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5,466 | Is all particles moving and forever?
Can the movement of particles be stoped ? | 2011/02/19 | [
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] | I don't know exactly what you are asking. Anyways, it is impossible for any particle to stop moving completely. If it stops the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics will be violated since in that case both position and its conjugate momentum of the particle will be known with certainty. therefore all particles ha... | Orbital electron in hydrogen atom is moving forever. Orbital electrons are moving in atoms even at a very low temperature in [Bose-Einstein condensate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate). |
5,466 | Is all particles moving and forever?
Can the movement of particles be stoped ? | 2011/02/19 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/5466",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
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] | I don't know exactly what you are asking. Anyways, it is impossible for any particle to stop moving completely. If it stops the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics will be violated since in that case both position and its conjugate momentum of the particle will be known with certainty. therefore all particles ha... | As long as fields exist, gravitational at any range of distance, and electromagnetic field at short range, the particles will keep moving.
But the particles themselves are the sources of the fields, and IMO, under modern theoretical grounds the particles 'are' fields.
So, as **particles exists => fields exists => an... |
5,466 | Is all particles moving and forever?
Can the movement of particles be stoped ? | 2011/02/19 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/5466",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
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] | Movement itself is a relative quantity. A particle at rest in one frame of reference is moving at a constant velocity in another frame of reference. Rest is never absolute.
In many ways, particles will never stop moving. Not only is the universe undergoing expansion,but as long as energy is fundamental to our universe... | As long as fields exist, gravitational at any range of distance, and electromagnetic field at short range, the particles will keep moving.
But the particles themselves are the sources of the fields, and IMO, under modern theoretical grounds the particles 'are' fields.
So, as **particles exists => fields exists => an... |
5,466 | Is all particles moving and forever?
Can the movement of particles be stoped ? | 2011/02/19 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/5466",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/2101/"
] | Orbital electron in hydrogen atom is moving forever. Orbital electrons are moving in atoms even at a very low temperature in [Bose-Einstein condensate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate). | As long as fields exist, gravitational at any range of distance, and electromagnetic field at short range, the particles will keep moving.
But the particles themselves are the sources of the fields, and IMO, under modern theoretical grounds the particles 'are' fields.
So, as **particles exists => fields exists => an... |
371,494 | I'm planning to make some devices which I want to easily connect together.
Normally cables are used, but I wonder if there exists something like a 'clicable' connector, where the output of one enclosure 'clicks' into the input of another enclosure. Like a connection without or with a very short and solid 'cable'.
Of ... | 2018/04/30 | [
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"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
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] | 3 Formats come to mind:
**1 - Pogos and magnets**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lNJUj.jpg)
(Image is from <http://www.foxlink.com/>)
When you mentioned "click" the magnet action came to mind. This is the least exerted force one, and also easiest to u... | In general it seems you want things called *board to board* connectors. Look around on the web site of any decent distributor, like Mouser or DigiKey. You can also look around on the web sites of obvious suspects that manufacture such things, like Molex, Tyco, etc. |
371,494 | I'm planning to make some devices which I want to easily connect together.
Normally cables are used, but I wonder if there exists something like a 'clicable' connector, where the output of one enclosure 'clicks' into the input of another enclosure. Like a connection without or with a very short and solid 'cable'.
Of ... | 2018/04/30 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/371494",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/140343/"
] | 3 Formats come to mind:
**1 - Pogos and magnets**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lNJUj.jpg)
(Image is from <http://www.foxlink.com/>)
When you mentioned "click" the magnet action came to mind. This is the least exerted force one, and also easiest to u... | If I were to want to join two or more enclosures side to side in an inexpensive and rugged way I would consider the use of standard low cost D-Type connectors. These very conveniently can be mounted on the facing sides of the enclosures using male and female flavors of the connectors on either side.
[ versus [DIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation) simulation frameworks? Can one host the other and vice-versa? | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3887460",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31295/"
] | I currently (though only for another week or so) work in the simulation industry - I apologize in advance for any errors, I will correct them if I am remembering incorrect information.
**DIS**
* The standard specifies the layout of data on the wire, i.e. your packets/data PDUs are laid out exactly as defined in the D... | There is nothing in the HLA specification that says the RTI has to be centralized, although almost all RTIs are. |
3,887,460 | Is there a high-level overview of [HLA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Architecture) versus [DIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation) simulation frameworks? Can one host the other and vice-versa? | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3887460",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31295/"
] | I currently (though only for another week or so) work in the simulation industry - I apologize in advance for any errors, I will correct them if I am remembering incorrect information.
**DIS**
* The standard specifies the layout of data on the wire, i.e. your packets/data PDUs are laid out exactly as defined in the D... | The HLA 1516 Standard only defines the API between the simulator and the RTI. Not between RTIs. The protocol used to exchange data between RTIs is proprietary. Therefore only RTIs from the same vendor or government agency are able to interoperate. A major flaw. If you are using a different RTI you will need a "bridge" ... |
3,887,460 | Is there a high-level overview of [HLA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Architecture) versus [DIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation) simulation frameworks? Can one host the other and vice-versa? | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3887460",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31295/"
] | I currently (though only for another week or so) work in the simulation industry - I apologize in advance for any errors, I will correct them if I am remembering incorrect information.
**DIS**
* The standard specifies the layout of data on the wire, i.e. your packets/data PDUs are laid out exactly as defined in the D... | One thing to keep in mind if you plan to bridge DIS and HLA is that you will possibly lose simulation fidelity on both sides depending on how your FOM is organized. DIS to RPR FOM is straightforward but there are other FOMs out there that may not map well at all to DIS. In some situations you may be unable to translate... |
3,887,460 | Is there a high-level overview of [HLA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Architecture) versus [DIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation) simulation frameworks? Can one host the other and vice-versa? | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3887460",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31295/"
] | I currently (though only for another week or so) work in the simulation industry - I apologize in advance for any errors, I will correct them if I am remembering incorrect information.
**DIS**
* The standard specifies the layout of data on the wire, i.e. your packets/data PDUs are laid out exactly as defined in the D... | Here is some lessor-known history regarding HLA.
The design of HLA is actually based on something called the Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol (ALSP) which was led in the early 90's by the same Mitre folks that developed HLA. ALSP was designed to link together large-scale constructive simulations used for Corps/Div... |
3,887,460 | Is there a high-level overview of [HLA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Architecture) versus [DIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation) simulation frameworks? Can one host the other and vice-versa? | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3887460",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31295/"
] | There is nothing in the HLA specification that says the RTI has to be centralized, although almost all RTIs are. | The HLA 1516 Standard only defines the API between the simulator and the RTI. Not between RTIs. The protocol used to exchange data between RTIs is proprietary. Therefore only RTIs from the same vendor or government agency are able to interoperate. A major flaw. If you are using a different RTI you will need a "bridge" ... |
3,887,460 | Is there a high-level overview of [HLA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Architecture) versus [DIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation) simulation frameworks? Can one host the other and vice-versa? | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3887460",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31295/"
] | There is nothing in the HLA specification that says the RTI has to be centralized, although almost all RTIs are. | One thing to keep in mind if you plan to bridge DIS and HLA is that you will possibly lose simulation fidelity on both sides depending on how your FOM is organized. DIS to RPR FOM is straightforward but there are other FOMs out there that may not map well at all to DIS. In some situations you may be unable to translate... |
3,887,460 | Is there a high-level overview of [HLA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Architecture) versus [DIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation) simulation frameworks? Can one host the other and vice-versa? | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3887460",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31295/"
] | Here is some lessor-known history regarding HLA.
The design of HLA is actually based on something called the Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol (ALSP) which was led in the early 90's by the same Mitre folks that developed HLA. ALSP was designed to link together large-scale constructive simulations used for Corps/Div... | There is nothing in the HLA specification that says the RTI has to be centralized, although almost all RTIs are. |
3,887,460 | Is there a high-level overview of [HLA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Architecture) versus [DIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation) simulation frameworks? Can one host the other and vice-versa? | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3887460",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31295/"
] | Here is some lessor-known history regarding HLA.
The design of HLA is actually based on something called the Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol (ALSP) which was led in the early 90's by the same Mitre folks that developed HLA. ALSP was designed to link together large-scale constructive simulations used for Corps/Div... | The HLA 1516 Standard only defines the API between the simulator and the RTI. Not between RTIs. The protocol used to exchange data between RTIs is proprietary. Therefore only RTIs from the same vendor or government agency are able to interoperate. A major flaw. If you are using a different RTI you will need a "bridge" ... |
3,887,460 | Is there a high-level overview of [HLA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Architecture) versus [DIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation) simulation frameworks? Can one host the other and vice-versa? | 2010/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3887460",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31295/"
] | Here is some lessor-known history regarding HLA.
