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2,626,885 | I think I know what a build is. But I am not sure. My definition of a build is another word for saying compiled application. Can someone please tell me what exactly a build is. And why do people ask for 3 types of builds. Such as Debug Build, Profile Build and a Release Build. What are the differences.
[edit]
the typ... | 2010/04/13 | [
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] | Have a look at [Visual Studio Debug and Release Modes](http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/DebugRelease.aspx)
**Release Mode**
When an assembly is built in release mode, the compiler performs all available optimisations to ensure that the outputted executables and libraries execute as efficiently as possible. This mode should... | A build means basically doing a set of tasks to make your program. The main components of a typical build is compiling and linking.
More specifically a build can contain compiling, linking, setting version numbers, copying outputs to some location, creating an installer and anything else.
When people say debug or rel... |
2,626,885 | I think I know what a build is. But I am not sure. My definition of a build is another word for saying compiled application. Can someone please tell me what exactly a build is. And why do people ask for 3 types of builds. Such as Debug Build, Profile Build and a Release Build. What are the differences.
[edit]
the typ... | 2010/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2626885",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/201934/"
] | A build means basically doing a set of tasks to make your program. The main components of a typical build is compiling and linking.
More specifically a build can contain compiling, linking, setting version numbers, copying outputs to some location, creating an installer and anything else.
When people say debug or rel... | A build does not have to include only compiled and linked targets. Usually there is at least one of those, but a "build" could also include creating plain-text or binary files, moving images, sounds, and other files into the correct places to be accessed by the file, or any other operation that needs to be performed fo... |
2,626,885 | I think I know what a build is. But I am not sure. My definition of a build is another word for saying compiled application. Can someone please tell me what exactly a build is. And why do people ask for 3 types of builds. Such as Debug Build, Profile Build and a Release Build. What are the differences.
[edit]
the typ... | 2010/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2626885",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/201934/"
] | Have a look at [Visual Studio Debug and Release Modes](http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/DebugRelease.aspx)
**Release Mode**
When an assembly is built in release mode, the compiler performs all available optimisations to ensure that the outputted executables and libraries execute as efficiently as possible. This mode should... | A build does not have to include only compiled and linked targets. Usually there is at least one of those, but a "build" could also include creating plain-text or binary files, moving images, sounds, and other files into the correct places to be accessed by the file, or any other operation that needs to be performed fo... |
4,420 | computational complexity involves large amounts of Combinatorics and number theory, some ingridiences from stochastics, and an emerging amount of algebra.
However, being a analysist, I wonder whether there are applications of analysis into this field, or maybe ideas inspired by analysis. All I know which slightly corr... | 2011/01/20 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/4420",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
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] | Flajolet and Sedgewick published the book "Analytic Combinatorics" <http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/AnaCombi/anacombi.html>. I don't know much about that topic, but people in the field use tools from complex analysis. So far, their applications seem more on analysis of algorithms, not on computational comple... | **Not about computational complexity, but interesting nonetheless**
Some approaches to the semantics of infinite computation are based on metric spaces. Googling "metric space semantics" turns up plenty. One (oldish) reference on the topic is [Control Flow Semantics](http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tt... |
4,420 | computational complexity involves large amounts of Combinatorics and number theory, some ingridiences from stochastics, and an emerging amount of algebra.
However, being a analysist, I wonder whether there are applications of analysis into this field, or maybe ideas inspired by analysis. All I know which slightly corr... | 2011/01/20 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/4420",
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] | Flajolet and Sedgewick published the book "Analytic Combinatorics" <http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/AnaCombi/anacombi.html>. I don't know much about that topic, but people in the field use tools from complex analysis. So far, their applications seem more on analysis of algorithms, not on computational comple... | Functional analysis is playing an increasingly important role in the theory of metric embeddings. While it's difficult to enumerate all aspects of the interaction, the major theme is the use of methods from functional analysis to understand how metrics embed into normed spaces. This latter problem comes up in the spars... |
4,420 | computational complexity involves large amounts of Combinatorics and number theory, some ingridiences from stochastics, and an emerging amount of algebra.
However, being a analysist, I wonder whether there are applications of analysis into this field, or maybe ideas inspired by analysis. All I know which slightly corr... | 2011/01/20 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/4420",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
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] | Flajolet and Sedgewick published the book "Analytic Combinatorics" <http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/AnaCombi/anacombi.html>. I don't know much about that topic, but people in the field use tools from complex analysis. So far, their applications seem more on analysis of algorithms, not on computational comple... | People who are working in different areas of computer science may benefit from various [subfields](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_analysis#Subdivisions) of analysis.
To give you a concrete example, I'll describe my own case. I'm conducting research in foundations of cryptography. In this field (as well as ... |
4,420 | computational complexity involves large amounts of Combinatorics and number theory, some ingridiences from stochastics, and an emerging amount of algebra.
However, being a analysist, I wonder whether there are applications of analysis into this field, or maybe ideas inspired by analysis. All I know which slightly corr... | 2011/01/20 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/4420",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
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] | Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms are a useful tool for finding approximation algorithms. Some techniques for showing that these Markov chains mix are inspired by or come directly from analysis - for example see the chapter on estimating the volume of a convex body in [Mark Jerrum's book on counting](http://www.dcs.e... | I believe the best connection between mathematical analysis and complexity theory
is in the Blum et al's real computation model.
It is still an open problem to separate NP\_R from P\_R,
where the two classes are defined in the real computation model, in which every
real number is an entity, and one regular operation ... |
4,420 | computational complexity involves large amounts of Combinatorics and number theory, some ingridiences from stochastics, and an emerging amount of algebra.
However, being a analysist, I wonder whether there are applications of analysis into this field, or maybe ideas inspired by analysis. All I know which slightly corr... | 2011/01/20 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/4420",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | **Not about computational complexity, but interesting nonetheless**
Some approaches to the semantics of infinite computation are based on metric spaces. Googling "metric space semantics" turns up plenty. One (oldish) reference on the topic is [Control Flow Semantics](http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tt... | I believe the best connection between mathematical analysis and complexity theory
is in the Blum et al's real computation model.
It is still an open problem to separate NP\_R from P\_R,
where the two classes are defined in the real computation model, in which every
real number is an entity, and one regular operation ... |
4,420 | computational complexity involves large amounts of Combinatorics and number theory, some ingridiences from stochastics, and an emerging amount of algebra.
However, being a analysist, I wonder whether there are applications of analysis into this field, or maybe ideas inspired by analysis. All I know which slightly corr... | 2011/01/20 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/4420",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Functional analysis is playing an increasingly important role in the theory of metric embeddings. While it's difficult to enumerate all aspects of the interaction, the major theme is the use of methods from functional analysis to understand how metrics embed into normed spaces. This latter problem comes up in the spars... | I believe the best connection between mathematical analysis and complexity theory
is in the Blum et al's real computation model.
It is still an open problem to separate NP\_R from P\_R,
where the two classes are defined in the real computation model, in which every
real number is an entity, and one regular operation ... |
4,420 | computational complexity involves large amounts of Combinatorics and number theory, some ingridiences from stochastics, and an emerging amount of algebra.
However, being a analysist, I wonder whether there are applications of analysis into this field, or maybe ideas inspired by analysis. All I know which slightly corr... | 2011/01/20 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/4420",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
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] | People who are working in different areas of computer science may benefit from various [subfields](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_analysis#Subdivisions) of analysis.
To give you a concrete example, I'll describe my own case. I'm conducting research in foundations of cryptography. In this field (as well as ... | I believe the best connection between mathematical analysis and complexity theory
is in the Blum et al's real computation model.
It is still an open problem to separate NP\_R from P\_R,
where the two classes are defined in the real computation model, in which every
real number is an entity, and one regular operation ... |
4,420 | computational complexity involves large amounts of Combinatorics and number theory, some ingridiences from stochastics, and an emerging amount of algebra.
However, being a analysist, I wonder whether there are applications of analysis into this field, or maybe ideas inspired by analysis. All I know which slightly corr... | 2011/01/20 | [
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/4420",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com",
"https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Flajolet and Sedgewick published the book "Analytic Combinatorics" <http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/AnaCombi/anacombi.html>. I don't know much about that topic, but people in the field use tools from complex analysis. So far, their applications seem more on analysis of algorithms, not on computational comple... | Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms are a useful tool for finding approximation algorithms. Some techniques for showing that these Markov chains mix are inspired by or come directly from analysis - for example see the chapter on estimating the volume of a convex body in [Mark Jerrum's book on counting](http://www.dcs.e... |
202,388 | I am about to buy a house in Santa Clara, CA county that has an ADU. As of today ADU has guest house and an operational garage.
Seller is convinced that 990 sqft guest house in the ADU was built legally together with the main house under the same permit. Hence seller is counting guest house square footage in legal liv... | 2020/09/01 | [
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] | Very easy to resolve. Have seller put in writing that the ADU was legally permitted when built. He has put you on notice with "seller is 'convinced' that it was legally built." If you accept that statement, you are making the purchase "as is" based on what he believes, not factual evidence.
Only if he puts it in wri... | This seems to be more of a legal problem than a "DIY" problem. My advice would be to have your offer to purchase contingent on seller providing clear and unassailable proof that the converted garage is fully permitted - whether from historic records or by going thru a new permitting request.
And, as comments say, ge... |
18,718 | I'm working on a map of several star systems (with the stars, planets, etc. not to scale with the map), and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
In short, I'd like to show three d... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18718",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
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] | A data visualization project I once saw had an interesting twist. While the developer had a database with a 3D model of the relationships of various objects to each other, he was trying to display this on a 2D computer screen.
