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173,853 | I have heard the phrase "feeding the dragon" used to describe pouring time, resources, and energy into a situation that is self-perpetuating, caught in a positive feedback loop with negative consequences, or is growing out of control because of actions being taken. I think "giving a mouse a cookie" has similar meaning but with much less harsh connotations. Searches for the phrase online reveals many hits on Chinese economics and references to another phrase, "chasing the dragon" none of which shed some light on the meaning of "*feeding* the dragon". I have not been able to find much else. What is the etymology of this phrase? | 2014/05/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/173853",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | In regards to Chinese economics, the meanings behind *feeding the dragon* and *chasing the dragon* refer to China as a dragon, its mythological mascot of sorts. When referring to China as a dragon, I feel it appropriate to capitalize the D.
*Feeding the Dragon* would be aiding China's economy by giving it business and *chasing the Dragon* would be following in its footsteps, aspiring to the greatness that the country has achieved. You could take this further and say *poke the Dragon* for anything that would possibly agitate politicians or the military of the country, like if the US were to do nuclear weapons testing in the East China Sea for some inconceivable reason.
To actually go back to your initial question, *feeding the dragon* in the context of pouring time, energy, and money into something that keeps needing it, I would say that the etymology of the idiom comes purely from the connotations *dragon* has. As far as I am aware, within the cultures where English is spoken natively and dragons are part of the folklore, they are always fierce, brutish creatures. Feeding one of these dragons would only make it grow to be more fearsome. Someone with a drug addiction going off to do more of that very same drug would surely be feeding the dragon in that sense, cementing the extent of their addiction and making it harder to let go.
Maybe I'm thinking too bluntly, but there probably isn't more to the saying than that. | I always thought that "feeding the dragon" came from the opium dens of Victorian England, where addicts would pour more and more time and money into their habit only to reinforce their addiction.
As mentioned in several other answers, "the dragon" part of the phrase came from the Chinese connection, although whether as a direct reference or because the dragon symbol was frequently used to suggest a "Chinese" parlor of this nature I'm not sure. |
173,853 | I have heard the phrase "feeding the dragon" used to describe pouring time, resources, and energy into a situation that is self-perpetuating, caught in a positive feedback loop with negative consequences, or is growing out of control because of actions being taken. I think "giving a mouse a cookie" has similar meaning but with much less harsh connotations. Searches for the phrase online reveals many hits on Chinese economics and references to another phrase, "chasing the dragon" none of which shed some light on the meaning of "*feeding* the dragon". I have not been able to find much else. What is the etymology of this phrase? | 2014/05/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/173853",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/75188/"
] | The etymology seems to be related to morality:
**Dragonism** is defined as "unremitting watchfulness" and there is a historical reference in clergyman Joshua Lacy Wilson's **Episcopal Methodism; or Dragonism Exhibited** (1811)
Wilson, a Presbyterian clergyman, and professor of "moral philosophy
and logic" campaigned against *theaters, dancing and
Masonic order* in the above-mentioned '**Dragonism**' pamphlet. -"A companion biographical reference work to Who's who in America."
Physical Description: v. 27 cm. (1607-1896)
&
The etymology may be in the [oroborus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros) (uroboros, oureboros) or the symbol depicting a dragon eating its own tail. - referred to in the **Pistis Sophia** (Gnostic text) (3rd -4th centuries AD) | IT seems to "feed the dragon" is a metaphor for supplying more fuel to that which does not serve us. And yet, a dragon is not a beast, nor is it a negative, it's a myth, a metaphor.
Dragon's have power, if the dragon is within the psyche it needs food to thrive to be powerful and must be fed.
We fear the dragon, and we resist feeding it, we restrict the flow to the dragon and the dragon becomes the latent hunger that drives the behaviors, but this is not the dragon, its the result of not feeding, purposefully avoiding feeding the dragon, restricting the dragon at ones own peril.
During our drumming journey tonight, several people had a similar experience with a dragon. All of us actually, and the dragon left a clear message with one to "Feed your dragon".
The evidence to restricting life's flow would unbalance and drive compulsive behavior... as will any restriction. A happy dragon would be one that holds power and is regularly fed and with no fear of being denied what it most needs - it's food.
To starve a dragon would seem to unleash the monster, and at your peril on your own head be it. |
173,853 | I have heard the phrase "feeding the dragon" used to describe pouring time, resources, and energy into a situation that is self-perpetuating, caught in a positive feedback loop with negative consequences, or is growing out of control because of actions being taken. I think "giving a mouse a cookie" has similar meaning but with much less harsh connotations. Searches for the phrase online reveals many hits on Chinese economics and references to another phrase, "chasing the dragon" none of which shed some light on the meaning of "*feeding* the dragon". I have not been able to find much else. What is the etymology of this phrase? | 2014/05/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/173853",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/75188/"
] | The phrase appears to be a straightforward metaphor, as Dispensador observes. One early instance where the dragon really is a dragon occurs in Karl Stieler, Hans Wachenhusen, and Friedrich Hacklander, [*The Rhine From Its Source to the Sea*](http://books.google.com/books?id=dk0MAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA315&dq=%22feeding+the+dragon%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9HeHU-KKJMT7oASA5oHACA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22feeding%20the%20dragon%22&f=false) (1878):
>
> Another version of the legend [of the Drachenfels] is, that by the advice of their priests, the pagans of the mountain were in the habit of **feeding the dragon** with the bodies of their prisoners, and in order to keep him in good humour they were obliged constantly to provide him with fresh victims.
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>
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But the phrase "feed the dragon" has been used metaphorically even earlier. From "[The Substitute](http://books.google.com/books?id=WEMxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA38&dq=%22feed+the+dragon%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sm-HU4jIBoPuoASyyoGYDQ&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22feed%20the%20dragon%22&f=false)" in *The St. James Magazine and United Empire Review* (December 1863 to March 1864):
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> The levy was being vigorously pushed on, at that very time, throughout the north-eastern States, and Colonel Zerubbabel Wilks, with his regiment, had arrived in New London for the purpose of enforcing the draft, in case of resistance being offered to the Commissioners. Men must be had to **feed the dragon** of war, and bounties had long since failed of their primitive effect. There had been much growling and talk of armed opposition on the part of the labouring population of the little seaport, but the presence of Wilks and his Zouaves, coupled with the knowledge that Colonel Schurtzer and his marauding regiment of Germans, renowned for their lax discipline and rough treatment of civilians, were encamped on the banks of the Connecticut River, caused the discontent to evaporate in harmless grumbling.
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The dragon here is a destructive engine that requires constant refreshment of human (and monetary) fuel, but is so fearsome that people take the path of least resistance in dealing with it. A one-word term for this policy might be *appeasement*, though there is some irony in applying that term (in this instance) to feeding a dragon of war, rather than to feeding a dragon against whom we fear to go to war.
Similarly, from "[The Magical Cure](http://books.google.com/books?id=Ldo1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA263&dq=%22feed+the+dragon%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sm-HU4jIBoPuoASyyoGYDQ&ved=0CGsQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22feed%20the%20dragon%22&f=false)," in *The Health Reformer* (May 1871):
>
> My good friend, you are in a terrible situation ; but I can help you if you will follow my directions. You have a horrible animal in your stomach—a dragon with seven mouths. I must talk with the dragon myself, face to face, so you must come to me. But in the first place you must on no account either drive in a carriage or ride on horseback—you must travel on the shoemaker's nags ; otherwise you will disturb the dragon and he will devour your intestines in his anger. In the second place, you dare not eat anything but the simplest food ; in the morning, a little soup with vegetables sliced in it ; at mid-day, a sausage and one plate of vegetables ; the same at evening, only an egg ion place of the sausage. Whatever else you may eat will only **feed the dragon**, who will grow larger, and your tailor will very soon be obliged to yield his place to the undertaker.
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>
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In this case, the dragon is internal: an unhealthful combination of diet and inactivity. | As a attorney who represents people charged with [drug crimes](http://www.idefendva.com/fairfax-drug-lawyer) I know that "feeding the dragon" is actually not the correct phrase. The correct phraseology is "chasing the dragon." I always tell my clients that the secret to chasing the dragon is to make sure that they never actually "catch the dragon." |
173,853 | I have heard the phrase "feeding the dragon" used to describe pouring time, resources, and energy into a situation that is self-perpetuating, caught in a positive feedback loop with negative consequences, or is growing out of control because of actions being taken. I think "giving a mouse a cookie" has similar meaning but with much less harsh connotations. Searches for the phrase online reveals many hits on Chinese economics and references to another phrase, "chasing the dragon" none of which shed some light on the meaning of "*feeding* the dragon". I have not been able to find much else. What is the etymology of this phrase? | 2014/05/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/173853",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/75188/"
] | I would interpret the phrase as a derivation of ***to feed the beast***. The earliest Google Books results for this phrase refer to the literal feeding of animals, but by 1900 we have uses such as
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> They perfectly understand the utility of “[feeding the beast](http://books.google.com/books?id=oJhyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA245#v=onepage&q&f=false)” with a nice dinner to keep him good-tempered
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in reference to keeping a potentially [beastly](http://www.collinsdictionry.com/dictionary/english/beastly) person happy, or of subduing *the beast within*, representing the savage instincts of humanity that ration and civilization keep in check. That phrase may have [originated in](http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.10.ix.html) translations of Plato's *Republic*:
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> I mean those which are awake when the reasoning and human and ruling power is asleep; then **the wild beast within us**, gorged with meat or drink, starts up and having shaken off sleep, goes forth to satisfy his desires; and there is no conceivable folly or crime … which at such a time, when he has parted company with all shame and sense, a man may not be ready to commit.
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To *feed the beast*, then, is to surrender to something wild and uncontrollable. Perhaps you feed it just enough to stay quiet, hoping to tame it— but perhaps you indulge it, to make it stronger and more vicious (not unlike *adding fuel to the fire*).
You see results relating to China because the dragon is a synecdoche for China, which is being viewed as a metaphorical beast in some way (after all, *feeding the panda* or *feeding the crane* is not nearly as threatening). Similarly, you see uses like *[feed the bear](http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2007/03/01/dont-feed-the-bear/)* for indulging Russia. To *starve the beast* is to end one's obeisance to the beast, enduring the consequences, in hopes of being freed of it; for fiscal conservatives, for example, *to [starve the beast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast)* is to deprive the government of revenue under the theory that it would force the government to reduce spending.
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*Chasing the dragon* similarly uses a dragon to represent China, but is an unrelated phrase. It may refer to competing with China, or it may mean an impossible pursuit, or something else; it is hard to say without context. | I always thought that "feeding the dragon" came from the opium dens of Victorian England, where addicts would pour more and more time and money into their habit only to reinforce their addiction.
As mentioned in several other answers, "the dragon" part of the phrase came from the Chinese connection, although whether as a direct reference or because the dragon symbol was frequently used to suggest a "Chinese" parlor of this nature I'm not sure. |
173,853 | I have heard the phrase "feeding the dragon" used to describe pouring time, resources, and energy into a situation that is self-perpetuating, caught in a positive feedback loop with negative consequences, or is growing out of control because of actions being taken. I think "giving a mouse a cookie" has similar meaning but with much less harsh connotations. Searches for the phrase online reveals many hits on Chinese economics and references to another phrase, "chasing the dragon" none of which shed some light on the meaning of "*feeding* the dragon". I have not been able to find much else. What is the etymology of this phrase? | 2014/05/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/173853",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/75188/"
] | The phrase appears to be a straightforward metaphor, as Dispensador observes. One early instance where the dragon really is a dragon occurs in Karl Stieler, Hans Wachenhusen, and Friedrich Hacklander, [*The Rhine From Its Source to the Sea*](http://books.google.com/books?id=dk0MAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA315&dq=%22feeding+the+dragon%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9HeHU-KKJMT7oASA5oHACA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22feeding%20the%20dragon%22&f=false) (1878):
>
> Another version of the legend [of the Drachenfels] is, that by the advice of their priests, the pagans of the mountain were in the habit of **feeding the dragon** with the bodies of their prisoners, and in order to keep him in good humour they were obliged constantly to provide him with fresh victims.
>
>
>
But the phrase "feed the dragon" has been used metaphorically even earlier. From "[The Substitute](http://books.google.com/books?id=WEMxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA38&dq=%22feed+the+dragon%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sm-HU4jIBoPuoASyyoGYDQ&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22feed%20the%20dragon%22&f=false)" in *The St. James Magazine and United Empire Review* (December 1863 to March 1864):
>
> The levy was being vigorously pushed on, at that very time, throughout the north-eastern States, and Colonel Zerubbabel Wilks, with his regiment, had arrived in New London for the purpose of enforcing the draft, in case of resistance being offered to the Commissioners. Men must be had to **feed the dragon** of war, and bounties had long since failed of their primitive effect. There had been much growling and talk of armed opposition on the part of the labouring population of the little seaport, but the presence of Wilks and his Zouaves, coupled with the knowledge that Colonel Schurtzer and his marauding regiment of Germans, renowned for their lax discipline and rough treatment of civilians, were encamped on the banks of the Connecticut River, caused the discontent to evaporate in harmless grumbling.
>
>
>
The dragon here is a destructive engine that requires constant refreshment of human (and monetary) fuel, but is so fearsome that people take the path of least resistance in dealing with it. A one-word term for this policy might be *appeasement*, though there is some irony in applying that term (in this instance) to feeding a dragon of war, rather than to feeding a dragon against whom we fear to go to war.
Similarly, from "[The Magical Cure](http://books.google.com/books?id=Ldo1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA263&dq=%22feed+the+dragon%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sm-HU4jIBoPuoASyyoGYDQ&ved=0CGsQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22feed%20the%20dragon%22&f=false)," in *The Health Reformer* (May 1871):
>
> My good friend, you are in a terrible situation ; but I can help you if you will follow my directions. You have a horrible animal in your stomach—a dragon with seven mouths. I must talk with the dragon myself, face to face, so you must come to me. But in the first place you must on no account either drive in a carriage or ride on horseback—you must travel on the shoemaker's nags ; otherwise you will disturb the dragon and he will devour your intestines in his anger. In the second place, you dare not eat anything but the simplest food ; in the morning, a little soup with vegetables sliced in it ; at mid-day, a sausage and one plate of vegetables ; the same at evening, only an egg ion place of the sausage. Whatever else you may eat will only **feed the dragon**, who will grow larger, and your tailor will very soon be obliged to yield his place to the undertaker.
>
>
>
In this case, the dragon is internal: an unhealthful combination of diet and inactivity. | The etymology seems to be related to morality:
**Dragonism** is defined as "unremitting watchfulness" and there is a historical reference in clergyman Joshua Lacy Wilson's **Episcopal Methodism; or Dragonism Exhibited** (1811)
Wilson, a Presbyterian clergyman, and professor of "moral philosophy
and logic" campaigned against *theaters, dancing and
Masonic order* in the above-mentioned '**Dragonism**' pamphlet. -"A companion biographical reference work to Who's who in America."
Physical Description: v. 27 cm. (1607-1896)
&
The etymology may be in the [oroborus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros) (uroboros, oureboros) or the symbol depicting a dragon eating its own tail. - referred to in the **Pistis Sophia** (Gnostic text) (3rd -4th centuries AD) |
2,261 | Home Depot/Lowes, etc., have boiled linseed oil at a much cheaper price than the local art store that I go to.
Are there any problem using boiled linseed oil from these home stores for oil painting applications, cleaning brushes etc? | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/2261",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com",
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] | The thing about the art store options is that they're being tested by the manufacturers for their impact on the longevity of the painting or color impact to the pigments, so I would divide my response into a couple of parts...
Brush Cleaning? Sure, presuming that you're doing additional cleaning after. If you're looking to just store the brushes in the oil, between sessions, I would be more hesitant.
Painting? I would pass on it. It may well be perfectly fine, depending on the brand, but as I noted, they're likely not testing for your use case. At the end of the day, if you're looking to make works that last, going too cheap comes with risk. However, all that goes out the window with student grade paint options. If you're already taking a skip on the longevity, then I don't think you're really risking anything here either.
Finally, you can always test it yourself. Just don't do it on anything you care about until you know. | Since you tagged this as oil-paint, I assume that is your intended use.
Actually, the BLO that is sold in art stores is the same stuff that is peddled in hardware stores, be they large or small.
So you can use the BLO from the gallon cans for anything that you might use the BLO purchased from anywhere else.
**Edit:**
Note that not all linseed oil is "boiled linseed oil". BLO is not even actually boiled, but has additives that cause it to dry faster. Raw linseed oil is a slow drying product and may be refined. Stand oil is heated and is lighter in color.
Most hardware stores carry only BLO.
Raw linseed oil is harder to find except in specialty stores (e.g. art supply houses). Art stores are likely to carry multiple forms of linseed oil, but the one with the "Boiled linseed oil" label contains the same stuff as from the hardware stores. |
2,261 | Home Depot/Lowes, etc., have boiled linseed oil at a much cheaper price than the local art store that I go to.
Are there any problem using boiled linseed oil from these home stores for oil painting applications, cleaning brushes etc? | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/2261",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/users/1006/"
] | Since you tagged this as oil-paint, I assume that is your intended use.
Actually, the BLO that is sold in art stores is the same stuff that is peddled in hardware stores, be they large or small.
So you can use the BLO from the gallon cans for anything that you might use the BLO purchased from anywhere else.
**Edit:**
Note that not all linseed oil is "boiled linseed oil". BLO is not even actually boiled, but has additives that cause it to dry faster. Raw linseed oil is a slow drying product and may be refined. Stand oil is heated and is lighter in color.
Most hardware stores carry only BLO.
Raw linseed oil is harder to find except in specialty stores (e.g. art supply houses). Art stores are likely to carry multiple forms of linseed oil, but the one with the "Boiled linseed oil" label contains the same stuff as from the hardware stores. | My understanding is that the art store stuff is better filtered and cooked differently.
I read that the main risk is early yellowing-browning....that being said I have used it in the past and I have paintings done 15-20 years ago using very liberal oil amounts (painting in layers, glazes: a very small amount of pigment diluted in a lot of oil), and i haven t noticed any color shifts or browning.
I think that if you use small amounts of oil or if you sell your paintings it's safer to stick to the art store type.
If you use a lot of oil, and as you mentioned for cleaning brushes, and the end result isn't critical, then sure do it.
( side note :I feel there is too much emphasis on "archival", last 100's of years, do it right or don't bother, from so many painters when the sad truth is that their paintings are extremely unlikely to survive them, if they even make it that far, while some artists can paint using Mayonaise and if they are great, there will always be ways to preserve their work)
( And side-side note, most of the museum grade classical painting were painted using crap, there was no quality control and no purification or controlled manufacturing processes, the pigments were often unevenly grounded full of impurities, unstable, mixed with bad oils and additives and some ingredients used were organic and decayed...for instance Indian Yellow was most likely made from the urine of Indian cows on a diet of mango leaves, Wikipedia has a good article on it....moreover some of the things we admire in classical paintings are actually due to "improper" conservation and "faulty" mediums)
Edit: just realized this is a very old question, though it was new. anyways, hope it helps. |
2,261 | Home Depot/Lowes, etc., have boiled linseed oil at a much cheaper price than the local art store that I go to.
Are there any problem using boiled linseed oil from these home stores for oil painting applications, cleaning brushes etc? | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/2261",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/users/1006/"
] | Since you tagged this as oil-paint, I assume that is your intended use.
Actually, the BLO that is sold in art stores is the same stuff that is peddled in hardware stores, be they large or small.
So you can use the BLO from the gallon cans for anything that you might use the BLO purchased from anywhere else.
**Edit:**
Note that not all linseed oil is "boiled linseed oil". BLO is not even actually boiled, but has additives that cause it to dry faster. Raw linseed oil is a slow drying product and may be refined. Stand oil is heated and is lighter in color.
Most hardware stores carry only BLO.
Raw linseed oil is harder to find except in specialty stores (e.g. art supply houses). Art stores are likely to carry multiple forms of linseed oil, but the one with the "Boiled linseed oil" label contains the same stuff as from the hardware stores. | To reduce the potential effects of yellowing/browning, I use hardware store BLO only with dark colors. I use only art store BLO for light colors. If you don't mind diluting colors with boiled linseed oil, go for it. It works great on the abstract stuff, usually the very large-sized works.
If you do indoor painting, use walnut oil, instead, which has the least odor of them all.
Never use paint thinner to clean brushes indoors. Refined mineral spirits from art stores may have less odor, but the fumes can still be hazardous to your health.
You can use baby oil to clean the brushes indoors. But make sure not to paint with baby oil. Dip the brush in linseed oil a few times and wipe before using it again.
As an aside, the best tip I have for oil painters is buy the orange grease-removing soap/cleaner sold at automotive stores. It cleans the grease mechanics suffer with, and it does a great job on cleaning your hands with oil paint. |
2,261 | Home Depot/Lowes, etc., have boiled linseed oil at a much cheaper price than the local art store that I go to.
Are there any problem using boiled linseed oil from these home stores for oil painting applications, cleaning brushes etc? | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/2261",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/users/1006/"
] | The thing about the art store options is that they're being tested by the manufacturers for their impact on the longevity of the painting or color impact to the pigments, so I would divide my response into a couple of parts...
Brush Cleaning? Sure, presuming that you're doing additional cleaning after. If you're looking to just store the brushes in the oil, between sessions, I would be more hesitant.
Painting? I would pass on it. It may well be perfectly fine, depending on the brand, but as I noted, they're likely not testing for your use case. At the end of the day, if you're looking to make works that last, going too cheap comes with risk. However, all that goes out the window with student grade paint options. If you're already taking a skip on the longevity, then I don't think you're really risking anything here either.
Finally, you can always test it yourself. Just don't do it on anything you care about until you know. | My understanding is that the art store stuff is better filtered and cooked differently.
