android and iOS with out any problems or am I going to have to simply use the... | 2013/04/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15952538",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1638809/"
] | Disclaimer: I work for ludei
So, that's exactly what [a company called ludei is preparing to launch](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/25/ludei-to-add-webgl-3d-support-this-summer-as-it-opens-up-its-html5-game-platform-to-more-titles/) ;)
We have it working on Android 2.3 (even on a Nexus One!) through 4.2, and ... | Check out <http://impactjs.com/> for iOS they are allowing you to use threeJS //asmallgame.com/labsopen/webgl\_impact/ right now for Android it is only supported on Chrome Beta and you have to enable the flag <http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/01/25/google-finally-makes-it-easy-to-enable-webgl-support-in-latest-chrome-... |
14,380 | When I went to NYC, I took some picture of empire state building. I am trying to figure if I can put this image on getty or istockphoto? What is the licensing around such buildings that not really public? | 2011/07/26 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/14380",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/147/"
] | From what I understand new buildings (since 1990) can be copyrighted, meaning you are free to take pictures of them but not for commercial purposes. Older buildings (apparently) would not be a problem. You would think that copyright would be hard to enforce on an iconic structure like the Empire State building, Big Ben... | This topic was actually covered on the old iStock website. I'm not sure yet where the articles are now that iStock has switched to the Getty ESP platform but you can log in and look around. |
14,380 | When I went to NYC, I took some picture of empire state building. I am trying to figure if I can put this image on getty or istockphoto? What is the licensing around such buildings that not really public? | 2011/07/26 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/14380",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/147/"
] | US copyright law explicitly permits photography of copyrighted buildings from public spaces, commercial or not. This includes interior public spaces.
<https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#120>
Otherwise Street View would be illegal. | This topic was actually covered on the old iStock website. I'm not sure yet where the articles are now that iStock has switched to the Getty ESP platform but you can log in and look around. |
9,314 | Laptop hit the floor. It's difficult if not already impossible to connect to WiFi. Sometimes laptop can detect WiFi, particularly the one at home, but the signal is usually weak. Sometimes it shows option of connecting but whenever I try to connect, it either says it's connected though I can't connect or it stops detec... | 2018/06/05 | [
"https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/9314",
"https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/5775/"
] | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/E0QuM.png)
[https://www.amazon.com/Columbus-Bluetooth-Driverless-waypoints-Compatible/dp/B001JJRBU8](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001JJRBU8)
* 51 channels MTK chipset with enhanced positioning system technology (up to 1.... | 1. Your existing cell phone
2. GPS app
3. save to phone/sd card
4. extra USB battery packs to keep cell phone charged.
Notes:
Cell phones use different GPS chipsets, therefore I can't say you will get reception or how good it will be. Your cellphone's GPS may or may not be accurate and enough for you. Also get an app... |
59,271 | Is there a rule beyond the common "no *the* with proper nouns and names" for the following problem?
>
> I saw the Empire State Building.
>
>
> We went to the White House.
>
>
> We saw the Golden Gate Bridge.
>
>
>
but
>
> I went to Death Valley National Park.
>
>
> I crossed Brooklyn Bridge.
>
>
> | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59271",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/18517/"
] | For buildings, there are no clear rules. We say “The Eiffel Tower” but there’s no *the* in “Tokyo Tower”. We say “The White House” and “The New York Met”, but there’s no *the* in “Sydney Opera House”.
In general, we use *the* for proper nouns denoting:
* plural names (*The Simpsons*, *The Philippines*, …)
* any insti... | These two references explain the use of "THE" with proper nouns rather nicely:
* [Proper nouns *without* the THE](http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-proper_2.htm)
* [Proper nouns *with* the THE](http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-proper_3.htm) |
59,271 | Is there a rule beyond the common "no *the* with proper nouns and names" for the following problem?
>
> I saw the Empire State Building.
>
>
> We went to the White House.
>
>
> We saw the Golden Gate Bridge.
>
>
>
but
>
> I went to Death Valley National Park.
>
>
> I crossed Brooklyn Bridge.
>
>
> | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59271",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/18517/"
] | For buildings, there are no clear rules. We say “The Eiffel Tower” but there’s no *the* in “Tokyo Tower”. We say “The White House” and “The New York Met”, but there’s no *the* in “Sydney Opera House”.
In general, we use *the* for proper nouns denoting:
* plural names (*The Simpsons*, *The Philippines*, …)
* any insti... | In American dialects it is the predominant habit to use "the" with structures (including "the Brooklyn Bridge," but to omit "the" with places that have less specific or pertinent boundaries (such as a National Park). Often, the use or omission of "the" conveys a particular nuance. "I went to Cowboys Stadium," implies t... |
59,271 | Is there a rule beyond the common "no *the* with proper nouns and names" for the following problem?
>
> I saw the Empire State Building.
