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4,055,131 | First, let me admit that what I know about HTTPS is pretty rudimentary. I don't know much about session security, encryption, or how either of those things is supposed to be done.
What I do know is that web security is important; that horror stories of XSS, CSRF, and database injections pop up over and over again. I k... | 2010/10/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4055131",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86937/"
] | You can serve the same content via HTTPS as you do via HTTP (just point it to the same document root).
Cons that may be major or minor, depending:
1. serving content over HTTPS is slower than serving it via HTTP.
2. certificates signed by well-known authorities can be expensive
3. if you don't have a certificate sign... | Noticeable overhead? Yes, but that matters less and less these days as clients *and* servers are much faster.
You don't need to make a copy of everything, but you do need to make those files accessible via HTTPS. Your HTTPS and HTTP services can use the same doc root.
Is it foolish to put the whole site under encrypt... |
4,055,131 | First, let me admit that what I know about HTTPS is pretty rudimentary. I don't know much about session security, encryption, or how either of those things is supposed to be done.
What I do know is that web security is important; that horror stories of XSS, CSRF, and database injections pop up over and over again. I k... | 2010/10/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4055131",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86937/"
] | You can serve the same content via HTTPS as you do via HTTP (just point it to the same document root).
Cons that may be major or minor, depending:
1. serving content over HTTPS is slower than serving it via HTTP.
2. certificates signed by well-known authorities can be expensive
3. if you don't have a certificate sign... | An important "pro" for more https at your site is the following:
**a user connecting thru an unencrypted WiFi, like at an airport, can give their password in https, but if the site then switches back to http after the password page, the session cookie becomes exposed and can be immediately used by an eavesdropper**.
... |
4,055,131 | First, let me admit that what I know about HTTPS is pretty rudimentary. I don't know much about session security, encryption, or how either of those things is supposed to be done.
What I do know is that web security is important; that horror stories of XSS, CSRF, and database injections pop up over and over again. I k... | 2010/10/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4055131",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86937/"
] | Noticeable overhead? Yes, but that matters less and less these days as clients *and* servers are much faster.
You don't need to make a copy of everything, but you do need to make those files accessible via HTTPS. Your HTTPS and HTTP services can use the same doc root.
Is it foolish to put the whole site under encrypt... | One of the concerns is that https traffic could be blocked, for example on Apple computers if you set parental control on it blocks https traffic because it can't read the encrypted content, you can read here:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2900>
>
> https note: For websites that use SSL
> encryption (the URL will... |
4,055,131 | First, let me admit that what I know about HTTPS is pretty rudimentary. I don't know much about session security, encryption, or how either of those things is supposed to be done.
What I do know is that web security is important; that horror stories of XSS, CSRF, and database injections pop up over and over again. I k... | 2010/10/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4055131",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86937/"
] | Noticeable overhead? Yes, but that matters less and less these days as clients *and* servers are much faster.
You don't need to make a copy of everything, but you do need to make those files accessible via HTTPS. Your HTTPS and HTTP services can use the same doc root.
Is it foolish to put the whole site under encrypt... | You've been misinformed. The css, js, and image files need not be duplicated assuming you've set up the http and https mapping to point to the same physical website on the server. The only important thing is that these files are referenced with https when the page you're looking at is also under https. This will preven... |
4,055,131 | First, let me admit that what I know about HTTPS is pretty rudimentary. I don't know much about session security, encryption, or how either of those things is supposed to be done.
What I do know is that web security is important; that horror stories of XSS, CSRF, and database injections pop up over and over again. I k... | 2010/10/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4055131",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86937/"
] | Noticeable overhead? Yes, but that matters less and less these days as clients *and* servers are much faster.
You don't need to make a copy of everything, but you do need to make those files accessible via HTTPS. Your HTTPS and HTTP services can use the same doc root.
Is it foolish to put the whole site under encrypt... | The traditional reason for not having the entire site behind SSL is processing time. It does take more work for both the client and the server to use SSL. However, this overhead is fairly small compared to modern processors.
If you are running a very large site, you may need to scale slightly faster if you are encrypt... |
4,055,131 | First, let me admit that what I know about HTTPS is pretty rudimentary. I don't know much about session security, encryption, or how either of those things is supposed to be done.
What I do know is that web security is important; that horror stories of XSS, CSRF, and database injections pop up over and over again. I k... | 2010/10/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4055131",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86937/"
] | You can serve the same content via HTTPS as you do via HTTP (just point it to the same document root).
Cons that may be major or minor, depending:
1. serving content over HTTPS is slower than serving it via HTTP.
2. certificates signed by well-known authorities can be expensive
3. if you don't have a certificate sign... | One of the concerns is that https traffic could be blocked, for example on Apple computers if you set parental control on it blocks https traffic because it can't read the encrypted content, you can read here:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2900>
>
> https note: For websites that use SSL
> encryption (the URL will... |
4,055,131 | First, let me admit that what I know about HTTPS is pretty rudimentary. I don't know much about session security, encryption, or how either of those things is supposed to be done.
What I do know is that web security is important; that horror stories of XSS, CSRF, and database injections pop up over and over again. I k... | 2010/10/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4055131",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86937/"
] | You can serve the same content via HTTPS as you do via HTTP (just point it to the same document root).
Cons that may be major or minor, depending:
1. serving content over HTTPS is slower than serving it via HTTP.
2. certificates signed by well-known authorities can be expensive
3. if you don't have a certificate sign... | The traditional reason for not having the entire site behind SSL is processing time. It does take more work for both the client and the server to use SSL. However, this overhead is fairly small compared to modern processors.
If you are running a very large site, you may need to scale slightly faster if you are encrypt... |
4,055,131 | First, let me admit that what I know about HTTPS is pretty rudimentary. I don't know much about session security, encryption, or how either of those things is supposed to be done.
What I do know is that web security is important; that horror stories of XSS, CSRF, and database injections pop up over and over again. I k... | 2010/10/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4055131",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86937/"
] | You do not need multiple copies of these files for them to work with HTTPs. You may need to have 2 copies of these files if the hosting setup has been configured in such that you have a separate https directory. So to answer your question - no duplicate files are not required for HTTPs but depending on the web hosting ... | One of the concerns is that https traffic could be blocked, for example on Apple computers if you set parental control on it blocks https traffic because it can't read the encrypted content, you can read here:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2900>
>
> https note: For websites that use SSL
> encryption (the URL will... |
304,244 | I am trying to cluster employees based on their check in-check out time.
Employee can check-in/checkout any number of times in a day. My plan is to use one month data.
Please let me know how to represent multiple check in-check out intervals to clustering algorithms ?
Sample test data of 6 employees for a week perio... | 2017/09/21 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/304244",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
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] | Do they check-in and check-out on a daily basis? If so, then I would suggest to make (at least) three numeric features out of it: seconds after midnight (of the same day) they checked in, the same with checked out and the duration of their stay. Then feed the dataset with these three numeric features to some arbitrary ... | **Extract features** that capture what you are interested in.
For example: number if checkins per day, average duration per day, median time of presence (or Q25, Q75) etc.
Features are better than raw data. |
34,072,629 | When I search my solution, and the main form (frmMain.cs) is within the search results, 2-clicking the line from the "Find Results" pane which should take me to the frmMain.cs file, I often just see a blank (albeit grayed out, not black) window in the IDE. If I then click on that grey foggy nothingness, it tells me, "A... | 2015/12/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/34072629",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/875317/"
] | This happened to me when I edited User/AppData/Roaming/Nuget/Nuget.config while Visual Studio was open. Having done that, attempts tp close Visual Studio or open the NuGet Extension Manage resulted in this error dialog. I resolved by killing the devenv.exe process, and restarting Visual Studio. | This happened when I tried to use an exe in a solution which was being used by some other solution.
The solution to this problem can be achieved by killing the devenv.exe process. |
34,072,629 | When I search my solution, and the main form (frmMain.cs) is within the search results, 2-clicking the line from the "Find Results" pane which should take me to the frmMain.cs file, I often just see a blank (albeit grayed out, not black) window in the IDE. If I then click on that grey foggy nothingness, it tells me, "A... | 2015/12/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/34072629",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/875317/"
] | Admittedly a little late to the party... but FWIW - I've had the same issue and was able to close VS2015 by changing from the current tab to another tab and then closing VS2015 and restarting. I just figure that it's better to not have to kill processes manually if you don't have to. :-) | This happened when I tried to use an exe in a solution which was being used by some other solution.
The solution to this problem can be achieved by killing the devenv.exe process. |
6,665,359 | I am trying to create an application which will add contact details like phone number, email address and name in the phone's address book, but I have not idea how to do this. I know that we can access the contact details from the address book, but how can we add any new contacts from our application to the address book... | 2011/07/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6665359",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/744680/"
] | Look at <http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/contacts.html>
under Example: Inserting a Phone Number
**Update/Edit:**
Above mentioned url isn't valid anymore. I guess this page is the most relevant now:
<http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/contacts-provider.html> | As I understood it, android contacts are read only.
Edit: Actually it looks like you can modify and create new contacts.
