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305,553 | What I mean by equivalent is whether or not I can treat a Golden Master release as a final version. Like... can it update to the final, final version? And continue to have update capabilities?
So if I do have a Golden Master release (for Lion, for instance) do I still have to buy the version Apple sells? | 2011/07/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/305553",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/33336/"
] | A Gold Master is the copy of something that will be used to create all other copies. The concept comes from physical media which can be copied through physical processes (for example, stamping a CD, although the term is much older than that). The Gold Master is the original copy. A negative "cast", called a matrix, of ... | You still have to buy the version Apple sells in order to have a license to use it. |
305,553 | What I mean by equivalent is whether or not I can treat a Golden Master release as a final version. Like... can it update to the final, final version? And continue to have update capabilities?
So if I do have a Golden Master release (for Lion, for instance) do I still have to buy the version Apple sells? | 2011/07/02 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/305553",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/33336/"
] | The Gold Master version is essentially the final version, but there may be some very very minor discrepancies between the GM and the actual final release, but not ones big enough that you should worry about not having the latest version.
As for your question about updates, I assume that you will be able to receive upd... | A Gold Master is the copy of something that will be used to create all other copies. The concept comes from physical media which can be copied through physical processes (for example, stamping a CD, although the term is much older than that). The Gold Master is the original copy. A negative "cast", called a matrix, of ... |
30,472 | Being acquainted with Buddhism (although in a pretty shallow and intellectual fashion) since a few years now, I've just realized that I had almost no experience in meditation at all. It was only recently that I started training on and studying about Samadhi, and all this time without a teacher or proper guidance, mainl... | 2018/12/26 | [
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] | SO the summary is that you must not confuse the noble 8 fold path with the humanism pushed by puthujjanas, you must not let the mind be afflicted by the body, you must not be blind to the danger of sensuality, you must judge your thoughts and sanna and vedana all day long, you must become sensitive to the sankharas in ... | >
> **2) Should "noting" meditation be used when doing samatha or jhāna meditation?**
>
>
>
Noting is for dealing with hindrances. Refer to MN 19 & MN 20. Nothing is not for samatha & jhana.
>
> **3) (For those of you acquainted with the works of Upasaka Culadasa) Is the guide offered in The Mind Illuminated**
... |
619,943 | Why we needed high performance graphic cards for playing high quality games?
And why we use extra graphic cards for high quality graphics like NVIDIA, ATI intead of using onboard graphics...
Please explain me in detail.... | 2013/07/15 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/619943",
"https://superuser.com",
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] | ATI and nVidia have been developing and producing GPUs for a lot longer than Intel, which is responsible for most of the integrated stuff on motherboards these days. They've had longer to develop better hardware (and patents).
The first PC, the IBM 5150, did not have any onboard video at all. You were supposed to pick... | I just want to add this from someone that has done bitcoin mining.
GPU have tons and tons of cheap labors.
CPU is effectively a smart CEO.
Now, tell the CEO to fold 1000 paper planes and you'll see that it doesn't work out. The CEO will complain but I have other skills. I can manage. I can summon managers. I can sum... |
619,943 | Why we needed high performance graphic cards for playing high quality games?
And why we use extra graphic cards for high quality graphics like NVIDIA, ATI intead of using onboard graphics...
Please explain me in detail.... | 2013/07/15 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/619943",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/221372/"
] | There are a couple of reasons:
1. To take the real-time graphics processing off the CPU. - The CPU is busy doing other things and its easier to off-load the intense processing necessary to run games in high-quality mode and let the CPU handle other tasks for the game besides graphics.
2. The GPU is optimized for real-... | I just want to add this from someone that has done bitcoin mining.
GPU have tons and tons of cheap labors.
CPU is effectively a smart CEO.
Now, tell the CEO to fold 1000 paper planes and you'll see that it doesn't work out. The CEO will complain but I have other skills. I can manage. I can summon managers. I can sum... |
72,675 | I’m aggressive, astute if you will,
My middle and end, will make you go still,
But my end alone, rituals fulfil,
My start is deep, but not used anymore,
Now find out what I am, that’s what I ask for.
Hint:
>
> The title isn’t a hint I’m just actually confused why I continue posting these
>
>
> | 2018/09/21 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/72675",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/51629/"
] | I think the answer is
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> Pitstop
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>
>
I’m aggressive, astute if you will
>
> During a motor race, pitstops are used strategically to try and increase a driver's chance of winning. The timing and number of pitstops taken in a race requires astute decision-making. Refuelling, changing of tyres and other actio... | I think you're
>
> A stop sign
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>
>
I’m aggressive, astute if you will,
>
> you tell drivers what to do
>
>
>
My middle and end, will make you go still,
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> The end is the sign itself, the middle is a pole which can also be used to
>
>
>
But my end alone, rituals fulfil,
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> stop, look and go
... |
72,675 | I’m aggressive, astute if you will,
My middle and end, will make you go still,
But my end alone, rituals fulfil,
My start is deep, but not used anymore,
Now find out what I am, that’s what I ask for.
Hint:
>
> The title isn’t a hint I’m just actually confused why I continue posting these
>
>
> | 2018/09/21 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/72675",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/51629/"
] | I think the answer is
>
> Pitstop
>
>
>
I’m aggressive, astute if you will
>
> During a motor race, pitstops are used strategically to try and increase a driver's chance of winning. The timing and number of pitstops taken in a race requires astute decision-making. Refuelling, changing of tyres and other actio... | How about
>
> well-bred?
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>
>
I’m aggressive, astute if you will,
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> Not sure, but astuteness *could* result from good pedigree.
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>
>
My middle and end, will make you go still,
>
> Coldness, denoted by **br**, has a chilling effect. And **red** is the traffic light color that tells you to stop.
>
>... |
72,675 | I’m aggressive, astute if you will,
My middle and end, will make you go still,
But my end alone, rituals fulfil,
My start is deep, but not used anymore,
Now find out what I am, that’s what I ask for.
Hint:
>
> The title isn’t a hint I’m just actually confused why I continue posting these
>
>
> | 2018/09/21 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/72675",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/51629/"
] | How about
>
> well-bred?
>
>
>
I’m aggressive, astute if you will,
>
> Not sure, but astuteness *could* result from good pedigree.
>
>
>
My middle and end, will make you go still,
>
> Coldness, denoted by **br**, has a chilling effect. And **red** is the traffic light color that tells you to stop.
>
>... | I think you're
>
> A stop sign
>
>
>
I’m aggressive, astute if you will,
>
> you tell drivers what to do
>
>
>
My middle and end, will make you go still,
>
> The end is the sign itself, the middle is a pole which can also be used to
>
>
>
But my end alone, rituals fulfil,
>
> stop, look and go
... |
2,210,835 | I'm looking for a strategy to allow automatic updates for a number of databases at customer sites through a publish-subscribe kind of mechanism. Right now there is a datacenter which has all the master data that get fed through extractions from hundreds of databases out there. The problem is that, whenever I need to do... | 2010/02/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2210835",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/86857/"
] | Not sure about existing solutions, but how about writing your own auto-update mechanism that would run on a timer on the client machines and pull the latest schemas and views from some service table in your master database? Your change wouldn't get propagated straight away to all sites and some sites would update befor... | Golden gate might fit your needs. |
681,551 | I've noticed something curious about my LCD screens (one of them is a [TUF VG32VQ1B](https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/34781f32) and the other an [AOC I2269VW](https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/7ddb169f), if it makes a difference):
If I look at them at a shallow angle, any bright line of pixe... | 2021/12/08 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/681551",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/62431/"
] | This is due to following two facts:
1. The LCD backlight is a positioned a small distance behind the LCD matrix.
2. The backlight in most of the monitors has about the same size as the LCD matrix.
The effect is that when you look at the screen from the front angle (your view vector is perpendicular to the screen) the... | As previously noted, consider the structure of an LCD. You have a backlight, a diffuser, RGB pixels, and a polarizer.
Since the backlight passes through a diffuser I would not consider it to be the principal cause, otherwise, it should happen for all the pixels regardless of being close to the edge (or at least you sh... |
90,264 | I have a 2000 [FIAT Siena](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Siena) 1.4el with the FIAT Lampredi Monoalbero engine, and the car is 22 years old now still with its original engine mounts.
The whole car, and also the steering wheel, both shake and vibrate a lot at idle, but then don’t shake anymore when I give the engi... | 2022/11/07 | [
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/90264",
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com",
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/users/62136/"
] | In some cases (not all), when the engine torques over it takes up the slack which is there when the engine is idling. Since the slack is taken up, the engine becomes smoother. If it truly is the motor mounts, you'd most likely feel a "thump" as the engine torques from idle into power where it's taking up that slack, an... | At idle, you will be hitting the resonant frequency of the engine and transmission that are supported by the mounts. As the engine revs increase, the frequency of the moving parts in the engine will move away from the resonant frequency and the vibration will stop. With the engine securely fastened to the body via the ... |
138,386 | I work at a small office of 6, including the owner.
We do not have a hierarchy outside of the owner, and I plan on asking for a promotion (and raise) to instigate some sort of chain of command because our workflow feels very disjointed most of the time and I'm the one who everyone comes to anyways.
However, there is ... | 2019/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/138386",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/105660/"
] | >
> Currently the owner does not make a fuss about this, should I assume
> that if I become project manager that I would be responsible for
> disciplinary action of this employee due to tardiness?
