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605,347 | I've been self-studying electronics and am currently trying to design a high-gain single-stage BJT amplifier. Here is what I have so far:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sel8b.png)
Q1 serves as a current source "active load" for the common emitter ampli... | 2022/01/22 | [
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] | First, some remarks on the circuit diagram:
1. The current source is voltage dependent. This can be improved by replacing R1 with 2 silicon diodes connected in series, so that the current will depend mainly on the value of R3.
2. As already mentioned in the comments, the gain (as well as the bandwidth) depends on Rloa... | >
> I've simulated this circuit in MacSpice and found a gain of about 250 ?
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AC Analysis ... Seems ok. But TRAN and DC Analysis seem "weird".
(Your R3= 1k8 should be 7k5 for good "DC quiet point".)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mdQXr.png)
Z... |
5,487 | I have poinsettia (Christmas flower) from last Christmas. It has many green leafs.
I have been told that there is a special procedure how to make these green leafs become red.
Does someone know exact procedure?
Is it too late for this year Xmas? | 2012/11/22 | [
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] | In general terms, you need to make sure the plant has complete darkness for at least 12 hours a night - e.g. cover it up or something over night. However, during the day they need bright light so that they can absorb energy to create a bright colour.
But: the red colouring is part of the overall life cycle of the plan... | @standgale is correct that you need to duplicate the natural life cycle in regards to day length. However there are other factors that are much more difficult to reproduce. Growers go to a lot of trouble and use a [number of techniques](http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-1222/index2.tmpl) such as:
* plant growth reta... |
148,600 | I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field. This plasma is... | 2019/06/09 | [
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] | I am new to this community so I'm not able to respond to other answers. You specifically mention that the FTL drive works by using an "Alcubierre-style warp bubble" and people seem to not be knowledgeable on what that entails and apparently unwilling to spend a few seconds on google to find out.
This drive works by ex... | I was thinking that to achieve the FTL you have to be moving at a high rate of speed before going to warp... you can't go from Zero to Warp 9 on a button press. The necessary speed would be such that any sufficient atmosphere would burn up the due to friction (think about what happens to a space ship on free fall reent... |
148,600 | I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field. This plasma is... | 2019/06/09 | [
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] | The traditional answer to this question is "FTL drives don't work within gravity wells", which is sometimes justified by saying that they require a region of "flat" spacetime to operate reliably. If you're within a gravity well (i.e., spacetime is significantly perturbed), then they become dangerously unreliable and ca... | You can't cheat physics. When the space ship moves upward in a gravity well it is gaining potential energy and that has to come from somewhere or else you've broken physics.
The minimum energy required to lift a 100,000kg space ship from the Earth's surface to outside Earth's gravity is 62,720,000,000 joules of energy... |
148,600 | I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field. This plasma is... | 2019/06/09 | [
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] | This is a very short answer, which basically boils down to this essay:
<https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/>
Anything traveling at high speeds has to deal with air resistance. The faster you go, the more energy has to go into pushing air out of the way. In that article, Randall talks about the case of a baseball at sub FTL s... | You are trying to make a negative mass area by converting a tungsten ring. Having so much air inbetween the ship and the ring you are converting has consequences on this process.
This would mean that on planets without atmosphere your ships could travel.
Alternatively or additionally, gravity could risk the field bei... |
148,600 | I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field. This plasma is... | 2019/06/09 | [
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] | **Let's talk about fence posts**
Have you ever driven a fence post into the ground? You betcha! You get one of those cool tubes with handles and *bang!* pound that sucker right in.
Now, I want you to keep that in mind as we talk about *magnets.* (Heh, you're going to love this. Trust me.)
A big-ol' magnet is resting... | I think lots of people here are thinking about catastrophic consequences if the device is used near planets but I think simply making it extremely difficult or annoying to use the device near planets might work out better. For example to be able to use the device in atmosphere you could just say it takes a thousand tim... |
148,600 | I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field. This plasma is... | 2019/06/09 | [
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] | The traditional answer to this question is "FTL drives don't work within gravity wells", which is sometimes justified by saying that they require a region of "flat" spacetime to operate reliably. If you're within a gravity well (i.e., spacetime is significantly perturbed), then they become dangerously unreliable and ca... | In your scenario I would say the magnetic field generators holding up the plasma windows are gravitationally sensitive and no amount of calibration would make them function correctly enough close to the gravity generated by large astral bodies.
This could have the side effect of explaining how to disable an enemy ship... |
148,600 | I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field. This plasma is... | 2019/06/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/148600",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
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] | The traditional answer to this question is "FTL drives don't work within gravity wells", which is sometimes justified by saying that they require a region of "flat" spacetime to operate reliably. If you're within a gravity well (i.e., spacetime is significantly perturbed), then they become dangerously unreliable and ca... | Plasma is pulled by gravitational tidal forces. These tidal forces on a ship at rest are negligible, but if the warp field is stretching the frame of the ship, then from the planet's frame, the ship is no longer a hundred meters long, but it is stretched across 100s of thousands of kilometers making these tidal forces ... |
148,600 | I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field. This plasma is... | 2019/06/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/148600",
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] | The traditional answer to this question is "FTL drives don't work within gravity wells", which is sometimes justified by saying that they require a region of "flat" spacetime to operate reliably. If you're within a gravity well (i.e., spacetime is significantly perturbed), then they become dangerously unreliable and ca... | I think lots of people here are thinking about catastrophic consequences if the device is used near planets but I think simply making it extremely difficult or annoying to use the device near planets might work out better. For example to be able to use the device in atmosphere you could just say it takes a thousand tim... |
148,600 | I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field. This plasma is... | 2019/06/09 | [
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] | "basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field"
That's your reason right there. Do that in an atmosphere, and the plasma ring will be *massively* disrupted, leading to a uneven matter conversion. This, in turn, will ensure that the warp bubble is itself warped, the consequences of which can go from th... | I am new to this community so I'm not able to respond to other answers. You specifically mention that the FTL drive works by using an "Alcubierre-style warp bubble" and people seem to not be knowledgeable on what that entails and apparently unwilling to spend a few seconds on google to find out.
This drive works by ex... |
148,600 | I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field. This plasma is... | 2019/06/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/148600",
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] | Plasma is pulled by gravitational tidal forces. These tidal forces on a ship at rest are negligible, but if the warp field is stretching the frame of the ship, then from the planet's frame, the ship is no longer a hundred meters long, but it is stretched across 100s of thousands of kilometers making these tidal forces ... | In your scenario I would say the magnetic field generators holding up the plasma windows are gravitationally sensitive and no amount of calibration would make them function correctly enough close to the gravity generated by large astral bodies.
This could have the side effect of explaining how to disable an enemy ship... |
148,600 | I’ve created a fairly fleshed out, detailed FTL concept. Basically, you have a circular starship, with a ring of tungsten encircling that, held in place by an antigravity ring beneath it. The rim of the starship consists of a plasma window - basically superheated plasma held in place by a magnetic field. This plasma is... | 2019/06/09 | [
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] | This is a very short answer, which basically boils down to this essay:
<https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/>
Anything traveling at high speeds has to deal with air resistance. The faster you go, the more energy has to go into pushing air out of the way. In that article, Randall talks about the case of a baseball at sub FTL s... | I am new to this community so I'm not able to respond to other answers. You specifically mention that the FTL drive works by using an "Alcubierre-style warp bubble" and people seem to not be knowledgeable on what that entails and apparently unwilling to spend a few seconds on google to find out.
This drive works by ex... |
56,655 | I recently bought a Nikon D5100. Now I want to check the settings(shutter speed, f-stop, ISO etc. ) of my shots. What's the easiest way to do this? | 2014/11/13 | [
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] | For reading exif data stored in images, I'm in love with [ExifTool by Phil Harvey](http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/).