<http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/contacts-provider.html> |
47,048 | Running Exchange 2007 on the server with an Outlook 2007 SP2 client, I'm getting an odd message when I try to view specific folders in my Outlook mailbox:
>
> "Cannot display the folder. Your server administrator has limited the number of items you can open simultaneously. Try closing messages you have opened or remo... | 2009/07/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/47048",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2304/"
] | Have you tried this KB article?
**<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953807>**
There was a Technet newsgroups moderator that suggested it.
It appears to be only an issue with Outlook 07 itself, not Exchange...as Outlook 03 clients don't seem to have this issue. It appears to be related to large numbers of RPC calls or... | <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970944> |
47,048 | Running Exchange 2007 on the server with an Outlook 2007 SP2 client, I'm getting an odd message when I try to view specific folders in my Outlook mailbox:
>
> "Cannot display the folder. Your server administrator has limited the number of items you can open simultaneously. Try closing messages you have opened or remo... | 2009/07/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/47048",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2304/"
] | Turns out it is indeed being caused by Google Desktop Search indexing Outlook. As I noted in my previous comment, it's making MAPI connections & not closing them, throwing an error at 500 connections... Unfortunately, I still haven't found a fix other than closing & re-running Outlook & GDS.
If anyone can provide a fi... | <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970944> |
16,893 | Do USB or PS/2 keyboards respond faster in terms of end-to-end input latency, keystrike to character appearing on the screen?
Related:
Under either connection, is the time between keystrike to character appearing long enough to be perceptible?
Under either connection, is it possible to strike two keys in succession ... | 2009/08/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/16893",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/766/"
] | There was a [study](http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195452 "Measuring keyboard response delays by comparing keyboard and joystick inputs") in 2002 that evaluated the response times of various keyboards so that those delays could be better accounted for in experiments where subjects' response times were be... | Apparently, PS/2 is faster. If you buy a $150 keyboard like [this one](http://www.steelseries.com/int/products/keyboards/7g/information) designed for professional gamers, the standard interface is PS/2. It has some super fancy, gold-plated, buffered PS/2 technology, although a USB-to-adapter is included. |
16,893 | Do USB or PS/2 keyboards respond faster in terms of end-to-end input latency, keystrike to character appearing on the screen?
Related:
Under either connection, is the time between keystrike to character appearing long enough to be perceptible?
Under either connection, is it possible to strike two keys in succession ... | 2009/08/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/16893",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/766/"
] | I didn't see it mentioned anywhere on here, and although old, this post is still returned via a simple Google search -- so not only is the response time faster but **PS/2 keyboards support unlimited roll-over**, meaning you can press as many keys as you wish at once and they will all register. **USB maxes out at 6**, I... | Apparently, PS/2 is faster. If you buy a $150 keyboard like [this one](http://www.steelseries.com/int/products/keyboards/7g/information) designed for professional gamers, the standard interface is PS/2. It has some super fancy, gold-plated, buffered PS/2 technology, although a USB-to-adapter is included. |
16,893 | Do USB or PS/2 keyboards respond faster in terms of end-to-end input latency, keystrike to character appearing on the screen?
Related:
Under either connection, is the time between keystrike to character appearing long enough to be perceptible?
Under either connection, is it possible to strike two keys in succession ... | 2009/08/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/16893",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/766/"
] | Any PC user with knowledge knows that PS/2 is a much better connection than USB.
First,it will give you total freedom with no limit to the amount of simultaneous key presses. And, equally as important, using the PS/2 may just improve your overall gaming experience. The reason is that when you use a USB keyboard your co... | Apparently, PS/2 is faster. If you buy a $150 keyboard like [this one](http://www.steelseries.com/int/products/keyboards/7g/information) designed for professional gamers, the standard interface is PS/2. It has some super fancy, gold-plated, buffered PS/2 technology, although a USB-to-adapter is included. |
16,893 | Do USB or PS/2 keyboards respond faster in terms of end-to-end input latency, keystrike to character appearing on the screen?
Related:
Under either connection, is the time between keystrike to character appearing long enough to be perceptible?
Under either connection, is it possible to strike two keys in succession ... | 2009/08/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/16893",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/766/"
] | I found that the PS/2 mouse to be faster in gaming.
It was more noticeable with my system where the CPU was running at 100% during gaming.
2ms vs 20ms is noticeable when you are competitive.
I'm currently using a USB mouse but I'm defiantly looking to get a good PS/2 mouse and gaming keyboard. | Apparently, PS/2 is faster. If you buy a $150 keyboard like [this one](http://www.steelseries.com/int/products/keyboards/7g/information) designed for professional gamers, the standard interface is PS/2. It has some super fancy, gold-plated, buffered PS/2 technology, although a USB-to-adapter is included. |
16,893 | Do USB or PS/2 keyboards respond faster in terms of end-to-end input latency, keystrike to character appearing on the screen?
Related:
Under either connection, is the time between keystrike to character appearing long enough to be perceptible?
Under either connection, is it possible to strike two keys in succession ... | 2009/08/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/16893",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/766/"
] | There was a [study](http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195452 "Measuring keyboard response delays by comparing keyboard and joystick inputs") in 2002 that evaluated the response times of various keyboards so that those delays could be better accounted for in experiments where subjects' response times were be... | I didn't see it mentioned anywhere on here, and although old, this post is still returned via a simple Google search -- so not only is the response time faster but **PS/2 keyboards support unlimited roll-over**, meaning you can press as many keys as you wish at once and they will all register. **USB maxes out at 6**, I... |
16,893 | Do USB or PS/2 keyboards respond faster in terms of end-to-end input latency, keystrike to character appearing on the screen?
Related:
Under either connection, is the time between keystrike to character appearing long enough to be perceptible?
Under either connection, is it possible to strike two keys in succession ... | 2009/08/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/16893",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/766/"
] | There was a [study](http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195452 "Measuring keyboard response delays by comparing keyboard and joystick inputs") in 2002 that evaluated the response times of various keyboards so that those delays could be better accounted for in experiments where subjects' response times were be... | Any PC user with knowledge knows that PS/2 is a much better connection than USB.
First,it will give you total freedom with no limit to the amount of simultaneous key presses. And, equally as important, using the PS/2 may just improve your overall gaming experience. The reason is that when you use a USB keyboard your co... |
16,893 | Do USB or PS/2 keyboards respond faster in terms of end-to-end input latency, keystrike to character appearing on the screen?
Related:
Under either connection, is the time between keystrike to character appearing long enough to be perceptible?
Under either connection, is it possible to strike two keys in succession ... | 2009/08/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/16893",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/766/"
] | There was a [study](http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195452 "Measuring keyboard response delays by comparing keyboard and joystick inputs") in 2002 that evaluated the response times of various keyboards so that those delays could be better accounted for in experiments where subjects' response times were be... | I found that the PS/2 mouse to be faster in gaming.
It was more noticeable with my system where the CPU was running at 100% during gaming.
2ms vs 20ms is noticeable when you are competitive.
I'm currently using a USB mouse but I'm defiantly looking to get a good PS/2 mouse and gaming keyboard. |
16,893 | Do USB or PS/2 keyboards respond faster in terms of end-to-end input latency, keystrike to character appearing on the screen?
Related:
Under either connection, is the time between keystrike to character appearing long enough to be perceptible?
Under either connection, is it possible to strike two keys in succession ... | 2009/08/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/16893",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/766/"
] | I didn't see it mentioned anywhere on here, and although old, this post is still returned via a simple Google search -- so not only is the response time faster but **PS/2 keyboards support unlimited roll-over**, meaning you can press as many keys as you wish at once and they will all register. **USB maxes out at 6**, I... | Any PC user with knowledge knows that PS/2 is a much better connection than USB.
First,it will give you total freedom with no limit to the amount of simultaneous key presses. And, equally as important, using the PS/2 may just improve your overall gaming experience. The reason is that when you use a USB keyboard your co... |
16,893 | Do USB or PS/2 keyboards respond faster in terms of end-to-end input latency, keystrike to character appearing on the screen?
Related:
Under either connection, is the time between keystrike to character appearing long enough to be perceptible?
Under either connection, is it possible to strike two keys in succession ... | 2009/08/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/16893",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/766/"
] | I didn't see it mentioned anywhere on here, and although old, this post is still returned via a simple Google search -- so not only is the response time faster but **PS/2 keyboards support unlimited roll-over**, meaning you can press as many keys as you wish at once and they will all register. **USB maxes out at 6**, I... | I found that the PS/2 mouse to be faster in gaming.
It was more noticeable with my system where the CPU was running at 100% during gaming.
2ms vs 20ms is noticeable when you are competitive.
I'm currently using a USB mouse but I'm defiantly looking to get a good PS/2 mouse and gaming keyboard. |
16,893 | Do USB or PS/2 keyboards respond faster in terms of end-to-end input latency, keystrike to character appearing on the screen?
Related:
Under either connection, is the time between keystrike to character appearing long enough to be perceptible?
Under either connection, is it possible to strike two keys in succession ... | 2009/08/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/16893",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/766/"
] | Any PC user with knowledge knows that PS/2 is a much better connection than USB.
First,it will give you total freedom with no limit to the amount of simultaneous key presses. And, equally as important, using the PS/2 may just improve your overall gaming experience. The reason is that when you use a USB keyboard your co... | I found that the PS/2 mouse to be faster in gaming.
