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110,870 | In chapter 80, *The Primary*, Neal Stephenson has one of his character describe how the drives of a computer carried through a door (by the police, who where raiding the facility) will have been erased.
Basically, there's an enormous electromagnet around the door frame:
>
> Cantrell is now drawing an elaborate dia... | 2014/05/01 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110870",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
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] | There's really two parts to your question, which I'm going to answer separately. First of all, the explicit question:
Could a huge electromagnetic coil erase a hard drive carried through it?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sure it could. That's pretty much what a [degausser](h... | Yes.
It is definitely possible to erase a hard drive with a strong enough magnetic field. Machines called "degaussers" exist only to erase hard drives in this manner, specifically without removing the drive platters (disks) from an enclosure.
Most degaussers appear to be rated at 8000-10000 Gauss. At the top end, the... |
110,870 | In chapter 80, *The Primary*, Neal Stephenson has one of his character describe how the drives of a computer carried through a door (by the police, who where raiding the facility) will have been erased.
Basically, there's an enormous electromagnet around the door frame:
>
> Cantrell is now drawing an elaborate dia... | 2014/05/01 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110870",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/45702/"
] | **In Theory...but Not In Reality**
It's one of those ideas that is possible in theory but impractical in practice.
Hard drives in computers are surrounded by a metal case of the drive, then the metal case of the computer. Even if you specifically got a non-metal case there is still some shielding there.
To generate ... | Yes.
It is definitely possible to erase a hard drive with a strong enough magnetic field. Machines called "degaussers" exist only to erase hard drives in this manner, specifically without removing the drive platters (disks) from an enclosure.
Most degaussers appear to be rated at 8000-10000 Gauss. At the top end, the... |
110,870 | In chapter 80, *The Primary*, Neal Stephenson has one of his character describe how the drives of a computer carried through a door (by the police, who where raiding the facility) will have been erased.
Basically, there's an enormous electromagnet around the door frame:
>
> Cantrell is now drawing an elaborate dia... | 2014/05/01 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110870",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/45702/"
] | **Possibly**.
[Degaussing](http://www.dataerasure.com/degauss.php) is the process of destroying data on a hard drive using an electromagnetic field, so there's some scientific basis to the idea. Assuming the electromagnet was sufficiently strong and there was no or very little shielding around the hard drive - which, ... | Agree with all comments above about the required strength, and the likely side effects if it were a DC degausser. But I got to thinking - if it were an AC degausser instead, you'd have lots of erasure events per second. Plus, you'd get metal objects wiggling back and forth instead of being yanked around. Do it at a pre... |
110,870 | In chapter 80, *The Primary*, Neal Stephenson has one of his character describe how the drives of a computer carried through a door (by the police, who where raiding the facility) will have been erased.
Basically, there's an enormous electromagnet around the door frame:
>
> Cantrell is now drawing an elaborate dia... | 2014/05/01 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110870",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/45702/"
] | **In Theory...but Not In Reality**
It's one of those ideas that is possible in theory but impractical in practice.
Hard drives in computers are surrounded by a metal case of the drive, then the metal case of the computer. Even if you specifically got a non-metal case there is still some shielding there.
To generate ... | I agree that **some** hard drives could be "erased" with the described electromagnet. However, if the hard drive is "magnetically shielded," then it is highly unlikely. If a "high enough" (> 50,000 hertz) frequency is used, the presence of the electromagnet should not be "humanly" detectable. |
110,870 | In chapter 80, *The Primary*, Neal Stephenson has one of his character describe how the drives of a computer carried through a door (by the police, who where raiding the facility) will have been erased.
Basically, there's an enormous electromagnet around the door frame:
>
> Cantrell is now drawing an elaborate dia... | 2014/05/01 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110870",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/45702/"
] | Agree with all comments above about the required strength, and the likely side effects if it were a DC degausser. But I got to thinking - if it were an AC degausser instead, you'd have lots of erasure events per second. Plus, you'd get metal objects wiggling back and forth instead of being yanked around. Do it at a pre... | I agree that **some** hard drives could be "erased" with the described electromagnet. However, if the hard drive is "magnetically shielded," then it is highly unlikely. If a "high enough" (> 50,000 hertz) frequency is used, the presence of the electromagnet should not be "humanly" detectable. |
110,870 | In chapter 80, *The Primary*, Neal Stephenson has one of his character describe how the drives of a computer carried through a door (by the police, who where raiding the facility) will have been erased.
Basically, there's an enormous electromagnet around the door frame:
>
> Cantrell is now drawing an elaborate dia... | 2014/05/01 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110870",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/45702/"
] | There's really two parts to your question, which I'm going to answer separately. First of all, the explicit question:
Could a huge electromagnetic coil erase a hard drive carried through it?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sure it could. That's pretty much what a [degausser](h... | I agree that **some** hard drives could be "erased" with the described electromagnet. However, if the hard drive is "magnetically shielded," then it is highly unlikely. If a "high enough" (> 50,000 hertz) frequency is used, the presence of the electromagnet should not be "humanly" detectable. |
110,870 | In chapter 80, *The Primary*, Neal Stephenson has one of his character describe how the drives of a computer carried through a door (by the police, who where raiding the facility) will have been erased.
Basically, there's an enormous electromagnet around the door frame:
>
> Cantrell is now drawing an elaborate dia... | 2014/05/01 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110870",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/45702/"
] | **Possibly**.
[Degaussing](http://www.dataerasure.com/degauss.php) is the process of destroying data on a hard drive using an electromagnetic field, so there's some scientific basis to the idea. Assuming the electromagnet was sufficiently strong and there was no or very little shielding around the hard drive - which, ... | Yes.
It is definitely possible to erase a hard drive with a strong enough magnetic field. Machines called "degaussers" exist only to erase hard drives in this manner, specifically without removing the drive platters (disks) from an enclosure.
Most degaussers appear to be rated at 8000-10000 Gauss. At the top end, the... |
35,626 | As I prepare for fall around here (USDA zone 8a, max low ~10f, average low ~45f) I long for a greenhouse to bet overwinter some of our showy pots, and perhaps get a jump on some annuals and veggies as next spring rolls around. It's no small task to add a greenhouse to our property (plus I have to check local building c... | 2017/09/26 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/35626",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/16406/"
] | Easy as can be. Seeds are not some magical movie monster that cannot be killed.
Put them in a pan, bake at 250°F / 120°C (or higher, but that should be adequate) for an hour, they should be good and dead.
Or - wrap in aluminum foil, place in fire, cover with coals (if you don't want them in your oven/house) You could... | Oh shoot. If you are looking at dried seeds it is way too late to do anything at all about deactivating those seed. Sorrryyy. The best time to stop weeds is before the plant is able to flower or shortly after the seeds germinate. Baby plants easily killed.
This plant is a biennial...yes? So easy to eradicate by 'weed ... |
35,626 | As I prepare for fall around here (USDA zone 8a, max low ~10f, average low ~45f) I long for a greenhouse to bet overwinter some of our showy pots, and perhaps get a jump on some annuals and veggies as next spring rolls around. It's no small task to add a greenhouse to our property (plus I have to check local building c... | 2017/09/26 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/35626",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/16406/"
] | You could always just dig a hole and throw them all in (and bury them). Seeds planted too deeply are known not to sprout above the soil, if at all. If it's Morning Glory, you might consider another option.
Another alternative is throwing them in the trash.
If you can't get rid of them and don't want to dig a hole (or... | Oh shoot. If you are looking at dried seeds it is way too late to do anything at all about deactivating those seed. Sorrryyy. The best time to stop weeds is before the plant is able to flower or shortly after the seeds germinate. Baby plants easily killed.
This plant is a biennial...yes? So easy to eradicate by 'weed ... |
73,248 | If I want to say that there are two people and each one of them is found in other side of the house. What is the correct way to say it?
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> 1) There are two people in each side of the house
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> 2) There are two people in each side**s** of the house
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And by the way (in the same topic), are the two follow... | 2015/11/14 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/73248",
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] | *Two people on each side* means *two people on this side and two people on that side*—four people in all (if there are two sides).
What you mean is *one person on each* side, one on this side and one on that.
If you have not already explained that two sides are involved, you need to say so explicitly:
>
> There is ... | *Each* is used before a singular noun and a singular verb/pronoun is used for it.
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> Each **item** **consists** of 10 questions. (if there are two items, there are 20 questions)
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> Each of these people **has** some useful talent.
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> Each component can be replaced separately if **it** breaks.
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As t... |
291,559 | I read this book called Practical Electronics for Invetors,and it says that one of the ways to increase magnetic field strenght of solenoid is to increase the current or increase the number of turns.
That got me thinking,why do induction heaters and induction coupled plasma use small number of turns and high current? ... | 2017/03/10 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/291559",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
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] | Especially considering size and weight, I'd use a PIC 10F200 microcontroller. It has a oscillator built in, and needs no other components other than a bypass cap to drive a LED. It can also run from a reasonably wide voltage range, including 3.7 V.
The internal oscillator is good to a few percent. The instruction cycl... | Once you started actually talking about your problem, it became clear that you were indeed asking an xy question. The question you really want answered, is "How can I identify a drone by blinking its orientation lights?" or even better, "I'd like to identify a drone by blinking its orientation lights. What should I be ... |
291,559 | I read this book called Practical Electronics for Invetors,and it says that one of the ways to increase magnetic field strenght of solenoid is to increase the current or increase the number of turns.