The design of HLA is actually based on something called the Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol (ALSP) which was led in the early 90's by the same Mitre folks that developed HLA. ALSP was designed to link together large-scale constructive simulations used for Corps/Div... | One thing to keep in mind if you plan to bridge DIS and HLA is that you will possibly lose simulation fidelity on both sides depending on how your FOM is organized. DIS to RPR FOM is straightforward but there are other FOMs out there that may not map well at all to DIS. In some situations you may be unable to translate... |
59,381,626 | I have recently started working in VueJS and I have been instructed by one of the lead devs to never combine emit events and vuex store. Basically, if the project will use a store, take all the events/state through the store.
From one point of view I can understand this, but there are a lot scenarios in which emiting... | 2019/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/59381626",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1354732/"
] | As a lead developer myself using Vue, this arbitrary rule is simply narrow-minded.
When using Vuex and deciding to use an emit or not, I look at the relationship. If I have a component that only needs to interact with its parent, then I use an emit. It keeps the store cleaner and the relationships clearer. Your lead i... | I disagree with your Lead. Vuex should only be used for data that is truly global. Any data/events that are only shared between a component and its child should go through emit/props.
While there can/should be debate about what should use the store vs props and emit, a blanket "always use store" is almost certainly wr... |
43,562,645 | I should clarify that I'm not that experienced with front-end tools, so I'm sorry in advance if I'm asking something obvious and stupid.
So far I've been using bower for front-end and npm for server-side, although each of the tools mentioned has its advantages and by that I mean *flat dependency management* of **bower... | 2017/04/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/43562645",
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] | **It depends on your exact use case, but... probably**.
Currently, the major trend seems to be towards module bundlers such as Webpack and Browserify (and hence either npm or Yarn) and away from Bower. You can read an excellent overview of the situation at [NPM vs. Bower vs. Browserify vs. Gulp vs. Grunt vs. Webpack](... | In recent days, there is an upward trend in the popularity of Yarn and its mainly due to couple of things different from npm.
One, it’s 100% deterministic i.e if you run yarn from any state, any time, 1000x times, it will still work the same way all the time. npm’s installs are nondeterministic. If you run it from va... |
4,085,461 | Will the next version of Delphi be released with cross platform support and Qt based components? If so, do we have to distribute with Qt? (I don't know anything about Qt)
How can Qt help the Delphi world, and why did many programmers using C++ start using Qt with, and what will happen to VCL? | 2010/11/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4085461",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/476609/"
] | >
> do we have to distribute with Qt
>
>
>
Probably. A lot depends on how it will be implemented, and how Qt will be linked to executables. There are also interesting implications depending on what kind of Qt license is used. The LGPL **is not** the MPL or the BSD...
>
> why many programmers using c++ started
> ... | There will be a new VCL+ library, released together with the VCL "classic" library.
As far as we can tell, this VCL+ library will be based on Qt 4.
And the "classic" VCL will remain, but targeting Windows only.
Since Qt is C++ based, there will be a dll containing a "flat" version of the library, ready to be accessed... |
4,085,461 | Will the next version of Delphi be released with cross platform support and Qt based components? If so, do we have to distribute with Qt? (I don't know anything about Qt)
How can Qt help the Delphi world, and why did many programmers using C++ start using Qt with, and what will happen to VCL? | 2010/11/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4085461",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/476609/"
] | >
> do we have to distribute with Qt
>
>
>
Probably. A lot depends on how it will be implemented, and how Qt will be linked to executables. There are also interesting implications depending on what kind of Qt license is used. The LGPL **is not** the MPL or the BSD...
>
> why many programmers using c++ started
> ... | Well, according to their previous roadmap, current version (Delphi XE) was supposed to provide cross-platform support; that is, compiling your project for different platforms (Win, Mac, Linux), not porting the IDE to those platforms. But they didn't provide it, and postponed it to future releases.
The [current roadmap... |
169,501 | I have two switches that control one light. I would like to close one of the switches, so that the light is only turned on and off by one of them. I removed the light switch from one of them (pictured), but now the other light switch won't turn on the light (also pictured with connected wires. Do I need to close the ci... | 2019/07/20 | [
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] | This is what happens when you randomly tear stuff off the wall without taking pix first. I'm guessing you assume the wire colors are meaningful in some way; colors mean less than than you think, and **less than nothing at all** in 3-way circuits. That stinks, so get some yellow electrical tape; we need to *make* colors... | Looks like a 4-way switch location at pic with single box location. blacks spiced in wire nuts and red and black travelers. I am and I suggest to call an electrician. The hardest part of working on electric is perceiving your known and unknown hazards. |
169,501 | I have two switches that control one light. I would like to close one of the switches, so that the light is only turned on and off by one of them. I removed the light switch from one of them (pictured), but now the other light switch won't turn on the light (also pictured with connected wires. Do I need to close the ci... | 2019/07/20 | [
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] | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gFWwi.png)
Here's a quick diagram. Switch 1 in the first box has 3 wires, and so does switch 2. In this diagram sw1 is "up" and sw2 is "down" so no current flows left to right.
Just join the "down" wire on sw2 (the one yo... | Looks like a 4-way switch location at pic with single box location. blacks spiced in wire nuts and red and black travelers. I am and I suggest to call an electrician. The hardest part of working on electric is perceiving your known and unknown hazards. |
169,501 | I have two switches that control one light. I would like to close one of the switches, so that the light is only turned on and off by one of them. I removed the light switch from one of them (pictured), but now the other light switch won't turn on the light (also pictured with connected wires. Do I need to close the ci... | 2019/07/20 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/169501",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
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] | Ok first off I hope you put wire nuts on the ends of the wires when you removed the switch. Leaving exposed live wires in a box is extremely dangerous as a **shorting**, **fire** and **risk to life hazard**.
What you are trying to do is to convert a 3 way switch to a standard 2 way switch. This isn't necessarily strai... | It would appear that was the location of the 4-way switch. Twist the red wires and wire nut. Twist the white wires and wire nut. Stuff them back into the box and use a blank cover. There will be 2 other switches that now control the light. Open both locations and the one with just one set of wires going to it is the de... |
169,501 | I have two switches that control one light. I would like to close one of the switches, so that the light is only turned on and off by one of them. I removed the light switch from one of them (pictured), but now the other light switch won't turn on the light (also pictured with connected wires. Do I need to close the ci... | 2019/07/20 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/169501",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
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] | Looks like a 4-way switch location at pic with single box location. blacks spiced in wire nuts and red and black travelers. I am and I suggest to call an electrician. The hardest part of working on electric is perceiving your known and unknown hazards. | The picture with the wires showing where there are 2 red and 2 white wire look like you had a 4-way switch there meaning there is actually 3 locations where the switches shut off the lights. If you splice together the 2 whites under one wirenut and the 2 red under another wire nut that will take the switch out of the p... |
169,501 | I have two switches that control one light. I would like to close one of the switches, so that the light is only turned on and off by one of them. I removed the light switch from one of them (pictured), but now the other light switch won't turn on the light (also pictured with connected wires. Do I need to close the ci... | 2019/07/20 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/169501",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/104088/"
] | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gFWwi.png)
Here's a quick diagram. Switch 1 in the first box has 3 wires, and so does switch 2. In this diagram sw1 is "up" and sw2 is "down" so no current flows left to right.
Just join the "down" wire on sw2 (the one yo... | Ok first off I hope you put wire nuts on the ends of the wires when you removed the switch. Leaving exposed live wires in a box is extremely dangerous as a **shorting**, **fire** and **risk to life hazard**.
What you are trying to do is to convert a 3 way switch to a standard 2 way switch. This isn't necessarily strai... |
169,501 | I have two switches that control one light. I would like to close one of the switches, so that the light is only turned on and off by one of them. I removed the light switch from one of them (pictured), but now the other light switch won't turn on the light (also pictured with connected wires. Do I need to close the ci... | 2019/07/20 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/169501",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/104088/"
] | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gFWwi.png)
Here's a quick diagram. Switch 1 in the first box has 3 wires, and so does switch 2. In this diagram sw1 is "up" and sw2 is "down" so no current flows left to right.