His solution was to envision the data as something like a model illuminated from behind, wit... | Googling the [orbit of Pluto](https://www.google.com/search?q=orbit%20of%20pluto&espv=2&biw=1306&bih=898&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pPd1Vc31DsOwsATvxYBg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ) and doing an image search should give you quite a few good options.
This picture in particular pretty clearly illustrates that Pluto's orbit isn't ... |
18,718 | I'm working on a map of several star systems (with the stars, planets, etc. not to scale with the map), and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
In short, I'd like to show three d... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18718",
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] | Do it digitally.
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A screen is still 2-dimensional, no? However, a screen allows you to add functions such as rotating the map - a tried-and-tested method of showing 3D. See Google Earth for an example:
You can also combine this with... | You could produce **multiple maps** viewing the scene from different angles, like so:
Alternatively you could make the map **anaglyphic**:
Or make it **holographic**:
, and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
In short, I'd like to show three d... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18718",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/627/"
] | **Use two maps.**
I was thinking about how space wargames (board, not computer) represented 3D. I recall at least one used two boards. One was horizontal and the other vertical, like a Battleship board. However, they represented the same thing. Each ship was represented by two markers, one on each board. This avoided ... | First, declare a baseline. You'd probably use Earth's orbital plane, or the galactic orbital plane depending on the scale of empire you're working in.
Now include three numbers next to each star chart (one per system):
1. Number of light years off of base. Depending on scales you would change your notation.
2. Number... |
18,718 | I'm working on a map of several star systems (with the stars, planets, etc. not to scale with the map), and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
In short, I'd like to show three d... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18718",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/627/"
] | So, Aify covered the most common analogy in the real world, the topographical map. The only other commonly used solution to this that I can think of is to use colors to represent altitude in a color-map.
Violet represents the low point of the map, and red the high point, and all distances in between are assigned a col... | This map is an animated .GIF designed to bring out the third dimension for the [Galaxy on Fire Wiki](http://galaxyonfire.wikia.com/wiki/File:GOF2Map3D.gif).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ev0tJ.gif)
By rotating the point of view slightly, it provides the visual cues ... |
18,718 | I'm working on a map of several star systems (with the stars, planets, etc. not to scale with the map), and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
In short, I'd like to show three d... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18718",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/627/"
] | **Use two maps.**
I was thinking about how space wargames (board, not computer) represented 3D. I recall at least one used two boards. One was horizontal and the other vertical, like a Battleship board. However, they represented the same thing. Each ship was represented by two markers, one on each board. This avoided ... | So, Aify covered the most common analogy in the real world, the topographical map. The only other commonly used solution to this that I can think of is to use colors to represent altitude in a color-map.
Violet represents the low point of the map, and red the high point, and all distances in between are assigned a col... |
18,718 | I'm working on a map of several star systems (with the stars, planets, etc. not to scale with the map), and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
In short, I'd like to show three d... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18718",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/627/"
] | **With colors.**
I would use solar system representations like these:
That have orbital vectors demonstrating the orientation of the orbital plane like this:
For the 3D relations... | First, declare a baseline. You'd probably use Earth's orbital plane, or the galactic orbital plane depending on the scale of empire you're working in.
Now include three numbers next to each star chart (one per system):
1. Number of light years off of base. Depending on scales you would change your notation.
2. Number... |
18,718 | I'm working on a map of several star systems (with the stars, planets, etc. not to scale with the map), and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
In short, I'd like to show three d... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18718",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/627/"
] | **Apply a z-axis number to each star/planet/asteroid etc.**
This works because maps (typically) represent stationary (or mostly stationary) objects. Even though the stars move and things orbit, those are predictable paths that we can represent using various ellipses.
For example, imagine the average world map we have... | This map is an animated .GIF designed to bring out the third dimension for the [Galaxy on Fire Wiki](http://galaxyonfire.wikia.com/wiki/File:GOF2Map3D.gif).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ev0tJ.gif)
By rotating the point of view slightly, it provides the visual cues ... |
18,718 | I'm working on a map of several star systems (with the stars, planets, etc. not to scale with the map), and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
In short, I'd like to show three d... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18718",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/627/"
] | A data visualization project I once saw had an interesting twist. While the developer had a database with a 3D model of the relationships of various objects to each other, he was trying to display this on a 2D computer screen.
His solution was to envision the data as something like a model illuminated from behind, wit... | So, Aify covered the most common analogy in the real world, the topographical map. The only other commonly used solution to this that I can think of is to use colors to represent altitude in a color-map.
Violet represents the low point of the map, and red the high point, and all distances in between are assigned a col... |
18,718 | I'm working on a map of several star systems (with the stars, planets, etc. not to scale with the map), and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
In short, I'd like to show three d... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18718",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/627/"
] | **With colors.**
I would use solar system representations like these:
That have orbital vectors demonstrating the orientation of the orbital plane like this:
For the 3D relations... | So, Aify covered the most common analogy in the real world, the topographical map. The only other commonly used solution to this that I can think of is to use colors to represent altitude in a color-map.
Violet represents the low point of the map, and red the high point, and all distances in between are assigned a col... |
18,718 | I'm working on a map of several star systems (with the stars, planets, etc. not to scale with the map), and I'd like to show that they don't all lie in the same plane. Some orbits are perpendicular to the plane of the viewer, while others are flat, and still others are at odd angles.
In short, I'd like to show three d... | 2015/06/08 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18718",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/627/"
] | **Apply a z-axis number to each star/planet/asteroid etc.**
This works because maps (typically) represent stationary (or mostly stationary) objects. Even though the stars move and things orbit, those are predictable paths that we can represent using various ellipses.
For example, imagine the average world map we have... | A data visualization project I once saw had an interesting twist. While the developer had a database with a 3D model of the relationships of various objects to each other, he was trying to display this on a 2D computer screen.
His solution was to envision the data as something like a model illuminated from behind, wit... |
24,573 | I understand this may be a dumb question to ask, but - in the opening sequence of *Golden Eye* - James Bond chases after a plane that has rolled off the side of a cliff in his motorcycle, and then somehow (movie magic) climbs into it and pilots it away.
I am not asking about the physics of the motorcycle stunt - excep... | 2016/01/24 | [
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] | Is it *theoretically possible*? Sure.
Is it *realistic* or *probable*? Absolutely not.
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If there is not enough space for the airplane to accelerate to takeoff speed it will be effectively stalled when it reaches the end of the ground. That means that as soon as it runs out of ground it effectively becomes a bal... | One of the greatest books on aviation ever written, *Fate is the Hunter* by Ernest K. Gann, has a story about departing Africa fully loaded with fuel off of a river in a seaplane, and they couldn't get airbore before the river turned into a waterfall. When they reached the waterfall, they lowered the nose until they re... |
24,573 | I understand this may be a dumb question to ask, but - in the opening sequence of *Golden Eye* - James Bond chases after a plane that has rolled off the side of a cliff in his motorcycle, and then somehow (movie magic) climbs into it and pilots it away.
I am not asking about the physics of the motorcycle stunt - excep... | 2016/01/24 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/24573",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
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] | Is it *theoretically possible*? Sure.
Is it *realistic* or *probable*? Absolutely not.
---
If there is not enough space for the airplane to accelerate to takeoff speed it will be effectively stalled when it reaches the end of the ground. That means that as soon as it runs out of ground it effectively becomes a bal... | Some British aircraft carriers have ski-jumps at the end of their flight decks. These allow aircraft that are rolling forward already (but too slow to sustain flight) to convert some of their forward velocity into vertical speed, in effect "lobbing" them into the air.
Obviously if their engines were not providing thru... |
24,573 | I understand this may be a dumb question to ask, but - in the opening sequence of *Golden Eye* - James Bond chases after a plane that has rolled off the side of a cliff in his motorcycle, and then somehow (movie magic) climbs into it and pilots it away.
I am not asking about the physics of the motorcycle stunt - excep... | 2016/01/24 | [
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] | voretaq7's answer seems to explain quite well what's going on but I suggest taking a look at the 'bungee launching' of gliders/sailplanes. Effectively the aircraft is initially accelerated by an elastic band, and then gains airspeed by falling down from a hill, almost exactly as you ask.
It is still is used at 2 place... | I see no reason why it should not be possible if you have enough speed to clear the cliff and keep the nose pointed into the relative wind. In this 0 g maneuver the wings will not stall as long as no lift is being generated. If there is sufficient clearance to gain enough speed to reach a flyable speed and pull up befo... |
24,573 | I understand this may be a dumb question to ask, but - in the opening sequence of *Golden Eye* - James Bond chases after a plane that has rolled off the side of a cliff in his motorcycle, and then somehow (movie magic) climbs into it and pilots it away.
I am not asking about the physics of the motorcycle stunt - excep... | 2016/01/24 | [
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] | I'm taking that you mean taking off (for the want of a better word) when the runway is unavailable- trade altitude for gaining speed and get back to controlled flight. This is certainly *possible* but not recommended as it puts too much premium on pilot skill and luck.
There are [videos in the internet](http://www.wil... | Short answer: yes, but...
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There are already a number of good answers and examples that, while unprobable (in the sense of "requiring a specific combination of factors") and dangerous in most of the cases, it is definitely really possible (since it happened).
