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38,654 | Having just watched *Oz The Great and Powerful*, and having read all of Baum's works and many of the related Oz works by other authors, I was struck by the number of subtle and not-so-subtle minor nods to his original work, and to other related works.
As outlined the answer to the question [Are there any references ab... | 2013/07/28 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38654",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/13442/"
] | The king of Oz (Pastoria in the books) was the father of Glinda, true heir to the throne of Oz. When Oz the man arrived he hid the girl as she was a threat to his rule, as the people of Oz worshipped him as a "wizard". In the film this is reversed, with the Wicked Witches claiming to be the King's daughters and trickin... | The movie *Oz The Great and Powerful* is, like most novels, stories, TV episodes, and movies, almost totally consistent with itself, with very few contradictions. If two parts of a work of fiction seem to contradict themselves, fans can try to find ways to reconcile them and show that they are not really inconsistent.
... |
35,981 | I'm trying to create an illustrated map for a friend's wedding. Most map tutorials I can find are for technical maps and I would like to find a resource with tips and tricks for designing more illustrative, design maps. Examples below:
 ![enter image d... | 2014/07/16 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/35981",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/23573/"
] | These are all hand drawn/painted. You won't really find many tutorials on how to draw something as specific as a map. Just look for general drawing tutorials.
It's honestly just a matter of picking up a pencil and start drawing it.
There are no magic buttons or tutorials to draw something for you. | This tutorial from Smashing Magazine seems relevant:
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/07/illustrated-maps-in-era-of-google-earth/> |
35,981 | I'm trying to create an illustrated map for a friend's wedding. Most map tutorials I can find are for technical maps and I would like to find a resource with tips and tricks for designing more illustrative, design maps. Examples below:
 ![enter image d... | 2014/07/16 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/35981",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/23573/"
] | While seconding Scott's "There's no magic button," what I did when I had to create city and country maps was to find an actual paper map, scan it, and trace it in Illustrator. That gave me a good realistic grid. From there I could simplify the map, pretty it up, tweak streets, add icons, etc.
If you want the hand-dra... | This tutorial from Smashing Magazine seems relevant:
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/07/illustrated-maps-in-era-of-google-earth/> |
14,613 | I was lately been looking into some investment strategies, and I thought that short-term, all-single state municipal bond funds (which are free from both state and federal taxes), might be a good way to park money for non-investors that want to beat the ridiculously low bank rates, want stability and don't care to read... | 2012/04/21 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/14613",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/5456/"
] | Banks' savings interest is ridiculous, has always been, compared to other investment options. But there's a reason for that: its safe. You **will** get your money back, and the interest on it, as long as you're within the FDIC insurance limits.
If you want to get more returns - you've got to take more risks. For examp... | If your main goal is to avoid taxes, municipal bonds are a good strategy, it's not the best way to make more than 1-2% in gains.
And kudos for putting money back into the community. |
1,921,542 | I am a first-time user of CounterClockWise, the Eclipse plugin for Clojure, and it appears that code completion just won't work. I keep wondering whether the problem lies between my keyboard and my chair, but can't find a solution. I just installed CCW on Galileo build 20090920-1017 and MacOSX. Then I try to write some... | 2009/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1921542",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/233770/"
] | I'm using CCW 0.0.62.STABLE01 and code completion works. Press control space to bring up a list of possible items and as you type, the list is filtered. Press return at any point to accept the first item in the list or use the up/down arrows to select another item. Press esc to dismiss the list. | I dont see code completion in the ccw [list of completed features](http://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/) though I dont know how well this feature list is kept up to date
edit: its now marked completed. |
1,921,542 | I am a first-time user of CounterClockWise, the Eclipse plugin for Clojure, and it appears that code completion just won't work. I keep wondering whether the problem lies between my keyboard and my chair, but can't find a solution. I just installed CCW on Galileo build 20090920-1017 and MacOSX. Then I try to write some... | 2009/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1921542",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/233770/"
] | I found the answer here (<http://www.chaomancy.com/blog/clojure-in-eclipse-part-2-counterclockwise-maven.html>):
"But most of Counterclockwise's features come to life once you start a REPL. For Counterclockwise is really built around the REPL; without one running, things such as code completion will not work." | I dont see code completion in the ccw [list of completed features](http://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/) though I dont know how well this feature list is kept up to date
edit: its now marked completed. |
1,921,542 | I am a first-time user of CounterClockWise, the Eclipse plugin for Clojure, and it appears that code completion just won't work. I keep wondering whether the problem lies between my keyboard and my chair, but can't find a solution. I just installed CCW on Galileo build 20090920-1017 and MacOSX. Then I try to write some... | 2009/12/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1921542",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/233770/"
] | I'm using CCW 0.0.62.STABLE01 and code completion works. Press control space to bring up a list of possible items and as you type, the list is filtered. Press return at any point to accept the first item in the list or use the up/down arrows to select another item. Press esc to dismiss the list. | I found the answer here (<http://www.chaomancy.com/blog/clojure-in-eclipse-part-2-counterclockwise-maven.html>):
"But most of Counterclockwise's features come to life once you start a REPL. For Counterclockwise is really built around the REPL; without one running, things such as code completion will not work." |
32,479 | Either intentionally or unintentionally.
Include location and sculptor, if known. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32479",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/454/"
] | [MoMath](http://momath.org/), in partnership with [Make](http://makezine.com/), has a [regular feature](http://momath.org/mathmonday/) on DIY math sculptures. I personally like the [space filling curve made of steel pipe ells](http://momath.org/home/math-monday-11-15-10/) by Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Eugene Sargent.
!... | [Alessandro Giorgi](http://www.giorgialessandro.it) has made a bunch of statues concerned with the mathematics of juggling, e.g. [1](http://www.giorgialessandro.it/opere-2009-2/) and [2](http://www.giorgialessandro.it/gallery-2011-2-2/). |
32,479 | Either intentionally or unintentionally.
Include location and sculptor, if known. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32479",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/454/"
] | [**Batsheba Grossman**](http://www.bathsheba.com/)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RjPJF.jpg)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c7bHb.jpg)
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.i... | *Kryptos*, Jim Sanborn, Langley Virginia USA
<https://www.wired.com/2013/07/nsa-cracked-kryptos-before-cia/> |
32,479 | Either intentionally or unintentionally.
Include location and sculptor, if known. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32479",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/454/"
] | [Robert Longhurst](http://robertlonghurst.com/index.html) made some surfaces as wood carvings.
 | The [Found Math](http://www.maa.org/community/columns/maa-found-math) galleries at the MAA website include many mathematical sculptures. |
32,479 | Either intentionally or unintentionally.
Include location and sculptor, if known. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32479",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/454/"
] | A month ago our team completed, over four days, a very large geometric sculpture out of 20 tons of snow. Eva Hild of Sweden designed it and came over to work with us. The complete story is at
<http://stanwagon.com/snow/breck2011/index.html>
The videos linked at the top of the page allow you to walk around the work.
... | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5TAqU.jpg)
Frank Stella's Alu Truss Star ([gallery website](https://marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/31-frank-stella/works/19483-frank-stella-alu-truss-star-2016/)) is currently in the [sculpture garden of the New Orleans... |
32,479 | Either intentionally or unintentionally.
Include location and sculptor, if known. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32479",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/454/"
] | The centrepiece of McAllister building, which houses the math department at Penn State, is the [Octacube](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octacube_(mathematics)), designed by Adrian Ocneanu.
There's a bit of a description of the mathematics behind the Octa... | I think there are some sculptures by Helaman Ferguson on the campuses of Macalester College and the University of St. Thomas, both in St. Paul, Minnesota. |
32,479 | Either intentionally or unintentionally.
Include location and sculptor, if known. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32479",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/454/"
] | Here are some sculptures by Henry Segerman: <https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/102006004474081559466/albums/5946201022131183089> | Perhaps these are too small to count as sculptures, but there is quite a respectable collection of models of mathematical objects on display in the Mathematical Institute in Goettingen. |
32,479 | Either intentionally or unintentionally.