That got me thinking,why do induction heaters and induction coupled plasma use small number of turns and high current? ... | 2017/03/10 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/291559",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/141377/"
] | Especially considering size and weight, I'd use a PIC 10F200 microcontroller. It has a oscillator built in, and needs no other components other than a bypass cap to drive a LED. It can also run from a reasonably wide voltage range, including 3.7 V.
The internal oscillator is good to a few percent. The instruction cycl... | Here is a quick and dirty design using a ZSCT1555 CMOS timer IC as a VCO and PWM to change not only the duty cycle of color from Yellow to Red with battery voltage but also the frequency up to a 2:1 range for an input voltage range of 3.6 to 3.3V .
I chose ~2kHz high to 4kHz when low Vbat and simulated it here with [*... |
291,559 | I read this book called Practical Electronics for Invetors,and it says that one of the ways to increase magnetic field strenght of solenoid is to increase the current or increase the number of turns.
That got me thinking,why do induction heaters and induction coupled plasma use small number of turns and high current? ... | 2017/03/10 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/291559",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/141377/"
] | Here is a quick and dirty design using a ZSCT1555 CMOS timer IC as a VCO and PWM to change not only the duty cycle of color from Yellow to Red with battery voltage but also the frequency up to a 2:1 range for an input voltage range of 3.6 to 3.3V .
I chose ~2kHz high to 4kHz when low Vbat and simulated it here with [*... | Once you started actually talking about your problem, it became clear that you were indeed asking an xy question. The question you really want answered, is "How can I identify a drone by blinking its orientation lights?" or even better, "I'd like to identify a drone by blinking its orientation lights. What should I be ... |
26,206 | I want my textfield to stand out, because users can work with the rest of the page only after they filled it in. The interface is clean and strict, so I can probably add some color to grab attention. Do you have any suggestions? | 2012/09/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/26206",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
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] | Though highlighting as this example below will draw attention to your text field,it is not a very good way since it would just stand out and would disturb the overall flow.
Since you want to allow other users to enter data only after that text fiel... | Any UI control can have the input focus. You can give the input focus to your textbox explicitly when your page is loaded. This way, the user will already see the blinking caret there. You can see this behavior on google.com
Also, most UI controls have a disabled state. When disabled, they are usually grayed out and c... |
26,206 | I want my textfield to stand out, because users can work with the rest of the page only after they filled it in. The interface is clean and strict, so I can probably add some color to grab attention. Do you have any suggestions? | 2012/09/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/26206",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/19210/"
] | I would suggest fading out the rest of the form partially until the user has filled out the required field. This makes it clear that there's more for the user to do on that page, but that the first field (the only one that's shown at full opacity) is the only thing they can interact with yet.
Will any of these two intel centrino cards fit in here?
* INTEL CENTRINO ADVANCED-N 6235
(=Mini PC... | 2013/07/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/626230",
"https://superuser.com",
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] | Chromecast acts as an access point when first turned on.
For the initial setup, you install an app on your Android, Windows or mac device, that will find it and connect to the chromecast's AP directly. Then the chromecast scans for nearby access points, allowing you to pick one and enter in its password.
Once this ... | You can do this from the chromecast app on an android phone (download from the play store). I haven't figured out any way from PC except factory reset (painful - don't do it). |
626,230 | Here's an image of my motherboard (from a dell optiplex 740):
Will any of these two intel centrino cards fit in here?
* INTEL CENTRINO ADVANCED-N 6235
(=Mini PC... | 2013/07/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/626230",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/242189/"
] | Chromecast acts as an access point when first turned on.
For the initial setup, you install an app on your Android, Windows or mac device, that will find it and connect to the chromecast's AP directly. Then the chromecast scans for nearby access points, allowing you to pick one and enter in its password.
Once this ... | IF you are using Dual bank router like Linksys E3000 make sure your router is configured to listen on both 20Mhz or 40Mhz .
On your Linksys router configuration page click on the wireless tab -> basic configuration -> select manual. Then on the channel with select Auto(20Mhz or 40Mhz) |
626,230 | Here's an image of my motherboard (from a dell optiplex 740):
Will any of these two intel centrino cards fit in here?
* INTEL CENTRINO ADVANCED-N 6235
(=Mini PC... | 2013/07/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/626230",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/242189/"
] | Chromecast acts as an access point when first turned on.
For the initial setup, you install an app on your Android, Windows or mac device, that will find it and connect to the chromecast's AP directly. Then the chromecast scans for nearby access points, allowing you to pick one and enter in its password.
Once this ... | Heres how it works:
1. Chromecast fires up, puts out a Wi-Fi signal
2. You connect to this unsecured open Wi-Fi with a smartphone or tablet. You cannot do this with a wired desktop PC.
3. You tell Chromecast the logon credentials of your home broadband Wi-Fi.
4. You and chromecast log of and log back onto the Home Wi-... |
626,230 | Here's an image of my motherboard (from a dell optiplex 740):
Will any of these two intel centrino cards fit in here?
* INTEL CENTRINO ADVANCED-N 6235
(=Mini PC... | 2013/07/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/626230",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/242189/"
] | Heres how it works:
1. Chromecast fires up, puts out a Wi-Fi signal
2. You connect to this unsecured open Wi-Fi with a smartphone or tablet. You cannot do this with a wired desktop PC.
3. You tell Chromecast the logon credentials of your home broadband Wi-Fi.
4. You and chromecast log of and log back onto the Home Wi-... | You can do this from the chromecast app on an android phone (download from the play store). I haven't figured out any way from PC except factory reset (painful - don't do it). |
626,230 | Here's an image of my motherboard (from a dell optiplex 740):
Will any of these two intel centrino cards fit in here?
* INTEL CENTRINO ADVANCED-N 6235
(=Mini PC... | 2013/07/31 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/626230",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/242189/"
] | Heres how it works:
1. Chromecast fires up, puts out a Wi-Fi signal
2. You connect to this unsecured open Wi-Fi with a smartphone or tablet. You cannot do this with a wired desktop PC.
3. You tell Chromecast the logon credentials of your home broadband Wi-Fi.
4. You and chromecast log of and log back onto the Home Wi-... | IF you are using Dual bank router like Linksys E3000 make sure your router is configured to listen on both 20Mhz or 40Mhz .
On your Linksys router configuration page click on the wireless tab -> basic configuration -> select manual. Then on the channel with select Auto(20Mhz or 40Mhz) |
9,044,789 | I have hacked my NAS-01g into a debian server and use it to regularly download stock quote and earthquake information from the web. I was on a trip last week and I turned off my sever at home, but when I come back, I can no long gain access to the server. Considering re-configuring the server as very time-consuming, I ... | 2012/01/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9044789",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/373908/"
] | Belongs on ServerFault, but I think Linode is a good candidate. They have monthly plans that don't cost a fortune and you can get a debian install on it. (we just installed one for work and selected Debian, so I'm 100% sure). | Pricing scheme for Amazon is more complicated, but more transparent.
They separate in Machine Hours (EC2 Hours), Data Transfer In/Out and storage.
You can have too Elastic IPs (static IPs) and Load Balancers (LBs).
And you can choose if you want reserved instances (1yr/3yr term) or on-demand instances(more expensive bu... |
32,128 | Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been pu... | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/32128",
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] | *The Room* is about a man whose love life runs off the rails and ends in a brutal break-up. This is a topic that a *lot* of people are interested in. *La La Land* is about the same theme. *Shrek* seems like that's how it's going to end leading into the final act. I can't begin to list how many breakup songs have hit th... | What is interesting to the reader completely depends on the reader (the targeted and reached audience). For instance, people at a library will like different kind of books than people commuting by train.
The only way to know if people find your book interesting is to let people read your book (or parts of it, and then... |
32,128 | Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been pu... | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/32128",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/28579/"
] | *The Room* is about a man whose love life runs off the rails and ends in a brutal break-up. This is a topic that a *lot* of people are interested in. *La La Land* is about the same theme. *Shrek* seems like that's how it's going to end leading into the final act. I can't begin to list how many breakup songs have hit th... | **You really don't know.**
But here's the thing. There are 7.5 billion people on the planet. Let's say that you want to sell 100,000 copies.
That means you only need to be interesting to 1/75000 people.
Your story interests **you**. Are you so special that you find something interesting that 75000 other people **d... |
32,128 | Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been pu... | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/32128",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/28579/"
] | I upvoted the answers about writing for yourself and noting what you find interesting. Go over and make mental note which areas you tend to skim over or feel confused on. Sometimes it take a few cycles of reading, editing and rereading before realizing a section needs to be cut out or changed.
As for the subject or th... | What is interesting to the reader completely depends on the reader (the targeted and reached audience). For instance, people at a library will like different kind of books than people commuting by train.