Adding an historical example
----... |
24,573 | I understand this may be a dumb question to ask, but - in the opening sequence of *Golden Eye* - James Bond chases after a plane that has rolled off the side of a cliff in his motorcycle, and then somehow (movie magic) climbs into it and pilots it away.
I am not asking about the physics of the motorcycle stunt - excep... | 2016/01/24 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/24573",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1049/"
] | Short answer: yes, but...
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There are already a number of good answers and examples that, while unprobable (in the sense of "requiring a specific combination of factors") and dangerous in most of the cases, it is definitely really possible (since it happened).
Adding an historical example
----... | Some British aircraft carriers have ski-jumps at the end of their flight decks. These allow aircraft that are rolling forward already (but too slow to sustain flight) to convert some of their forward velocity into vertical speed, in effect "lobbing" them into the air.
Obviously if their engines were not providing thru... |
24,573 | I understand this may be a dumb question to ask, but - in the opening sequence of *Golden Eye* - James Bond chases after a plane that has rolled off the side of a cliff in his motorcycle, and then somehow (movie magic) climbs into it and pilots it away.
I am not asking about the physics of the motorcycle stunt - excep... | 2016/01/24 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/24573",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1049/"
] | Short answer: yes, but...
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There are already a number of good answers and examples that, while unprobable (in the sense of "requiring a specific combination of factors") and dangerous in most of the cases, it is definitely really possible (since it happened).
Adding an historical example
----... | The book [Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini by Greg Annussek](https://books.google.com.au/books?id=f_WvBmqh0RoC&pg=PT187&lpg=PT187&dq=mussolini%20stork&source=bl&ots=KvaMKrD__j&sig=r6677iDACEzfJtlCDY6iluOJWZk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiavqfGo8PKAhWG26YKHSEEBzcQ6AEIMTAF#v=onepage&q=mussolini%20stork&f=false) (page 6, second t... |
24,573 | I understand this may be a dumb question to ask, but - in the opening sequence of *Golden Eye* - James Bond chases after a plane that has rolled off the side of a cliff in his motorcycle, and then somehow (movie magic) climbs into it and pilots it away.
I am not asking about the physics of the motorcycle stunt - excep... | 2016/01/24 | [
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] | One of the greatest books on aviation ever written, *Fate is the Hunter* by Ernest K. Gann, has a story about departing Africa fully loaded with fuel off of a river in a seaplane, and they couldn't get airbore before the river turned into a waterfall. When they reached the waterfall, they lowered the nose until they re... | The book [Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini by Greg Annussek](https://books.google.com.au/books?id=f_WvBmqh0RoC&pg=PT187&lpg=PT187&dq=mussolini%20stork&source=bl&ots=KvaMKrD__j&sig=r6677iDACEzfJtlCDY6iluOJWZk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiavqfGo8PKAhWG26YKHSEEBzcQ6AEIMTAF#v=onepage&q=mussolini%20stork&f=false) (page 6, second t... |
24,573 | I understand this may be a dumb question to ask, but - in the opening sequence of *Golden Eye* - James Bond chases after a plane that has rolled off the side of a cliff in his motorcycle, and then somehow (movie magic) climbs into it and pilots it away.
I am not asking about the physics of the motorcycle stunt - excep... | 2016/01/24 | [
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] | Yes, an airplane can be launched by gravity acceleration, whether by a short takeoff run, or actual free fall. As other answers have indicated, there are many instances of this taking place from short runways or hillsides.
An obscure application of this ability is found in the curious history of the [Curtiss Sparrowha... | I'm surprised to see [Courchevel Altiport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courchevel_Altiport) being only mentioned in comments in this question. While this is not exactly a free fall, the middle part of the runway has a significant slope (18%), which contributes toward accelerating the planes taking off (as well as slo... |
24,573 | I understand this may be a dumb question to ask, but - in the opening sequence of *Golden Eye* - James Bond chases after a plane that has rolled off the side of a cliff in his motorcycle, and then somehow (movie magic) climbs into it and pilots it away.
I am not asking about the physics of the motorcycle stunt - excep... | 2016/01/24 | [
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] | It sure is possible, and sure has happened!
Check out [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_8NMODxSlM). Looks like a whole lot of fun. As long as there is enough forward trajectory to clear the edge, and enough room before the ground, it can be done. I wouldn't like your chances of pulling it off in a larger... | I'm surprised to see [Courchevel Altiport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courchevel_Altiport) being only mentioned in comments in this question. While this is not exactly a free fall, the middle part of the runway has a significant slope (18%), which contributes toward accelerating the planes taking off (as well as slo... |
24,573 | I understand this may be a dumb question to ask, but - in the opening sequence of *Golden Eye* - James Bond chases after a plane that has rolled off the side of a cliff in his motorcycle, and then somehow (movie magic) climbs into it and pilots it away.
I am not asking about the physics of the motorcycle stunt - excep... | 2016/01/24 | [
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] | I'm taking that you mean taking off (for the want of a better word) when the runway is unavailable- trade altitude for gaining speed and get back to controlled flight. This is certainly *possible* but not recommended as it puts too much premium on pilot skill and luck.
There are [videos in the internet](http://www.wil... | Some British aircraft carriers have ski-jumps at the end of their flight decks. These allow aircraft that are rolling forward already (but too slow to sustain flight) to convert some of their forward velocity into vertical speed, in effect "lobbing" them into the air.
Obviously if their engines were not providing thru... |
14,744,544 | I have a store which has 40 branches over the country. I need to setup a Magento eCommerce site for my stores to sell different products.
1. Need to show all products from all branches (approx 40 branches).
2. When user selects a product to buy, need to show the branches where selected products are available.
3. After... | 2013/02/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/14744544",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2046289/"
] | As you defined, you would like to have solution without multistore, then I recommend to use custom ecommerce solution, e.g. elite ecommerce solution by eDigitalFields will help you to customize everything starting from the process of inventory, shopping cart, shipping, checkout and order management. They have the solut... | Except of number one you can do this pretty simple by using separate store views for each branch.
To show products form all store views you have to code your own module. |
1,363,457 | I've seen the previous thread, but it's quite different as I've overclocked my cpu to 4.7GHz in UEFI keeping turbo boost enabled. Here's what the Task Manager is telling me:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1rW6j.png)
The CPU shows up as 5.5GHz, but in A... | 2018/10/03 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1363457",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/527034/"
] | Yes, DNS is insecure. If you really want to know that you're talking to the server you wanted, you must authenticate the server. So that's what we do. We don't trust DNS to be secure, and we implement the security we need somewhere else, such as TLS (Transport-Layer Security).
TLS (the modern security layer of HTTPS)... | Lot's of questions there. I'll try to tackle a couple.
>
> But how can I be sure that I retrieve the actual site I am asking for?
> How can I be sure that my ISP is not faking IPs or that they are not redirecting me to "faked internal servers" (with or without an identical ip address)?
> For example: If I ask for e... |
23,373 | Granted most of the questions asked here are way over my head but in the rare occasion where I see a question I can assist with, Im more than happy to offer my time.
I just looked up one of my old answers and saw that the user basically took my answer, changed the directory a little, submitted it and chose it as the a... | 2009/09/24 | [
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] | I've had this happen. It sucks... The user had a chance to reward you for your help, and didn't. Some people are like that. Just brush it off and move on. | If it was a pure copy, I would be mad, but I think there is a bit of difference to show that he did try your version and it didn't help him. - And as TM said, he probably did not realise / understand.
I had a similar issue on Superuser.com where I posted a link showing you need to use %userprofile%\something (I forget... |
30,642 | My office has two internet connections and two routers and two networks. One network is used for the Internet connect and has great speeds. The second network runs our IP phones and is a backup internet connection - the speed is slow and is reserved for backup internet and IP phones only because the phones don't work w... | 2016/05/23 | [
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] | This should have been setup when the IP phones went in. The switch(es) should have been upgraded to support POE+ and IP endpoints should be daisy-chained off of IP phones when possible to reduce the required number of switchports. As for having a dedicated circuit for SIP/PSTN connectivity that is no problem simply con... | I would recommend looking into how to implement QoS with your equipment so that the phone traffic has priority over the regular data traffic. Once that is in place, there are a number of ways to pick an internet link. One of the easiest is to find a reliable internet IP to ping (think Google/Level3 DNS server or someth... |
177,862 | I have completed nearly the entire quest except I can't find the last dog tag. The map pointer just shows me to the middle of town (I assume it is the middle) and I can't see any more ghouls in the city. I have gotten the tag from Edward, but I am still missing one. Any ideas how to finish the quest? | 2014/07/24 | [
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] | If you've truly obtained Private Edwards' dog tags, then there's nothing to do but to carefully search each of the bodies to see if you've missed taking the tags off of one.
Otherwise, it's possible that you're encountering this bug, listed in the [Bugs section of Nukapedia's page on this quest](http://fallout.wikia.c... | I had the same issue, it shows me the objective in the middle of the town but it's not true. You have to search all the bodies of the ghouls you killed again. It takes me hours to finish this quest. |
254,908 | is there a way to access, move, and launch elements of the system tray?, I.e. like the hotkeys to access the taskbar items (Windows+Number) | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/254908",
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] | If you're looking for something built-in, the answer is 'no'. Unless you count the old-fashioned "Switch focus to the taskbar, tab over to the system tray, arrow over the icon you want, etc" method. You can shorten this with WinKey+B, but you'll still have to arrow and then interact the hard way. | There is a free app you can use called **[Taskbar Shuffle](http://nerdcave.webs.com/)**.