It was more noticeable with my system where the CPU was running at 100% during gaming.
2ms vs 20ms is noticeable when you are competitive.
I'm currently using a USB mouse but I'm defiantly looking to get a good PS/2 mouse and gaming keyboard. |
178,502 | So I have a species that has a life expectancy about half that of humans. In antique times, they mostly die around the age of 30 once they’ve passed the challenges of childhood. Their development is halved as well. It turns out they’re also about half the height of humans. *True halflings in a way*.
They live on a pla... | 2020/06/13 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/178502",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/57200/"
] | I think such a species is definitely possible, however the rate of development would probably be a lot slower than it is here on Earth. With such a short lifetime they might be less willing to spend as many years studying as we do. The might also be more impulsive, restless and impatient than we are (on average). | [Neanderthal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal) had average lifespan of 20 years, early Homo Sapiens had around 30 years, even modern human had average lifespan of around 30-40 years in medieval time. I think your civilisation probably reach Medieval Feudal level with nearly same speed like human civilisation,... |
178,502 | So I have a species that has a life expectancy about half that of humans. In antique times, they mostly die around the age of 30 once they’ve passed the challenges of childhood. Their development is halved as well. It turns out they’re also about half the height of humans. *True halflings in a way*.
They live on a pla... | 2020/06/13 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/178502",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/57200/"
] | I think such a species is definitely possible, however the rate of development would probably be a lot slower than it is here on Earth. With such a short lifetime they might be less willing to spend as many years studying as we do. The might also be more impulsive, restless and impatient than we are (on average). | Yes, I do believe it is scientifically possible. On average, larger animals live longer than small animals, for example the bowhead whale can live up to 200 years old, while a cat can live up to sixteen years. The cause for this, I believe, often has something to do with metabolic rates. Smaller animals usually have hi... |
178,502 | So I have a species that has a life expectancy about half that of humans. In antique times, they mostly die around the age of 30 once they’ve passed the challenges of childhood. Their development is halved as well. It turns out they’re also about half the height of humans. *True halflings in a way*.
They live on a pla... | 2020/06/13 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/178502",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/57200/"
] | The major obstacle to civilization is the loss of knowledge and the relentless need to transmit it. Basically, they will have to do it at double human speed in order to accumulate enough knowledge for civilization. *The Secret of Our Success* by Joseph Henrich details many cases where humans have lost technologies of v... | I think such a species is definitely possible, however the rate of development would probably be a lot slower than it is here on Earth. With such a short lifetime they might be less willing to spend as many years studying as we do. The might also be more impulsive, restless and impatient than we are (on average). |
178,502 | So I have a species that has a life expectancy about half that of humans. In antique times, they mostly die around the age of 30 once they’ve passed the challenges of childhood. Their development is halved as well. It turns out they’re also about half the height of humans. *True halflings in a way*.
They live on a pla... | 2020/06/13 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/178502",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/57200/"
] | I think such a species is definitely possible, however the rate of development would probably be a lot slower than it is here on Earth. With such a short lifetime they might be less willing to spend as many years studying as we do. The might also be more impulsive, restless and impatient than we are (on average). | This reminds me of the [Salarians](https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Salarian) from the Mass Effect franchise.
They have a lifespan of 30-40 years, which they make up for with high intelligence, very high metabolic rate, low sleeping time requirements and an extremely driven mindset, which results in them being the mo... |
178,502 | So I have a species that has a life expectancy about half that of humans. In antique times, they mostly die around the age of 30 once they’ve passed the challenges of childhood. Their development is halved as well. It turns out they’re also about half the height of humans. *True halflings in a way*.
They live on a pla... | 2020/06/13 | [
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] | [Neanderthal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal) had average lifespan of 20 years, early Homo Sapiens had around 30 years, even modern human had average lifespan of around 30-40 years in medieval time. I think your civilisation probably reach Medieval Feudal level with nearly same speed like human civilisation,... | Yes, I do believe it is scientifically possible. On average, larger animals live longer than small animals, for example the bowhead whale can live up to 200 years old, while a cat can live up to sixteen years. The cause for this, I believe, often has something to do with metabolic rates. Smaller animals usually have hi... |
178,502 | So I have a species that has a life expectancy about half that of humans. In antique times, they mostly die around the age of 30 once they’ve passed the challenges of childhood. Their development is halved as well. It turns out they’re also about half the height of humans. *True halflings in a way*.
They live on a pla... | 2020/06/13 | [
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] | The major obstacle to civilization is the loss of knowledge and the relentless need to transmit it. Basically, they will have to do it at double human speed in order to accumulate enough knowledge for civilization. *The Secret of Our Success* by Joseph Henrich details many cases where humans have lost technologies of v... | [Neanderthal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal) had average lifespan of 20 years, early Homo Sapiens had around 30 years, even modern human had average lifespan of around 30-40 years in medieval time. I think your civilisation probably reach Medieval Feudal level with nearly same speed like human civilisation,... |
178,502 | So I have a species that has a life expectancy about half that of humans. In antique times, they mostly die around the age of 30 once they’ve passed the challenges of childhood. Their development is halved as well. It turns out they’re also about half the height of humans. *True halflings in a way*.
They live on a pla... | 2020/06/13 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/178502",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/57200/"
] | The major obstacle to civilization is the loss of knowledge and the relentless need to transmit it. Basically, they will have to do it at double human speed in order to accumulate enough knowledge for civilization. *The Secret of Our Success* by Joseph Henrich details many cases where humans have lost technologies of v... | Yes, I do believe it is scientifically possible. On average, larger animals live longer than small animals, for example the bowhead whale can live up to 200 years old, while a cat can live up to sixteen years. The cause for this, I believe, often has something to do with metabolic rates. Smaller animals usually have hi... |
178,502 | So I have a species that has a life expectancy about half that of humans. In antique times, they mostly die around the age of 30 once they’ve passed the challenges of childhood. Their development is halved as well. It turns out they’re also about half the height of humans. *True halflings in a way*.
They live on a pla... | 2020/06/13 | [
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] | This reminds me of the [Salarians](https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Salarian) from the Mass Effect franchise.
They have a lifespan of 30-40 years, which they make up for with high intelligence, very high metabolic rate, low sleeping time requirements and an extremely driven mindset, which results in them being the mo... | Yes, I do believe it is scientifically possible. On average, larger animals live longer than small animals, for example the bowhead whale can live up to 200 years old, while a cat can live up to sixteen years. The cause for this, I believe, often has something to do with metabolic rates. Smaller animals usually have hi... |
178,502 | So I have a species that has a life expectancy about half that of humans. In antique times, they mostly die around the age of 30 once they’ve passed the challenges of childhood. Their development is halved as well. It turns out they’re also about half the height of humans. *True halflings in a way*.
They live on a pla... | 2020/06/13 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/178502",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/57200/"
] | The major obstacle to civilization is the loss of knowledge and the relentless need to transmit it. Basically, they will have to do it at double human speed in order to accumulate enough knowledge for civilization. *The Secret of Our Success* by Joseph Henrich details many cases where humans have lost technologies of v... | This reminds me of the [Salarians](https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Salarian) from the Mass Effect franchise.
They have a lifespan of 30-40 years, which they make up for with high intelligence, very high metabolic rate, low sleeping time requirements and an extremely driven mindset, which results in them being the mo... |
78,871 | Ok So my job is creating timetables for bus routes having them in DL leaflet form and A4 pdf from for online.
Currently I build them both individually (Which is obviously very time consuming) so I need to find a way of automating it. I've used data merge before to quicken mass date entry but I cant seem to get it to w... | 2016/10/18 | [
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] | DataMerging and import excel file have one disadvantage. Once used the link between source and data in indd disappears.
To avoid that place excel file as any other object so it became visible in the "Links" panel. To do that go to Preferences -> File Handling and at the bottom check "create link when placing text or ... | Build the data in Excel
create the InDesign document with all the formatting for the timetable
Don't import the data the formatting will be lost, cut and paste the data from the spreadsheet into a text editor to convert it to a text file or place it into an empty text box in InDesign, convert the table to text with TAB... |
60,696 | What is the importance of resistance at emitter and collector of BJT amplifier? What will be effect on output if they are removed? | 2013/03/12 | [
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] | This is the basic circuit you seem to be asking about. It's known as a common-emitter amplifier with emitter degeneration:
The two resistors have totally different functions.
RC is totally fundamental to the operation of a common-emitter amplifier.... | the resistance in collector will determine the value of your V(CE) which is important for you to determine your quiescent point for your transistor depending on what is your purpose on your transistor. The resistance in emitter is for stability, because BJTs are highly sensitive in temperature and it will affect your c... |
48,097 | I have a lot of bookmarks in Safari and I would like to sort them alphabetically. It's a pain to do it manually, and I don't seem to find a "Sort alphabetically" menu option.
Is this at all possible? | 2009/09/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/48097",
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] | * open a Finder window and the Safari Bookmarks window
* drag the folder(s) you want sorted from the Safari window to your Desktop
* go to Finder and open each folder, set the view to list view and then close the window
* drag the folder back into Safari’s Bookmarks window Safari will add it
* open the folder in Bookma... | In recent versions of Safari, Apple finally added a context menu entry to sort the contents of bookmark folders. To access it, go to Bookmarks → Edit Bookmarks, then right click on any folder and choose 'Sort by...':
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9cJmy... |
35,963 | I've read recently some articles about English toffee candy and the issue of butter separation was mentioned there.