Include location and sculptor, if known. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32479",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/454/"
] | I like the [4 dimensional mathematical sculptures](http://www.bathsheba.com/math/) by Bathsheba Grossman, such as the 24-cell:
<http://www.bathsheba.com/math/24cell/24cell_new_th.jpg>
Are the cryptographic sculptures by Jim Sanborn -- [Cyrillic Projector](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_Projector), etc. -- clos... | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BRE56.jpg)
Sculpture by Nina Douglas, at the Simons Center for Geometry & Physics
(There is also a copy at IHES) |
32,479 | Either intentionally or unintentionally.
Include location and sculptor, if known. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32479",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/454/"
] | The Mathematical Research Institute in Oberwolfach have a sculpture on their grounds depicting Boy's surface:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QtcYr.jpg)
(source: [mfo.de](http://www.mfo.de/general/boy/boy_small.jpg))
![another image added](https://i.stack.i... | Here are some sculptures by Henry Segerman: <https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/102006004474081559466/albums/5946201022131183089> |
32,479 | Either intentionally or unintentionally.
Include location and sculptor, if known. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32479",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/454/"
] | A month ago our team completed, over four days, a very large geometric sculpture out of 20 tons of snow. Eva Hild of Sweden designed it and came over to work with us. The complete story is at
<http://stanwagon.com/snow/breck2011/index.html>
The videos linked at the top of the page allow you to walk around the work.
... | Cliff Stoll makes Klein bottles and sells them too. He's made the "worlds biggest klein bottle". You can see that [here](http://www.kleinbottle.com/meter_tall_klein_bottle.html). |
32,479 | Either intentionally or unintentionally.
Include location and sculptor, if known. | 2010/07/19 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/32479",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/454/"
] | The Mathematical Research Institute in Oberwolfach have a sculpture on their grounds depicting Boy's surface:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QtcYr.jpg)
(source: [mfo.de](http://www.mfo.de/general/boy/boy_small.jpg))
):
 |
3,325,906 | Let's say I had a root app and multiple sub-apps. Would it be possible to share authenticated sessions across them?
I'm using Google App Engine (Python). | 2010/07/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3325906",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/284016/"
] | If you use [tipfy](http://www.tipfy.org/), the wonderful lightweight almost-not-a-framework that @moraes developed specifically for App Engine use, you get many excellent choices for authentication approaches (see [here](http://www.tipfy.org/docs/api/tipfy.ext.auth.html)) several of which will let you achieve what you'... | Not using the built in authentication support - users have to authenticate separately with each application. |
47,929,835 | So I accidentally deleted my Angular 4 project but I still have dist folder with all bundles and code packed. So is there any way I can restore all the project layout so I can continue coding in my editor or is it gone forever?
Thanks. | 2017/12/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/47929835",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9034528/"
] | No.
If you do not have project files, you cannot reverse-engineer Angular application to get source back. You can take a peek at compiled code to get some business logic if it's not too tied with Angular's view engine (which it shouldn't be if you've been developing with best practices) and try restoring that, though.... | Deploy the app code in the Dist folder, and then use Google Chrome Developer tools (F12). Under debugger tab, look under webpack -> src It will show all typescript files. you can copy and past the code provided. |
15,351 | The performance artist Marina Abramović has said the following [in a forum](http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/av/transcripts/LIVEDamasioAbramovic_11-2.12TranscriptQUERY.pdf) at the New York Public Library:
>
> In Africa you have Dogon tribes who worship Trans-Pluto, which is you know a small satellite around Pl... | 2013/03/13 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/15351",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/11209/"
] | This appears to be a metastasization of a hoary old myth originating with the anthropologist [Marcel Griaule](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Griaule). The original claim was that the Dogon cosmology included information about the Sirius star system not obtainable without advanced technology. In fact, it is not cle... | Evan Harper gave a great answer, but I'll supply an alternative one from the astronomy angle.
Trans-pluto isn't an astronomical term. The closest is "Trans-Neptunian object", which is any object orbiting outside Neptune (Pluto is one, by the way). By extension you could say that a "Trans-plutonian object" orbited out... |
2,362 | What it the optimal number of wave lengths of RG-8X coax to connect my Icom IC V80 HT to a 50 ohm [Jetstream JTBM270 Yagi](http://www.jetstream-usa.biz/product_info.php?products_id=71568) (3 elements 2m/5 elements 70cm)? Odd or even number thereof?
Will running the coax through a steel mast inside an abandoned cast ir... | 2014/11/28 | [
"https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/2362",
"https://ham.stackexchange.com",
"https://ham.stackexchange.com/users/1894/"
] | If the antenna is operating correctly, the length of the feedline and the material around the feedline (vent pipe, etc) are irrelevant. This is because coax is designed to contain the electric field in the dielectric between the center conductor and the shield. With no electric field outside of it, what happens outside... | The photo on the manufacturer's web site suggest that the beam uses a gamma-match arrangement. The cable shield grounds to the boom, whilst the central conductor is routed on a bar parallel to the driven element and connects to the latter at some distance out from the centre via a series capacitance. Matching is carrie... |
7,642 | I've created a custom post type called 'directory' and assigned it the capability type of 'listing'. It has a unique capability type because I want to restrict Contributors to only be able to create/edit/publish this post type, which I am restricting via capabilities. There are the capabilities that were created by the... | 2011/01/24 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/7642",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/2041/"
] | My educated guess is the issue comes from attachment being separate post type. It might seem like utility by purpose, but by nature it is specialized post type.
Unfortunately your specific setup is not trivial to reproduce to confirm. | Here is a bit [more info on Capabilities](http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/07/10/meta-capabilities-for-custom-post-types), it might clarify things for you.
And also [the Ultimate Guide to Roles and Capabilities](http://www.garyc40.com/2010/04/ultimate-guide-to-roles-and-capabilities/) |
925,891 | I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/925891",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84684/"
] | There is a whole world of tools out there that do things like this. It's called ORM. Josh mentioned Subsonic, which is a great free tool. There is also the Entity Framework which is part of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. If you would like an even better tool, the one I suggest you use is LLBLGen.
Hope this helps! | How about good old Linq? Start [here](http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/05/19/using-linq-to-sql-part-1.aspx). |
925,891 | I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/925891",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84684/"
] | Instead of Data Table and Data sets you can use your own objects to represent data in your applications and to do so you can use some persistence frameworks and OR mappers (object relational mappers).For example you can use "Linq to Sql","Microsoft Entity framework" or NHibernate.
There are some code generation tools ... | Maybe [T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit)](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/T4TextTemplateTransformationToolkitCodeGenerationBestKeptVisualStudioSecret.aspx) ist your friend... |
925,891 | I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/925891",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84684/"
] | Instead of Data Table and Data sets you can use your own objects to represent data in your applications and to do so you can use some persistence frameworks and OR mappers (object relational mappers).For example you can use "Linq to Sql","Microsoft Entity framework" or NHibernate.
There are some code generation tools ... | How about good old Linq? Start [here](http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/05/19/using-linq-to-sql-part-1.aspx). |
925,891 | I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/925891",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84684/"
] | I'm the creator of [SqlSharpener](https://github.com/aeslinger0/sqlsharpener) which is a light-weight tool that will parse your \*.sql files (like in an SSDT project) and create DTO objects and stored procedure wrappers at design-time using T4 templates. | We are moving in the direction of Entity Framework, but we are taking our time because we dont find EF ready for prime time and Linq2Sql is more or less a poor mans/hobbyists ORM tool. At present we use a combination of a custom homegrown framework (The Kinetic Framework) and Fluent NHibernate. |
925,891 | I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/925891",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84684/"
] | Instead of Data Table and Data sets you can use your own objects to represent data in your applications and to do so you can use some persistence frameworks and OR mappers (object relational mappers).For example you can use "Linq to Sql","Microsoft Entity framework" or NHibernate.