It's a command-line application, so for most of it's functions you either need to write a bat file or use it from the command prompt.
It's still an easy way to check a pictures metadata w... | For completeness' sake, on Mac the Preview application can shows EXIF information (the information about how and when the photo was taken).
Launch preview, then go to tools > inspector (or press cmd-i).
The second tab, with the little (i) symbol, is the information, which has tabs that will show you exif info and o... |
56,655 | I recently bought a Nikon D5100. Now I want to check the settings(shutter speed, f-stop, ISO etc. ) of my shots. What's the easiest way to do this? | 2014/11/13 | [
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] | For reading exif data stored in images, I'm in love with [ExifTool by Phil Harvey](http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/).
It's a command-line application, so for most of it's functions you either need to write a bat file or use it from the command prompt.
It's still an easy way to check a pictures metadata w... | In camera, when reviewing shots on the LCD, press up or down on the d-pad to cycle through several different views, including highlight clipping and, helpfully for you, a screen showing the shot settings and histogram. |
21,568 | I am a beginner at using Adobe Premier CC 2017. I have several videos that i want to slow down, especially the audio, to make the video easier to understand. I used the Speed/Duration effect and changed 100% to 75%, but that changed the pitch of the audio. It made it much lower with a lot more bass. So, I have tried ap... | 2017/06/01 | [
"https://avp.stackexchange.com/questions/21568",
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] | In the SPEED / DURATION menu that you can find in the context menu (RIGHTCLICK on a clip), check the MAINTAIN AUDIO PITCH checkbox. This will counteract the usual pitch shift resulting from the audio stretching. | To turn down the audio when, selected on the audio track hit g and set the gain to your choice. Or right click on the fx button and select audio gain and use the line on the audio clip |
6,062,879 | I'm planning a project which will require different websites to pass non-personal data to the server for processing/storing in a database. My idea is to set up a
very basic threaded TCP server (in C# running in the background on a server) IIS and just have it wait for incoming connections. When a connection is made an... | 2011/05/19 | [
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] | (3). Is there a different way I should be going about this, given the basics of what I'm trying to accomplish?
Yes, yes there is. Under no circumstance would I consider taking the route you've outlined. It adds a tremendous amount of code for exactly zero benefit.
Instead do this:
1. Have your primary server be a r... | There is nothing specific you need to watch out for because there is nothing you can do to ensure that the javascript is secured from being modified... so operate under the assumption that they can override your javascript. That means you need to be sure to sanitize the inputs on the server side from sql injections.
I... |
142,043 | I'm struggling to expand my vocabulary. Could you please provide expressions alike to "at the expense of"? Words or phrases are all well-appreciated. | 2013/12/16 | [
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] | How about [detrimental](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/detrimental?q=detrimental) or detrimentally?
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> *recent policies have been detrimental to the interests of many old people*
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> *moving her could have a detrimental effect on her ... | You may be interested in the phrase, “Robbing Peter to pay Paul,” which (fairly obviously) refers to doing something to benefit Paul at Peter’s expense. |
142,043 | I'm struggling to expand my vocabulary. Could you please provide expressions alike to "at the expense of"? Words or phrases are all well-appreciated. | 2013/12/16 | [
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] | How about [detrimental](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/detrimental?q=detrimental) or detrimentally?
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> tending to cause harm:
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> *recent policies have been detrimental to the interests of many old people*
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> *moving her could have a detrimental effect on her ... | You can visit Knowledge Worlds English Grammar section. Hera you will get [Synonyms or Similar words. Antonyms/opposite words](http://knowledgeworldbd.com/synonyms-similar-words/), English Grammar, Idioms and phrases and many more.
You can also visit [knowledge world bd](http://knowledge-world-bd.blogspot.com/) |
267,434 | I was testing a website and found that my password is travelling as a md5 hash over the network and since it is my password is there any way I can find the key used to hash my password as I have the resulting hashed password and the input password used? | 2023/01/02 | [
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] | I think the answer to the *why* question is that...
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> [CWE™](https://cwe.mitre.org/index.html) is a **community-developed** list of software and hardware weakness types.
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It is an indicative tool rather than an authority for vulnerability classification.
All the mentioned CWEs are also linked to each othe... | It's different things.
CWE-260 talks about storing the authentication credential in clear text in a configuration file, so that an attacker can learn it.
CWE-259 talks about *using* hardcoded passwords for incoming or outgoing communication. Note that this hardcoded password need not be configurable, nor stored in pl... |
267,434 | I was testing a website and found that my password is travelling as a md5 hash over the network and since it is my password is there any way I can find the key used to hash my password as I have the resulting hashed password and the input password used? | 2023/01/02 | [
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] | CWE-259 and CWE-260 were added on 2006-07-19, and originated from the [7 Pernicious Kingdoms](https://cwe.mitre.org/documents/sources/SevenPerniciousKingdoms.pdf), a very [early attempt](https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/the-seven-pernicious-kingdoms/) to provide a taxonomy for vulnerabilities.
Meanwhile, the Inte... | It's different things.
CWE-260 talks about storing the authentication credential in clear text in a configuration file, so that an attacker can learn it.
CWE-259 talks about *using* hardcoded passwords for incoming or outgoing communication. Note that this hardcoded password need not be configurable, nor stored in pl... |
267,434 | I was testing a website and found that my password is travelling as a md5 hash over the network and since it is my password is there any way I can find the key used to hash my password as I have the resulting hashed password and the input password used? | 2023/01/02 | [
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] | CWE-259 and CWE-260 were added on 2006-07-19, and originated from the [7 Pernicious Kingdoms](https://cwe.mitre.org/documents/sources/SevenPerniciousKingdoms.pdf), a very [early attempt](https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/the-seven-pernicious-kingdoms/) to provide a taxonomy for vulnerabilities.
Meanwhile, the Inte... | I think the answer to the *why* question is that...
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> [CWE™](https://cwe.mitre.org/index.html) is a **community-developed** list of software and hardware weakness types.
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It is an indicative tool rather than an authority for vulnerability classification.
All the mentioned CWEs are also linked to each othe... |
69,327 | Branch network is connected with DC through two point -point leased lines of different bandwidth . I want both links to be in active -active mode. How can use both link in active -active mode we are using OSPF as routing protocol.. | 2020/08/01 | [
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] | There are a few points to consider when attempting load balancing.
For Cisco routers at least, you have the option of per-flow load balancing, where the first stream of data will use only one link and the next stream will use the next link, with streams alternating between the two; and per-packet load balancing where ... | As explained by Ron Maupin in comment, doing Equal Cost Multipath Routing (ECMP), especially with different bandwidth, may cause issue.
(But it is supported by some OSPF implementation, including Cisco one.)
What you could do is use Policy Based Routing (PBR) to have some kind of traffic routed over a link and other ... |
77,091 | The kitchen in the rental house I live in has a counter which was installed rather poorly - there is a gap of about an inch between it and the wall, and mice are able to scurry up this to the kitchen counter. I would like to seal this gap.
We've put out many traps, and tried our best to remove any potential sources of... | 2015/10/30 | [
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] | What you would need is a product that will apply a "hydrophobic" coating to your toilet. Hydrophobic means that it will repel water, and make it very difficult for anything to stick to the surface. This would reduce the amount of effort required to keep a toilet clean.
At this point, there are not many products on the... | In fact, it has [been done](http://www.sloanvalve.com/Our_Products/Waterfree_Urinals.aspx).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U8oNt.jpg)
I've seen these urinals in several locations. The idea is that they are treated so the urine all goes down the drain w... |
77,091 | The kitchen in the rental house I live in has a counter which was installed rather poorly - there is a gap of about an inch between it and the wall, and mice are able to scurry up this to the kitchen counter. I would like to seal this gap.