I am looking for further information abut this phenomenon (what causes this separation of butter from the candy during cooking) and how can one prevent the separation
besides using an emulsifier (like le... | 2013/08/12 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/35963",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
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] | Butter separation doesn't only refer to the butter separating from the toffee (sugar), butter is make of milk fat rendered and the milk solids, when butter separates this is due to these parts separating. This is the fat that you see on the toffee, this usually comes from the components cooling at different speeds.
As... | Pertaining to salt acting as a "stabilizer", I have this experience to offer - I never had a significant issue dissolving the sugar into the butter (first step), until I switched from salted butter to unsalted - suddenly I had water that could not be eliminated. Some advise that adding 1/8 to 1/4 tsp salt per 4oz will ... |
13,811,019 | I'm trying to program some tool and i want to simulate a network cable lose with it.
So i want to get the same effect like i unplug the networkcable from my computer and plug it in again. It's not the same as the '/renew' / '/release' commands. When i disconnect / connect it manualy it look likes windows remember some ... | 2012/12/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13811019",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/994304/"
] | You should set the fetch and send data bitrate to 0
Alternatively you could just set the receive bitrate to 0 bits and leave the send untouched this would also simulator the same. | Check out a great little tool called [WANem](http://wanem.sourceforge.net/) . You can use it to simulate different WAN scenarios. Loss of connectivity is one possibility, but also jitter, noise and more on the line. Even simulating a dial-up connection. Runs as a bootable ISO and very easy to use. |
38,371 | >
> The economic situation becomes more complex in the world. So there is an active search for methods for optimization of business.
>
>
>
These sentences are mine. I have the feeling that the second sentence is clumsy and does not sound natural in English. I can't remember how these sentences are called in Englis... | 2014/11/03 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/38371",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
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] | One possible rephrasing that occurs to me is...
>
> 1: *The global economic situation **is becoming** more complex, **leading to** an active search for business optimization methods.*
>
>
>
But pragmatically it seems unlikely any such "active searching" would be *directly and only **caused*** by an increasingly c... | I could only come up with:
>
> This (**it**) is *fueling* a search for business optimization methods".
>
>
>
The construction you're referring to ("*it is snowing*") uses the so-called "[dummy pronoun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_pronoun)" it.
But in my sentence, **it** is not a dummy pronoun, it refer... |
65,355 | I'm just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. Is it really as risky as people say it is? | 2009/11/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/65355",
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] | Yes. If you lose just one drive in the array, you lose everything. Which means anything on RAID 0 *must have a backup*. | The risk factor of using a RAID 0 depends on pretty much for what you are going to use it.
As for my experience, I started using RAID 0 a year ago using 2 inexpensive disk for improved performance in games and some video editing and 1 large hard drive for simple storage. I keep all my important data backed up where I ... |
65,355 | I'm just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. Is it really as risky as people say it is? | 2009/11/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/65355",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | RAID 0 means ZERO redundancy. Whenever there is data to be written to the RAID device, it is split in two, the first part is written onto the first disk, the second part on the second, which makes your write operation pretty fast. But if *either* disk breaks, *all* your data is lost (since you lose (roughly) 50% of all... | Probability theory says that is P1 is the probability of device-1 failure, and P2 - for device-2, then failure of any of them occurs with a chance of P1+P2. That means, chances to lose data are really higher, actually - twice higher.
Practically, I have RAID 0, and it does not fail: HDDs have 1-2 guaranteed years of s... |
65,355 | I'm just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. Is it really as risky as people say it is? | 2009/11/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/65355",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | Speaking from personal experience of losing data, I'd definitely recommend you save yourself the headaches and avoid RAID 0. For each drive in the array, you increase the chances of losing all the data. I had 3 drives in RAID 0 and the middle drive broke only a few months later, losing nearly 1TB of data. | RAID 0 can be a great solution in many cases where downtime is not critical.
RAID gives you speed, or redundancy or both. RAID is not a backup solution as it only guards agains hardware failure, only one type of failure that can cause data loss. So that means you need to have a backup solution in place regardless of t... |
65,355 | I'm just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. Is it really as risky as people say it is? | 2009/11/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/65355",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | Speaking from personal experience of losing data, I'd definitely recommend you save yourself the headaches and avoid RAID 0. For each drive in the array, you increase the chances of losing all the data. I had 3 drives in RAID 0 and the middle drive broke only a few months later, losing nearly 1TB of data. | I believe that raid5 will give you some of the benefits of both raid0 and raid1, so you get both increased speed and redundancy compared to using only one drive. It takes three disks at a minimum though. |
65,355 | I'm just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. Is it really as risky as people say it is? | 2009/11/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/65355",
"https://superuser.com",
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] | RAID 0 doubles your chance of storage failure (assuming a 2-disk Raid 0). Why? Because now you are relying on the reliability of 2 disks, instead of just one.
RAID 10 brings back a reasonable level of reliability. | I dont think Raid 0 is risky at all. I personally run raid 0 for my os for benefited speed. You could hose my raid config any time of any day and I wouldn't lose a thing. I have my system set up correctly, to get the benefits of speed while having little to no possible loss of data.
The only risk is for people who do... |
65,355 | I'm just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. Is it really as risky as people say it is? | 2009/11/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/65355",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | Yes it is. you have 2 disk, raid 0 - if one fails, all data lost.
if you don't use raid - if 1 fails, 50% data lost...
IF you use raid 1 - if 1 fails - you have 0% data lost, but you pay twice for your Hardware.... :-) | The risk factor of using a RAID 0 depends on pretty much for what you are going to use it.
As for my experience, I started using RAID 0 a year ago using 2 inexpensive disk for improved performance in games and some video editing and 1 large hard drive for simple storage. I keep all my important data backed up where I ... |
65,355 | I'm just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. Is it really as risky as people say it is? | 2009/11/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/65355",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | RAID 0 means ZERO redundancy. Whenever there is data to be written to the RAID device, it is split in two, the first part is written onto the first disk, the second part on the second, which makes your write operation pretty fast. But if *either* disk breaks, *all* your data is lost (since you lose (roughly) 50% of all... | I believe that raid5 will give you some of the benefits of both raid0 and raid1, so you get both increased speed and redundancy compared to using only one drive. It takes three disks at a minimum though. |
65,355 | I'm just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. Is it really as risky as people say it is? | 2009/11/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/65355",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | Yes. If you lose just one drive in the array, you lose everything. Which means anything on RAID 0 *must have a backup*. | In 99% of cases RAID-0 will probably be a bad idea for all the reasons other people have mentioned (increased chance of complete failure etc).
However it can be used in some (more extreme) situations, for instance in a large array of servers working together (a la google), where individual machine failures do not crit... |
65,355 | I'm just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. Is it really as risky as people say it is? | 2009/11/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/65355",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | Yes. If you lose just one drive in the array, you lose everything. Which means anything on RAID 0 *must have a backup*. | RAID 0 can be a great solution in many cases where downtime is not critical.
RAID gives you speed, or redundancy or both. RAID is not a backup solution as it only guards agains hardware failure, only one type of failure that can cause data loss. So that means you need to have a backup solution in place regardless of t... |
65,355 | I'm just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. Is it really as risky as people say it is? | 2009/11/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/65355",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | It depends on what you are using it for. As others have said it roughly doubles the risk of failure of the data on it compared to a single disk. If you had 3 disks in raid 0, then 3x the risk, etc... This because you lose almost all data if any one disk fails. RAID operates on a low level, **so it doesn't generally put... | I dont think Raid 0 is risky at all. I personally run raid 0 for my os for benefited speed. You could hose my raid config any time of any day and I wouldn't lose a thing. I have my system set up correctly, to get the benefits of speed while having little to no possible loss of data.
The only risk is for people who do... |
2,174,501 | I don't understand what's going on with the XCode debugger. I am using Xcode 3.1.2 and GCC 4.0 on 10.5. Sometimes, Occasionally, I test a C++ program, all active breakpoints become disabled. No breakpoints are taken - the program runs to completion. The dark blue breakpoint icons change to light blue or yellow with a b... | 2010/02/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2174501",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/241762/"
] | I'd use javascript. There is nothing here that is so fancy that it can't be done completely on the client side. | I would recommend that you do it in Flash. Would probably be much more accurate than doing it within the browser with javascript. |
2,174,501 | I don't understand what's going on with the XCode debugger. I am using Xcode 3.1.2 and GCC 4.0 on 10.5. Sometimes, Occasionally, I test a C++ program, all active breakpoints become disabled. No breakpoints are taken - the program runs to completion. The dark blue breakpoint icons change to light blue or yellow with a b... | 2010/02/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2174501",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/241762/"
] | The link posted was coded using Flash.
The reason it works well, is that it does not have to postback to the server. All of the work is done client-side.
Something similar could be done using Javascript and HTML as that is a client-side technology.