There are some code generation tools ... | I'm the creator of [SqlSharpener](https://github.com/aeslinger0/sqlsharpener) which is a light-weight tool that will parse your \*.sql files (like in an SSDT project) and create DTO objects and stored procedure wrappers at design-time using T4 templates. |
925,891 | I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/925891",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84684/"
] | Maybe [T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit)](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/T4TextTemplateTransformationToolkitCodeGenerationBestKeptVisualStudioSecret.aspx) ist your friend... | We are moving in the direction of Entity Framework, but we are taking our time because we dont find EF ready for prime time and Linq2Sql is more or less a poor mans/hobbyists ORM tool. At present we use a combination of a custom homegrown framework (The Kinetic Framework) and Fluent NHibernate. |
925,891 | I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/925891",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84684/"
] | Instead of Data Table and Data sets you can use your own objects to represent data in your applications and to do so you can use some persistence frameworks and OR mappers (object relational mappers).For example you can use "Linq to Sql","Microsoft Entity framework" or NHibernate.
There are some code generation tools ... | An option if you want to write your own code generator would be to use SMO objects if you are using MS Sql Server 2005/2008 and pull the information out of the Table/Stored Procedure objects. |
925,891 | I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/925891",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84684/"
] | Instead of Data Table and Data sets you can use your own objects to represent data in your applications and to do so you can use some persistence frameworks and OR mappers (object relational mappers).For example you can use "Linq to Sql","Microsoft Entity framework" or NHibernate.
There are some code generation tools ... | There is a whole world of tools out there that do things like this. It's called ORM. Josh mentioned Subsonic, which is a great free tool. There is also the Entity Framework which is part of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. If you would like an even better tool, the one I suggest you use is LLBLGen.
Hope this helps! |
925,891 | I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/925891",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84684/"
] | Instead of Data Table and Data sets you can use your own objects to represent data in your applications and to do so you can use some persistence frameworks and OR mappers (object relational mappers).For example you can use "Linq to Sql","Microsoft Entity framework" or NHibernate.
There are some code generation tools ... | We are moving in the direction of Entity Framework, but we are taking our time because we dont find EF ready for prime time and Linq2Sql is more or less a poor mans/hobbyists ORM tool. At present we use a combination of a custom homegrown framework (The Kinetic Framework) and Fluent NHibernate. |
925,891 | I have a sql database and I want to create a class for each table. I think a tool exists that allows me to extract information from a sql database and transform it into classes like "DataTable" or "DataRow". Afterwards, I could use those object in dataset. | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/925891",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84684/"
] | There is a whole world of tools out there that do things like this. It's called ORM. Josh mentioned Subsonic, which is a great free tool. There is also the Entity Framework which is part of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. If you would like an even better tool, the one I suggest you use is LLBLGen.
Hope this helps! | We are moving in the direction of Entity Framework, but we are taking our time because we dont find EF ready for prime time and Linq2Sql is more or less a poor mans/hobbyists ORM tool. At present we use a combination of a custom homegrown framework (The Kinetic Framework) and Fluent NHibernate. |
70,908 | Next month I will fly to New York with United Airlines operated by Air Canada,
I have one stop in Toronto, do I need to pick up my luggage and check in again?
This is one ticket.
And do I need ETA for traveling to Canada?
I already got the ESTA. | 2016/06/07 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/70908",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/45730/"
] | You're [not required](https://www.aircanada.com/en/travelinfo/airport/images/yyz.pdf) to pass Canadian customs, so **no need to pick up and recheck your bag**, they'll be [checked through](http://www.aircanada.com/en/news/130218.html) to New York.
However you do need to pass the immigration requirements to transit th... | Most likely not but Canada is rather complicated and every airport is a bit different. Check out <https://www.aircanada.com/en/travelinfo/airport/images/yyz.pdf> for Toronto. See section on "international to US". Apparently your baggage is checked through but you still must meed Canadian Visa requirements. |
70,908 | Next month I will fly to New York with United Airlines operated by Air Canada,
I have one stop in Toronto, do I need to pick up my luggage and check in again?
This is one ticket.
And do I need ETA for traveling to Canada?
I already got the ESTA. | 2016/06/07 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/70908",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/45730/"
] | According to the [Government of Canada](http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=1092&top=16) website:
>
> *I will transit by air through Canada. Do I need an eTA?*
>
>
> **Passengers transiting Canada will need an eTA or a visa, regardless of the length of time in Canada.**
>
>
> Travellers whose ... | Most likely not but Canada is rather complicated and every airport is a bit different. Check out <https://www.aircanada.com/en/travelinfo/airport/images/yyz.pdf> for Toronto. See section on "international to US". Apparently your baggage is checked through but you still must meed Canadian Visa requirements. |
70,908 | Next month I will fly to New York with United Airlines operated by Air Canada,
I have one stop in Toronto, do I need to pick up my luggage and check in again?
This is one ticket.
And do I need ETA for traveling to Canada?
I already got the ESTA. | 2016/06/07 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/70908",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/45730/"
] | You're [not required](https://www.aircanada.com/en/travelinfo/airport/images/yyz.pdf) to pass Canadian customs, so **no need to pick up and recheck your bag**, they'll be [checked through](http://www.aircanada.com/en/news/130218.html) to New York.
However you do need to pass the immigration requirements to transit th... | According to the [Government of Canada](http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=1092&top=16) website:
>
> *I will transit by air through Canada. Do I need an eTA?*
>
>
> **Passengers transiting Canada will need an eTA or a visa, regardless of the length of time in Canada.**
>
>
> Travellers whose ... |
1,157,895 | I have 2 routers, the main router`s gateway (from my ISP) is 192.168.1.1, the second router (a netgear R7000 with VPN configured) has 192.168.2.1 as gateway.
My centos 7 machine is connected via ethernet through a switch to the main router but he is quite far from the VPN router (the second router), is there a way how... | 2016/12/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1157895",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/455200/"
] | This will work if the 192.168.1.1 router knows how to get the the networks on the other side of the 192.168.2.1 router, and vice versa.
Routers learn about routes in three ways:
1. Directly connected networks
2. Statically configured routes
3. Through routing protocols
Every router knows about the networks that are ... | Yours is easy ... in DHCP, dole out addresses with subnet mask of 255.255.252.0 ... [see rfc1219 for more info.](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1219) |
156,136 | For those not familiar with Core Image, here's a good description of it:
<http://developer.apple.com/macosx/coreimage.html>
Is there something equivalent to Apple's CoreImage/CoreVideo for Windows? I looked around and found the DirectX/Direct3D stuff, which has all the underlying pieces, but there doesn't appear to be... | 2008/10/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/156136",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9864/"
] | There are a variety of tools for working with shaders (such as RenderMonkey and FX-Composer), but no direct equivalent to CoreImage.
But stacking up fragment shaders on top of each other is not very hard, so if you don't mind learning OpenGL it would be quite doable to build a framework that applies shaders to an inpu... | Adobe's new [Pixel Blender](http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Pixel_Bender_Toolkit) is the closest technology out there. It is cross-platform -- it's part of the Flash 10 runtime, as well as the key pixel-oriented CS4 apps, namely After Effects and (soon) Photoshop. It's unclear, however, how much is currently expos... |
156,136 | For those not familiar with Core Image, here's a good description of it:
<http://developer.apple.com/macosx/coreimage.html>
Is there something equivalent to Apple's CoreImage/CoreVideo for Windows? I looked around and found the DirectX/Direct3D stuff, which has all the underlying pieces, but there doesn't appear to be... | 2008/10/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/156136",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9864/"
] | There are a variety of tools for working with shaders (such as RenderMonkey and FX-Composer), but no direct equivalent to CoreImage.
But stacking up fragment shaders on top of each other is not very hard, so if you don't mind learning OpenGL it would be quite doable to build a framework that applies shaders to an inpu... | I've now got a solution to this. I've implemented an ImageContext class, a special Image class, and a Filter class that allows similar functionality to Apple's CoreImage. All three use OpenGL (I gave up trying to get this to work on DirectX due to image quality issues, if someone knows DirectX well contact me, because ... |
64,114 | I wrote this sentence
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> The content of a node is extracted if it matches the conditions that are defined **(over/on/by/using)** the attributes of the node and the context.
>
>
>
Which preposition is used for define in this case? Conditions are defined by means of the attributes of the nodes and the context. for... | 2015/08/12 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/64114",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/11569/"
] | You can use either *by* or *using*, but they have different meaning.
With the preposition *by*, *attributes* is the **agent** that performs the action of *defining*:
>
> The content of a node is extracted if it matches the conditions that are defined **by** the attributes of the node and the context.