The only way to know if people find your book interesting is to let people read your book (or parts of it, and then... |
32,128 | Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been pu... | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/32128",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/28579/"
] | *The Room* is about a man whose love life runs off the rails and ends in a brutal break-up. This is a topic that a *lot* of people are interested in. *La La Land* is about the same theme. *Shrek* seems like that's how it's going to end leading into the final act. I can't begin to list how many breakup songs have hit th... | The story must interest YOU
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When I started out, I did exactly that: tried to do stuff specifically for others, and well I did not do so well. The material I came up with was... underwhelming. Then I started reading other people's stuff. I quickly realized that the material that interested *... |
32,128 | Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been pu... | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/32128",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/28579/"
] | *The Room* is about a man whose love life runs off the rails and ends in a brutal break-up. This is a topic that a *lot* of people are interested in. *La La Land* is about the same theme. *Shrek* seems like that's how it's going to end leading into the final act. I can't begin to list how many breakup songs have hit th... | If anything kept me awake at night (and some things have) I'd presume it was likely real trouble.
Look for groups or websites online that deal with the topics that interest you. If you can't find any with significant membership, those topics may not be worthy of exploring in book length form.
As far as "observations... |
32,128 | Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been pu... | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/32128",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/28579/"
] | Only an outsider can help you. Find someone you can trust to honestly review your work, such as a close friend or relative. Internet critique groups might be helpful.
Be very specific that you want them to read looking for flaws, otherwise they'll just look at the good parts and give you the generic "that's good". Par... | The story must interest YOU
---------------------------
When I started out, I did exactly that: tried to do stuff specifically for others, and well I did not do so well. The material I came up with was... underwhelming. Then I started reading other people's stuff. I quickly realized that the material that interested *... |
32,128 | Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been pu... | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/32128",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/28579/"
] | *The Room* is about a man whose love life runs off the rails and ends in a brutal break-up. This is a topic that a *lot* of people are interested in. *La La Land* is about the same theme. *Shrek* seems like that's how it's going to end leading into the final act. I can't begin to list how many breakup songs have hit th... | I upvoted the answers about writing for yourself and noting what you find interesting. Go over and make mental note which areas you tend to skim over or feel confused on. Sometimes it take a few cycles of reading, editing and rereading before realizing a section needs to be cut out or changed.
As for the subject or th... |
32,128 | Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been pu... | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/32128",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/28579/"
] | **You really don't know.**
But here's the thing. There are 7.5 billion people on the planet. Let's say that you want to sell 100,000 copies.
That means you only need to be interesting to 1/75000 people.
Your story interests **you**. Are you so special that you find something interesting that 75000 other people **d... | What is interesting to the reader completely depends on the reader (the targeted and reached audience). For instance, people at a library will like different kind of books than people commuting by train.
The only way to know if people find your book interesting is to let people read your book (or parts of it, and then... |
32,128 | Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been pu... | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/32128",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/28579/"
] | If anything kept me awake at night (and some things have) I'd presume it was likely real trouble.
Look for groups or websites online that deal with the topics that interest you. If you can't find any with significant membership, those topics may not be worthy of exploring in book length form.
As far as "observations... | What is interesting to the reader completely depends on the reader (the targeted and reached audience). For instance, people at a library will like different kind of books than people commuting by train.
The only way to know if people find your book interesting is to let people read your book (or parts of it, and then... |
32,128 | Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been pu... | 2017/12/23 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/32128",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/28579/"
] | **You really don't know.**
But here's the thing. There are 7.5 billion people on the planet. Let's say that you want to sell 100,000 copies.
That means you only need to be interesting to 1/75000 people.
Your story interests **you**. Are you so special that you find something interesting that 75000 other people **d... | If anything kept me awake at night (and some things have) I'd presume it was likely real trouble.
Look for groups or websites online that deal with the topics that interest you. If you can't find any with significant membership, those topics may not be worthy of exploring in book length form.
As far as "observations... |
10,804 | just a simple question: what does qt in bitcoin-qt stand for? | 2013/05/11 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10804",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/4964/"
] | Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework for developers using C++. It's is used for UI in Bitcoin-Qt. See <http://qt-project.org/> | According to the Wikipedia article:"The toolkit was called Qt because the letter Q looked appealing in Haavard's Emacs font, and "t" was inspired by Xt, the X toolkit" |
720 | I don't remember a hint on the movie how Jason Bourne found the home of [Jarda](http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Jarda), the only other living Treadstone assassin. Is it mentioned somewhere or are we just supposed to assume that Bourne simply used his amazing resourcefulness to find him? | 2011/12/30 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/720",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/105/"
] | I didn't notice that this was glossed over the first time I watched it, but I see two possible explanations.
1. At the end of *The Bourne Identity*, Jason Bourne briefly had access to some information about Treadstone when he infiltrates a safehouse. He could have found the information there and kept it. (This is a *p... | I'm starting to think he didn't lose his memory and it was a plot by Treadstone to set him on a path he never lived. Such as his apartment in Paris. He doesn't remember it because he was never there before. It was all a plot to set him up. |
720 | I don't remember a hint on the movie how Jason Bourne found the home of [Jarda](http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Jarda), the only other living Treadstone assassin. Is it mentioned somewhere or are we just supposed to assume that Bourne simply used his amazing resourcefulness to find him? | 2011/12/30 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/720",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/105/"
] | I didn't notice that this was glossed over the first time I watched it, but I see two possible explanations.
1. At the end of *The Bourne Identity*, Jason Bourne briefly had access to some information about Treadstone when he infiltrates a safehouse. He could have found the information there and kept it. (This is a *p... | There is no explanation. I really cannot see the CIA allowing their Treadstone assets to know each other's addresses. I can see thing giving Bourne's Paris address to Castel and the others when they wanted him dead. But alive? I don't see it. In fact, the movie never hinted that the Treadstone assets worked together. T... |
720 | I don't remember a hint on the movie how Jason Bourne found the home of [Jarda](http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Jarda), the only other living Treadstone assassin. Is it mentioned somewhere or are we just supposed to assume that Bourne simply used his amazing resourcefulness to find him? | 2011/12/30 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/720",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/105/"
] | I didn't notice that this was glossed over the first time I watched it, but I see two possible explanations.
1. At the end of *The Bourne Identity*, Jason Bourne briefly had access to some information about Treadstone when he infiltrates a safehouse. He could have found the information there and kept it. (This is a *p... | I always thought the Treadstone operative who killed Conklin on Abbott's orders in Identity and the Treadstone agent Bourne tracked down in Supremacy were the same guy. I don't understand why they had two different characters in these roles; it would have tied it all together nicely. |
720 | I don't remember a hint on the movie how Jason Bourne found the home of [Jarda](http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Jarda), the only other living Treadstone assassin. Is it mentioned somewhere or are we just supposed to assume that Bourne simply used his amazing resourcefulness to find him? | 2011/12/30 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/720",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/105/"
] | I didn't notice that this was glossed over the first time I watched it, but I see two possible explanations.
1. At the end of *The Bourne Identity*, Jason Bourne briefly had access to some information about Treadstone when he infiltrates a safehouse. He could have found the information there and kept it. (This is a *p... | It took some digging. When they meet each other at the house in Munich Jarda says "word in the ether was that you lost your memory." And Bourne replies "you still should have moved." This implies Bourne has at least some fragmented memories of prior knowledge of Jarda, or maybe that the house is covertly owned by the C... |
720 | I don't remember a hint on the movie how Jason Bourne found the home of [Jarda](http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Jarda), the only other living Treadstone assassin. Is it mentioned somewhere or are we just supposed to assume that Bourne simply used his amazing resourcefulness to find him? | 2011/12/30 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/720",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/105/"
] | There is no explanation. I really cannot see the CIA allowing their Treadstone assets to know each other's addresses. I can see thing giving Bourne's Paris address to Castel and the others when they wanted him dead. But alive? I don't see it. In fact, the movie never hinted that the Treadstone assets worked together. T... | I'm starting to think he didn't lose his memory and it was a plot by Treadstone to set him on a path he never lived. Such as his apartment in Paris. He doesn't remember it because he was never there before. It was all a plot to set him up. |
720 | I don't remember a hint on the movie how Jason Bourne found the home of [Jarda](http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Jarda), the only other living Treadstone assassin. Is it mentioned somewhere or are we just supposed to assume that Bourne simply used his amazing resourcefulness to find him? | 2011/12/30 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/720",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/105/"
] | It took some digging. When they meet each other at the house in Munich Jarda says "word in the ether was that you lost your memory." And Bourne replies "you still should have moved." This implies Bourne has at least some fragmented memories of prior knowledge of Jarda, or maybe that the house is covertly owned by the C... | I'm starting to think he didn't lose his memory and it was a plot by Treadstone to set him on a path he never lived. Such as his apartment in Paris. He doesn't remember it because he was never there before. It was all a plot to set him up. |
720 | I don't remember a hint on the movie how Jason Bourne found the home of [Jarda](http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Jarda), the only other living Treadstone assassin. Is it mentioned somewhere or are we just supposed to assume that Bourne simply used his amazing resourcefulness to find him? | 2011/12/30 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/720",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/105/"
] | There is no explanation. I really cannot see the CIA allowing their Treadstone assets to know each other's addresses. I can see thing giving Bourne's Paris address to Castel and the others when they wanted him dead. But alive? I don't see it. In fact, the movie never hinted that the Treadstone assets worked together. T... | I always thought the Treadstone operative who killed Conklin on Abbott's orders in Identity and the Treadstone agent Bourne tracked down in Supremacy were the same guy. I don't understand why they had two different characters in these roles; it would have tied it all together nicely. |
720 | I don't remember a hint on the movie how Jason Bourne found the home of [Jarda](http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Jarda), the only other living Treadstone assassin. Is it mentioned somewhere or are we just supposed to assume that Bourne simply used his amazing resourcefulness to find him? | 2011/12/30 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/720",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/105/"
] | There is no explanation. I really cannot see the CIA allowing their Treadstone assets to know each other's addresses. I can see thing giving Bourne's Paris address to Castel and the others when they wanted him dead. But alive? I don't see it. In fact, the movie never hinted that the Treadstone assets worked together. T... | It took some digging. When they meet each other at the house in Munich Jarda says "word in the ether was that you lost your memory." And Bourne replies "you still should have moved." This implies Bourne has at least some fragmented memories of prior knowledge of Jarda, or maybe that the house is covertly owned by the C... |
720 | I don't remember a hint on the movie how Jason Bourne found the home of [Jarda](http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Jarda), the only other living Treadstone assassin. Is it mentioned somewhere or are we just supposed to assume that Bourne simply used his amazing resourcefulness to find him? | 2011/12/30 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/720",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/105/"
] | It took some digging. When they meet each other at the house in Munich Jarda says "word in the ether was that you lost your memory." And Bourne replies "you still should have moved." This implies Bourne has at least some fragmented memories of prior knowledge of Jarda, or maybe that the house is covertly owned by the C... | I always thought the Treadstone operative who killed Conklin on Abbott's orders in Identity and the Treadstone agent Bourne tracked down in Supremacy were the same guy. I don't understand why they had two different characters in these roles; it would have tied it all together nicely. |
2,559,104 | Assume the image is only in black and white.