>
>
> We went to the White House.
>
>
> We saw the Golden Gate Bridge.
>
>
>
but
>
> I went to Death Valley National Park.
>
>
> I crossed Brooklyn Bridge.
>
>
> | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59271",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/18517/"
] | For buildings, there are no clear rules. We say “The Eiffel Tower” but there’s no *the* in “Tokyo Tower”. We say “The White House” and “The New York Met”, but there’s no *the* in “Sydney Opera House”.
In general, we use *the* for proper nouns denoting:
* plural names (*The Simpsons*, *The Philippines*, …)
* any insti... | When it is one of a kind, we use the article: The Sun, The Moon, The Matterhorn. If the word has a title (Mt.), it does not take an article. Names from foreign languages take the article as translated: The Eiffle Tower. Oceans take the article: The Pacific, The Atlantic. |
59,271 | Is there a rule beyond the common "no *the* with proper nouns and names" for the following problem?
>
> I saw the Empire State Building.
>
>
> We went to the White House.
>
>
> We saw the Golden Gate Bridge.
>
>
>
but
>
> I went to Death Valley National Park.
>
>
> I crossed Brooklyn Bridge.
>
>
> | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59271",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/18517/"
] | For buildings, there are no clear rules. We say “The Eiffel Tower” but there’s no *the* in “Tokyo Tower”. We say “The White House” and “The New York Met”, but there’s no *the* in “Sydney Opera House”.
In general, we use *the* for proper nouns denoting:
* plural names (*The Simpsons*, *The Philippines*, …)
* any insti... | According to the previous links, organisations should take 'the'. So its 'the CIA' and 'the FBI'. But what about 'MENSA', 'ISIS' and 'Mossad'? These are organisations, but don't take 'the'. A strange example of how to get this completely wrong is Mark Greaney's spy novels. The author consistently refers to the CIA and ... |
59,271 | Is there a rule beyond the common "no *the* with proper nouns and names" for the following problem?
>
> I saw the Empire State Building.
>
>
> We went to the White House.
>
>
> We saw the Golden Gate Bridge.
>
>
>
but
>
> I went to Death Valley National Park.
>
>
> I crossed Brooklyn Bridge.
>
>
> | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59271",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/18517/"
] | These two references explain the use of "THE" with proper nouns rather nicely:
* [Proper nouns *without* the THE](http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-proper_2.htm)
* [Proper nouns *with* the THE](http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-proper_3.htm) | In American dialects it is the predominant habit to use "the" with structures (including "the Brooklyn Bridge," but to omit "the" with places that have less specific or pertinent boundaries (such as a National Park). Often, the use or omission of "the" conveys a particular nuance. "I went to Cowboys Stadium," implies t... |
59,271 | Is there a rule beyond the common "no *the* with proper nouns and names" for the following problem?
>
> I saw the Empire State Building.
>
>
> We went to the White House.
>
>
> We saw the Golden Gate Bridge.
>
>
>
but
>
> I went to Death Valley National Park.
>
>
> I crossed Brooklyn Bridge.
>
>
> | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59271",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/18517/"
] | These two references explain the use of "THE" with proper nouns rather nicely:
* [Proper nouns *without* the THE](http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-proper_2.htm)
* [Proper nouns *with* the THE](http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-proper_3.htm) | When it is one of a kind, we use the article: The Sun, The Moon, The Matterhorn. If the word has a title (Mt.), it does not take an article. Names from foreign languages take the article as translated: The Eiffle Tower. Oceans take the article: The Pacific, The Atlantic. |
59,271 | Is there a rule beyond the common "no *the* with proper nouns and names" for the following problem?
>
> I saw the Empire State Building.
>
>
> We went to the White House.
>
>
> We saw the Golden Gate Bridge.
>
>
>
but
>
> I went to Death Valley National Park.
>
>
> I crossed Brooklyn Bridge.
>
>
> | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59271",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/18517/"
] | These two references explain the use of "THE" with proper nouns rather nicely:
* [Proper nouns *without* the THE](http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-proper_2.htm)
* [Proper nouns *with* the THE](http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-proper_3.htm) | According to the previous links, organisations should take 'the'. So its 'the CIA' and 'the FBI'. But what about 'MENSA', 'ISIS' and 'Mossad'? These are organisations, but don't take 'the'. A strange example of how to get this completely wrong is Mark Greaney's spy novels. The author consistently refers to the CIA and ... |
59,271 | Is there a rule beyond the common "no *the* with proper nouns and names" for the following problem?
>
> I saw the Empire State Building.
>
>
> We went to the White House.
>
>
> We saw the Golden Gate Bridge.
>
>
>
but
>
> I went to Death Valley National Park.
>
>
> I crossed Brooklyn Bridge.