You are able to reorder the open windows in the taskbar as you prefer. I'm pretty sure this app allows you to reorder the systray icons too. I'm not sure if it supports hotkeys however, though it might... |
22,390 | Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
>
> When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. **But if the slave survives a day or two**, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (ESV)
>
>
>
The bolded cl... | 2016/04/26 | [
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] | From Keil-Delitzsch, "Commentary on the Old Testament" Vol. 1. p. 134.
<https://goo.gl/pzzzJQ>
Excerpts:
Ex. 20:20-21 - ...The case was different with regard to a slave. The master had always the right to punish or "chasten" him with a stick (Prov. 10:13, 13:4)... The law therefore confined to the abuse of this auth... | According the Ellicott, if the slave survives a day or two, then it wasn't the intent of the owner to kill him.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
>
> The notion is, that unless the death follows speedily it must be presumed not to have been intended; and this might be especially presumed in the case of a man... |
22,390 | Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
>
> When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. **But if the slave survives a day or two**, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (ESV)
>
>
>
The bolded cl... | 2016/04/26 | [
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] | Is Exodus 21:21 about a dead slave or one who survives?
Its about Both.
the first part
"when a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rode and the slave dies under his had, he shall be avenged.
This was meant as, If a person beats a servant to death they should be sentenced to death
The second part
"But if the... | Your verse [**Exo 21:21**] where a slave does **NOT** die at the hands of their master (contrasted to [**Exo 21:20**] where they do) means that compensation **for death** is not warranted. That is not to say **no compensation** is due the slave, merely that compensation for *wrongful death* is not warranted [**Num 35:3... |
22,390 | Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
>
> When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. **But if the slave survives a day or two**, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (ESV)
>
>
>
The bolded cl... | 2016/04/26 | [
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] | Is Exodus 21:21 about a dead slave or one who survives?
Its about Both.
the first part
"when a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rode and the slave dies under his had, he shall be avenged.
This was meant as, If a person beats a servant to death they should be sentenced to death
The second part
"But if the... | It is not justified, nor is the passage hard to translate:
אִם־י֛וֹם א֥וֹ יוֹמַ֖יִם יַעֲמֹ֑ד
ʾim-yôm ʾô yômayim yaʿămōḏ
if day or [dual-form]days [he] persists
You should not fixate on the sense of "stand" for 'md, as this is a Hebrew *idiom* that is rarely meant literally -- e.g. to be in a state of standing -- an... |
22,390 | Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
>
> When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. **But if the slave survives a day or two**, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (ESV)
>
>
>
The bolded cl... | 2016/04/26 | [
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] | Is Exodus 21:21 about a dead slave or one who survives?
Its about Both.
the first part
"when a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rode and the slave dies under his had, he shall be avenged.
This was meant as, If a person beats a servant to death they should be sentenced to death
The second part
"But if the... | According the Ellicott, if the slave survives a day or two, then it wasn't the intent of the owner to kill him.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
>
> The notion is, that unless the death follows speedily it must be presumed not to have been intended; and this might be especially presumed in the case of a man... |
22,390 | Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
>
> When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. **But if the slave survives a day or two**, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (ESV)
>
>
>
The bolded cl... | 2016/04/26 | [
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] | Is Exodus 21:21 about a dead slave or one who survives?
Its about Both.
the first part
"when a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rode and the slave dies under his had, he shall be avenged.
This was meant as, If a person beats a servant to death they should be sentenced to death
The second part
"But if the... | The previous verses helps to answer this question:
וְכִֽי־יַכֶּה֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶת־עַבְדֹּ֜ו אֹ֤ו אֶת־אֲמָתֹו֙ בַּשֵּׁ֔בֶט וּמֵ֖ת **תַּ֣חַת יָדֹ֑ו** נָקֹ֖ם יִנָּקֵֽם
"And when a man strikes his servant or his maidservant and he dies **under his hand**, vengeance shall surely be taken" (Ex. 21:20).
The term "dies under h... |
22,390 | Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
>
> When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. **But if the slave survives a day or two**, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (ESV)
>
>
>
The bolded cl... | 2016/04/26 | [
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] | *Amad*, in the Hiphil form, is a matter of standing, or a matter of being appointed. It is a question of status. My own understanding is that if a bondman is still standing after a day or two, then vengeance is not appropriate.
To beat a bondman so badly that he is incapacitated is a stupid thing to do, and counter-pr... | The previous verses helps to answer this question:
וְכִֽי־יַכֶּה֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶת־עַבְדֹּ֜ו אֹ֤ו אֶת־אֲמָתֹו֙ בַּשֵּׁ֔בֶט וּמֵ֖ת **תַּ֣חַת יָדֹ֑ו** נָקֹ֖ם יִנָּקֵֽם
"And when a man strikes his servant or his maidservant and he dies **under his hand**, vengeance shall surely be taken" (Ex. 21:20).
The term "dies under h... |
22,390 | Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
>
> When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. **But if the slave survives a day or two**, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (ESV)
>
>
>
The bolded cl... | 2016/04/26 | [
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] | *Amad*, in the Hiphil form, is a matter of standing, or a matter of being appointed. It is a question of status. My own understanding is that if a bondman is still standing after a day or two, then vengeance is not appropriate.
To beat a bondman so badly that he is incapacitated is a stupid thing to do, and counter-pr... | Your verse [**Exo 21:21**] where a slave does **NOT** die at the hands of their master (contrasted to [**Exo 21:20**] where they do) means that compensation **for death** is not warranted. That is not to say **no compensation** is due the slave, merely that compensation for *wrongful death* is not warranted [**Num 35:3... |
22,390 | Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
>
> When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. **But if the slave survives a day or two**, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (ESV)
>
>
>
The bolded cl... | 2016/04/26 | [
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] | From Keil-Delitzsch, "Commentary on the Old Testament" Vol. 1. p. 134.
<https://goo.gl/pzzzJQ>
Excerpts:
Ex. 20:20-21 - ...The case was different with regard to a slave. The master had always the right to punish or "chasten" him with a stick (Prov. 10:13, 13:4)... The law therefore confined to the abuse of this auth... | Your verse [**Exo 21:21**] where a slave does **NOT** die at the hands of their master (contrasted to [**Exo 21:20**] where they do) means that compensation **for death** is not warranted. That is not to say **no compensation** is due the slave, merely that compensation for *wrongful death* is not warranted [**Num 35:3... |
22,390 | Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
>
> When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. **But if the slave survives a day or two**, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (ESV)
>
>
>
The bolded cl... | 2016/04/26 | [
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"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
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] | From Keil-Delitzsch, "Commentary on the Old Testament" Vol. 1. p. 134.
<https://goo.gl/pzzzJQ>
Excerpts:
Ex. 20:20-21 - ...The case was different with regard to a slave. The master had always the right to punish or "chasten" him with a stick (Prov. 10:13, 13:4)... The law therefore confined to the abuse of this auth... | It is not justified, nor is the passage hard to translate:
אִם־י֛וֹם א֥וֹ יוֹמַ֖יִם יַעֲמֹ֑ד
ʾim-yôm ʾô yômayim yaʿămōḏ
if day or [dual-form]days [he] persists
You should not fixate on the sense of "stand" for 'md, as this is a Hebrew *idiom* that is rarely meant literally -- e.g. to be in a state of standing -- an... |
22,390 | Exodus 21:20-21 provides provisions to avenge the maltreatment of a slave:
>
> When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. **But if the slave survives a day or two**, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (ESV)
>
>
>
The bolded cl... | 2016/04/26 | [
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"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/3555/"
] | From Keil-Delitzsch, "Commentary on the Old Testament" Vol. 1. p. 134.
<https://goo.gl/pzzzJQ>
Excerpts:
Ex. 20:20-21 - ...The case was different with regard to a slave. The master had always the right to punish or "chasten" him with a stick (Prov. 10:13, 13:4)... The law therefore confined to the abuse of this auth... | The previous verses helps to answer this question:
וְכִֽי־יַכֶּה֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶת־עַבְדֹּ֜ו אֹ֤ו אֶת־אֲמָתֹו֙ בַּשֵּׁ֔בֶט וּמֵ֖ת **תַּ֣חַת יָדֹ֑ו** נָקֹ֖ם יִנָּקֵֽם
"And when a man strikes his servant or his maidservant and he dies **under his hand**, vengeance shall surely be taken" (Ex. 21:20).
The term "dies under h... |
22,866 | I often see these massive RORO ships bringing new cars. I assume they are not always fully booked. Are there companies offering empty spots on RORO ships? To me, it seems like a great opportunity to start a road trip.
I am not talking about RORO ferries, but more of the long distance RORO ship, as portrayed [in this d... | 2013/12/29 | [
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] | Sometimes extensive browsing remains rewarding, [at least one company](http://www.cargoshipcruises.nl/zuid-amerika.html) offers roro service for passengers and their cars. It is even from my home town to Rio. Brilliant! | Beside regular car ferries carrying hundreds of private cars, there are also RoRo ferries used primarily for freight on lorries that take a few. [Grimaldi Lines](http://www.grimaldi.napoli.it/en/car_carrier_container_service.html), mentioned in earlier answers, is one of them and they definitely take private passengers... |
22,866 | I often see these massive RORO ships bringing new cars. I assume they are not always fully booked. Are there companies offering empty spots on RORO ships? To me, it seems like a great opportunity to start a road trip.