Just join the "down" wire on sw2 (the one yo... | It would appear that was the location of the 4-way switch. Twist the red wires and wire nut. Twist the white wires and wire nut. Stuff them back into the box and use a blank cover. There will be 2 other switches that now control the light. Open both locations and the one with just one set of wires going to it is the de... |
169,501 | I have two switches that control one light. I would like to close one of the switches, so that the light is only turned on and off by one of them. I removed the light switch from one of them (pictured), but now the other light switch won't turn on the light (also pictured with connected wires. Do I need to close the ci... | 2019/07/20 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/169501",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/104088/"
] | This is what happens when you randomly tear stuff off the wall without taking pix first. I'm guessing you assume the wire colors are meaningful in some way; colors mean less than than you think, and **less than nothing at all** in 3-way circuits. That stinks, so get some yellow electrical tape; we need to *make* colors... | It would appear that was the location of the 4-way switch. Twist the red wires and wire nut. Twist the white wires and wire nut. Stuff them back into the box and use a blank cover. There will be 2 other switches that now control the light. Open both locations and the one with just one set of wires going to it is the de... |
169,501 | I have two switches that control one light. I would like to close one of the switches, so that the light is only turned on and off by one of them. I removed the light switch from one of them (pictured), but now the other light switch won't turn on the light (also pictured with connected wires. Do I need to close the ci... | 2019/07/20 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/169501",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/104088/"
] | This is what happens when you randomly tear stuff off the wall without taking pix first. I'm guessing you assume the wire colors are meaningful in some way; colors mean less than than you think, and **less than nothing at all** in 3-way circuits. That stinks, so get some yellow electrical tape; we need to *make* colors... | The picture with the wires showing where there are 2 red and 2 white wire look like you had a 4-way switch there meaning there is actually 3 locations where the switches shut off the lights. If you splice together the 2 whites under one wirenut and the 2 red under another wire nut that will take the switch out of the p... |
169,501 | I have two switches that control one light. I would like to close one of the switches, so that the light is only turned on and off by one of them. I removed the light switch from one of them (pictured), but now the other light switch won't turn on the light (also pictured with connected wires. Do I need to close the ci... | 2019/07/20 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/169501",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/104088/"
] | The picture with the wires showing where there are 2 red and 2 white wire look like you had a 4-way switch there meaning there is actually 3 locations where the switches shut off the lights. If you splice together the 2 whites under one wirenut and the 2 red under another wire nut that will take the switch out of the p... | It would appear that was the location of the 4-way switch. Twist the red wires and wire nut. Twist the white wires and wire nut. Stuff them back into the box and use a blank cover. There will be 2 other switches that now control the light. Open both locations and the one with just one set of wires going to it is the de... |
169,501 | I have two switches that control one light. I would like to close one of the switches, so that the light is only turned on and off by one of them. I removed the light switch from one of them (pictured), but now the other light switch won't turn on the light (also pictured with connected wires. Do I need to close the ci... | 2019/07/20 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/169501",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
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] | This would be easier to answer had you shown us a picture of how the conductors were connected to the switch before you removed it. Since we don't have that, we have to guess, which is inherently dangerous. I will go ahead and guess, but that doesn't mean you should act on my guess, because it could be perilous if I ha... | The picture with the wires showing where there are 2 red and 2 white wire look like you had a 4-way switch there meaning there is actually 3 locations where the switches shut off the lights. If you splice together the 2 whites under one wirenut and the 2 red under another wire nut that will take the switch out of the p... |
616 | We've had a number of questions like these lately:
* [How to handle a newcomer getting a larger stock option grant than myself as oldtimer with the company? (self deleted, link is for 2k rep users only)](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8765/how-to-handle-a-newcomer-getting-a-larger-stock-option-grant-th... | 2013/01/11 | [
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] | How should I handle this is not constructive. A question should have a problem and an objective clearly defined. And it should be closed as not constructive.
*(The below is intentionally absurd and off topic)*
>
> My car is on fire and there is a suitcase full of money in the back seat. What should I do?
>
>
>
G... | I think questions that explain a common workplace situation, and ask us the best way to professionally handle that situation, are perfectly on-topic for this site.
To quote [enderland in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7633749#7633749):
>
> By definition of this site, we are going to get a lot... |
948,195 | Typically we use WebLogic or JBoss to deploy our apps. I understand that when using open source solutions like Spring you can develop your app and run it on a simple servlet container like Jetty. So the question would be why even bother with an app server? | 2009/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/948195",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47281/"
] | The clustering, failover, and session synchronization features of WebLogic and JBoss still make them worthwhile in large data centers.
JBoss uses Tomcat as their web front end, of course, so it's not either/or.
I've seen people add OpenEJB and ActiveMQ to Tomcat and get all the features of a Java EE app server. The ... | Some people like to have EJB support (Java EE specification) "just in case" |
948,195 | Typically we use WebLogic or JBoss to deploy our apps. I understand that when using open source solutions like Spring you can develop your app and run it on a simple servlet container like Jetty. So the question would be why even bother with an app server? | 2009/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/948195",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47281/"
] | * Advanced features - like
transactions, security integration, pooling, hi-perf queuing, clusters.
* Performance (weblogic has a hot JVM)
* operational and
administrative interfaces.
beyond that... I don't know?
In most cases, [YAGNI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGNI). | The clustering, failover, and session synchronization features of WebLogic and JBoss still make them worthwhile in large data centers.
JBoss uses Tomcat as their web front end, of course, so it's not either/or.
I've seen people add OpenEJB and ActiveMQ to Tomcat and get all the features of a Java EE app server. The ... |
948,195 | Typically we use WebLogic or JBoss to deploy our apps. I understand that when using open source solutions like Spring you can develop your app and run it on a simple servlet container like Jetty. So the question would be why even bother with an app server? | 2009/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/948195",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47281/"
] | * Advanced features - like
transactions, security integration, pooling, hi-perf queuing, clusters.
* Performance (weblogic has a hot JVM)
* operational and
administrative interfaces.
beyond that... I don't know?
In most cases, [YAGNI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGNI). | An application server is an architectural solution. You have to use it if you are going to think different reusable modules of your application. If you don't mind that your services should be implemented over the HTTP stack so EJB must be your default option. With an AS you have an already packed solution for solve *go... |
948,195 | Typically we use WebLogic or JBoss to deploy our apps. I understand that when using open source solutions like Spring you can develop your app and run it on a simple servlet container like Jetty. So the question would be why even bother with an app server? | 2009/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/948195",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47281/"
] | No one got fired for using WebLogic or WebSphere in an enterprise environment. For big businesses and managers not only the technological aspects are important. These application servers offer fully featured administration consoles that are easy to be used even from inexperienced administrators. Also, support services ... | Several reasons, most of which may or may not apply to a particular need.
1) Support. Many enterprises like to have a support contract with the vendor who developed the server. With an open source solution you are pretty much "on your own."
2) Full Java EE / EJB support. While I don't find this particularly useful my... |
948,195 | Typically we use WebLogic or JBoss to deploy our apps. I understand that when using open source solutions like Spring you can develop your app and run it on a simple servlet container like Jetty. So the question would be why even bother with an app server? | 2009/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/948195",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47281/"
] | No one got fired for using WebLogic or WebSphere in an enterprise environment. For big businesses and managers not only the technological aspects are important. These application servers offer fully featured administration consoles that are easy to be used even from inexperienced administrators. Also, support services ... | An application server is an architectural solution. You have to use it if you are going to think different reusable modules of your application. If you don't mind that your services should be implemented over the HTTP stack so EJB must be your default option. With an AS you have an already packed solution for solve *go... |
948,195 | Typically we use WebLogic or JBoss to deploy our apps. I understand that when using open source solutions like Spring you can develop your app and run it on a simple servlet container like Jetty. So the question would be why even bother with an app server? | 2009/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/948195",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47281/"
] | * Advanced features - like
transactions, security integration, pooling, hi-perf queuing, clusters.
* Performance (weblogic has a hot JVM)
* operational and
administrative interfaces.
beyond that... I don't know?
In most cases, [YAGNI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGNI). | If you've gotta ask, you can't afford it.
Seriously, full-blown application servers have more features, and you will have to decide if they are worth it to you over, say, Tomcat or Jetty. I don't think this is an appropriate place to try to give all the reasons, but here's one: application servers can make it easier t... |
948,195 | Typically we use WebLogic or JBoss to deploy our apps. I understand that when using open source solutions like Spring you can develop your app and run it on a simple servlet container like Jetty. So the question would be why even bother with an app server? | 2009/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/948195",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47281/"
] | No one got fired for using WebLogic or WebSphere in an enterprise environment. For big businesses and managers not only the technological aspects are important. These application servers offer fully featured administration consoles that are easy to be used even from inexperienced administrators. Also, support services ... | The clustering, failover, and session synchronization features of WebLogic and JBoss still make them worthwhile in large data centers.
JBoss uses Tomcat as their web front end, of course, so it's not either/or.
I've seen people add OpenEJB and ActiveMQ to Tomcat and get all the features of a Java EE app server. The ... |
948,195 | Typically we use WebLogic or JBoss to deploy our apps. I understand that when using open source solutions like Spring you can develop your app and run it on a simple servlet container like Jetty. So the question would be why even bother with an app server? | 2009/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/948195",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47281/"
] | The clustering, failover, and session synchronization features of WebLogic and JBoss still make them worthwhile in large data centers.
JBoss uses Tomcat as their web front end, of course, so it's not either/or.
I've seen people add OpenEJB and ActiveMQ to Tomcat and get all the features of a Java EE app server. The ... | An application server is an architectural solution. You have to use it if you are going to think different reusable modules of your application. If you don't mind that your services should be implemented over the HTTP stack so EJB must be your default option. With an AS you have an already packed solution for solve *go... |
948,195 | Typically we use WebLogic or JBoss to deploy our apps. I understand that when using open source solutions like Spring you can develop your app and run it on a simple servlet container like Jetty. So the question would be why even bother with an app server? | 2009/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/948195",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47281/"
] | * Advanced features - like
transactions, security integration, pooling, hi-perf queuing, clusters.