>
>
> | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59271",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/18517/"
] | In American dialects it is the predominant habit to use "the" with structures (including "the Brooklyn Bridge," but to omit "the" with places that have less specific or pertinent boundaries (such as a National Park). Often, the use or omission of "the" conveys a particular nuance. "I went to Cowboys Stadium," implies t... | When it is one of a kind, we use the article: The Sun, The Moon, The Matterhorn. If the word has a title (Mt.), it does not take an article. Names from foreign languages take the article as translated: The Eiffle Tower. Oceans take the article: The Pacific, The Atlantic. |
59,271 | Is there a rule beyond the common "no *the* with proper nouns and names" for the following problem?
>
> I saw the Empire State Building.
>
>
> We went to the White House.
>
>
> We saw the Golden Gate Bridge.
>
>
>
but
>
> I went to Death Valley National Park.
>
>
> I crossed Brooklyn Bridge.
>
>
> | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59271",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/18517/"
] | In American dialects it is the predominant habit to use "the" with structures (including "the Brooklyn Bridge," but to omit "the" with places that have less specific or pertinent boundaries (such as a National Park). Often, the use or omission of "the" conveys a particular nuance. "I went to Cowboys Stadium," implies t... | According to the previous links, organisations should take 'the'. So its 'the CIA' and 'the FBI'. But what about 'MENSA', 'ISIS' and 'Mossad'? These are organisations, but don't take 'the'. A strange example of how to get this completely wrong is Mark Greaney's spy novels. The author consistently refers to the CIA and ... |
6,595,844 | Is it possible to use TFS source control without Visual Studio? I have to put some files in some source control, those files are stored in a folder in some server, that is something developed in Oracle forms. I just need to add those files in some source control and I'd like to use TFS for that. Any tips or tools could... | 2011/07/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6595844",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/608057/"
] | TFS is likely to be overkill for a few files in a single folder, but if the TFS infrastructure is already in place then it will work.
You will need Team Explorer (or, on non-Windows) Team Explorer Everywhere installed to give you the client tools. But you can perform all source code operations with the [`tf.exe`](http... | see [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4380955/can-you-install-a-standalone-tfs-client-that-doesnt-need-visual-studio/4380996#4380996) but you will need to make sure you have tfs server running as well to connect to. Would it not be simpler to use git/mercurial/svn...{any other free source control system... |
6,595,844 | Is it possible to use TFS source control without Visual Studio? I have to put some files in some source control, those files are stored in a folder in some server, that is something developed in Oracle forms. I just need to add those files in some source control and I'd like to use TFS for that. Any tips or tools could... | 2011/07/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6595844",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/608057/"
] | see [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4380955/can-you-install-a-standalone-tfs-client-that-doesnt-need-visual-studio/4380996#4380996) but you will need to make sure you have tfs server running as well to connect to. Would it not be simpler to use git/mercurial/svn...{any other free source control system... | I am one of the lovers of TFS, but I think in your case if you don't need to use Team Explorer or Team Explorer Everywhere (which will need command line used) for none windows I suggest to use SVN sub version (VisualSVN Server) it's open source and it has integrated OS shell (TortoiseSVN ) right click menu which will b... |
6,595,844 | Is it possible to use TFS source control without Visual Studio? I have to put some files in some source control, those files are stored in a folder in some server, that is something developed in Oracle forms. I just need to add those files in some source control and I'd like to use TFS for that. Any tips or tools could... | 2011/07/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6595844",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/608057/"
] | [Team Foundation Server Power Tools](http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f/) has Windows Shell Extensions that provides integration
with Windows Explorer and the common file dialogs. With this integration, you can perform many source control operations without having to ru... | see [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4380955/can-you-install-a-standalone-tfs-client-that-doesnt-need-visual-studio/4380996#4380996) but you will need to make sure you have tfs server running as well to connect to. Would it not be simpler to use git/mercurial/svn...{any other free source control system... |
6,595,844 | Is it possible to use TFS source control without Visual Studio? I have to put some files in some source control, those files are stored in a folder in some server, that is something developed in Oracle forms. I just need to add those files in some source control and I'd like to use TFS for that. Any tips or tools could... | 2011/07/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6595844",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/608057/"
] | see [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4380955/can-you-install-a-standalone-tfs-client-that-doesnt-need-visual-studio/4380996#4380996) but you will need to make sure you have tfs server running as well to connect to. Would it not be simpler to use git/mercurial/svn...{any other free source control system... | Vlad: That is true, but this important: I have used the "Shell Extensions" for a while only to realize that it does create problems. First of all, the "Shell Extensions" does not report errors during a check-in; it only unexpectedly stops, and the window closes.