We've put out many traps, and tried our best to remove any potential sources of... | 2015/10/30 | [
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] | In fact, it has [been done](http://www.sloanvalve.com/Our_Products/Waterfree_Urinals.aspx).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U8oNt.jpg)
I've seen these urinals in several locations. The idea is that they are treated so the urine all goes down the drain w... | Since the toilet is porous in nature, even some of the new ones do not have a coating on them. You can treat your toilet like the windshield of your car with a coating of rain-x or similar product that repels water, or as others state a sealant or silicone-like coating that will close the porous surface of the toilet.
... |
77,091 | The kitchen in the rental house I live in has a counter which was installed rather poorly - there is a gap of about an inch between it and the wall, and mice are able to scurry up this to the kitchen counter. I would like to seal this gap.
We've put out many traps, and tried our best to remove any potential sources of... | 2015/10/30 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/77091",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
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] | What you would need is a product that will apply a "hydrophobic" coating to your toilet. Hydrophobic means that it will repel water, and make it very difficult for anything to stick to the surface. This would reduce the amount of effort required to keep a toilet clean.
At this point, there are not many products on the... | Since the toilet is porous in nature, even some of the new ones do not have a coating on them. You can treat your toilet like the windshield of your car with a coating of rain-x or similar product that repels water, or as others state a sealant or silicone-like coating that will close the porous surface of the toilet.
... |
92,131 | When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".
Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when it says pp. Faster when it says fast and slow when it says slow. And it sounded pretty nice to me.
Thefore I was fol... | 2019/11/18 | [
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] | I have been in similar situations in my youth, competing in state wide music competitions, and performing at gigs. In my opinion this is a hard thing to get right because it is not a quality of you and your playing only, but a quality of the relationship between you and the audience.
For the moment let's not discuss ... | I hope you're not a troll :trollface:.
You just can't *play music* without feeling .. maybe your teacher wanted you to play more *involved* into the piece (not mechanically stumping on and pressing buttons like a robot or a bored student).
Your feeling is your internal state and it can be conducted via the activity y... |
92,131 | When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".
Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when it says pp. Faster when it says fast and slow when it says slow. And it sounded pretty nice to me.
Thefore I was fol... | 2019/11/18 | [
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] | >
> it sounded pretty nice to me.
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Bzzzt! Self-contradiction detected. ;) "It sounded nice" is a description of a feeling. What other feelings might there be, besides "nice"? Have you ever heard music that's ... passionate? ... | I think many beginner musicians struggle with this issue, myself included.
The point is, music is an art, and art is a form of communication, a form of expression. We need a way to share music, so we've came up with this music notation, which is interesting in its own regard, but is not enough to convey emotion, and c... |
92,131 | When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".
Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when it says pp. Faster when it says fast and slow when it says slow. And it sounded pretty nice to me.
Thefore I was fol... | 2019/11/18 | [
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] | There are great answers in this topic. Here is some more input:
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> So my only conclusion is that they didn't want me to play what was on the page.
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Oh yes, you can play what is on the page, but a forte section or a piano section is not just about playing all the notes at an equal volume in that section.
*... | I have been in similar situations in my youth, competing in state wide music competitions, and performing at gigs. In my opinion this is a hard thing to get right because it is not a quality of you and your playing only, but a quality of the relationship between you and the audience.
For the moment let's not discuss ... |
92,131 | When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".
Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when it says pp. Faster when it says fast and slow when it says slow. And it sounded pretty nice to me.
Thefore I was fol... | 2019/11/18 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/92131",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/64537/"
] | >
> I don't believe in something called "putting feeling" into music.
>
>
>
Can you tell the difference between a human and a midi sequencer performing the same piece? Yes, of course you can. The difference is feeling.\*\*
Allow me to elaborate. If you were to program the score into a midi sequencer, meticulously... | >
> it sounded pretty nice to me.
>
>
>
...
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> I don't believe in something called "putting feeling" into music.
>
>
>
Bzzzt! Self-contradiction detected. ;) "It sounded nice" is a description of a feeling. What other feelings might there be, besides "nice"? Have you ever heard music that's ... passionate? ... |
92,131 | When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".
Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when it says pp. Faster when it says fast and slow when it says slow. And it sounded pretty nice to me.
Thefore I was fol... | 2019/11/18 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/92131",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/64537/"
] | Have you ever seen a bad actor perform? Someone who has memorized all of their lines and goes through the appropriate motions on stage, but you just don't *feel* anything from their performance?
Imagine taking a script from a play showing a highly emotional scene -- say, an argument, or a romantic scene. Now imagine r... | A music is a sentence of notes.
If you were to give a presentation would you let Siri or Alexa read the words instead of you?
What is on the page is the language part ... the CONVENTIONAL part ... the letters, words, phrases and sentences of music.
How that music gets interpreted and expressed by the player is the... |
92,131 | When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".
Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when it says pp. Faster when it says fast and slow when it says slow. And it sounded pretty nice to me.
Thefore I was fol... | 2019/11/18 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/92131",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/64537/"
] | >
> So my only conclusion is that they didn't want me to play what was on the page.
>
>
>
Correct.
Standard notation is very flexible, but it often only allows for an *approximation* of how the piece might be expected to sound. What you may need to do is put in very slight timing and dynamics variations that, i... | >
> I don't believe in something called "putting feeling" into music.
>
>
>
Can you tell the difference between a human and a midi sequencer performing the same piece? Yes, of course you can. The difference is feeling.\*\*
Allow me to elaborate. If you were to program the score into a midi sequencer, meticulously... |
92,131 | When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".
Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when it says pp. Faster when it says fast and slow when it says slow. And it sounded pretty nice to me.
Thefore I was fol... | 2019/11/18 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/92131",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/64537/"
] | Watch the first five minutes of this demo by Evelyn Glennie of the difference between "reading the music and doing what it says" and "interpreting the music". There's not much "being expressive with her arms and swaying" involved.
If you still don't "get" the difference, watch it again.
The following 30 minutes are ... | I hope you're not a troll :trollface:.
You just can't *play music* without feeling .. maybe your teacher wanted you to play more *involved* into the piece (not mechanically stumping on and pressing buttons like a robot or a bored student).
Your feeling is your internal state and it can be conducted via the activity y... |
92,131 | When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".
Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when it says pp. Faster when it says fast and slow when it says slow. And it sounded pretty nice to me.
Thefore I was fol... | 2019/11/18 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/92131",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/64537/"
] | >
> I don't believe in something called "putting feeling" into music.
>
>
>
Can you tell the difference between a human and a midi sequencer performing the same piece? Yes, of course you can. The difference is feeling.\*\*
Allow me to elaborate. If you were to program the score into a midi sequencer, meticulously... | I have been in similar situations in my youth, competing in state wide music competitions, and performing at gigs. In my opinion this is a hard thing to get right because it is not a quality of you and your playing only, but a quality of the relationship between you and the audience.
For the moment let's not discuss ... |
92,131 | When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".
Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when it says pp. Faster when it says fast and slow when it says slow. And it sounded pretty nice to me.
Thefore I was fol... | 2019/11/18 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/92131",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/64537/"
] | >
> I don't believe in something called "putting feeling" into music.
>
>
>
Can you tell the difference between a human and a midi sequencer performing the same piece? Yes, of course you can. The difference is feeling.\*\*
Allow me to elaborate. If you were to program the score into a midi sequencer, meticulously... | I think many beginner musicians struggle with this issue, myself included.
The point is, music is an art, and art is a form of communication, a form of expression. We need a way to share music, so we've came up with this music notation, which is interesting in its own regard, but is not enough to convey emotion, and c... |
92,131 | When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".
Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when it says pp. Faster when it says fast and slow when it says slow. And it sounded pretty nice to me.
Thefore I was fol... | 2019/11/18 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/92131",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/64537/"
] | Have you ever seen a bad actor perform? Someone who has memorized all of their lines and goes through the appropriate motions on stage, but you just don't *feel* anything from their performance?
Imagine taking a script from a play showing a highly emotional scene -- say, an argument, or a romantic scene. Now imagine r... | Simply put, it means to improvise rather than to play plainly according to the notation.
“Feel” is really a subjective concept. What might make me cry might bore the hell out of someone else.
For example, consider a simple (yet beautiful) piece like **I Giorni** by Einaudi. The tune is really simple and even an amate... |
12,731,336 | I need to be able to compress a string in Javascript, but without saving a temporary file. I am then going to send this compressed data via a POST. I will receive it in Python so I need to be able to decompress it there. I implemented the following, <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/LZW_compression>, only to discover that i... | 2012/10/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12731336",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/984003/"
] | You can try base64-encoding the string beforehand (this will yield a compressed stream from 1.5 to twice the size it would have if it had been possible to compress it directly).
There is another implementation (this of gzip Deflate algorithm) [here](https://github.com/dankogai/js-deflate).
Or you might try and escape... | From OP comment.
>
> The javascript reads the DOM elements and sends that. It won't work to
> point to the source for various reasons, a main one being that I need
> the elements created by javascript on the page. I also need the
> computed style that the browser calculates for me.
>
>
>
One solution would be ... |
12,731,336 | I need to be able to compress a string in Javascript, but without saving a temporary file. I am then going to send this compressed data via a POST. I will receive it in Python so I need to be able to decompress it there. I implemented the following, <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/LZW_compression>, only to discover that i... | 2012/10/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12731336",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/984003/"
] | You can try base64-encoding the string beforehand (this will yield a compressed stream from 1.5 to twice the size it would have if it had been possible to compress it directly).
There is another implementation (this of gzip Deflate algorithm) [here](https://github.com/dankogai/js-deflate).
Or you might try and escape... | Use [deflate in javascript](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2233062/javascript-deflate-implementation) and [zlib in python](http://docs.python.org/library/zlib.html). (LZW is ancient and obsolete -- modern methods are much better.) In between use base 85 encoding, picking 85 ASCII characters than experimentation or... |
121,289 | Are there any "hidden" or secret recipes not listed in the book? | 2013/06/22 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/121289",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/50590/"
] | to make a cloning potion, which doubles your attack until your potion cooldown is up, follow the instructions for the berserk potion in the book EXACTLY, but add 1 candy instead of none. | newPotionNum = 10; // Insert the new number of berserk potions that you desire here.
potions.setPotionNbrOwned(potions.list.berserk, newPotionNum);
potions.updateOnPage();
... berserk potions bro.. |
305,025 | You can say this is opinion based, but the problem is that everyone's opinion on this issue is same.
Even the lead developers say that creating the threads is easy, dealing with them together is difficult. It isn't a newbie's job.
All I know is that to deal with threads you have to lock all shared data till each thre... | 2015/12/14 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/305025",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/207567/"
] | Concurrent programming is difficult, notably because you need to deal with synchronization issues.
>
> All I know is that to deal with threads you have to lock all shared data till each thread finishes accessing it on its own (rather than getting interrupted by kernel), and then unlock it.
>
>
>
You don't know en... | As usual, there is a trade-off involved. Doing everything in one thread is simple and risk-free. Doing things in multiple threads increases performance, but introduces risk of consistency errors. Using locks to guard against such errors can negate the entire performance advantage for which you introduced threads in the... |
305,025 | You can say this is opinion based, but the problem is that everyone's opinion on this issue is same.
Even the lead developers say that creating the threads is easy, dealing with them together is difficult. It isn't a newbie's job.
All I know is that to deal with threads you have to lock all shared data till each thre... | 2015/12/14 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/305025",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/207567/"
] | Concurrent programming is difficult, notably because you need to deal with synchronization issues.
>
> All I know is that to deal with threads you have to lock all shared data till each thread finishes accessing it on its own (rather than getting interrupted by kernel), and then unlock it.
>
>
>
You don't know en... | *lock all shared data till each thread finishes accessing it on its own*
This is the difficult bit. You have to correctly identify *all* places in the software where shared data is accessed. You then have to apply locks at the correct scope level: if you have too much locked, then only one thread will be able to proce... |
233,225 | This question is borne mainly out of this statement given on the Memory Alpha page for Bajoran ranks:
>
> The Star Trek Encyclopedia (2nd ed.), proposes that the ranks below major were captain, lieutenant, lieutenant junior grade, and ensign. [Source - Memory Alpha Wiki Contributors.](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/... | 2020/06/22 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/233225",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/111841/"
] | I'm not very familiar with Bajoran culture because I've not had the opportunity to finish *DS9*, and I watched it some years ago. However, after doing a little research, I found that Wikipedia has some [good information:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajoran)
>
> The structure was comparable to that of an Earth army... | Traditional Army/Navy rank comparisons would set Major equal to Lieutenant Commander, because otherwise Kira would outrank Worf when both are onboard the Defiant. After Major would come Lieutenant Colonel which equals Commander, this would be where Kira stood in season 7, then a full Colonel which is equal to Captain |
264,382 | I am installing a 4000W infrared heater in our new patio. The supply for this heater is a single phase 240V connection (rated at 16amps, so I'll use a 20amp breaker). I would like advice on two things.
**Thing #1.** I need the heater to run on a countdown timer, and I don't like the ugly timers that are available for ... | 2023/01/10 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/264382",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/144902/"
] | Per NEC 424.3(B), heaters get a 125% derate when considering wires, controls and breakers. Thus your 4000W heater derates to 5000W, or 20.83 amps.
As such, it needs 10 AWG wire and a 25A breaker. The breaker will need a locking kit per 424.19.
Further, the Leviton LTB02-1LZ timer lacks the capacity to switch the heat... | Since you have more that one question, and that is no/no here, lets answer one at the time
**Thing #1**
You can not use your idea using the LTB02-1LZ
It only works with 120 Volt and up to 1800 W.
Since you are looking for something decorative, here is a product that suits your needs.
"Stelpro 4000W Dimmer and Time... |
42,132 | I have an electrified baton.
Normally a baton only gives +3 bashing damage to attacks, but with it being electrified with the same amount of juice equal to a protective fence (per "The World of Darkness: Core Rulebook" pg.178) that would imply either:
* a +6 blunt bashing, overriding the +3 bonus of the baton itself,... | 2014/07/09 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/42132",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/14867/"
] | The spell Cat's Grace gives a +4 Enhancement bonus to your Dexterity Attribute. This would increase your Dexterity modifier ( And dexterity related skill checks ) by +2.
Also keep in mind when starting to get into the stacking of ability bonuses that you do not try to stack multiple types of Enhancement bonuses toget... | +4 to the base attribute, thus +2 to skill checks. "The spell grants a +4 enhancement bonus to Dexterity," not to the bonus. |
560,461 | Second, minute, hour, ... all fall under 'duration'
But when you want to refer to a specific point in time, like 'now' or 'yesterday' (many languages go way further and have single words for 'next/last week' and 'the day before yesterday', like *anteayer* in Spanish). Is there an umbrella term for these pointers? I ha... | 2021/02/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/560461",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/265628/"
] | I believe that the term you are after is ***temporal deictic expressions*.**
Here the term **deictic** may be explained as follows:
Consider the words like *I, now,* and *here.* These are paradigmatically **deictic** terms. By this we mean that their denotation changes depending on who is speaking, when, and where. F... | It seems that the term "**time references**", which is current in grammar, can be used generally.