* Performance (weblogic has a hot JVM)
* operational and
administrative interfaces.
beyond that... I don't know?
In most cases, [YAGNI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGNI). | No one got fired for using WebLogic or WebSphere in an enterprise environment. For big businesses and managers not only the technological aspects are important. These application servers offer fully featured administration consoles that are easy to be used even from inexperienced administrators. Also, support services ... |
948,195 | Typically we use WebLogic or JBoss to deploy our apps. I understand that when using open source solutions like Spring you can develop your app and run it on a simple servlet container like Jetty. So the question would be why even bother with an app server? | 2009/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/948195",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/47281/"
] | The clustering, failover, and session synchronization features of WebLogic and JBoss still make them worthwhile in large data centers.
JBoss uses Tomcat as their web front end, of course, so it's not either/or.
I've seen people add OpenEJB and ActiveMQ to Tomcat and get all the features of a Java EE app server. The ... | Several reasons, most of which may or may not apply to a particular need.
1) Support. Many enterprises like to have a support contract with the vendor who developed the server. With an open source solution you are pretty much "on your own."
2) Full Java EE / EJB support. While I don't find this particularly useful my... |
23,489 | We've been having trouble caused by what we believe is contention within tempDB.
Whenever we are having problems, our system is always waiting on one particular resource: 2:1:103, which when we look it up (using DBCC PAGE(2,1,103)) tracks back to object\_id 75, which is the system table sysmultiobjrefs.
To solve this... | 2009/06/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/23489",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/9036/"
] | Do you have a lot of SELECT INTO statements in your SQL Code? This will cause locking on several tempdb system objects until the SELECT INTO statement has completed. | Have you checked to make sure you aren't just getting deadlocks from transactions stepping on each other's work? Have you checked running/locked SQL queries when the locking occurs? |
23,489 | We've been having trouble caused by what we believe is contention within tempDB.
Whenever we are having problems, our system is always waiting on one particular resource: 2:1:103, which when we look it up (using DBCC PAGE(2,1,103)) tracks back to object\_id 75, which is the system table sysmultiobjrefs.
To solve this... | 2009/06/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/23489",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/9036/"
] | Rob,
In our environment we have been dealing with his 2:1:103 issue for about a month. One of the ways to prevent this issue has been to restart the SQL Service periodically , if that is an option. There has been no clear answer in many of the forums for this particular issue. T1118 flag has not been termed effective ... | Have you checked to make sure you aren't just getting deadlocks from transactions stepping on each other's work? Have you checked running/locked SQL queries when the locking occurs? |
23,489 | We've been having trouble caused by what we believe is contention within tempDB.
Whenever we are having problems, our system is always waiting on one particular resource: 2:1:103, which when we look it up (using DBCC PAGE(2,1,103)) tracks back to object\_id 75, which is the system table sysmultiobjrefs.
To solve this... | 2009/06/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/23489",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/9036/"
] | I realize I'm late to the party here but my team had a run in with 2:1:103 this week. Essentially, contention on this resource indicates contention with DDL operations in tempdb and is caused by creating/destroying too many temp tables or temp table variables. I blogged about this at <http://www.mattwrock.com/post/2011... | Have you checked to make sure you aren't just getting deadlocks from transactions stepping on each other's work? Have you checked running/locked SQL queries when the locking occurs? |
23,489 | We've been having trouble caused by what we believe is contention within tempDB.
Whenever we are having problems, our system is always waiting on one particular resource: 2:1:103, which when we look it up (using DBCC PAGE(2,1,103)) tracks back to object\_id 75, which is the system table sysmultiobjrefs.
To solve this... | 2009/06/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/23489",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/9036/"
] | Do you have a lot of SELECT INTO statements in your SQL Code? This will cause locking on several tempdb system objects until the SELECT INTO statement has completed. | Have you tried to enable trace flag T1118?
[KB artikle from MS](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328551)
Quote from the article:
>
> Note Trace flag -T1118 is also
> available and supported in Microsoft
> SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.
> However, if you are running SQL Server
> 2005 or SQL Server 2008, you... |
23,489 | We've been having trouble caused by what we believe is contention within tempDB.
Whenever we are having problems, our system is always waiting on one particular resource: 2:1:103, which when we look it up (using DBCC PAGE(2,1,103)) tracks back to object\_id 75, which is the system table sysmultiobjrefs.
To solve this... | 2009/06/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/23489",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/9036/"
] | Rob,
In our environment we have been dealing with his 2:1:103 issue for about a month. One of the ways to prevent this issue has been to restart the SQL Service periodically , if that is an option. There has been no clear answer in many of the forums for this particular issue. T1118 flag has not been termed effective ... | Have you tried to enable trace flag T1118?
[KB artikle from MS](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328551)
Quote from the article:
>
> Note Trace flag -T1118 is also
> available and supported in Microsoft
> SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.
> However, if you are running SQL Server
> 2005 or SQL Server 2008, you... |
23,489 | We've been having trouble caused by what we believe is contention within tempDB.
Whenever we are having problems, our system is always waiting on one particular resource: 2:1:103, which when we look it up (using DBCC PAGE(2,1,103)) tracks back to object\_id 75, which is the system table sysmultiobjrefs.
To solve this... | 2009/06/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/23489",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/9036/"
] | I realize I'm late to the party here but my team had a run in with 2:1:103 this week. Essentially, contention on this resource indicates contention with DDL operations in tempdb and is caused by creating/destroying too many temp tables or temp table variables. I blogged about this at <http://www.mattwrock.com/post/2011... | Have you tried to enable trace flag T1118?
[KB artikle from MS](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328551)
Quote from the article:
>
> Note Trace flag -T1118 is also
> available and supported in Microsoft
> SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.
> However, if you are running SQL Server
> 2005 or SQL Server 2008, you... |
36,560 | On the Goblet of Fire Barty Crouch exactly got Mad-Eye's voice when he transformed into him, but on the Deathly Hallows, they were all able to have their own voices instead of Harry's. Why is the effect of the polyjuice potion inconsistent? | 2013/06/05 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36560",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8224/"
] | In that *The Deathly Hallows* scene, no mention is made of a change of people's voices, but
later on the trio takes on the appearance of Ministry workers and their voices do change.
>
> “Looks like it,” Harry whispered back; he voice came out deep and
> gravelly.
> (...) “Yes, of course,” said Harry in Runcorn’s d... | It's simple: the books and the movies follow different rules for the potion. This is from the differences in the media used. In the books it is easy to remember who's who as the author can keep telling you. In the movies however they need to remind people, which is why they had the voices of the ones drinking the potio... |
36,560 | On the Goblet of Fire Barty Crouch exactly got Mad-Eye's voice when he transformed into him, but on the Deathly Hallows, they were all able to have their own voices instead of Harry's. Why is the effect of the polyjuice potion inconsistent? | 2013/06/05 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36560",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8224/"
] | In that *The Deathly Hallows* scene, no mention is made of a change of people's voices, but
later on the trio takes on the appearance of Ministry workers and their voices do change.
>
> “Looks like it,” Harry whispered back; he voice came out deep and
> gravelly.
> (...) “Yes, of course,” said Harry in Runcorn’s d... | Simple fact: Because of the audience and the difficulty it would be for them to distinguish the characters since in the book the author can distinguish transformed people. Since the movie cannot, keeping those voices is an easier method for the audience to avoid confusion.
Barty Crouch Jr. as Mad-Eye Moody was a speci... |
36,560 | On the Goblet of Fire Barty Crouch exactly got Mad-Eye's voice when he transformed into him, but on the Deathly Hallows, they were all able to have their own voices instead of Harry's. Why is the effect of the polyjuice potion inconsistent? | 2013/06/05 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36560",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8224/"
] | It's simple: the books and the movies follow different rules for the potion. This is from the differences in the media used. In the books it is easy to remember who's who as the author can keep telling you. In the movies however they need to remind people, which is why they had the voices of the ones drinking the potio... | Simple fact: Because of the audience and the difficulty it would be for them to distinguish the characters since in the book the author can distinguish transformed people. Since the movie cannot, keeping those voices is an easier method for the audience to avoid confusion.
Barty Crouch Jr. as Mad-Eye Moody was a speci... |
2,305,272 | Does anyone have a check list on the best practices for XHTML? | 2010/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2305272",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/196517/"
] | Have a look at **[XHTML Best Practices](http://www.graphicrating.com/2008/11/29/xhtml-best-practices/)**. | If you use the [W3C validator service](http://validator.w3.org/), you'll learn a lot about how your XHTML should be structured. |
2,305,272 | Does anyone have a check list on the best practices for XHTML? | 2010/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2305272",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/196517/"
] | Have a look at **[XHTML Best Practices](http://www.graphicrating.com/2008/11/29/xhtml-best-practices/)**. | 1. Ensure the benefits outweigh [the pain](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#compatGuidelines) (otherwise stick to HTML)
2. [Validate](http://validator.w3.org/)
3. Separate [style](http://www.w3.org/Style/) from content
4. Be [accessible](http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/)
5. Be [progressive](http://icant.co.uk/articl... |
11,358 | I have a WFFM form with a checkbox list field.