Is there a software that can generate a matrix representation for the text on the image? | 2010/04/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2559104",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/198729/"
] | PKCS#7 is a cryptography standard published by RSA Security in 1993 that deals with data that has cryptography applied to it. Its a standard for how to package data securely. PKCS#7 references the X.509 standard, as the source for certificate formatting.
X.509 is a wide ranging security standards document published in... | PKCS Components are PKCS#1, PKCS#5, PKCS#7, PKCS#8, PKCS#9, PKCS#10, and PKCS#12, PKCS standards are specifications produced by RSA Laboratories in cooperation with secure-system developers worldwide for the purpose of accelerating the deployment of public-key cryptography.
A user can request a certificate from a Cert... |
3,347,782 | I'm shortly to start on an integration project that will require organisational data (line reporting etc) and starter/leaver events etc. We utilise SAP HCM, but I have no experience of SAP (BizTalk/.NET developer), and I'm still attempting to find the right people to talk to in our organisation about how to interface w... | 2010/07/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3347782",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/204818/"
] | I'm not familiar with the HCM module specifically, but I can provide some general answers:
1. Generally, standard display functionality of the major business objects (like a User or a Job in the HR world) are exposeed via BAPIs. Assuming your Basis team has ICF (Internet Communication Framework) configured, it is pret... | >
> Does SAP HCM expose master employee data "out of the box" via web
> services. If not, does it require much to expose this on the SAP side?
>
>
>
There are very few web service for HR. However, an ABAP function or BAPI can be transformed into a web service using a menu option... if such a function does not exi... |
3,347,782 | I'm shortly to start on an integration project that will require organisational data (line reporting etc) and starter/leaver events etc. We utilise SAP HCM, but I have no experience of SAP (BizTalk/.NET developer), and I'm still attempting to find the right people to talk to in our organisation about how to interface w... | 2010/07/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3347782",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/204818/"
] | I'm not familiar with the HCM module specifically, but I can provide some general answers:
1. Generally, standard display functionality of the major business objects (like a User or a Job in the HR world) are exposeed via BAPIs. Assuming your Basis team has ICF (Internet Communication Framework) configured, it is pret... | The challenge with connecting directly to SAP from another system creates a non scalable architecture - point-to-point interfaces that are affected by changes or issues with both systems. Let's say you try and push out changes to employee data and the target system is not available, well SAP will most likely short dump... |
4,026,399 | We are integrating documentation authored according to DITA. The [DITA Open Toolkit](http://dita.xml.org/wiki/the-dita-open-toolkit) processes all files using java whereas we are looking for a solution that allows us to work with the DITA content on the fly from a C#-based application.
Does anyone know of any .NET pro... | 2010/10/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4026399",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/23234/"
] | I don't believe there are any Microsoft-made DITA libraries available for .NET.
There was a paper written for SIGDOC 2008 called "Pragmatic DITA on a budget" that refers to generating DITA content from commented C# code. A PDF is available [here.](http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1456536.1456577) This probably ... | It's not the cleanest solution in the world, but you could call the DITA Open Toolkit command line tools through `Process`. If you do it right, you can suppress the console window and the user won't know the difference. |
4,026,399 | We are integrating documentation authored according to DITA. The [DITA Open Toolkit](http://dita.xml.org/wiki/the-dita-open-toolkit) processes all files using java whereas we are looking for a solution that allows us to work with the DITA content on the fly from a C#-based application.
Does anyone know of any .NET pro... | 2010/10/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4026399",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/23234/"
] | I don't believe there are any Microsoft-made DITA libraries available for .NET.
There was a paper written for SIGDOC 2008 called "Pragmatic DITA on a budget" that refers to generating DITA content from commented C# code. A PDF is available [here.](http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1456536.1456577) This probably ... | You could use a tool like [IKVM](http://www.ikvm.net/) to turn the java toolkit jars into .net assemblies and then use the toolkit from there. |
4,026,399 | We are integrating documentation authored according to DITA. The [DITA Open Toolkit](http://dita.xml.org/wiki/the-dita-open-toolkit) processes all files using java whereas we are looking for a solution that allows us to work with the DITA content on the fly from a C#-based application.
Does anyone know of any .NET pro... | 2010/10/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4026399",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/23234/"
] | It's not the cleanest solution in the world, but you could call the DITA Open Toolkit command line tools through `Process`. If you do it right, you can suppress the console window and the user won't know the difference. | You could use a tool like [IKVM](http://www.ikvm.net/) to turn the java toolkit jars into .net assemblies and then use the toolkit from there. |
171,965 | I travelled from outside of Europe to Madrid, Spain via Frankfurt, Germany. As my first point of entry into the Schengen area was Germany my immigration was done there. I had initially planned to stay for 22 days and I told the same to the immigration official. My visa-free stamp says the number 22 next to the date.
H... | 2022/01/30 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/171965",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/126408/"
] | Schengen stamps do not show a period of admission. They show only the date of the border crossing. Schengen border officers do not grant a period of admission -- this is controlled only by the terms of the visa in combination with the 90/180 rule, or, for a visa-free visit, by the 90/180 rule alone.
If the number 22 i... | No, that's not the purpose of the entry stamp. There is no record of your initial conversation and no system to track or enforce the purpose or planned length of stay of visa-free visitors (visa applications, on the other hand, are documented in a database). The main things that should be checked when you exit the Sche... |
16,353 | >
> (1.1)She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. (1.2)No
> way could I have sent her away. (1.3)No way, not me anyway. (1.4)Maybe
> someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. (1.5)"We're
> moving house." (1.6)"No space for her any more with the baby coming."
> (1.7)"We never really wanted... | 2014/01/24 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/16353",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/2065/"
] | It means "around her." Usually we use about to mean "related to," and I don't recommend using it for "around" (to me it sounds dated and pretentious except in some specific expressions including this author's "she had an air of *\_* about her" where it is metaphorical, and the expression "around and about.") | Usage:
------
This is an adaptable cliche (occasionally called a [snowclone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone)):
>
> **X** have an air of **Y** about them
>
>
>
**X** should be a pronoun, noun, or noun phrase *(examples: "she", "Bob", "the jury deliberations")*.
**Y** should be a nominal form of an adjec... |
313,896 | I'm building a model which predicts the GDP(Quarterly) of my country. I've lots of time-series predictors(~50(Monthly), all continuous, e.g. Index of Industrial Production, etc.) but my dataset size is small(~120). I've tried using ARIMA(5,1,0) on GDP values: [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/f... | 2017/11/15 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/313896",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/184863/"
] | Your focal time series and the "predictors" are interrelated. You might as well want to forecast the Index of Industrial Production, using GDP as a "predictor".