Also, the reason I am looking for an external "Source C... |
6,595,844 | Is it possible to use TFS source control without Visual Studio? I have to put some files in some source control, those files are stored in a folder in some server, that is something developed in Oracle forms. I just need to add those files in some source control and I'd like to use TFS for that. Any tips or tools could... | 2011/07/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6595844",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/608057/"
] | TFS is likely to be overkill for a few files in a single folder, but if the TFS infrastructure is already in place then it will work.
You will need Team Explorer (or, on non-Windows) Team Explorer Everywhere installed to give you the client tools. But you can perform all source code operations with the [`tf.exe`](http... | I am one of the lovers of TFS, but I think in your case if you don't need to use Team Explorer or Team Explorer Everywhere (which will need command line used) for none windows I suggest to use SVN sub version (VisualSVN Server) it's open source and it has integrated OS shell (TortoiseSVN ) right click menu which will b... |
6,595,844 | Is it possible to use TFS source control without Visual Studio? I have to put some files in some source control, those files are stored in a folder in some server, that is something developed in Oracle forms. I just need to add those files in some source control and I'd like to use TFS for that. Any tips or tools could... | 2011/07/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6595844",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/608057/"
] | TFS is likely to be overkill for a few files in a single folder, but if the TFS infrastructure is already in place then it will work.
You will need Team Explorer (or, on non-Windows) Team Explorer Everywhere installed to give you the client tools. But you can perform all source code operations with the [`tf.exe`](http... | Vlad: That is true, but this important: I have used the "Shell Extensions" for a while only to realize that it does create problems. First of all, the "Shell Extensions" does not report errors during a check-in; it only unexpectedly stops, and the window closes.
Also, the reason I am looking for an external "Source C... |
6,595,844 | Is it possible to use TFS source control without Visual Studio? I have to put some files in some source control, those files are stored in a folder in some server, that is something developed in Oracle forms. I just need to add those files in some source control and I'd like to use TFS for that. Any tips or tools could... | 2011/07/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6595844",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/608057/"
] | [Team Foundation Server Power Tools](http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f/) has Windows Shell Extensions that provides integration
with Windows Explorer and the common file dialogs. With this integration, you can perform many source control operations without having to ru... | I am one of the lovers of TFS, but I think in your case if you don't need to use Team Explorer or Team Explorer Everywhere (which will need command line used) for none windows I suggest to use SVN sub version (VisualSVN Server) it's open source and it has integrated OS shell (TortoiseSVN ) right click menu which will b... |
6,595,844 | Is it possible to use TFS source control without Visual Studio? I have to put some files in some source control, those files are stored in a folder in some server, that is something developed in Oracle forms. I just need to add those files in some source control and I'd like to use TFS for that. Any tips or tools could... | 2011/07/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6595844",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/608057/"
] | I am one of the lovers of TFS, but I think in your case if you don't need to use Team Explorer or Team Explorer Everywhere (which will need command line used) for none windows I suggest to use SVN sub version (VisualSVN Server) it's open source and it has integrated OS shell (TortoiseSVN ) right click menu which will b... | Vlad: That is true, but this important: I have used the "Shell Extensions" for a while only to realize that it does create problems. First of all, the "Shell Extensions" does not report errors during a check-in; it only unexpectedly stops, and the window closes.
Also, the reason I am looking for an external "Source C... |
6,595,844 | Is it possible to use TFS source control without Visual Studio? I have to put some files in some source control, those files are stored in a folder in some server, that is something developed in Oracle forms. I just need to add those files in some source control and I'd like to use TFS for that. Any tips or tools could... | 2011/07/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6595844",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/608057/"
] | [Team Foundation Server Power Tools](http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f/) has Windows Shell Extensions that provides integration
with Windows Explorer and the common file dialogs. With this integration, you can perform many source control operations without having to ru... | Vlad: That is true, but this important: I have used the "Shell Extensions" for a while only to realize that it does create problems. First of all, the "Shell Extensions" does not report errors during a check-in; it only unexpectedly stops, and the window closes.
Also, the reason I am looking for an external "Source C... |
337,800 | I have a WordPress website on a Digital Ocean VPS which I've come back to and tried to log into the admin panel through the 'wp-admin' link. For some reason I can't access it now. The website gets redirected to '<http://%24domain/wp-admin/>' which is a broken link.
Here are the current things that I have tried but not... | 2019/05/13 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/337800",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/40956/"
] | I fixed this by going to this link in the browser:
<http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php>
Replace example.com with your website. You will see a login button and then you can enter your credentials to log in to your WordPress dashboard. | The other answer is a good start. Although I prefer to change the two URLs in the wp-options table, which is read first on all page loads (and is indicated as the preferred method in the Codex).