>
>
>
If yo... | You can use 'by' or 'using':
>
> The content of a node is extracted if it matches the conditions that are defined **by** the attributes of the node and the context.
>
>
> The content of a node is extracted if it matches the conditions that are defined **using** the attributes of the node and the context.
>
>
>
... |
257,689 | I see that termination resistors might be needed for some communication lines. What about UART, I2C and SPI, are they needed ? If yes, how do we choose their values? | 2016/09/13 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/257689",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/104309/"
] | Take 50 MHz clock SPI.
50 MHz has a fundamental wavelength of 6 metres but you could argue that due to the fast rising edges everything up to the 5 th harmonic is potentially capable of disrupting the shape too much if terminations are not applied. So that's a wavelength of 1.2 metres.
On the other hand, on PCBs, t... | UART signals transmitted with RS232 levels are done without termination resistors due to the slow rising and falling edges. But when RS485 is used for UART signals, termination ressistors are used frequently. |
27,118 | Rend says
>
> If it hits with two or more natural attacks in 1 round, a creature with the rend special attack can cause tremendous damage by latching onto the opponent's body and tearing flesh. This attack deals an additional amount of damage, but no more than once per round. The type of attacks that must hit and the... | 2013/07/12 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/27118",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/8621/"
] | From <http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/summoner/eidolons>:
>
> An eidolon learns to rip and tear the flesh of those it attacks with its claws, gaining the rend ability. Whenever the eidolon makes two successful claw attacks against the same target in 1 round, its claws latch onto the flesh and deal extra ... | Since it's for an Eidolon's ability, I would say that all bonuses that apply normally would apply to the additional damage dealt by Rend. So if your damage is normally (say) 2d4 and it's got a +2 strength bonus, then the extra rend damage would be 2d4+3. Even for Power Attack, Judgement, whatever, treat it *almost* as ... |
89,575 | Is there any philosophical theory that postulates that time can only arise out of a three or plus dimensional space? I think I heard someone say that time is the fourth dimension implying that time can only exist in a three dimensional or fourth dimensional space. Is there any theory that claims this and what does it s... | 2022/02/15 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/89575",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/52313/"
] | Nicolas Oresme, a 14th C French theologian held that time could be modelled as a line going from an observation of Aristotle and also of Campanus of Novarra, a 13th century commentor on Euclid. From the former, he understood that time and motion were continuums and continuously related and from the latter, he understoo... | 1.) I do not know about philosophical ideas which claim: Time needs at least 3 spatial dimensions in order to exist.
In the opposite direction, there exist speculations that time is 2-dimensional. For a first orientation in the internet see
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_time_dimensions>
2.) From Special and... |
89,575 | Is there any philosophical theory that postulates that time can only arise out of a three or plus dimensional space? I think I heard someone say that time is the fourth dimension implying that time can only exist in a three dimensional or fourth dimensional space. Is there any theory that claims this and what does it s... | 2022/02/15 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/89575",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/52313/"
] | According to Kant our mind organizes the data from the senses using a priori categories like time and (three dimensional) space. Time and space are not outside in the universe but in our own minds. This strange idea was the only way that Kant could find to overcome the criticisms of Hume to an empirical notion of space... | 1.) I do not know about philosophical ideas which claim: Time needs at least 3 spatial dimensions in order to exist.
In the opposite direction, there exist speculations that time is 2-dimensional. For a first orientation in the internet see
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_time_dimensions>
2.) From Special and... |
89,575 | Is there any philosophical theory that postulates that time can only arise out of a three or plus dimensional space? I think I heard someone say that time is the fourth dimension implying that time can only exist in a three dimensional or fourth dimensional space. Is there any theory that claims this and what does it s... | 2022/02/15 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/89575",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/52313/"
] | Nicolas Oresme, a 14th C French theologian held that time could be modelled as a line going from an observation of Aristotle and also of Campanus of Novarra, a 13th century commentor on Euclid. From the former, he understood that time and motion were continuums and continuously related and from the latter, he understoo... | According to Kant our mind organizes the data from the senses using a priori categories like time and (three dimensional) space. Time and space are not outside in the universe but in our own minds. This strange idea was the only way that Kant could find to overcome the criticisms of Hume to an empirical notion of space... |
26,231,384 | I wonder if it is possible, or if someone has tried to setup Apache Kafka as consumer of PostgreSQL logigal log stream? Does that even makes sense?
<https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logical_Log_Streaming_Replication>
I have a legacy source system that I need to make realtime dashboard from. For some reasons I can't h... | 2014/10/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/26231384",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4116164/"
] | A combination of xsteven's PostgreSQL WAL to protobuf project - decoderbufs (<https://github.com/xstevens/decoderbufs>) - and his pg\_kafka producer (<https://github.com/xstevens/pg_kafka>) might be a start. | Take a look at [Bottled Water](http://www.confluent.io/blog/bottled-water-real-time-integration-of-postgresql-and-kafka/) which:
>
> uses the logical decoding feature (introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4) to
> extract a consistent snapshot and a continuous stream of change events
> from a database. The data is extracted a... |
26,231,384 | I wonder if it is possible, or if someone has tried to setup Apache Kafka as consumer of PostgreSQL logigal log stream? Does that even makes sense?
<https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logical_Log_Streaming_Replication>
I have a legacy source system that I need to make realtime dashboard from. For some reasons I can't h... | 2014/10/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/26231384",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4116164/"
] | A combination of xsteven's PostgreSQL WAL to protobuf project - decoderbufs (<https://github.com/xstevens/decoderbufs>) - and his pg\_kafka producer (<https://github.com/xstevens/pg_kafka>) might be a start. | The Debezium project [provides a CDC connector](https://debezium.io/docs/connectors/postgresql) for streaming data changes from Postgres into Apache Kafka. Currently it supports Decoderbufs and wal2json as logical decoding plug-ins. Bottled Water referenced in Steve's answer is comparable, but it is not actively mainta... |
129,001 | Which one can I write?
>
> 1. As short tempered as I am
> 2. As short tempered as I get
>
>
> | 2017/05/10 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/129001",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/55080/"
] | As @TRomano commented:
* **to make it out of here** means **"to succeed in escaping from this place"**. Like in the example: **"We won't make it out of here alive."**
* **don't trust you to** means **"have little faith in your ability to"** | It means "I don't believe you'll make it out of here on your own, so I'm forced to go with you lest you die." |
60,176 | I enjoy that Google finds things I've written that I would never bother to link on my own web page, just because it's nice to have all my writing collected *somewhere* given I've made the effort. But given that academics often assess each other from Google Scholar, I'm worried that my "year" index is getting cluttered ... | 2015/12/16 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/60176",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/384/"
] | Personally, I think that it is *important* to let one's Google Scholar index all of one's work.
When I am assessing a colleague, I will often *exclusively* use their Google Scholar page, since every other search method I am currently aware of is either a) badly cluttered with not-their-work or b) tends to leave out si... | Caveat: This is necessarily quite subjective.
Personally, I wouldn't necessarily downgrade my opinion of someone who had produced some really good work simply because they had also produced some other work that was comparatively less exciting. However:
* I would be slightly concerned if their other work was actively ... |
60,176 | I enjoy that Google finds things I've written that I would never bother to link on my own web page, just because it's nice to have all my writing collected *somewhere* given I've made the effort. But given that academics often assess each other from Google Scholar, I'm worried that my "year" index is getting cluttered ... | 2015/12/16 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/60176",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/384/"
] | Personally, I think that it is *important* to let one's Google Scholar index all of one's work.
When I am assessing a colleague, I will often *exclusively* use their Google Scholar page, since every other search method I am currently aware of is either a) badly cluttered with not-their-work or b) tends to leave out si... | I use GS in a couple of different ways but neither is really about assessment.
I am in one of those interdisciplinary areas where people who are more discipline focussed may have a couple of papers that are relevant to my work, but most of their research is not. So if I am using a reference that is say 5 years old, I ... |
60,176 | I enjoy that Google finds things I've written that I would never bother to link on my own web page, just because it's nice to have all my writing collected *somewhere* given I've made the effort. But given that academics often assess each other from Google Scholar, I'm worried that my "year" index is getting cluttered ... | 2015/12/16 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/60176",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/384/"
] | Personally, I think that it is *important* to let one's Google Scholar index all of one's work.