I read that the main risk is early yellowing-browning....that being said I have used it in the past and I have paintings done 15-20 years ago using very liberal oil amounts (painting in layers, glazes: a very small amount of pigment diluted in a lot of oil), and i haven t noticed any color shifts or browning.
I think that if you use small amounts of oil or if you sell your paintings it's safer to stick to the art store type.
If you use a lot of oil, and as you mentioned for cleaning brushes, and the end result isn't critical, then sure do it.
( side note :I feel there is too much emphasis on "archival", last 100's of years, do it right or don't bother, from so many painters when the sad truth is that their paintings are extremely unlikely to survive them, if they even make it that far, while some artists can paint using Mayonaise and if they are great, there will always be ways to preserve their work)
( And side-side note, most of the museum grade classical painting were painted using crap, there was no quality control and no purification or controlled manufacturing processes, the pigments were often unevenly grounded full of impurities, unstable, mixed with bad oils and additives and some ingredients used were organic and decayed...for instance Indian Yellow was most likely made from the urine of Indian cows on a diet of mango leaves, Wikipedia has a good article on it....moreover some of the things we admire in classical paintings are actually due to "improper" conservation and "faulty" mediums)
Edit: just realized this is a very old question, though it was new. anyways, hope it helps. |
2,261 | Home Depot/Lowes, etc., have boiled linseed oil at a much cheaper price than the local art store that I go to.
Are there any problem using boiled linseed oil from these home stores for oil painting applications, cleaning brushes etc? | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/2261",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/users/1006/"
] | The thing about the art store options is that they're being tested by the manufacturers for their impact on the longevity of the painting or color impact to the pigments, so I would divide my response into a couple of parts...
Brush Cleaning? Sure, presuming that you're doing additional cleaning after. If you're looking to just store the brushes in the oil, between sessions, I would be more hesitant.
Painting? I would pass on it. It may well be perfectly fine, depending on the brand, but as I noted, they're likely not testing for your use case. At the end of the day, if you're looking to make works that last, going too cheap comes with risk. However, all that goes out the window with student grade paint options. If you're already taking a skip on the longevity, then I don't think you're really risking anything here either.
Finally, you can always test it yourself. Just don't do it on anything you care about until you know. | To reduce the potential effects of yellowing/browning, I use hardware store BLO only with dark colors. I use only art store BLO for light colors. If you don't mind diluting colors with boiled linseed oil, go for it. It works great on the abstract stuff, usually the very large-sized works.
If you do indoor painting, use walnut oil, instead, which has the least odor of them all.
Never use paint thinner to clean brushes indoors. Refined mineral spirits from art stores may have less odor, but the fumes can still be hazardous to your health.
You can use baby oil to clean the brushes indoors. But make sure not to paint with baby oil. Dip the brush in linseed oil a few times and wipe before using it again.
As an aside, the best tip I have for oil painters is buy the orange grease-removing soap/cleaner sold at automotive stores. It cleans the grease mechanics suffer with, and it does a great job on cleaning your hands with oil paint. |
2,261 | Home Depot/Lowes, etc., have boiled linseed oil at a much cheaper price than the local art store that I go to.
Are there any problem using boiled linseed oil from these home stores for oil painting applications, cleaning brushes etc? | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/2261",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/users/1006/"
] | My understanding is that the art store stuff is better filtered and cooked differently.
I read that the main risk is early yellowing-browning....that being said I have used it in the past and I have paintings done 15-20 years ago using very liberal oil amounts (painting in layers, glazes: a very small amount of pigment diluted in a lot of oil), and i haven t noticed any color shifts or browning.
I think that if you use small amounts of oil or if you sell your paintings it's safer to stick to the art store type.
If you use a lot of oil, and as you mentioned for cleaning brushes, and the end result isn't critical, then sure do it.
( side note :I feel there is too much emphasis on "archival", last 100's of years, do it right or don't bother, from so many painters when the sad truth is that their paintings are extremely unlikely to survive them, if they even make it that far, while some artists can paint using Mayonaise and if they are great, there will always be ways to preserve their work)
( And side-side note, most of the museum grade classical painting were painted using crap, there was no quality control and no purification or controlled manufacturing processes, the pigments were often unevenly grounded full of impurities, unstable, mixed with bad oils and additives and some ingredients used were organic and decayed...for instance Indian Yellow was most likely made from the urine of Indian cows on a diet of mango leaves, Wikipedia has a good article on it....moreover some of the things we admire in classical paintings are actually due to "improper" conservation and "faulty" mediums)
Edit: just realized this is a very old question, though it was new. anyways, hope it helps. | To reduce the potential effects of yellowing/browning, I use hardware store BLO only with dark colors. I use only art store BLO for light colors. If you don't mind diluting colors with boiled linseed oil, go for it. It works great on the abstract stuff, usually the very large-sized works.
If you do indoor painting, use walnut oil, instead, which has the least odor of them all.
Never use paint thinner to clean brushes indoors. Refined mineral spirits from art stores may have less odor, but the fumes can still be hazardous to your health.
You can use baby oil to clean the brushes indoors. But make sure not to paint with baby oil. Dip the brush in linseed oil a few times and wipe before using it again.
As an aside, the best tip I have for oil painters is buy the orange grease-removing soap/cleaner sold at automotive stores. It cleans the grease mechanics suffer with, and it does a great job on cleaning your hands with oil paint. |
66,755 | [From the BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-50211901), WRT instructions by the police for people on the streets to move on:
>
> the legal niceties don't always matter: "The police will often just insist on people 'moving on' because they have been asked by the local authority to clear the street, but without quoting any specific piece of legislation. Naturally (and wisely), people usually don't ask under what legal provision the police officer is asking them to move." To do so could be interpreted as a breach of the peace or obstructing a police officer, the Shelter expert says.
>
>
>
From my position of having a home and not being particularly oppressed by the state this seems incredible to me, that a simple request for justification could result in criminality. This leads to two linked questions:
1. From a legal perspective is it possible to commit a crime such as breach of the peace or obstructing a police officer by requesting the legal justification for a order from a police officer such as "move on", given that the legality of such orders are highly questionable?
2. From a practical perspective have people been arrested and/or charged with a crime for requesting the legal justification for a order from a police officer such as "move on"? | 2021/06/14 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/66755",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/24401/"
] | **Is asking police to justify their orders illegal?**
**NO** but the manner in which the "asking" is done may be. | Asking is not illegal
---------------------
**In fact, the police must tell you the reason for the direction to be valid.**
[new-south-wales](/questions/tagged/new-south-wales "show questions tagged 'new-south-wales'")
[s197](http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/leara2002451/s197.html) of the *Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act* give police the power to order people to move on if they are obstructing pedestrians or traffic, they are intimidating or harassing others, they are placing others in fear, they are supplying or receiving prohibited drugs.
[s198](http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/leara2002451/s198.html) gives them the power to move drunks along if they are a risk to people or property or are disorderly.
[s199](http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/leara2002451/s199.html) extends both the above powers to groups of people.
[s200](http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/leara2002451/s200.html) sets out the fine for non-compliance: 2 penalty units (currently $110).
**Requirements for validity**
All of these directions must be given in compliance with the [Code of Practice](http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/learr2016542/sch3.html) which requires:
* providing evidence they are a police officer (unless they are in uniform), their name, place of duty and the **reason** for the exercise of the power. This must be done as soon as possible and, when directing an individual, before the direction is given.
* informing the person(s) that they are required by law to comply with the direction (unless they have already complied),
* when exercising the drunk power, informing the person that they cannot return to any public place for 6 hours.
However, [s204A](http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/leara2002451/s204a.html) provides that even if the requirements above are not met, the order is still valid if given to a group unless the officer was asked to provide the information and didn't. |
236,136 | I have a remote win xp machine to which I connect via RDP. When I open a Cisco VPN connection (4.8 client) on that machine, the RDP connection drops because all traffic is routed over the VPN connection now.
Is there a way to make this work?
me => rdp => winXp => vpn => target | 2011/02/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/236136",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/101758/"
] | Typically the SC is on a 'proper' routable network to allow for management, if you want the SC to deal with the VMs in any way (and it's a **very** bad idea by the way) you need to put the VMs on the same network as the SC or one that is routable from the SC. | I don't think you can access the OS directly from an ESX host, and until you network those machines you aren't going to be able to run commands on them through SSH. Since you are switching IP tables off, I am assuming that you don't have a security policy in place that requires IP tables (or any firewall) is switched on before connecting them to the network.
So I suggest switching the network on, allowing DHCP to configure the IP address and DNS entries for each host and then use SSH (via a script) to do your configuration tasks.
[Functionality similar to what you are thinking of exists in Xen](http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Command_Line_Interface), although this also requires a network connection to get the commands through. |
236,136 | I have a remote win xp machine to which I connect via RDP. When I open a Cisco VPN connection (4.8 client) on that machine, the RDP connection drops because all traffic is routed over the VPN connection now.
Is there a way to make this work?
me => rdp => winXp => vpn => target | 2011/02/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/236136",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/101758/"
] | Typically the SC is on a 'proper' routable network to allow for management, if you want the SC to deal with the VMs in any way (and it's a **very** bad idea by the way) you need to put the VMs on the same network as the SC or one that is routable from the SC. | Nope, not from the ESX console. Just because these are VMs, doesn't mean you can do batched actions within them from the ESX side of things. You'll probably have to do this the same way you would do it with 32 physical machines - pssh, puppet, etc.
---
/edit - missed the fact that there's no network enabled in your VMs yet. Yeah, so @dunxd has a good point - enable DHCP first, then make all your clones, then do your setup management. Just like if you had 32 physical machines. |
154,453 | I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium on a Sony Vaio laptop. I think somehow my Windows Explorer has become corrupted. I don't recall any certain inciting incident like installing an unreputable 3rd party app or hardware failure but just recently my system won't wake after it's been left idle longer that 20 minutes and goes to sleep. I've also had problems launch certain apps, like Adobe InDesign CS3, that just basically freeze the system but leave mouse movements functioning for a short time before freezing the entire system which requires a hard reboot to resolve the freeze. The system seems to run normally when used but I fear there's a looming possibility that this is a house of cards and will all come crashing down soon.
My question is this, can Windows Explorer be repaired/fixed? Before reformatting the system and starting over, which is most likely what I'm going to be forced to do, I'd like explore (no pun intended) my options in fixing the problem with a patch or reinstall or something of that nature. Reformatting my system will eat up a day or two of my time and I just don't have the time to spare right now. | 2010/06/19 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/154453",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/36108/"
] | Download the latest AV files here
Paid versions
<http://www.avg.com/us-en/download-update>
AVG Free
<http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-update>
. | Have you tried using "Sync Center"? If I am right, you should be able to share your -
C:\ProgramData\avg10\update folder with your second computer. I have yet to test this
option, but it looks like it should do the trick for you. |
45,973 | We have quite a few [questions on tipping in the USA](https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tipping+usa), but looking through I can't seem to spot one that covers this.
When in the USA, if you are somewhere where drinks are free but served to you, is it expected to tip the person pouring / bringing the drink, and if so, how much?
Additionally, does it vary by location / setting? For example, might an airport / hotel lounge differ from an all-inclusive hotel / resort?
(I'm currently in an airline lounge at a US airport, and was given some vouchers for free drinks when I entered, which are given to the barstaff in exchange for drinks. Some people seem to give a tip, some not. A few weeks ago I was in a hotel lounge which had free drinks for an hour in the evening, with a member of staff removing beers from the fridge and opening them for you, but I was the only one there then so didn't have anyone to copy....) | 2015/04/11 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/45973",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/26/"
] | In general, if you're in a place that also *sells* drinks and you're using vouchers, etc then tip as you would if you'd paid. So a dollar or two per drink depending on price and place. Same goes for discounts and other freebies like a 2 for 1 deal -- although you could choose to tip more up front. Obviously if the staff just decide to give you a freebie then tip on that too and generously (since you just got a free drink).
Otherwise, if the staff rely on tips, they lose out because someone has scored some vouchers or something.
For all-inclusive, I'd follow the same rules as you would at a similar non-inclusive resort in the same country. Unless it explicitly says somewhere that tips are not expected / are included.
In the free hour at the hotel lounge it's more tricky. Again if it's a normal bar and a bartender then tip as normal (or tip all at once up front or at the end). If it's just a hotel employee occasionally fetching you a drink I wouldn't think tipping is expected. But it's probably appreciated so maybe leave them something at the end of the hour. | "It depends."
Typically, the rule is that whoever gets the bill does the tipping. For example, at a catered event, you wouldn't try to tip the people bringing you your food or drinks because you're not paying the bill. I think any time you aren't paying a bill, you're safe to err on the side of "no tipping".
I have been to company catered events at hotels, though, where some hotel employee was manning a drinks booth, with the company covering the cost of the drinks, but the employee had a tip jar out. Not everyone simply carries loose dollars around with them, so I don't think tips are really expected in this situation but tossing a dollar in the jar if you have one is "a nice gesture", I suppose to acknowledge that they are serving you, being attentive, and that this is somewhat outside of their normal hotel duties, and that most likely the bill for the event is not going to have a "tips" line on it.
This is an example where to some extent the onus is on the employee to have a tip jar if they expect tips because otherwise no one is even getting their wallets out. You'll see this sort of thing sometimes with live music too. Should you tip the band? The band itself will usually indicate this by having a tip jar out, or not. If the venue is paying (especially through a cover charge or ticket sales) then there's usually no tip jar because the band is fully paid. If someone expects tips in a questionable situation, see if they have a tip jar, likely placed where you can't miss it, with money in there already to give people the hint. |
45,973 | We have quite a few [questions on tipping in the USA](https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tipping+usa), but looking through I can't seem to spot one that covers this.
When in the USA, if you are somewhere where drinks are free but served to you, is it expected to tip the person pouring / bringing the drink, and if so, how much?
Additionally, does it vary by location / setting? For example, might an airport / hotel lounge differ from an all-inclusive hotel / resort?
(I'm currently in an airline lounge at a US airport, and was given some vouchers for free drinks when I entered, which are given to the barstaff in exchange for drinks. Some people seem to give a tip, some not. A few weeks ago I was in a hotel lounge which had free drinks for an hour in the evening, with a member of staff removing beers from the fridge and opening them for you, but I was the only one there then so didn't have anyone to copy....) | 2015/04/11 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/45973",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/26/"
] | In general, if you're in a place that also *sells* drinks and you're using vouchers, etc then tip as you would if you'd paid. So a dollar or two per drink depending on price and place. Same goes for discounts and other freebies like a 2 for 1 deal -- although you could choose to tip more up front. Obviously if the staff just decide to give you a freebie then tip on that too and generously (since you just got a free drink).
Otherwise, if the staff rely on tips, they lose out because someone has scored some vouchers or something.
For all-inclusive, I'd follow the same rules as you would at a similar non-inclusive resort in the same country. Unless it explicitly says somewhere that tips are not expected / are included.
In the free hour at the hotel lounge it's more tricky. Again if it's a normal bar and a bartender then tip as normal (or tip all at once up front or at the end). If it's just a hotel employee occasionally fetching you a drink I wouldn't think tipping is expected. But it's probably appreciated so maybe leave them something at the end of the hour. | Tipping in North America has become such a hot button issue. It is customary to tip and is usually a percentage of the cost of your food/drinks (or what the cost would have been). But there have been so much writing happening on this topic like:
1. Why is the tip calculated on post tax amount and it should be pre tax which is just the cost of food/drinks (delivery services usually do the former but you can change the amount)
2. The minimum tipping post Covid has gone from 10% to 18% (here at least in Toronto). People argue that the cost of food/drinks has itself gone up so even if the tip percentage was to stay as it was pre Covid, they are still earning more out of it. There is no need to increase the tip percentage too in addition to already now expensive food/drinks.
Although this discussion wasn’t a direct answer, majority of people would tip depending on quality of food/drinks and the kind of service received. |
45,973 | We have quite a few [questions on tipping in the USA](https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tipping+usa), but looking through I can't seem to spot one that covers this.
When in the USA, if you are somewhere where drinks are free but served to you, is it expected to tip the person pouring / bringing the drink, and if so, how much?
Additionally, does it vary by location / setting? For example, might an airport / hotel lounge differ from an all-inclusive hotel / resort?
(I'm currently in an airline lounge at a US airport, and was given some vouchers for free drinks when I entered, which are given to the barstaff in exchange for drinks. Some people seem to give a tip, some not. A few weeks ago I was in a hotel lounge which had free drinks for an hour in the evening, with a member of staff removing beers from the fridge and opening them for you, but I was the only one there then so didn't have anyone to copy....) | 2015/04/11 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/45973",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/26/"
] | "It depends."
Typically, the rule is that whoever gets the bill does the tipping. For example, at a catered event, you wouldn't try to tip the people bringing you your food or drinks because you're not paying the bill. I think any time you aren't paying a bill, you're safe to err on the side of "no tipping".
I have been to company catered events at hotels, though, where some hotel employee was manning a drinks booth, with the company covering the cost of the drinks, but the employee had a tip jar out. Not everyone simply carries loose dollars around with them, so I don't think tips are really expected in this situation but tossing a dollar in the jar if you have one is "a nice gesture", I suppose to acknowledge that they are serving you, being attentive, and that this is somewhat outside of their normal hotel duties, and that most likely the bill for the event is not going to have a "tips" line on it.
This is an example where to some extent the onus is on the employee to have a tip jar if they expect tips because otherwise no one is even getting their wallets out. You'll see this sort of thing sometimes with live music too. Should you tip the band? The band itself will usually indicate this by having a tip jar out, or not. If the venue is paying (especially through a cover charge or ticket sales) then there's usually no tip jar because the band is fully paid. If someone expects tips in a questionable situation, see if they have a tip jar, likely placed where you can't miss it, with money in there already to give people the hint. | Tipping in North America has become such a hot button issue. It is customary to tip and is usually a percentage of the cost of your food/drinks (or what the cost would have been). But there have been so much writing happening on this topic like:
1. Why is the tip calculated on post tax amount and it should be pre tax which is just the cost of food/drinks (delivery services usually do the former but you can change the amount)
2. The minimum tipping post Covid has gone from 10% to 18% (here at least in Toronto). People argue that the cost of food/drinks has itself gone up so even if the tip percentage was to stay as it was pre Covid, they are still earning more out of it. There is no need to increase the tip percentage too in addition to already now expensive food/drinks.
Although this discussion wasn’t a direct answer, majority of people would tip depending on quality of food/drinks and the kind of service received. |
39,980 | Until just a few weeks ago I always used to set up my home-servers one service at a time (e.g. httpd, ProFTPD, etc.). I have now begun using XAMPP instead and was wondering if there is any reason why I **shouldn't** be using it.
I have heard that using a server package such as XAMPP can present a security risk. How is this possible if the configuration files are still there for me to edit manually if I need to?
Are there any other potential problems that I should be aware of? | 2009/09/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/39980",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/1951/"
] | The biggest problem is that out of the box its not locked down very tight.
From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAMPP):
>
> Officially, XAMPP's designers intended
> it for use only as a development tool,
> to allow website designers and
> programmers to test their work on
> their own computers without any access
> to the Internet. To make this as easy
> as possible, many important security
> features are disabled by default.
>
>
>
If you know what you are doing and take the time to properly secure it, it is only as insecure as the web apps and passwords you have set on your services.
If you don't know what you are doing, or you don't take the time to properly secure it, it has the potential to be a big security hole. | FTP isn't the greatest protocol to use for security reasons plain text passwords is one. Unless you update the software yourself you are stuck on their upgrade schedule which can lead to exploits and other security holes. The other packages they include just add to your problems if they aren't patched on a regular basis. Same could be said of anything so weigh your options and secure it the best you can. |
4,271,008 | I need a database of interests for a coming project.
By saying "interests" I mean like:
Sports - Football, Basketball and so on...
Is somebody know something like this?
I just don't want start writing thousands (or even millions) of interests. | 2010/11/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4271008",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/519322/"
] | Try to google on "interests list" or "hobbies list" and the write simple parcer to extract all (based on neko-html for example). Examples of useful links:
<http://www.notsoboringlife.com/list-of-hobbies/>
<http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-types-of-hobbies/>
Also it is possible to ask admins of any dating sites to make a simple DB-query to get relevant result. | There is an API from google called Freebase. I allows you suggest to the user what input he should give the same way google search suggests you what to look for.
[Freebase](https://developers.google.com/freebase/v1/suggest) |
56,906 | I'm in the process of doing some usability testing this week for one our iOS apps. We're having them attempt a few targeted tasks to test goals like
* New users should be able to signup with their email in under 15 seconds
* Users should use all their 'votes' inside a challenge
* Users should be able to located 'John Doe', and add him as a friend
We capture the objective results of the task... yes, the user signed up in 9 seconds. But we try to record more subjective things like "the user looked confused on the settings screen."
I'm struggling to find a clear way to organize all the data we're collecting to make it easier to synthesize.
**What are the best ways to record and organize different kinds of data you get from a usability test session?** | 2014/05/07 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/56906",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/47798/"
] | The 'flat design' aesthetic tends to favor large blocks of solid colors. If all of your colors are 'highlighter-esque' then you just end up with an incredibly busy UI where nothing stands out as they are all competing equally for your attention.
Intense vibrant colors--in UI design, at least--are there to draw attention so should only be used sparingly...just as you would with a true highlighter.
Else, you end up with a hot dog stand:
 | The answer doesn't depend on wether its flat or 3D because bright "highlighteresque" colors are harsh to the eyes, hard to read, and don't comply with usability guidelines for people with color blindness et. al. As an accent color they are fine but large swaths wouldn't be advisable nor would it be advised to place text on top of that sort of interface. As always context is everything but in light of the question. Not advised. |
56,906 | I'm in the process of doing some usability testing this week for one our iOS apps. We're having them attempt a few targeted tasks to test goals like
* New users should be able to signup with their email in under 15 seconds
* Users should use all their 'votes' inside a challenge
* Users should be able to located 'John Doe', and add him as a friend
We capture the objective results of the task... yes, the user signed up in 9 seconds. But we try to record more subjective things like "the user looked confused on the settings screen."