>
>
>
Project managers are traditionally not responsible for disciplinary actions. Since your company is so small- I... | In every job I've ever had, the PM was not responsible for employee tardiness or performance issues. The manager is, meaning the personnel manager. They are 2 different functions. In the absence of a personnel manager the owner would likely fill that role.
I'd suggest that the owner can define it anyway he wants. May... |
171,571 | If not, why? I think it sounds awkward but I cannot be sure it's incorrect. | 2014/05/19 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/171571",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/76654/"
] | It's wrong because *has happened*, as the perfect tense, indicates an action that is momentary, or at least completed; whereas *for a while now* indicates something continuing and requires the imperfect tense. So *It happened a while ago* or *It has been happening for a while now*, but not *?It has happened for a while... | >
> It has happened a while ago now.
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or
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> It has been happening for a while now.
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>
>
"Has happened" means it was a momentary event, which left consequences until now, but the event itself didn't last until now. Say, "Poland has joined European Union a good while ago now." Poland is still the member... |
507,660 | The overview of this interaction is that a positron and an electron annihilate with each other and create two gamma photons which contains too much energy and soon materialise into a quark-anti quark pair or a muon-anti muon pair.
But the total rest energy of the electron and positron(1.102 Mev) is less than the the to... | 2019/10/11 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/507660",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/244341/"
] | >
> How can the annihilation of an electron and a positron create a quark-antiquark pair or a muon-anti muon pair?
>
>
>
....
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> But the total rest energy of the electron and positron(1.102 Mev) is less than the the total energy required to produce either the quark-antiquark pair or the muon-anti muon pair(211.... | You are talking about electron positron annihilation and pair creation. Now I understand that you are confused because of this sentence on wiki:
>
>
> >
> > There are only a very limited set of possibilities for the final state. The most probable is the creation of two or more gamma ray photons. Conservation of ene... |
370,338 | I have just reinstalled Windows XP on my machine and something weird happened.
I have a DATA partition which used to be I:/ but now after reinstalling it's name is C:/ and the system partition's letter is I:/.
The PC is booting on I:/, I can reboot and the new system boots without any problems.
But it's impossible ... | 2011/12/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/370338",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/109522/"
] | By the looks of the screenshot you posted it would appear that you have accidentally created your first partition as an "extended" partition (with your boot "Demarrer"? as a logical partition within it) rather than as a "primary" partition. You can tell an extended partition from a primary partition as an extended part... | you can boot a linux liveCD and install grub as the boot manager only. it has options to mask partition order on the booted system. depends how much work is reinstalling for you. |
42,936 | What does the expression
>
> [x] for the money
>
>
>
mean?
I remember hearing the topic title in a rap song (can’t remember which, might be Eminem), and there seem to be movies named after this pattern: *[Two For the Money](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417217/)* with Al Pacino and *[One For the Money](http://www... | 2011/09/22 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42936",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/13274/"
] | I first heard it in [Blue Suede Shoes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Suede_Shoes) written by Carl Perkins in 1955 (decades before Eminem was even born), and popularised by Elvis Presley a year later. But all credit to @Peter Shor for pointing out that it was around a very long time before that. I found a different ... | In ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, Elvis Presley sang:
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> Well, it's one for the money, / Two for the show, / Three to get ready, /
> Now go, cat, go.
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>
>
I’m not sure it means very much at all. |
42,936 | What does the expression
>
> [x] for the money
>
>
>
mean?
I remember hearing the topic title in a rap song (can’t remember which, might be Eminem), and there seem to be movies named after this pattern: *[Two For the Money](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417217/)* with Al Pacino and *[One For the Money](http://www... | 2011/09/22 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42936",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/13274/"
] | The The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes and [The Phrase Finder](http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/58/messages/1811.html) cite a horse race poem that is likely the source of the phrase. In horse racing, the winners are termed:
1. Win
2. Place
3. Show
The omission of "place" is noted in The Phrase Finder. Th... | In ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, Elvis Presley sang:
>
> Well, it's one for the money, / Two for the show, / Three to get ready, /
> Now go, cat, go.
>
>
>
I’m not sure it means very much at all. |
42,936 | What does the expression
>
> [x] for the money
>
>
>
mean?
I remember hearing the topic title in a rap song (can’t remember which, might be Eminem), and there seem to be movies named after this pattern: *[Two For the Money](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417217/)* with Al Pacino and *[One For the Money](http://www... | 2011/09/22 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42936",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/13274/"
] | My impression is that
>
> One for the money. Two for the show. Three to make ready. And four to go.
>
>
>
(or "*three to get ready*" in contemporary English) is something that children say when they start a race (the running starting on "go"). Anyway, it's appears in [this 1872 book](http://books.google.com/book... | In ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, Elvis Presley sang:
>
> Well, it's one for the money, / Two for the show, / Three to get ready, /
> Now go, cat, go.
>
>
>
I’m not sure it means very much at all. |
42,936 | What does the expression
>
> [x] for the money
>
>
>
mean?
I remember hearing the topic title in a rap song (can’t remember which, might be Eminem), and there seem to be movies named after this pattern: *[Two For the Money](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417217/)* with Al Pacino and *[One For the Money](http://www... | 2011/09/22 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42936",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/13274/"
] | My impression is that
>
> One for the money. Two for the show. Three to make ready. And four to go.
>
>
>
(or "*three to get ready*" in contemporary English) is something that children say when they start a race (the running starting on "go"). Anyway, it's appears in [this 1872 book](http://books.google.com/book... | I first heard it in [Blue Suede Shoes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Suede_Shoes) written by Carl Perkins in 1955 (decades before Eminem was even born), and popularised by Elvis Presley a year later. But all credit to @Peter Shor for pointing out that it was around a very long time before that. I found a different ... |
42,936 | What does the expression
>
> [x] for the money
>
>
>
mean?
I remember hearing the topic title in a rap song (can’t remember which, might be Eminem), and there seem to be movies named after this pattern: *[Two For the Money](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417217/)* with Al Pacino and *[One For the Money](http://www... | 2011/09/22 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42936",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/13274/"
] | My impression is that
>
> One for the money. Two for the show. Three to make ready. And four to go.
>
>
>
(or "*three to get ready*" in contemporary English) is something that children say when they start a race (the running starting on "go"). Anyway, it's appears in [this 1872 book](http://books.google.com/book... | The The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes and [The Phrase Finder](http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/58/messages/1811.html) cite a horse race poem that is likely the source of the phrase. In horse racing, the winners are termed:
1. Win
2. Place
3. Show
The omission of "place" is noted in The Phrase Finder. Th... |
46,574,039 | How do I configure the IPython console in Spyder to auto-close brackets/braces/parens and quotes? | 2017/10/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/46574039",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6832556/"
] | (*Spyder developer here*) There's no option to do this, sorry. | Please select the check boxes at
Tools > Preferences > Editor > Advanced Settings |
46,574,039 | How do I configure the IPython console in Spyder to auto-close brackets/braces/parens and quotes? | 2017/10/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/46574039",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6832556/"
] | [Click to see what to do](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AyOmP.png)
Simply follow this:
Go to Tools > Preferences > Editor > Advanced settings and tick the "Automatic insertion of quotes" option and click apply.
It worked for me, hope it works for you too. | Please select the check boxes at
Tools > Preferences > Editor > Advanced Settings |
36,977 | I have a little problem, as you can see in this image:
Yes, yes, I play Battlefield 3 too much. I'm not referring to that problem. See the missing ribbons, above? *That's the problem!*
I understand why I don't have the melee ribbon yet, but as much as I'v... | 2011/11/18 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/36977",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/12/"
] | You are regarded as an 'M-COM Defender' if you kill someone *while* they are arming the M-COM station.
Note they have to be actively arming it, not just standing in it's vicinity or after they have finished arming it.
This is a somewhat difficult set of criteria to meet, and to kill 4 people while they are arming in ... | Target one of the M-coms as a squad leader, then kill an enemy near the m-com. This counts as defending an m-com too. |
36,977 | I have a little problem, as you can see in this image:
Yes, yes, I play Battlefield 3 too much. I'm not referring to that problem. See the missing ribbons, above? *That's the problem!*
I understand why I don't have the melee ribbon yet, but as much as I'v... | 2011/11/18 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/36977",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/12/"
] | You are regarded as an 'M-COM Defender' if you kill someone *while* they are arming the M-COM station.
Note they have to be actively arming it, not just standing in it's vicinity or after they have finished arming it.
This is a somewhat difficult set of criteria to meet, and to kill 4 people while they are arming in ... | All of the above are plain wrong or next to wrong.
All you need to do is kill any 4 enemies, who are really really close to any m-com (could still be 1 guy killed 4 times in the same m-com).
It does not matter if the m-com is armed or not. It does not matter if the guy you killed armed the m-com or not, all it matte... |
36,977 | I have a little problem, as you can see in this image:
Yes, yes, I play Battlefield 3 too much. I'm not referring to that problem. See the missing ribbons, above? *That's the problem!*
I understand why I don't have the melee ribbon yet, but as much as I'v... | 2011/11/18 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/36977",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/12/"
] | Apparently, the trick to this ribbon is:
>
> You can only get the M-COM defender badge by killing an enemy **as they are planting the bomb on the M-COM station**.