What is your favorite ice cream?
Option-1(Checkbox)
Option-2(Checkbox)
Option-3(Checkbox)
I have to include another option to the fields which is a text box to specify the enter the choice of interest.
What is your favorite ice cream?
Option-1(Checkbox)
Option-2(Ch... | 2018/04/16 | [
"https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/11358",
"https://sitecore.stackexchange.com",
"https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/users/955/"
] | It's a simple answer. Because WFFM will eventually become obsolete and eventually not be included or supported with Sitecore anymore. I believe the plan is that Sitecore Forms will eventually contain all the same features that WFFM currently includes. | In addition to what Dylan said:
1. Sitecore Forms comes OOTB with Sitecore Platform hence the additional efforts of installation as well as upgrade can be avoided.
2. Multi-step form creation is not possible in WFFM which can be achieved in Sitecore Forms OOTB
3. Sitecore Forms UI is much more intuitive comparing to W... |
4,012,462 | I am using Visual C++ 2010. Does it support the C++11 threads library, such that I could compile the code [in this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4012092/memory-ordering-issues)?
If not, what library can I use that would support this? | 2010/10/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4012462",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Visual C++ 2010 does not provide the C++11 thread support or atomics libraries.
If you want to use that code in Visual C++ 2010, you'll need to use a third-party implementation of those libraries. One option is [just::thread](http://www.stdthread.co.uk/order.html); it's not free, but I have a copy and am quite pleased... | VC++ supports special embedded syntax OpenMP (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tt15eb9t(VS.80).aspx) - note, that g++ is also suports it, so you can get cross platform code. |
57,951 | I know there are many sentences like *I went to sleep at six* and *I slept at six*, but I want to know why it is incorrect to say "I slept at six" in English. | 2015/05/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57951",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6916/"
] | "I slept" means "I spent a period of time asleep." "I slept at 6" doesn't make sense because it's saying "I spent a period of time asleep at a particular moment in time."
In contrast, "I woke" means "I changed from the sleeping state to the waking state" and it's perfectly reasonable to do that at a specific time.
Ha... | "I slept at six" is not incorrect. It is a bit unusual, and feels a bit clumsy, and it means something different than "I went to sleep at six". That happens quite often, some sentence is not incorrect as a sentence, but has a different meaning than you think it has.
"I went to sleep at six": I was awake at 5:59, but ... |
57,951 | I know there are many sentences like *I went to sleep at six* and *I slept at six*, but I want to know why it is incorrect to say "I slept at six" in English. | 2015/05/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57951",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6916/"
] | It's not incorrect. It's a perfectly valid sentence construction which is commonly used.
>
> I slept at six.
>
>
> I got up at six.
>
>
> I ate at six.
>
>
> | However (thanks Dog Lover [Love the handle, BTW]), the way that sentence is constructed is a bit unexpected. Consider, "I went to bed at six". |
57,951 | I know there are many sentences like *I went to sleep at six* and *I slept at six*, but I want to know why it is incorrect to say "I slept at six" in English. | 2015/05/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57951",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6916/"
] | "I slept" means "I spent a period of time asleep." "I slept at 6" doesn't make sense because it's saying "I spent a period of time asleep at a particular moment in time."
In contrast, "I woke" means "I changed from the sleeping state to the waking state" and it's perfectly reasonable to do that at a specific time.
Ha... | It's a little ambiguous as it's unclear whether you mean you started sleeping at six, or slept through six, though it would probably become clear from the context or question.
I world use "I went to sleep at 6" or "I was still asleep at 6" to make it clearer. |
57,951 | I know there are many sentences like *I went to sleep at six* and *I slept at six*, but I want to know why it is incorrect to say "I slept at six" in English. | 2015/05/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57951",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6916/"
] | In general, the other answers do a fair job of explaining why it's at least *weird* to use "I slept at [time]" to describe the time you began sleeping. But there are plenty of occasions when it works well enough.
A short nap could be described as "I slept at noon." This works especially when you're describing a sequen... | It's a little ambiguous as it's unclear whether you mean you started sleeping at six, or slept through six, though it would probably become clear from the context or question.
I world use "I went to sleep at 6" or "I was still asleep at 6" to make it clearer. |
57,951 | I know there are many sentences like *I went to sleep at six* and *I slept at six*, but I want to know why it is incorrect to say "I slept at six" in English. | 2015/05/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57951",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6916/"
] | In my English, at least, *sleep* can be specified with a *period or length of time,* but not a *point in time*. (If you supply a point in time, it's intelligible, but doesn't sound natural.)
So I could say things like
>
> I slept from nine until seven.
>
>
> I slept until noon.
>
>
> I slept for thirteen hours.
... | In general, the other answers do a fair job of explaining why it's at least *weird* to use "I slept at [time]" to describe the time you began sleeping. But there are plenty of occasions when it works well enough.
A short nap could be described as "I slept at noon." This works especially when you're describing a sequen... |
57,951 | I know there are many sentences like *I went to sleep at six* and *I slept at six*, but I want to know why it is incorrect to say "I slept at six" in English. | 2015/05/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57951",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6916/"
] | However (thanks Dog Lover [Love the handle, BTW]), the way that sentence is constructed is a bit unexpected. Consider, "I went to bed at six". | "I slept at six" is not incorrect. It is a bit unusual, and feels a bit clumsy, and it means something different than "I went to sleep at six". That happens quite often, some sentence is not incorrect as a sentence, but has a different meaning than you think it has.
"I went to sleep at six": I was awake at 5:59, but ... |
57,951 | I know there are many sentences like *I went to sleep at six* and *I slept at six*, but I want to know why it is incorrect to say "I slept at six" in English. | 2015/05/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57951",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6916/"
] | In my English, at least, *sleep* can be specified with a *period or length of time,* but not a *point in time*. (If you supply a point in time, it's intelligible, but doesn't sound natural.)
So I could say things like
>
> I slept from nine until seven.
>
>
> I slept until noon.
>
>
> I slept for thirteen hours.
... | It's a little ambiguous as it's unclear whether you mean you started sleeping at six, or slept through six, though it would probably become clear from the context or question.
I world use "I went to sleep at 6" or "I was still asleep at 6" to make it clearer. |
57,951 | I know there are many sentences like *I went to sleep at six* and *I slept at six*, but I want to know why it is incorrect to say "I slept at six" in English. | 2015/05/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57951",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6916/"
] | In my English, at least, *sleep* can be specified with a *period or length of time,* but not a *point in time*. (If you supply a point in time, it's intelligible, but doesn't sound natural.)
So I could say things like
>
> I slept from nine until seven.
>
>
> I slept until noon.
>
>
> I slept for thirteen hours.
... | However (thanks Dog Lover [Love the handle, BTW]), the way that sentence is constructed is a bit unexpected. Consider, "I went to bed at six". |
57,951 | I know there are many sentences like *I went to sleep at six* and *I slept at six*, but I want to know why it is incorrect to say "I slept at six" in English. | 2015/05/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57951",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6916/"
] | It's not incorrect. It's a perfectly valid sentence construction which is commonly used.
>
> I slept at six.
>
>
> I got up at six.
>
>
> I ate at six.
>
>
> | In general, the other answers do a fair job of explaining why it's at least *weird* to use "I slept at [time]" to describe the time you began sleeping. But there are plenty of occasions when it works well enough.
A short nap could be described as "I slept at noon." This works especially when you're describing a sequen... |
57,951 | I know there are many sentences like *I went to sleep at six* and *I slept at six*, but I want to know why it is incorrect to say "I slept at six" in English. | 2015/05/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57951",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/6916/"
] | In my English, at least, *sleep* can be specified with a *period or length of time,* but not a *point in time*. (If you supply a point in time, it's intelligible, but doesn't sound natural.)
So I could say things like
>
> I slept from nine until seven.
>
>
> I slept until noon.
>
>
> I slept for thirteen hours.
... | "I slept" means "I spent a period of time asleep." "I slept at 6" doesn't make sense because it's saying "I spent a period of time asleep at a particular moment in time."
In contrast, "I woke" means "I changed from the sleeping state to the waking state" and it's perfectly reasonable to do that at a specific time.
Ha... |
9,596,498 | Is it possible to deploy a console c# application on IIS Server.
I have one .exe file running on a machine which takes data from named pipe and my c# application takes this data from the pipe and send it to the web application running using TCP sockets, I want to know if i can deploy my C# console application on the we... | 2012/03/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9596498",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1184911/"
] | You can host an exe file on IIS server, but it is not a common practice to deploy C# console applications,
1. In this way you don't know if the client machine has proper .NET Framework installed. So the console application may not even launch.