I am not talking about RORO ferries, but more of the long distance RORO ship, as portrayed [in this d... | 2013/12/29 | [
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] | I made in September 2016 a trip on a ro-ro from Grimaldi Lines. My car was on the ro-ro and we could go in the different harbours we stopped, as far there was enough time. We started from Antwerp: to Portbury, Setúbal, Valencia, Fos, Livorno, Civitavecchia and Salerno then took the car to Paris.
The ro-ro was transpo... | Beside regular car ferries carrying hundreds of private cars, there are also RoRo ferries used primarily for freight on lorries that take a few. [Grimaldi Lines](http://www.grimaldi.napoli.it/en/car_carrier_container_service.html), mentioned in earlier answers, is one of them and they definitely take private passengers... |
192,148 | I recently had a conversation about the Spanish word "ahora", in which my conversant claimed that "ahora" is *always* an adverb, and never a noun.
This lead me to investigate the part of speech of similar words, both in Spanish and English (my native language). According to [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.reference... | 2014/08/19 | [
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] | tl;dr:
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Certain kinds of words and phrases can in English function equally well as nouns as they can adverbs. Whether you prefer to call them nouns acting like adverbs or adverbs acting like nouns is a matter of religion only, since they are still doing the same job no matter what you call them.
The job they a... | Let's start with Merriam-Webster Dictionary, which uses "up to now" as an example of "now" being used as a noun.
>
> now noun : the present time or moment (been ill up to now)
> <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/now>
>
>
>
It may be easier if you think of your example with slightly different words. For ... |
88,362 | The main issue here is how to sort out the usage of "the" with "least". Sometimes it's clear but there are cases when I am not sure whether to use the article "the" or not.
### *Least* with verb
>
> * The man who actually won the car is the one who **wanted it least**. [No “the”.]
> * The President seemed to be the ... | 2012/10/28 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/88362",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/28753/"
] | The word "least", perhaps from getting a lot of use, is flexible in the roles it fills as a part of speech. The American Heritage Dictionary lists it with three definitions, all with approximately the same meaning, but as an adjective, adverb, and noun.
So taking an example:
>
> I earn [the] least out of all of us... | When I'm writing carefully I remove every word that adds nothing, but only within reason—we don't want to sound like policemen. In your first four examples the meaning is perfectly clear, and the phrase quite elegant, without 'the'.
The last two examples sound ugly to me, but then maybe they would be perfectly accepta... |
6,898,269 | I just want to get a few pointers on the best way to architect my first Core Data app, and the main objects and interactions I will require.
The data is stored remotely and I will need to access it via HTTP and it will respond in JSON format. I want to cache this on the device using Core Data. Each day there will be n... | 2011/08/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6898269",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/300098/"
] | Thanks dtuckernet, here is what I did do - gathering info from lots of sources, which I believe is the best solution. Anyone feel free to criticise (constructively)....
1. I have my Core Data stack in CoreDataStack.h (singleton) - not entirely necessary, but it unclutters my app delegate class.
2. I have a base CoreDa... | There are a lot of different pieces at play here. Allow me to make some suggestions:
1. For fetching the data from the server, I would look at ASIHTTPRequest. This is a good solution for managing your HTTP requests (whether you are using JSON, XML, or whatever..). <http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/>
2. For JSON t... |
6,898,269 | I just want to get a few pointers on the best way to architect my first Core Data app, and the main objects and interactions I will require.
The data is stored remotely and I will need to access it via HTTP and it will respond in JSON format. I want to cache this on the device using Core Data. Each day there will be n... | 2011/08/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6898269",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/300098/"
] | Thanks dtuckernet, here is what I did do - gathering info from lots of sources, which I believe is the best solution. Anyone feel free to criticise (constructively)....
1. I have my Core Data stack in CoreDataStack.h (singleton) - not entirely necessary, but it unclutters my app delegate class.
2. I have a base CoreDa... | You absolutely, definitely want to use [RESTKit](http://restkit.org). This is a direct connection from your RESTful web service to Core Data. Define your data model using Xcode's built-in tool, define a mapping layer for your web service using RESTKit, and let the library do the heavy lifting. It's wonderful. |
29,801,618 | I am looking for real world examples of DAAST tags being trafficked. Anyone know of any audio players that have adopted the new standard yet?
I'm looking at Pandora, iHeartRadio and I'm still seeing VAST tags for advertisements (4-22-2015).
<http://www.iab.net/DAAST>
I know it's not a great question, but please if ... | 2015/04/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/29801618",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2879041/"
] | I think this it is extremely new format.
[Date of publication](http://www.iabuk.net/resources/standards-and-guidelines/iab-us-digital-audio-ad-serving-template-daast) of official article is 22.01.2015
I can't found any implementation in real web-players in this time :( | Triton Digital did support DAAST day 1... players need to specifically request this format as the default is VAST (and remained as such for backwards compatibility). Most of the advantages of DAAST are leveraged in server-to-server interfaces. |
244,305 | Recently I had a Windows 10 (64 bit) PC where Windows Defender would report that it found and (apparently) removed a "threat" it calls [Win32/Tnega!MSR](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=TrojanClicker:Win32/Tnega!MSR&ThreatID=2147760293). Unfortunately, the removal was u... | 2021/02/05 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/244305",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/192022/"
] | >
> Does anyone here know the alias used for "Tnega!MSR" by other antiviruses, or can point me to a resource so I can find it out myself?
>
>
>
Use the VirusTotal website.
They have a lot of information on all the various names for this malware [here](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/68313d4b45cc908f541dd581d7... | I don't have the rep to place a comment on hft's answer, but [Process Explorer](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer) (from Sysinternals, owned by Microsoft) can connect to VirusTotal to check if any running processes are malicious. To my knowledge it can be used to check any process... |
244,305 | Recently I had a Windows 10 (64 bit) PC where Windows Defender would report that it found and (apparently) removed a "threat" it calls [Win32/Tnega!MSR](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=TrojanClicker:Win32/Tnega!MSR&ThreatID=2147760293). Unfortunately, the removal was u... | 2021/02/05 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/244305",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/192022/"
] | >
> Does anyone here know the alias used for "Tnega!MSR" by other antiviruses, or can point me to a resource so I can find it out myself?
>
>
>
Use the VirusTotal website.
They have a lot of information on all the various names for this malware [here](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/68313d4b45cc908f541dd581d7... | Short answer: "Tnega!MSR" probably has sense only for people that are actually coding the AV, some of them try to put the name of the malware in the detection, but when a file doesn't match any known malware patterns then it might be detected as malware by other heuristical internal engines of the AV and the detection ... |
244,305 | Recently I had a Windows 10 (64 bit) PC where Windows Defender would report that it found and (apparently) removed a "threat" it calls [Win32/Tnega!MSR](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=TrojanClicker:Win32/Tnega!MSR&ThreatID=2147760293). Unfortunately, the removal was u... | 2021/02/05 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/244305",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/192022/"
] | I don't have the rep to place a comment on hft's answer, but [Process Explorer](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer) (from Sysinternals, owned by Microsoft) can connect to VirusTotal to check if any running processes are malicious. To my knowledge it can be used to check any process... | Short answer: "Tnega!MSR" probably has sense only for people that are actually coding the AV, some of them try to put the name of the malware in the detection, but when a file doesn't match any known malware patterns then it might be detected as malware by other heuristical internal engines of the AV and the detection ... |
20,439 | I live in a very old school (as in it was a high school) building turned condo.
I have four windows in the standard top pane, bottom pane double sash configuration. Each pane is about 3 feet wide, 4 feet tall and weights far more than it should. The bottom pane does tilt in towards the condo and the top has two securi... | 2012/11/03 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/20439",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9006/"
] | You would not need to have a jack to be able to lift something up. Through the use of some pieces of framing material (such as common 2x4's as they are called here in the USA) you can pry and lift things with relative ease by the mechanical advantage of a lever. Cut the vertical piece to just the right length for the a... | The sashes were most likely counterbalanced by an iron weight. Frequently over time the rope that attached the sash to the weight breaks. If you try to push the sash up the rope becomes jammed and wedges the window sash against the frame. The most common retention method for the sash is a trim board that runs from the ... |
597,911 | I'm looking for an idiom (or other fixed expression) meaning that when there is one cunning person who thinks much of himself, there will be another one who can outsmart him. | 2022/11/05 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/597911",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/286907/"
] | "Poetic justice", "Taste of your own medicine",
From [Vocabulary.com](https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/outfox)
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> Outfox
>
>
>
Verb: beat through cleverness and wit, outdo someone in trickery
From [TFD](https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play+(one)+at+(one%27s)+own+game)
>
> Play someone at their own ... | Here is a related idiom, from [Farlex](https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Set+a+thief+to+catch+a+thief)
>
> **Set a thief to catch a thief.**
>
>
> The best person to catch a thief is another thief, because he or she knows how thieves think.
>
>
> |
597,911 | I'm looking for an idiom (or other fixed expression) meaning that when there is one cunning person who thinks much of himself, there will be another one who can outsmart him. | 2022/11/05 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/597911",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/286907/"
] | Here is a related idiom, from [Farlex](https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Set+a+thief+to+catch+a+thief)
>
> **Set a thief to catch a thief.**
>
>
> The best person to catch a thief is another thief, because he or she knows how thieves think.