I'm struggling to find a clear way to organize all the data we're collecting to make it easier to synthesize.
**What are the best ways to record and organize different kinds of data you get from a usability test session?** | 2014/05/07 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/56906",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/47798/"
] | The 'flat design' aesthetic tends to favor large blocks of solid colors. If all of your colors are 'highlighter-esque' then you just end up with an incredibly busy UI where nothing stands out as they are all competing equally for your attention.
Intense vibrant colors--in UI design, at least--are there to draw attention so should only be used sparingly...just as you would with a true highlighter.
Else, you end up with a hot dog stand:
 | Harsh colors are one of those things that break through the unconscious into conscious awareness as an annoyance when in an interface. In other words, some UI choices, like counterintuitive navigation, fatigue users and they might not know the culprit. However, people usually speak up, knowing exactly why they don't enjoy an interface when it comes to the color scheme. So the palette will naturally tend toward more soothing colors in further iterations.
In addition, by not using harsh colors in your main palette, you can get people's attention when you need to by injecting a bold color occasionally for promotional or warning purposes.
You ask what considerations to keep in mind when developing your color scheme.
I like playing around in Illustrator to find 5 colors that will serve me well. You can also use online color resources like colourlovers.com and kuler.adobe.com. These are good starting places - but then you'll need to adjust them when you bring these colors into your actual UI and fonts.
I usually end up with 3-5 main palette colors and a handful of system and secondary colors. |
71,321,052 | quoting AWS:
>
> AWS has the concept of a Region, which is a physical location around the world where we cluster data centers. We call each group **of logical data centers an Availability Zone**. Each AWS Region consists of **multiple, isolated, and physically separate AZs within a geographic area**.
>
>
>
I'm confused by the meaning of "logical data centers" here: if AZ are physically separated data centers, I would assume the ressources are physical too, wouldn't be more appropriate to say "physical data centers"? or maybe am I wrong on the definition of logical here ? | 2022/03/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/71321052",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7948270/"
] | AWS availability zone logical or physical?
>
> When they say logical datacenter it's like saying a logical model
> which describes the physical datacenter without regarding to how they
> are physically implemented, but giving you a clear perspective how
> they operate.
>
>
>
In contrast, a physical datacenter is like model that represents how the actual datacenter is implemented.
Hence, this is the main difference between logical and physical.
But the two terminologies are used interchangeably a little bit.
**That being said, we use logical when we are designing/describing the architecture of the physical model** | An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region.
Ref: <https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az/> |
2,413 | I am studying Informatics and I am interested in doing a Masters in Robotics and I was checking out some unis and their courses and I saw that Robotics contains analysis and a lot of math.
Why is that? | 2014/01/30 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/2413",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/2538/"
] | Your mechanism will depend on the type of dispenser you want. Like if its gravity feed or not. I will assume it is, so I make this sketch to give you some idea:
The hole size will depend on how many candy you want to dispense at each stroke. (Of course its related to the candy size). The electro-mechanical actuator can be a crankshaft one, a solenoid, a linear motor, and goes on.
You can use a vibrator attached to the cup if the candy tends to get stuck. | There are two good search terms that come to mind. The first one is a "candy machine mechansim", or "dispenser mechanism" (e.g. <http://www.woodworkingformeremortals.com/2012/10/make-candy-dispenser.html>). There are several models of off-the-shelf pet food dispensers and cereal dispensers that use this method.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ab4YP.jpg)
The second term would be a [screw conveyor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_conveyor) (a.k.a. "auger dispenser"/"food auger"/"grain auger"), which describes a more continuous-flow version of what you are describing.
This type of dispenser controls the volume that is delivered by rotating the auger by a fixed amount, not by dumping a fixed-size container.
Beyond those, there are some homemade concepts that use some variation on the idea, like this one:
[](http://omahamakergroup.org/2011/06/24/evening-project-automatic-cat-food-dispenser/) |
4,448,811 | I want to deploy a Sitecore test site I've been playing with from a single developer platform (everything on one local PC) to something more like a test environment (dedicated IIS and SQL servers, virtual access to IIS). I don't really need to worry too much about team development and source control right now, though development will continue locally with packages deployed to the test environment.
Is there any best practice documentation for doing this?
Can I simply install an empty Sitecore instance on the IIS and then copy everything over (editing connection strings to point to correct DBs etc)? If so it best to use the installer or the zip file?
Aside from ensuring correct server configuration (.NET version, security settings etc) is there anything I should be paying particular attention to?
Thanks in advance. | 2010/12/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4448811",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/528656/"
] | Fortunately, moving a Sitecore installation around is a fairly simple task, and there are a number of approaches you could be using. Here's what I would normally do (somewhat simplified).
* Set the target environment up. Meaning IIS, SQL Server, security settings and so on
* Detach my local databases, stop the local IIS
* Copy everything from the root solution folder and down, to the target environment
* Attach the databases to the target SQL server
* Create the IIS website, and point it to your Website folder
* Modify ConnectionStrings.config
* Modify your absolute path to your data folder
* Press GO!
Whether you want to use Sitecore Installler or not is a matter of personal preference. It does set a lot of configuration issues for you, but personally I never use it. I go with "Zip of the root".
I don't think I could come up with a full list of things you should be paying particular attention to, but here's a few of the most common ones
* Test environments should resemble live as much as possible, so do move your /data folder outside the webroot. You don't want people to be able to download your license file by simply typing website/data/license.xml ;-)
* Consider creating a [.config include file](http://intothecore.cassidy.dk/2009/05/working-with-webconfig-include-files-in.html) for your machine specific settings (i.e. mail servers, external components and so on)
* Start on a [continueous (erm...) integration cycle](http://mcore.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/continous-integration-and-sitecore/), start deploying your updates via [packages](http://kerrybellerose.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-use-dynamic-sources-in-packager.html) to the target so you work up experience on lifecycle managing your eventual live environment
* Make sure you keep the same [Sitecore version](http://kerrybellerose.blogspot.com/2010/02/sitecores-recommended-version-policy.html) across your environments
* And don't worry too much ;-) Sitecore, although extensive, is a "simple" ASP.NET application from a deployment perspective.
Hope this provides a bit of insight :-) | With regards to Installer vs Zip I've always prefered the zip.
It seems faster and I get to control the whole process... plus the first installers I played with never seemed to work that well or at all.
With regards to moving a site, I'd say make a cleaned up zip of the solution.
there are things that are not needed, usually these things are not needed:
viewstate folder content
diagnostics folder content
MediaCache folder content
audit folder content
temp folder content
indexes folder content
but usually you need these folders, just not the content, as for instance with the MediaCache folder, it's generated by Sitecore when media items are retrieved from the database. |
2,539,744 | This is the first time I'm creating an app using Ruby on Rails.
I would like to switch the database depending on the site which is loaded. With php I used to do a simple strpos on http host, and set the database name depending on that. How can I do this with rails? | 2010/03/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2539744",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/275372/"
] | When a Rails app starts in production mode, it preloads its classes and retrieves e.g. column data from the configured database. To use multiple databases, you would have to stop it doing this - and that could potentially cause a lot more problems than it solves.
A much easier to manage solution is simply to have two copies of the app, one listening on each domain.
A Rails app is generally designed to run backed by a single database, if you have data that is only specific to a single domain then your data should maybe all be in the same database, but have the relevant models linked to a particular "SiteDomain" model which you can then content-manage. | You can run your application with different environments (i.e. domain1\_production, domain2\_production etc) so you can define in database.yml database environments for all your domains. But each environment have to run his own proccess in memory.
Another solution is to set before\_filter in each model and parsing your domain set up database connection you require. But this is quite strange hack |
4,469,304 | Is there a DI framework comparable to Google Guice? And what does Google use? | 2010/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4469304",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1178669/"
] | There is nothing as mature or standard as Guice in the C++ world. However, some people have put together simplistic implementations on their own. Here's a couple.
* <http://adam.younglogic.com/2008/07/dependency-injection-in-c/> (source for implementation is at the end of the post)
* <http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtioccontainer/> (requires Qt)
* <http://code.google.com/p/autumnframework/> (hasn't been touched since 2007)
* <http://programmaticallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2010/04/beautiful-dependency-injection-in-c.html> (more of a description, really)
* <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpp-resolver/> ("Alpha" quality)
You're unlikely to be satisfied by any of these.
If you really wanted to put in the effort to rally the world around a DI framework for C++, probably the way to go about it would be to make a proposal to the Boost guys. | I am currently authoring one called [sauce](https://github.com/phs/sauce), whose design (and name) is directly inspired by guice. I still consider it alpha, but you may find it useful. |
4,469,304 | Is there a DI framework comparable to Google Guice? And what does Google use? | 2010/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4469304",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1178669/"
] | There is nothing as mature or standard as Guice in the C++ world. However, some people have put together simplistic implementations on their own. Here's a couple.
* <http://adam.younglogic.com/2008/07/dependency-injection-in-c/> (source for implementation is at the end of the post)
* <http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtioccontainer/> (requires Qt)
* <http://code.google.com/p/autumnframework/> (hasn't been touched since 2007)
* <http://programmaticallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2010/04/beautiful-dependency-injection-in-c.html> (more of a description, really)
* <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpp-resolver/> ("Alpha" quality)
You're unlikely to be satisfied by any of these.
If you really wanted to put in the effort to rally the world around a DI framework for C++, probably the way to go about it would be to make a proposal to the Boost guys. | There is a recent one that looks very interesting called [Hypodermic](https://github.com/ybainier/Hypodermic/wiki/Registering-concrete-types), i haven't tested it but it looks pretty active |
4,469,304 | Is there a DI framework comparable to Google Guice? And what does Google use? | 2010/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4469304",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1178669/"
] | There is nothing as mature or standard as Guice in the C++ world. However, some people have put together simplistic implementations on their own. Here's a couple.
* <http://adam.younglogic.com/2008/07/dependency-injection-in-c/> (source for implementation is at the end of the post)
* <http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtioccontainer/> (requires Qt)
* <http://code.google.com/p/autumnframework/> (hasn't been touched since 2007)
* <http://programmaticallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2010/04/beautiful-dependency-injection-in-c.html> (more of a description, really)
* <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpp-resolver/> ("Alpha" quality)
You're unlikely to be satisfied by any of these.
If you really wanted to put in the effort to rally the world around a DI framework for C++, probably the way to go about it would be to make a proposal to the Boost guys. | I'm the author of [wallaroo](http://wallaroolib.sourceforge.net/). It's actively developed and has the following features:
* it's lightweight but powerful
* its interface supports both C++11 and C++98 with boost
* it's type safe
* it doesn't need custom preprocessors / code generators
* you can load classes defined in shared libraries
* you can use a DSL syntax for object creation and wiring or
* you can get object creation and wiring by parsing one or more xml / json file.
Any comment, suggestion or request are welcome. |
4,469,304 | Is there a DI framework comparable to Google Guice? And what does Google use? | 2010/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4469304",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1178669/"
] | There is a recent one that looks very interesting called [Hypodermic](https://github.com/ybainier/Hypodermic/wiki/Registering-concrete-types), i haven't tested it but it looks pretty active | I am currently authoring one called [sauce](https://github.com/phs/sauce), whose design (and name) is directly inspired by guice. I still consider it alpha, but you may find it useful. |
4,469,304 | Is there a DI framework comparable to Google Guice? And what does Google use? | 2010/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4469304",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1178669/"
] | I'm the author of [wallaroo](http://wallaroolib.sourceforge.net/). It's actively developed and has the following features:
* it's lightweight but powerful
* its interface supports both C++11 and C++98 with boost
* it's type safe
* it doesn't need custom preprocessors / code generators
* you can load classes defined in shared libraries
* you can use a DSL syntax for object creation and wiring or
* you can get object creation and wiring by parsing one or more xml / json file.
Any comment, suggestion or request are welcome. | I am currently authoring one called [sauce](https://github.com/phs/sauce), whose design (and name) is directly inspired by guice. I still consider it alpha, but you may find it useful. |
27,090,946 | Fast question
=============
How to correctly add a reference to an external / third-party .NET DLL (which is not a NuGet package and not in GAC) and force it to be shipped as a part of solution (which is under version control) in Visual Studio?
Long story
==========
I have a Visual Studio 2013 solution, which contains a couple of .NET projects. The solution is under source control. There is a lot of installed NuGet packages that are used by the projects, of course. But one of the projects need to reference an external / third-party .NET DLL that is not available as a NuGet package and doesn't reside in GAC. If I just add a reference to that DLL in the project, it will work fine for the moment. But after I check-in a changeset with such modification, anyone who will get the latest version of the solution will encounter a problem with building it, because the one does not have the referenced .NET DLL on his machine. | 2014/11/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/27090946",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3095779/"
] | I see two possible solutions to your problem
1. You can add the dll on the TFS. Create a folder under your solution called lib, for example and put your dll in there. Then reference the dll from that folder. When you check the changes in , include the lib folder with the dll. Once someone else will get latest, they will get both your changes and the new dll. Do note that dlls referenced under the solution's folder use a relative path, so anyone else who has that folder and the dll in the solution's folder won't need to do anything else
2. Make a nuget package with that dll and host it on your very own nuget feed. You can get a feed and host it on iis on a dedicated machine or you can use a network share :). Nuget works with "folder sources" too. The Nuget feed is just a fancy ui over a folder repository. This adds the advantage taht you won't have dlls under source control
Good luck | You can create a new folder in the project where the dll is required then reference the dll in the project from there and then chekck-in the dll.
When the other users will get latest project/solution they will get this dll automatically and they will not get problem in building. |
27,090,946 | Fast question
=============
How to correctly add a reference to an external / third-party .NET DLL (which is not a NuGet package and not in GAC) and force it to be shipped as a part of solution (which is under version control) in Visual Studio?
Long story
==========
I have a Visual Studio 2013 solution, which contains a couple of .NET projects. The solution is under source control. There is a lot of installed NuGet packages that are used by the projects, of course. But one of the projects need to reference an external / third-party .NET DLL that is not available as a NuGet package and doesn't reside in GAC. If I just add a reference to that DLL in the project, it will work fine for the moment. But after I check-in a changeset with such modification, anyone who will get the latest version of the solution will encounter a problem with building it, because the one does not have the referenced .NET DLL on his machine. | 2014/11/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/27090946",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3095779/"
] | I see two possible solutions to your problem
1. You can add the dll on the TFS. Create a folder under your solution called lib, for example and put your dll in there. Then reference the dll from that folder. When you check the changes in , include the lib folder with the dll. Once someone else will get latest, they will get both your changes and the new dll. Do note that dlls referenced under the solution's folder use a relative path, so anyone else who has that folder and the dll in the solution's folder won't need to do anything else
2. Make a nuget package with that dll and host it on your very own nuget feed. You can get a feed and host it on iis on a dedicated machine or you can use a network share :). Nuget works with "folder sources" too. The Nuget feed is just a fancy ui over a folder repository. This adds the advantage taht you won't have dlls under source control
Good luck | You may consider checking-in the external DLL in the source control as well. Create an "Externals" folder within the project folder and place external DLLs there. Use this path to reference the external DLL. This should work with other developers as well as when they checkout they will have the DLL and proper relative path in csproj. |
1,896,042 | I installed VS2010 B2 on my Win 7 machine. I create a simple DLL project and try to open the file Class1.cs that gets created by Default. I get a error message "The operation could not be completed. Invalid Pointer. So far i have seen this and similar error messages on previous versions of VS2010. Anyone else faced and solved this problem?
Answer: It seems i have to use true type fonts. The moment i changed the editor font from Inconsolata to Consolas the problem was fixed. Found [this](http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=505257) solution connect.microsoft | 2009/12/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1896042",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/37494/"
] | Sounds like a pretty fatal error in a fundamental operation, so it's unlikely to be a simple bug that was overlooked - it's more likely to be a problem with your install - If it were me, I would try reinstalling it (and do so with the default options - if the install was customised it's vaguely possible that a required component was not installed) | I had this problem when trying to put a style element on an .ascx page. Lots of times you can solve the error by saving the file, closing the page, then re-opening it. |
7,125 | Even though I have signed in, cleared all cache/cookies [Google Instant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search#Instant_Search) still doesn't work for me. How can it be fixed?
[Edit]
The URL I use is [www.google.com.vn](http://www.google.com.vn).
I see the dropdown keyword suggestion list but the search result doesn't change when I select a new keyword.
I'm using Google Chrome browser with the default settings.
The strange thing is that I can use Google Instant at home while I cannot do this in my office! | 2010/09/29 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/7125",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/3520/"
] | From the [Google Instant FAQ](http://www.google.com/instant/) -
>
> Google Instant is starting to roll-out
> to users on Google domains in the US,
> UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and
> Russia who use the following browsers:
> Chrome v5/6, Firefox v3, Safari v5 for
> Mac and Internet Explorer v8. Please
> note, users on domains other than
> Google.com can only access Google
> Instant if they are signed in to a
> Google Account. We will continue to
> add new domains and languages over the
> next several months.
>
>
>
If you are not seeing it, its likely that either Google Instant has not rolled-out in your country or you are not signed-in while searching or you may be using a browser that they don't support. | No longer works for [anybody](https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/26/16034844/google-kills-off-instant-search-for-mobile-consistency) (:. |
1,479 | I have been having trouble finding a good resource (ideally a video) or analogy that helps me to explain how the Internet and the World Wide Web work.
It does not need to be too in-depth. Only enough to cover how web pages are made available to the end user, and how HTTP requests work on the surface. Preferably, something that isn't over 10 minutes long and that the student can understand without prior knowledge of Web Development.
This is for a first lecture at an "Introduction to the Web" course, where students with zero experience in coding are introduced to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and usability/accessibility topics. Explaining how the Web works in a concise yet effective manner that sticks has been my biggest challenge so far.
Any suggestions?
---
**Update**:
For the first lecture, I ended up using a combination of all suggestions. I used Code.org's videos, but they turned to be a bit too lengthy for the attention spans of my students, so in the next opportunity, I will address this a bit differently.
I will not go in depth into how the Internet works and how the data is transferred, but I will use the buses/highways analogy more superficially or even as an add-on explanation instead. I may go into what the DNS is, but that's about it.
In a Front-End Web Development course that only goes as far as using JavaScript with JQuery, potentially touching on a little bit of what is AJAX, the extra details are unnecessary, so rather than focusing on how the Internet works, I can focus on how Web sites work, or more specifically, what happens behind the scenes from the moment you type in "www.google.com" in the web browser, until the web page is rendered and ready to consume.
The most important bit for my students, perhaps, is to be aware that every asset on a page involves a new request, something more that must be downloaded. And that every element in your HTML document must be "translated" and drawn by the browser. Thus, it is all these assets that must be gathered, and the number of elements to draw onto the browser tab or window, that we need to take into account when developing these pages, because the more of them we have, the longer it takes for the browser to load or update the page. | 2017/07/07 | [
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/1479",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/users/1770/"
] | An analogy which I find useful is **buses**.
One side (server) puts information on a bus and sends the bus to the other side (client\user end). The buses are loaded with data which is a sequence of `1` and `0`1. Each sequence has a passenger before it, and that passenger is used to identify *what sort of data* was loaded onto the bus.
This passenger says whether the data is for creating an HTML file or a CSS stylesheet etc. Now this bus is loaded with everything the server needs to pass to the client, so the bus departs.
Assuming there's a connection, the bus will reach the desired client, because the driver knows the way. This is important to explain, because that's a way to explain how ip addresses and ports work. The client is the final stop and the address of a stop is the ip for that stop.
When the bus gets to the client, the passengers leave the bus and you can explain here that each message (passenger) knows the order they should be in (like a passenger's id or something similar. This is just to avoid going to deep into synchronization etc.).
The data is then arranged into order and by using the information in the header and the client knows how to parse it (just like a person waiting for someone to get off at a specific stop knows how to greet the person).
### and yet
This is the kind of explanation one gives to complete novices. It might have inaccuracies or things that are out of date.
Another thing about this analogy is that the bus can be used to explain a protocol if you say that the amount of data is limited, and that the buses have indices but this might be too confusing for people who are completely new to all of this.
**Secondly:**
Now that the students have an idea of how information is transmitted between two computers, you can go into explaining that the internet is almost the same, but on a **much bigger** scale.
You can explain the various headers that exist in HTTP with [this list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields).
Eventually, the every bus that arrives at the client is sent back with a response saying "I arrived at the client..." and the response includes details on the time it took or other things which the client might send to the server.
---
1Because the students are new to this, you can simply keep it at that, without explaining *why* those specific numbers or why this is they way it's been done. | One analogy I use in my intro class is transportation. The Internet is the roads, bridges, and highways. The World Wide Web is the cars and trucks that travel along these routes, carrying cargo to/from different places. |
1,479 | I have been having trouble finding a good resource (ideally a video) or analogy that helps me to explain how the Internet and the World Wide Web work.
It does not need to be too in-depth. Only enough to cover how web pages are made available to the end user, and how HTTP requests work on the surface. Preferably, something that isn't over 10 minutes long and that the student can understand without prior knowledge of Web Development.
This is for a first lecture at an "Introduction to the Web" course, where students with zero experience in coding are introduced to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and usability/accessibility topics. Explaining how the Web works in a concise yet effective manner that sticks has been my biggest challenge so far.
Any suggestions?
---
**Update**:
For the first lecture, I ended up using a combination of all suggestions. I used Code.org's videos, but they turned to be a bit too lengthy for the attention spans of my students, so in the next opportunity, I will address this a bit differently.
I will not go in depth into how the Internet works and how the data is transferred, but I will use the buses/highways analogy more superficially or even as an add-on explanation instead. I may go into what the DNS is, but that's about it.