>
> [ref.](http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/Grammar_Help_Handbook_Online/verbs_What_Is_a_Verb_Part_2.html) **Time reference** refers to when the action takes place, such as past, present, or future. This is a temporal concept ... |
35,999 | >
> [KJV]2 Samuel 21:
>
>
> 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
> 9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeoni... | 2018/11/24 | [
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] | You have made an interesting observation regarding Jesus’ miracles and why he prayed on some occasions and not on others.
The account of Jesus turning water into wine (John 2:1-11) does not mention that Jesus prayed before performing the miracle. Likewise, when Jesus calmed the storm (Matthew 8, Mark 4, and Luke 8) th... | Your last few word show the problem. Prayer is an act of worship among other things, so to speak. So the point you make is very valid! Jesus said:-
>
> NWT Matthew 26:42 "“**My Father,** if it is not possible for this to pass away unless I drink it, ***let your will*** take place.”
>
>
> NWT Hebrews 10:7 "Then I sa... |
240,298 | I frequently use [this web site](http://divxplanet.com/) for searching movie subtitles. What I do is to open the page, navigate to the relevant search box, and type in the movie name in it.
I want to speed up this process by defining a new search p... | 2011/02/01 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/240298",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/13567/"
] | You can use the add-on [Add to Search Bar](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-to-search-bar/) for this purpose. | You might also consider [smart keywords](http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/smart%20keywords) search which is built into firefox. Essentially you right click in the search box on a website and select "add a keyword for this search". Set a keyword. Now you can search that site using the keyword followed by your search ... |
2,933 | I've just asked two consecutive questions. While I've tried to keep them succinct and as useful to other people as possible, it occurs to me that it may be bad form to ask too many questions in a short period. What is best practice here? | 2012/12/06 | [
"https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2933",
"https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/17049/"
] | A good practice is to avoid flooding the front page. Besides that, time doesn't matter much - however if you put effort in writing a good question, and in investigating if it was already asked or not, the time period would probably not very short. Avoiding duplicates is an art which costs time, both the OP and potentia... | Being relatively new to the TeX.SX I have been impressed by the constructive and positive atmosphere. This reply is perhaps not directly a response to the first question but more of an extension to the discussion. I totally agree that any new question should have been preceded by some research on this site and others b... |
2,865,612 | How do I ensure when I distribute a JAR-file that the proper SWT-library (either the windows, the linux or mac version) is loaded an ready to use?
It would be very helpful because then you can do one export and your application can run on any platform like Swing apps usually do.
Thanks a lot | 2010/05/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2865612",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/345057/"
] | This can be done with a loader class as described in this answer: [Create cross platform Java SWT Application](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2706222/create-cross-platform-java-swt-application/5784073#5784073) | You looking for the delta-pack. The delta pack archive contains all the platform specific fragments from the Eclipse SDK.
See <http://aniefer.blogspot.com/2009/06/using-deltapack-in-eclipse-35.html> |
2,865,612 | How do I ensure when I distribute a JAR-file that the proper SWT-library (either the windows, the linux or mac version) is loaded an ready to use?
It would be very helpful because then you can do one export and your application can run on any platform like Swing apps usually do.
Thanks a lot | 2010/05/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2865612",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/345057/"
] | This can be done with a loader class as described in this answer: [Create cross platform Java SWT Application](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2706222/create-cross-platform-java-swt-application/5784073#5784073) | Thanks a lot for the answer.
Sounds like I have to distribute my app per platform.
In comparison to Swing this is a disadvantage, but I love the native widgets ;) |
28,898 | If God is omnipresent and formless, then how did he attain human form in Puranas? What is the belief behind that?
how did Brahman become God in human form?
Are Puranas just for understanding the brahman better? or did Brahman really incarnated as Rama, Krishna etc?
Why did Brahman born as a male only in all avatars? | 2018/09/02 | [
"https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/28898",
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] | Your enquiry is about the wife of Vishwakarma also called as Tvaṣṭā (त्वष्टा). The puranas is giving us the name of wife of Vishwakarma. one prominent and definite among them is **Virocanā (विरोचना).**
---
In [**Vayu Purana**](https://archive.org/stream/VayuPuranaG.V.TagarePart2/Vayu%20Purana%20-%20G.V.Tagare%20-%20P... | Well not really sure about the story but Viśvakarmā had a wife named Ākṛtī.
Citing from [SB 6.6.15](https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/6/6/15):
>
> From Āṅgirasī, the wife of the Vasu named Vāstu, was born the great
> architect Viśvakarmā. **Viśvakarmā became the husband of Ākṛtī**, from
> whom the Manu named Cākṣuṣa... |
22,303 | There is no option to "Add Contacts To Event" once multiple contacts are selected from a specific event. How do I make this option available? | 2018/01/17 | [
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/22303",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/users/5629/"
] | Try installing the [Line Item Edit](https://github.com/JMAConsulting/biz.jmaconsulting.lineitemedit) extension, then edit the line item. | I have discovered how to record a partial refund on registrations entered on-line as multiple registrations for the same organization.
Scenario:
Secretary registered 5 people for full conference passes. Subsequently learned that 4 of them should have been 1-day passes. It happens that the record that the payment info ... |
33,887 | I have been a manga reader for a long time, and also a developer. I know about the rules, like manga content can't and should not be edited without the author's permission, etc. But my question is, are they [freeware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware) and [shareware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware)? Can ... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/33887",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/25802/"
] | No?
>
> [...] are they Freeware and Shareware?
>
>
>
First things first, we have some terminology confusion here. Nobody describes anything besides computer software as "freeware" and/or "shareware". Manga is not software.
Manga, like other creative works, are generally encumbered by copyright, the entire poin... | Like what Memor-X said in his comment, you can't download a manga and then share it around. Like other works, manga is also subject to copyright law. Normally the copyright holder would be either the author or the publisher, depending on their contract. Popular artists such as Mashima Hiro, Masashi Kishimoto, and Kubo ... |
33,887 | I have been a manga reader for a long time, and also a developer. I know about the rules, like manga content can't and should not be edited without the author's permission, etc. But my question is, are they [freeware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware) and [shareware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware)? Can ... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/33887",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/25802/"
] | No?
>
> [...] are they Freeware and Shareware?
>
>
>
First things first, we have some terminology confusion here. Nobody describes anything besides computer software as "freeware" and/or "shareware". Manga is not software.
Manga, like other creative works, are generally encumbered by copyright, the entire poin... | Basically, you can't do *nothing* with certain content without author's permission, if it is protected by intellectual property laws (manga for sure is). There are licenses, which allow you to download, modify, share, or do whatever you want with content, but again, if content is distributed under this license, this me... |
33,887 | I have been a manga reader for a long time, and also a developer. I know about the rules, like manga content can't and should not be edited without the author's permission, etc. But my question is, are they [freeware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware) and [shareware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware)? Can ... | 2016/06/23 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/33887",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/25802/"
] | Like what Memor-X said in his comment, you can't download a manga and then share it around. Like other works, manga is also subject to copyright law. Normally the copyright holder would be either the author or the publisher, depending on their contract. Popular artists such as Mashima Hiro, Masashi Kishimoto, and Kubo ... | Basically, you can't do *nothing* with certain content without author's permission, if it is protected by intellectual property laws (manga for sure is). There are licenses, which allow you to download, modify, share, or do whatever you want with content, but again, if content is distributed under this license, this me... |
8,758,693 | This question is really about Delphi XE2 capabilities, but since this cross platform stuff is new (especially the Oxygene Java), I'm curious if anyone has tried to target all 4 platforms from one Delphi/C++ code base using the XE2 toolchain.