>
>
>
You'd think that killing an enemy *very near* the M-COM station would be enough, but noooo. The only thing that counts here is killing the enemy ... | Target one of the M-coms as a squad leader, then kill an enemy near the m-com. This counts as defending an m-com too. |
36,977 | I have a little problem, as you can see in this image:
Yes, yes, I play Battlefield 3 too much. I'm not referring to that problem. See the missing ribbons, above? *That's the problem!*
I understand why I don't have the melee ribbon yet, but as much as I'v... | 2011/11/18 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/36977",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/12/"
] | Apparently, the trick to this ribbon is:
>
> You can only get the M-COM defender badge by killing an enemy **as they are planting the bomb on the M-COM station**.
>
>
>
You'd think that killing an enemy *very near* the M-COM station would be enough, but noooo. The only thing that counts here is killing the enemy ... | All of the above are plain wrong or next to wrong.
All you need to do is kill any 4 enemies, who are really really close to any m-com (could still be 1 guy killed 4 times in the same m-com).
It does not matter if the m-com is armed or not. It does not matter if the guy you killed armed the m-com or not, all it matte... |
36,977 | I have a little problem, as you can see in this image:
Yes, yes, I play Battlefield 3 too much. I'm not referring to that problem. See the missing ribbons, above? *That's the problem!*
I understand why I don't have the melee ribbon yet, but as much as I'v... | 2011/11/18 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/36977",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/12/"
] | Target one of the M-coms as a squad leader, then kill an enemy near the m-com. This counts as defending an m-com too. | All of the above are plain wrong or next to wrong.
All you need to do is kill any 4 enemies, who are really really close to any m-com (could still be 1 guy killed 4 times in the same m-com).
It does not matter if the m-com is armed or not. It does not matter if the guy you killed armed the m-com or not, all it matte... |
90,455 | My Ceiling fan light in my bedroom keeps going out. I changed the bulb and it worked for a few days and went out again. I changed it again and days later it went out again. The ceiling fan itself runs fine so I am not sure if I need to call an electrician or go from a 40W to a 60W bulb. | 2016/05/12 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/90455",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/53849/"
] | There are [industrial duty lamps](http://www.bulbs.com/product/40A-220-220V?cm_mmc=GooglePLA-_-Nonbrand-_-%7Bcampaign%7D-_-shopping&affID=6&adpos=1o6&creative=83499210558&device=c&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=COvQtKSa1cwCFQJsfgod7W4Njg) they are built to take some vibration. We use these in areas that have vibration. The... | You're really better off going with an LED bulb for a couple of reasons. First, they last 20 years and are immune to vibration. Second, they make less heat, if you're running your fan to cool off.
They are now reasonably priced, and come in any color you want, so you don't need that "blue-ish" color if you don't want... |
5,789,868 | I want to fine tune the volume of the current media file playing.
So there are two applications here, the mediaplayer application, that could be the default Music application, and my application, where I want to tune the volume.
What I do now is to use setStreamVolume, but the index only goes from the max volume to 0... | 2011/04/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5789868",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/245638/"
] | I just searched around for a bit and it seems like this isn't possible using the android API. | I think Fine Volume Control is what you want. It provides 100 levels of adjustment. You can get it in market |
81,529 | I currently have Windows 7 RC, I have had it for months and I am wanting to save up and purchase a new SSD harddrive before I get the newest windows release. SO I am wanting to know how much longer windows RC will work and once the expiration comes, what will happen if I have not upgraded yet? | 2009/12/10 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/81529",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3700/"
] | The explanation is actually stated in that dialog box. Windows Live Photo Gallery, for whatever reason, is needing to switch the color scheme to Basic. Programs sometimes require this because of memory or window management. In the case of Windows Live Photos, it might be due to some kind of media or thumbnail caching. | If an application can't deal with Aero, you get flipped back to Windows Basic.
Some (many?) Java applications are like that (in my case, NetBackup Java Console Thing). I'm surprised that the Windows Live thing causes this problem. |
81,529 | I currently have Windows 7 RC, I have had it for months and I am wanting to save up and purchase a new SSD harddrive before I get the newest windows release. SO I am wanting to know how much longer windows RC will work and once the expiration comes, what will happen if I have not upgraded yet? | 2009/12/10 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/81529",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3700/"
] | The explanation is actually stated in that dialog box. Windows Live Photo Gallery, for whatever reason, is needing to switch the color scheme to Basic. Programs sometimes require this because of memory or window management. In the case of Windows Live Photos, it might be due to some kind of media or thumbnail caching. | It’s most likely due to a buggy video codec for `.mp4` files which is loaded by Windows Explorer when it needs to display the thumbnails. |
81,529 | I currently have Windows 7 RC, I have had it for months and I am wanting to save up and purchase a new SSD harddrive before I get the newest windows release. SO I am wanting to know how much longer windows RC will work and once the expiration comes, what will happen if I have not upgraded yet? | 2009/12/10 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/81529",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3700/"
] | Same switching happened to me too, when I touched a mp4 (HD) movie file.
My solution: never show thumbnails.
on Vista:
Organize | Folder and Search Options | View-tab | check: Always show icons, never thumbnails.
I know... it hurts. | If an application can't deal with Aero, you get flipped back to Windows Basic.
Some (many?) Java applications are like that (in my case, NetBackup Java Console Thing). I'm surprised that the Windows Live thing causes this problem. |
81,529 | I currently have Windows 7 RC, I have had it for months and I am wanting to save up and purchase a new SSD harddrive before I get the newest windows release. SO I am wanting to know how much longer windows RC will work and once the expiration comes, what will happen if I have not upgraded yet? | 2009/12/10 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/81529",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3700/"
] | Same switching happened to me too, when I touched a mp4 (HD) movie file.
My solution: never show thumbnails.
on Vista:
Organize | Folder and Search Options | View-tab | check: Always show icons, never thumbnails.
I know... it hurts. | It’s most likely due to a buggy video codec for `.mp4` files which is loaded by Windows Explorer when it needs to display the thumbnails. |
27,428 | I'm trying to create a finish variance field on assignments in the Resource Usage view, but I keep getting "#ERROR". Both the Finish and Baseline Finish fields are available on Resources and Assignments, but not Finish Variance. If I try to define the field Finish1 in the Resource Custom Fields with "=[Finish]-[Baselin... | 2019/10/23 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/27428",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/37543/"
] | Velocity is not a valid measure of team or process improvement.
Velocity, especially when it is based on Story Points, is extremely unstable. By itself, Velocity doesn't reflect the capacity of the team, but capacity will limit Velocity. It's also easily disrupted by changes to the team's way of working (which include... | Your concern is absolutely correct. Velocity as a team improvement metric is problematic because an improving team will often see their velocity increase but just because the velocity increases doesn't mean the team is improving.
What you really want to look at is value delivered. There are a number of ways to assign... |
27,428 | I'm trying to create a finish variance field on assignments in the Resource Usage view, but I keep getting "#ERROR". Both the Finish and Baseline Finish fields are available on Resources and Assignments, but not Finish Variance. If I try to define the field Finish1 in the Resource Custom Fields with "=[Finish]-[Baselin... | 2019/10/23 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/27428",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/37543/"
] | Velocity is not a valid measure of team or process improvement.
Velocity, especially when it is based on Story Points, is extremely unstable. By itself, Velocity doesn't reflect the capacity of the team, but capacity will limit Velocity. It's also easily disrupted by changes to the team's way of working (which include... | Hitting the nail on the head
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>
> One thing I'm worried about is that team can easily game this by simply estimating higher. So instead of task taking 2, they would give it 3. Creating an illusion of improving velocity.
>
>
>
This is a spot on recognition of the flaws of using velocity... |
27,428 | I'm trying to create a finish variance field on assignments in the Resource Usage view, but I keep getting "#ERROR". Both the Finish and Baseline Finish fields are available on Resources and Assignments, but not Finish Variance. If I try to define the field Finish1 in the Resource Custom Fields with "=[Finish]-[Baselin... | 2019/10/23 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/27428",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/37543/"
] | Your concern is absolutely correct. Velocity as a team improvement metric is problematic because an improving team will often see their velocity increase but just because the velocity increases doesn't mean the team is improving.
What you really want to look at is value delivered. There are a number of ways to assign... | Hitting the nail on the head
----------------------------
>
> One thing I'm worried about is that team can easily game this by simply estimating higher. So instead of task taking 2, they would give it 3. Creating an illusion of improving velocity.
>
>
>
This is a spot on recognition of the flaws of using velocity... |
18,257,312 | I do want to get a basic understanding of the Harris Laplacian Detector. I do know the Harris detector but cannot figure out the idea behind the Harris Laplacian Detector.
Let's assume we have two images showing pretty much the same thing but one image is scaled.
We want to find all interest points so we can check the... | 2013/08/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/18257312",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/940300/"
] | I think it would be best if you read Mikolajczyk et al paper about Harris-Laplace and maybe the parts of his thesis; but I will try to answer as much as your questions..
First, why are you asking about points that maximize Laplacian ? 3rd derivative and 4th derivative of the Laplacian will give you information about e... | You have a lot of questions, but I'm not going to answer directly to them because there a lot of them. Instead I would like to said what is "Harris-Laplacian" detector:
**"Harris-Laplacian"** method was mentioned in K.Mikolajczyk, C.Shmitd "Indexing Based on Scale invariant Interest Points", ICCV 2001.