2. The web browser can simply block the download.
3. Even if the exe file i... | No, IIS can be used to host only web sites or web applications. You can't host console applications in IIS. |
163,095 | In the movie *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*, Lex Luthor successfully bombs the Capitol building. It was a powerful bomb; everyone except Superman died in the blast.
But, how did such a powerful bomb get past the security?
**Note:** Luthor gained access to the Kryptonian knowledge archive *after* the bombing. So... | 2017/07/06 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163095",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/"
] | The wheelchair was lead-lined.
------------------------------
The wheelchair was lead-lined to hide the bomb. I'm not sure that this was clarified in the theatrical cut but I'm pretty sure it was explicit in the DVD/Blu-Ray releases. No need to lead line a wheelchair unless you're hiding it from x-ray vision.
>
> ..... | The answer is he hid it inside a wounded veteran's wheelchair. The man, confined to a wheelchair, was likely not viewed as a threat and likely not subjected to additional security screening. Relevant portion happens at 2:31, where you see the explosion originate at the man |
404,659 | I asked [a question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65840557/how-to-investigate-the-reason-of-fail-generating-bundles-for-spa-in-net-core) that got closed due to not being more focused. I'd like to focus it more. However, I'm a bit stuck on how.
I've found [others](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/402177/... | 2021/01/23 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/404659",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1525840/"
] | I am not a domain expert on C# and .NET, but it strikes me that your question is lacking the kind of detail that would allow someone to figure out what is going on. So I would (hypothetically ...) have voted to close it as either "Needs detail or clarity" or "Needs debugging details".
The fundamental point though is: ... | I think that in general your question is fine and on-topic.
A few possible improvements:
* If I am not mistaken, you ask "how do I debug this", instead of "why does this happen". Since you are interested in investigating the issue yourself, asking this way kind of makes sense, but in my experience this kind of questi... |
404,659 | I asked [a question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65840557/how-to-investigate-the-reason-of-fail-generating-bundles-for-spa-in-net-core) that got closed due to not being more focused. I'd like to focus it more. However, I'm a bit stuck on how.
I've found [others](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/402177/... | 2021/01/23 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/404659",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1525840/"
] | I am not a domain expert on C# and .NET, but it strikes me that your question is lacking the kind of detail that would allow someone to figure out what is going on. So I would (hypothetically ...) have voted to close it as either "Needs detail or clarity" or "Needs debugging details".
The fundamental point though is: ... | I think it is fine as it is, and I can see it's reopened now. At least with respect to "need focus". However, I can imagine that it should be closed for "needs clarity" or "needs debugging details" but I'm not an expert on C#.
However, very many use "focus" to close when they should have used "need clarity". That's be... |
1,154 | I realise this might be better served on [meta.stackoverflow](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77027/daily-reputation-limit), but its surely already been asked. The only related question is [this](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77027/daily-reputation-limit), which is more technical.
So I reached the ... | 2014/01/07 | [
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1154",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/users/6306/"
] | Its to give everyone fair chance to catch up in reputation race. I mean everyone doesn't gets more then 200 rep in single day. It also save from trolls. Sometimes user can cheat in reputation by making different accounts (Which can be cached or sometimes not). On the side note reputation here means the trust you earn b... | I think the limit is as high as it needs to be. It's actually very tricky to hit the daily limit if you don't get any of your questions or answers featured in the Hot Network Questions tab (which the question you edited in was, all day for that matter).
At the point I'm writing this answer there have been [225 votes c... |
6,429,580 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [How to make an expression clickable on iOS?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6350390/how-to-make-an-expression-clickable-on-ios)
>
>
>
On Twitter and Facebook, usernames like @ and hashtags like # are clickable, and do something native within the app.
What is the best way ... | 2011/06/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6429580",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/19875/"
] | The **[TTTAttributedLabel](https://github.com/mattt/TTTAttributedLabel)** project on github is a drop-in replacement for UILabel that supports embedding links. <https://github.com/mattt/TTTAttributedLabel> | I'm not sure what Twitter does, but the Facebook app uses a library called Three20 to achieve Rich Text UILabels. They have the ability to be formatted and have in-line hyperlinks. You should specifically look at TTStyledTextLabel.
Check it out:
<http://three20.info/> |
27,294 | Is there a way to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle layer visibility in Photoshop (CS3)? | 2009/08/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/27294",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/7479/"
] | There isn't a shortcut bound to this action by default; but if you go to the Keyboard Shortcuts configuration (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) under 'Layers' there is a 'Hide Layers' option where you can bind your own shortcut. | I don't think Photoshop has a default hotkey for showing/hiding a certain layer. You can, however, create your own action to do this, and just bind it to a key. |
27,294 | Is there a way to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle layer visibility in Photoshop (CS3)? | 2009/08/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/27294",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/7479/"
] | I don't think Photoshop has a default hotkey for showing/hiding a certain layer. You can, however, create your own action to do this, and just bind it to a key. | I have software "photoshop assistant". It can bind any key to show/hide a particular layer...and other cool stuff too. You can check it. I tried creating an action, it works but you have to bind choose the shortcut key from the F(x) keys and what is worse, you should choose two different keys for "hide" and for "show l... |
27,294 | Is there a way to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle layer visibility in Photoshop (CS3)? | 2009/08/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/27294",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/7479/"
] | I don't think Photoshop has a default hotkey for showing/hiding a certain layer. You can, however, create your own action to do this, and just bind it to a key. | open Photoshop and now go to the edit options and now keyboard shortcuts option after application menus now select show layer option choose your shortcut ket after save as |
27,294 | Is there a way to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle layer visibility in Photoshop (CS3)? | 2009/08/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/27294",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/7479/"
] | There isn't a shortcut bound to this action by default; but if you go to the Keyboard Shortcuts configuration (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) under 'Layers' there is a 'Hide Layers' option where you can bind your own shortcut. | I have software "photoshop assistant". It can bind any key to show/hide a particular layer...and other cool stuff too. You can check it. I tried creating an action, it works but you have to bind choose the shortcut key from the F(x) keys and what is worse, you should choose two different keys for "hide" and for "show l... |
27,294 | Is there a way to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle layer visibility in Photoshop (CS3)? | 2009/08/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/27294",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/7479/"
] | There isn't a shortcut bound to this action by default; but if you go to the Keyboard Shortcuts configuration (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) under 'Layers' there is a 'Hide Layers' option where you can bind your own shortcut. | open Photoshop and now go to the edit options and now keyboard shortcuts option after application menus now select show layer option choose your shortcut ket after save as |
27,294 | Is there a way to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle layer visibility in Photoshop (CS3)? | 2009/08/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/27294",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/7479/"
] | I have software "photoshop assistant". It can bind any key to show/hide a particular layer...and other cool stuff too. You can check it. I tried creating an action, it works but you have to bind choose the shortcut key from the F(x) keys and what is worse, you should choose two different keys for "hide" and for "show l... | open Photoshop and now go to the edit options and now keyboard shortcuts option after application menus now select show layer option choose your shortcut ket after save as |
25,549,607 | I just started learning about Bluemix and am slightly confused.
I am currently building a form-based login authentication with JSF which will be used in a web application that works on Bluemix.
How will I change security related settings in Bluemix? Locally, I can change in an admin console of my application server... | 2014/08/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/25549607",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3982694/"
] | Check out this pdf on docs for how to integrate Single Sign On with your java app.
<http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27044519&aid=1> | Are you considering use oauth to meet your requeiment? In Bluemix, you can use App User Registry to protect your resources, and client need to get token first to access your resources.
Take a look at my developerWorks paper to get more details: Protect your resources with the Bluemix App User Registry Add-on, the link... |
25,549,607 | I just started learning about Bluemix and am slightly confused.
I am currently building a form-based login authentication with JSF which will be used in a web application that works on Bluemix.
How will I change security related settings in Bluemix? Locally, I can change in an admin console of my application server... | 2014/08/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/25549607",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3982694/"
] | The trick is to upload your server.xml with your app to bluemix.
If you use eclipse, on your local server, right mouse click --> utilities --> package server.
Next push the resulting zip to bluemix using the cf command line.
This [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcyr24ldTys) shows each step | Are you considering use oauth to meet your requeiment? In Bluemix, you can use App User Registry to protect your resources, and client need to get token first to access your resources.
Take a look at my developerWorks paper to get more details: Protect your resources with the Bluemix App User Registry Add-on, the link... |
25,549,607 | I just started learning about Bluemix and am slightly confused.
I am currently building a form-based login authentication with JSF which will be used in a web application that works on Bluemix.
How will I change security related settings in Bluemix? Locally, I can change in an admin console of my application server... | 2014/08/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/25549607",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3982694/"
] | The trick is to upload your server.xml with your app to bluemix.
If you use eclipse, on your local server, right mouse click --> utilities --> package server.
Next push the resulting zip to bluemix using the cf command line.
This [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcyr24ldTys) shows each step | Check out this pdf on docs for how to integrate Single Sign On with your java app.