When I am assessing a colleague, I will often *exclusively* use their Google Scholar page, since every other search method I am currently aware of is either a) badly cluttered with not-their-work or b) tends to leave out si... | My rule of thumb for Google Scholar is that any piece of writing that is available in full goes on the Google Scholar profile. That includes working papers, newspaper articles, book reviews, etc. However, it does **not** include conference abstracts: in my opinion, those are teasers of work to come and so aren't substa... |
622,052 | I really need to know if the latest version of Ubuntu is free ? | 2015/05/10 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/622052",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/408894/"
] | Yes, all versions of Ubuntu are free in that they do not cost money.
Ubuntu repositories do provide "non-free" software though, so it is not necessarily 100% free in that sense. | It's free. The Linux kernel is under GPL license, which means it can be copied and distributed free of charge and is open source. When you go to Ubuntu download page, it will ask you to donate some money, but you do not need to do so to get Ubuntu: just unmark all donation options and download it!
[Download Ubuntu and... |
622,052 | I really need to know if the latest version of Ubuntu is free ? | 2015/05/10 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/622052",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/408894/"
] | Yes, all versions of Ubuntu are free in that they do not cost money.
Ubuntu repositories do provide "non-free" software though, so it is not necessarily 100% free in that sense. | Yes, Ubuntu is open source, that does not only mean it's free but that you can view it's source code and modyfy it. |
622,052 | I really need to know if the latest version of Ubuntu is free ? | 2015/05/10 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/622052",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/408894/"
] | There are a few different things you might be asking. While you've asked about the latest version, the answers do not really depend on release, architecture, or flavor. If what you want to know is where to download the latest version of Ubuntu, scroll down to the bottom of this post. You don't have to pay anyone anythi... | Yes, all versions of Ubuntu are free in that they do not cost money.
Ubuntu repositories do provide "non-free" software though, so it is not necessarily 100% free in that sense. |
622,052 | I really need to know if the latest version of Ubuntu is free ? | 2015/05/10 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/622052",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/408894/"
] | There are a few different things you might be asking. While you've asked about the latest version, the answers do not really depend on release, architecture, or flavor. If what you want to know is where to download the latest version of Ubuntu, scroll down to the bottom of this post. You don't have to pay anyone anythi... | It's free. The Linux kernel is under GPL license, which means it can be copied and distributed free of charge and is open source. When you go to Ubuntu download page, it will ask you to donate some money, but you do not need to do so to get Ubuntu: just unmark all donation options and download it!
[Download Ubuntu and... |
622,052 | I really need to know if the latest version of Ubuntu is free ? | 2015/05/10 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/622052",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/408894/"
] | There are a few different things you might be asking. While you've asked about the latest version, the answers do not really depend on release, architecture, or flavor. If what you want to know is where to download the latest version of Ubuntu, scroll down to the bottom of this post. You don't have to pay anyone anythi... | Yes, Ubuntu is open source, that does not only mean it's free but that you can view it's source code and modyfy it. |
21,465 | What is it about conformal transformations that make them so widely applicable in physics?
These preserve angles, in other words directions (locally), and I can understand that might be useful. Also, I gather this is equivalent to scale invariance, which seems like another handy feature.
Are those the main properties... | 2012/02/25 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/21465",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/6370/"
] | I'm not attempting to completely answer your question, but add my 2 cents.
When doing condensed matter (statistical) physics, one can see that when a material approaches a (2nd order) phase transition, there will be no natural length scale in the sample (length scale --> infinity). This is the whole idea behind the re... | Conformal mappings are very useful, for example, to solve the Laplace equation in an area with a complicated boundary. Typically, there is always a conformal mapping transforming such an area into an area with a simpler boundary, say, into a unit disk. Then you may use the inverse mapping to get a solution for the init... |
43,794,001 | I had to replace my computer recently and I was able to copy all my website files to a new machine. My code has changes that I hadn't yet pushed to Bitbucket before my computer died. I have not yet run `git init` on my new machine so I don't have a local Git repo, only the files. What's the best way to pick up where I ... | 2017/05/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/43794001",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2146316/"
] | clone from the bitbucket repo, identity the revision where you were working on when the computer crashed, check it out, replace the files that were modified (that you are saying you kept, right) and move on with your life. | Perhaps clone it to a different directory, and copy the `.git` folder into your new working copy. |
1,258,376 | We're currently writing an application for which IT has already purchased hardware for. Their approach was to buy big hardware on which we would deploy. In order to add more processing, they plan on adding additional servers with identical software. In order to accomodate this design, we are using Terracotta to provide... | 2009/08/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1258376",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/61592/"
] | A message queue is essentially just Queue data-structure that has some fancy options. If your project is like most other projects, you're not *using* any of the JMS features that make JMS different from any old [Queue](http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Queue.html) implementation, especially since Terrac... | A colleague of mine has been using [Mule](http://www.mulesource.com/products/mule.php), which allows you to define queues which may be intra- or inter-JVM queues.
I agree with *krosenwald*: it's not clear what JMS would be adding in your case, unless there is a general plan to either move away from Terracotta (or at ... |
1,258,376 | We're currently writing an application for which IT has already purchased hardware for. Their approach was to buy big hardware on which we would deploy. In order to add more processing, they plan on adding additional servers with identical software. In order to accomodate this design, we are using Terracotta to provide... | 2009/08/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1258376",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/61592/"
] | A message queue is essentially just Queue data-structure that has some fancy options. If your project is like most other projects, you're not *using* any of the JMS features that make JMS different from any old [Queue](http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Queue.html) implementation, especially since Terrac... | I haven't used Terracotta but we are using a distributed caching product very similar to it. Our architecture also sounds similar to what you have. With both producers and consumers sitting on the same cache and sharing data using the caching subsystem.
While I agree on principal that adding JMS now might be an unnecc... |
78,902 | Should the answer that answered the original question be:
* Rewritten
* Added to (leave both answer)
* Deleted (and create another answer)
* Have two answers | 2011/02/11 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78902",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/148181/"
] | I would say rewritten. That way the answer matches and you have the the edit history.
Adding to the answer might be ok in cases where the original answer still have value.
Deleting the old answer hides most of the history so this is a poor choice.
Two answers is just wrong. | Usually the best way is probably to rewrite the answer, as it is no longer a correct answer and also bound to get downvotes (unfairly, but what are you going to do.) |
78,902 | Should the answer that answered the original question be:
* Rewritten
* Added to (leave both answer)
* Deleted (and create another answer)
* Have two answers | 2011/02/11 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78902",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/148181/"
] | I would say rewritten. That way the answer matches and you have the the edit history.
Adding to the answer might be ok in cases where the original answer still have value.
Deleting the old answer hides most of the history so this is a poor choice.
Two answers is just wrong. | I would say this largely depends on the case.
If the original question was a good enough question on its own, but the changed question is different enough that the answers are significantly different, then perhaps the changed question should be posted as a separate question entirely instead.
Otherwise, the answer sho... |
19,475 | In the episode "The Farnsworth Parabox" everything that happens in the regular Futurama universe happens the opposite in the other parallel Futurama universe. So if Mars got destroyed in the regular Futurama universe wouldn't Earth be destroyed in the parallel universe and Mars would be saved? | 2012/06/28 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19475",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7329/"
] | No, the difference between the two universes was that specifically *coin flips* have the opposite outcome in the [parallel universe](http://theinfosphere.org/Universe_1), not just every binary possibility. | The answer is no, because the difference between our universe and the parallel universe is the outcome of the coin flip. Furthermore Mars never got destroyed in the episode Farewell to Arms. Instead it just became a huge satellite of Earth, so even if in one of the parallel universes all the thing are the exact opposit... |
1,226,338 | on the configuration there's a way to set the tables we want to exclude but what I need is to set the name of the table I want to include, excluding everything else.
Have anyone already done this?
Cheers!
Alex | 2009/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1226338",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/140472/"
] | just wondering ... why don't, if you're using C#, not use the **Crystal Reports** function.