ASP.NET is a *server-side* technology. It may be possible to use an ... | I would recommend that you do it in Flash. Would probably be much more accurate than doing it within the browser with javascript. |
2,174,501 | I don't understand what's going on with the XCode debugger. I am using Xcode 3.1.2 and GCC 4.0 on 10.5. Sometimes, Occasionally, I test a C++ program, all active breakpoints become disabled. No breakpoints are taken - the program runs to completion. The dark blue breakpoint icons change to light blue or yellow with a b... | 2010/02/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2174501",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/241762/"
] | I'd use javascript. There is nothing here that is so fancy that it can't be done completely on the client side. | They are using adobe Flash. So you could use that.
VB.NET and ASP.NET won't really help you as this is all would have to be done client-side. |
2,174,501 | I don't understand what's going on with the XCode debugger. I am using Xcode 3.1.2 and GCC 4.0 on 10.5. Sometimes, Occasionally, I test a C++ program, all active breakpoints become disabled. No breakpoints are taken - the program runs to completion. The dark blue breakpoint icons change to light blue or yellow with a b... | 2010/02/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2174501",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/241762/"
] | The link posted was coded using Flash.
The reason it works well, is that it does not have to postback to the server. All of the work is done client-side.
Something similar could be done using Javascript and HTML as that is a client-side technology.
ASP.NET is a *server-side* technology. It may be possible to use an ... | They are using adobe Flash. So you could use that.
VB.NET and ASP.NET won't really help you as this is all would have to be done client-side. |
2,174,501 | I don't understand what's going on with the XCode debugger. I am using Xcode 3.1.2 and GCC 4.0 on 10.5. Sometimes, Occasionally, I test a C++ program, all active breakpoints become disabled. No breakpoints are taken - the program runs to completion. The dark blue breakpoint icons change to light blue or yellow with a b... | 2010/02/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2174501",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/241762/"
] | I'd use javascript. There is nothing here that is so fancy that it can't be done completely on the client side. | The link posted was coded using Flash.
The reason it works well, is that it does not have to postback to the server. All of the work is done client-side.
Something similar could be done using Javascript and HTML as that is a client-side technology.
ASP.NET is a *server-side* technology. It may be possible to use an ... |
215,636 | In "Forest of the Dead" the Doctor saved River's consciousness by uploading it to CAL. She also says how the Doctor brought her to Darillium and how she now knew the Doctor always knew how she dies. Then in "The Wedding of River Song" the Doctor has to die at the fixed point. If he knew that he was going to live past t... | 2019/07/07 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/215636",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/118445/"
] | **Time can be rewritten. At least sometimes.**
The whole idea of a "fixed point in time" is that it's one specific event which *cannot* be changed or rewritten. No matter how much time travel happens around it, some things must always happen. We see this in, for example, "The Waters of Mars", when the Doctor tries to ... | I think you missed that River and The Doctor are experiencing time reversed from each other. River meets Doctor #10 at the end of her life, but at that point he's only meeting her for the first time. At that point she knew he hadn't died, because she met Doctor #12 on [Darillium](https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Darilliu... |
41,408 | >
> Created by someone amazing,
>
> With whom no one else can be compared.
>
> sometimes you will be happy,
>
> sometimes you will be scared.
>
>
> Sometimes it doesn't matter,
>
> because you are simply not that concerned.
>
> Sometimes it will stun you,
>
> sometimes it will be just as abs... | 2016/08/25 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/41408",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/22882/"
] | I believe the answer is:
>
> Imagination
>
>
>
Created by someone amazing,
With whom no one else can be compared.
>
> Amazing people imagine
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>
>
sometimes you will be happy,
sometimes you will be scared.
>
> Imagination can be pleasing or scary
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>
>
Sometimes it doesn't matter,
because ... | Is it
>
> a story
>
>
>
Created by someone amazing,
With whom no one else can be compared.
>
> a writer?
>
>
>
sometimes you will be happy,
sometimes you will be scared.
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> Fluff and horror!
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Sometimes it doesn't matter,
because you are simply not that concerned.
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> Boring stories
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>
... |
253,775 | I have a software product. it will probably run on VMs that have no network connection at all.
I want the user to pay for each VM the user runs.
I thought to ask the user for some kind of hardware ID and provide him with serial that is unique for his machine.
But user can just copy the VM image and than have two mac... | 2014/08/19 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/253775",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/35955/"
] | A security dongle can easily do what you want, as this is a commonplace requirement. The dongle gives out a sequence of values according to a predetermined pattern. Two copies of your software running consecutively will see two sequences, each valid. Two copies running concurrently will see sequence breaks, where acces... | The security dongle is a good idea.
Your software can run handshakes every minute (or second) with the device. If the device fails to respond then your program terminates.
Your dongle, on the other hand, keeps an internal counter and gives out unique hashes every time a session request is made, and has an internal ... |
39,977 | I know the difference between poison and venom AND poisonous and venomous.
But I just want to know if an ingested venom would do harm to humans and if an injected poison would do harm to humans.
I really think that poison is both poisonous and venomous AND venom is both venomous and poisonous. | 2015/10/27 | [
"https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/39977",
"https://biology.stackexchange.com",
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] | I think you are both confused about terminology, and asking a very broad question. An organism that produces venom is venomous. Poison is *not* venomous, the black mamba *is* venomous. *Venom* is not venomous.
According to the Wikipedia article on [venom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom),
>
> Venom is a form of ... | Most [venoms contain a lot of enzymes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_venom#Chemistry). These enzymes can be split by the [proteases](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease) in your stomach. So if they don't have any effect before reaching your stomach, they will probably digested like any other protein. Ofc. ther... |
39,977 | I know the difference between poison and venom AND poisonous and venomous.
But I just want to know if an ingested venom would do harm to humans and if an injected poison would do harm to humans.
I really think that poison is both poisonous and venomous AND venom is both venomous and poisonous. | 2015/10/27 | [
"https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/39977",
"https://biology.stackexchange.com",
"https://biology.stackexchange.com/users/19638/"
] | I think you are both confused about terminology, and asking a very broad question. An organism that produces venom is venomous. Poison is *not* venomous, the black mamba *is* venomous. *Venom* is not venomous.
According to the Wikipedia article on [venom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom),
>
> Venom is a form of ... | To answer this question first we need to look at what is the definition of a venom and poison. This is somewhat difficult because the definition has changed slightly over the years, but looking over them we can learn of the similarities between the two.
"A venom is typically a mixture of compounds containing one or mo... |
39,977 | I know the difference between poison and venom AND poisonous and venomous.
But I just want to know if an ingested venom would do harm to humans and if an injected poison would do harm to humans.
I really think that poison is both poisonous and venomous AND venom is both venomous and poisonous. | 2015/10/27 | [
"https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/39977",
"https://biology.stackexchange.com",
"https://biology.stackexchange.com/users/19638/"
] | I think you are both confused about terminology, and asking a very broad question. An organism that produces venom is venomous. Poison is *not* venomous, the black mamba *is* venomous. *Venom* is not venomous.
According to the Wikipedia article on [venom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom),
>
> Venom is a form of ... | Some substances can be both venom and/or poison. According to Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge in this internet age, Blue Ring octopi are dangerous to humans if provoked because their venom contains the powerful neurotoxin tetrodotoxin. According to the same reliable source, Pufferfish are dangerous to humans if ... |
39,977 | I know the difference between poison and venom AND poisonous and venomous.
But I just want to know if an ingested venom would do harm to humans and if an injected poison would do harm to humans.
I really think that poison is both poisonous and venomous AND venom is both venomous and poisonous. | 2015/10/27 | [
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39,977 | I know the difference between poison and venom AND poisonous and venomous.
But I just want to know if an ingested venom would do harm to humans and if an injected poison would do harm to humans.
I really think that poison is both poisonous and venomous AND venom is both venomous and poisonous. | 2015/10/27 | [
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] | To answer this question first we need to look at what is the definition of a venom and poison. This is somewhat difficult because the definition has changed slightly over the years, but looking over them we can learn of the similarities between the two.
"A venom is typically a mixture of compounds containing one or mo... | Some substances can be both venom and/or poison. According to Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge in this internet age, Blue Ring octopi are dangerous to humans if provoked because their venom contains the powerful neurotoxin tetrodotoxin. According to the same reliable source, Pufferfish are dangerous to humans if ... |
27,193 | The dense atmosphere of Venus is mainly composed of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, with clouds made of sulfuric acid droplets, which make optical observation of the surface impossible.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nbWK2.png)
As can be seen on the image above, the clou... | 2018/05/11 | [
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If you attempted to use the H-Bomb as a flash bulb to try to produce enough light to bounce off the surface and pass all the way back up without attenuating below our camera sensitivities, it still doesn't work because the reflection is ridiculously dimmer than the ... |
27,193 | The dense atmosphere of Venus is mainly composed of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, with clouds made of sulfuric acid droplets, which make optical observation of the surface impossible.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nbWK2.png)
As can be seen on the image above, the clou... | 2018/05/11 | [
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] | At Venus there's another problem separate from the cloud problem. Even were there no clouds, you couldn't see the surface of Venus from space at visible wavelengths anyway, due to Rayleigh scattering.