The classical approach to such a problem is [Vector Autoregression (VAR)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_autoregression), which models - and forecasts -... | it appears to me that the error variance changed deterministically at two points in time . See <http://docplayer.net/12080848-Outliers-level-shifts-and-variance-changes-in-time-series.html> . I was responsible for seamlessly integrating this along with Intervention Detection into a commercial package that I helped to d... |
313,896 | I'm building a model which predicts the GDP(Quarterly) of my country. I've lots of time-series predictors(~50(Monthly), all continuous, e.g. Index of Industrial Production, etc.) but my dataset size is small(~120). I've tried using ARIMA(5,1,0) on GDP values: [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/f... | 2017/11/15 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/313896",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/184863/"
] | There is a lot of literature on nowcasting in general, and GDP in particular. For instance, check [GDPNow page](https://www.frbatlanta.org/cqer/research/gdpnow.aspx) on FRB Atlanta's web site, where the model description is given too. Below is their 2017 Q4 GPD forecast. As you know the GDP number release will be some ... | it appears to me that the error variance changed deterministically at two points in time . See <http://docplayer.net/12080848-Outliers-level-shifts-and-variance-changes-in-time-series.html> . I was responsible for seamlessly integrating this along with Intervention Detection into a commercial package that I helped to d... |
313,896 | I'm building a model which predicts the GDP(Quarterly) of my country. I've lots of time-series predictors(~50(Monthly), all continuous, e.g. Index of Industrial Production, etc.) but my dataset size is small(~120). I've tried using ARIMA(5,1,0) on GDP values: [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/f... | 2017/11/15 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/313896",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/184863/"
] | Your focal time series and the "predictors" are interrelated. You might as well want to forecast the Index of Industrial Production, using GDP as a "predictor".
The classical approach to such a problem is [Vector Autoregression (VAR)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_autoregression), which models - and forecasts -... | There is a lot of literature on nowcasting in general, and GDP in particular. For instance, check [GDPNow page](https://www.frbatlanta.org/cqer/research/gdpnow.aspx) on FRB Atlanta's web site, where the model description is given too. Below is their 2017 Q4 GPD forecast. As you know the GDP number release will be some ... |
209,795 | I have a line and point layer. Points are not exactly intersect with line layer. With respect to existing point, how to find the new points which are exactly on the line ? consider buffer distance is provided.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JYiIR.png) | 2016/09/07 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/209795",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/43581/"
] | You can use the near tool to calculate the perpendicular points on a line :
1. Calculate the distance from points to lines with the [Near tool](http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/tools/analysis-toolbox/near.htm) :
* input features: Points
* near features: Lines
* check "location option" to get near\_x and ne... | You can use the **[Linear referencing tools](https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/linear-referencing/an-overview-of-the-linear-referencing-toolbox.htm)** to quantify that distance in the other way round, to get all distances possible for all the points you have. You will be free to choose which distance wil... |
147,487 | Whenever I fire a weapon or stomp, my computer emits the new device sound and disables my controller for a split second, meaning I fire a shot or two on an automatic rifle and then return to stance. This only happens with stomp or shooting while zoomed in. It doesn't happen with running, or striking.
Any ideas? | 2013/12/23 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/147487",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/64653/"
] | You might be running into one of the issues mentioned in this article:
<http://kotaku.com/wanna-catch-your-pokemon-in-a-shiny-new-color-in-x-y-1450801224>
For instance, you could be walking into Slow or Normal shaking grass, which could be breaking your chain. | There can be several possible causes for this:
1. Leaving the field you were chaining in.
2. Turning off your game.
3. Using any other key item besides the PokeRadar.
4. Having an egg hatched during your chaining.
5. Running into a wild Pokemon that is not from the PokeRadar. You can use Repels to avoid this.
6. Stepp... |
39,620 | I got introduced to this "Female Buddha" when I was looking name for my friend's daughter.
So what does female Buddha mean?
**Wikipedia :**
>
> [Tara (Buddhism)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Buddhism))
>
> Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma), Ārya Tārā, or Shayama Tara, also known as Jetsun D... | 2020/07/04 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/39620",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/567/"
] | The Void is sometimes implied differently than other times
in English. Existential descriptioning isn't English's long suit.
Maybe Zen/ Chan discussions of the concept are generally more prominent
overall.
Confusion etc isn't The Void.
In The True Void 'is' Reality. There isn't confusion.
There isn't dukkha. There i... | In Buddhism, there is a state called "Nirodha Samapatthi" or Cessation of Perception and feeling. It is said that in this state you are not conscious but the body has not died. The maximum duration of this state is seven days and you emerge from it and understand it as empty. |
39,620 | I got introduced to this "Female Buddha" when I was looking name for my friend's daughter.
So what does female Buddha mean?
**Wikipedia :**
>
> [Tara (Buddhism)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Buddhism))
>
> Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma), Ārya Tārā, or Shayama Tara, also known as Jetsun D... | 2020/07/04 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/39620",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/567/"
] | >
> **OP:** Whatever is,the question is quite clear: if you can reach a
> state of emptiness , how can you state that Void is not part of a
> higher consciousness (aka God) but it is just Void? If you “feel” the
> Void during meditation and you call it nirodha samapatti for example,
> how do you know that it is just V... | In Buddhism, there is a state called "Nirodha Samapatthi" or Cessation of Perception and feeling. It is said that in this state you are not conscious but the body has not died. The maximum duration of this state is seven days and you emerge from it and understand it as empty. |
39,620 | I got introduced to this "Female Buddha" when I was looking name for my friend's daughter.
So what does female Buddha mean?
**Wikipedia :**
>
> [Tara (Buddhism)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Buddhism))
>
> Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma), Ārya Tārā, or Shayama Tara, also known as Jetsun D... | 2020/07/04 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/39620",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/567/"
] | The Void is sometimes implied differently than other times
in English. Existential descriptioning isn't English's long suit.
Maybe Zen/ Chan discussions of the concept are generally more prominent
overall.
Confusion etc isn't The Void.
In The True Void 'is' Reality. There isn't confusion.
There isn't dukkha. There i... | When I go to sleep, I wake up wanting coffee. I don't remember what happened when I slept, but somehow I wake up wanting coffee. I can even go to sleep thinking "arise at 6am" and I will arise at 6am, and I am still wanting coffee. Is there a super-consciousness there? I don't think so.
Consciousness is bound to choic... |
39,620 | I got introduced to this "Female Buddha" when I was looking name for my friend's daughter.
So what does female Buddha mean?
**Wikipedia :**
>
> [Tara (Buddhism)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Buddhism))
>
> Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma), Ārya Tārā, or Shayama Tara, also known as Jetsun D... | 2020/07/04 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/39620",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/567/"
] | >
> **OP:** Whatever is,the question is quite clear: if you can reach a
> state of emptiness , how can you state that Void is not part of a
> higher consciousness (aka God) but it is just Void? If you “feel” the
> Void during meditation and you call it nirodha samapatti for example,
> how do you know that it is just V... | When I go to sleep, I wake up wanting coffee. I don't remember what happened when I slept, but somehow I wake up wanting coffee. I can even go to sleep thinking "arise at 6am" and I will arise at 6am, and I am still wanting coffee. Is there a super-consciousness there? I don't think so.
Consciousness is bound to choic... |
39,620 | I got introduced to this "Female Buddha" when I was looking name for my friend's daughter.
So what does female Buddha mean?
**Wikipedia :**
>
> [Tara (Buddhism)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Buddhism))
>
> Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma), Ārya Tārā, or Shayama Tara, also known as Jetsun D... | 2020/07/04 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/39620",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/567/"
] | The Void is sometimes implied differently than other times
in English. Existential descriptioning isn't English's long suit.
Maybe Zen/ Chan discussions of the concept are generally more prominent
overall.
Confusion etc isn't The Void.
In The True Void 'is' Reality. There isn't confusion.
There isn't dukkha. There i... | There is a mind state called “void”, but it is not Nibbana. This void is of the mind, when it is void of perceptions, feelings, thinking, everything that makes up what we understand as the Thinking conscious mind. What is left is knowing. But knowing of the void implies that it is not beyond mind. Mind, and consequentl... |
39,620 | I got introduced to this "Female Buddha" when I was looking name for my friend's daughter.
So what does female Buddha mean?
**Wikipedia :**
>
> [Tara (Buddhism)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Buddhism))
>
> Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma), Ārya Tārā, or Shayama Tara, also known as Jetsun D... | 2020/07/04 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/39620",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/567/"
] | >
> **OP:** Whatever is,the question is quite clear: if you can reach a
> state of emptiness , how can you state that Void is not part of a
> higher consciousness (aka God) but it is just Void? If you “feel” the
> Void during meditation and you call it nirodha samapatti for example,
> how do you know that it is just V... | There is a mind state called “void”, but it is not Nibbana. This void is of the mind, when it is void of perceptions, feelings, thinking, everything that makes up what we understand as the Thinking conscious mind. What is left is knowing. But knowing of the void implies that it is not beyond mind. Mind, and consequentl... |
39,620 | I got introduced to this "Female Buddha" when I was looking name for my friend's daughter.
So what does female Buddha mean?
**Wikipedia :**
>
> [Tara (Buddhism)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Buddhism))
>
> Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma), Ārya Tārā, or Shayama Tara, also known as Jetsun D... | 2020/07/04 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/39620",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/567/"
] | The Void is sometimes implied differently than other times
in English. Existential descriptioning isn't English's long suit.
Maybe Zen/ Chan discussions of the concept are generally more prominent
overall.
Confusion etc isn't The Void.
In The True Void 'is' Reality. There isn't confusion.
There isn't dukkha. There i... | >
> **OP:** Whatever is,the question is quite clear: if you can reach a
> state of emptiness , how can you state that Void is not part of a
> higher consciousness (aka God) but it is just Void? If you “feel” the
> Void during meditation and you call it nirodha samapatti for example,
> how do you know that it is just V... |
168,193 | I just got a new wireless printer and I love that it lets me print from any device on my wireless network, even my iPhone. There is, however, one feature that appears to be missing.