>
>
> | It's a quote attributed to Macchiavelli.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pum9l.png)
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver—Niccolò Machiavelli |
597,911 | I'm looking for an idiom (or other fixed expression) meaning that when there is one cunning person who thinks much of himself, there will be another one who can outsmart him. | 2022/11/05 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/597911",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/286907/"
] | "Poetic justice", "Taste of your own medicine",
From [Vocabulary.com](https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/outfox)
>
> Outfox
>
>
>
Verb: beat through cleverness and wit, outdo someone in trickery
From [TFD](https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play+(one)+at+(one%27s)+own+game)
>
> Play someone at their own ... | >
> **There's always a bigger fish.** [Proverb]
>
>
> No matter how large or intimidating a person or thing is, there is
> likely to be an even larger or more intimidating person or thing
> somewhere.
>
>
>
[[Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there%27s_always_a_bigger_fish)]
>
> The bigger fish idea i... |
597,911 | I'm looking for an idiom (or other fixed expression) meaning that when there is one cunning person who thinks much of himself, there will be another one who can outsmart him. | 2022/11/05 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/597911",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/286907/"
] | "Poetic justice", "Taste of your own medicine",
From [Vocabulary.com](https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/outfox)
>
> Outfox
>
>
>
Verb: beat through cleverness and wit, outdo someone in trickery
From [TFD](https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play+(one)+at+(one%27s)+own+game)
>
> Play someone at their own ... | It's a quote attributed to Macchiavelli.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pum9l.png)
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver—Niccolò Machiavelli |
597,911 | I'm looking for an idiom (or other fixed expression) meaning that when there is one cunning person who thinks much of himself, there will be another one who can outsmart him. | 2022/11/05 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/597911",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/286907/"
] | >
> **There's always a bigger fish.** [Proverb]
>
>
> No matter how large or intimidating a person or thing is, there is
> likely to be an even larger or more intimidating person or thing
> somewhere.
>
>
>
[[Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there%27s_always_a_bigger_fish)]
>
> The bigger fish idea i... | It's a quote attributed to Macchiavelli.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pum9l.png)
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver—Niccolò Machiavelli |
288,238 | There was a recent hubbub over the suspension of a user in good standing over some post deletions. The details are not important, but he posted the moderator message he received alongside the ban.
According to that user's screen shot, it reads thusly:
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CGTFO.pn... | 2015/03/17 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288238",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/187606/"
] | As I mentioned in [my answer over yonder](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288229/why-was-balusc-temporarily-suspended-from-so/288242#288242),
>
> [this message] hits some sour notes, which isn't particularly great when someone actually is rage-quitting and certainly counter-productive when used in cases wher... | As someone with moderation experience in various forums, I can say that you need to be **firm** with users about what they can and can't do, but moderators also need to be open.
As it currently is written, the message's point is that the user's been badly behaved and they're being punished for it.
***however***
It's... |
91,871 | The 1st-level Sor/Wiz spell *wall of smoke* [conj] (*Spell Compendium* 235) says, in part, that
>
> This spell creates a thin [n.b. for large quantities of *thin*] wall of black smoke. The wall is stationary once created. The wall blocks sight to a limited degree. Creatures on opposite sides of the wall that cannot s... | 2016/12/18 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/91871",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/8610/"
] | I agree with your ruling.
The rules specify that you cannot attack while nauseated, so the attack at the end of the charge was foiled no matter what. You could argue that the rules would have the paladin’s charge continue up until the point where he would attack, and then he would just stop at that point looking dumb,... | First of all, Wall of Smoke may be considered a defensive spell, since it conceals and deter foes from going through it. Having the nauseated effect only occur after the end of the player's round would make it kind of meaningless.
Second, considering other lasting area effects (such as Prismatic Wall) take effect imme... |
52,092 | How does the [wraparound wing](http://parsifalproject.eu/) in this [AOPA article](https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/may/29/new-wing-design-has-deep-roots) reduce drag? One would think all that extra leading edge and surface area would make it worse.
One more [link](http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentr... | 2018/05/30 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/52092",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/28945/"
] | It does not reduce drag, but creates more of it.
This concept is called a "box wing" and is one variety of [closed wings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_wing). Another is called a "joined wing" and was popularized by [Julian Wolkovitch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Wolkovitch). However, only people who d... | It behaves like a wing with a higher effective aspect ratio, thanks to the wingtips going full circle, while fitting into smaller overall dimensional restrictions. This wing can also be thin without suffering as much structural weight penalty as a normal wing would thanks to the bracing effect of its box shape (but the... |
52,092 | How does the [wraparound wing](http://parsifalproject.eu/) in this [AOPA article](https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/may/29/new-wing-design-has-deep-roots) reduce drag? One would think all that extra leading edge and surface area would make it worse.
One more [link](http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentr... | 2018/05/30 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/52092",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/28945/"
] | It behaves like a wing with a higher effective aspect ratio, thanks to the wingtips going full circle, while fitting into smaller overall dimensional restrictions. This wing can also be thin without suffering as much structural weight penalty as a normal wing would thanks to the bracing effect of its box shape (but the... | Bottom line, it's a tandem wing with a little fin joining the tips. Basically a variation of this contraption, which does fly, more or less.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Mignet_HM_14.jpg>
Truth is, there isn't a hell of a lot under the sun in aviation that wasn't already thought up by the 30s. |
52,092 | How does the [wraparound wing](http://parsifalproject.eu/) in this [AOPA article](https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/may/29/new-wing-design-has-deep-roots) reduce drag? One would think all that extra leading edge and surface area would make it worse.
One more [link](http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentr... | 2018/05/30 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/52092",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/28945/"
] | It does not reduce drag, but creates more of it.
This concept is called a "box wing" and is one variety of [closed wings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_wing). Another is called a "joined wing" and was popularized by [Julian Wolkovitch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Wolkovitch). However, only people who d... | Bottom line, it's a tandem wing with a little fin joining the tips. Basically a variation of this contraption, which does fly, more or less.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Mignet_HM_14.jpg>
Truth is, there isn't a hell of a lot under the sun in aviation that wasn't already thought up by the 30s. |
375,958 | I feel like I die a little on the inside every time I work on converting this legacy code to Web app. The database is crap. All the filed and column are nvarchar and blank (Empty string) suppose to mean Nothing (Null) instead using Null to mean nothing. For something like percentage instead of using decimal. You tag on... | 2008/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/375958",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/28647/"
] | Yes everday. We have a mixture of utilities that are either really really bad C++ (MFC) or VB6 which by implication is bad ;-)
I worked for 5 years as a contractor and part of that job is working on really really bad code. By the time a contractor is brought in, things are usually pretty dire. My soul died years ago! | I'm doing it right now. I'm working on architectural assessment of migrating **to** a .NET solution **from**:
* old VB6 code that has dozens of forms and only a couple of classes
* a SQL Server 7 back-end with 60+ DTS packages
It's all **very old** and has practically **no error-handling**.
I go cry now... |
375,958 | I feel like I die a little on the inside every time I work on converting this legacy code to Web app. The database is crap. All the filed and column are nvarchar and blank (Empty string) suppose to mean Nothing (Null) instead using Null to mean nothing. For something like percentage instead of using decimal. You tag on... | 2008/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/375958",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/28647/"
] | Yes everday. We have a mixture of utilities that are either really really bad C++ (MFC) or VB6 which by implication is bad ;-)
I worked for 5 years as a contractor and part of that job is working on really really bad code. By the time a contractor is brought in, things are usually pretty dire. My soul died years ago! | yes, I have had that. One is where the database is made up of excel like tables. With some of the same data in every table.
Then there is the flowchart based program that does the data entering...no naming conventions, useless or no comments, unexplained constants all over the place... and don't even get me started on... |
375,958 | I feel like I die a little on the inside every time I work on converting this legacy code to Web app. The database is crap. All the filed and column are nvarchar and blank (Empty string) suppose to mean Nothing (Null) instead using Null to mean nothing. For something like percentage instead of using decimal. You tag on... | 2008/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/375958",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/28647/"
] | I sympathize. Dying a little bit is bad for your health. One way to feel better is to fix it, a little bit at a time. Make it a little more right and you will feel that much better. | I'm doing it right now. I'm working on architectural assessment of migrating **to** a .NET solution **from**:
* old VB6 code that has dozens of forms and only a couple of classes
* a SQL Server 7 back-end with 60+ DTS packages
It's all **very old** and has practically **no error-handling**.
I go cry now... |
375,958 | I feel like I die a little on the inside every time I work on converting this legacy code to Web app. The database is crap. All the filed and column are nvarchar and blank (Empty string) suppose to mean Nothing (Null) instead using Null to mean nothing. For something like percentage instead of using decimal. You tag on... | 2008/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/375958",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/28647/"
] | I sympathize. Dying a little bit is bad for your health. One way to feel better is to fix it, a little bit at a time. Make it a little more right and you will feel that much better. | yes, I have had that. One is where the database is made up of excel like tables. With some of the same data in every table.
Then there is the flowchart based program that does the data entering...no naming conventions, useless or no comments, unexplained constants all over the place... and don't even get me started on... |
15,450,178 | We have pretty big application which has about 8 modules (big modules) written using Zend framework 1 and it has been developed for more than 3 years by couple of developers. Also it has a high traffic everyday. We use Amozon s3, Sphinx, Memcache, and some other third party services as well.
Is it a good idea to migra... | 2013/03/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15450178",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1355857/"
] | You are correct that ZF2 is a completely different animal. So different, in fact, that there's no one-size-fits-all migration plan/strategy.