I have been considering returning to the Delphi family since it seems that Em... | 2012/01/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8758693",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1133331/"
] | Oxygene/Prism is a separate product from Delphi XE2 with a different, albeit similar, language. You can't use a single codebase shared between XE2 and Oxygene/Prism.
Embarcaderos plan's for iOS and Android will be based on their cross-platform Delphi compiler and the new FireMonkey libraries. The existing iOS support ... | Java is also meant for multiple platforms, so why try harder?
I've tried xe2 and I am disappointed. For Android and iOS you have to use PHP XE2, and for Delphi and OS-X you have to use Delphi XE2, so it's not an integrated technology. Embarcadero should release a True Java IDE Technology.
I am a Pascal Developer, but... |
194,352 | I am not a native English speaker, so I am not sure I understand the bolded sentence correctly:
>
> The anti-hero is actually the main character in some contemporary works of literature. Guy Montag in "Fahrenheit 451," Winston Smith in "1984," who unwittingly ends up challenging those in power -- that is, **those who... | 2014/09/01 | [
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] | You need to split it up like this:
>
> those who [abuse their power [to brainwash the populace to believe [that the ills of society have been eliminated]]].
>
>
>
In other words
* this *whole* relative clause is talking about those who abuse their power
* what they are abusing their power to do is to brainwash t... | The infinitive "to believe" is related to the populace being brainwashed. The sentence is saying that those who abuse their power **want the populace to believe that the ills of society have been eliminated**.
If you were to relate it to those who abuse the power, you would have to omit "to", like this:
>
> Those wh... |
194,352 | I am not a native English speaker, so I am not sure I understand the bolded sentence correctly:
>
> The anti-hero is actually the main character in some contemporary works of literature. Guy Montag in "Fahrenheit 451," Winston Smith in "1984," who unwittingly ends up challenging those in power -- that is, **those who... | 2014/09/01 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/194352",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/62785/"
] | You need to split it up like this:
>
> those who [abuse their power [to brainwash the populace to believe [that the ills of society have been eliminated]]].
>
>
>
In other words
* this *whole* relative clause is talking about those who abuse their power
* what they are abusing their power to do is to brainwash t... | In context:
>
> those in power -- that is, those who abuse their power to brainwash the populace to believe that the ills of society have been eliminated.
>
>
>
The use of *that is* means to further explain a preceding phrase. In this case, *those in power*.
In addition, it seems there's an implied [in order] t... |
18,815,192 | How to create a interface for Apt-Get?
--------------------------------------
Hi people,
I'm a Java programmer and a new Ubuntu user. I'm some confused about how Ubuntu works (packages, apt-get, etc.) and I hope you can help me.
I want understand how Ubuntu works (for developers) and in future I want help open-sour... | 2013/09/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/18815192",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2127383/"
] | An easy way to get started would be to build on top of [python-apt](https://launchpad.net/python-apt/), which provides an easy to use, object oriented interface to libapt.
For Qt, there are two bindings, [PyQt](http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro) and [Pyside](http://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide), whic... | I think you should start with gtk3(gui tool) based on c++ as it is more close to java and c for interface and you could use something like 'system' a linux function in it to execute commands of apt-get. As gtk is so called open source in which you are interested in and ubuntu depends on it mostly. All the best for inte... |
9,430,397 | Is there any packages available or something relevant to make Nokia S-40 series mobile to support sensor related applications by JSR-256?? | 2012/02/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9430397",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1227790/"
] | It can not. Sensors are about hardware also. A device that does not have the hardware can not also have the API. | Targeting a S40 device that supports sensors. For example the Asha 311 have JSR-256 API available, using the 2.0 SDK. |
254 | Every display device has a different characteristic in regards of how the colours are shown. This can be adjusted by the gamma correction. Are there any good tools that help with finding the right gamma correction? | 2010/07/15 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/254",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/62/"
] | The "best" solution is to use a colorimeter to accurately calibrate the screens.
Some screens do have ICC colour profiles that you can obtain from the manufacturer as well, which can give acceptable results. | You want a hardware display calibrator. I have a Huey Pro, I believe. You need to adjust a lot more than the gamma, and it's extremely difficult to do this by eye. |
25,540 | I am currently wondering is there any way or device that can transform a picture into 3D model automatically?
or a machine learning thing to learn from picture (2D) into 3D model? | 2019/01/16 | [
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/25540",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users/18989/"
] | Look up '3D scanners'. There are plenty of such devices, professional and amateur, for small items, microscopic, and for architecture, from complex and precise to as simple as [apps for a smartphone](https://all3dp.com/2/5-best-3d-scanner-apps-for-your-smartphone/). There are also programs that can transform a series o... | There are many apps with variety of precision for the cellphones.
I had one that required a series of photos taken from around a real object.
It will then turn it into a mesh frame and render it as you like, with warped texted over the faces for example. I deleted it due to memory consumption.
Google without too muc... |
78,944 | In Twitch chat, if your name is mentioned, it shows up with an inverse background (black in normal mode, white in theater mode). While this makes it easy to notice when you've been mentioned while you are watching chat, it doesn't do much for when you are not paying attention.
I'd like a way to get a desktop notificat... | 2015/06/07 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/78944",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/12619/"
] | You can use NightDev's [BetterTTV](https://nightdev.com/betterttv/) extension. It provides various enhancements to the twitch.tv website and it can be configured to provide desktop notifications and sounds on highlight. Note however that the latter of those two is currently labeled "BETA".
It does a lot more than what... | There is an option to play a sound on Play Sound on "Highlight/Whisper — Get audio feedback for messages directed at you" The setting is under the BetterTTV Settings
It's a very faint sound but it works! |
95,673 | I'm running a crossover game and I'd like to reward one of the Mage's with a Talen as he's helped a shifter accomplish their goal.
However Talens require a Gnosis roll to activate them so how can a Mage activate a Talen?
I'm considering making it an Arete roll but maybe it should be some sort of Spirit effect spell? ... | 2017/02/27 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/95673",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I found a very small mention in the M20 rules about activating a Fetish and as a Talen is a type of minor fetish this should apply:
>
> A Fetish channels the power of a spirit within that item. To use one,
> the character asks the spirit to unleash its powers. Story-wise, this
> typically demands a decent relations... | One of the best list of the different magical items that are know to the Awaken is on the Mage Storytellers Companion (3rd edition) on Chapter 4. Unfortunately, Talens are not covered. Neither in any other book that I have read of Mage.
Technically, if a Talen requires a Gnosis roll, and the Awaken have no Gnosis, the... |
23,670 | After the Avada Kedavra curse rebounded from Harry onto Voldemort, Voldemort disappeared. I'm curious as to why so many key players believed Voldemort was still "alive" somewhere, his powers decimated, but, under the right circumstances, able to return to full power. It seems the witches and wizards in chapter one of *... | 2012/09/20 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23670",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/"
] | I think the quote from Hagrid that you used most eloquently shows that people had *many* differing opinions on the subject, that *most thought that he had just disappeared*, but some thought that he had died.
>
> ‘**Some say he died**. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. **Some... | 1. He gave enough hints to his DEs that he would return (no quotes ATM but he says as much in his little rant at the end of GoF when DEs re-assemble)
2. People who have hard-headed practicality - like life-bitten Hagrid or magical law enforcement - think the same way the police think in muggle world. No body, no eviden... |
23,670 | After the Avada Kedavra curse rebounded from Harry onto Voldemort, Voldemort disappeared. I'm curious as to why so many key players believed Voldemort was still "alive" somewhere, his powers decimated, but, under the right circumstances, able to return to full power. It seems the witches and wizards in chapter one of *... | 2012/09/20 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23670",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/"
] | I think the quote from Hagrid that you used most eloquently shows that people had *many* differing opinions on the subject, that *most thought that he had just disappeared*, but some thought that he had died.