When I print from my computer, I can select different print quality settings: "Draft, Normal, Photo, Black & White". I don't seem to be a... | 2015/01/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/168193",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/110407/"
] | According to Apple, [AirPrint on iPhone](http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201387) is simplified application.
It only lets you choose the printer and the number of copies, but not print quality etc.. in other words it use the current Printer defaults.
So what can you do?
Log in to the printer's set up page IP address... | With iOS 9 AirPrint now has the option to print Black & White.
Screenshot:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AC6Ga.png) |
168,193 | I just got a new wireless printer and I love that it lets me print from any device on my wireless network, even my iPhone. There is, however, one feature that appears to be missing.
When I print from my computer, I can select different print quality settings: "Draft, Normal, Photo, Black & White". I don't seem to be a... | 2015/01/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/168193",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/110407/"
] | According to Apple, [AirPrint on iPhone](http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201387) is simplified application.
It only lets you choose the printer and the number of copies, but not print quality etc.. in other words it use the current Printer defaults.
So what can you do?
Log in to the printer's set up page IP address... | Standard Apple answer - "there's an app for that"
I have, no, had the same issue with a Canon printer. In the app store I did a search for 'Airprint' and found a long list of apps from several major manufactures. Downloaded the Canon app and I can now control all the settings when I airprint to my printer. |
16,429,732 | The two things I'd like to do in particular are:
* slice up an individual video into many smaller videos
* Draw basic shapes on top of the video
I would prefer to use python because I already know it and it is well-suited for the rest of the work that is happening around this video. | 2013/05/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16429732",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1481457/"
] | Try [Media Lovin' Toolkit](http://www.mltframework.org/), which has Python bindings. | Maybe OpenCV could help you.
The main project page : <http://opencv.org/>
And the bindings for Python : <https://code.google.com/p/pyopencv/>
Cheers,
K. |
22,522 | I want to make sure I'm understanding how this works. Specifically the term "Sending Port ID" has me very confused.
Consider this diagram, I want to make sure I have root port selection figured out:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lIZZI.jpg)
The switch... | 2015/09/15 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/22522",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/13362/"
] | you need to understand the next
Spanning-Tree Port Roles
- Root Port (RP) - It is a port on a non-root switch, which is the shortest (the best) path towards the root bridge. (i.e. port 0/4 0/3 in SW3)
- Designated Port (DP) - It is a port that is in the forwarding state. (i.e. port 0/1 0/2 SW2)
- Non-Desi... | Some corrections to the above answer. Port-id and port-priority are different. One is configurable. The other is internally set. I'll make an attempt to answer your question below.
There has to be just 1 root port per switch. By definition , this is the port with the lowest **path-cost** to root.
* A path-cost is th... |
2,116 | I want to make a rocket 'whooooooooooooooooooosh' sound that can go on FOREVER. I have the sound I like, I just need some protips on making it loop. I've been hacking away at it in Pro Tools, and when I loop it in there, it works, but when I implement it in the game I'm working on, there's a clear loop point. Any idea ... | 2010/07/20 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/2116",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/14/"
] | Try it in game. You probably won't notice the loop as it's flying by you. If you do, take that same sample and offset it in another track in Pro Tools. Bounce that down and loop that. That should help remedy it.
If that's really not solving the issue then look for another static track to layer in. Jet airplanes are go... | surely the way is to seperate construction of the events
the doppler effect is most noticeable when it passes the listener,
so from launch, to close passby, to close away use Michaels awesome rocket sound
then
1. make the constant rocket engine sound
(like you have a mic gaffer-taped to the side of the rocket)
2. a... |
2,116 | I want to make a rocket 'whooooooooooooooooooosh' sound that can go on FOREVER. I have the sound I like, I just need some protips on making it loop. I've been hacking away at it in Pro Tools, and when I loop it in there, it works, but when I implement it in the game I'm working on, there's a clear loop point. Any idea ... | 2010/07/20 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/2116",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/14/"
] | Try it in game. You probably won't notice the loop as it's flying by you. If you do, take that same sample and offset it in another track in Pro Tools. Bounce that down and loop that. That should help remedy it.
If that's really not solving the issue then look for another static track to layer in. Jet airplanes are go... | This may sound simplistic but I'll be glad to share what I've learned from a recent game project earlier this year. Make sure you have clean heads and tails. You may be able to loop well in Pro tools because of the region you selected. But when you play the wav file completely, you may still have some audio at the star... |
2,116 | I want to make a rocket 'whooooooooooooooooooosh' sound that can go on FOREVER. I have the sound I like, I just need some protips on making it loop. I've been hacking away at it in Pro Tools, and when I loop it in there, it works, but when I implement it in the game I'm working on, there's a clear loop point. Any idea ... | 2010/07/20 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/2116",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/14/"
] | hmm... maybe there's a way to combine it with a Shepard tone so the doppler is "continuous" (assuming our perspective is fixed from outside the rocket)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone> | surely the way is to seperate construction of the events
the doppler effect is most noticeable when it passes the listener,
so from launch, to close passby, to close away use Michaels awesome rocket sound
then
1. make the constant rocket engine sound
(like you have a mic gaffer-taped to the side of the rocket)
2. a... |
2,116 | I want to make a rocket 'whooooooooooooooooooosh' sound that can go on FOREVER. I have the sound I like, I just need some protips on making it loop. I've been hacking away at it in Pro Tools, and when I loop it in there, it works, but when I implement it in the game I'm working on, there's a clear loop point. Any idea ... | 2010/07/20 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/2116",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/14/"
] | hmm... maybe there's a way to combine it with a Shepard tone so the doppler is "continuous" (assuming our perspective is fixed from outside the rocket)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone> | This may sound simplistic but I'll be glad to share what I've learned from a recent game project earlier this year. Make sure you have clean heads and tails. You may be able to loop well in Pro tools because of the region you selected. But when you play the wav file completely, you may still have some audio at the star... |
2,116 | I want to make a rocket 'whooooooooooooooooooosh' sound that can go on FOREVER. I have the sound I like, I just need some protips on making it loop. I've been hacking away at it in Pro Tools, and when I loop it in there, it works, but when I implement it in the game I'm working on, there's a clear loop point. Any idea ... | 2010/07/20 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/2116",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/14/"
] | if you are into the game industry, check the spec of the audio engine. if you are more into the post production area, check AKAI sampler or Kontakt might be useful. I have successfully use a sound of a food processor to create a sustaining rocket-interior kind of sound using an Akai sampler (S-1000) | surely the way is to seperate construction of the events
the doppler effect is most noticeable when it passes the listener,
so from launch, to close passby, to close away use Michaels awesome rocket sound
then
1. make the constant rocket engine sound
(like you have a mic gaffer-taped to the side of the rocket)
2. a... |
2,116 | I want to make a rocket 'whooooooooooooooooooosh' sound that can go on FOREVER. I have the sound I like, I just need some protips on making it loop. I've been hacking away at it in Pro Tools, and when I loop it in there, it works, but when I implement it in the game I'm working on, there's a clear loop point. Any idea ... | 2010/07/20 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/2116",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/14/"
] | surely the way is to seperate construction of the events
the doppler effect is most noticeable when it passes the listener,
so from launch, to close passby, to close away use Michaels awesome rocket sound
then
1. make the constant rocket engine sound
(like you have a mic gaffer-taped to the side of the rocket)
2. a... | This may sound simplistic but I'll be glad to share what I've learned from a recent game project earlier this year. Make sure you have clean heads and tails. You may be able to loop well in Pro tools because of the region you selected. But when you play the wav file completely, you may still have some audio at the star... |
2,116 | I want to make a rocket 'whooooooooooooooooooosh' sound that can go on FOREVER. I have the sound I like, I just need some protips on making it loop. I've been hacking away at it in Pro Tools, and when I loop it in there, it works, but when I implement it in the game I'm working on, there's a clear loop point. Any idea ... | 2010/07/20 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/2116",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/14/"
] | if you are into the game industry, check the spec of the audio engine. if you are more into the post production area, check AKAI sampler or Kontakt might be useful. I have successfully use a sound of a food processor to create a sustaining rocket-interior kind of sound using an Akai sampler (S-1000) | This may sound simplistic but I'll be glad to share what I've learned from a recent game project earlier this year. Make sure you have clean heads and tails. You may be able to loop well in Pro tools because of the region you selected. But when you play the wav file completely, you may still have some audio at the star... |
13,651 | I have recently read [Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction](https://web.archive.org/web/20121223013713/http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php) which claims that children who never saw a book before and didn't know how to speak English learned how to use an Android phone and hacked i... | 2012/11/14 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/13651",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/8106/"
] | The source [MIT Technology Review article](https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/10/29/84908/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/) seems to answer your questions
>
> Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thoug... | Others, including Negroponte's own associate, have disputed the factual accuracy of his explanation.
>
> At an OLPC summit [and] in conversations with Negroponte’s collaborator Maryanne Wolf ... I heard a quite different story about this experiment. ... Children did exhibit some preliteracy skills (recognizing letter... |
66,165 | Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten? | 2008/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9411/"
] | Perl 6 is evolving slowly but steadily. Larry Wall wrote a Parser that can parse all Perl 6 that we know of (which is basically the test suite plus a bit of other code). Rakudo, which is Perl 6 on Parrot, also performs nicely. You can track its progress in the test suite with the charts on [rakudo.de](http://rakudo.de/... | I feel like some good things may come from Perl 6 (e.g. parrot), but I'm not counting on ever doing anything with the language.