In the past year I've been working on studies of Venus aerial and landed vehicles for doing Venus science, and Rayleig... | **Note:** @Conelisinspace's [comment](https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/27193/could-we-see-the-surface-of-venus-after-the-explosion-of-a-h-bomb-in-its-atmosph/27198#comment80815_27198) reminds me that the clouds don't begin at the surface. Double checking the plot, this happens at roughly ~30 km, at which point... |
27,193 | The dense atmosphere of Venus is mainly composed of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, with clouds made of sulfuric acid droplets, which make optical observation of the surface impossible.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nbWK2.png)
As can be seen on the image above, the clou... | 2018/05/11 | [
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] | No, because thermonuclear weapons don't make holes in clouds, they **make clouds**. First you have a fireball:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lqIk3.jpg)
And then you get a big mushroom cloud:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nbWK2.png)
As can be seen on the image above, the clou... | 2018/05/11 | [
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] | At Venus there's another problem separate from the cloud problem. Even were there no clouds, you couldn't see the surface of Venus from space at visible wavelengths anyway, due to Rayleigh scattering.
In the past year I've been working on studies of Venus aerial and landed vehicles for doing Venus science, and Rayleig... | No, because thermonuclear weapons don't make holes in clouds, they **make clouds**. First you have a fireball:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lqIk3.jpg)
And then you get a big mushroom cloud:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nbWK2.png)
As can be seen on the image above, the clou... | 2018/05/11 | [
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] | At Venus there's another problem separate from the cloud problem. Even were there no clouds, you couldn't see the surface of Venus from space at visible wavelengths anyway, due to Rayleigh scattering.
In the past year I've been working on studies of Venus aerial and landed vehicles for doing Venus science, and Rayleig... | So I tried another track and it doesn't work either.
If you attempted to use the H-Bomb as a flash bulb to try to produce enough light to bounce off the surface and pass all the way back up without attenuating below our camera sensitivities, it still doesn't work because the reflection is ridiculously dimmer than the ... |
85,095 | What are ways to download a Google sheet that you were given access to but don't own?
On <https://docs.google.com> — is there a Chrome extension or anything like that? | 2015/09/16 | [
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Go to 'download as'
Done! | Click the file, you will be asked to view only or edit as google docs.
Click view only, at the top page, there are option to open with desktop apps, print file, download and share. |
85,095 | What are ways to download a Google sheet that you were given access to but don't own?
On <https://docs.google.com> — is there a Chrome extension or anything like that? | 2015/09/16 | [
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Go to 'download as'
Done! | open the file you want to download in google docs itself!!!
for e.g.-
click <https://docs.google.com>
go to sheets option there...
1. Open for example blank sheet in it...
2. After fully loading you will see "file" option in the upper right corner of your screen click it...
3. You will see a dropdown menu there clic... |
71,562 | In (An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms) by Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick it's written that: **Insertions and search misses in a BST built from N random keys require ~ 2 ln N (about 1.39 lg N) compares, on the average.** I didn't get it well, even after I read their explanation, can you help to under... | 2017/03/15 | [
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] | The 2 comes from doing 2 comparisons at each node visited by the algorithm. The lg(n) comes from having to examine one node from each generation, or one node at each height in the tree. So, if we need to examine lg(n) nodes, and preform 2 operations at each node, we preform a total of 2lg(n) operations. | You can say that O(2ln(n)) = O(ln(n))
It is easy to show that the search and misses are O(ln(n)).
Consider a binary search tree (BST). If you are searching from root, you either go left or right based on the knowledge of whether your search key is less than or greater than the value at root. So, when you select to go... |
71,562 | In (An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms) by Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick it's written that: **Insertions and search misses in a BST built from N random keys require ~ 2 ln N (about 1.39 lg N) compares, on the average.** I didn't get it well, even after I read their explanation, can you help to under... | 2017/03/15 | [
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Here is the link to the Google Doc I typed up:
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/16NrVWLNLi1Hxg8gCgkwZbCQ3zLciJOMmA4aU4tiCBDk/edit?usp=sharing>
It is a little lengthy yes, but this ... | You can say that O(2ln(n)) = O(ln(n))
It is easy to show that the search and misses are O(ln(n)).
Consider a binary search tree (BST). If you are searching from root, you either go left or right based on the knowledge of whether your search key is less than or greater than the value at root. So, when you select to go... |
71,562 | In (An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms) by Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick it's written that: **Insertions and search misses in a BST built from N random keys require ~ 2 ln N (about 1.39 lg N) compares, on the average.** I didn't get it well, even after I read their explanation, can you help to under... | 2017/03/15 | [
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] | The 2 comes from doing 2 comparisons at each node visited by the algorithm. The lg(n) comes from having to examine one node from each generation, or one node at each height in the tree. So, if we need to examine lg(n) nodes, and preform 2 operations at each node, we preform a total of 2lg(n) operations. | First, this seems weird, since 2 ln n is nowhere near 1.39 lg n. I'd say it is about 4.6 lg N.
You would need a very detailed analysis of the situation. If the binary tree was built by inserting the nodes in random order, a tree with 255 keys might have a height of 8 if you are extremely lucky, or a height of 255 if ... |
71,562 | In (An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms) by Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick it's written that: **Insertions and search misses in a BST built from N random keys require ~ 2 ln N (about 1.39 lg N) compares, on the average.** I didn't get it well, even after I read their explanation, can you help to under... | 2017/03/15 | [
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] | This is a late response but my solution is present on this Google Doc. Hopefully people in the future can benefit from my explanation:
Here is the link to the Google Doc I typed up:
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/16NrVWLNLi1Hxg8gCgkwZbCQ3zLciJOMmA4aU4tiCBDk/edit?usp=sharing>
It is a little lengthy yes, but this ... | The 2 comes from doing 2 comparisons at each node visited by the algorithm. The lg(n) comes from having to examine one node from each generation, or one node at each height in the tree. So, if we need to examine lg(n) nodes, and preform 2 operations at each node, we preform a total of 2lg(n) operations. |
71,562 | In (An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms) by Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick it's written that: **Insertions and search misses in a BST built from N random keys require ~ 2 ln N (about 1.39 lg N) compares, on the average.** I didn't get it well, even after I read their explanation, can you help to under... | 2017/03/15 | [
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] | This is a late response but my solution is present on this Google Doc. Hopefully people in the future can benefit from my explanation:
Here is the link to the Google Doc I typed up:
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/16NrVWLNLi1Hxg8gCgkwZbCQ3zLciJOMmA4aU4tiCBDk/edit?usp=sharing>
It is a little lengthy yes, but this ... | First, this seems weird, since 2 ln n is nowhere near 1.39 lg n. I'd say it is about 4.6 lg N.
You would need a very detailed analysis of the situation. If the binary tree was built by inserting the nodes in random order, a tree with 255 keys might have a height of 8 if you are extremely lucky, or a height of 255 if ... |
20,437 | Tensors are mathematical objects that are needed in physics to define certain quantities. I have a couple of questions regarding them that need to be clarified:
1. Are matrices and second rank tensors the same thing?
2. If the answer to 1 is yes, then can we think of a 3rd rank tensor as an ordered set of numbers in 3... | 2012/02/02 | [
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Easiest way to think of it is a vector is a magnitude and direction a... | No. A matrix can mean any number of things, a list of numbers, symbols or a name of a movie. But it can never be a tensor. Matrices can only be used as certain representations of tensors, but as such, they obscure all the geometric properties of tensors which are simply multilinear functions on vectors. |
20,437 | Tensors are mathematical objects that are needed in physics to define certain quantities. I have a couple of questions regarding them that need to be clarified:
1. Are matrices and second rank tensors the same thing?
2. If the answer to 1 is yes, then can we think of a 3rd rank tensor as an ordered set of numbers in 3... | 2012/02/02 | [
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] | Strictly speaking matrices and rank 2 tensors are not quite the same thing, but there is a close correspondence that works for most practical purposes that physicists encounter.
A matrix is a two dimensional array of numbers (or values from some field or ring). A 2-rank tensor is a linear map from two vector spaces, ... | This is a pet peeve of mine. Having in the early part of my career been a geometer. Much of the discussion before is correct. A tensor of various ranks are linear transformations. However, a tensor is an invariant under coordinate systems selected.
Easiest way to think of it is a vector is a magnitude and direction a... |
20,437 | Tensors are mathematical objects that are needed in physics to define certain quantities. I have a couple of questions regarding them that need to be clarified:
1. Are matrices and second rank tensors the same thing?
2. If the answer to 1 is yes, then can we think of a 3rd rank tensor as an ordered set of numbers in 3... | 2012/02/02 | [
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] | A matrix is a special case of a second rank tensor with 1 index up and 1 index down. It takes vectors to vectors, (by contracting the upper index of the vector with the lower index of the tensor), covectors to covectors (by contracting the lower index of the covector with the upper index of the tensor), and in general,... | Strictly speaking matrices and rank 2 tensors are not quite the same thing, but there is a close correspondence that works for most practical purposes that physicists encounter.