>
> ‘**Some say he died**. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. **Some... | I would think **Dumbledore** claimed immediately that the Dark Lord is not dead. Many people would then believe Dumbledore. He was a highly reputed authority figure at that time.
When Hagrid says “Most of us reckon he’s still out there somewhere but lost his powers.”, maybe he's a bit biased though, because most of t... |
23,670 | After the Avada Kedavra curse rebounded from Harry onto Voldemort, Voldemort disappeared. I'm curious as to why so many key players believed Voldemort was still "alive" somewhere, his powers decimated, but, under the right circumstances, able to return to full power. It seems the witches and wizards in chapter one of *... | 2012/09/20 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23670",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/"
] | I think the quote from Hagrid that you used most eloquently shows that people had *many* differing opinions on the subject, that *most thought that he had just disappeared*, but some thought that he had died.
>
> ‘**Some say he died**. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. **Some... | As far as key players, I think most of them can be traced to Dumbledore, who had a VERY conclusive proof that Voldemort was still alive: Harry. Harry was a Horcrux, and Dumbledore held him, which means that Dumbledore would have detected Voldemort's spell. Spells on humans disappear on the death of the owner (see Dumbl... |
23,670 | After the Avada Kedavra curse rebounded from Harry onto Voldemort, Voldemort disappeared. I'm curious as to why so many key players believed Voldemort was still "alive" somewhere, his powers decimated, but, under the right circumstances, able to return to full power. It seems the witches and wizards in chapter one of *... | 2012/09/20 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23670",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/"
] | I think the quote from Hagrid that you used most eloquently shows that people had *many* differing opinions on the subject, that *most thought that he had just disappeared*, but some thought that he had died.
>
> ‘**Some say he died**. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. **Some... | Some people did. But not those who knew Dumbledore.
---------------------------------------------------
As NominSim says, there are differing opinions about this in the wizarding community. Some believed he was dead, some believed he was planning his return to power and some believed he was gone forever (even if he wa... |
23,670 | After the Avada Kedavra curse rebounded from Harry onto Voldemort, Voldemort disappeared. I'm curious as to why so many key players believed Voldemort was still "alive" somewhere, his powers decimated, but, under the right circumstances, able to return to full power. It seems the witches and wizards in chapter one of *... | 2012/09/20 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23670",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/"
] | 1. He gave enough hints to his DEs that he would return (no quotes ATM but he says as much in his little rant at the end of GoF when DEs re-assemble)
2. People who have hard-headed practicality - like life-bitten Hagrid or magical law enforcement - think the same way the police think in muggle world. No body, no eviden... | As far as key players, I think most of them can be traced to Dumbledore, who had a VERY conclusive proof that Voldemort was still alive: Harry. Harry was a Horcrux, and Dumbledore held him, which means that Dumbledore would have detected Voldemort's spell. Spells on humans disappear on the death of the owner (see Dumbl... |
23,670 | After the Avada Kedavra curse rebounded from Harry onto Voldemort, Voldemort disappeared. I'm curious as to why so many key players believed Voldemort was still "alive" somewhere, his powers decimated, but, under the right circumstances, able to return to full power. It seems the witches and wizards in chapter one of *... | 2012/09/20 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23670",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/"
] | I would think **Dumbledore** claimed immediately that the Dark Lord is not dead. Many people would then believe Dumbledore. He was a highly reputed authority figure at that time.
When Hagrid says “Most of us reckon he’s still out there somewhere but lost his powers.”, maybe he's a bit biased though, because most of t... | As far as key players, I think most of them can be traced to Dumbledore, who had a VERY conclusive proof that Voldemort was still alive: Harry. Harry was a Horcrux, and Dumbledore held him, which means that Dumbledore would have detected Voldemort's spell. Spells on humans disappear on the death of the owner (see Dumbl... |
23,670 | After the Avada Kedavra curse rebounded from Harry onto Voldemort, Voldemort disappeared. I'm curious as to why so many key players believed Voldemort was still "alive" somewhere, his powers decimated, but, under the right circumstances, able to return to full power. It seems the witches and wizards in chapter one of *... | 2012/09/20 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23670",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/"
] | Some people did. But not those who knew Dumbledore.
---------------------------------------------------
As NominSim says, there are differing opinions about this in the wizarding community. Some believed he was dead, some believed he was planning his return to power and some believed he was gone forever (even if he wa... | As far as key players, I think most of them can be traced to Dumbledore, who had a VERY conclusive proof that Voldemort was still alive: Harry. Harry was a Horcrux, and Dumbledore held him, which means that Dumbledore would have detected Voldemort's spell. Spells on humans disappear on the death of the owner (see Dumbl... |
141,589 | I don't understand when and why to use ***can't have been***. It seems so strange to me. | 2013/12/12 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/141589",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/58879/"
] | You're right; *can't have been* is strange.
For one thing, *can* is a modal auxiliary verb; all modal auxiliary verbs are irregular as hell.
For another, *can't* is a negative, and negatives with modals have different syntax.
Of course, a great deal depends on what the predicate of the sentence is.
*Can't have... | All right. I've done some research concerning *can't have been vs. couldn't have been*.
To remind meanings and uses of *couldn't have* :
* it is used in past hypothetical conditionals - *can't have* can not be substituted
* expresses impossibility in past time
* embodies the root meaning (ability or capability) of t... |
141,589 | I don't understand when and why to use ***can't have been***. It seems so strange to me. | 2013/12/12 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/141589",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/58879/"
] | You're right; *can't have been* is strange.
For one thing, *can* is a modal auxiliary verb; all modal auxiliary verbs are irregular as hell.
For another, *can't* is a negative, and negatives with modals have different syntax.
Of course, a great deal depends on what the predicate of the sentence is.
*Can't have... | You'll find can't have ... ed vs. couldn't have ...ed explained in a detailed way here:
<http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/azar/grammar_ex/message_board/archive/articles/00108.htm> |
141,589 | I don't understand when and why to use ***can't have been***. It seems so strange to me. | 2013/12/12 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/141589",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/58879/"
] | All right. I've done some research concerning *can't have been vs. couldn't have been*.
To remind meanings and uses of *couldn't have* :
* it is used in past hypothetical conditionals - *can't have* can not be substituted
* expresses impossibility in past time
* embodies the root meaning (ability or capability) of t... | You'll find can't have ... ed vs. couldn't have ...ed explained in a detailed way here:
<http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/azar/grammar_ex/message_board/archive/articles/00108.htm> |
127,541 | Every day I see a post on MSO that belongs on SO. When I try to flag it, I don't see the option "off-topic-->StackOverflow". As a result, these questions tend to get closed instead of migrated after I flag them.
All sites have a "offtopic-->meta" option, why not the other way around? | 2012/03/30 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127541",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/178438/"
] | Those questions are overwhelmingly crap, users that miss all the obvious signs that they are in the completely wrong place also tend to ask bad questions.
We don't want to encourage them by moving the questions to the right place. If they aren't able to figure that very simple part out by themselves, there is really ... | You can always add your own comment to a flag explaining what needs to be done. |
127,541 | Every day I see a post on MSO that belongs on SO. When I try to flag it, I don't see the option "off-topic-->StackOverflow". As a result, these questions tend to get closed instead of migrated after I flag them.
All sites have a "offtopic-->meta" option, why not the other way around? | 2012/03/30 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127541",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/178438/"
] | Those questions are overwhelmingly crap, users that miss all the obvious signs that they are in the completely wrong place also tend to ask bad questions.
We don't want to encourage them by moving the questions to the right place. If they aren't able to figure that very simple part out by themselves, there is really ... | I am not sure it is a good idea, for two reasons:
* Users who are banned from asking questions on the main site (Stack Overflow) would ask the questions on the meta site, hoping they are migrated.