In a Front-End Web Development course that only goes as far as using JavaScript with JQuery, potentially touching on a little bit of what is AJAX, the extra details are unnecessary, so rather than focusing on how the Internet works, I can focus on how Web sites work, or more specifically, what happens behind the scenes from the moment you type in "www.google.com" in the web browser, until the web page is rendered and ready to consume.
The most important bit for my students, perhaps, is to be aware that every asset on a page involves a new request, something more that must be downloaded. And that every element in your HTML document must be "translated" and drawn by the browser. Thus, it is all these assets that must be gathered, and the number of elements to draw onto the browser tab or window, that we need to take into account when developing these pages, because the more of them we have, the longer it takes for the browser to load or update the page. | 2017/07/07 | [
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/1479",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/users/1770/"
] | One analogy I use in my intro class is transportation. The Internet is the roads, bridges, and highways. The World Wide Web is the cars and trucks that travel along these routes, carrying cargo to/from different places. | I gave the following EDRi paper to my students, and they found it very clear. I also had them write a 2 page essay explaining how the internet works, and that also helped them digest the paper.
<https://edri.org/files/2012EDRiPapers/how_the_internet_works.pdf> |
1,479 | I have been having trouble finding a good resource (ideally a video) or analogy that helps me to explain how the Internet and the World Wide Web work.
It does not need to be too in-depth. Only enough to cover how web pages are made available to the end user, and how HTTP requests work on the surface. Preferably, something that isn't over 10 minutes long and that the student can understand without prior knowledge of Web Development.
This is for a first lecture at an "Introduction to the Web" course, where students with zero experience in coding are introduced to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and usability/accessibility topics. Explaining how the Web works in a concise yet effective manner that sticks has been my biggest challenge so far.
Any suggestions?
---
**Update**:
For the first lecture, I ended up using a combination of all suggestions. I used Code.org's videos, but they turned to be a bit too lengthy for the attention spans of my students, so in the next opportunity, I will address this a bit differently.
I will not go in depth into how the Internet works and how the data is transferred, but I will use the buses/highways analogy more superficially or even as an add-on explanation instead. I may go into what the DNS is, but that's about it.
In a Front-End Web Development course that only goes as far as using JavaScript with JQuery, potentially touching on a little bit of what is AJAX, the extra details are unnecessary, so rather than focusing on how the Internet works, I can focus on how Web sites work, or more specifically, what happens behind the scenes from the moment you type in "www.google.com" in the web browser, until the web page is rendered and ready to consume.
The most important bit for my students, perhaps, is to be aware that every asset on a page involves a new request, something more that must be downloaded. And that every element in your HTML document must be "translated" and drawn by the browser. Thus, it is all these assets that must be gathered, and the number of elements to draw onto the browser tab or window, that we need to take into account when developing these pages, because the more of them we have, the longer it takes for the browser to load or update the page. | 2017/07/07 | [
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/1479",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/users/1770/"
] | One analogy I use in my intro class is transportation. The Internet is the roads, bridges, and highways. The World Wide Web is the cars and trucks that travel along these routes, carrying cargo to/from different places. | The videos on the code.org YouTube channel are some of the most helpful I've found.
For example:
[How The Internet Works playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzdnOPI1iJNfMRZm5DDxco3UdsFegvuB7) |
1,479 | I have been having trouble finding a good resource (ideally a video) or analogy that helps me to explain how the Internet and the World Wide Web work.
It does not need to be too in-depth. Only enough to cover how web pages are made available to the end user, and how HTTP requests work on the surface. Preferably, something that isn't over 10 minutes long and that the student can understand without prior knowledge of Web Development.
This is for a first lecture at an "Introduction to the Web" course, where students with zero experience in coding are introduced to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and usability/accessibility topics. Explaining how the Web works in a concise yet effective manner that sticks has been my biggest challenge so far.
Any suggestions?
---
**Update**:
For the first lecture, I ended up using a combination of all suggestions. I used Code.org's videos, but they turned to be a bit too lengthy for the attention spans of my students, so in the next opportunity, I will address this a bit differently.
I will not go in depth into how the Internet works and how the data is transferred, but I will use the buses/highways analogy more superficially or even as an add-on explanation instead. I may go into what the DNS is, but that's about it.
In a Front-End Web Development course that only goes as far as using JavaScript with JQuery, potentially touching on a little bit of what is AJAX, the extra details are unnecessary, so rather than focusing on how the Internet works, I can focus on how Web sites work, or more specifically, what happens behind the scenes from the moment you type in "www.google.com" in the web browser, until the web page is rendered and ready to consume.
The most important bit for my students, perhaps, is to be aware that every asset on a page involves a new request, something more that must be downloaded. And that every element in your HTML document must be "translated" and drawn by the browser. Thus, it is all these assets that must be gathered, and the number of elements to draw onto the browser tab or window, that we need to take into account when developing these pages, because the more of them we have, the longer it takes for the browser to load or update the page. | 2017/07/07 | [
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/1479",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/users/1770/"
] | An analogy which I find useful is **buses**.
One side (server) puts information on a bus and sends the bus to the other side (client\user end). The buses are loaded with data which is a sequence of `1` and `0`1. Each sequence has a passenger before it, and that passenger is used to identify *what sort of data* was loaded onto the bus.
This passenger says whether the data is for creating an HTML file or a CSS stylesheet etc. Now this bus is loaded with everything the server needs to pass to the client, so the bus departs.
Assuming there's a connection, the bus will reach the desired client, because the driver knows the way. This is important to explain, because that's a way to explain how ip addresses and ports work. The client is the final stop and the address of a stop is the ip for that stop.
When the bus gets to the client, the passengers leave the bus and you can explain here that each message (passenger) knows the order they should be in (like a passenger's id or something similar. This is just to avoid going to deep into synchronization etc.).
The data is then arranged into order and by using the information in the header and the client knows how to parse it (just like a person waiting for someone to get off at a specific stop knows how to greet the person).
### and yet
This is the kind of explanation one gives to complete novices. It might have inaccuracies or things that are out of date.
Another thing about this analogy is that the bus can be used to explain a protocol if you say that the amount of data is limited, and that the buses have indices but this might be too confusing for people who are completely new to all of this.
**Secondly:**
Now that the students have an idea of how information is transmitted between two computers, you can go into explaining that the internet is almost the same, but on a **much bigger** scale.
You can explain the various headers that exist in HTTP with [this list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields).
Eventually, the every bus that arrives at the client is sent back with a response saying "I arrived at the client..." and the response includes details on the time it took or other things which the client might send to the server.
---
1Because the students are new to this, you can simply keep it at that, without explaining *why* those specific numbers or why this is they way it's been done. | Since you mentioned that ideally you were looking for a video, a few years ago I used to show a video to my students: **[The Good Warriors of the Net - IP for Peace](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XWxD6cJuY)** . It is a bit old, but the main concepts are there.
Another that I used to show my students was: [How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LPdttKXPc)
Grab the popcorns! :) |
1,479 | I have been having trouble finding a good resource (ideally a video) or analogy that helps me to explain how the Internet and the World Wide Web work.
It does not need to be too in-depth. Only enough to cover how web pages are made available to the end user, and how HTTP requests work on the surface. Preferably, something that isn't over 10 minutes long and that the student can understand without prior knowledge of Web Development.
This is for a first lecture at an "Introduction to the Web" course, where students with zero experience in coding are introduced to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and usability/accessibility topics. Explaining how the Web works in a concise yet effective manner that sticks has been my biggest challenge so far.
Any suggestions?
---
**Update**:
For the first lecture, I ended up using a combination of all suggestions. I used Code.org's videos, but they turned to be a bit too lengthy for the attention spans of my students, so in the next opportunity, I will address this a bit differently.
I will not go in depth into how the Internet works and how the data is transferred, but I will use the buses/highways analogy more superficially or even as an add-on explanation instead. I may go into what the DNS is, but that's about it.
In a Front-End Web Development course that only goes as far as using JavaScript with JQuery, potentially touching on a little bit of what is AJAX, the extra details are unnecessary, so rather than focusing on how the Internet works, I can focus on how Web sites work, or more specifically, what happens behind the scenes from the moment you type in "www.google.com" in the web browser, until the web page is rendered and ready to consume.
The most important bit for my students, perhaps, is to be aware that every asset on a page involves a new request, something more that must be downloaded. And that every element in your HTML document must be "translated" and drawn by the browser. Thus, it is all these assets that must be gathered, and the number of elements to draw onto the browser tab or window, that we need to take into account when developing these pages, because the more of them we have, the longer it takes for the browser to load or update the page. | 2017/07/07 | [
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/1479",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/users/1770/"
] | An analogy which I find useful is **buses**.
One side (server) puts information on a bus and sends the bus to the other side (client\user end). The buses are loaded with data which is a sequence of `1` and `0`1. Each sequence has a passenger before it, and that passenger is used to identify *what sort of data* was loaded onto the bus.
This passenger says whether the data is for creating an HTML file or a CSS stylesheet etc. Now this bus is loaded with everything the server needs to pass to the client, so the bus departs.
Assuming there's a connection, the bus will reach the desired client, because the driver knows the way. This is important to explain, because that's a way to explain how ip addresses and ports work. The client is the final stop and the address of a stop is the ip for that stop.
When the bus gets to the client, the passengers leave the bus and you can explain here that each message (passenger) knows the order they should be in (like a passenger's id or something similar. This is just to avoid going to deep into synchronization etc.).
The data is then arranged into order and by using the information in the header and the client knows how to parse it (just like a person waiting for someone to get off at a specific stop knows how to greet the person).
### and yet
This is the kind of explanation one gives to complete novices. It might have inaccuracies or things that are out of date.
Another thing about this analogy is that the bus can be used to explain a protocol if you say that the amount of data is limited, and that the buses have indices but this might be too confusing for people who are completely new to all of this.
**Secondly:**
Now that the students have an idea of how information is transmitted between two computers, you can go into explaining that the internet is almost the same, but on a **much bigger** scale.
You can explain the various headers that exist in HTTP with [this list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields).
Eventually, the every bus that arrives at the client is sent back with a response saying "I arrived at the client..." and the response includes details on the time it took or other things which the client might send to the server.
---
1Because the students are new to this, you can simply keep it at that, without explaining *why* those specific numbers or why this is they way it's been done. | I gave the following EDRi paper to my students, and they found it very clear. I also had them write a 2 page essay explaining how the internet works, and that also helped them digest the paper.
<https://edri.org/files/2012EDRiPapers/how_the_internet_works.pdf> |
1,479 | I have been having trouble finding a good resource (ideally a video) or analogy that helps me to explain how the Internet and the World Wide Web work.
It does not need to be too in-depth. Only enough to cover how web pages are made available to the end user, and how HTTP requests work on the surface. Preferably, something that isn't over 10 minutes long and that the student can understand without prior knowledge of Web Development.
This is for a first lecture at an "Introduction to the Web" course, where students with zero experience in coding are introduced to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and usability/accessibility topics. Explaining how the Web works in a concise yet effective manner that sticks has been my biggest challenge so far.
Any suggestions?
---
**Update**:
For the first lecture, I ended up using a combination of all suggestions. I used Code.org's videos, but they turned to be a bit too lengthy for the attention spans of my students, so in the next opportunity, I will address this a bit differently.
I will not go in depth into how the Internet works and how the data is transferred, but I will use the buses/highways analogy more superficially or even as an add-on explanation instead. I may go into what the DNS is, but that's about it.
In a Front-End Web Development course that only goes as far as using JavaScript with JQuery, potentially touching on a little bit of what is AJAX, the extra details are unnecessary, so rather than focusing on how the Internet works, I can focus on how Web sites work, or more specifically, what happens behind the scenes from the moment you type in "www.google.com" in the web browser, until the web page is rendered and ready to consume.
The most important bit for my students, perhaps, is to be aware that every asset on a page involves a new request, something more that must be downloaded. And that every element in your HTML document must be "translated" and drawn by the browser. Thus, it is all these assets that must be gathered, and the number of elements to draw onto the browser tab or window, that we need to take into account when developing these pages, because the more of them we have, the longer it takes for the browser to load or update the page. | 2017/07/07 | [
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/1479",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/users/1770/"
] | An analogy which I find useful is **buses**.
One side (server) puts information on a bus and sends the bus to the other side (client\user end). The buses are loaded with data which is a sequence of `1` and `0`1. Each sequence has a passenger before it, and that passenger is used to identify *what sort of data* was loaded onto the bus.
This passenger says whether the data is for creating an HTML file or a CSS stylesheet etc. Now this bus is loaded with everything the server needs to pass to the client, so the bus departs.
Assuming there's a connection, the bus will reach the desired client, because the driver knows the way. This is important to explain, because that's a way to explain how ip addresses and ports work. The client is the final stop and the address of a stop is the ip for that stop.
When the bus gets to the client, the passengers leave the bus and you can explain here that each message (passenger) knows the order they should be in (like a passenger's id or something similar. This is just to avoid going to deep into synchronization etc.).
The data is then arranged into order and by using the information in the header and the client knows how to parse it (just like a person waiting for someone to get off at a specific stop knows how to greet the person).
### and yet
This is the kind of explanation one gives to complete novices. It might have inaccuracies or things that are out of date.
Another thing about this analogy is that the bus can be used to explain a protocol if you say that the amount of data is limited, and that the buses have indices but this might be too confusing for people who are completely new to all of this.
**Secondly:**
Now that the students have an idea of how information is transmitted between two computers, you can go into explaining that the internet is almost the same, but on a **much bigger** scale.
You can explain the various headers that exist in HTTP with [this list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields).
Eventually, the every bus that arrives at the client is sent back with a response saying "I arrived at the client..." and the response includes details on the time it took or other things which the client might send to the server.
---
1Because the students are new to this, you can simply keep it at that, without explaining *why* those specific numbers or why this is they way it's been done. | The videos on the code.org YouTube channel are some of the most helpful I've found.
For example:
[How The Internet Works playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzdnOPI1iJNfMRZm5DDxco3UdsFegvuB7) |
1,479 | I have been having trouble finding a good resource (ideally a video) or analogy that helps me to explain how the Internet and the World Wide Web work.
It does not need to be too in-depth. Only enough to cover how web pages are made available to the end user, and how HTTP requests work on the surface. Preferably, something that isn't over 10 minutes long and that the student can understand without prior knowledge of Web Development.
This is for a first lecture at an "Introduction to the Web" course, where students with zero experience in coding are introduced to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and usability/accessibility topics. Explaining how the Web works in a concise yet effective manner that sticks has been my biggest challenge so far.
Any suggestions?
---
**Update**:
For the first lecture, I ended up using a combination of all suggestions. I used Code.org's videos, but they turned to be a bit too lengthy for the attention spans of my students, so in the next opportunity, I will address this a bit differently.
I will not go in depth into how the Internet works and how the data is transferred, but I will use the buses/highways analogy more superficially or even as an add-on explanation instead. I may go into what the DNS is, but that's about it.
In a Front-End Web Development course that only goes as far as using JavaScript with JQuery, potentially touching on a little bit of what is AJAX, the extra details are unnecessary, so rather than focusing on how the Internet works, I can focus on how Web sites work, or more specifically, what happens behind the scenes from the moment you type in "www.google.com" in the web browser, until the web page is rendered and ready to consume.
The most important bit for my students, perhaps, is to be aware that every asset on a page involves a new request, something more that must be downloaded. And that every element in your HTML document must be "translated" and drawn by the browser. Thus, it is all these assets that must be gathered, and the number of elements to draw onto the browser tab or window, that we need to take into account when developing these pages, because the more of them we have, the longer it takes for the browser to load or update the page. | 2017/07/07 | [
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/1479",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/users/1770/"
] | Since you mentioned that ideally you were looking for a video, a few years ago I used to show a video to my students: **[The Good Warriors of the Net - IP for Peace](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XWxD6cJuY)** . It is a bit old, but the main concepts are there.
Another that I used to show my students was: [How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LPdttKXPc)
Grab the popcorns! :) | I gave the following EDRi paper to my students, and they found it very clear. I also had them write a 2 page essay explaining how the internet works, and that also helped them digest the paper.
<https://edri.org/files/2012EDRiPapers/how_the_internet_works.pdf> |
1,479 | I have been having trouble finding a good resource (ideally a video) or analogy that helps me to explain how the Internet and the World Wide Web work.
It does not need to be too in-depth. Only enough to cover how web pages are made available to the end user, and how HTTP requests work on the surface. Preferably, something that isn't over 10 minutes long and that the student can understand without prior knowledge of Web Development.
This is for a first lecture at an "Introduction to the Web" course, where students with zero experience in coding are introduced to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and usability/accessibility topics. Explaining how the Web works in a concise yet effective manner that sticks has been my biggest challenge so far.
Any suggestions?
---
**Update**:
For the first lecture, I ended up using a combination of all suggestions. I used Code.org's videos, but they turned to be a bit too lengthy for the attention spans of my students, so in the next opportunity, I will address this a bit differently.
I will not go in depth into how the Internet works and how the data is transferred, but I will use the buses/highways analogy more superficially or even as an add-on explanation instead. I may go into what the DNS is, but that's about it.
In a Front-End Web Development course that only goes as far as using JavaScript with JQuery, potentially touching on a little bit of what is AJAX, the extra details are unnecessary, so rather than focusing on how the Internet works, I can focus on how Web sites work, or more specifically, what happens behind the scenes from the moment you type in "www.google.com" in the web browser, until the web page is rendered and ready to consume.
The most important bit for my students, perhaps, is to be aware that every asset on a page involves a new request, something more that must be downloaded. And that every element in your HTML document must be "translated" and drawn by the browser. Thus, it is all these assets that must be gathered, and the number of elements to draw onto the browser tab or window, that we need to take into account when developing these pages, because the more of them we have, the longer it takes for the browser to load or update the page. | 2017/07/07 | [
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/1479",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com",
"https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/users/1770/"
] | Since you mentioned that ideally you were looking for a video, a few years ago I used to show a video to my students: **[The Good Warriors of the Net - IP for Peace](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XWxD6cJuY)** . It is a bit old, but the main concepts are there.
Another that I used to show my students was: [How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LPdttKXPc)
Grab the popcorns! :) | The videos on the code.org YouTube channel are some of the most helpful I've found.
For example:
[How The Internet Works playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzdnOPI1iJNfMRZm5DDxco3UdsFegvuB7) |
80,873 | In X-2: X-Men United, Xavier is being controlled by Jason's illusions and made to try to kill all the mutants. However, Jason is not affected by Xavier's attack. Being a mutant, shouldn't he have been since Charles carried out a global attack on the mutants? Is it because he was inside Cerebro with Charles? Does this also explain why Charles isn't affected by his own attack? | 2015/02/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80873",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | Cerebro is shielded, or more accurately, Cerebro is a focusing artifact and cannot target inside its self.
If I recall correctly, it is explicitly stated in the movie that, if you are inside the chamber, you are immune to the effects. | Because the girl in the illusion with Charles is Jason. He tells Charles: "Find all the mutants".
Charles doesn't need to focus on the little girl (who is actually Jason), as he knows where she is, and he is not going to look for himself either. He just targets everyone else. |
80,873 | In X-2: X-Men United, Xavier is being controlled by Jason's illusions and made to try to kill all the mutants. However, Jason is not affected by Xavier's attack. Being a mutant, shouldn't he have been since Charles carried out a global attack on the mutants? Is it because he was inside Cerebro with Charles? Does this also explain why Charles isn't affected by his own attack? | 2015/02/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80873",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | Cerebro is shielded, or more accurately, Cerebro is a focusing artifact and cannot target inside its self.
If I recall correctly, it is explicitly stated in the movie that, if you are inside the chamber, you are immune to the effects. | Operation-wise, Cerebro is a device that amplifies the brainwaves of the user. For a telepath, it gives the user ability to rapidly read the minds of individuals around the globe from which the user can identify mutants and / or humans. From the movie reference, it is clear that professor Xavier literally connects to the minds of individuals - ..**can see their feelings, their hopes, their fears**. And after connecting to them he can manipulate them as well, if required.
In X-2, William Stryker instructed his son Jason to make sure that Prof. X kills all the mutants using the Cerebro. Jason created the illusion of a small girl and controlled professors mind through it. The professor then uses Cerebro to individually Lock-On all the mutants. As evident by the constant ranting of Jason's illusion "...find them, find them all..." when Prof was locking on to the individuals.
Hence, when he was being manipulated by Jason, it was very natural for Jason to instruct him to lock on all mutants, except himself **(Jason is not doing a kamikaze mission)** and Charles **(cause, Jason needs to ensure the job is done first, killing Charles is a secondary objective to Col.Stryker)**. Thus he and Charles are unaffected by Cerebro.
The Cerebro device has **no shielding** as such for the user or anyone inside it. And in actual description from the movie and comics canons, **it is highly dangerous for the user if the user is not a highly trained individual.** For the amount of psychic input can overwhelm the user causing insanity, coma, or even brain damage. |
80,873 | In X-2: X-Men United, Xavier is being controlled by Jason's illusions and made to try to kill all the mutants. However, Jason is not affected by Xavier's attack. Being a mutant, shouldn't he have been since Charles carried out a global attack on the mutants? Is it because he was inside Cerebro with Charles? Does this also explain why Charles isn't affected by his own attack? | 2015/02/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80873",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/35497/"
] | Operation-wise, Cerebro is a device that amplifies the brainwaves of the user. For a telepath, it gives the user ability to rapidly read the minds of individuals around the globe from which the user can identify mutants and / or humans. From the movie reference, it is clear that professor Xavier literally connects to the minds of individuals - ..**can see their feelings, their hopes, their fears**. And after connecting to them he can manipulate them as well, if required.