A matrix is a two dimensional array of numbers (or values from some field or ring). A 2-rank tensor is a linear map from two vector spaces, ... |
20,437 | Tensors are mathematical objects that are needed in physics to define certain quantities. I have a couple of questions regarding them that need to be clarified:
1. Are matrices and second rank tensors the same thing?
2. If the answer to 1 is yes, then can we think of a 3rd rank tensor as an ordered set of numbers in 3... | 2012/02/02 | [
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] | A second-order tensor can be *represented* by a matrix, just as a first-order tensor can be *represented* by an array. But there is more to the tensor than just its arrangement of components; we also need to include how the array transforms upon a change of basis. So tensor is an n-dimensional array satisfying a partic... | No. A matrix can mean any number of things, a list of numbers, symbols or a name of a movie. But it can never be a tensor. Matrices can only be used as certain representations of tensors, but as such, they obscure all the geometric properties of tensors which are simply multilinear functions on vectors. |
20,437 | Tensors are mathematical objects that are needed in physics to define certain quantities. I have a couple of questions regarding them that need to be clarified:
1. Are matrices and second rank tensors the same thing?
2. If the answer to 1 is yes, then can we think of a 3rd rank tensor as an ordered set of numbers in 3... | 2012/02/02 | [
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] | This is a pet peeve of mine. Having in the early part of my career been a geometer. Much of the discussion before is correct. A tensor of various ranks are linear transformations. However, a tensor is an invariant under coordinate systems selected.
Easiest way to think of it is a vector is a magnitude and direction a... | 1. All scalars are not tensors, although all tensors of rank 0 are scalars (see below).
2. All vectors are not tensors, although all tensors of rank 1 are vectors (see below).
3. All matrices are not tensors, although all tensors of rank 2 are matrices.
Example for 3: Matrix M (m11=x , m12=-y , m21=x^2 , m22=-y^2) .Th... |
116,422 | I want to run a good alignment campaign in D&D 5e with my friends, but we are not even at session 0 and we already have a major disagreement.
I usually GM tabletop RPGs that are not D&D, like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, AFMBE, LORT 6D, Star Wars 6D but occasionally I DM Pathfinder and D&D oneshots. I'm experi... | 2018/02/28 | [
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] | D&D 5e is *much* less "black and white" than previous editions.
I ran most of my games in the past with good old AD&D 1e, and that game is very stark. Characters and monsters have alignments, and the system expects those to be followed. They can be detected, and so on. One of the big moral events in that old campaign ... | Yes, but the system won't support you very well
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I use the term RCAI (Race/Class/Alignment Interlocking) for what you're talking about, where certain creatures or classes are restricted to certain alignments. This was a salient feature of D&D before 4e streamlined and lar... |
116,422 | I want to run a good alignment campaign in D&D 5e with my friends, but we are not even at session 0 and we already have a major disagreement.
I usually GM tabletop RPGs that are not D&D, like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, AFMBE, LORT 6D, Star Wars 6D but occasionally I DM Pathfinder and D&D oneshots. I'm experi... | 2018/02/28 | [
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] | The DM decides what campaign he runs
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While it's true that roleplaying is a cooperative effort, and it's better to find a consensus... Your campaign is yours. It's your world. You decide how it works. So if every ork is evil in your campaign, then it's so. Your players may not like ... | Being a good DM is about balancing. You have to let players have enough flexibility to be creative and make their experience their own, but only up to a certain point. Give everyone too much free reign and eventually someone is going to make an obnoxious character that spoils the game for everyone, but if you're too st... |
116,422 | I want to run a good alignment campaign in D&D 5e with my friends, but we are not even at session 0 and we already have a major disagreement.
I usually GM tabletop RPGs that are not D&D, like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, AFMBE, LORT 6D, Star Wars 6D but occasionally I DM Pathfinder and D&D oneshots. I'm experi... | 2018/02/28 | [
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] | There is no good answer to this question as posed
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Instead, I would start with an axiom: No one should be forced to play in a game that they don't want to play in. The realities of life serve to make this a little more complicated, as gaming is a social activity that ca... | ### You should agree to disagree—and leave alignment out of the game
Alignment does very little for the game. Alignment also causes immense strife, disagreements, hurt feelings, and so on. Therefore, the easy solution is to just ignore it altogether.
Luckily, D&D 5e makes this easy: as part of a continuing trend of r... |
116,422 | I want to run a good alignment campaign in D&D 5e with my friends, but we are not even at session 0 and we already have a major disagreement.
I usually GM tabletop RPGs that are not D&D, like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, AFMBE, LORT 6D, Star Wars 6D but occasionally I DM Pathfinder and D&D oneshots. I'm experi... | 2018/02/28 | [
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-----------------------------------------------
I use the term RCAI (Race/Class/Alignment Interlocking) for what you're talking about, where certain creatures or classes are restricted to certain alignments. This was a salient feature of D&D before 4e streamlined and lar... | Have you ever heard about the Book of Exhalted Deeds and the Book of Vile Darkness? They talk about exactly what your players are questioning.
They are both books from D&D 3.5, but they should give you some base to convince your players that your point of vision is more "D&D like" than theirs.
On these books they off... |
116,422 | I want to run a good alignment campaign in D&D 5e with my friends, but we are not even at session 0 and we already have a major disagreement.
I usually GM tabletop RPGs that are not D&D, like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, AFMBE, LORT 6D, Star Wars 6D but occasionally I DM Pathfinder and D&D oneshots. I'm experi... | 2018/02/28 | [
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When setting up a campaign, the DM should explain the tropes of his setting. In some worlds, the [nature of evil is definitely in question](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatIsEvil), sometimes it is is [complex and nuanced](http://tvtropes.org/pmwi... | Have you ever heard about the Book of Exhalted Deeds and the Book of Vile Darkness? They talk about exactly what your players are questioning.
They are both books from D&D 3.5, but they should give you some base to convince your players that your point of vision is more "D&D like" than theirs.
On these books they off... |
116,422 | I want to run a good alignment campaign in D&D 5e with my friends, but we are not even at session 0 and we already have a major disagreement.
I usually GM tabletop RPGs that are not D&D, like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, AFMBE, LORT 6D, Star Wars 6D but occasionally I DM Pathfinder and D&D oneshots. I'm experi... | 2018/02/28 | [
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] | There is no good answer to this question as posed
-------------------------------------------------
Instead, I would start with an axiom: No one should be forced to play in a game that they don't want to play in. The realities of life serve to make this a little more complicated, as gaming is a social activity that ca... | Have you ever heard about the Book of Exhalted Deeds and the Book of Vile Darkness? They talk about exactly what your players are questioning.
They are both books from D&D 3.5, but they should give you some base to convince your players that your point of vision is more "D&D like" than theirs.
On these books they off... |
116,422 | I want to run a good alignment campaign in D&D 5e with my friends, but we are not even at session 0 and we already have a major disagreement.
I usually GM tabletop RPGs that are not D&D, like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, AFMBE, LORT 6D, Star Wars 6D but occasionally I DM Pathfinder and D&D oneshots. I'm experi... | 2018/02/28 | [
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] | The DM decides what campaign he runs
------------------------------------
While it's true that roleplaying is a cooperative effort, and it's better to find a consensus... Your campaign is yours. It's your world. You decide how it works. So if every ork is evil in your campaign, then it's so. Your players may not like ... | ### You should agree to disagree—and leave alignment out of the game
Alignment does very little for the game. Alignment also causes immense strife, disagreements, hurt feelings, and so on. Therefore, the easy solution is to just ignore it altogether.
Luckily, D&D 5e makes this easy: as part of a continuing trend of r... |
116,422 | I want to run a good alignment campaign in D&D 5e with my friends, but we are not even at session 0 and we already have a major disagreement.
I usually GM tabletop RPGs that are not D&D, like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, AFMBE, LORT 6D, Star Wars 6D but occasionally I DM Pathfinder and D&D oneshots. I'm experi... | 2018/02/28 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/116422",
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] | The DM decides what campaign he runs
------------------------------------
While it's true that roleplaying is a cooperative effort, and it's better to find a consensus... Your campaign is yours. It's your world. You decide how it works. So if every ork is evil in your campaign, then it's so. Your players may not like ... | There is no good answer to this question as posed
-------------------------------------------------
Instead, I would start with an axiom: No one should be forced to play in a game that they don't want to play in. The realities of life serve to make this a little more complicated, as gaming is a social activity that ca... |
116,422 | I want to run a good alignment campaign in D&D 5e with my friends, but we are not even at session 0 and we already have a major disagreement.
I usually GM tabletop RPGs that are not D&D, like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, AFMBE, LORT 6D, Star Wars 6D but occasionally I DM Pathfinder and D&D oneshots. I'm experi... | 2018/02/28 | [
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] | D&D 5e is *much* less "black and white" than previous editions.
I ran most of my games in the past with good old AD&D 1e, and that game is very stark. Characters and monsters have alignments, and the system expects those to be followed. They can be detected, and so on. One of the big moral events in that old campaign ... | ### You should agree to disagree—and leave alignment out of the game
Alignment does very little for the game. Alignment also causes immense strife, disagreements, hurt feelings, and so on. Therefore, the easy solution is to just ignore it altogether.
Luckily, D&D 5e makes this easy: as part of a continuing trend of r... |
116,422 | I want to run a good alignment campaign in D&D 5e with my friends, but we are not even at session 0 and we already have a major disagreement.