That covers not only basic reports as well really big ones, cross pages, header/footers, etc etc etc ...
give it a try | Why would you want to go the form printing approach? That's so dated.
What's wrong with the native printing classes of .Net? I've used them for some pretty extensive printing jobs till now and there has been no problem.
For one of my software I created a XML file that held the schema for the print-job. It was quite c... |
1,226,338 | on the configuration there's a way to set the tables we want to exclude but what I need is to set the name of the table I want to include, excluding everything else.
Have anyone already done this?
Cheers!
Alex | 2009/08/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1226338",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/140472/"
] | just wondering ... why don't, if you're using C#, not use the **Crystal Reports** function.
That covers not only basic reports as well really big ones, cross pages, header/footers, etc etc etc ...
give it a try | Take a look at SQL Server Reporting Services, specifically the Windows Forms ReportViewer control and RDLC report definitions. |
11,436,159 | I've had an iPhone product on iTunes for a while and have superseded it with a universal app which has been met with approval except from one customer who wants to run the iPhone version on his iPad as he preferred the larger inputs and working of the iPhone.
Is there any way to configure the app to run either as nati... | 2012/07/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11436159",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/876057/"
] | No way to do that, except making separates versions for iPhone and iPad. | Theoretically, you could have some setting that would load the iPhone storyboard on the iPad, but it would still display full screen, and not in compatibility mode, which is probably the way this particular user wants it |
11,436,159 | I've had an iPhone product on iTunes for a while and have superseded it with a universal app which has been met with approval except from one customer who wants to run the iPhone version on his iPad as he preferred the larger inputs and working of the iPhone.
Is there any way to configure the app to run either as nati... | 2012/07/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11436159",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/876057/"
] | No way to do that, except making separates versions for iPhone and iPad. | Assuming you are running some sort of source control, you could change the project to be "iPhone Only" and then test on the iPad, then later revert the changes made to make it a Universal app again |
35,785,435 | My question is how to stack three buttons in horizontal stack view. Two buttons have same size but one button has different size (see the screenshot)
Button number 1 and 3 have same size but button number 2 have smaller size.
I tried to do it but this is my result, all thre... | 2016/03/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/35785435",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6008067/"
] | Stack Views to the rescue!
Create a horizontal stack view to contain your 3 buttons.
Put positioning constraints on the stack view itself.
Put width constraints on the buttons that need it.
I chose to set the width for the outside buttons so that the inside button fills the remaining space.
Image below wit... | You could set the middle button with a constant constraint and center align it, then set the two outer buttons to have the equal widths (there is a constraint specifically for this) and constrain them to the middle button and the edge of the view. |
87,576 | Is it possible to simultaneously create a single AP on raspberry pi 3 b+ which uses both 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz bands so that users with low end devices can connect to the 2.4 Ghz band and users with latest or high end devices can connect to the 5 Ghz band? If so, what is the hostapd for that configuration? | 2018/07/31 | [
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] | I know the OP is almost one year old but I found the OP very interesting and did some research. The Raspberry PI 3B+ uses [Cypress SoC CYW43455 for wifi and Bluetooth](https://www.cypress.com/news/cypress-delivers-robust-wireless-connectivity-raspberry-pi-3-model-b-iot-single-board-computer). The specs of the SoC are i... | I believe the chip is unable to hold two channels at once. It should be possible if you add another radio, such as a USB wifi dongle, that would support the other band and channel. You would end up with two network devices.
I would love to be proven wrong, of course, as it would be nice to support both bands. |
183,239 | Our building has decided to paint a *13-ft x 13-ft* section of the roof that's leaking (just a few drops with lots of rain). This roof has a fence since it's an "outdoor" area that we all share, so it's secure to work there. We live in the Caribbean, so this roof receives lots of sun. The roof is not covered.
Someone ... | 2020/01/24 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/183239",
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] | You really need a sealer. White is chosen to reflect the heat AND this will last longer than black. When we used hot tar on roofs we then painted them silver or white. If we did not do this the tar would end up in puddles.
Primers are made to seal wood and wall coverings, not a concrete roof. You need a coating with ... | For a flat roof I wouldn't just apply a primer and paint. That might work with something with a pitch but I am getting from your question it is just a big flat deck area.
Meaning there should be some sort of membrane (silicone, rubber, epoxy, there are lots of choices) then a sealant. Sealant in most cases is not mad... |
11,477,967 | I have not seen it specifically spelled out anywhere that I can't use New Relic with node.js, just not much mention of it being done. Thanks for any feedback! | 2012/07/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11477967",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1524539/"
] | New Relic has Node.js support on our radar, whether hosted on Heroku or otherwise. The support is not ready for prime time yet. We will ensure to make lots of noise when everything is ready to go. | The Newrelic Agent for Node.JS is currently in beta, official support should be announced soon. You can get the agent here:
<https://npmjs.org/package/newrelic> |
36,859 | We usually get several answers to our questions. Quite often there will be more than one correct answer, as well as lots of interesting comments and discussion about the topic. Although there is already accepted answer I find useful (mainly for others) to provide an answer which is the **summary of all answers**.
Coul... | 2010/01/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36859",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/141953/"
] | I guess, after choosing a selected answer, you could update your question outlining all of the useful information from the other answers | Some people get irritated when people post answers that merely re-hash the existing answers. If you have nothing new to add, vote up the good answers so that the 'summary' is merely the top few answers. |
36,859 | We usually get several answers to our questions. Quite often there will be more than one correct answer, as well as lots of interesting comments and discussion about the topic. Although there is already accepted answer I find useful (mainly for others) to provide an answer which is the **summary of all answers**.
Coul... | 2010/01/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36859",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/141953/"
] | I guess, after choosing a selected answer, you could update your question outlining all of the useful information from the other answers | Creating a new answer summarising the others is a good idea from the perspective of people who view the question, later.
But wouldn't there be a tendency for readers to upvote the answer? If they do, *you* get the reputation.
I think it's better to modify the question as Farseeker suggested. |
36,859 | We usually get several answers to our questions. Quite often there will be more than one correct answer, as well as lots of interesting comments and discussion about the topic. Although there is already accepted answer I find useful (mainly for others) to provide an answer which is the **summary of all answers**.
Coul... | 2010/01/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36859",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/141953/"
] | I guess, after choosing a selected answer, you could update your question outlining all of the useful information from the other answers | I don't see the point of a summary - I can read the answers myself.
Unless, of course, there's some reason I'm not going to read the answers myself, like if there are too many answers. In this case, a summary might be welcome, if it's kept up to date. |
36,859 | We usually get several answers to our questions. Quite often there will be more than one correct answer, as well as lots of interesting comments and discussion about the topic. Although there is already accepted answer I find useful (mainly for others) to provide an answer which is the **summary of all answers**.
Coul... | 2010/01/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36859",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/141953/"
] | Some people get irritated when people post answers that merely re-hash the existing answers. If you have nothing new to add, vote up the good answers so that the 'summary' is merely the top few answers. | Creating a new answer summarising the others is a good idea from the perspective of people who view the question, later.
But wouldn't there be a tendency for readers to upvote the answer? If they do, *you* get the reputation.
I think it's better to modify the question as Farseeker suggested. |
36,859 | We usually get several answers to our questions. Quite often there will be more than one correct answer, as well as lots of interesting comments and discussion about the topic. Although there is already accepted answer I find useful (mainly for others) to provide an answer which is the **summary of all answers**.
Coul... | 2010/01/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36859",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/141953/"
] | Some people get irritated when people post answers that merely re-hash the existing answers. If you have nothing new to add, vote up the good answers so that the 'summary' is merely the top few answers. | I don't see the point of a summary - I can read the answers myself.
Unless, of course, there's some reason I'm not going to read the answers myself, like if there are too many answers. In this case, a summary might be welcome, if it's kept up to date. |
36,859 | We usually get several answers to our questions. Quite often there will be more than one correct answer, as well as lots of interesting comments and discussion about the topic. Although there is already accepted answer I find useful (mainly for others) to provide an answer which is the **summary of all answers**.
Coul... | 2010/01/24 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36859",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/141953/"
] | Creating a new answer summarising the others is a good idea from the perspective of people who view the question, later.