However, I recently did a similar migration. It's a fairly complex line-of-business application originally written over approximately 18 months, with a bunch of varied functional... | **There is no quick and easy way** to migrate because ZF2 is very different from ZF1.
Related: [Step by step migration from Zend Framework 1 to 2](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13414282/step-by-step-migration-from-zend-framework-1-to-2) |
17,485,988 | I want to add a XML file content to another XML file by using Xslt
How can we do this ? | 2013/07/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17485988",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1746329/"
] | Does Settings -> Editor -> Auto Import -> *Exclude from Import and Completion* help you? | There are instructions at <https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/auto-completing-code.html> for disabling, but they didn't work for me until invalidating caches and restarting.
Pull up autocomplete, highlight the offending item, then option-return and exclude it, either at the class or method level. Then invalidate cach... |
17,485,988 | I want to add a XML file content to another XML file by using Xslt
How can we do this ? | 2013/07/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17485988",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1746329/"
] | Does Settings -> Editor -> Auto Import -> *Exclude from Import and Completion* help you? | Now in Preferences | Editor | General | Auto Import |
17,485,988 | I want to add a XML file content to another XML file by using Xslt
How can we do this ? | 2013/07/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17485988",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1746329/"
] | Now in Preferences | Editor | General | Auto Import | There are instructions at <https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/auto-completing-code.html> for disabling, but they didn't work for me until invalidating caches and restarting.
Pull up autocomplete, highlight the offending item, then option-return and exclude it, either at the class or method level. Then invalidate cach... |
1,925 | Which way of writing the word: "Email" or "e-mail" is correct? Both variants seem to be in wide use. If both ones are okay, maybe there is a difference in contexts they have been used (one is more formal than the other)? | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/142/"
] | Our tech magazine switched from *e-mail* to *email* (and from *e-book* to *ebook*) within the past year, over the vigorous opposition of the copy editors.
The copy editors' position was that *e-mail* preserves the special status of the "e" as the sole surviving remnant of an entire word (*electronic*), as do the spel... | *E-mail* is short for "electronic mail." Usually for words of this form -- a compound word in which the first word is shortened to a single letter -- the hyphen remains. Compare, for example, *U-boat*.
I also think keeping the hyphen makes more sense given the pronunciation of the word: EE-mail, not em-AIL.
*E-mail* ... |
1,925 | Which way of writing the word: "Email" or "e-mail" is correct? Both variants seem to be in wide use. If both ones are okay, maybe there is a difference in contexts they have been used (one is more formal than the other)? | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/142/"
] | Using "email" is fine and probably more common in English, but do be aware that many languages that borrow from English only use "e-mail" because "email" is already a different word in Dutch, French, etc. | The entry in the OED is for *email*. My Internet company was involved in getting the OED online and I got to know the OED's Chief Editor. In 1997 I pleaded with him to change the entry to *e-mail*, because it's a shortened form of "electronic mail".
He said that the OED entry reflected what people used now which, back... |
1,925 | Which way of writing the word: "Email" or "e-mail" is correct? Both variants seem to be in wide use. If both ones are okay, maybe there is a difference in contexts they have been used (one is more formal than the other)? | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/142/"
] | Both *e-mail* and *email* are in standard use at this point, although *e-mail* retains a vast majority of usage in edited, published writing according to my research using the [Corpus of Contemporary American English](https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/) (COCA).
Here are the current results counts in COCA for variou... | Our tech magazine switched from *e-mail* to *email* (and from *e-book* to *ebook*) within the past year, over the vigorous opposition of the copy editors.
The copy editors' position was that *e-mail* preserves the special status of the "e" as the sole surviving remnant of an entire word (*electronic*), as do the spel... |
1,925 | Which way of writing the word: "Email" or "e-mail" is correct? Both variants seem to be in wide use. If both ones are okay, maybe there is a difference in contexts they have been used (one is more formal than the other)? | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/142/"
] | Both are correct and common. I'd recommend the shorter and simpler **email**.
There seems to be a tendency to drop hyphen as a newly coined word becomes more and more commonplace:
>
> electronic mail → e-mail → email
>
>
>
That is what I've read earlier somewhere, and looking around I now found at least this [q... | Time for a [Google Fight](http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=email&word2=e-mail)!!! Okay, it would appear, surprisingly enough... that e-mail took round 1!!!
Yes, this issue is far from resolved, but I would go with e-mail if you're writing anything that will end up in print. In addition, everywhere... |
1,925 | Which way of writing the word: "Email" or "e-mail" is correct? Both variants seem to be in wide use. If both ones are okay, maybe there is a difference in contexts they have been used (one is more formal than the other)? | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/142/"
] | I generally use "email".
I think people who work with technology use "email" and people who write about it use "e-mail" (though this isn't a standard).
Google, Yahoo and Apple use "email".
USAToday, CNN and the New York Times use "e-mail".
According to wikipedia:
There are several spelling variations that occasional... | The *New Oxford American Dictionary* reports that the word is *e-mail*, but also *email*.
[Wiktionary](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e-mail#English) has a voice for *e-mail* where it's reported *email* as alternative spelling, and the following note:
>
> The spellings *e-mail* and *email* are both in common use. Th... |
1,925 | Which way of writing the word: "Email" or "e-mail" is correct? Both variants seem to be in wide use. If both ones are okay, maybe there is a difference in contexts they have been used (one is more formal than the other)? | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/142/"
] | I generally use "email".
I think people who work with technology use "email" and people who write about it use "e-mail" (though this isn't a standard).
Google, Yahoo and Apple use "email".
USAToday, CNN and the New York Times use "e-mail".
According to wikipedia:
There are several spelling variations that occasional... | Using "email" is fine and probably more common in English, but do be aware that many languages that borrow from English only use "e-mail" because "email" is already a different word in Dutch, French, etc. |
1,925 | Which way of writing the word: "Email" or "e-mail" is correct? Both variants seem to be in wide use. If both ones are okay, maybe there is a difference in contexts they have been used (one is more formal than the other)? | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/142/"
] | The *New Oxford American Dictionary* reports that the word is *e-mail*, but also *email*.
[Wiktionary](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e-mail#English) has a voice for *e-mail* where it's reported *email* as alternative spelling, and the following note:
>
> The spellings *e-mail* and *email* are both in common use. Th... | *Email* (with no hyphen). See [Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on](http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSHAR15384620070921):
>
> About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
>
>
> Bumble-bee is now bu... |
1,925 | Which way of writing the word: "Email" or "e-mail" is correct? Both variants seem to be in wide use. If both ones are okay, maybe there is a difference in contexts they have been used (one is more formal than the other)? | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/142/"
] | Both are correct and common. I'd recommend the shorter and simpler **email**.
There seems to be a tendency to drop hyphen as a newly coined word becomes more and more commonplace:
>
> electronic mail → e-mail → email
>
>
>
That is what I've read earlier somewhere, and looking around I now found at least this [q... | The entry in the OED is for *email*. My Internet company was involved in getting the OED online and I got to know the OED's Chief Editor. In 1997 I pleaded with him to change the entry to *e-mail*, because it's a shortened form of "electronic mail".
He said that the OED entry reflected what people used now which, back... |
1,925 | Which way of writing the word: "Email" or "e-mail" is correct? Both variants seem to be in wide use. If both ones are okay, maybe there is a difference in contexts they have been used (one is more formal than the other)? | 2010/08/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/142/"
] | Both *e-mail* and *email* are in standard use at this point, although *e-mail* retains a vast majority of usage in edited, published writing according to my research using the [Corpus of Contemporary American English](https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/) (COCA).
Here are the current results counts in COCA for variou... | Time for a [Google Fight](http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=email&word2=e-mail)!!! Okay, it would appear, surprisingly enough... that e-mail took round 1!!!
Yes, this issue is far from resolved, but I would go with e-mail if you're writing anything that will end up in print. In addition, everywhere... |
25,743 | Having read Karl Marx, and seeing the 10 tenets of Communism, I find it hard to consider China as a Communist country.
Just trying to stick to the 10 tenets.
1. Abolition of private property, everything is public.
2. Progressive Tax.
3. Abolition of rights inheritance.
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants a... | 2017/10/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/25743",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/17646/"
] | No, modern China is not communist. As I explained in a [previous](https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/62764/29927) post, "pre-1980s China was socialist/lower-stage communist. Karl Marx believed that one method for true communism is socialism or the lower stage of communism to achieve the final stage of communism. In h... | This answer is mostly from a [related post on LawSE](https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/68091/does-china-have-parasitism-law-prohibiting-people-from-not-working)
**Re Marx's 8th tenet: Equal obligation of all to work.**
I cannot find any such requirement in either the [Criminal Law](http://www.asianlii.org/cn/le... |
25,743 | Having read Karl Marx, and seeing the 10 tenets of Communism, I find it hard to consider China as a Communist country.
Just trying to stick to the 10 tenets.
1. Abolition of private property, everything is public.
2. Progressive Tax.
3. Abolition of rights inheritance.
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants a... | 2017/10/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/25743",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/17646/"
] | I think that it's Important to emphasize that there are many different forms of communism, and that not all countries were able (or even found it desirable) to use the same model.
Marxism, on which communism is considered to be based, operates on a basic fundamental principal that the society transitioning to communis... | Although the communist society was never realized (and arguably, neither a true socialist society), the distinction between communist and socialist dates back to the 3rd international; from there, marxist-leninist became the communists (including Mao); social-democrats became the other group who proposed a more evoluti... |
25,743 | Having read Karl Marx, and seeing the 10 tenets of Communism, I find it hard to consider China as a Communist country.