I usually GM tabletop RPGs that are not D&D, like World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, AFMBE, LORT 6D, Star Wars 6D but occasionally I DM Pathfinder and D&D oneshots. I'm experi... | 2018/02/28 | [
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] | If this isn't a big deal, compromise; if this *is* a big deal, tell the other players to take it or leave it
============================================================================================================
If you and the other players' differing views on how alignment works is *not* a make-or-break issue f... | ### You should agree to disagree—and leave alignment out of the game
Alignment does very little for the game. Alignment also causes immense strife, disagreements, hurt feelings, and so on. Therefore, the easy solution is to just ignore it altogether.
Luckily, D&D 5e makes this easy: as part of a continuing trend of r... |
153,792 | The paper [On the Security of the TLS Protocol](http://www-stl.htwsaar.de/tr/STL-TR-2014-01.pdf) suggests HTTPS provides availability,
but I couldn't find the explanation. Is it provided because HTTP supports load balancers etc.? Or is it something special about HTTPS that helps with availability? | 2017/03/14 | [
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] | >
> The paper [On the Security of the TLS Protocol](http://www-stl.htwsaar.de/tr/STL-TR-2014-01.pdf) suggests HTTPS provides availability
>
>
>
No, it doesn't.
Quote of the relevant section of the paper:
>
> II. Security Goals
> ------------------
>
>
> ...
>
>
> The primary goal of TLS, defined in its spec... | If I read the paper correctly, availability in this context just means that TLS does not have any intrinsic properties which limit the availability. It does not mean that using TLS by its own increases the availability because TLS just provides secure transport.
Of course, practical use of TLS might both increase and... |
7,361 | Few squares in **Encore!** are more dreaded by our play group than the "Vs. Player" squares — "Team vs. Player" and "Player Vs. Player." It's not just that they're harder; they're palpably less fun, and kill the momentum that's generated by the game. They remove the collaborative element that's a big part of the game's... | 2012/05/14 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/7361",
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"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/25/"
] | From the looks of the [rules](http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/Encore,thesongfilledsingoffgame.PDF), ways of solving this issue are rather limited. This appears to be a normal roll and move trivial pursuit type of game of the music variety. Your solution is probably the best solution, **just don't use single playe... | Just ignore it! We always play team vs. team on every square. |
21,009 | From my experience, any tent gets hot when in plain sunlight, so I wouldn't stay in it (and can't imagine why anyone would) + I'd rather be outside my tent when the weather's nice.
I don't really understand this "UV resistance" thing. **Why is it so important?** | 2018/11/09 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/21009",
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] | A tent's UV resistance isn't for you, it's for the tent. High-energy UV rays will break down many synthetic and natural textiles over time. UV resistant fabrics are not as susceptible to this breakdown, and will last longer with repeated exposure to sunlight.
UV resistant fabrics are great if you're looking for long-... | It is for two reasons. By far, the primary concern is that UV rays will make the textiles deteriorate over time. UV resistant textiles will last a lot longer, and deteriorate less from only sunlight.
It is also a minor concern for the people inside, but only if they will be spending considerable amounts of time in the... |
21,009 | From my experience, any tent gets hot when in plain sunlight, so I wouldn't stay in it (and can't imagine why anyone would) + I'd rather be outside my tent when the weather's nice.
I don't really understand this "UV resistance" thing. **Why is it so important?** | 2018/11/09 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/21009",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com",
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] | It's because the sunlight will damage the tents fabric over time.
>
> **UV damage occurs when long term exposure to the sun damages the fabric and thread of your tent or rain fly.** The fabric will become thin and brittle. If you tent or rain fly seems to rip for no reason or with very light pressure, this could be t... | It is for two reasons. By far, the primary concern is that UV rays will make the textiles deteriorate over time. UV resistant textiles will last a lot longer, and deteriorate less from only sunlight.
It is also a minor concern for the people inside, but only if they will be spending considerable amounts of time in the... |
15,009,268 | I have a quick how to question with Magento.
On my main site I need to have 7 links to special "categories" of items, but these don;t reflect categories of items. It is for a clothes shop so link may be to a summer wear page to only display items tagged as summer wear but from all types of item and categories.
What w... | 2013/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15009268",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2028904/"
] | I am assuming that when you say 'taged' you mean the product has a attribute set to 'summer'. In that case:
If you have products that you want to group together by attribute and list similar to a category page without being in a category, you could try using the Fishpig Splash Page extension:
<http://fishpig.co.uk/att... | It seems like to me, you would just create the categories like normal. Because products can belong to many categories, you would just assign on a per-product basis which ones need to be in your categories. |
15,009,268 | I have a quick how to question with Magento.
On my main site I need to have 7 links to special "categories" of items, but these don;t reflect categories of items. It is for a clothes shop so link may be to a summer wear page to only display items tagged as summer wear but from all types of item and categories.
What w... | 2013/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15009268",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2028904/"
] | You can create categories for each of the 7 pages you mention, but hide them from the navigation in the category settings page.
you can then add your products to these categories as you see fit.
They will still be in their original categories too, but you can now link to the new pages and see them there too. | It seems like to me, you would just create the categories like normal. Because products can belong to many categories, you would just assign on a per-product basis which ones need to be in your categories. |
15,009,268 | I have a quick how to question with Magento.
On my main site I need to have 7 links to special "categories" of items, but these don;t reflect categories of items. It is for a clothes shop so link may be to a summer wear page to only display items tagged as summer wear but from all types of item and categories.
What w... | 2013/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15009268",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2028904/"
] | I am assuming that when you say 'taged' you mean the product has a attribute set to 'summer'. In that case:
If you have products that you want to group together by attribute and list similar to a category page without being in a category, you could try using the Fishpig Splash Page extension:
<http://fishpig.co.uk/att... | You can create categories for each of the 7 pages you mention, but hide them from the navigation in the category settings page.
you can then add your products to these categories as you see fit.
They will still be in their original categories too, but you can now link to the new pages and see them there too. |
12,756 | Inspired by [this question](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12606/why-do-real-time-clock-chips-use-bcd) I would like to know how low power you could go with a counter + 32 kHz oscillator (possibly made by yourself).
I found [a nice oscillator circuit on a BJT](http://www.discovercircuits.com/DJ-Circuit... | 2011/04/08 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12756",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/659/"
] | There are several issues here...
1. The oscillator circuit on a BJT doesn't quite spit out +3.3v logic levels. Fortunately, you want to use a lower voltage to get lower power consumption. +1.8v logic levels would be compatible with that oscillator-- but then you'd need +1.8 and +3.3v power rails (and probably loose a... | For the oscillator I'd use an RTC like [NXP PCF8563](http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/PCF8563.pdf), which provides a buffered 32kHz output and only consumes about 300nA @ 2V.
For the counter/divider I looked at HCMOS. According to [NXP's HCMOS family specification](http://ics.nxp.com/support/documents/logic/pd... |
12,756 | Inspired by [this question](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12606/why-do-real-time-clock-chips-use-bcd) I would like to know how low power you could go with a counter + 32 kHz oscillator (possibly made by yourself).
I found [a nice oscillator circuit on a BJT](http://www.discovercircuits.com/DJ-Circuit... | 2011/04/08 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12756",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/659/"
] | For the oscillator I'd use an RTC like [NXP PCF8563](http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/PCF8563.pdf), which provides a buffered 32kHz output and only consumes about 300nA @ 2V.
For the counter/divider I looked at HCMOS. According to [NXP's HCMOS family specification](http://ics.nxp.com/support/documents/logic/pd... | If you think about simple ICs, you can get decent power consumption on CMOS chips.
You may take single inverter in a chip, and a counter. Run it at some 1.8V, and hopefully it will eat very little :-) |
12,756 | Inspired by [this question](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12606/why-do-real-time-clock-chips-use-bcd) I would like to know how low power you could go with a counter + 32 kHz oscillator (possibly made by yourself).
I found [a nice oscillator circuit on a BJT](http://www.discovercircuits.com/DJ-Circuit... | 2011/04/08 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12756",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/659/"
] | Many impressive solutions offered to date. I could offer a 100 nano watt RTC solution but it does not meet the requirement to be CPU free.
Even the major watch makers such as Casio use CPU cores in their ASIC watch chips.
Once dynamic power is negligible with 32KHz, the drain is controlled essentially by transistor ... | Technically, the method to make the most power efficient (and fastest) circuit (anything) would be a [Full Custom IC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_custom) using the tiniest technology you can find. You'd have to design your own [IC layout](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout) and have a foundry ... |
12,756 | Inspired by [this question](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12606/why-do-real-time-clock-chips-use-bcd) I would like to know how low power you could go with a counter + 32 kHz oscillator (possibly made by yourself).
I found [a nice oscillator circuit on a BJT](http://www.discovercircuits.com/DJ-Circuit... | 2011/04/08 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12756",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/659/"
] | There are several issues here...
1. The oscillator circuit on a BJT doesn't quite spit out +3.3v logic levels. Fortunately, you want to use a lower voltage to get lower power consumption. +1.8v logic levels would be compatible with that oscillator-- but then you'd need +1.8 and +3.3v power rails (and probably loose a... | If you think about simple ICs, you can get decent power consumption on CMOS chips.
You may take single inverter in a chip, and a counter. Run it at some 1.8V, and hopefully it will eat very little :-) |
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