But wouldn't there be a tendency for readers to upvote the answer? If they do, *you* get the reputation.
I think it's better to modify the question as Farseeker suggested. | I don't see the point of a summary - I can read the answers myself.
Unless, of course, there's some reason I'm not going to read the answers myself, like if there are too many answers. In this case, a summary might be welcome, if it's kept up to date. |
524,210 | I am a beginner with PCBs and wanted to start making some. But before I did, I wanted to make sure I was completely prepared. I just wanted to make sure that the information I have is correct and had another question. How do you dispose of Ferric Chloride? While researching, I found out that the most popular way is usi... | 2020/10/01 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/524210",
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] | Both Sodium Hydroxide and Sodium Carbonate (washing soda) can be used to neutralise Ferric Chloride. Once the pH has risen above 7 the etchant is neutralised. If you are going to attempt it, be careful, the reaction is exothermic and if you apply too much too fast you can end up with the mixture getting exceedingly hot... | 1. Contact your local hazardous waste disposal company
2. The solution must not be put down the drain because of residual copper ions left in it. To make it safe for disposal, you can add sodium carbonate (washing soda) or sodium hydroxide to neutralize it, until the pH value goes up to between 7.0 and 8.0, testing it ... |
238,540 | I know that Bell jars are often used in laboratories to form and contain a vacuum but not total vacuum like space.So i don't understand why can't human make vacuum bell jar a total vacuum state? | 2016/02/20 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/238540",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/108902/"
] | Well, for one, space isn't a total vacuum. It has things in it! Particles do exist in space - they're just farther apart. So it's not a total vacuum. Though it's pretty close.
I had to check wikipedia:
>
> Ultra-high vacuum chambers, common in chemistry, physics, and
> engineering, operate below one trillionth (10... | In a so-called *low vacuum* or *partial vacuum*, you basically have gas at low pressure: Lots of molecules bouncing off one another, and sometimes bouncing off the chamber walls. The gas is a fluid, and a mechanical pump can suck it out of the chamber.
In a *high vacuum*, it's different. There are so few molecules ins... |
69,110 | I want to buy a ISO 400 film for photography, and I know Portra400 is good but I would prefer any cheaper alternative, as I am going to burn a lot. | 2015/09/09 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/69110",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
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] | 1. For trying out film photography, buy the cheapest, non-expired ISO 400 colour negative film you can find - in an attempt to keep costs down. Sure, you can buy Portra if you want, but no film will make up for a poorly-exposed shot (for example). Good results can easily be achieved with Kodak and Fujifilm's cheaper fi... | Osullic's answer is good, but a couple more points:
1. Try lots of different films. If you want to get into film photography the bets thing about it is the different feel each film has. You might end up loving Portra (I do) but you won't know until you try!
2. I would say that learning to be frugal is a good idea, but... |
69,110 | I want to buy a ISO 400 film for photography, and I know Portra400 is good but I would prefer any cheaper alternative, as I am going to burn a lot. | 2015/09/09 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/69110",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/28298/"
] | 1. For trying out film photography, buy the cheapest, non-expired ISO 400 colour negative film you can find - in an attempt to keep costs down. Sure, you can buy Portra if you want, but no film will make up for a poorly-exposed shot (for example). Good results can easily be achieved with Kodak and Fujifilm's cheaper fi... | For an inexpensive B/W film, Kentmere 400 is excellent. I worked as the darkroom technician at a school. This is the film we gave students, and it worked out very well. Good quality, inexpensive and room for error. |
69,110 | I want to buy a ISO 400 film for photography, and I know Portra400 is good but I would prefer any cheaper alternative, as I am going to burn a lot. | 2015/09/09 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/69110",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/28298/"
] | Film photography is more expensive and more hassle than digital photography. Therefore, don't do initial learning with film. Learn the basics with digital. Once you get the equipment, the incremental cost of a picture is basically 0, unlike with film. You can learn about general exposure, framing, shutter speed effects... | Osullic's answer is good, but a couple more points:
1. Try lots of different films. If you want to get into film photography the bets thing about it is the different feel each film has. You might end up loving Portra (I do) but you won't know until you try!
2. I would say that learning to be frugal is a good idea, but... |
69,110 | I want to buy a ISO 400 film for photography, and I know Portra400 is good but I would prefer any cheaper alternative, as I am going to burn a lot. | 2015/09/09 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/69110",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/28298/"
] | Film photography is more expensive and more hassle than digital photography. Therefore, don't do initial learning with film. Learn the basics with digital. Once you get the equipment, the incremental cost of a picture is basically 0, unlike with film. You can learn about general exposure, framing, shutter speed effects... | For an inexpensive B/W film, Kentmere 400 is excellent. I worked as the darkroom technician at a school. This is the film we gave students, and it worked out very well. Good quality, inexpensive and room for error. |
8,741,164 | I'm working on an ASP.NET website with a C# backend. De webserver is running on a remote server, and because I need some data located on the client's pc (for instance: the user id), I wrote a client and server application. So when the user starts the client application, it connects to the webserver but doesn't load the... | 2012/01/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8741164",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/972636/"
] | Session state is good enough for per-user-session data.
Don't touch statics, these are scoped per AppDomain in a process. IIS will recycle AppDomains without you knowing, binning your static variables.
**Update:** for the sake of clarity, the following question/answer explains a situation where Session will be null:... | Can you set up a dummy page that gets just far enough to build the Session, then redirect to another page that fetches the whatever-it-is from the remote server? |
523,895 | As the title suggests, I need to convert a 4-digit BCD number to binary.
I am aware of the doubble-dabble algorithm (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dabble>), and that if you use it backwards you can convert from BCD to binary.
The algorithm works on paper but, as the title says, I need to do this on hardware u... | 2020/09/29 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/523895",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/208444/"
] | Since you appear to be happy to user older technology, you could use a 16-bit xPROM (Flash EPROM or EEPROM if you prefer). Feed the BCD into the address lines and take the result from the bottom 10 bits of the data lines. The hex-file to program the PROM is left as an exercise for the reader. | There are all sorts of ways. You can use two strings of counters. The first uses 4 74ls168s configured as a down-counter and the second uses 3 74ls161s, 74ls163s, or 74ls169s as an up-counter. A start pulse (properly synchronized to a clock feeding all 7 counters) loads the input into the first string, and zero into th... |
154,930 | I heard this in a movie. What does it mean?
>
> My time, as does most time, comes with a price. You make time.
>
>
> | 2014/03/01 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/154930",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/67508/"
] | This means:
>
> My time is valuable, as is most people's. And, if you wish to take up my time, be prepared to pay my price.
>
>
>
The last bit is hard to decipher out of context, but I assume it has to do with the preceding conversation. *You make time* typically means:
>
> I want you to free yourself long enou... | I would suggest
>
> "Time is what you make it."
>
>
>
The whole phrase taken from a "stand alone" perspective would imply that the price of time is in the choice of what you would do with said time. |
154,930 | I heard this in a movie. What does it mean?
>
> My time, as does most time, comes with a price. You make time.
>
>
> | 2014/03/01 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/154930",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/67508/"
] | This means:
>
> My time is valuable, as is most people's. And, if you wish to take up my time, be prepared to pay my price.
>
>
>
The last bit is hard to decipher out of context, but I assume it has to do with the preceding conversation. *You make time* typically means:
>
> I want you to free yourself long enou... | The speaker is saying that his time is valuable. You pay someone's labor costs, not just for what he does for you during that time, but for his choice to forego other pursuits. You are paying for time, for his time, for the use of his time.
The other statement elaborates on the idea. Time can't be manufactured, as thi... |
154,930 | I heard this in a movie. What does it mean?
>
> My time, as does most time, comes with a price. You make time.
>
>
> | 2014/03/01 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/154930",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/67508/"
] | A reference to the movie and characters would certainly help.
But I would hazard this possible interpretation given the phrase as stated:
>
> My time is worth money, so I tend to protect it from being taken by others.
>
>
> You, on the other hand, make time for others and don't worry about the loss.
>
>
> | I would suggest
>
> "Time is what you make it."