Just trying to stick to the 10 tenets.
1. Abolition of private property, everything is public.
2. Progressive Tax.
3. Abolition of rights inheritance.
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants a... | 2017/10/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/25743",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/17646/"
] | In politics textbooks, at least in current versions that I can remember of, @user4012 is correct. Communism is a goal, not a means in the books. Since Marx himself never finished his third volume in his lifetime, the means of transition was left to later people from Lenin, Mao, all the way to now.
And it is said that ... | This answer is mostly from a [related post on LawSE](https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/68091/does-china-have-parasitism-law-prohibiting-people-from-not-working)
**Re Marx's 8th tenet: Equal obligation of all to work.**
I cannot find any such requirement in either the [Criminal Law](http://www.asianlii.org/cn/le... |
25,743 | Having read Karl Marx, and seeing the 10 tenets of Communism, I find it hard to consider China as a Communist country.
Just trying to stick to the 10 tenets.
1. Abolition of private property, everything is public.
2. Progressive Tax.
3. Abolition of rights inheritance.
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants a... | 2017/10/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/25743",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/17646/"
] | In politics textbooks, at least in current versions that I can remember of, @user4012 is correct. Communism is a goal, not a means in the books. Since Marx himself never finished his third volume in his lifetime, the means of transition was left to later people from Lenin, Mao, all the way to now.
And it is said that ... | I think that it's Important to emphasize that there are many different forms of communism, and that not all countries were able (or even found it desirable) to use the same model.
Marxism, on which communism is considered to be based, operates on a basic fundamental principal that the society transitioning to communis... |
25,743 | Having read Karl Marx, and seeing the 10 tenets of Communism, I find it hard to consider China as a Communist country.
Just trying to stick to the 10 tenets.
1. Abolition of private property, everything is public.
2. Progressive Tax.
3. Abolition of rights inheritance.
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants a... | 2017/10/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/25743",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/17646/"
] | No, modern China is not communist. As I explained in a [previous](https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/62764/29927) post, "pre-1980s China was socialist/lower-stage communist. Karl Marx believed that one method for true communism is socialism or the lower stage of communism to achieve the final stage of communism. In h... | Although the communist society was never realized (and arguably, neither a true socialist society), the distinction between communist and socialist dates back to the 3rd international; from there, marxist-leninist became the communists (including Mao); social-democrats became the other group who proposed a more evoluti... |
25,743 | Having read Karl Marx, and seeing the 10 tenets of Communism, I find it hard to consider China as a Communist country.
Just trying to stick to the 10 tenets.
1. Abolition of private property, everything is public.
2. Progressive Tax.
3. Abolition of rights inheritance.
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants a... | 2017/10/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/25743",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/17646/"
] | This answer is mostly from a [related post on LawSE](https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/68091/does-china-have-parasitism-law-prohibiting-people-from-not-working)
**Re Marx's 8th tenet: Equal obligation of all to work.**
I cannot find any such requirement in either the [Criminal Law](http://www.asianlii.org/cn/le... | Although the communist society was never realized (and arguably, neither a true socialist society), the distinction between communist and socialist dates back to the 3rd international; from there, marxist-leninist became the communists (including Mao); social-democrats became the other group who proposed a more evoluti... |
4,825 | I recently purchased a i9000 and the voice quality over the microphone is horrible. The sound is muffled. Person on the other side of the line cannot make out what I'm saying. Is there a fix? | 2011/01/17 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/4825",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/2203/"
] | 1. Pop off the back cover and make sure there's not a sticker or anything over the speaker or mic.
2. You could try Voodoo Sound. It's a custom kernel for SGS devices but if you don't want to mess around with that you could just try [the Voodoo Control app](https://market.android.com/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.contro... | I had the same issue this week. Did the switching off of noise reduction and finally rebooted completely but still same problem. In desperation I stuck a pin in the tiny mic hole at the bottom of the phone and waggled it about... Hey presto! All sorted! |
4,825 | I recently purchased a i9000 and the voice quality over the microphone is horrible. The sound is muffled. Person on the other side of the line cannot make out what I'm saying. Is there a fix? | 2011/01/17 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/4825",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/2203/"
] | 1. Pop off the back cover and make sure there's not a sticker or anything over the speaker or mic.
2. You could try Voodoo Sound. It's a custom kernel for SGS devices but if you don't want to mess around with that you could just try [the Voodoo Control app](https://market.android.com/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.contro... | I had the same problem and was reading all of these posts about clearing cache, system resets, etc, etc. Then I read your post. Sure enough, there was some gunk over the speaker hole. Cleaned it off and everything was fine.
My husband's S3 keep restarting and wouldn't boot. I took it to two different people and both ... |
4,345,843 | I have been planning out the development of a web application written in PHP using the CakePHP framework. This application will be heavily dependent on a SQL database. The primary intent of the application is to provide HTML forms for adding, managing, and removing data from this database. It will be a descent sized da... | 2010/12/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4345843",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/281243/"
] | I develop web applications using CakePHP and MySQL Full time for my current employer, so I'll try to answer your questions from experience:
>
> does anyone know what solution would be best for this type of situation?
>
>
>
Any PHP Framework is a great solution for your problem model. I prefer CakePHP because it a... | You can try out the Agile Platform by OutSystems. You can model your web applications visually (including all database details, web pages, logic, ...) and then generate a standard .Net application using a SQL server database.
Once you define the database structure, you can drag&drop tables into the pages to automatica... |
84,435 | I do street photography, but I don't shoot people or scenes. Instead, I tend to go for details. Lines, shapes, words. I've often wondered if a fisheye lens would be useful for someone like me, or if it'd just be a waste of money.
Is a fisheye lens useful for abstract-ish street photography? Can you give me links to an... | 2016/11/11 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/84435",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/58253/"
] | One way in which fisheye lenses can be used is by capitalizing on their extreme depth of field to take a relatively small detail and make it large relative to the background. In that sense, it lets you emphasize details more strongly than you might with a rectalinear lens. For example, this is not a particularly intere... | I'd say there's only really one way to find out... get your hands on one and try it out. Beg or borrow one if you can before you spend the money, even rent one to have a play and see how you get on.
One thing I would say is that based on your style you seem to like a lot of sharpness in your images, and you may have t... |
84,435 | I do street photography, but I don't shoot people or scenes. Instead, I tend to go for details. Lines, shapes, words. I've often wondered if a fisheye lens would be useful for someone like me, or if it'd just be a waste of money.
Is a fisheye lens useful for abstract-ish street photography? Can you give me links to an... | 2016/11/11 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/84435",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/58253/"
] | One way in which fisheye lenses can be used is by capitalizing on their extreme depth of field to take a relatively small detail and make it large relative to the background. In that sense, it lets you emphasize details more strongly than you might with a rectalinear lens. For example, this is not a particularly intere... | Considering that a fisheye lens covers a huge angle-of-view, often 180 or more diagonally, is is highly difficult to get just details. Sure, you may be able to find patterns that fill such a wide field of view but you would be working against the lens.
Photography is an art though, so no one can say it is impossible. ... |
31,947 | I would like people to tell me under what circumstances, if ever, it can make sense to bypass a 3rd-party recruiter who has rejected you for a position and try to contact the hiring managers directly.
It would be particularly relevant to hear from someone who saw this happen when they were the hiring manager, or from s... | 2014/08/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31947",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25966/"
] | It is unlikely that going around the recruiter is going to work out well for you. I wouldn't suggest it.
First off, there are reasons that companies use recruiters as the front-end of the hiring process. One of those reasons is that it allows the hiring manager to avoid getting buried by resumes that haven't gone thro... | I'm going to go against the [current upvoted answer](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/31950/316) and say it can't hurt to at least try. If its something you think is a dream job, at least give it a chance.
Companies will also often say things like they require X years of experience or a specific degree too, yet m... |
31,947 | I would like people to tell me under what circumstances, if ever, it can make sense to bypass a 3rd-party recruiter who has rejected you for a position and try to contact the hiring managers directly.
It would be particularly relevant to hear from someone who saw this happen when they were the hiring manager, or from s... | 2014/08/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31947",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25966/"
] | It is unlikely that going around the recruiter is going to work out well for you. I wouldn't suggest it.
First off, there are reasons that companies use recruiters as the front-end of the hiring process. One of those reasons is that it allows the hiring manager to avoid getting buried by resumes that haven't gone thro... | You should absolutely go for it.
Recruiters are like bird-dogs for companies, that run through the brush and dig up qualified candidates for their positions.
Going to a company directly is like a bird flying straight into your net. It's awesome!
I would say don't expect any surprising results. Recruiters tend to be ... |
31,947 | I would like people to tell me under what circumstances, if ever, it can make sense to bypass a 3rd-party recruiter who has rejected you for a position and try to contact the hiring managers directly.
It would be particularly relevant to hear from someone who saw this happen when they were the hiring manager, or from s... | 2014/08/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31947",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25966/"
] | It is unlikely that going around the recruiter is going to work out well for you. I wouldn't suggest it.
First off, there are reasons that companies use recruiters as the front-end of the hiring process. One of those reasons is that it allows the hiring manager to avoid getting buried by resumes that haven't gone thro... | I would say you should not for several reasons:
* Not following procedures is a big red-flag. If you've been with a company for 10 years and demonstrated what a superstar you are, you may get away with ignoring procedure and process. An outsider ignoring the process does not make a great first impression.
* The fact t... |
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