In the bioinformatics development group where I work, we're encouraging use of Python for new development where Perl would have been the language of choice in the past. Python appears to prov... |
66,165 | Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten? | 2008/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9411/"
] | Please see the Official Perl 6 Wiki to find the latest information:
<http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?perl_6>
The latest headlines from 2 leading Perl 6 blogs are shown at the bottom of the official Perl 6 wiki home page.
There's lots of other useful information and links there.
For example, recent Per... | Slow and late. It has a terminal case of second system disease. When I was a Perl hacker (back in the day), they had been working on Perl 6 for two years. That was 6 years ago. You could build a whole operating system in that time. |
66,165 | Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten? | 2008/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9411/"
] | Please see the Official Perl 6 Wiki to find the latest information:
<http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?perl_6>
The latest headlines from 2 leading Perl 6 blogs are shown at the bottom of the official Perl 6 wiki home page.
There's lots of other useful information and links there.
For example, recent Per... | It'll be out by Christmas. ;-) I've heard on podcasts that there there will be some kind of alpha before this Christmas. They were explicit about that but it has been a while since I heard that. |
66,165 | Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten? | 2008/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9411/"
] | You should not forget that Perl 5 is being developed in parallel. [5.10](http://perlbuzz.com/2007/12/perl-510-now-available.html) was out not so long ago with new features and additions to the language.
Progress on Perl 6 is slow but steady, PUGS (Perl 6 over Haskell ) has been stalled for a while but Audrey might res... | Perl 6 is moving along nicely. Perl 6 is a bit unlike previous Perl's in that Perl 6 is actually a language specification not an implementation of it. The reference implementation on top of Parrot that is the main thrust of the Perl 6 project has been renamed Rakudo and is moving along nicely. The best place I've found... |
66,165 | Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten? | 2008/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9411/"
] | There is plenty of visible progess. chromatic posts the minutes from the weekly Parrot/Perl 6 conference call to [Use.perl](http://use.perl.org) and [rakudo.org](http://rakudo.org/) each week, you can read [Jonathan Worthington's journal](http://use.perl.org/~JonathanWorthington/journal/), or [Patrick Michaud's journal... | There is now a roadmap for [parrot](https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/roadmap) at least.
There is also a website that [tracks](http://rakudo.de/) the number of tests that the [Rakudo](http://rakudo.org/) implementation passes.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.... |
66,165 | Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten? | 2008/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9411/"
] | You should not forget that Perl 5 is being developed in parallel. [5.10](http://perlbuzz.com/2007/12/perl-510-now-available.html) was out not so long ago with new features and additions to the language.
Progress on Perl 6 is slow but steady, PUGS (Perl 6 over Haskell ) has been stalled for a while but Audrey might res... | To the comment that it didn't start until 2005... I suppose it depends on if you count Parrot as Perl6. The original team did, but we didn't get buy in from the "Perl6 Language" folks for years.
We were doing real work on Parrot in 2000-2004 and much of the VM groundwork was there. By 2002 we had continuations, co-rou... |
66,165 | Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten? | 2008/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9411/"
] | The ability to target other languages to the parrot vm, will make it trivial to make a product using what ever languages you are comfortable with.
List of languages with recent activity, or at least tested with latest parrot (as of 2008/09/22):
*taken from [languages/LANGUAGES\_STATUS.pod](http://svn.perl.org/parrot/... | Slow and late. It has a terminal case of second system disease. When I was a Perl hacker (back in the day), they had been working on Perl 6 for two years. That was 6 years ago. You could build a whole operating system in that time. |
66,165 | Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten? | 2008/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9411/"
] | To the comment that it didn't start until 2005... I suppose it depends on if you count Parrot as Perl6. The original team did, but we didn't get buy in from the "Perl6 Language" folks for years.
We were doing real work on Parrot in 2000-2004 and much of the VM groundwork was there. By 2002 we had continuations, co-rou... | It'll be out by Christmas. ;-) I've heard on podcasts that there there will be some kind of alpha before this Christmas. They were explicit about that but it has been a while since I heard that. |
66,165 | Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten? | 2008/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9411/"
] | Please see the Official Perl 6 Wiki to find the latest information:
<http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?perl_6>
The latest headlines from 2 leading Perl 6 blogs are shown at the bottom of the official Perl 6 wiki home page.
There's lots of other useful information and links there.
For example, recent Per... | Perl 5 will continue to be wonderful and available even if Six never comes to fruition. Six invigorated Perl 5, and Perl 5 continues to experience many wonderful new things, such as Moose.
I think Perl 6 will be completed some day and will be good, but for now, I'm a Fiver, and I'm happy like that. |
66,165 | Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten? | 2008/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9411/"
] | There is plenty of visible progess. chromatic posts the minutes from the weekly Parrot/Perl 6 conference call to [Use.perl](http://use.perl.org) and [rakudo.org](http://rakudo.org/) each week, you can read [Jonathan Worthington's journal](http://use.perl.org/~JonathanWorthington/journal/), or [Patrick Michaud's journal... | The ability to target other languages to the parrot vm, will make it trivial to make a product using what ever languages you are comfortable with.
List of languages with recent activity, or at least tested with latest parrot (as of 2008/09/22):
*taken from [languages/LANGUAGES\_STATUS.pod](http://svn.perl.org/parrot/... |
13,519 | My basic question is: "Do longer tautologies take longer to prove?" But obviously this is underdetermined. If you are allowed an inference rule "Tautological Implication" then any tautology has a 1 line proof.
But let's say we're working in natural deduction, is it true that longer tautologies (tautologies with more ... | 2010/12/08 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/13519",
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] | The size of proofs is almost totally unrelated to the size of the statements they prove (in the worst case).
**Lower Bound: constant size**
The size of the smallest proof for statements of size N is constant. Just make your statements of the form "True or S". (Unless you count the input statement as part of the size,... | >
> does a shorter tautology always admit a shorter proof?
>
>
>
it seems like there should be a tautology whose statement is longer than fermats last theorem but whose shortest proof is shorter |
343,287 | In recent product announcements, I have noticed a trend that is disturbing to me. Stack Exchange employees are making claims and arguing with users without providing data to back up assumptions. This is leading to both users getting frustrated because it looks like they are being ignored and employees getting frustrate... | 2017/02/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/189134/"
] | When people give something their best, and all of it, they tend to stretch pretty thin as what they've built comes under scrutiny and critique. This is because the best they've got creatively and emotionally is still completely invested in that thing they just built.
There's also a rather palpable wave of dissonance t... | I think that there is a problem here that isn't actually solvable, unfortunately; there is a fundamentally paradox.
People (us) want developers to interact with us and want them to listen to us and consider our thoughts, while not appearing condescending and not dismissing us
*but*
The only way for developers to bot... |
343,287 | In recent product announcements, I have noticed a trend that is disturbing to me. Stack Exchange employees are making claims and arguing with users without providing data to back up assumptions. This is leading to both users getting frustrated because it looks like they are being ignored and employees getting frustrate... | 2017/02/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/189134/"
] | [Tim has written an excellent answer to this](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287/concerns-about-recent-stack-exchange-responses-to-users-suggestions/343304#343304) - go read it, please. We *can* do better here, and we're gonna try.
But something sticks in my craw reading this post: this is mostly about de... | I think that there is a problem here that isn't actually solvable, unfortunately; there is a fundamentally paradox.
People (us) want developers to interact with us and want them to listen to us and consider our thoughts, while not appearing condescending and not dismissing us
*but*
The only way for developers to bot... |
343,287 | In recent product announcements, I have noticed a trend that is disturbing to me. Stack Exchange employees are making claims and arguing with users without providing data to back up assumptions. This is leading to both users getting frustrated because it looks like they are being ignored and employees getting frustrate... | 2017/02/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/189134/"
] | While I don't believe that it's ever how the responses are *intended* to sound, this is how I *feel* reading some feedback on posts. It's not limited to the post that is the focus of the op.
One trend that stands out to me is the expectation that users will provide rigorous statistics to back up every claim they make.... | I think that there is a problem here that isn't actually solvable, unfortunately; there is a fundamentally paradox.
People (us) want developers to interact with us and want them to listen to us and consider our thoughts, while not appearing condescending and not dismissing us
*but*
The only way for developers to bot... |
343,287 | In recent product announcements, I have noticed a trend that is disturbing to me. Stack Exchange employees are making claims and arguing with users without providing data to back up assumptions. This is leading to both users getting frustrated because it looks like they are being ignored and employees getting frustrate... | 2017/02/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/189134/"
] | TLDR:
I agree there's an issue here, though I'm not sure it's entirely on the team *or* even remotely intended. Some of this feels like users provoking the team, and some of it feels like poor word choice or other language related issues. While there's definitely some things here that need fixed, there are also some... | I think that there is a problem here that isn't actually solvable, unfortunately; there is a fundamentally paradox.