In X-2, William Stryker instructed his son Jason to make sure that Prof. X kills all the mutants using the Cerebro. Jason created the illusion of a small girl and controlled professors mind through it. The professor then uses Cerebro to individually Lock-On all the mutants. As evident by the constant ranting of Jason's illusion "...find them, find them all..." when Prof was locking on to the individuals.
Hence, when he was being manipulated by Jason, it was very natural for Jason to instruct him to lock on all mutants, except himself **(Jason is not doing a kamikaze mission)** and Charles **(cause, Jason needs to ensure the job is done first, killing Charles is a secondary objective to Col.Stryker)**. Thus he and Charles are unaffected by Cerebro.
The Cerebro device has **no shielding** as such for the user or anyone inside it. And in actual description from the movie and comics canons, **it is highly dangerous for the user if the user is not a highly trained individual.** For the amount of psychic input can overwhelm the user causing insanity, coma, or even brain damage. | Because the girl in the illusion with Charles is Jason. He tells Charles: "Find all the mutants".
Charles doesn't need to focus on the little girl (who is actually Jason), as he knows where she is, and he is not going to look for himself either. He just targets everyone else. |
99,372 | I am in the final stages of my PhD and have been applying for postdocs for the last six months. Recently, I heard back from the job I applied for, we had a phone interview and he was very happy with my experience and skills. In fact he was looking for a new postdoc with the same experience what I did in my PhD. We communicated through emails in a very friendly way and he invited me to visit his lab. We scheduled the visit but he wanted to talk to my references before that. He sent an email to my present PhD supervisor and asked him what would be a good time to talk over the phone. My supervisor didn't reply to him for at least a couple of weeks. I know this because every week, I used to get an email from him to remind my PhD supervisor to reply to his email. Finally, my PhD supervisor replied and they talked over the phone. The potential postdoc mentor suddenly took a U-turn after that. He said i may not be a good fit and he will stop this right here.
I am really freaking out in this situation. I initially had problems with my PhD advisor because he is very aggressive and loves to make racist jokes. But I managed to handle his sense of humor and aggression. But I feel like he is racially prejudiced to me and will spoil my whole career. | 2017/11/24 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/99372",
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] | I will share some information with you, based on two things you mentioned:
>
> a) You said your advisor is very aggressive and loves to make racist jokes
>
>
> b) You suspect your advisor soured your postdoc application through negative remarks to your prospective employer
>
>
>
This sounds like a situation which *might* be investigatable by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), if your PhD institution receives any federal funds.
If you decide you would like this investigated by OCR, you would need to file a complaint within 6 months of becoming aware of alleged discrimination. A complaint of this kind can be filed by an individual working alone without a lawyer.
You might be able to find a lawyer would would help you with the complaint pro bono (free) or with a reduced cost.
It would be helpful to cite as much specific information about (a) as possible. However, you can send the complaint letter quickly and then submit more specific information subsequently. It can be helpful to file these complaints quickly rather than not quickly, because some regional OCR offices are extremely backed up.
If OCR feels that your complaint letter fits with their purview, and meets some other basic requirements, but your letter doesn't include specific information such as dates of incidents and descriptions of incidents, then you will be asked to provide specifics.
If you want to learn more about this: <https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/howto.html>
The part I feel most unsure about is the employment aspect. However, the How-To page I linked to mentions
>
> Some of the civil rights laws enforced by OCR also extend to employment.
>
>
>
Each university has an office that addresses discrimination issues, so you could in principle bring the issue to them. However, many people have found it more effective to either go ahead and file with OCR, or draft an OCR complaint and share the draft with the institution (as a draft).
Alternatively, you could instead try an **informal approach**: make an appointment with a department administrator and share your concern. The response you get could help you decide about next steps. Here's a relatively gentle way of starting such a conversation:
>
> I had a job interview that seemed to be going great --until suddenly it wasn't going great any more. I'd like to get some constructive feedback so that I can do better in subsequent interviews. But it would be awkward for me to ask my advisor directly for feedback. (Answer truthfully but with a very neutral tone if you're asked why.) Can you help facilitate me getting some constructive feedback from Prof. So-and-So (your advisor)?
>
>
>
If you're part of a graduate student union, it might be helpful to bring the problem to them to see if they can provide support.
---
\*\*11/25 additional notes 11/25:
1. Your university may have an all-purpose grievance procedure that can be used in general situations, even when there's no alleged racial discrimination.
2. In the answer I wrote yesterday I was only providing information. Now I'll provide a couple of strategy notes. If I were in your shoes I would probably start with the informal approach I outlined yesterday, and try to keep it in the department. I'd avoid using any language that might alarm the department administration, and keep the tone very calm and neutral. But at the same time, I'd be working quietly on collecting evidence and witnesses, and starting to draft a complaint. Putting the facts down on paper can be an extremely useful exercise.
3. I recommend that you avoid escalating your concern beyond your department. But if your university chooses to do so, I'd recommend you do one of the following, pretty quickly:
(a) find an ally or a lawyer
(b) submit a complaint to OCR
(c) submit a draft OCR complaint to your university
Reason: some universities play hard ball. It would be safest to protect yourself in case your university turns out to be one of those.
If I had strong evidence for the racism allegations, and did not have an ally or a lawyer, I would likely go with (c). A draft complaint could give you some useful leverage. When OCR investigates, it requires that the university submit a lot of documentary evidence (both about your particular situation, and also about its policies and procedures), and it conducts interviews. Institutions generally find this onerous and often would prefer to resolve the potential complainant's concerns pretty quickly, in order to prevent an OCR complaint from being filed.
Note that filing an OCR complaint provides protection against retaliation.
Note also that it can be a frustratingly slow process. Therefore it would be good to try to get your goals clear before you talk to anyone. I imagine your goals at this point are
1. Graduate
2. Get a post-doc
I hope you find a good administrator in your department. | >
> I am really freaking out in this situation. I initially had problems with my PhD advisor because he is very aggressive and loves to make racist jokes. But I managed to handle his sense of humor and aggression. But I feel like he is racially prejudiced to me and will spoil my whole career.
>
>
>
A resource you should consider before escalating (such as aprante001's recommendation to file a complaint with OCR) is to approach your university's office of the ombudsmen/ombudswomen. This office serves as an unofficial conflict resolution agent within an institution and advocates impartially and anonymously.
Think of it like a PI (Private Investigator) working for you to gather the details and try to resolve the problem before you call in the Cavalry (Office of Civil Rights). Because once you escalate, there is often no means to de-escalate. After all, are you 100% certain that the result is your adviser badmouthing you? Even if you are 100% certain, is there evidence to support it with a p-value of <= 0.05? |
99,372 | I am in the final stages of my PhD and have been applying for postdocs for the last six months. Recently, I heard back from the job I applied for, we had a phone interview and he was very happy with my experience and skills. In fact he was looking for a new postdoc with the same experience what I did in my PhD. We communicated through emails in a very friendly way and he invited me to visit his lab. We scheduled the visit but he wanted to talk to my references before that. He sent an email to my present PhD supervisor and asked him what would be a good time to talk over the phone. My supervisor didn't reply to him for at least a couple of weeks. I know this because every week, I used to get an email from him to remind my PhD supervisor to reply to his email. Finally, my PhD supervisor replied and they talked over the phone. The potential postdoc mentor suddenly took a U-turn after that. He said i may not be a good fit and he will stop this right here.
I am really freaking out in this situation. I initially had problems with my PhD advisor because he is very aggressive and loves to make racist jokes. But I managed to handle his sense of humor and aggression. But I feel like he is racially prejudiced to me and will spoil my whole career. | 2017/11/24 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/99372",
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] | I will share some information with you, based on two things you mentioned:
>
> a) You said your advisor is very aggressive and loves to make racist jokes
>
>
> b) You suspect your advisor soured your postdoc application through negative remarks to your prospective employer
>
>
>
This sounds like a situation which *might* be investigatable by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), if your PhD institution receives any federal funds.
If you decide you would like this investigated by OCR, you would need to file a complaint within 6 months of becoming aware of alleged discrimination. A complaint of this kind can be filed by an individual working alone without a lawyer.
You might be able to find a lawyer would would help you with the complaint pro bono (free) or with a reduced cost.
It would be helpful to cite as much specific information about (a) as possible. However, you can send the complaint letter quickly and then submit more specific information subsequently. It can be helpful to file these complaints quickly rather than not quickly, because some regional OCR offices are extremely backed up.
If OCR feels that your complaint letter fits with their purview, and meets some other basic requirements, but your letter doesn't include specific information such as dates of incidents and descriptions of incidents, then you will be asked to provide specifics.
If you want to learn more about this: <https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/howto.html>
The part I feel most unsure about is the employment aspect. However, the How-To page I linked to mentions
>
> Some of the civil rights laws enforced by OCR also extend to employment.
>
>
>
Each university has an office that addresses discrimination issues, so you could in principle bring the issue to them. However, many people have found it more effective to either go ahead and file with OCR, or draft an OCR complaint and share the draft with the institution (as a draft).
Alternatively, you could instead try an **informal approach**: make an appointment with a department administrator and share your concern. The response you get could help you decide about next steps. Here's a relatively gentle way of starting such a conversation:
>
> I had a job interview that seemed to be going great --until suddenly it wasn't going great any more. I'd like to get some constructive feedback so that I can do better in subsequent interviews. But it would be awkward for me to ask my advisor directly for feedback. (Answer truthfully but with a very neutral tone if you're asked why.) Can you help facilitate me getting some constructive feedback from Prof. So-and-So (your advisor)?
>
>
>
If you're part of a graduate student union, it might be helpful to bring the problem to them to see if they can provide support.
---
\*\*11/25 additional notes 11/25:
1. Your university may have an all-purpose grievance procedure that can be used in general situations, even when there's no alleged racial discrimination.
2. In the answer I wrote yesterday I was only providing information. Now I'll provide a couple of strategy notes. If I were in your shoes I would probably start with the informal approach I outlined yesterday, and try to keep it in the department. I'd avoid using any language that might alarm the department administration, and keep the tone very calm and neutral. But at the same time, I'd be working quietly on collecting evidence and witnesses, and starting to draft a complaint. Putting the facts down on paper can be an extremely useful exercise.
3. I recommend that you avoid escalating your concern beyond your department. But if your university chooses to do so, I'd recommend you do one of the following, pretty quickly:
(a) find an ally or a lawyer
(b) submit a complaint to OCR
(c) submit a draft OCR complaint to your university
Reason: some universities play hard ball. It would be safest to protect yourself in case your university turns out to be one of those.
If I had strong evidence for the racism allegations, and did not have an ally or a lawyer, I would likely go with (c). A draft complaint could give you some useful leverage. When OCR investigates, it requires that the university submit a lot of documentary evidence (both about your particular situation, and also about its policies and procedures), and it conducts interviews. Institutions generally find this onerous and often would prefer to resolve the potential complainant's concerns pretty quickly, in order to prevent an OCR complaint from being filed.
Note that filing an OCR complaint provides protection against retaliation.
Note also that it can be a frustratingly slow process. Therefore it would be good to try to get your goals clear before you talk to anyone. I imagine your goals at this point are
1. Graduate
2. Get a post-doc
I hope you find a good administrator in your department. | I think you had a narrow escape from a similar situation. The professor who requires the references is very unprofessional.
1. If you require some references, you do it before the invitation. Because the person might have rejected other interviews/visits. This is very disrespectful to the potential postdoc.
2. The references might be in several forms. The most popular is written and signed form. However, if one requires an alternative form of discussing, this is **their** responsibility, not yours. The professor should have asked your supervisor himself before you agree for a research visit. Using you as an interface is, again, disrespectful.
3. Assuming that you did not do something that can give you serious trouble, one should always keep in mind that every PhD student might have some conflicts with their supervisors. Thus, if he cancels the visit based on a negative comment, then he will do more when he's your employer. What if you have a conflict with someone during your research visit? Any negative comment has a high potential to damage your job.
I think your best course is to move on and find a more professional supervisor to work with.
As for handling the interviewer; now that you have experienced a terrible incident, best is to prove your abilities yourself, preferrably with a research visit. If another potential employer asks for an interview, you can briefly tell the incident, and tell them that you want to make a research visit regardless of their decision. |
99,372 | I am in the final stages of my PhD and have been applying for postdocs for the last six months. Recently, I heard back from the job I applied for, we had a phone interview and he was very happy with my experience and skills. In fact he was looking for a new postdoc with the same experience what I did in my PhD. We communicated through emails in a very friendly way and he invited me to visit his lab. We scheduled the visit but he wanted to talk to my references before that. He sent an email to my present PhD supervisor and asked him what would be a good time to talk over the phone. My supervisor didn't reply to him for at least a couple of weeks. I know this because every week, I used to get an email from him to remind my PhD supervisor to reply to his email. Finally, my PhD supervisor replied and they talked over the phone. The potential postdoc mentor suddenly took a U-turn after that. He said i may not be a good fit and he will stop this right here.
I am really freaking out in this situation. I initially had problems with my PhD advisor because he is very aggressive and loves to make racist jokes. But I managed to handle his sense of humor and aggression. But I feel like he is racially prejudiced to me and will spoil my whole career. | 2017/11/24 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/99372",
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"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/83349/"
] | I will share some information with you, based on two things you mentioned:
>
> a) You said your advisor is very aggressive and loves to make racist jokes
>
>
> b) You suspect your advisor soured your postdoc application through negative remarks to your prospective employer
>
>
>
This sounds like a situation which *might* be investigatable by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), if your PhD institution receives any federal funds.
If you decide you would like this investigated by OCR, you would need to file a complaint within 6 months of becoming aware of alleged discrimination. A complaint of this kind can be filed by an individual working alone without a lawyer.
You might be able to find a lawyer would would help you with the complaint pro bono (free) or with a reduced cost.
It would be helpful to cite as much specific information about (a) as possible. However, you can send the complaint letter quickly and then submit more specific information subsequently. It can be helpful to file these complaints quickly rather than not quickly, because some regional OCR offices are extremely backed up.
If OCR feels that your complaint letter fits with their purview, and meets some other basic requirements, but your letter doesn't include specific information such as dates of incidents and descriptions of incidents, then you will be asked to provide specifics.
If you want to learn more about this: <https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/howto.html>
The part I feel most unsure about is the employment aspect. However, the How-To page I linked to mentions
>
> Some of the civil rights laws enforced by OCR also extend to employment.
>
>
>
Each university has an office that addresses discrimination issues, so you could in principle bring the issue to them. However, many people have found it more effective to either go ahead and file with OCR, or draft an OCR complaint and share the draft with the institution (as a draft).
Alternatively, you could instead try an **informal approach**: make an appointment with a department administrator and share your concern. The response you get could help you decide about next steps. Here's a relatively gentle way of starting such a conversation:
>
> I had a job interview that seemed to be going great --until suddenly it wasn't going great any more. I'd like to get some constructive feedback so that I can do better in subsequent interviews. But it would be awkward for me to ask my advisor directly for feedback. (Answer truthfully but with a very neutral tone if you're asked why.) Can you help facilitate me getting some constructive feedback from Prof. So-and-So (your advisor)?
>
>
>
If you're part of a graduate student union, it might be helpful to bring the problem to them to see if they can provide support.
---
\*\*11/25 additional notes 11/25:
1. Your university may have an all-purpose grievance procedure that can be used in general situations, even when there's no alleged racial discrimination.
2. In the answer I wrote yesterday I was only providing information. Now I'll provide a couple of strategy notes. If I were in your shoes I would probably start with the informal approach I outlined yesterday, and try to keep it in the department. I'd avoid using any language that might alarm the department administration, and keep the tone very calm and neutral. But at the same time, I'd be working quietly on collecting evidence and witnesses, and starting to draft a complaint. Putting the facts down on paper can be an extremely useful exercise.
3. I recommend that you avoid escalating your concern beyond your department. But if your university chooses to do so, I'd recommend you do one of the following, pretty quickly:
(a) find an ally or a lawyer
(b) submit a complaint to OCR
(c) submit a draft OCR complaint to your university
Reason: some universities play hard ball. It would be safest to protect yourself in case your university turns out to be one of those.
If I had strong evidence for the racism allegations, and did not have an ally or a lawyer, I would likely go with (c). A draft complaint could give you some useful leverage. When OCR investigates, it requires that the university submit a lot of documentary evidence (both about your particular situation, and also about its policies and procedures), and it conducts interviews. Institutions generally find this onerous and often would prefer to resolve the potential complainant's concerns pretty quickly, in order to prevent an OCR complaint from being filed.
Note that filing an OCR complaint provides protection against retaliation.
Note also that it can be a frustratingly slow process. Therefore it would be good to try to get your goals clear before you talk to anyone. I imagine your goals at this point are
1. Graduate
2. Get a post-doc
I hope you find a good administrator in your department. | First of all, everybody is free to write whatever he wants in his recommendation letters and to tell people whatever opinion he has about you and you cannot influence that. So, you need a really solid reason to accuse your PhD advisor of any "racial prejudice" against you (perhaps you have one, I don't know). If he just says that you have no talent and are hopeless and you can bring up only that, no matter how much the legal action will damage him, you'll lose your reputation forever. So play this card in a smart way if you choose to play it at all.
Second, try to get recommendation letters from people who know your work and can explain its value to your potential employer in a clear and convincing way. A bad letter from a PhD advisor is a big minus but it can be remedied if you have a substantial evidence that you are a good professional doing valuable things. Proving that your PhD advisor is an asshole (if he is) adds absolutely nothing in this respect.
Unfortunately, the best advice would be to change your adviser a few years ago, but nobody has a time machine. So good luck, stay smart, and remember that your main objective is to prove *your* value to a potential employer and to get a position. The revenge (if you are thinking of one) can wait until you are standing firmly enough to pick up fights and deliver the blows (though, most likely, by that time you'll not care about it anymore). |
91,067 | i am travelling on club world from Singapore to London and i understand from their site that the maximum check in luggage is two items at 32kg each. As i am relocating to the country, i currently have more than 2 luggage but total weight should not exceed 64kg. Do you know if BA is strict on the 2 luggage policy and that i have to purchase additional luggage allowance regardless? | 2017/04/04 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/91067",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/59494/"
] | If you come with 5 pieces, yes it will be an issue. If you have 3 and you are loyal customer for them (with a status), then you have a good probability to be able to check-in all your luggage without any issue. If you ask me for a percentage, I would say 30-40%. They might also ask you to pay for something extra. | I thought I should mention luggage allowances are higher for nearly all international flights to & from the US (& Canada). |
91,067 | i am travelling on club world from Singapore to London and i understand from their site that the maximum check in luggage is two items at 32kg each. As i am relocating to the country, i currently have more than 2 luggage but total weight should not exceed 64kg. Do you know if BA is strict on the 2 luggage policy and that i have to purchase additional luggage allowance regardless? | 2017/04/04 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/91067",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/59494/"
] | BA provides a free third bag in CW only for people with BA Gold/OneWorld Emerald status. Given that this is a benefit for people with that status level, I rate your chances of an extra bag as roughly zero if you don't have that status.
It's worth noting that you can carry two items of hand luggage weighing up to 23kg each on board providing you adhere to the [size limits](https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/baggage-essentials/changes-to-our-baggage-allowances). It's unlikely that your hand luggage will be weighed or measured providing it's not too obviously extreme. | I thought I should mention luggage allowances are higher for nearly all international flights to & from the US (& Canada). |
65,818 | I love the Photoshop artboard feature, however I'm used to seeing the transparent background grid. Is there any way to show this in my artboards in Photoshop?
And yes, I know it will still save with a transparent background, but I like having the grid that way if I were to use a white background for something I would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
Picture for reference:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiZr.png) | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/65818",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/57771/"
] | As much as I understood, answer of your question would be like this..
1) Take a certain size of file(file A)
2) Now you will have a screen with transparent background. without doing anything else further, first of all take a screen shot of such screen.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PwFBl.jpg)
3) And past it new file.(file B), keep only transparent grid image and delete the surrounding stuff and save transparent grid image as png or jpg.
4) Now come back from file:B to file: A and give background colour.
5) Bring transparent grid image in file A, set image as you want to see(for example: 300x300).
6) take another layer on transparent grid image and draw square white shape size of 300 x 300..so that you would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
7) Now you will have a file like this.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmqLG.jpg)
That's it... Good luck ! | ....Or you could create the board from the outset:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AeDSi.png) |
65,818 | I love the Photoshop artboard feature, however I'm used to seeing the transparent background grid. Is there any way to show this in my artboards in Photoshop?
And yes, I know it will still save with a transparent background, but I like having the grid that way if I were to use a white background for something I would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
Picture for reference:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiZr.png) | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/65818",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/57771/"
] | Select the background layer.
Double click so it is no longer locked, it will rename as layer 0.
select all within your canvas (cmd + a) and delete. | Window -> Properties.
Make sure Artboard is selected.
See properties panel (that should be visible now) -> In the Artboard background color dropdown select: **Transparent** (white is selected by default).
You can check a quick (12sec) video here:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9sgajjbrZk> |
65,818 | I love the Photoshop artboard feature, however I'm used to seeing the transparent background grid. Is there any way to show this in my artboards in Photoshop?
And yes, I know it will still save with a transparent background, but I like having the grid that way if I were to use a white background for something I would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
Picture for reference:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiZr.png) | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/65818",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/57771/"
] | As much as I understood, answer of your question would be like this..
1) Take a certain size of file(file A)
2) Now you will have a screen with transparent background. without doing anything else further, first of all take a screen shot of such screen.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PwFBl.jpg)
3) And past it new file.(file B), keep only transparent grid image and delete the surrounding stuff and save transparent grid image as png or jpg.
4) Now come back from file:B to file: A and give background colour.
5) Bring transparent grid image in file A, set image as you want to see(for example: 300x300).
6) take another layer on transparent grid image and draw square white shape size of 300 x 300..so that you would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
7) Now you will have a file like this.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmqLG.jpg)
That's it... Good luck ! | Window -> Properties.