>
>
>
The whole phrase taken from a "stand alone" perspective would imply that the price of time is in the choice of what you would do with said time. |
154,930 | I heard this in a movie. What does it mean?
>
> My time, as does most time, comes with a price. You make time.
>
>
> | 2014/03/01 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/154930",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/67508/"
] | A reference to the movie and characters would certainly help.
But I would hazard this possible interpretation given the phrase as stated:
>
> My time is worth money, so I tend to protect it from being taken by others.
>
>
> You, on the other hand, make time for others and don't worry about the loss.
>
>
> | The speaker is saying that his time is valuable. You pay someone's labor costs, not just for what he does for you during that time, but for his choice to forego other pursuits. You are paying for time, for his time, for the use of his time.
The other statement elaborates on the idea. Time can't be manufactured, as thi... |
62,005 | At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But the problem here is that what appears on the LCD screen is very noisy, so the subject isn't very clear and hence is diffic... | 2015/04/21 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/62005",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/24876/"
] | Your LCD only outputs data from camera sensor. It could be possible to tweak software so sensor would capture more exposed scene, but at the cost of low framerate ( because exposure would have to be longer ) . If there is not much light, camera software can only incease ISO, which is artificially increasing sensitivity... | As you write the noise level is bound to the refresh rate. If you have difficulties to focus, use the digital viewfinder. |
62,005 | At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But the problem here is that what appears on the LCD screen is very noisy, so the subject isn't very clear and hence is diffic... | 2015/04/21 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/62005",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
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] | **This is entirely normal and expected.** The image is read from the sensor as this is Live-View. Since it is dark, ISO has to be increased in order to give you a decent refresh rate. Otherwise, you would only have one update every several seconds or minutes which would be very hard to compose with. Incidentally, a num... | As you write the noise level is bound to the refresh rate. If you have difficulties to focus, use the digital viewfinder. |
62,005 | At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But the problem here is that what appears on the LCD screen is very noisy, so the subject isn't very clear and hence is diffic... | 2015/04/21 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/62005",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/24876/"
] | As martinerk0 said, you could have less noise by increasing the exposure time of the live view at the cost of a low frame rate. But to do that, you have to hack the software.
What you can do instead of hacking the software (and what you are probably already doing), is take a picture with no noise, see the result, corr... | As you write the noise level is bound to the refresh rate. If you have difficulties to focus, use the digital viewfinder. |
62,005 | At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But the problem here is that what appears on the LCD screen is very noisy, so the subject isn't very clear and hence is diffic... | 2015/04/21 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/62005",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/24876/"
] | Your LCD only outputs data from camera sensor. It could be possible to tweak software so sensor would capture more exposed scene, but at the cost of low framerate ( because exposure would have to be longer ) . If there is not much light, camera software can only incease ISO, which is artificially increasing sensitivity... | **This is entirely normal and expected.** The image is read from the sensor as this is Live-View. Since it is dark, ISO has to be increased in order to give you a decent refresh rate. Otherwise, you would only have one update every several seconds or minutes which would be very hard to compose with. Incidentally, a num... |
62,005 | At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But the problem here is that what appears on the LCD screen is very noisy, so the subject isn't very clear and hence is diffic... | 2015/04/21 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/62005",
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] | The Magic Lantern custom firmware allows you to adjust the gain of the live view display (without affecting exposure of the image when you take the photo)
It may only allow you to increase gain (probably the opposite of what you want) however there are also options for turning live view exposure simulation on / off, w... | This may not be the answer you are looking for, thinking outside the box, (the box being the camera) may help you overcome the situation and obtain the image you want if no other option is found on time.
I use a Canon 50D and when I face similar situations, I add to the equipment a small but powerful L.E.D. torch or f... |
62,005 | At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But the problem here is that what appears on the LCD screen is very noisy, so the subject isn't very clear and hence is diffic... | 2015/04/21 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/62005",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/24876/"
] | This may not be the answer you are looking for, thinking outside the box, (the box being the camera) may help you overcome the situation and obtain the image you want if no other option is found on time.
I use a Canon 50D and when I face similar situations, I add to the equipment a small but powerful L.E.D. torch or f... | As you write the noise level is bound to the refresh rate. If you have difficulties to focus, use the digital viewfinder. |
62,005 | At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But the problem here is that what appears on the LCD screen is very noisy, so the subject isn't very clear and hence is diffic... | 2015/04/21 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/62005",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/24876/"
] | As martinerk0 said, you could have less noise by increasing the exposure time of the live view at the cost of a low frame rate. But to do that, you have to hack the software.
What you can do instead of hacking the software (and what you are probably already doing), is take a picture with no noise, see the result, corr... | This may not be the answer you are looking for, thinking outside the box, (the box being the camera) may help you overcome the situation and obtain the image you want if no other option is found on time.
I use a Canon 50D and when I face similar situations, I add to the equipment a small but powerful L.E.D. torch or f... |
62,005 | At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But the problem here is that what appears on the LCD screen is very noisy, so the subject isn't very clear and hence is diffic... | 2015/04/21 | [
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] | Your LCD only outputs data from camera sensor. It could be possible to tweak software so sensor would capture more exposed scene, but at the cost of low framerate ( because exposure would have to be longer ) . If there is not much light, camera software can only incease ISO, which is artificially increasing sensitivity... | If you have automatic white balance enabled, you can try using something like a "daylight" setting instead. This should result in less blue channel gain (and noise) when the scene is lit by incandescent (or other "warm") sources... at the cost of displaying the scene as very yellow, obviously.
This has the possible si... |
62,005 | At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But the problem here is that what appears on the LCD screen is very noisy, so the subject isn't very clear and hence is diffic... | 2015/04/21 | [
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] | As martinerk0 said, you could have less noise by increasing the exposure time of the live view at the cost of a low frame rate. But to do that, you have to hack the software.
What you can do instead of hacking the software (and what you are probably already doing), is take a picture with no noise, see the result, corr... | **This is entirely normal and expected.** The image is read from the sensor as this is Live-View. Since it is dark, ISO has to be increased in order to give you a decent refresh rate. Otherwise, you would only have one update every several seconds or minutes which would be very hard to compose with. Incidentally, a num... |
62,005 | At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But the problem here is that what appears on the LCD screen is very noisy, so the subject isn't very clear and hence is diffic... | 2015/04/21 | [
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] | The Magic Lantern custom firmware allows you to adjust the gain of the live view display (without affecting exposure of the image when you take the photo)
It may only allow you to increase gain (probably the opposite of what you want) however there are also options for turning live view exposure simulation on / off, w... | If you have automatic white balance enabled, you can try using something like a "daylight" setting instead. This should result in less blue channel gain (and noise) when the scene is lit by incandescent (or other "warm") sources... at the cost of displaying the scene as very yellow, obviously.
This has the possible si... |
3,635,587 | I have been playing with the source code available from the [following tutorial](http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.0/13-restlet/21-restlet/318-restlet/303-restlet.html).
The GWT/GAE application works in development mode, however when its deployed, the server always returns the response in the JSON format.
I am using th... | 2010/09/03 | [
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] | I'm not sure which plugin you have in mind, but considering that Eclipse is written in Java itself, you are likely to be able to find a suitable jar file that implement what you need. How its API is documented depends on the plugin (in some cases, you might even be able to find its source code). It's possible that usin... | The Eclipse Dali Plugin is able to generate Java classes from an XML schema. In the link below see the section on "JAXB Class Generation".
* ttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/releases/3.2.0/NewAndNoteworthy/jpa.php |
29,936 | I'm currently working on a piece which has characters coming and going. Basically, sometimes a side character is near the main (also point-of-view) character, and sometimes that same side character is somewhere else. To give you an idea of its length, it's currently about 23,000 words of English prose, and it's about h... | 2017/08/27 | [
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] | Do you have a lot of different specific places you want to keep track of, or just a few at a time?
Personally for me a non-digital approach works best. I have a whiteboard with a few different locations on it, and sticky notes with the names of the characters. When they go somewhere else I just move them on the white... | In a first draft characters are where you need them to be, as many times as you desire.
When writing the first draft, either I have planned it, and I know already where everybody is, or I haven't planned anything, this there is no need to keep track of location details.
I'd also add that in my first novels I got stu... |
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