People (us) want developers to interact with us and want them to listen to us and consider our thoughts, while not appearing condescending and not dismissing us
*but*
The only way for developers to bot... |
343,287 | In recent product announcements, I have noticed a trend that is disturbing to me. Stack Exchange employees are making claims and arguing with users without providing data to back up assumptions. This is leading to both users getting frustrated because it looks like they are being ignored and employees getting frustrate... | 2017/02/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/189134/"
] | When people give something their best, and all of it, they tend to stretch pretty thin as what they've built comes under scrutiny and critique. This is because the best they've got creatively and emotionally is still completely invested in that thing they just built.
There's also a rather palpable wave of dissonance t... | While I don't believe that it's ever how the responses are *intended* to sound, this is how I *feel* reading some feedback on posts. It's not limited to the post that is the focus of the op.
One trend that stands out to me is the expectation that users will provide rigorous statistics to back up every claim they make.... |
343,287 | In recent product announcements, I have noticed a trend that is disturbing to me. Stack Exchange employees are making claims and arguing with users without providing data to back up assumptions. This is leading to both users getting frustrated because it looks like they are being ignored and employees getting frustrate... | 2017/02/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/189134/"
] | [Tim has written an excellent answer to this](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287/concerns-about-recent-stack-exchange-responses-to-users-suggestions/343304#343304) - go read it, please. We *can* do better here, and we're gonna try.
But something sticks in my craw reading this post: this is mostly about de... | I've just sort of accepted that the things that would make my life easier and better, both as a regular user and a moderator (on Workplace) are lower priority than the things that Stack Exchange wants to pursue.
We also have different interests. I want a website that easily enables me to see, answer, and interact with... |
343,287 | In recent product announcements, I have noticed a trend that is disturbing to me. Stack Exchange employees are making claims and arguing with users without providing data to back up assumptions. This is leading to both users getting frustrated because it looks like they are being ignored and employees getting frustrate... | 2017/02/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/189134/"
] | When people give something their best, and all of it, they tend to stretch pretty thin as what they've built comes under scrutiny and critique. This is because the best they've got creatively and emotionally is still completely invested in that thing they just built.
There's also a rather palpable wave of dissonance t... | [Tim has written an excellent answer to this](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287/concerns-about-recent-stack-exchange-responses-to-users-suggestions/343304#343304) - go read it, please. We *can* do better here, and we're gonna try.
But something sticks in my craw reading this post: this is mostly about de... |
343,287 | In recent product announcements, I have noticed a trend that is disturbing to me. Stack Exchange employees are making claims and arguing with users without providing data to back up assumptions. This is leading to both users getting frustrated because it looks like they are being ignored and employees getting frustrate... | 2017/02/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/189134/"
] | While I don't believe that it's ever how the responses are *intended* to sound, this is how I *feel* reading some feedback on posts. It's not limited to the post that is the focus of the op.
One trend that stands out to me is the expectation that users will provide rigorous statistics to back up every claim they make.... | I've just sort of accepted that the things that would make my life easier and better, both as a regular user and a moderator (on Workplace) are lower priority than the things that Stack Exchange wants to pursue.
We also have different interests. I want a website that easily enables me to see, answer, and interact with... |
343,287 | In recent product announcements, I have noticed a trend that is disturbing to me. Stack Exchange employees are making claims and arguing with users without providing data to back up assumptions. This is leading to both users getting frustrated because it looks like they are being ignored and employees getting frustrate... | 2017/02/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/189134/"
] | When people give something their best, and all of it, they tend to stretch pretty thin as what they've built comes under scrutiny and critique. This is because the best they've got creatively and emotionally is still completely invested in that thing they just built.
There's also a rather palpable wave of dissonance t... | TLDR:
I agree there's an issue here, though I'm not sure it's entirely on the team *or* even remotely intended. Some of this feels like users provoking the team, and some of it feels like poor word choice or other language related issues. While there's definitely some things here that need fixed, there are also some... |
343,287 | In recent product announcements, I have noticed a trend that is disturbing to me. Stack Exchange employees are making claims and arguing with users without providing data to back up assumptions. This is leading to both users getting frustrated because it looks like they are being ignored and employees getting frustrate... | 2017/02/08 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343287",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/189134/"
] | TLDR:
I agree there's an issue here, though I'm not sure it's entirely on the team *or* even remotely intended. Some of this feels like users provoking the team, and some of it feels like poor word choice or other language related issues. While there's definitely some things here that need fixed, there are also some... | I've just sort of accepted that the things that would make my life easier and better, both as a regular user and a moderator (on Workplace) are lower priority than the things that Stack Exchange wants to pursue.
We also have different interests. I want a website that easily enables me to see, answer, and interact with... |
11,878 | I've searched online for this, to no avail. In a dispute where attorneys are involved on one or both sides, what is an attorney signalling, in terms of legal strategy (i.e. beyond the literal meaning of "unsubstantiated"), in using the phrase "no reason to believe", particularly in the face of overwhelming substantiati... | 2016/07/22 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/11878",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/3341/"
] | Caveat: I am not a lawyer. It seems to me that the attorney using the phrase, "We have no reason to believe that the allegations presented here are true," is not only saying that the allegations are not true, but that all the evidence supporting the allegations are not true. Of course one has to allow for the possibili... | If you use the phrase "I have no reason to believe ..." In the face of *any* evidence that should give you a reason to believe this is known in law, as in general life, as a "lie".
However, what is compelling evidence to you may not be compelling to someone else with whom you have a dispute (or indeed, an arbitrator).... |
11,878 | I've searched online for this, to no avail. In a dispute where attorneys are involved on one or both sides, what is an attorney signalling, in terms of legal strategy (i.e. beyond the literal meaning of "unsubstantiated"), in using the phrase "no reason to believe", particularly in the face of overwhelming substantiati... | 2016/07/22 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/11878",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/3341/"
] | That phrase does not signal anything strategic beyond the obvious: an intent to dispute the allegations.
Although the existence of the suggests that there is probably *some* reason to believe the allegations, the phrase is being used nearly literally. | If you use the phrase "I have no reason to believe ..." In the face of *any* evidence that should give you a reason to believe this is known in law, as in general life, as a "lie".
However, what is compelling evidence to you may not be compelling to someone else with whom you have a dispute (or indeed, an arbitrator).... |
11,878 | I've searched online for this, to no avail. In a dispute where attorneys are involved on one or both sides, what is an attorney signalling, in terms of legal strategy (i.e. beyond the literal meaning of "unsubstantiated"), in using the phrase "no reason to believe", particularly in the face of overwhelming substantiati... | 2016/07/22 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/11878",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/3341/"
] | Caveat: I am not a lawyer. It seems to me that the attorney using the phrase, "We have no reason to believe that the allegations presented here are true," is not only saying that the allegations are not true, but that all the evidence supporting the allegations are not true. Of course one has to allow for the possibili... | That phrase does not signal anything strategic beyond the obvious: an intent to dispute the allegations.
Although the existence of the suggests that there is probably *some* reason to believe the allegations, the phrase is being used nearly literally. |
10,397 | When I consider my own existence with respect to time I can imagine three possibilities:
(1) **Time extends infinitely into the past.** In this case, how can the present, with me in it, exist, since there would be an infinite period of time that existed before the present. That seems illogical.
(2) **Time had a sta... | 2014/03/24 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/10397",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/5538/"
] | I will attempt to present the stance of physicist [Julian Barbour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barbour), who presented a compelling answer to this question in a lecture I saw him give in Oxford ([this lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5rExaKLEoU)).
He is firmly *not* in the camp of the latter viewpoi... | Summations in math are completely true irregardless of "time" so the question itself has no meaning. Yes there is "time" but like gravity "it exists but doesn't mean all that much" until you start talking vast distances (say between Planets.) Yes, "time mattered" when your average speed of travel was at best 4mph acros... |
10,397 | When I consider my own existence with respect to time I can imagine three possibilities:
(1) **Time extends infinitely into the past.** In this case, how can the present, with me in it, exist, since there would be an infinite period of time that existed before the present. That seems illogical.
(2) **Time had a sta... | 2014/03/24 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/10397",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/5538/"
] | You've presented a false dichotomy: just because something is a "mental construct" doesn't mean that it can't also be a real property of the physical universe.
Take length as an example. "Length," as such, doesn't exist physically. It's not something you can see or touch. Nevertheless, it is a real quality of physical... | 3 is correct. Time is a abstraction, a filing system used to arrange events and memories into a logical system of cause and effect.
Per relativity, space and time are not discrete entities, but a single construct called spacetime. Saying something is X km long is equal to saying it is Y seconds long. All units of time... |
10,397 | When I consider my own existence with respect to time I can imagine three possibilities:
(1) **Time extends infinitely into the past.** In this case, how can the present, with me in it, exist, since there would be an infinite period of time that existed before the present. That seems illogical.
(2) **Time had a sta... | 2014/03/24 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/10397",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/5538/"
] | Time as you perceive it is naturally a mental construct, but it seems to correspond to an element of reality.
"In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without dis... | (1) is a little too loaded or existential of a question. If we shoot a classical arrow through the air, we can slice up each moment of its flight time into infinitely many infantecimal moments. In a sense, time extends infinitely into the present moment. What is "continuous" motion but the mathematical model of the rat... |
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