Make sure Artboard is selected.
See properties panel (that should be visible now) -> In the Artboard background color dropdown select: **Transparent** (white is selected by default).
You can check a quick (12sec) video here:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9sgajjbrZk> |
65,818 | I love the Photoshop artboard feature, however I'm used to seeing the transparent background grid. Is there any way to show this in my artboards in Photoshop?
And yes, I know it will still save with a transparent background, but I like having the grid that way if I were to use a white background for something I would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
Picture for reference:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiZr.png) | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/65818",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/57771/"
] | Set artboard background
In the Properties panel (Window > Properties) for the artboard, set the desired value for Artboard Background Color field. You can also set the artboard background to transparent. | Window -> Properties.
Make sure Artboard is selected.
See properties panel (that should be visible now) -> In the Artboard background color dropdown select: **Transparent** (white is selected by default).
You can check a quick (12sec) video here:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9sgajjbrZk> |
65,818 | I love the Photoshop artboard feature, however I'm used to seeing the transparent background grid. Is there any way to show this in my artboards in Photoshop?
And yes, I know it will still save with a transparent background, but I like having the grid that way if I were to use a white background for something I would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
Picture for reference:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiZr.png) | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/65818",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/57771/"
] | As much as I understood, answer of your question would be like this..
1) Take a certain size of file(file A)
2) Now you will have a screen with transparent background. without doing anything else further, first of all take a screen shot of such screen.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PwFBl.jpg)
3) And past it new file.(file B), keep only transparent grid image and delete the surrounding stuff and save transparent grid image as png or jpg.
4) Now come back from file:B to file: A and give background colour.
5) Bring transparent grid image in file A, set image as you want to see(for example: 300x300).
6) take another layer on transparent grid image and draw square white shape size of 300 x 300..so that you would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
7) Now you will have a file like this.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmqLG.jpg)
That's it... Good luck ! | You can take a screen shot and then open it as image. It's simple and you don't have to worry about [white background](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbSWDx5fcms) . |
65,818 | I love the Photoshop artboard feature, however I'm used to seeing the transparent background grid. Is there any way to show this in my artboards in Photoshop?
And yes, I know it will still save with a transparent background, but I like having the grid that way if I were to use a white background for something I would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
Picture for reference:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiZr.png) | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/65818",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/57771/"
] | As much as I understood, answer of your question would be like this..
1) Take a certain size of file(file A)
2) Now you will have a screen with transparent background. without doing anything else further, first of all take a screen shot of such screen.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PwFBl.jpg)
3) And past it new file.(file B), keep only transparent grid image and delete the surrounding stuff and save transparent grid image as png or jpg.
4) Now come back from file:B to file: A and give background colour.
5) Bring transparent grid image in file A, set image as you want to see(for example: 300x300).
6) take another layer on transparent grid image and draw square white shape size of 300 x 300..so that you would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
7) Now you will have a file like this.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmqLG.jpg)
That's it... Good luck ! | Set artboard background
In the Properties panel (Window > Properties) for the artboard, set the desired value for Artboard Background Color field. You can also set the artboard background to transparent. |
65,818 | I love the Photoshop artboard feature, however I'm used to seeing the transparent background grid. Is there any way to show this in my artboards in Photoshop?
And yes, I know it will still save with a transparent background, but I like having the grid that way if I were to use a white background for something I would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
Picture for reference:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiZr.png) | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/65818",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/57771/"
] | While you create a new file (menu > NEW). Select "Background Contents" drop to Transparent... Now you will get a transparent artboard. | Window -> Properties.
Make sure Artboard is selected.
See properties panel (that should be visible now) -> In the Artboard background color dropdown select: **Transparent** (white is selected by default).
You can check a quick (12sec) video here:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9sgajjbrZk> |
65,818 | I love the Photoshop artboard feature, however I'm used to seeing the transparent background grid. Is there any way to show this in my artboards in Photoshop?
And yes, I know it will still save with a transparent background, but I like having the grid that way if I were to use a white background for something I would be able to distinguish the white object from transparent.
Picture for reference:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiZr.png) | 2016/01/21 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/65818",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/57771/"
] | ....Or you could create the board from the outset:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AeDSi.png) | Window -> Properties.
Make sure Artboard is selected.
See properties panel (that should be visible now) -> In the Artboard background color dropdown select: **Transparent** (white is selected by default).
You can check a quick (12sec) video here:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9sgajjbrZk> |
39,103,847 | We have upgraded our DB from 9 to 12c. I did not see ojdbc14.jar and classes12.jar. Does this mean we have to move to ojdbc5.jar, Ojdbc7.jar? | 2016/08/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/39103847",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/214131/"
] | You should strongly consider upgrading to JDK 8. All earlier versions of Java have passed the end of their support life. JDK 9 is coming. It's time to upgrade.
The number in the Oracle JDBC JAR driver name refers to the JDK version it is written for. classes12.jar is *hopelessly* out of date - that's JDK 1.2.
There's a good reason why Oracle isn't making classes12.jar and ojdbc14.jar available anymore.
It sounds like the best you can do is ojdbc7.jar. Get the newest JAR you possibly can and use that.
Do yourself a favor and get your Java infrastructure up to date. Using old Java with the latest Oracle version is like putting new wine in old wine skins. | I faced the same issue with my old legacy code.
I renamed the ojdbc8.jar as classes12.jar, and it is working great without any code migration. |
322,524 | I'm looking for a short word that could describe people who are always going to every event in town. It doesn't need to be an existing word, feel free to create one of your own. It can also be made of words related to events and parties. (ex: club, event, guest list, etc.)
**Edit**
The word will serve as a new term to describ these people in a favorable way. It will probably be used for an app name so it need to be catchy and fun. ( Preferably ) | 2016/04/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/322524",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/172861/"
] | my millenial daughter uses the term FOMO. It's a person who suffers from a severe Fear Of Missing Out. | Possibly a little dated, but "[a man about town](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/man--about--town)" could be used. |
322,524 | I'm looking for a short word that could describe people who are always going to every event in town. It doesn't need to be an existing word, feel free to create one of your own. It can also be made of words related to events and parties. (ex: club, event, guest list, etc.)
**Edit**
The word will serve as a new term to describ these people in a favorable way. It will probably be used for an app name so it need to be catchy and fun. ( Preferably ) | 2016/04/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/322524",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/172861/"
] | [***Man About Town***](http://www.abbreviationfinder.org/fr/acronyms/mat_man-about-town.html)
>
> A man who frequently attends fashionable social functions, as in *Fred is quite the **man about town** these days*. This expression, first recorded in 1734, uses town in the sense of “a sophisticated place” as opposed to rural settings.
>
>
> [The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/man--about--town)
>
>
> | Possibly a little dated, but "[a man about town](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/man--about--town)" could be used. |
322,524 | I'm looking for a short word that could describe people who are always going to every event in town. It doesn't need to be an existing word, feel free to create one of your own. It can also be made of words related to events and parties. (ex: club, event, guest list, etc.)
**Edit**
The word will serve as a new term to describ these people in a favorable way. It will probably be used for an app name so it need to be catchy and fun. ( Preferably ) | 2016/04/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/322524",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/172861/"
] | gadabout
========
>
> A habitual pleasure-seeker.
>
>
>
I think this is a great, fun word that doesn't get enough play. | [***Man About Town***](http://www.abbreviationfinder.org/fr/acronyms/mat_man-about-town.html)
>
> A man who frequently attends fashionable social functions, as in *Fred is quite the **man about town** these days*. This expression, first recorded in 1734, uses town in the sense of “a sophisticated place” as opposed to rural settings.
>
>
> [The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/man--about--town)
>
>
> |
322,524 | I'm looking for a short word that could describe people who are always going to every event in town. It doesn't need to be an existing word, feel free to create one of your own. It can also be made of words related to events and parties. (ex: club, event, guest list, etc.)
**Edit**
The word will serve as a new term to describ these people in a favorable way. It will probably be used for an app name so it need to be catchy and fun. ( Preferably ) | 2016/04/29 | [
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] | gadabout
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I think this is a great, fun word that doesn't get enough play. | **Eventgoer** (or event-goer) — [Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/event-goer)
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> One who attends an event.
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This should work just like **partygoer** — [M-W](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/partygoer)
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> a person who attends a party or who attends parties frequently
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> "*chauffeured transportation was provided for those partygoers who had overindulged themselves at the bar*"
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The **-goer** suffix — [Cambridge](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/goer)
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> a person who goes to the stated type of place
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> *"Restaurant-goers ought to complain more about bad food and service."*
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> *"regular filmgoers"*
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322,524 | I'm looking for a short word that could describe people who are always going to every event in town. It doesn't need to be an existing word, feel free to create one of your own. It can also be made of words related to events and parties. (ex: club, event, guest list, etc.)
**Edit**
The word will serve as a new term to describ these people in a favorable way. It will probably be used for an app name so it need to be catchy and fun. ( Preferably ) | 2016/04/29 | [
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] | my millenial daughter uses the term FOMO. It's a person who suffers from a severe Fear Of Missing Out. | Perhaps [**bon vivant**](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bon%20vivant) is what you're looking for?
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> a person who likes going to parties and other social occasions and who enjoys good food, wine, etc.
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322,524 | I'm looking for a short word that could describe people who are always going to every event in town. It doesn't need to be an existing word, feel free to create one of your own. It can also be made of words related to events and parties. (ex: club, event, guest list, etc.)
**Edit**
The word will serve as a new term to describ these people in a favorable way. It will probably be used for an app name so it need to be catchy and fun. ( Preferably ) | 2016/04/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/322524",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | **event**eur - from **entrepre**neur | Perhaps [**bon vivant**](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bon%20vivant) is what you're looking for?
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> a person who likes going to parties and other social occasions and who enjoys good food, wine, etc.
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322,524 | I'm looking for a short word that could describe people who are always going to every event in town. It doesn't need to be an existing word, feel free to create one of your own. It can also be made of words related to events and parties. (ex: club, event, guest list, etc.)
**Edit**
The word will serve as a new term to describ these people in a favorable way. It will probably be used for an app name so it need to be catchy and fun. ( Preferably ) | 2016/04/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/322524",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/172861/"
] | [***Man About Town***](http://www.abbreviationfinder.org/fr/acronyms/mat_man-about-town.html)
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> A man who frequently attends fashionable social functions, as in *Fred is quite the **man about town** these days*. This expression, first recorded in 1734, uses town in the sense of “a sophisticated place” as opposed to rural settings.
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> [The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/man--about--town)
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> | Perhaps [**bon vivant**](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bon%20vivant) is what you're looking for?
>
> a person who likes going to parties and other social occasions and who enjoys good food, wine, etc.
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>
> |
322,524 | I'm looking for a short word that could describe people who are always going to every event in town. It doesn't need to be an existing word, feel free to create one of your own. It can also be made of words related to events and parties. (ex: club, event, guest list, etc.)
**Edit**
The word will serve as a new term to describ these people in a favorable way. It will probably be used for an app name so it need to be catchy and fun. ( Preferably ) | 2016/04/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/322524",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/172861/"
] | my millenial daughter uses the term FOMO. It's a person who suffers from a severe Fear Of Missing Out. | Glitterati popped into my head, although it might just apply to the smartly dressed attendees. |
322,524 | I'm looking for a short word that could describe people who are always going to every event in town. It doesn't need to be an existing word, feel free to create one of your own. It can also be made of words related to events and parties. (ex: club, event, guest list, etc.)
**Edit**
The word will serve as a new term to describ these people in a favorable way. It will probably be used for an app name so it need to be catchy and fun. ( Preferably ) | 2016/04/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/322524",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/172861/"
] | You may be looking for **party animal**
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> (informal) someone who enjoys parties and party activities very much and goes to as many as possible: *Sarah's a real party animal - she likes to dance all night.* — [Cambridge](http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/party-animal)
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> | Possibly a little dated, but "[a man about town](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/man--about--town)" could be used. |
322,524 | I'm looking for a short word that could describe people who are always going to every event in town. It doesn't need to be an existing word, feel free to create one of your own. It can also be made of words related to events and parties. (ex: club, event, guest list, etc.)
**Edit**
The word will serve as a new term to describ these people in a favorable way. It will probably be used for an app name so it need to be catchy and fun. ( Preferably ) | 2016/04/29 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/322524",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/172861/"
] | You may be looking for **party animal**
>
> (informal) someone who enjoys parties and party activities very much and goes to as many as possible: *Sarah's a real party animal - she likes to dance all night.* — [Cambridge](http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/party-animal)
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> | [***Man About Town***](http://www.abbreviationfinder.org/fr/acronyms/mat_man-about-town.html)
>
> A man who frequently attends fashionable social functions, as in *Fred is quite the **man about town** these days*. This expression, first recorded in 1734, uses town in the sense of “a sophisticated place” as opposed to rural settings.
>
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> [The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/man--about--town)
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> |
39,029 | Why we require high voltage swing at the output of line drivers? ( My knowledge in this area is limited and please correct me if am asking an irrelevant question ) just like + or - 15V at the output of a line driver even though the pro audio line voltage swing is only 3.47Vpp ?[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AshKP.png) | 2016/05/24 | [
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] | Headroom, mainly. Your peak voltage is 1.736 volt only when you have a sine wave signal of *exactly* +4 dBu (0VU on professional equipment). That never happens in the real world.. 0 on the meters is an averaged level, so with real-world audio signals you will have peaks far higher than 0VU.
A peak of +20 (+24 dBu) would result in 35Vpp output which would clip your +/- 15V rails... | 600 ohm line driver IC's such as the SSM2142 have supply rails of +/- 18 vdc. The output voltage of this IC is +/- 10 volts into a 600 ohm load. These are often use for long signal runs, such as a 100 foot 'snake' from stage to mixer, or in some studios. This wide voltage helps over come EMI noise and 'ghost' sounds from adjacent channels. The extra high supply voltage is to account for the voltage drop you get on long cable runs to a 600 ohm load.
The receiver has balanced 600 ohm inputs that divide the signal by 2, bringing the signal peaks down to +/- 5 volts, well within the range of IC's that use +/- 15 volt supplies. This rather expensive setup is used mostly in studios that record in 24 bit SACD format(120dB dynamic range), the default format (after RSCC) for DVD and Blu-Ray audio tracks.
If the recording is a musical event such as a concert, another *compressed* version is made for 16 bit CD audio(90dB dynamic range). Third party studios will get the rights to make various grades of MP3 versions(14-15 bits dynamic range).
For each drop in dynamic range lower voltage IC's can be used. Todays best audio IC's run on 5 volts or even 3.3 volts, mostly for MP3 players, because newer technologies have pushed their noise floor way down, needing less voltage to produce about 60dB to 90dB of dynamic range.
The next generation of audio IC's may have 120dB of dynamic range with only 5 volts of power. Then the higher voltages will be found mostly in power amplifiers. The Cerwin-Vega Metron series has supply rails of +/- 130 volts for its 1500 watt mono-block amplifiers. |
63,855 | Got a bike 3 weeks ago. It now slips gears WITHOUT shifting. only slipping when I pedal hard or uphill.. It shifts good. I weigh 250lbs.
edit: with a new derailleur | 2019/08/26 | [
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] | Even if a derailleur appears to shift well, it could be out of adjustment. My shifter cable recently snapped and I replaced it. I put on a new one, and after adjusting it to the point of the shifting being "good", there was still some skipping when pedaling up a steep hill; some finer adjusting took care of it (while also improving the shifting from "good" to "excellent").
You mention that the derailleur is new, which suggests that the bicycle isn't. A used bicycle can have a worn out drive-train.
If the chain slips on the cogs, a new derailleur won't fix it. If the chain is slipping on the rear cassette, both the chain and cog need to be replaced. If it skips on the front, then the chain and front rings will have to be replaced, and likely the rear cassette also (because the new chain will quite possibly skip on the **new** one).
A second-hand bicycle doesn't have to appear to be well-used to need drive train component replacements. A bike that is used daily for year-round daily commuting can need a new cassette and chain well before it's two years old, especially with lower-end components, even if kept clean and well-maintained. | I'm guessing that this is a used bike as you specifically point out it has a new derailleur.
The most likely cause is worn chain and sprockets. When you pedal hard you are literally pulling the chain off of the sprocket teeth. A new derailleur won't do anything to fix this.
Another possibility of ghost shifting - where the chain moves between sprockets on its own, but that feels different than the chain slipping.
Check the wear on the chain and cassette sprockets. A $10 chain wear gauge is a good investment. Sprocket wear can be assessed visually. |
63,855 | Got a bike 3 weeks ago. It now slips gears WITHOUT shifting. only slipping when I pedal hard or uphill.. It shifts good. I weigh 250lbs.
edit: with a new derailleur | 2019/08/26 | [
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] | Even if a derailleur appears to shift well, it could be out of adjustment. My shifter cable recently snapped and I replaced it. I put on a new one, and after adjusting it to the point of the shifting being "good", there was still some skipping when pedaling up a steep hill; some finer adjusting took care of it (while also improving the shifting from "good" to "excellent").
You mention that the derailleur is new, which suggests that the bicycle isn't. A used bicycle can have a worn out drive-train.
If the chain slips on the cogs, a new derailleur won't fix it. If the chain is slipping on the rear cassette, both the chain and cog need to be replaced. If it skips on the front, then the chain and front rings will have to be replaced, and likely the rear cassette also (because the new chain will quite possibly skip on the **new** one).
A second-hand bicycle doesn't have to appear to be well-used to need drive train component replacements. A bike that is used daily for year-round daily commuting can need a new cassette and chain well before it's two years old, especially with lower-end components, even if kept clean and well-maintained. | what about your gear or sprocket . is there any clogs or it might been use for so long and have misalignment or become gear too sharp as when you pedaling it hard easily make the chain loose .. a picture of it will help to understand |
63,855 | Got a bike 3 weeks ago. It now slips gears WITHOUT shifting. only slipping when I pedal hard or uphill.. It shifts good. I weigh 250lbs.
edit: with a new derailleur | 2019/08/26 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/63855",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
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] | I'm guessing that this is a used bike as you specifically point out it has a new derailleur.
The most likely cause is worn chain and sprockets. When you pedal hard you are literally pulling the chain off of the sprocket teeth. A new derailleur won't do anything to fix this.
Another possibility of ghost shifting - where the chain moves between sprockets on its own, but that feels different than the chain slipping.
Check the wear on the chain and cassette sprockets. A $10 chain wear gauge is a good investment. Sprocket wear can be assessed visually. | what about your gear or sprocket . is there any clogs or it might been use for so long and have misalignment or become gear too sharp as when you pedaling it hard easily make the chain loose .. a picture of it will help to understand |
104,214 | Chat just took a dive, everything operational or are we headed for bad news?
<https://chat.stackoverflow.com> is "[not loading](http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/chat.stackexchange.com)" and pinging chat.so times out.
 | 2011/08/28 | [
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] | I would love to blame Irene for this, but I fear we have to blame ourselves…
We recently made some major changes to the network architecture, and there are still a few things to iron out, especially when it comes to commuication between our two datacenters in Oregon (where chat is hosted) and New York (where the main sites come from). This was one of those things. | Could it be this?
 |
3,969 | One of the main problems I had to deal with, when I started to meditate and study the Dhamma, was the consequence of giving up attachment to reputation and pride.
Of course this is an extremelly positive thing to do, you simply become stronger when you stop caring about how other people see you, you just care about your actions, about karma, about your thoughts.
The problem is that people think you just don't care about anything else, they think you are not commited to your job anymore, to your appearance, to other people feelings... for instance: If they give you a bad feedback and you don't suffer and don't react to it, they think you are ignoring them.
It looks like we need small portions of drama to live in this society, non attachment to reputation makes you look like an alien or a brain washed person. I don't know how to balance that sometimes, any advise? | 2014/10/03 | [
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] | I don't exactly have an answer or advice to this, as I have a similar experience to a certain extent, but I understand that even though others might see the external us and base an opinion on it, the mind development that's going on for Buddhists may always be misunderstood by those not familiar with it and thus, dukkha arises for the one making the judgement. Maybe it also arises in us too, if we react to it even just a little bit. It's hard to be unaffected, I find. I guess that depends on where each one of is in the practice. As the Buddha describes, it is 'Patisothagami' or "it is a path that goes against the stream", so we're bound to hit resistance both from the stream and the other fish...to use a popular analogy.
Maybe here equanimity is needed with compassion in order to keep us within the sphere of 'normal' worldliness whilst striving for something beyond it.
I hope the reflection is useful and thank you for bringing it up.
Best wishes
Paul | In buddhism, what is referred as attachment is the type of attachment which keeps wheel of dependent origination.
In each case when a through arrives in your mind you get a sensation. When you react to this sensation with liking then it is attachement. If you do it with dislike it is aversion. All this because you do not understand the true nature of things.
If you experience any sensation with respect to thoughts of responsibility to which you react then there is attachment to reputation. If you do not react to the self awareness and reputation then there is no attachment. You can have applied through without attachment. This is more emotionally balanced than you doing things for stimulus from thoughts on reputation. This is more like a carrot and stick approach at a subtler level. |
3,969 | One of the main problems I had to deal with, when I started to meditate and study the Dhamma, was the consequence of giving up attachment to reputation and pride.
Of course this is an extremelly positive thing to do, you simply become stronger when you stop caring about how other people see you, you just care about your actions, about karma, about your thoughts.
The problem is that people think you just don't care about anything else, they think you are not commited to your job anymore, to your appearance, to other people feelings... for instance: If they give you a bad feedback and you don't suffer and don't react to it, they think you are ignoring them.