<http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27044519&aid=1> |
13,593 | I need to create a template for sending email alerts in such a way that I can select columns for individual lists for the content to be displayed in the mail. | 2011/05/30 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/13593",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/1102/"
] | I think this will answer your question:
>
> **Document libraries** : You can send documents as e-mail attachments to a
> document library that is set up to
> receive e-mail. There is no need to
> switch to Windows SharePoint Services
> 3.0, search for the document, and then add it to the library. You can also
> ... | 1. **Enable incoming email on SharePoint**.
In SharePoint Central Administration, go to the Operations tab and click on “Incoming Email Settings.” Enable sites to receive email, leave the setting for Automatic mode, leave the setting for SharePoint Directory Management Service to No, add the subdomain you have chosen ... |
212,005 | Came across this great sounding app, but it is only for mac. Does anyone know of anything similar for Windows?
Answers stating "buy a mac" or similar will be downvoted. You have been warned. | 2010/11/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/212005",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/50679/"
] | See [Alternativeto.net for some ideas](http://alternativeto.net/software/storymill/).
From the site:
[Storybook](http://storybook.intertec.ch/joomla/) is a free, open source novel-writing software for creative writers, novelists and authors which will help you to keep an overview of multiple plot-lines while writing... | You could always try [MyNovel](http://www.mynovel.biz/)
>
> MyNovel writing software will help you plan and write your novel. This marvellous novel writing software will encourage you to think about your characters, settings and the events that will form the skeleton of your novel. It will encourage you to visualize ... |
53,468 | I have read most of the major threads on WPF vs. WinForms and I find myself stuck in the unfortunate ambivalence you can fall into when deciding between the tried and true previous tech (Winforms), and it's successor (WPF).
I am a veteran Delphi programmer of many years that is finally making the jump to C#. My fellow... | 2011/03/01 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53468",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | I am usually very surprised with people saying that they didn't had a good experience with WPF. I am a developer who switched from C++/MFC to C#/WinForms to C#/WPF. The transition from WinForms to WPF wasn't a easy one because learning XAML is not very easy but once you get hold of it, it is an awesome technology. I, f... | Winforms is very nearly identical to Delphi development. And, of course, there's a reason for that. Just as the Delphi/Object Pascal object model heavily influenced C#, so the forms system influenced Winforms.
WPF seems to be the direction that things are headed; it's been said that the (gorgeous!) VS2010 UI is WPF-b... |
53,468 | I have read most of the major threads on WPF vs. WinForms and I find myself stuck in the unfortunate ambivalence you can fall into when deciding between the tried and true previous tech (Winforms), and it's successor (WPF).
I am a veteran Delphi programmer of many years that is finally making the jump to C#. My fellow... | 2011/03/01 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53468",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | Clearly WPF is the way to go thinking in the future. Mastering it is hard, but the platform is very well architected and flexible.
A few lines of advice:
* Start easy: Don't try to implement your first project using only MVVM or fancy animations. Start simple with windows, button and lists.
* Take advantage of DataBi... | If you are going to write new applications from scratch, using WinForms would be a mistake. It is basically dead from an investment perspective. Microsoft will keep it around for a long while, but you won't get any new features, or new support, etc. WPF is the clear direction for desktop applications for the future on ... |
53,468 | I have read most of the major threads on WPF vs. WinForms and I find myself stuck in the unfortunate ambivalence you can fall into when deciding between the tried and true previous tech (Winforms), and it's successor (WPF).
I am a veteran Delphi programmer of many years that is finally making the jump to C#. My fellow... | 2011/03/01 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53468",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | If you have a Delphi background, you will be disappointed in WinForms. You will try to do things that were easy in the VCL, only to find that they're painfully difficult, or even impossible. WPF will be much less confining.
For example, here are just a few of the WinForms limitations we've run into:
* WinForms has no... | I am not a Delphi programmer, but yes I have worked on both WinForm (heavily) and WPF (less than moderate). I agree with you to some extent on the frustration level for someone who would be making a switch from WinForm to WPF as I have myself being in that situation, but only until I got used to it. Learn and see how w... |
53,468 | I have read most of the major threads on WPF vs. WinForms and I find myself stuck in the unfortunate ambivalence you can fall into when deciding between the tried and true previous tech (Winforms), and it's successor (WPF).
I am a veteran Delphi programmer of many years that is finally making the jump to C#. My fellow... | 2011/03/01 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53468",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | I am usually very surprised with people saying that they didn't had a good experience with WPF. I am a developer who switched from C++/MFC to C#/WinForms to C#/WPF. The transition from WinForms to WPF wasn't a easy one because learning XAML is not very easy but once you get hold of it, it is an awesome technology. I, f... | One additional consideration that should be mentioned is that there's [no plan for WPF support in mono](http://www.mono-project.com/WPF). I realize you did not state any interest in (mono) cross-platform support, but there may be an opportunity for this in your future (if you go with Winforms). Presumably, support for ... |
53,468 | I have read most of the major threads on WPF vs. WinForms and I find myself stuck in the unfortunate ambivalence you can fall into when deciding between the tried and true previous tech (Winforms), and it's successor (WPF).
I am a veteran Delphi programmer of many years that is finally making the jump to C#. My fellow... | 2011/03/01 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53468",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | I am not a Delphi programmer, but yes I have worked on both WinForm (heavily) and WPF (less than moderate). I agree with you to some extent on the frustration level for someone who would be making a switch from WinForm to WPF as I have myself being in that situation, but only until I got used to it. Learn and see how w... | If you are going to write new applications from scratch, using WinForms would be a mistake. It is basically dead from an investment perspective. Microsoft will keep it around for a long while, but you won't get any new features, or new support, etc. WPF is the clear direction for desktop applications for the future on ... |
53,468 | I have read most of the major threads on WPF vs. WinForms and I find myself stuck in the unfortunate ambivalence you can fall into when deciding between the tried and true previous tech (Winforms), and it's successor (WPF).
I am a veteran Delphi programmer of many years that is finally making the jump to C#. My fellow... | 2011/03/01 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53468",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | I am not a Delphi programmer, but yes I have worked on both WinForm (heavily) and WPF (less than moderate). I agree with you to some extent on the frustration level for someone who would be making a switch from WinForm to WPF as I have myself being in that situation, but only until I got used to it. Learn and see how w... | I was excited when I heard about WPF, the idea sounded great, and everything I've seen it in has been beautiful. However, when I came to use it in Visual Studio 2008 (admittedly, a beta) I found it frustrating and quirky to work with in the designer/IDE.
I posted a little info on my blog at the time:
<http://blog.d... |
53,468 | I have read most of the major threads on WPF vs. WinForms and I find myself stuck in the unfortunate ambivalence you can fall into when deciding between the tried and true previous tech (Winforms), and it's successor (WPF).
I am a veteran Delphi programmer of many years that is finally making the jump to C#. My fellow... | 2011/03/01 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53468",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | I am usually very surprised with people saying that they didn't had a good experience with WPF. I am a developer who switched from C++/MFC to C#/WinForms to C#/WPF. The transition from WinForms to WPF wasn't a easy one because learning XAML is not very easy but once you get hold of it, it is an awesome technology. I, f... | I am not a Delphi programmer, but yes I have worked on both WinForm (heavily) and WPF (less than moderate). I agree with you to some extent on the frustration level for someone who would be making a switch from WinForm to WPF as I have myself being in that situation, but only until I got used to it. Learn and see how w... |
53,468 | I have read most of the major threads on WPF vs. WinForms and I find myself stuck in the unfortunate ambivalence you can fall into when deciding between the tried and true previous tech (Winforms), and it's successor (WPF).
I am a veteran Delphi programmer of many years that is finally making the jump to C#. My fellow... | 2011/03/01 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53468",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | Clearly WPF is the way to go thinking in the future. Mastering it is hard, but the platform is very well architected and flexible.
A few lines of advice:
* Start easy: Don't try to implement your first project using only MVVM or fancy animations. Start simple with windows, button and lists.
* Take advantage of DataBi... | I was excited when I heard about WPF, the idea sounded great, and everything I've seen it in has been beautiful. However, when I came to use it in Visual Studio 2008 (admittedly, a beta) I found it frustrating and quirky to work with in the designer/IDE.
I posted a little info on my blog at the time:
<http://blog.d... |
53,468 | I have read most of the major threads on WPF vs. WinForms and I find myself stuck in the unfortunate ambivalence you can fall into when deciding between the tried and true previous tech (Winforms), and it's successor (WPF).
I am a veteran Delphi programmer of many years that is finally making the jump to C#. My fellow... | 2011/03/01 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53468",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | One additional consideration that should be mentioned is that there's [no plan for WPF support in mono](http://www.mono-project.com/WPF). I realize you did not state any interest in (mono) cross-platform support, but there may be an opportunity for this in your future (if you go with Winforms). Presumably, support for ... | I was excited when I heard about WPF, the idea sounded great, and everything I've seen it in has been beautiful. However, when I came to use it in Visual Studio 2008 (admittedly, a beta) I found it frustrating and quirky to work with in the designer/IDE.