See this entry in the Codex <https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL> where it says:
>
> This is not necessarily... |
72,658,651 | I'm using flutter for the first time on linux (Ubuntu). When I was on Windows, the emulator of my android device poped out like this: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t8EDp.png)
but now it looks like this: (it is in a tab or something in the android-studio)
[![how it looks... | 2022/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/72658651",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13900113/"
] | On android studio upper bar
File->settings->tools->emulator->
then check or uncheck -launch in tool window | File -> Settings -> Tools -> Emulator
And disable "Launch in a tool window" |
36,270 | [Sworkit](https://sworkit.com/exercises) is pretty good for demonstrating and explaining various exercises, but I'm looking for something more. Like difficult and weird exercises, you know, something with an unfamiliar range of motion. I mean, I make up my own exercises here and there, but I'm looking for something tha... | 2017/10/04 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/36270",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | My advice would be to train for skill acquisition, like in gymnastics. There are endless skills to get, so there's plenty of variety, it's very fun IMO
* L-Sit / V-Sit
* tuck planche / straddle planche / full planche
* handstand / handstand pushups
* handstand walk / handstand pirouettes
* iron cross (there are progre... | I would highly recommend you try some brazilian jiu jitsu, which is a mixture of grappling/wrestling/submissions/judo. Do a drop in class. You'll be using muscles you never knew existed (a lot of hip motion and weight distribution mechanics). A lot of great condition rolling (6 minute sparring sessions) with an opponen... |
63,015 | I am looking for a way to prepare *fast* steel-cut oats.
I do **not** have a microwave, and I would like to have them for breakfast but I can not cook for ~40 mins to prepare them in the morning.
I have tried to cook them by simmering them ~10 mins till the water is gone but they did not taste good (were actually... | 2015/10/31 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/63015",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/40441/"
] | My low-effort steel cut is to set the bowl of steel-cut and water in a steamer and let it go about 20 minutes (or longer) - unlike (my experience of) cooking them in a pot, there's no stirring, boilovers, or other drama. IME the drama fully applies in the microwave and no time is saved by it. But you are not going to c... | One way to prepare oats which allows them to be stored and eaten cold and which avoids excessive chewiness is to make flapjack. I sometimes do this at the weekend to eat it as breakfast over the course of the week. In the absolute minimal form you just need butter and oats (I've tried roasting oats by themselves, but i... |
63,015 | I am looking for a way to prepare *fast* steel-cut oats.
I do **not** have a microwave, and I would like to have them for breakfast but I can not cook for ~40 mins to prepare them in the morning.
I have tried to cook them by simmering them ~10 mins till the water is gone but they did not taste good (were actually... | 2015/10/31 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/63015",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/40441/"
] | My low-effort steel cut is to set the bowl of steel-cut and water in a steamer and let it go about 20 minutes (or longer) - unlike (my experience of) cooking them in a pot, there's no stirring, boilovers, or other drama. IME the drama fully applies in the microwave and no time is saved by it. But you are not going to c... | Try soaking the oats in cold water overnight- they will absorb some of the water, but faster, according to "The Joy of Cooking" |
63,015 | I am looking for a way to prepare *fast* steel-cut oats.
I do **not** have a microwave, and I would like to have them for breakfast but I can not cook for ~40 mins to prepare them in the morning.
I have tried to cook them by simmering them ~10 mins till the water is gone but they did not taste good (were actually... | 2015/10/31 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/63015",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/40441/"
] | I usually leave mine overnight. Bring the water to a boil, throw the oats in, stir, cover, and remove from heat. In the morning they just need a quick reheat. | One way to prepare oats which allows them to be stored and eaten cold and which avoids excessive chewiness is to make flapjack. I sometimes do this at the weekend to eat it as breakfast over the course of the week. In the absolute minimal form you just need butter and oats (I've tried roasting oats by themselves, but i... |
63,015 | I am looking for a way to prepare *fast* steel-cut oats.
I do **not** have a microwave, and I would like to have them for breakfast but I can not cook for ~40 mins to prepare them in the morning.
I have tried to cook them by simmering them ~10 mins till the water is gone but they did not taste good (were actually... | 2015/10/31 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/63015",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/40441/"
] | I usually leave mine overnight. Bring the water to a boil, throw the oats in, stir, cover, and remove from heat. In the morning they just need a quick reheat. | Try soaking the oats in cold water overnight- they will absorb some of the water, but faster, according to "The Joy of Cooking" |
22,012 | I've travelled to farms at night, and away from civilation. I don't really know alot about astronomy, but my goal is to see something like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JgdLV.jpg)
Stars, lots of them, but that "thick purple cluster of gas right i... | 2017/08/09 | [
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/22012",
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com",
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/users/17327/"
] | >
> "thick purple cluster of gas right in the center". I want to see that.
>
>
>
First off, the human eye is a wonderful device, but it's no match for modern cameras. We can't see colors at such low levels of light. We're all colorblind in those conditions. Only cameras continue to see color when illumination is l... | You might want to try a very dark night instead of a "dark day". :-)
The "cluster of gas" that you mention is from countless stars. From a dark site, it looks like clouds, but you soon realize that they are not moving. It is not as well defined as in the photo, but it is impressive.