**"Harris corn... |
18,424 | The [determinism dilemma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stage_model_of_free_will#The_standard_argument_against_free_will) is that if our actions are predetermined they are not free, and if they are random they are not willed, either way there is no free will. Even if will causation is a mixture of chance and necessi... | 2014/12/06 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/18424",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/9148/"
] | The failure of the dilemma comes in denying that free will is a primary causal factor in the physical realm. To answer the dilemma, we must posit three possible primary causal factors which can drive physical causal chains:
1. Deterministic inputs
2. Random inputs
3. Free Will inputs
However, there is no direct empir... | Upon analyzing the *determinism dilemma,* I find that one part is false (or incomplete). I agree that **all** actions are either determined, or undetermined. For the determined actions, "free will" is not present. However, for the undetermined actions, there are **at least two types**, random and selected. Also, for th... |
18,424 | The [determinism dilemma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stage_model_of_free_will#The_standard_argument_against_free_will) is that if our actions are predetermined they are not free, and if they are random they are not willed, either way there is no free will. Even if will causation is a mixture of chance and necessi... | 2014/12/06 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/18424",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/9148/"
] | It is not a viable option. Only chance or necessity are implied by the fundamental fact that all thoughts arise impersonally. As William James, among others, noted: "If we could say 'it thinks' the way we say 'it rains' we would be speaking with a minimum of assumption." When added to the other fundamental fact that al... | Upon analyzing the *determinism dilemma,* I find that one part is false (or incomplete). I agree that **all** actions are either determined, or undetermined. For the determined actions, "free will" is not present. However, for the undetermined actions, there are **at least two types**, random and selected. Also, for th... |
18,424 | The [determinism dilemma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stage_model_of_free_will#The_standard_argument_against_free_will) is that if our actions are predetermined they are not free, and if they are random they are not willed, either way there is no free will. Even if will causation is a mixture of chance and necessi... | 2014/12/06 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/18424",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/9148/"
] | Yes. But free will is a sub-option of a wider class of options that are neither random (bayesian), nor deterministic.
Basically, it is possible that the most complete physical theory is neither deterministic, nor based on (fixed) bayesian probability.
There are several mathematical theories (such as the [Possibility ... | Upon analyzing the *determinism dilemma,* I find that one part is false (or incomplete). I agree that **all** actions are either determined, or undetermined. For the determined actions, "free will" is not present. However, for the undetermined actions, there are **at least two types**, random and selected. Also, for th... |
18,424 | The [determinism dilemma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stage_model_of_free_will#The_standard_argument_against_free_will) is that if our actions are predetermined they are not free, and if they are random they are not willed, either way there is no free will. Even if will causation is a mixture of chance and necessi... | 2014/12/06 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/18424",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/9148/"
] | It is not a viable option. Only chance or necessity are implied by the fundamental fact that all thoughts arise impersonally. As William James, among others, noted: "If we could say 'it thinks' the way we say 'it rains' we would be speaking with a minimum of assumption." When added to the other fundamental fact that al... | The failure of the dilemma comes in denying that free will is a primary causal factor in the physical realm. To answer the dilemma, we must posit three possible primary causal factors which can drive physical causal chains:
1. Deterministic inputs
2. Random inputs
3. Free Will inputs
However, there is no direct empir... |
18,424 | The [determinism dilemma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stage_model_of_free_will#The_standard_argument_against_free_will) is that if our actions are predetermined they are not free, and if they are random they are not willed, either way there is no free will. Even if will causation is a mixture of chance and necessi... | 2014/12/06 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/18424",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/9148/"
] | It is not a viable option. Only chance or necessity are implied by the fundamental fact that all thoughts arise impersonally. As William James, among others, noted: "If we could say 'it thinks' the way we say 'it rains' we would be speaking with a minimum of assumption." When added to the other fundamental fact that al... | Yes. But free will is a sub-option of a wider class of options that are neither random (bayesian), nor deterministic.
Basically, it is possible that the most complete physical theory is neither deterministic, nor based on (fixed) bayesian probability.
There are several mathematical theories (such as the [Possibility ... |
412,911 | >
> This little guy is perfect for anyone **working on the go**; it's comfortable, lightweight, and fits perfectly in a purse or bag.
>
>
>
I can't understand the main meaning of the sentence using 'working on the go'.
Is it about working at the time of traveling or moving or anything else?
Are there any way to r... | 2017/10/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/412911",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/260350/"
] | "working on the go" means working while traveling.
The sentence you quote is part of an ad for a computer mouse, which is what "this little guy" is.
So the sentence could be rephrased: This small computer mouse is perfect for anyone working on a computer while traveling.
You can look up "on the go" in dictionaries. | "working on the go" is similar to "on the fly". The person uses this phrase to express the easiness of the tool(probably) which requires no extra care to handle it. |
68,088 | Can a future UK government decide to rejoin the EU without a referendum or do they have to hold one? | 2021/08/11 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/68088",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/25018/"
] | At the risk of stating the obvious, I imagine any PM who won a general election based on a campaign pledge to rejoin would have a sufficient *mandate* to do so from the voters. Remember that the Brexit referendum wasn't binding to start with, though it would have been politically risky to ignore it. | The UK does not have a documentary constitution. This means that there is no single piece of paper that I can refer to which sets out the details of when referendums are necessary.
Instead the UK constitution is based on statute, tradition and convention. In the case of referendums, there are two traditions, which are... |
68,088 | Can a future UK government decide to rejoin the EU without a referendum or do they have to hold one? | 2021/08/11 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/68088",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/25018/"
] | At the risk of stating the obvious, I imagine any PM who won a general election based on a campaign pledge to rejoin would have a sufficient *mandate* to do so from the voters. Remember that the Brexit referendum wasn't binding to start with, though it would have been politically risky to ignore it. | When the UK joined the EC in 1973 there was no referendum. The government of Edward Heath (Conservative) signed the treaty, Parliament passed the European Communities Act 1972 (which gave EC law supremacy over UK law) and that was that.
There was a referendum in 1975 but that was after the event and called by the next... |
68,088 | Can a future UK government decide to rejoin the EU without a referendum or do they have to hold one? | 2021/08/11 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/68088",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/25018/"
] | The UK does not have a documentary constitution. This means that there is no single piece of paper that I can refer to which sets out the details of when referendums are necessary.
Instead the UK constitution is based on statute, tradition and convention. In the case of referendums, there are two traditions, which are... | When the UK joined the EC in 1973 there was no referendum. The government of Edward Heath (Conservative) signed the treaty, Parliament passed the European Communities Act 1972 (which gave EC law supremacy over UK law) and that was that.
There was a referendum in 1975 but that was after the event and called by the next... |
10,304 | There were a lot of family connections between everyone and everyone in HP... Harry and Ignotus, Voldemort and Slytherin, the Blacks and everyone else (Tonks, Weasleys, etc...)
Was there any info (canon or JKR) that Dumbledore was related to anyone? He lived in Godric's Hollow, but that is not necessarily a basis for ... | 2012/02/03 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10304",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/"
] | Dumbledore was related to his immediate family: His father, who was sentenced to life in Azkaban for killing the three Muggles who attacked Dumbledore's younger sister Ariana. Aberforth Dumbledore is Albus's brother, and he runs the Hog's Head inn in Hogsmeade. Dumbledore's mother, Kendra, was accidentally killed by Ar... | Might Dumbledore be related to Harry, as in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Dumbledore says that a phoenix will go to any Dumbledore in need, and Fawkes went to Harry's side in the Chamber of Secrets. |
135,635 | So I had an idea for an emergency electricity generator that works like this: you fill a bucket up with snow, you pour it down a hatch and the snow spins some turbines which spin some generators to make electricity. Could this work in the polar regions of the world? | 2019/01/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/135635",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/38174/"
] | it'd work about as well as using a funnel (or bucket) to catch rain to run a mini hydroelectric plant. in other words, not very well at all.
wind is probably a much better source, during antarctic emergencies it's usually very windy. if there's no wind then a conventiopnal generator is the easiest to fuel and run.
p... | No, the weight of the snow falling at the speed of gravity (optimistically) would produce less energy then what is used to lift the snow into the hatch. Your better off using electricity generating bikes. |
135,635 | So I had an idea for an emergency electricity generator that works like this: you fill a bucket up with snow, you pour it down a hatch and the snow spins some turbines which spin some generators to make electricity. Could this work in the polar regions of the world? | 2019/01/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/135635",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/38174/"
] | You are using muscular work of people to trigger extraction of potential energy from snow.
This is a poor working idea for several reasons:
1. snow is low density, so you harvest few potential energy per unit volume (1 liter of liquid water weights 10 N, 1 liter of snow weights about 2 N)
2. you are using more proces... | No, the weight of the snow falling at the speed of gravity (optimistically) would produce less energy then what is used to lift the snow into the hatch. Your better off using electricity generating bikes. |
135,635 | So I had an idea for an emergency electricity generator that works like this: you fill a bucket up with snow, you pour it down a hatch and the snow spins some turbines which spin some generators to make electricity. Could this work in the polar regions of the world? | 2019/01/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/135635",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/38174/"
] | it'd work about as well as using a funnel (or bucket) to catch rain to run a mini hydroelectric plant. in other words, not very well at all.
wind is probably a much better source, during antarctic emergencies it's usually very windy. if there's no wind then a conventiopnal generator is the easiest to fuel and run.
p... | You are using muscular work of people to trigger extraction of potential energy from snow.
This is a poor working idea for several reasons:
1. snow is low density, so you harvest few potential energy per unit volume (1 liter of liquid water weights 10 N, 1 liter of snow weights about 2 N)
2. you are using more proces... |
16,791 | Here's my first riddle on Puzzling SE.