It looks like we need small portions of drama to live in this society, non attachment to reputation makes you look like an alien or a brain washed person. I don't know how to balance that sometimes, any advise? | 2014/10/03 | [
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] | I don't exactly have an answer or advice to this, as I have a similar experience to a certain extent, but I understand that even though others might see the external us and base an opinion on it, the mind development that's going on for Buddhists may always be misunderstood by those not familiar with it and thus, dukkha arises for the one making the judgement. Maybe it also arises in us too, if we react to it even just a little bit. It's hard to be unaffected, I find. I guess that depends on where each one of is in the practice. As the Buddha describes, it is 'Patisothagami' or "it is a path that goes against the stream", so we're bound to hit resistance both from the stream and the other fish...to use a popular analogy.
Maybe here equanimity is needed with compassion in order to keep us within the sphere of 'normal' worldliness whilst striving for something beyond it.
I hope the reflection is useful and thank you for bringing it up.
Best wishes
Paul | Maybe don't try to balance anything, just experience. Wanting things to be a certain way is always dukkha.
Ideally, we should do what is appropriate to the situation(this is easy for Arahants, hard for beginners). So if they think they are being ignored, maybe use the misunderstanding as an opportunity to tell them about what your practicing. Say something like: "I'm not ignoring you, I'm practicing the Dharma and to stay in line with the Dharma I keep my words few but just right, it's called Right Speech. All Dharma practices aim at making the practitioner quit ignoring what makes themselves and everyone suffer, in order to transcend suffering and be happy. So, now can you start to see that I'm very far from ignoring you?" |
3,969 | One of the main problems I had to deal with, when I started to meditate and study the Dhamma, was the consequence of giving up attachment to reputation and pride.
Of course this is an extremelly positive thing to do, you simply become stronger when you stop caring about how other people see you, you just care about your actions, about karma, about your thoughts.
The problem is that people think you just don't care about anything else, they think you are not commited to your job anymore, to your appearance, to other people feelings... for instance: If they give you a bad feedback and you don't suffer and don't react to it, they think you are ignoring them.
It looks like we need small portions of drama to live in this society, non attachment to reputation makes you look like an alien or a brain washed person. I don't know how to balance that sometimes, any advise? | 2014/10/03 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/3969",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/533/"
] | I don't exactly have an answer or advice to this, as I have a similar experience to a certain extent, but I understand that even though others might see the external us and base an opinion on it, the mind development that's going on for Buddhists may always be misunderstood by those not familiar with it and thus, dukkha arises for the one making the judgement. Maybe it also arises in us too, if we react to it even just a little bit. It's hard to be unaffected, I find. I guess that depends on where each one of is in the practice. As the Buddha describes, it is 'Patisothagami' or "it is a path that goes against the stream", so we're bound to hit resistance both from the stream and the other fish...to use a popular analogy.
Maybe here equanimity is needed with compassion in order to keep us within the sphere of 'normal' worldliness whilst striving for something beyond it.
I hope the reflection is useful and thank you for bringing it up.
Best wishes
Paul | I too have felt some resistance, although it did eventually resolve. For one, try being more compassionate. For a long while I simply desired wisdom, and did so in a way that was neither mindful of the consequences of my actions(and how people felt about them) and had a sense of pride. Now I am practising more compassion, and its harder for negativity to phase me. Consequently, I am not trying to shield my ego from the negativity, instead I embrace it. Through companions sharing this, they provide insight into how I could help them better. It was only through realising how my actions were harmful(atleast from the perspective of my friends) to the relationships, that I was able to eliminate the misunderstanding.
If you confront the ignorance, rather than purely ignore it, and practise compassion, you may find a more harmoneuous relationship. Of course there are people who will resist changing their attitude, such as someone who may be biased against Buddhism or any religious practise! In this case, try and see it from their perspective, and act in such a way to minimise their suffering. If they have no reason to suffer, your suffering should too reduce.
I used to try and impose my attitude towards vulgar language upon others, but only through accepting the present nature of some people, and their use of such language, was I able to eliminate my suffering. I let go of my attitude, and it no longer bothers me.
Good luck, hope you manage to find the trickly balance between practising yourself and being understood by others. |
3,969 | One of the main problems I had to deal with, when I started to meditate and study the Dhamma, was the consequence of giving up attachment to reputation and pride.
Of course this is an extremelly positive thing to do, you simply become stronger when you stop caring about how other people see you, you just care about your actions, about karma, about your thoughts.
The problem is that people think you just don't care about anything else, they think you are not commited to your job anymore, to your appearance, to other people feelings... for instance: If they give you a bad feedback and you don't suffer and don't react to it, they think you are ignoring them.
It looks like we need small portions of drama to live in this society, non attachment to reputation makes you look like an alien or a brain washed person. I don't know how to balance that sometimes, any advise? | 2014/10/03 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/3969",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/533/"
] | I don't exactly have an answer or advice to this, as I have a similar experience to a certain extent, but I understand that even though others might see the external us and base an opinion on it, the mind development that's going on for Buddhists may always be misunderstood by those not familiar with it and thus, dukkha arises for the one making the judgement. Maybe it also arises in us too, if we react to it even just a little bit. It's hard to be unaffected, I find. I guess that depends on where each one of is in the practice. As the Buddha describes, it is 'Patisothagami' or "it is a path that goes against the stream", so we're bound to hit resistance both from the stream and the other fish...to use a popular analogy.
Maybe here equanimity is needed with compassion in order to keep us within the sphere of 'normal' worldliness whilst striving for something beyond it.
I hope the reflection is useful and thank you for bringing it up.
Best wishes
Paul | The right fix, in my personal opinion, would be to respond as best as you can when people tell you such things. Try to see what it is about your reaction that gets on these people's nerves. It's not the case that you have to suffer when making use of social norms and conventions in order to maintain a dignified conversation. Try to see if you can find a way to appear right and normal to these people, without sacrificing your stability.
May I also suggest that, so long as you're not a monk, you don't want to sacrifice your job and relationships for the sake of not wanting to engage in things you don't like just right now. It's the long term well being that you're better off working on - and getting fired or thought lowly of by your friends & relatives isn't going to be part of that. Surely you can find a way to balance things out rightly.
Best of luck. |
3,969 | One of the main problems I had to deal with, when I started to meditate and study the Dhamma, was the consequence of giving up attachment to reputation and pride.
Of course this is an extremelly positive thing to do, you simply become stronger when you stop caring about how other people see you, you just care about your actions, about karma, about your thoughts.
The problem is that people think you just don't care about anything else, they think you are not commited to your job anymore, to your appearance, to other people feelings... for instance: If they give you a bad feedback and you don't suffer and don't react to it, they think you are ignoring them.
It looks like we need small portions of drama to live in this society, non attachment to reputation makes you look like an alien or a brain washed person. I don't know how to balance that sometimes, any advise? | 2014/10/03 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/3969",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/533/"
] | I too have felt some resistance, although it did eventually resolve. For one, try being more compassionate. For a long while I simply desired wisdom, and did so in a way that was neither mindful of the consequences of my actions(and how people felt about them) and had a sense of pride. Now I am practising more compassion, and its harder for negativity to phase me. Consequently, I am not trying to shield my ego from the negativity, instead I embrace it. Through companions sharing this, they provide insight into how I could help them better. It was only through realising how my actions were harmful(atleast from the perspective of my friends) to the relationships, that I was able to eliminate the misunderstanding.
If you confront the ignorance, rather than purely ignore it, and practise compassion, you may find a more harmoneuous relationship. Of course there are people who will resist changing their attitude, such as someone who may be biased against Buddhism or any religious practise! In this case, try and see it from their perspective, and act in such a way to minimise their suffering. If they have no reason to suffer, your suffering should too reduce.
I used to try and impose my attitude towards vulgar language upon others, but only through accepting the present nature of some people, and their use of such language, was I able to eliminate my suffering. I let go of my attitude, and it no longer bothers me.
Good luck, hope you manage to find the trickly balance between practising yourself and being understood by others. | In buddhism, what is referred as attachment is the type of attachment which keeps wheel of dependent origination.
In each case when a through arrives in your mind you get a sensation. When you react to this sensation with liking then it is attachement. If you do it with dislike it is aversion. All this because you do not understand the true nature of things.
If you experience any sensation with respect to thoughts of responsibility to which you react then there is attachment to reputation. If you do not react to the self awareness and reputation then there is no attachment. You can have applied through without attachment. This is more emotionally balanced than you doing things for stimulus from thoughts on reputation. This is more like a carrot and stick approach at a subtler level. |
3,969 | One of the main problems I had to deal with, when I started to meditate and study the Dhamma, was the consequence of giving up attachment to reputation and pride.
Of course this is an extremelly positive thing to do, you simply become stronger when you stop caring about how other people see you, you just care about your actions, about karma, about your thoughts.
The problem is that people think you just don't care about anything else, they think you are not commited to your job anymore, to your appearance, to other people feelings... for instance: If they give you a bad feedback and you don't suffer and don't react to it, they think you are ignoring them.
It looks like we need small portions of drama to live in this society, non attachment to reputation makes you look like an alien or a brain washed person. I don't know how to balance that sometimes, any advise? | 2014/10/03 | [
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] | In buddhism, what is referred as attachment is the type of attachment which keeps wheel of dependent origination.
In each case when a through arrives in your mind you get a sensation. When you react to this sensation with liking then it is attachement. If you do it with dislike it is aversion. All this because you do not understand the true nature of things.
If you experience any sensation with respect to thoughts of responsibility to which you react then there is attachment to reputation. If you do not react to the self awareness and reputation then there is no attachment. You can have applied through without attachment. This is more emotionally balanced than you doing things for stimulus from thoughts on reputation. This is more like a carrot and stick approach at a subtler level. | The right fix, in my personal opinion, would be to respond as best as you can when people tell you such things. Try to see what it is about your reaction that gets on these people's nerves. It's not the case that you have to suffer when making use of social norms and conventions in order to maintain a dignified conversation. Try to see if you can find a way to appear right and normal to these people, without sacrificing your stability.
May I also suggest that, so long as you're not a monk, you don't want to sacrifice your job and relationships for the sake of not wanting to engage in things you don't like just right now. It's the long term well being that you're better off working on - and getting fired or thought lowly of by your friends & relatives isn't going to be part of that. Surely you can find a way to balance things out rightly.
Best of luck. |
3,969 | One of the main problems I had to deal with, when I started to meditate and study the Dhamma, was the consequence of giving up attachment to reputation and pride.
Of course this is an extremelly positive thing to do, you simply become stronger when you stop caring about how other people see you, you just care about your actions, about karma, about your thoughts.
The problem is that people think you just don't care about anything else, they think you are not commited to your job anymore, to your appearance, to other people feelings... for instance: If they give you a bad feedback and you don't suffer and don't react to it, they think you are ignoring them.
It looks like we need small portions of drama to live in this society, non attachment to reputation makes you look like an alien or a brain washed person. I don't know how to balance that sometimes, any advise? | 2014/10/03 | [
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] | I too have felt some resistance, although it did eventually resolve. For one, try being more compassionate. For a long while I simply desired wisdom, and did so in a way that was neither mindful of the consequences of my actions(and how people felt about them) and had a sense of pride. Now I am practising more compassion, and its harder for negativity to phase me. Consequently, I am not trying to shield my ego from the negativity, instead I embrace it. Through companions sharing this, they provide insight into how I could help them better. It was only through realising how my actions were harmful(atleast from the perspective of my friends) to the relationships, that I was able to eliminate the misunderstanding.
If you confront the ignorance, rather than purely ignore it, and practise compassion, you may find a more harmoneuous relationship. Of course there are people who will resist changing their attitude, such as someone who may be biased against Buddhism or any religious practise! In this case, try and see it from their perspective, and act in such a way to minimise their suffering. If they have no reason to suffer, your suffering should too reduce.
I used to try and impose my attitude towards vulgar language upon others, but only through accepting the present nature of some people, and their use of such language, was I able to eliminate my suffering. I let go of my attitude, and it no longer bothers me.
Good luck, hope you manage to find the trickly balance between practising yourself and being understood by others. | Maybe don't try to balance anything, just experience. Wanting things to be a certain way is always dukkha.
Ideally, we should do what is appropriate to the situation(this is easy for Arahants, hard for beginners). So if they think they are being ignored, maybe use the misunderstanding as an opportunity to tell them about what your practicing. Say something like: "I'm not ignoring you, I'm practicing the Dharma and to stay in line with the Dharma I keep my words few but just right, it's called Right Speech. All Dharma practices aim at making the practitioner quit ignoring what makes themselves and everyone suffer, in order to transcend suffering and be happy. So, now can you start to see that I'm very far from ignoring you?" |
3,969 | One of the main problems I had to deal with, when I started to meditate and study the Dhamma, was the consequence of giving up attachment to reputation and pride.
Of course this is an extremelly positive thing to do, you simply become stronger when you stop caring about how other people see you, you just care about your actions, about karma, about your thoughts.
The problem is that people think you just don't care about anything else, they think you are not commited to your job anymore, to your appearance, to other people feelings... for instance: If they give you a bad feedback and you don't suffer and don't react to it, they think you are ignoring them.
It looks like we need small portions of drama to live in this society, non attachment to reputation makes you look like an alien or a brain washed person. I don't know how to balance that sometimes, any advise? | 2014/10/03 | [
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"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | Maybe don't try to balance anything, just experience. Wanting things to be a certain way is always dukkha.
Ideally, we should do what is appropriate to the situation(this is easy for Arahants, hard for beginners). So if they think they are being ignored, maybe use the misunderstanding as an opportunity to tell them about what your practicing. Say something like: "I'm not ignoring you, I'm practicing the Dharma and to stay in line with the Dharma I keep my words few but just right, it's called Right Speech. All Dharma practices aim at making the practitioner quit ignoring what makes themselves and everyone suffer, in order to transcend suffering and be happy. So, now can you start to see that I'm very far from ignoring you?" | The right fix, in my personal opinion, would be to respond as best as you can when people tell you such things. Try to see what it is about your reaction that gets on these people's nerves. It's not the case that you have to suffer when making use of social norms and conventions in order to maintain a dignified conversation. Try to see if you can find a way to appear right and normal to these people, without sacrificing your stability.
May I also suggest that, so long as you're not a monk, you don't want to sacrifice your job and relationships for the sake of not wanting to engage in things you don't like just right now. It's the long term well being that you're better off working on - and getting fired or thought lowly of by your friends & relatives isn't going to be part of that. Surely you can find a way to balance things out rightly.
Best of luck. |
3,969 | One of the main problems I had to deal with, when I started to meditate and study the Dhamma, was the consequence of giving up attachment to reputation and pride.
Of course this is an extremelly positive thing to do, you simply become stronger when you stop caring about how other people see you, you just care about your actions, about karma, about your thoughts.
The problem is that people think you just don't care about anything else, they think you are not commited to your job anymore, to your appearance, to other people feelings... for instance: If they give you a bad feedback and you don't suffer and don't react to it, they think you are ignoring them.
It looks like we need small portions of drama to live in this society, non attachment to reputation makes you look like an alien or a brain washed person. I don't know how to balance that sometimes, any advise? | 2014/10/03 | [
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"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | I too have felt some resistance, although it did eventually resolve. For one, try being more compassionate. For a long while I simply desired wisdom, and did so in a way that was neither mindful of the consequences of my actions(and how people felt about them) and had a sense of pride. Now I am practising more compassion, and its harder for negativity to phase me. Consequently, I am not trying to shield my ego from the negativity, instead I embrace it. Through companions sharing this, they provide insight into how I could help them better. It was only through realising how my actions were harmful(atleast from the perspective of my friends) to the relationships, that I was able to eliminate the misunderstanding.
If you confront the ignorance, rather than purely ignore it, and practise compassion, you may find a more harmoneuous relationship. Of course there are people who will resist changing their attitude, such as someone who may be biased against Buddhism or any religious practise! In this case, try and see it from their perspective, and act in such a way to minimise their suffering. If they have no reason to suffer, your suffering should too reduce.
I used to try and impose my attitude towards vulgar language upon others, but only through accepting the present nature of some people, and their use of such language, was I able to eliminate my suffering. I let go of my attitude, and it no longer bothers me.
Good luck, hope you manage to find the trickly balance between practising yourself and being understood by others. | The right fix, in my personal opinion, would be to respond as best as you can when people tell you such things. Try to see what it is about your reaction that gets on these people's nerves. It's not the case that you have to suffer when making use of social norms and conventions in order to maintain a dignified conversation. Try to see if you can find a way to appear right and normal to these people, without sacrificing your stability.
May I also suggest that, so long as you're not a monk, you don't want to sacrifice your job and relationships for the sake of not wanting to engage in things you don't like just right now. It's the long term well being that you're better off working on - and getting fired or thought lowly of by your friends & relatives isn't going to be part of that. Surely you can find a way to balance things out rightly.
Best of luck. |
7,168 | A long long time ago (.. I can still remember ♫) there were these old bottle caps. My parents still have 2 or 3 at home from soviet times. They look kinda like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kv6MK.jpg)
What are those called? Ar there some keywords to find them? It took me at least 3- minutes to even find this image (and it was in middle of completely unrelated images down on something like the third image-search page). Or, the best option, where can I buy a box of these?
**P.S.** I know that the image is from "flip-top" wikipedia page, but what I am looking for is a cap, that is independent from the bottle itself. | 2018/01/28 | [
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] | Found what I was looking for: [WESTMARK 3 Flaschenverschlüsse, Flaschenstöpsel mit Hebel und Gummidichtung, 40 x 60 x 15 mm, farblich sortiert](https://www.danto.de/Wohnen-Einrichten/Barmoebel-accessoires/Flaschenhalter/WESTMARK-3-Flaschenverschluesse-Flaschenstoepsel-mit-Hebel-und-Gummidichtung-40-x-60-x-15-mm-farblich-sortiert.html).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fgYni.jpg)
Now I only need to order a box of these. | In the USA you can find this type of cap at most homebrew shops. These originated in Holland but now are popular for many breweries around the world. Here are the [caps](https://www.morebeer.com/products/flip-top-swing-cap.html) |
23,665 | I've got an assignment to make some kind of alarm. When user presses the push button, 1kHz sound should be generated and outputted on some kind of speaker (I'll use buzzer).
That part I know how to make. I can use NE 555 to make astable to generate 1kHz output. But other part of the assignment is the problem. Is says that duty cycle should change from 50% to 0% while user is holding the push button ... I don't even have an idea what to try ...
EDIT: Duty cycle should decay from 50% to 0%. | 2011/12/14 | [
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] | Personally I'd use a small microcontroller.
Something like an ATTiny, or a PIC10F for example. Both incredibly cheap, and pretty much no external components needed other than some resistors, a button and a piezo transducer. | Have you considered multiple 555 timers? The first setting the variable duty cycle as an input to the 1khz generator? |
23,665 | I've got an assignment to make some kind of alarm. When user presses the push button, 1kHz sound should be generated and outputted on some kind of speaker (I'll use buzzer).
That part I know how to make. I can use NE 555 to make astable to generate 1kHz output. But other part of the assignment is the problem. Is says that duty cycle should change from 50% to 0% while user is holding the push button ... I don't even have an idea what to try ...
EDIT: Duty cycle should decay from 50% to 0%. | 2011/12/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/23665",
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] | Personally I'd use a small microcontroller.
Something like an ATTiny, or a PIC10F for example. Both incredibly cheap, and pretty much no external components needed other than some resistors, a button and a piezo transducer. | This is actually pretty easy if you think about it the right way. You say making a 1 kHz oscillator driving a speaker is no problem. You already know how to enable and disable that. When free running, the duty cycle should be about 50% (a square wave) already. Now note that 0% duty cycle is the same as off. So intead of having the switch gate your 1 kHz oscillator, make another slower oscillator and have that gate the 1 kHz oscillator.
So to summarize, you have the switch, which gates a slow oscillator (let's say 10 Hz), which gates the 1 kHz oscillator, which drives the speaker. You have to arrange the polarity of the first oscillator output and the second oscillator input such that the second oscillator is off when the first is gated off by the switch.
Basically, this is just using two instead of one of the same circuit you already know how to make. |
23,665 | I've got an assignment to make some kind of alarm. When user presses the push button, 1kHz sound should be generated and outputted on some kind of speaker (I'll use buzzer).
That part I know how to make. I can use NE 555 to make astable to generate 1kHz output. But other part of the assignment is the problem. Is says that duty cycle should change from 50% to 0% while user is holding the push button ... I don't even have an idea what to try ...
EDIT: Duty cycle should decay from 50% to 0%. | 2011/12/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/23665",
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] | Is the duty cycle supposed to switch from 50% to 0%, or decay from 50% to 0%? Is there any particular precision required on the 50%? Is there any requirement regarding quiescent current?
I would suggest that you start by using a 555 or similar chip to generate a symmetrical sawtooth-ish (doesn't have to have straight sides) wave, and then feed that into one side of a comparator. The other side of the comparator should be connected to a circuit which will generate a voltage that will start at half-rail when the button is first pushed, but will either rise toward VDD or fall toward ground after that. If you can use a SPDT pushbutton, a simple realization of such a circuit would be to connect the center pole of the button to a cap whose other leg is ground. Connect the normally-closed contact to VDD, and the normally-open contact to the comparator input. Connect a resistor from that comparator input to ground.
Conceptually, it would be nice if a single active device could be used to provide the output, without needing the separate comparator. It's possible for the 555 to provide an output whose duty cycle will be affected by an input voltage. Unfortunately, the frequency will also be affected by the input voltage; I'm not sure of any easy way to make a compensated circuit such that the decrease in high time will be balanced by an increase in the low time so as to yield a reasonably-constant frequency (as opposed to having a device generate a 1Khz reference signal which is then shaped by a second active device). A two-chip circuit doesn't seem unreasonable, though.