In addition to needing a dark site... |
22,012 | I've travelled to farms at night, and away from civilation. I don't really know alot about astronomy, but my goal is to see something like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JgdLV.jpg)
Stars, lots of them, but that "thick purple cluster of gas right i... | 2017/08/09 | [
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/22012",
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com",
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/users/17327/"
] | You might want to try a very dark night instead of a "dark day". :-)
The "cluster of gas" that you mention is from countless stars. From a dark site, it looks like clouds, but you soon realize that they are not moving. It is not as well defined as in the photo, but it is impressive.
In addition to needing a dark site... | Darkest skies I've seen were in the outback of Australia, perhaps 20km from the nearest (small) town. Still couldn't see purple clouds though. The naked eye view was more like your 2nd image. |
22,012 | I've travelled to farms at night, and away from civilation. I don't really know alot about astronomy, but my goal is to see something like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JgdLV.jpg)
Stars, lots of them, but that "thick purple cluster of gas right i... | 2017/08/09 | [
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/22012",
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com",
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/users/17327/"
] | >
> "thick purple cluster of gas right in the center". I want to see that.
>
>
>
First off, the human eye is a wonderful device, but it's no match for modern cameras. We can't see colors at such low levels of light. We're all colorblind in those conditions. Only cameras continue to see color when illumination is l... | Darkest skies I've seen were in the outback of Australia, perhaps 20km from the nearest (small) town. Still couldn't see purple clouds though. The naked eye view was more like your 2nd image. |
186,250 | I have an old oil boiler with 4 zones, individual zone pumps. I'm trying to track heat usage on a per-zone basis. Would it be possible to simply track how often each zone pump runs and apply their percentage of the total run time to the total energy used?
For example, the run time percentages might be:
Zone A - 20%... | 2020/03/09 | [
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If you were owner-occupying a zoned single-family dwelling, then taking shortcuts in the interest of expediency would be an acceptable way to get rough estimates of zone energy usage for your own uses. How... | It might be dangerous to assume that each pump delivers the same flow to each zone so you may need more than the run-time for an accurate set of results.
So pump run time, flow rate and the temperature drop of the fluid delivering the heat (ie supply and return temperature).
You could then compare with the boiler hot... |
186,250 | I have an old oil boiler with 4 zones, individual zone pumps. I'm trying to track heat usage on a per-zone basis. Would it be possible to simply track how often each zone pump runs and apply their percentage of the total run time to the total energy used?
For example, the run time percentages might be:
Zone A - 20%... | 2020/03/09 | [
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If you were owner-occupying a zoned single-family dwelling, then taking shortcuts in the interest of expediency would be an acceptable way to get rough estimates of zone energy usage for your own uses. How... | No, that's not a valid way to determine energy usage. With a hot water system you need to know three things:
1. The flow rate of the water
2. The temperature drop of the water through the loop
3. The time over which this happens
With these 3 you can determine the energy "lost" in the loop which presumably went into y... |
186,545 | A friend of mine has a very strange condition with the electrical system in his room. Connected to mains, there is mainly an audio system, a computer and, most importantly electrical shutters. They are on all windows in the house.
Now, here is the problem: When the shutters stop moving, there is an audible click in th... | 2020/03/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/186545",
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] | At first I thought it was a cheap PC supply, but it's the stereo also. This is big enough to affect both.
It's voltage surges
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When the curtain motor reaches position, it is disconnected abruptly. The motor is an inductor.
You may know a *capacitor* wants to keep voltage the same and will flow u... | I'm sure the fault is in the speakers but it's probably easier to solve it at the source of the interference. The drive motors in the electric blinds are generating a spike of noise when they shut off. The speakers appear to be overly sensitive to it.
My recommendation is to get some EMI/RFI filtering devices and hoo... |
83,066 | Stories of flying people (or demi-gods or gods) go back all the way into pre-history. But in my experience, most or all of the early representations of super-human flight are either based on an item external to the user (such as a [flying chariot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_deity#Solar_barge_and_sun_chariot) or... | 2015/03/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83066",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | [Peter Pan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan) predates Sub Mariner by a good three decades with flight that matches the parameters you describe, in his first appearance in "The Little White Bird" (1902). | As discussed [here](http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/07/22/comic-book-legends-revealed-270/), the earliest fictional superhero capable of true flight was Namor, The Sub Mariner, appearing in Marvel Comics #1 (1939) and pre-dating Superman's first flight by nearly 4 years. Whether you could describe Namor's... |
83,066 | Stories of flying people (or demi-gods or gods) go back all the way into pre-history. But in my experience, most or all of the early representations of super-human flight are either based on an item external to the user (such as a [flying chariot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_deity#Solar_barge_and_sun_chariot) or... | 2015/03/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83066",
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"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20221/"
] | As discussed [here](http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/07/22/comic-book-legends-revealed-270/), the earliest fictional superhero capable of true flight was Namor, The Sub Mariner, appearing in Marvel Comics #1 (1939) and pre-dating Superman's first flight by nearly 4 years. Whether you could describe Namor's... | Ghosts.