>
> They say I'm a ship
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> But I see no water for days
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> You may think you know me
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> From my cousin of holy ways
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> Look for me in abandoned places
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> And you might find an obstacle or two
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> Its what keeps me going long
>
> When the move... | 2015/06/22 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/16791",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/12700/"
] | I think you are talking about
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> A camel
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*They say I'm a ship*
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> A camel is also called as the "ship of the desert"
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*But I see no water for days*
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> There is no water in their habitat, the desert
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*You may think you know me From my cousin of holy ways*
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> The cousin of the ... | Could it possibly be:
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> A space ship or satellite?
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They say I'm a ship
But I see no water for days
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> Space ships are not used on water, but rather in space. (Where there isn't liquid water)
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You may think you know me
From my cousin of holy ways
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> I'm pretty sure everyone knows about nor... |
16,791 | Here's my first riddle on Puzzling SE.
>
> They say I'm a ship
>
> But I see no water for days
>
> You may think you know me
>
> From my cousin of holy ways
>
>
>
> Look for me in abandoned places
>
> And you might find an obstacle or two
>
> Its what keeps me going long
>
> When the move... | 2015/06/22 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/16791",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/12700/"
] | I think you are talking about
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> A camel
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>
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*They say I'm a ship*
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> A camel is also called as the "ship of the desert"
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>
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*But I see no water for days*
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> There is no water in their habitat, the desert
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>
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*You may think you know me From my cousin of holy ways*
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> The cousin of the ... | this is my first answer too (no questions yet)
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> Relationship
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They say I'm a ship
But I see no water for days
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> the word ends in ship, but its not actually a ship
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You may think you know me
From my cousin of holy ways
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> Your cousins are you relations
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Look for me in abandoned ... |
402,987 | Related to [Is asking for solutions to a problem that has more than one possible solution too broad for SO?](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/402142/is-asking-for-solutions-to-a-problem-that-has-more-than-one-possible-solution-to) and [Please stop having opinions about things](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/que... | 2020/11/19 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/402987",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/266143/"
] | Disclaimer: I mostly frequent the [python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python "show questions tagged 'python'") tag. This answer might be biased for ["a madhouse"](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/402991/5349916).
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> If you answer a question and no one reads it, did you answer the question?
>
> ... | Note: I mostly follow [numpy](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/numpy "show questions tagged 'numpy'"), so my answer might reflect more the [culture of that tag](https://stackoverflow.com/a/52605202/4427777) than others. I have been known to [dive on the grenade](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64908629/wh... |
402,987 | Related to [Is asking for solutions to a problem that has more than one possible solution too broad for SO?](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/402142/is-asking-for-solutions-to-a-problem-that-has-more-than-one-possible-solution-to) and [Please stop having opinions about things](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/que... | 2020/11/19 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/402987",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/266143/"
] | Disclaimer: I mostly frequent the [python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python "show questions tagged 'python'") tag. This answer might be biased for ["a madhouse"](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/402991/5349916).
---
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> If you answer a question and no one reads it, did you answer the question?
>
> ... | >
> So can we please take a step back, and not jump straight to the close button when we read the words "any way", "opinion", "best practice", and so on, but perhaps help the (usually not natively English speaking) OP by merely editing out such terms that may make a question seem to have not enough focus?
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15,218 | In India we consider rivers to be holy and respect them. Sometimes swearing by them to prove a point. But in [Namastey London](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namastey_London), Bebo Malhotra (*an UK based NRI*) swears by river Thames to vouch for her daughter's virginity and even compares Thames to [Ganga](http://en.wikip... | 2013/11/18 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/15218",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/1190/"
] | I have lived in the UK for over 35 years and I have never heard this expression once. To the best of my knowledge there is no sentiment, emotional or spiritual attached to that (or any other) river.
It is probably a quirk of the speaker. He considers rivers holy but has relocated to the UK so it the famous UK rivers t... | I grew up in the London area and never ever heard anyone swearing by the Thames in the manner you describe. It is entirely possible that people of Indian origin have transplanted this behaviour but no local would do so.
Swearing by the Thames, in the sense of cursing while in the vicinity of the river, is rather more ... |
253,340 | I've been following ["Why is SO so negative of late?"](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/251758/2940429) and ["Question quality is dropping on SO"](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/252506/2940429) a lot in the past few days and it made me curious for ways to improve the situation. Although I'm pretty new to SO I feel at... | 2014/05/02 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/253340",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2940429/"
] | I'm *certain* that this has been proposed before, but...ultimately, what this would do is create new problems.
* We would have another site that users would need to monitor in order to bring the questions desired into Stack Overflow.
* We would create a gulf between new users and more veteran users, giving Stack Overf... | I'm wondering if the creation of a "Homework" or "Learning" version of SO would be beneficial. Somewhere where the obvious homework questions could be set to (maybe a way to flag it so they get moved automatically). This would give a "safe" place to learn while maintaining the bourgeoisie of the main SO site. |
115,911 | I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios installation and wondered what was the best route to go. I've looked around a bit and have seen what's available, but ther... | 2010/02/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/115911",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24257/"
] | I highly recommend [Munin](http://munin.projects.linpro.no/) if you want a standalone tool that's easy to set up and extend; you get a good amount of trend graphs enabled out of the box and there are plugins for pretty much anything else you might need. Munin is RRD based but stands alone from Nagios; installation is p... | \*disclaimer, I'm the Zenoss Community Manager
Zenoss does exactly what you are looking for. It is an Open Source network monitoring platform that does availability monitoring (like Nagios) and performance monitoring (like Cacti). It's built to easily scale to thousands of devices and does Windows machines via WMI and... |
115,911 | I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios installation and wondered what was the best route to go. I've looked around a bit and have seen what's available, but ther... | 2010/02/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/115911",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24257/"
] | I ended up going with pnp4nagios. Installation was a breeze and there was no additional configuration needed to get it automatically graphing trends for every service (that produces graphable data) on every host. The entire process took maybe 30 minutes. | I highly recommend [Munin](http://munin.projects.linpro.no/) if you want a standalone tool that's easy to set up and extend; you get a good amount of trend graphs enabled out of the box and there are plugins for pretty much anything else you might need. Munin is RRD based but stands alone from Nagios; installation is p... |
115,911 | I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios installation and wondered what was the best route to go. I've looked around a bit and have seen what's available, but ther... | 2010/02/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/115911",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24257/"
] | did you try installing nagiosgraph? any feedback you have about the process would be appreciated.
nagiosgraph has seen a lot of updates in the past couple of months, but there are always ways to improve. some things added in nagiosgraph 1.4.x include:
* more ways to slice the data
+ all services per host
+ all hos... | I highly recommend [Munin](http://munin.projects.linpro.no/) if you want a standalone tool that's easy to set up and extend; you get a good amount of trend graphs enabled out of the box and there are plugins for pretty much anything else you might need. Munin is RRD based but stands alone from Nagios; installation is p... |
115,911 | I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios installation and wondered what was the best route to go. I've looked around a bit and have seen what's available, but ther... | 2010/02/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/115911",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24257/"
] | I ended up going with pnp4nagios. Installation was a breeze and there was no additional configuration needed to get it automatically graphing trends for every service (that produces graphable data) on every host. The entire process took maybe 30 minutes. | \*disclaimer, I'm the Zenoss Community Manager
Zenoss does exactly what you are looking for. It is an Open Source network monitoring platform that does availability monitoring (like Nagios) and performance monitoring (like Cacti). It's built to easily scale to thousands of devices and does Windows machines via WMI and... |
115,911 | I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios installation and wondered what was the best route to go. I've looked around a bit and have seen what's available, but ther... | 2010/02/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/115911",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24257/"
] | did you try installing nagiosgraph? any feedback you have about the process would be appreciated.
nagiosgraph has seen a lot of updates in the past couple of months, but there are always ways to improve. some things added in nagiosgraph 1.4.x include:
* more ways to slice the data
+ all services per host
+ all hos... | \*disclaimer, I'm the Zenoss Community Manager
Zenoss does exactly what you are looking for. It is an Open Source network monitoring platform that does availability monitoring (like Nagios) and performance monitoring (like Cacti). It's built to easily scale to thousands of devices and does Windows machines via WMI and... |
115,911 | I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios installation and wondered what was the best route to go. I've looked around a bit and have seen what's available, but ther... | 2010/02/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/115911",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24257/"
] | I tried Zenoss and to start with it looks quite impressive, but unfortunately that's where it ends. Underneath it all you're left with a system that isn't very useful, the reports aren't useful at all and when you start adding more than about 50 devices it starts slowing down to a point where it's almost un-usable. | \*disclaimer, I'm the Zenoss Community Manager
Zenoss does exactly what you are looking for. It is an Open Source network monitoring platform that does availability monitoring (like Nagios) and performance monitoring (like Cacti). It's built to easily scale to thousands of devices and does Windows machines via WMI and... |
115,911 | I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios installation and wondered what was the best route to go. I've looked around a bit and have seen what's available, but ther... | 2010/02/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/115911",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24257/"
] | I ended up going with pnp4nagios. Installation was a breeze and there was no additional configuration needed to get it automatically graphing trends for every service (that produces graphable data) on every host. The entire process took maybe 30 minutes. | did you try installing nagiosgraph? any feedback you have about the process would be appreciated.
nagiosgraph has seen a lot of updates in the past couple of months, but there are always ways to improve. some things added in nagiosgraph 1.4.x include:
* more ways to slice the data
+ all services per host
+ all hos... |
115,911 | I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios installation and wondered what was the best route to go. I've looked around a bit and have seen what's available, but ther... | 2010/02/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/115911",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24257/"
] | I ended up going with pnp4nagios. Installation was a breeze and there was no additional configuration needed to get it automatically graphing trends for every service (that produces graphable data) on every host. The entire process took maybe 30 minutes. | I tried Zenoss and to start with it looks quite impressive, but unfortunately that's where it ends. Underneath it all you're left with a system that isn't very useful, the reports aren't useful at all and when you start adding more than about 50 devices it starts slowing down to a point where it's almost un-usable. |
115,911 | I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios installation and wondered what was the best route to go. I've looked around a bit and have seen what's available, but ther... | 2010/02/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/115911",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/24257/"
] | did you try installing nagiosgraph? any feedback you have about the process would be appreciated.
nagiosgraph has seen a lot of updates in the past couple of months, but there are always ways to improve. some things added in nagiosgraph 1.4.x include:
* more ways to slice the data
+ all services per host
+ all hos... | I tried Zenoss and to start with it looks quite impressive, but unfortunately that's where it ends. Underneath it all you're left with a system that isn't very useful, the reports aren't useful at all and when you start adding more than about 50 devices it starts slowing down to a point where it's almost un-usable. |
160,082 | *(I've read a lot about 64-bit versus 32-bit OS/Apps, but this question is specifically in regards to databases.)*
I'm trying to understand the pros and cons of 32-bit versus 64-bit databases, and namely, under what conditions that it starts to make sense to use 64-bit installations.