[Here](http://falstad.com/circuit/#%24+1+1.0E-6+10.20027730826997+50+5.0+50%0AR+352+224+304+224+0+3+1000.0+1.5+2.5+0.0+0.5%0Aa+352+208+448+208+1+15.0+-15.0+1000000.0%0Aw+352+192+240+192+0%0A172+240+192+192+192+0+6+2.45+5.0+0.0+0.0+0.5+Voltage%0Aw+352+224+352+256+0%0Aw+352+256+464+256+0%0Aw+448+208+464+208+0%0Ao+5+32+0+35+5.0+9.765625E-5+0+-1%0Ao+6+32+0+35+20.0+9.765625E-5+0+-1%0A)'s a simple circuit which will illustrate the concept. For simulation purposes, it uses an op amp, but a comparator would work just as well. One slight note: many comparators ground the output when the + input is higher than the - input, so the polarity would be opposite that of an op amp. | Have you considered multiple 555 timers? The first setting the variable duty cycle as an input to the 1khz generator? |
23,665 | I've got an assignment to make some kind of alarm. When user presses the push button, 1kHz sound should be generated and outputted on some kind of speaker (I'll use buzzer).
That part I know how to make. I can use NE 555 to make astable to generate 1kHz output. But other part of the assignment is the problem. Is says that duty cycle should change from 50% to 0% while user is holding the push button ... I don't even have an idea what to try ...
EDIT: Duty cycle should decay from 50% to 0%. | 2011/12/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/23665",
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] | Is the duty cycle supposed to switch from 50% to 0%, or decay from 50% to 0%? Is there any particular precision required on the 50%? Is there any requirement regarding quiescent current?
I would suggest that you start by using a 555 or similar chip to generate a symmetrical sawtooth-ish (doesn't have to have straight sides) wave, and then feed that into one side of a comparator. The other side of the comparator should be connected to a circuit which will generate a voltage that will start at half-rail when the button is first pushed, but will either rise toward VDD or fall toward ground after that. If you can use a SPDT pushbutton, a simple realization of such a circuit would be to connect the center pole of the button to a cap whose other leg is ground. Connect the normally-closed contact to VDD, and the normally-open contact to the comparator input. Connect a resistor from that comparator input to ground.
Conceptually, it would be nice if a single active device could be used to provide the output, without needing the separate comparator. It's possible for the 555 to provide an output whose duty cycle will be affected by an input voltage. Unfortunately, the frequency will also be affected by the input voltage; I'm not sure of any easy way to make a compensated circuit such that the decrease in high time will be balanced by an increase in the low time so as to yield a reasonably-constant frequency (as opposed to having a device generate a 1Khz reference signal which is then shaped by a second active device). A two-chip circuit doesn't seem unreasonable, though.
[Here](http://falstad.com/circuit/#%24+1+1.0E-6+10.20027730826997+50+5.0+50%0AR+352+224+304+224+0+3+1000.0+1.5+2.5+0.0+0.5%0Aa+352+208+448+208+1+15.0+-15.0+1000000.0%0Aw+352+192+240+192+0%0A172+240+192+192+192+0+6+2.45+5.0+0.0+0.0+0.5+Voltage%0Aw+352+224+352+256+0%0Aw+352+256+464+256+0%0Aw+448+208+464+208+0%0Ao+5+32+0+35+5.0+9.765625E-5+0+-1%0Ao+6+32+0+35+20.0+9.765625E-5+0+-1%0A)'s a simple circuit which will illustrate the concept. For simulation purposes, it uses an op amp, but a comparator would work just as well. One slight note: many comparators ground the output when the + input is higher than the - input, so the polarity would be opposite that of an op amp. | This is actually pretty easy if you think about it the right way. You say making a 1 kHz oscillator driving a speaker is no problem. You already know how to enable and disable that. When free running, the duty cycle should be about 50% (a square wave) already. Now note that 0% duty cycle is the same as off. So intead of having the switch gate your 1 kHz oscillator, make another slower oscillator and have that gate the 1 kHz oscillator.
So to summarize, you have the switch, which gates a slow oscillator (let's say 10 Hz), which gates the 1 kHz oscillator, which drives the speaker. You have to arrange the polarity of the first oscillator output and the second oscillator input such that the second oscillator is off when the first is gated off by the switch.
Basically, this is just using two instead of one of the same circuit you already know how to make. |
4,650,817 | I've been looking around for a definitive answer as to how to use LINQ to SQL with mySQL but can't seem to come up with anything. Does anyone have any experience / suggestions using the two together? In particular, I would like to avoid using string SQL statements.
Cheers | 2011/01/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4650817",
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] | MySQL isn't directly supported by Microsoft's LINQ to SQL provider, but there are several alternative ways you can use LINQ against MySQL.
Take a look at using [LINQ to nHibernate](http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/03/16/Linq-for-NHibernate.aspx), or see [here](http://code2code.net/DB_Linq/) for LINQ providers against non-Microsoft databases. | Now (as of 2015) you can use the Connector/NET provided by MySQL.
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-tutorials.html> |
12,068 | Would it be possible to run StackOverflow without ASP.NET sessions? | 2009/08/04 | [
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183,949 | The spell Summon Greater Demon lets the caster summon a Demon and give it orders:
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> You utter foul words, summoning one demon from the chaos of the Abyss.[...] When you summon it and on each of your turns thereafter, you can issue a verbal command to it (requiring no action on your part), telling it what it must do on its next turn. [...]
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The Demon obeys the caster's orders, at least initially. As my first order, can I command the Demon to tell me its true name - thus inflicting disadvantage on the Demon's subsequent attempts to break free of my control? | 2021/04/15 | [
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It's hard to know if it's intended or not, but it is a consistent way to interpret the rules, depending on how you interpret p.54 of the Monster Manual, which tells us that:
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There are two ways of reading this into your question:
1. This specific rule overrides the general rules of *Summon Greater Demon*, and tells us that **the only way** to get a demon to disclose its true name is by charming it. The demon under your control via the casting of the spell is not technically charmed, so you'd need to charm it in order to learn its name
2. This rule describes one possible way of learning a Demon's name, but there are others. This makes sense because the paragraph in question also lists 'ancient scrolls' as a possible way of learning a Demon's name. It's consistent that threats, bargains or **other means of control** could also be used to illicit a demon's name from the demon itself.
I'm sympathetic to the second ruling; I don't see anything to suggest that the *charmed* condition is the only way to get a demon to tell you its name. Since the spell places no limit on what the controlled demon can be commanded to do (ie. commands are limited by what the demon can do), it follows that you can command the demon to tell you its name.
This seems counterintuitive and might be unintended - it would be unusual for the spell to specify that 'the demon has disadvantage on this saving throw if you say its true name' when the spell gives the means of learning its true name, albeit at the cost of an action at the start of the hour-long casting time.
I would~~n't~~ allow it at my table, but from what I can see it's totally aligned with the RAW
*Edit*: I've been reading some [other opinions](https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/8g5qqc/am_i_missing_something_exploiting_summon_greater/) on this, and I'm not 100% sure that it isn't intended.
It's also worth noting the absence of any rules which dissuade the caster from harming the demon, or causing it to cause harm to itself. Many creature-control spells allow the saving throw to be repeated or cause the spell to end if the caster or their allies harm the charmed creature, and explicitly forbid commands that will directly imperil the creature. This spell has no such caveats: You could literally summon a demon and command it to stab itself in the face with zero penalty. Considering that this is the extent of your control over the creature, it's consistent to infer that you could ask the demon to tell you its name. | Game mechanics wise, forcing a caster to use TWO 4th level spell slots (SGD and Charm Monster) and TWO Turns to try to get the demon to follow orders longer (and thus not kill your team) when it has one turn in between these actions to save and break free is overly punitive. Most fights are over in a few rounds. Even if the caster gets its name, it will still break free often times before the end of the battle (see an advantage, straight roll, disadvantage table, plug in the cha modifier and magic resistance trait). It will never last a full hour since it can make a save multiple times a minute depending on how many are in initiative. Plus, some of them have a 30% chance to summon another demon as an action. Think in terms of action economy. Getting a demon out, chance to save, charm (which can fail) is not fun. The player is losing out on doing everything else only to get something they will statistically lose control over shortly.
The widespread number of punitive interpretations of this spell make it not worth bothering with. Run it as written and don't bring in rules from other places. The spell is the specific rule, and it doesn't say anywhere that it should take an action to give you the name:
Player characters can say things in battle for free and take actions too. Why is the demon treated differently? It has its own initiative and should be given the same combat criteria as players who can yell "help" or "over here" or "the Wall is an illusion" while also casting a spell or swinging a maul two times and moving 30 feet. Familiars get this treatment.
Commanding it to give you its name first should be protocol or the spell is junk and nothing more than a stink bomb, in which case you're safer casting sickening radiance or any other persistent area of effect that do more damage and that you maintain control over.
DMs making it an action or have an extra save or requiring charm or having the cleric in your group throw a fit and call you evil are all ways to make people pass this spell up or leave the table. Putting all these unwritten rules into the spell ruins it.
It is there so you can access a sack of hit points (less reliably than say Summon Shadowspawn, a lower level spell), acquire access to spells at lower save DCs (watch out for that DC 12!) you may not otherwise have or increase your spells known economy at a risk, and do a little damage if you get the barlgura out, whose attacks aren't even magical, which is a big deal by the time you get this spell.
Tldr: it can say it's name if commanded on the first turn, and it doesn't take an action because players can say things too without taking an action. The spell does not state it makes a save at that time either. It only makes a save at the end of the demon's turn. More punitive interpretations make the spell horrible. It is a cool spell. Let it play. It's not going to wreck the game. |
664 | If I add a notice to my user page that my answers are licensed under the GPL, in addition to the "standard" site-wide Creative Commons license, how does this affect posts by other users that I edit or other users that edit my posts?
Personally, I don't mind if others can use my code to write useful plugins or contribute to the official WordPress Codex. However, both places require the content to be licensed under the GPL. I could just add a notice to my personal user page, but of course, if I edit a post from another user, that should not automatically make the whole post from that user GPL-licensed.
How can I formulate the text so that it applies to my contributions, without incorrectly implying extra rights about contributions from other users?
My first attempt is this:
>
> In addition to the standard Creative Commons license of this site, I give permission to **use all my contributions under the GPL license (version 2)**. Feel free to re-use it in plugins, themes, or in the Codex.
>
>
>
Related questions:
* [GPL, Copyright, and Code Snippets](https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/256/gpl-copyright-and-code-snippets)
* [If someone gives you a big chunk of code at SO, do you give credit to that person in a file within your app?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78481/if-someone-gives-you-a-big-chunk-of-code-at-so-do-you-give-credit-to-that-person) | 2011/06/06 | [
"https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/664",
"https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8/"
] | I would imagine that edits (for clarification, grammatical or typographical errors) do not constitute copyrightable content. Thus, the original author of such Questions/Answers retains full copyright over the work in question. In which case, the copyright license remains whatever the original author applies. | *As always when it comes to licensing issues:*
>
> (Disclaimer) I'm no lawyer, so this is just my personal opinion.
>
>
>
Currently no one can tell if everything WP related inherits the license. There are (loads of) different opinions about it. One of the strongest arguments out there is
>
> that WordPress is a derivate of php and therefore should be under [the same](http://php.net/license/index.php) license, if any plugin, theme or else must inherit the WordPress license.
>
>
>
Try to **get on the safe side** and note it on your personal page. I haven't thought about it before (regarding my activities on this site), but I will add these lines right after I wrote this answer here. |
664 | If I add a notice to my user page that my answers are licensed under the GPL, in addition to the "standard" site-wide Creative Commons license, how does this affect posts by other users that I edit or other users that edit my posts?
Personally, I don't mind if others can use my code to write useful plugins or contribute to the official WordPress Codex. However, both places require the content to be licensed under the GPL. I could just add a notice to my personal user page, but of course, if I edit a post from another user, that should not automatically make the whole post from that user GPL-licensed.
How can I formulate the text so that it applies to my contributions, without incorrectly implying extra rights about contributions from other users?
My first attempt is this:
>
> In addition to the standard Creative Commons license of this site, I give permission to **use all my contributions under the GPL license (version 2)**. Feel free to re-use it in plugins, themes, or in the Codex.
>
>
>
Related questions:
* [GPL, Copyright, and Code Snippets](https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/256/gpl-copyright-and-code-snippets)
* [If someone gives you a big chunk of code at SO, do you give credit to that person in a file within your app?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78481/if-someone-gives-you-a-big-chunk-of-code-at-so-do-you-give-credit-to-that-person) | 2011/06/06 | [
"https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/664",
"https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8/"
] | A Word about Licensing
----------------------
Licensing via the GPL isn't so much to protect our rights as developers but to protect the rights of people receiving our code. In a nutshell, it guarantees that anyone using our stuff has permission to do so, permission to change what we wrote, and permission to distribute those changes.
As far as I'm concerned, licensing code snippets here should follow the same model, if not a more permissive one. You're posting your code for all the world to see, and all the world should be able to benefit. If not, you should re-evaluate what you're posting and why.
Which License to Use
--------------------
For most of my public code (i.e. the stuff I don't actually sell) I use the MIT license. It's actually *less* restrictive than the GPL as it's not viral, but still extends the same rights of use, modification, and redistribution. I've seen others claim their code snippets as published in the public domain in order to do the same - if it's owned by the public, the public can do whatever they want.
The thing to remember, though, is that content on this site is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (the cc-wiki logo in the bottom right corner). This license is [not actually compatible with the GPL](http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F) ... so unless you make other specific statements when you write code, *technically* people shouldn't be using your stuff in GPL'd plugins and themes anyway.
So if you want to be specific, make a comment whenever you post a code snippet explaining which license you're using with, perhaps, a link to a blog post or something explaining why. I personally recommend you use the most permissive license you're comfortable with. As I said, I use MIT for a lot of my stuff (so my name stays tied to my work), but some use [public domain](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) to cut out any illusion of restrictions.
Contributions From Others
-------------------------
Here's where the slippery slope begins. It's one thing to claim a license for *your own* work. But since others can modify your code on the site, they can (accidentally?) become contributors to your work. My argument would be that whatever license the *original author* applies to the code will be the binding one, and any later edits/contributions would fall under the same.
If an author isn't applying a license when they write code, then the CC BY-SA license for the entire site would likely apply. So if you're adding edits, revising code, changing formatting, etc, remember that your edits would be tied to the same.
This is where a generic "all my stuff is GPL" on your profile would do more harm than good. Yes, you might intend all of *your* code to be GPL, but you can't apply the GPL on code already licensed as CC BY-SA. So if you edit someone else's post, your code contributions there *wouldn't* be GPL and your catchall profile statement might lead someone down the road to think otherwise and unintentionally violate a license.
I would encourage including a single line of text with each GPL'd contribution just to keep things crystal clear:
>
> This code snippet is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 3.
>
>
> | I would imagine that edits (for clarification, grammatical or typographical errors) do not constitute copyrightable content. Thus, the original author of such Questions/Answers retains full copyright over the work in question. In which case, the copyright license remains whatever the original author applies. |
664 | If I add a notice to my user page that my answers are licensed under the GPL, in addition to the "standard" site-wide Creative Commons license, how does this affect posts by other users that I edit or other users that edit my posts?
Personally, I don't mind if others can use my code to write useful plugins or contribute to the official WordPress Codex. However, both places require the content to be licensed under the GPL. I could just add a notice to my personal user page, but of course, if I edit a post from another user, that should not automatically make the whole post from that user GPL-licensed.
How can I formulate the text so that it applies to my contributions, without incorrectly implying extra rights about contributions from other users?
My first attempt is this:
>
> In addition to the standard Creative Commons license of this site, I give permission to **use all my contributions under the GPL license (version 2)**. Feel free to re-use it in plugins, themes, or in the Codex.
>
>
>
Related questions:
* [GPL, Copyright, and Code Snippets](https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/256/gpl-copyright-and-code-snippets)
* [If someone gives you a big chunk of code at SO, do you give credit to that person in a file within your app?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78481/if-someone-gives-you-a-big-chunk-of-code-at-so-do-you-give-credit-to-that-person) | 2011/06/06 | [
"https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/664",
"https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8/"
] | A Word about Licensing
----------------------
Licensing via the GPL isn't so much to protect our rights as developers but to protect the rights of people receiving our code. In a nutshell, it guarantees that anyone using our stuff has permission to do so, permission to change what we wrote, and permission to distribute those changes.
As far as I'm concerned, licensing code snippets here should follow the same model, if not a more permissive one. You're posting your code for all the world to see, and all the world should be able to benefit. If not, you should re-evaluate what you're posting and why.
Which License to Use
--------------------
For most of my public code (i.e. the stuff I don't actually sell) I use the MIT license. It's actually *less* restrictive than the GPL as it's not viral, but still extends the same rights of use, modification, and redistribution. I've seen others claim their code snippets as published in the public domain in order to do the same - if it's owned by the public, the public can do whatever they want.
The thing to remember, though, is that content on this site is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (the cc-wiki logo in the bottom right corner). This license is [not actually compatible with the GPL](http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F) ... so unless you make other specific statements when you write code, *technically* people shouldn't be using your stuff in GPL'd plugins and themes anyway.
So if you want to be specific, make a comment whenever you post a code snippet explaining which license you're using with, perhaps, a link to a blog post or something explaining why. I personally recommend you use the most permissive license you're comfortable with. As I said, I use MIT for a lot of my stuff (so my name stays tied to my work), but some use [public domain](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) to cut out any illusion of restrictions.
Contributions From Others
-------------------------
Here's where the slippery slope begins. It's one thing to claim a license for *your own* work. But since others can modify your code on the site, they can (accidentally?) become contributors to your work. My argument would be that whatever license the *original author* applies to the code will be the binding one, and any later edits/contributions would fall under the same.
If an author isn't applying a license when they write code, then the CC BY-SA license for the entire site would likely apply. So if you're adding edits, revising code, changing formatting, etc, remember that your edits would be tied to the same.
This is where a generic "all my stuff is GPL" on your profile would do more harm than good. Yes, you might intend all of *your* code to be GPL, but you can't apply the GPL on code already licensed as CC BY-SA. So if you edit someone else's post, your code contributions there *wouldn't* be GPL and your catchall profile statement might lead someone down the road to think otherwise and unintentionally violate a license.
I would encourage including a single line of text with each GPL'd contribution just to keep things crystal clear:
>
> This code snippet is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 3.
>
>
> | *As always when it comes to licensing issues:*
>
> (Disclaimer) I'm no lawyer, so this is just my personal opinion.
>
>
>
Currently no one can tell if everything WP related inherits the license. There are (loads of) different opinions about it. One of the strongest arguments out there is
>
> that WordPress is a derivate of php and therefore should be under [the same](http://php.net/license/index.php) license, if any plugin, theme or else must inherit the WordPress license.
>
>
>
Try to **get on the safe side** and note it on your personal page. I haven't thought about it before (regarding my activities on this site), but I will add these lines right after I wrote this answer here. |
55,424 | I feel like this may be already out there somewhere, but I really did think this up on my own. What does this rebus puzzle mean?
>
> GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO
>
>
>
That's really it! No additional hints exist in any of the content not in block quotes.
Hint:
>
> The answer has 5 words.
>
>
> | 2017/09/27 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/55424",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/30254/"
] | Any Chance it'd be:
>
> Go Wait in a line
>
>
>
as in
>
> Go \* 8 in a line
>
>
> | Is it
>
> Forgot to go
>
>
>
Implying
>
> 4 GO x 2 GO = 8 GO (Four-go-two-go) = forgot to go
>
>
> |
55,424 | I feel like this may be already out there somewhere, but I really did think this up on my own. What does this rebus puzzle mean?
>
> GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO
>
>
>
That's really it! No additional hints exist in any of the content not in block quotes.
Hint:
>
> The answer has 5 words.
>
>
> | 2017/09/27 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/55424",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/30254/"
] | I guess the answer you're after is:
>
> to forego
>
>
>
because indeed
>
> 2 \* GO GO GO GO = two (four GO)
>
>
> | Probably
>
> **GO**es in line...
>
>
>
> with?
>
>
>
As in:
>
> Rhymes with.
>
>
> |
55,424 | I feel like this may be already out there somewhere, but I really did think this up on my own. What does this rebus puzzle mean?
>
> GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO
>
>
>
That's really it! No additional hints exist in any of the content not in block quotes.
Hint:
>
> The answer has 5 words.
>
>
> | 2017/09/27 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/55424",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/30254/"
] | Could it be:
>
> It takes two to tango?
>
>
>
Rather cryptically, the rebus puzzle depicts:
>
> It takes two (more go) to (get) ten go.
>
>
> | I feel,
(EDITED ANSWER):
>
> Goes online (that is LIVE!)
>
>
>
based on pronounciation mainly
>
> 8 GOs arranged in a line
>
>
>
a common phrase of usage. |
55,424 | I feel like this may be already out there somewhere, but I really did think this up on my own. What does this rebus puzzle mean?
>
> GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO
>
>
>
That's really it! No additional hints exist in any of the content not in block quotes.
Hint:
>
> The answer has 5 words.
>
>
> | 2017/09/27 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/55424",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/30254/"
] | I guess the answer you're after is:
>
> to forego
>
>
>
because indeed
>
> 2 \* GO GO GO GO = two (four GO)
>
>
> | I think the answer is
>
> Everything is a go
>
>
>
meaning
>
> All preparations are complete
>
>
> |
55,424 | I feel like this may be already out there somewhere, but I really did think this up on my own. What does this rebus puzzle mean?
>
> GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO
>
>
>
That's really it! No additional hints exist in any of the content not in block quotes.
Hint:
>
> The answer has 5 words.
>
>
> | 2017/09/27 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/55424",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com",
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/30254/"
] | Is it
>
> Forgot to go
>
>
>
Implying
>
> 4 GO x 2 GO = 8 GO (Four-go-two-go) = forgot to go
>
>
> | I think the answer is
>
> Everything is a go
>
>
>
meaning
>
> All preparations are complete
>
>
> |
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