Throughout history, ghosts have commonly been portrayed as levitators. Sometimes they are even portrayed without feet.
This is so timeless that I cannot give you an exact date on when it started.
There are medieval accounts of people seeing ghostly figures flying through the sky, such as [the Wild Hunt](htt... |
83,066 | Stories of flying people (or demi-gods or gods) go back all the way into pre-history. But in my experience, most or all of the early representations of super-human flight are either based on an item external to the user (such as a [flying chariot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_deity#Solar_barge_and_sun_chariot) or... | 2015/03/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83066",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20221/"
] | [Peter Pan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan) predates Sub Mariner by a good three decades with flight that matches the parameters you describe, in his first appearance in "The Little White Bird" (1902). | Ghosts.
Throughout history, ghosts have commonly been portrayed as levitators. Sometimes they are even portrayed without feet.
This is so timeless that I cannot give you an exact date on when it started.
There are medieval accounts of people seeing ghostly figures flying through the sky, such as [the Wild Hunt](htt... |
491,869 | The question has to do with Model Selection and Evaluation
**I'm trying to wrap my head around the scale of how different nested cross validation would be from the following:**
Let's say I am attempting to evaluate how suitable a model class is for a particular problem domain.
1. Let's assume for hypothetical purpos... | 2020/10/14 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/491869",
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"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/190994/"
] | First of all, yes you can get a valid cross validated performance estimate from a 2nd data set where you train with fixed hyperparameters.
---
However, consider the statistical properties:
* the variance of the performance estimate due to finite sample sample size is the same whether you test a model m1 trained on d... | Let's say you have the same number of records 'n1' and 'n2' in each of these two data sets. You perform k-fold cross validation on the first data set and select optimal hyper-parameters.
The traditional way (in your scenario) would be to select the second dataset as a test set and now you are testing n2 records on a m... |
226,015 | I am trying to work out the title and author of a story I remember reading. I think its a short story, about a library which housed only books of a certain length, but had every single combination of letters available meaning that every story possible was available, amongst all the junk and mess.
Within this library ... | 2020/01/14 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/226015",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/86251/"
] | This is very likely Jorge Luis Borges' short story ["The Library of Babel"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel). In it, he describes a universe consisting of connected hexagonal rooms, each containing four walls with bookshelves.
While there's no definite proof, this vast library seems to contain all p... | In one of the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, the Librarian has access to all libraries and all books. It is a secret. I've seen that section excerpt from books before, but it doesn't sound like an exact match to your description.
<https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Librarian> |
12,345,435 | I've created non-MFC GUI with simple Edit controls and buttons using win32 API. Now i got the requirement to drag and drop the Browser URL into the one of the edit control of my GUI Application, How can i do this ? is Win32 Api support this feature ? | 2012/09/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12345435",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1530767/"
] | Yes, of couse Win32 API support Drag-Drop feature. You should see [MSDN RegisterDragDrop function](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms678405%28v=vs.85%29.aspx "RegisterDragDrop function"). | Drag and drop code samples
here <http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/485/The-Complete-Idiot-s-Guide-to-Writing-Shell-Extens>
and here <http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/misc/misc/draganddrop/article.php/c349/Drag-And-Drop-between-Window-Controls.htm> |
12,345,435 | I've created non-MFC GUI with simple Edit controls and buttons using win32 API. Now i got the requirement to drag and drop the Browser URL into the one of the edit control of my GUI Application, How can i do this ? is Win32 Api support this feature ? | 2012/09/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12345435",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1530767/"
] | Yes, of couse Win32 API support Drag-Drop feature. You should see [MSDN RegisterDragDrop function](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms678405%28v=vs.85%29.aspx "RegisterDragDrop function"). | For other sources to learn more about Drag & Drop features of Win32 here is a link
that explains more about it with examples
<http://anton.maurovic.com/posts/win32-api-approach-to-windows-drag-and-drop/>
>
> Maybe you can’t implement drag-and-drop in Windows without some COM
> code, but Anders Karlsson has a strai... |
12,345,435 | I've created non-MFC GUI with simple Edit controls and buttons using win32 API. Now i got the requirement to drag and drop the Browser URL into the one of the edit control of my GUI Application, How can i do this ? is Win32 Api support this feature ? | 2012/09/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12345435",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1530767/"
] | For other sources to learn more about Drag & Drop features of Win32 here is a link
that explains more about it with examples
<http://anton.maurovic.com/posts/win32-api-approach-to-windows-drag-and-drop/>
>
> Maybe you can’t implement drag-and-drop in Windows without some COM
> code, but Anders Karlsson has a strai... | Drag and drop code samples
here <http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/485/The-Complete-Idiot-s-Guide-to-Writing-Shell-Extens>
and here <http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/misc/misc/draganddrop/article.php/c349/Drag-And-Drop-between-Window-Controls.htm> |
43,573,750 | In my project I have 2 sub modules, let's call them module A and module B.