I posted a little info on my blog at the time:
<http://blog.d... |
53,468 | I have read most of the major threads on WPF vs. WinForms and I find myself stuck in the unfortunate ambivalence you can fall into when deciding between the tried and true previous tech (Winforms), and it's successor (WPF).
I am a veteran Delphi programmer of many years that is finally making the jump to C#. My fellow... | 2011/03/01 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53468",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/18916/"
] | If you have a Delphi background, you will be disappointed in WinForms. You will try to do things that were easy in the VCL, only to find that they're painfully difficult, or even impossible. WPF will be much less confining.
For example, here are just a few of the WinForms limitations we've run into:
* WinForms has no... | If you are going to write new applications from scratch, using WinForms would be a mistake. It is basically dead from an investment perspective. Microsoft will keep it around for a long while, but you won't get any new features, or new support, etc. WPF is the clear direction for desktop applications for the future on ... |
96,829 | When refereeing OSR sandbox game (using whatever rules; key parts are player-driven sandbox play with neutral referee, and rules as negotiable representation of fiction) I use random encounters: typically, wandering monsters (or other random events) happen with 1/6 chance per location-dependent time interval; maybe onc... | 2017/03/21 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/96829",
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] | It's always easy to remember the flashiest effects of any roll. Everyone remembers rolling a 20 is a crit, right?
Get into the habit of putting signs and tracks everywhere
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Since you mention your worlds can be a little empty, start every single random encounter... | 1. Take a spare 6-sided die. If you don't have one, buy a cheap one at
a dollar store.
2. Print out two monster footprint icons like [these](https://img.clipartfest.com/360c143779cc32784b509a67462cb960_animal-footprints-clip-art-animal-footprints-clipart_1450-654.gif) and one monster icon like [this](https://cdn2.iconf... |
96,829 | When refereeing OSR sandbox game (using whatever rules; key parts are player-driven sandbox play with neutral referee, and rules as negotiable representation of fiction) I use random encounters: typically, wandering monsters (or other random events) happen with 1/6 chance per location-dependent time interval; maybe onc... | 2017/03/21 | [
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] | 1. Take a spare 6-sided die. If you don't have one, buy a cheap one at
a dollar store.
2. Print out two monster footprint icons like [these](https://img.clipartfest.com/360c143779cc32784b509a67462cb960_animal-footprints-clip-art-animal-footprints-clipart_1450-654.gif) and one monster icon like [this](https://cdn2.iconf... | Ask your players to remind you. Roll for wandering monsters and have them approach, etc., but motivated players can prompt you for signs of approach. They may not always be lucky enough to get a warning, but this reinforces the opportunity to do so. |
96,829 | When refereeing OSR sandbox game (using whatever rules; key parts are player-driven sandbox play with neutral referee, and rules as negotiable representation of fiction) I use random encounters: typically, wandering monsters (or other random events) happen with 1/6 chance per location-dependent time interval; maybe onc... | 2017/03/21 | [
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] | It's always easy to remember the flashiest effects of any roll. Everyone remembers rolling a 20 is a crit, right?
Get into the habit of putting signs and tracks everywhere
=========================================================
Since you mention your worlds can be a little empty, start every single random encounter... | Your problem seems to be that you forgot the rules. This happens to many GMs. The most common technique is to have a summary of the rules you tend to forget behind your GM screen (where you can easily find them) (most of my GMs do that).
As a GM I prefer having these on a sheet of paper (without the screen) but it wor... |
96,829 | When refereeing OSR sandbox game (using whatever rules; key parts are player-driven sandbox play with neutral referee, and rules as negotiable representation of fiction) I use random encounters: typically, wandering monsters (or other random events) happen with 1/6 chance per location-dependent time interval; maybe onc... | 2017/03/21 | [
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] | It's always easy to remember the flashiest effects of any roll. Everyone remembers rolling a 20 is a crit, right?
Get into the habit of putting signs and tracks everywhere
=========================================================
Since you mention your worlds can be a little empty, start every single random encounter... | Ask your players to remind you. Roll for wandering monsters and have them approach, etc., but motivated players can prompt you for signs of approach. They may not always be lucky enough to get a warning, but this reinforces the opportunity to do so. |
3,482 | Several times in the New Testament, we are told not to make oaths but to make simple statements of affirmation or denial. For example...
>
> [**Matthew 5:33-37 (NIV)**](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:33-37&version=NIV)
>
>
> 33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long... | 2011/09/27 | [
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] | Oaths generally refer to something you will/won't do. We are unable to control what will happen in the future, and therefore don't know if we will be able to keep that oath ("you cannot make even one hair white or black"). Paul, in this situation, was writing about what already happened. He already experienced it so he... | There is no getting around it. Paul was swearing an oath: just as we might do in a court of law, although the wording is less formal than that used in a court. How to judge Paul for that is another matter. The injunction in James 5:12 is the easier one to dismiss, because this is a command attributed to James, not to J... |
3,482 | Several times in the New Testament, we are told not to make oaths but to make simple statements of affirmation or denial. For example...
>
> [**Matthew 5:33-37 (NIV)**](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:33-37&version=NIV)
>
>
> 33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long... | 2011/09/27 | [
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] | Oaths generally refer to something you will/won't do. We are unable to control what will happen in the future, and therefore don't know if we will be able to keep that oath ("you cannot make even one hair white or black"). Paul, in this situation, was writing about what already happened. He already experienced it so he... | A bit late to the party, but I just ran across this question and also an answer to it in Luther's sermons that I thought might be a helpful contribution. The flowing is an excerpt from Luther's commentary on Matthew 5:33-37:
>
> This text has been spun out with many glosses, and many a queer notion and error has been... |
3,482 | Several times in the New Testament, we are told not to make oaths but to make simple statements of affirmation or denial. For example...
>
> [**Matthew 5:33-37 (NIV)**](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:33-37&version=NIV)
>
>
> 33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long... | 2011/09/27 | [
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] | Oaths generally refer to something you will/won't do. We are unable to control what will happen in the future, and therefore don't know if we will be able to keep that oath ("you cannot make even one hair white or black"). Paul, in this situation, was writing about what already happened. He already experienced it so he... | Consider the phrase "before God" in question in the Greek:
ενωπιον του θεου
This phrase appears in the Greek Translation of the Old Testament in several places.
* Ecclesiastes 5:1-3
* Judges 21:2
>
> 1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to
> listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools... |
127,243 | Here’s a sentence which is open to two interpretations and therefore can’t be grammatical:
>
> “This is a little used car”.
>
>
>
To avoid the ambiguity of the meaning, would it be enough just to insert a comma between the above two (maybe reversing the position of “used” and “little”) so that it would mean ***a ... | 2017/04/20 | [
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] | >
> This is a little used car.
>
>
>
This is how I would usually write my sentence for a small car that is used.
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> This is a little, used car.
>
>
>
Same as above, with emphasis on its size.
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> This is a used, little car.
>
>
>
While only native speakers would "feel" this, this **definitely** feels ... | No matter how you punctuate it, saying "little used car" will be ambiguous.
There are common synonyms of "little" and "used" that can be combined without causing this confusion.
You can use an adverb that cannot also be used as an adjective. For example:
>
> * This is a barely used car.
> * This is a lightly used ... |
258,089 | **"My friend and I wish to play "Minecraft" together, I have Xbox Gold, he does not. How can we play together?(Without him getting Gold)."**
*I really do not like playing traditional split screen because it is hard to see.*
We have two Xbox ones, both own minecraft, I have a gold account. Will LAN work? Or is there a... | 2016/03/08 | [
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] | Unfortunately, this is not possible.
Whilst it is possible to play Minecraft on Xbox 360 or the Xbox one without Gold Membership, You **DO** need to be an Xbox Live Gold member to play multiplayer i.e Hosting your own world or joining another players world. | Well If you have an HDMI cord plugged into your Xbox,You guys can play together on the same console but other wise there is no way.
Sorry :( |
20,828 | How tight should handlebar components be?
[Here](http://techdocs.shimano.com/media/techdocs/content/cycle/SI/Deore-XT/SI_8JZ0A/SI-8JZ0A-004-Eng_v1_m56577569830780951.pdf) it's said 6-8Nm. However, I don't own a torque wrench at that range.
Should the brake levers and commands be tight, or should they be able to twis... | 2014/03/21 | [
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] | It depends.
On a road bike you'll want them fairly tight to be able to ride on the hoods without the brake levers turning away or moving downward on the bar.
On a mountain bike, at least the brake levers should be able to rotate away in case of a crash. But they still should be relatively tight such that they don't t... | Brake levers should not rotate around the bars anytime ever.
Any motion of the brake lever could compromise effective braking at the moment you need it.
I can't think of a situation where a moving brake lever makes any sense - if you're crashing hard enough to damage them, you're crashing hard enough to damage yourse... |
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