The database systems that I am in... | 2010/07/13 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/160082",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/47302/"
] | >
> under what conditions that it starts
> to make sense to use 64-bit
> installations.
> Sorry - what good would be installing a 32 bit database on a 64 bit server? And - imagine - SERVER 2008R2 is ONLY available in 64 bit.
>
>
>
There is - today - no scenario where it makes sense to install a 32 bit SQL Server v... | I run MySQL on 64-bit architecture because I want them to most efficiently utilize more than 4GB of memory per thread. Generally speaking, this should apply to all databases.
One of the primary differences between the architectures is increased addressing allows greater memory handling. While Intel's [Physical Address... |
160,082 | *(I've read a lot about 64-bit versus 32-bit OS/Apps, but this question is specifically in regards to databases.)*
I'm trying to understand the pros and cons of 32-bit versus 64-bit databases, and namely, under what conditions that it starts to make sense to use 64-bit installations.
The database systems that I am in... | 2010/07/13 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/160082",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/47302/"
] | PostgreSQL benefits from having a 64-bit build in two main ways. First, data types that can fit into 64-bits (larger integers and timestamp types mainly) can be more efficiently passed around directly in registers rather than using pointers. Second, it's possible to allocate more memory for the database's dedicated buf... | I run MySQL on 64-bit architecture because I want them to most efficiently utilize more than 4GB of memory per thread. Generally speaking, this should apply to all databases.
One of the primary differences between the architectures is increased addressing allows greater memory handling. While Intel's [Physical Address... |
160,082 | *(I've read a lot about 64-bit versus 32-bit OS/Apps, but this question is specifically in regards to databases.)*
I'm trying to understand the pros and cons of 32-bit versus 64-bit databases, and namely, under what conditions that it starts to make sense to use 64-bit installations.
The database systems that I am in... | 2010/07/13 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/160082",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/47302/"
] | >
> under what conditions that it starts
> to make sense to use 64-bit
> installations.
> Sorry - what good would be installing a 32 bit database on a 64 bit server? And - imagine - SERVER 2008R2 is ONLY available in 64 bit.
>
>
>
There is - today - no scenario where it makes sense to install a 32 bit SQL Server v... | For so many things, 32 bit is a win (as long as you can live with the address space), but DB are one thing where even small databases can get a real boost running in 64 bit. Granted, I don't know a thing about MS SQL server, but I have seen benchmarks (for example, on a Sun 5 (older 64 bit Sun desktop), 32 bit was gene... |
160,082 | *(I've read a lot about 64-bit versus 32-bit OS/Apps, but this question is specifically in regards to databases.)*
I'm trying to understand the pros and cons of 32-bit versus 64-bit databases, and namely, under what conditions that it starts to make sense to use 64-bit installations.
The database systems that I am in... | 2010/07/13 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/160082",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/47302/"
] | >
> under what conditions that it starts
> to make sense to use 64-bit
> installations.
> Sorry - what good would be installing a 32 bit database on a 64 bit server? And - imagine - SERVER 2008R2 is ONLY available in 64 bit.
>
>
>
There is - today - no scenario where it makes sense to install a 32 bit SQL Server v... | PostgreSQL benefits from having a 64-bit build in two main ways. First, data types that can fit into 64-bits (larger integers and timestamp types mainly) can be more efficiently passed around directly in registers rather than using pointers. Second, it's possible to allocate more memory for the database's dedicated buf... |
160,082 | *(I've read a lot about 64-bit versus 32-bit OS/Apps, but this question is specifically in regards to databases.)*
I'm trying to understand the pros and cons of 32-bit versus 64-bit databases, and namely, under what conditions that it starts to make sense to use 64-bit installations.
The database systems that I am in... | 2010/07/13 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/160082",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/47302/"
] | >
> under what conditions that it starts
> to make sense to use 64-bit
> installations.
> Sorry - what good would be installing a 32 bit database on a 64 bit server? And - imagine - SERVER 2008R2 is ONLY available in 64 bit.
>
>
>
There is - today - no scenario where it makes sense to install a 32 bit SQL Server v... | Note that if you only have 64-bit MySQL client libraries, you will get "wrong architecture" errors when trying to link them together with 32-bit code. This happened to me when I tried to install python bindings ("pip install MySQL-python").
One can use 64-bit MySQL server with a 32-bit MySQL client and it's a shame th... |
160,082 | *(I've read a lot about 64-bit versus 32-bit OS/Apps, but this question is specifically in regards to databases.)*
I'm trying to understand the pros and cons of 32-bit versus 64-bit databases, and namely, under what conditions that it starts to make sense to use 64-bit installations.
The database systems that I am in... | 2010/07/13 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/160082",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/47302/"
] | PostgreSQL benefits from having a 64-bit build in two main ways. First, data types that can fit into 64-bits (larger integers and timestamp types mainly) can be more efficiently passed around directly in registers rather than using pointers. Second, it's possible to allocate more memory for the database's dedicated buf... | For so many things, 32 bit is a win (as long as you can live with the address space), but DB are one thing where even small databases can get a real boost running in 64 bit. Granted, I don't know a thing about MS SQL server, but I have seen benchmarks (for example, on a Sun 5 (older 64 bit Sun desktop), 32 bit was gene... |
160,082 | *(I've read a lot about 64-bit versus 32-bit OS/Apps, but this question is specifically in regards to databases.)*
I'm trying to understand the pros and cons of 32-bit versus 64-bit databases, and namely, under what conditions that it starts to make sense to use 64-bit installations.
The database systems that I am in... | 2010/07/13 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/160082",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/47302/"
] | PostgreSQL benefits from having a 64-bit build in two main ways. First, data types that can fit into 64-bits (larger integers and timestamp types mainly) can be more efficiently passed around directly in registers rather than using pointers. Second, it's possible to allocate more memory for the database's dedicated buf... | Note that if you only have 64-bit MySQL client libraries, you will get "wrong architecture" errors when trying to link them together with 32-bit code. This happened to me when I tried to install python bindings ("pip install MySQL-python").
One can use 64-bit MySQL server with a 32-bit MySQL client and it's a shame th... |
85,282 | I've heard about this issue from different people and written sources. When building prototypes one would like evaluation from users. One type of evaluation is, for each functionality, whether it is actually needed or appreciated and how it should be constructed.
What I hear is that if a complete, or rather complete,... | 2015/10/01 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/85282",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/68922/"
] | **User performance not user opinions**
The solution is to do a proper usability test. Don’t show users a prototype and ask them what they think of it. That’s asking them to *imagine what it would be like* to use the product, which yields unreliable data. Instead, have them use the prototype so they (and you by your me... | A/B testing. Create two prototypes one which has the features, you are looking to test, the other one does not. If the storyline is the same and the user is able to complete the tasks this product is designed to do then by default those features are useless. You can also create prototypes that only focus specifically o... |
1,863,231 | I have extensive experience working in ASP.NET and Sql Server but I am new to Linq. I have just inherited a project that was created using Linq.
Unfortunately the last developer knew nothing of efficiency and was storing images in the database in a truly terrible way. I have modified the code so that it no longer uses... | 2009/12/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1863231",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/220275/"
] | You need to be sure to remove the column from the DBML itself. Just view the DBML in the designer and delete the appropriate column. You would not get any error at compile time since it does not check to see if the DBML actually matches up with the database during compiliation. | Just delete the table from the Linq-Sql designer, then add it again. |
1,863,231 | I have extensive experience working in ASP.NET and Sql Server but I am new to Linq. I have just inherited a project that was created using Linq.
Unfortunately the last developer knew nothing of efficiency and was storing images in the database in a truly terrible way. I have modified the code so that it no longer uses... | 2009/12/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1863231",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/220275/"
] | You need to be sure to remove the column from the DBML itself. Just view the DBML in the designer and delete the appropriate column. You would not get any error at compile time since it does not check to see if the DBML actually matches up with the database during compiliation. | If you removed the file from the dbml file, and it didn't pick up on the change, go ahead and right-click the dbml file and choose "Run Custom Tool". Note that if you look at the file's properties (right-click on the entry in solution explorer) you should see the custom tool listed as "MSLinqToSQLGenerator".