They both have the structure of com.example.MyClass.java as their class.
I have a third module C which I want to use the classes from A and B.
But when I try to do so I can only implement the class from the first module added under .
Is there... | 2017/04/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/43573750",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | First this sounds like a design flaw to me cause having the same package names sounds that you haven't separated on the package level which you already did on the maven module level so not representing that same segregation level on the package level as well. This will usually happen if you have different groups of cla... | If you want to both classes have the same name you have to change a package name for one of the classes. Otherwise, there is no way to import both classes.
Another solution is to change class name for one of those classes. |
73,716 | Can an employer in NSW:
* Legally obtain employee’s covid vaccination status without employee’s consent?
* Request employee to provide one. On grounds of what law?
* Terminate employment should employee decide not provide this information or openly declare that they do not want to get vaccinated? What is the law allow... | 2021/10/15 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/73716",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
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] | >
> * Legally obtain employee’s covid vaccination status without employee’s consent?
>
>
>
No
>
> * Request employee to provide one. On grounds of what law?
>
>
>
Anyone can ask anyone anything, however, I presume you are asking when they can demand to see your certificate.
Employers have a general right to... | Currently, there are two public health orders mandating vaccinations for workers in certain industries:
* [*Public Health (COVID-19 Vaccination of Education and Care Workers) Order 2021*](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/information/covid19-legislation/vaccination-education-and-care-workers), covering education and chil... |
9,241,381 | I am doing a simple Quiz application that has several questions that the user answers. A question would be an item in the list but it would need to occupy the entire screen. When the user answers he would swipe his fingers over the screen to go to the next/previous question.
Can this be done with a build-in view/metho... | 2012/02/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9241381",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/271402/"
] | It can! What you need is the [ViewPager](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/view/ViewPager.html), it is available as a part of the [compatibility package](http://developer.android.com/sdk/compatibility-library.html). This is a class which allows you to create several pages and scroll between them... | Probably a [Gallery](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Gallery.html) is appropriate, which can handle swiping through several items. It does not only work for pictures :). |
157,995 | I have a raster graphic consisting of a solid-black icon with anti-aliased edges on top of a shaded-red background. I also have the background alone, without the icon on top. **Is it possible to recover the *solid-black icon* alone, without the background (i.e. get the solid-black icon with its anti-aliased edges on a ... | 2022/07/26 | [
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] | We actually do not know what it was originally, only guesses are possible. There's too many scalings and format conversions done.
We can try to invert the separate background and add it to the original to compensate the shading:
[](https://i.stack.im... | Unfortunately it is close to impossible to get a perfect result for the exact reason you mentioned, "...the background is shaded instead of being a solid color."
The only way to get a totally clean result is to recreate this logo from scratch either in Photoshop or better still Illustrator especially if this is someth... |
157,995 | I have a raster graphic consisting of a solid-black icon with anti-aliased edges on top of a shaded-red background. I also have the background alone, without the icon on top. **Is it possible to recover the *solid-black icon* alone, without the background (i.e. get the solid-black icon with its anti-aliased edges on a ... | 2022/07/26 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/157995",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/175316/"
] | If you *aren't* trying to match the abundant anti-aliasing.... I'd just **redraw** the icon in a vector editor... redrawing most likley takes less time than it did to post the question here.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/y5Nqh.png) | Unfortunately it is close to impossible to get a perfect result for the exact reason you mentioned, "...the background is shaded instead of being a solid color."
The only way to get a totally clean result is to recreate this logo from scratch either in Photoshop or better still Illustrator especially if this is someth... |
157,995 | I have a raster graphic consisting of a solid-black icon with anti-aliased edges on top of a shaded-red background. I also have the background alone, without the icon on top. **Is it possible to recover the *solid-black icon* alone, without the background (i.e. get the solid-black icon with its anti-aliased edges on a ... | 2022/07/26 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/157995",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/175316/"
] | @user287001 gave the solution: using the "Divide" blending mode with the background-only layer on top of the background-and-icon layer produces exactly the result I want, after correcting the dozen pixels with non-zero green and blue values. I thought I had tried the "Divide" blending mode, but I must have only done it... | Unfortunately it is close to impossible to get a perfect result for the exact reason you mentioned, "...the background is shaded instead of being a solid color."
The only way to get a totally clean result is to recreate this logo from scratch either in Photoshop or better still Illustrator especially if this is someth... |
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