Worst cas... |
1,863,231 | I have extensive experience working in ASP.NET and Sql Server but I am new to Linq. I have just inherited a project that was created using Linq.
Unfortunately the last developer knew nothing of efficiency and was storing images in the database in a truly terrible way. I have modified the code so that it no longer uses... | 2009/12/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1863231",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/220275/"
] | Just delete the table from the Linq-Sql designer, then add it again. | If you removed the file from the dbml file, and it didn't pick up on the change, go ahead and right-click the dbml file and choose "Run Custom Tool". Note that if you look at the file's properties (right-click on the entry in solution explorer) you should see the custom tool listed as "MSLinqToSQLGenerator".
Worst cas... |
140,697 | Consider the spell *[levitate](https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Levitate#content)* (2nd level), which allows the caster to lift a hostile creature off the ground and hold it in place. It is easy to make the comparison to spells like *[hold person](https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Hold%20Person#h-Hold%20Person)* (... | 2019/02/08 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/140697",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/49474/"
] | The *hold* spells paralyse, *levitate* does not
===============================================
The main difference I can see between *hold person/monster* and *levitate* is that the former paralyses the target, whereas the latter only lifts the target upwards.
From *hold person* (PHB, p.251):
>
> The target must m... | It will ruin the innate balance of spells
=========================================
Look at the two examples you've listed, hold person and levitate.
**Levitate:** When used as a hostile spell, if they fail their initial save, you're fairly capable of holding them there for ten minutes. They can still attack, they ca... |
55,412 | I am using an Arduino nano along with an ESP8266. The nano is connected to an OLED display and a keypad. The ESP8266 uploads the data entered from the keypad onto a server. I wish to make the device portable; i.e. add a battery to it so that it can last for at least 8 hours.
How can I calculate the rating for the LiP... | 2018/08/19 | [
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/55412",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/users/48896/"
] | Yes, you need to know the average current draw over the period of an hour (or over a period that you then extrapolate to an hour). That is the *mAh* (milliamps per hour) that your circuit draws.
It can be hard to calculate the actual current, though, since it is always changing depending on what is actually happening ... | Current consumption is measured in Amperes, battery capacity in specified in Amperes per hour. |
322,185 | This is the most problematic aspect of Stack Overflow at the moment for me:
>
> Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has... | 2016/05/02 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/322185",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/281920/"
] | >
> Its problematic for two reasons. The first reason is that yes, that general category of questions can often be very opinionated and have no best answers in some circumstances, such as when there are many libraries for a specific problem or when the problem simply isn't stated precisely.
>
>
>
How is that a rea... | That "mission and mindset" did not develop because of the state of technology. It developed because people post opinionated answers and spam to these questions.
And people haven't changed since the early days of SO. They've been that way for much longer, and will likely still be that way well into the future.
[Softwa... |
322,185 | This is the most problematic aspect of Stack Overflow at the moment for me:
>
> Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has... | 2016/05/02 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/322185",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/281920/"
] | Here's something that nags me a bit:
>
> ...[B]y eliminating all such questions, you encourage poor software engineering choices, such as code-reuse by pasting from Stack Overflow rather than using third party libraries or tools.
>
>
>
In all frankness, if your software engineer insists that the *only* way they c... | That "mission and mindset" did not develop because of the state of technology. It developed because people post opinionated answers and spam to these questions.
And people haven't changed since the early days of SO. They've been that way for much longer, and will likely still be that way well into the future.
[Softwa... |
1,564,730 | Note: I've seen a number of older, similar questions, with no applicable answer. I am a Mac owner, so my knowledge of PCs is very limited.
My sister in law has a PC currently running windows 7. Just finished her taxes for her, and the message at the end was "we are no longer supporting Windows 7, please update to do y... | 2020/06/29 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1564730",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/123013/"
] | >
> Is this possible?
>
>
>
Currently it is not possible. There is even a [thread](https://todo.uservoice.com/forums/597175-feature-suggestions/suggestions/37091575-open-email-with-outlook-desktop) at Uservoice requesting for the ability to open the emails via the Outlook on the desktop since March 2019. But Micro... | WORKAROUND\*\*\*\* You can drag the email to the task as an attachment. it will attach as .msg and when you select it, the original email will open using Outlook Desktop. Not ideal but an easy solution to get the desired outcome for now. |
70,801 | Right now, in the Donbas region of Ukraine, there are two quasi-states — the [Luhansk People's Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhansk_People%27s_Republic) (LPR) and the [Donetsk People's Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic) (DPR). They emerged due to the events of the War in Don... | 2022/02/16 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/70801",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/19306/"
] | The official reason is that this would violate the Minsk II agreement. Minsk II refers to two republics and if they unite into one republic, this republic isn't covered by Minsk II anymore, which makes the agreement void.
The unofficial reason is that there are some disagreements between the governments of the two rep... | “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) and “Luhansk People’s Republic” (LPR) are located in the easternmost provinces of Ukraine, bordering on Russia.
The LPR holds more territory than DPR, although its population is about half the size of DPR (2.2 million people in LPR versus 4.4 million in DPR). LPR is poorer, more rural,... |
70,801 | Right now, in the Donbas region of Ukraine, there are two quasi-states — the [Luhansk People's Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhansk_People%27s_Republic) (LPR) and the [Donetsk People's Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic) (DPR). They emerged due to the events of the War in Don... | 2022/02/16 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/70801",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/19306/"
] | The official reason is that this would violate the Minsk II agreement. Minsk II refers to two republics and if they unite into one republic, this republic isn't covered by Minsk II anymore, which makes the agreement void.
The unofficial reason is that there are some disagreements between the governments of the two rep... | It's hard to be certain, but one reason [appears](https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/eastern-europe/ukraine/254-rebels-without-cause-russias-proxies-eastern-ukraine) to be that in late 2014-2019 Russia apparently attempted a détente of sorts with the West (over Ukraine), by abandoning or at least reducing ... |
255,996 | I've heard all about if you ask poor questions, your account gets terminated. But with all the questions I've asked they gotten down-voted. Since I am beginner and all you guys are more advanced, how do I ask a question without being booted off this site? | 2014/05/23 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255996",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3670333/"
] | A few tips from what I would like someone that asks a question to consider:
* state the problem clear (Most important in my opinion)
* add a code example that is EXACTLY (or almost) what is needed to replicate the problem (not 124141 lines of code that has nothing to do with the problem).
* tell us what you tried
* if... | First and foremost, try to avoid asking a question altogether. In my opinion, most "bad" questions I see are questions that could've been avoided being asked if the asker put just slightly more effort into researching the problem.
There are over 7 million questions on StackOverflow. If you're a beginner and writing in... |
255,996 | I've heard all about if you ask poor questions, your account gets terminated. But with all the questions I've asked they gotten down-voted. Since I am beginner and all you guys are more advanced, how do I ask a question without being booted off this site? | 2014/05/23 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255996",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3670333/"
] | A few tips from what I would like someone that asks a question to consider:
* state the problem clear (Most important in my opinion)
* add a code example that is EXACTLY (or almost) what is needed to replicate the problem (not 124141 lines of code that has nothing to do with the problem).
* tell us what you tried
* if... | Pretend you've got your dream job and you're getting paid to solve whatever you're working on / whatever your question is and Stack Overflow is a community of your co-workers, including everyone up to the CEO of the company.
The rest of this post should follow fairly logically from just keeping the above in mind.
---... |
255,996 | I've heard all about if you ask poor questions, your account gets terminated. But with all the questions I've asked they gotten down-voted. Since I am beginner and all you guys are more advanced, how do I ask a question without being booted off this site? | 2014/05/23 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255996",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3670333/"
] | A few tips from what I would like someone that asks a question to consider:
* state the problem clear (Most important in my opinion)
* add a code example that is EXACTLY (or almost) what is needed to replicate the problem (not 124141 lines of code that has nothing to do with the problem).
* tell us what you tried
* if... | **Read these pages from [the Help Center](https://stackoverflow.com/help)**:
* [How do I ask a good question?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask).
* [What topics can I ask about here?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic).
* [What types of questions should I avoid asking?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/do... |
255,996 | I've heard all about if you ask poor questions, your account gets terminated. But with all the questions I've asked they gotten down-voted. Since I am beginner and all you guys are more advanced, how do I ask a question without being booted off this site? | 2014/05/23 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255996",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3670333/"
] | First and foremost, try to avoid asking a question altogether. In my opinion, most "bad" questions I see are questions that could've been avoided being asked if the asker put just slightly more effort into researching the problem.
There are over 7 million questions on StackOverflow. If you're a beginner and writing in... | Pretend you've got your dream job and you're getting paid to solve whatever you're working on / whatever your question is and Stack Overflow is a community of your co-workers, including everyone up to the CEO of the company.
The rest of this post should follow fairly logically from just keeping the above in mind.
---... |
255,996 | I've heard all about if you ask poor questions, your account gets terminated. But with all the questions I've asked they gotten down-voted. Since I am beginner and all you guys are more advanced, how do I ask a question without being booted off this site? | 2014/05/23 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255996",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3670333/"
] | First and foremost, try to avoid asking a question altogether. In my opinion, most "bad" questions I see are questions that could've been avoided being asked if the asker put just slightly more effort into researching the problem.
There are over 7 million questions on StackOverflow. If you're a beginner and writing in... | **Read these pages from [the Help Center](https://stackoverflow.com/help)**:
* [How do I ask a good question?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask).
* [What topics can I ask about here?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic).
* [What types of questions should I avoid asking?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/do... |
255,996 | I've heard all about if you ask poor questions, your account gets terminated. But with all the questions I've asked they gotten down-voted. Since I am beginner and all you guys are more advanced, how do I ask a question without being booted off this site? | 2014/05/23 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255996",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3670333/"
] | Pretend you've got your dream job and you're getting paid to solve whatever you're working on / whatever your question is and Stack Overflow is a community of your co-workers, including everyone up to the CEO of the company.
The rest of this post should follow fairly logically from just keeping the above in mind.
---... | **Read these pages from [the Help Center](https://stackoverflow.com/help)**:
* [How do I ask a good question?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask).
* [What topics can I ask about here?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic).
* [What types of questions should I avoid asking?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/do... |
21,685,344 | Is it possible for an iOS app to retrieve the cell number of an iPhone? It is possible on Android but I am not sure about iOS. Any help would be appreciated. | 2014/02/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/21685344",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2771924/"
] | It is not possible to get the phone number of the device. Apple doesn't allow this, and it would be bad for users if app developers were easily able to get this somehow, for privacy reasons. The best way to deal with this is ask the user for it if you really want it.
There used to be ways to get the device phone numbe... | Assuming you mean the cell phone number, see this question: [Can I get user's phone number by requesting for permission in ios 6?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18296057/can-i-get-users-phone-number-by-requesting-for-permission-in-ios-6)
In short, probably not. |
155,045 | An electron's "cloud" covers more volume than a proton does due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Δmv\*Δx > h
an electron has less mass than a proton, so its position is less determinate.
What if a particle, or string is much smaller? Could something like that have a propabilistic volume that permeates huge e... | 2014/12/26 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/155045",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/58337/"
] | >
> An electron's "cloud" covers more volume than a proton does due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
>
>
> Δmv\*Δx > h
>
>
>
The m in the expression is not a variable. It is a fixed number, so protons and electrons behave the same way at a given momentum. It is the solutions of the quantum mechanical equat... | According to quantum mechanics, every probability wave (including electron's) extends
throughout all of space, throughout the entire universe. But the probability of finding your electron at large distances will be very close to zero.
---
Reference: The Fabric of Cosmos-Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, by Br... |
76,532 | Given:
* The pulley is moving towards the right.
* All blocks have different masses. (The pulley and the strings are massless.)
What I don't understand:
* Is the tension the same for both A and B?
* If the tension is the same, then both blocks should have different acc... | 2013/09/07 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/76532",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/26130/"
] | >
> Is the tension the same for both A and B?
>
>
>
Yes. A massless string needs to have constant tension, otherwise it would feel a net force and have infinite acceleration.
>
> If the tension is the same, then both blocks should have different
> accelerations
>
>
>
Yes.
>
> but this is not true?
>
>
>... | The masses will have different accelerations because the pulley will rotate. |
255,597 | I know that the usual interpretation of the wavefunction in QM is that it´s associated with a probability distribution of measurable quantities. Not a deterministic probability (like the probabilities connected with the throwing of a dice), but an intrinsic one. What makes the probability intrinsic? | 2016/05/13 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/255597",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/98822/"
] | >
> I know that the usual interpretation of the wavefunction in QM is that it´s a probability distribution of measurable quantities.
>
>
>
It is a [postulate](http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/qm.html) that is necessary to choose the subset of mathematical sets that can be useful to modeling natu... | There are explanations for why the probability of a measurement of a particular observable is the square amplitude of the relevant eigenstates.
The square amplitude is the only quantity that fits the calculus or of probability, and the rules of decision theory, and quantum physics:
<http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906... |
5,848,618 | I am really puzzled here. I want to create an application that does different events upon different temperatures of my graphics card which is an AMD one.
The reason i want to make such an applications is because, for a GPU i haven't found one, and the second is to ensure i never fry my card by reaching enormous temps.... | 2011/05/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5848618",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/628445/"
] | After a little bit of googling, i found this:
>
> I think this is really vendor specific, it will probably involve interfacing directly with the motherboard or video driver and knowing which IOCTL represents the code for requesting the temperature. I reverse engineered a motherboard driver once for this purpose. It's... | You could use one of the existing GPU temperature monitoring programs, such as [GPU-Z](http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/), configure it for continuous monitoring, and read the log entries.
[RivaTuner](http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner) is another GPU monitoring program, which has a shared memory interface ... |
316,683 | I have Nginx listening to traffic on port 80 and proxying certain request to Apache over port 8080. I am going to set up Nginx to listen to port 443 for https traffic, but my question is how should the proxying be done now? Does the proxy to Apache need to be https or has Nginx already decoded it so I can keep sending ... | 2009/01/23 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/316683",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/10146/"
] | That doesn't sound like a programming question, really... but anyway: no, you do not need SSL enabled on Apache. Only the server listening for HTTPS requests (on port 443) needs SSL. | A old question, but for reference you could look at my blog post [Using Nginx as SSL Proxy for Name Based VirtualHosts in Apache](http://www.koen.pt/blog/2012/10/04/using-nginx-as-reverse-proxy-for-name-based-virtualhosts-over-ssl/)
It basically forwarding to apache on port 80, and using [mod\_rpaf](https://github.com... |
11,945 | I'm looking to install a x64 OS to take advantage of 6GB of RAM.
My options are Windows XP Pro and Windows Server 2008.
This box will not be used as a server, but I don't want to install the old OS either.
Any pro's / cons for either choice?
Any insights appreciated.
### p.s.:
went with Server 2008 ... <http://ww... | 2009/07/24 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/11945",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3197/"
] | Windows Server 2008 have same base as Vista.
But if you have only this options, I recommend Server 2008.
Because XP (x64) is very old and MS support has expired and haven't new updates.
UPDATE: You mentioned "web development" and for this is good Server, because have hyper-v for virtualization. | Windows XP x64 is built on top of an OS which is 8 years old; true that the x64 release was quite a way after.
Here are the system requirements for Windows XP x64 (via: <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457053.aspx>)
>
> Processor
>
> 733 MHz Intel Itanium
> 800 MHz Intel Itanium
>
>
> Memory
>
>... |
11,945 | I'm looking to install a x64 OS to take advantage of 6GB of RAM.
My options are Windows XP Pro and Windows Server 2008.
This box will not be used as a server, but I don't want to install the old OS either.
Any pro's / cons for either choice?
Any insights appreciated.
### p.s.:
went with Server 2008 ... <http://ww... | 2009/07/24 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/11945",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3197/"
] | Windows Server 2008 have same base as Vista.
But if you have only this options, I recommend Server 2008.
Because XP (x64) is very old and MS support has expired and haven't new updates.
UPDATE: You mentioned "web development" and for this is good Server, because have hyper-v for virtualization. | One of the biggest reasons to go with Windows 2008 Server is driver support. 3rd-party 64-bit drivers on XP are not very good and not getting better.
Another added benefit as a web developer, is the ability to use IIS7 as your development server. The web server in XP only supports one web root. This can be a pain when... |
11,945 | I'm looking to install a x64 OS to take advantage of 6GB of RAM.
My options are Windows XP Pro and Windows Server 2008.
This box will not be used as a server, but I don't want to install the old OS either.
Any pro's / cons for either choice?
Any insights appreciated.
### p.s.:
went with Server 2008 ... <http://ww... | 2009/07/24 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/11945",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3197/"
] | One of the biggest reasons to go with Windows 2008 Server is driver support. 3rd-party 64-bit drivers on XP are not very good and not getting better.
Another added benefit as a web developer, is the ability to use IIS7 as your development server. The web server in XP only supports one web root. This can be a pain when... | Windows XP x64 is built on top of an OS which is 8 years old; true that the x64 release was quite a way after.
Here are the system requirements for Windows XP x64 (via: <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457053.aspx>)
>
> Processor
>
> 733 MHz Intel Itanium
> 800 MHz Intel Itanium
>
>
> Memory
>
>... |
524,370 | I am not a physicist but still I love the subject very much. A thought recently popped up in my mind while studying and I'm still confused about it.
>
> "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight"
>
>
>
This is a remark made by the great physicist, Albert Einstein.
So the situation is like
>
> S... | 2020/01/11 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/524370",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/233551/"
] | Other then gravity being described by the mediation of a massless spin 2 particle (all other forces are mediated by spin 1), gravity is so special because it is the only force that is capable of curving spacetime itself.
>
> The short answer for why gravity is unique is that it is the theory of a massless, spin-2 fie... | Your last sentence is what's relevant here. In your electromagnetic free fall scenario, you would not feel a force as there is nothing pushing against you as the ground does when we stand on the surface of the earth. In gravitational free fall, if you release an object in your possession, it will just hang there alongs... |
702,713 | This evening, looking at the television in my apartment, I noticed that the light reflected on it manifested some kind of regular pattern. When the source of light is sufficiently far, this consists of **six straight rays** that appear to be symmetric under reflections about the vertical axis, as can be seen in the fol... | 2022/04/08 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/702713",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/303554/"
] | This happens because the screen acts like a diffraction grating, due to the periodic arrangement of pixels. You will likely see the same phenomenon if you look at the reflection of a distant point-like source of light on your smartphone. Note also the lines you see are "colored", because the diffraction maxima occur at... | This appears to be due to diffraction and in the middle of the screen the source is brightest there due to the first (zero order) maximum. Note that light of different colors further from the center image exist next to each other in bands (corresponding to the second, third, etc., maxima).
Such bands are characteristi... |
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