* If you keep migrating the questions from the meta site on the main site, low reputation users would probably keep asking... |
127,541 | Every day I see a post on MSO that belongs on SO. When I try to flag it, I don't see the option "off-topic-->StackOverflow". As a result, these questions tend to get closed instead of migrated after I flag them.
All sites have a "offtopic-->meta" option, why not the other way around? | 2012/03/30 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127541",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/178438/"
] | I am not sure it is a good idea, for two reasons:
* Users who are banned from asking questions on the main site (Stack Overflow) would ask the questions on the meta site, hoping they are migrated.
* If you keep migrating the questions from the meta site on the main site, low reputation users would probably keep asking... | You can always add your own comment to a flag explaining what needs to be done. |
2,998 | I was scrolling through the list of newest asked questions and noticed that only 3 out of 15 had non-negative votes for the question. Is this just an anomaly or is the quality of the average question being posted so poor that only 20% deserve a non-negative scoring?
I would think that with such a low success rate, ma... | 2012/08/24 | [
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2998",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1473/"
] | You have made a very good observation. You may recall that the last time we communicated, almost a year ago, I told you that I thought that the silent downvotes on your question were due to "overzealous enforcement of the FAQ guideline that suggests that off-topic questions should be down-voted to remove them from the ... | I know [most people don't agree](https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2683/downvoting-questions-because-you-dont-want-to-answer-it) - but even though I personally don't do it very often, I see nothing wrong with downvoting questions you don't think are likely to be an asset to the site in future. And at lea... |
2,998 | I was scrolling through the list of newest asked questions and noticed that only 3 out of 15 had non-negative votes for the question. Is this just an anomaly or is the quality of the average question being posted so poor that only 20% deserve a non-negative scoring?
I would think that with such a low success rate, ma... | 2012/08/24 | [
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2998",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | You have made a very good observation. You may recall that the last time we communicated, almost a year ago, I told you that I thought that the silent downvotes on your question were due to "overzealous enforcement of the FAQ guideline that suggests that off-topic questions should be down-voted to remove them from the ... | I can remember having a distinct thought yesterday, about how there seemed to be a dearth of good questions, and a rash of some very bad ones.
("Good" and "bad" are subjective, so, to save time, you can read my thoughts about "good" questions by looking at my profile; I've already written about it there.)
I don't b... |
2,998 | I was scrolling through the list of newest asked questions and noticed that only 3 out of 15 had non-negative votes for the question. Is this just an anomaly or is the quality of the average question being posted so poor that only 20% deserve a non-negative scoring?
I would think that with such a low success rate, ma... | 2012/08/24 | [
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2998",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1473/"
] | You have made a very good observation. You may recall that the last time we communicated, almost a year ago, I told you that I thought that the silent downvotes on your question were due to "overzealous enforcement of the FAQ guideline that suggests that off-topic questions should be down-voted to remove them from the ... | Downvotes by themselves are not a problem, but they might point you to a larger issue. I can speculate as to some potential causes, but I don't know how to validate them:
1) Was there a corresponding uptick in bad questions?
2) Is there a serial-downvoter just out there causing havoc?
3) Is the recent "Community R... |
2,998 | I was scrolling through the list of newest asked questions and noticed that only 3 out of 15 had non-negative votes for the question. Is this just an anomaly or is the quality of the average question being posted so poor that only 20% deserve a non-negative scoring?
I would think that with such a low success rate, ma... | 2012/08/24 | [
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2998",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1473/"
] | I can remember having a distinct thought yesterday, about how there seemed to be a dearth of good questions, and a rash of some very bad ones.
("Good" and "bad" are subjective, so, to save time, you can read my thoughts about "good" questions by looking at my profile; I've already written about it there.)
I don't b... | I know [most people don't agree](https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2683/downvoting-questions-because-you-dont-want-to-answer-it) - but even though I personally don't do it very often, I see nothing wrong with downvoting questions you don't think are likely to be an asset to the site in future. And at lea... |
2,998 | I was scrolling through the list of newest asked questions and noticed that only 3 out of 15 had non-negative votes for the question. Is this just an anomaly or is the quality of the average question being posted so poor that only 20% deserve a non-negative scoring?
I would think that with such a low success rate, ma... | 2012/08/24 | [
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2998",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1473/"
] | I can remember having a distinct thought yesterday, about how there seemed to be a dearth of good questions, and a rash of some very bad ones.
("Good" and "bad" are subjective, so, to save time, you can read my thoughts about "good" questions by looking at my profile; I've already written about it there.)
I don't b... | Downvotes by themselves are not a problem, but they might point you to a larger issue. I can speculate as to some potential causes, but I don't know how to validate them:
1) Was there a corresponding uptick in bad questions?
2) Is there a serial-downvoter just out there causing havoc?
3) Is the recent "Community R... |
23,757 | Some sources claim that Malian soldiers arrived in the Americas in 1311 CE. For example, in [Silicon Africa: 100 African Cities destroyed by Europeans](http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/):
>
> Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus. An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, publish... | 2014/11/11 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23757",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/5337/"
] | I'll try and take a stab at this, though I don't know if I have found enough non-circumstantial evidence to prove my conclusion. However, I also doubt that anyone without knowing Arabic or French and having access to select universities around the world could come up with more, as those are the only translations of Ibn... | >
> "An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, published Masalik ab Absar fi
> Mamalik al Amsar in Cairo around 1342. In the tenth chapter of this
> work, there is an account of two large maritime voyages ordered by the
> predecessor of Mansa Musa, a king who inherited the Malian throne in
> 1312. This mariner king ... |
23,757 | Some sources claim that Malian soldiers arrived in the Americas in 1311 CE. For example, in [Silicon Africa: 100 African Cities destroyed by Europeans](http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/):
>
> Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus. An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, publish... | 2014/11/11 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23757",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/5337/"
] | The originator of this version of history was [Ivan van Sertima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_van_Sertima#cite_note-Haslip-Viera-2).
He authored [They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America](https://books.google.com/books?id=sCAWAQAAIAAJ&q=they%20came%20before%20columbus&dq=they%20came%20... | I'll try and take a stab at this, though I don't know if I have found enough non-circumstantial evidence to prove my conclusion. However, I also doubt that anyone without knowing Arabic or French and having access to select universities around the world could come up with more, as those are the only translations of Ibn... |
23,757 | Some sources claim that Malian soldiers arrived in the Americas in 1311 CE. For example, in [Silicon Africa: 100 African Cities destroyed by Europeans](http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/):
>
> Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus. An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, publish... | 2014/11/11 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23757",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/5337/"
] | I'll try and take a stab at this, though I don't know if I have found enough non-circumstantial evidence to prove my conclusion. However, I also doubt that anyone without knowing Arabic or French and having access to select universities around the world could come up with more, as those are the only translations of Ibn... | There is scientific evidence to support Africans - specifically the Mali King [Abu Bakr II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_II) landed in Mexico traded and possibly became stranded with the natives there.
Columbus's voyage and logs themselves document the presences of Africans in America before the conquest an... |
23,757 | Some sources claim that Malian soldiers arrived in the Americas in 1311 CE. For example, in [Silicon Africa: 100 African Cities destroyed by Europeans](http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/):
>
> Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus. An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, publish... | 2014/11/11 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23757",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/5337/"
] | The originator of this version of history was [Ivan van Sertima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_van_Sertima#cite_note-Haslip-Viera-2).
He authored [They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America](https://books.google.com/books?id=sCAWAQAAIAAJ&q=they%20came%20before%20columbus&dq=they%20came%20... | >
> "An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, published Masalik ab Absar fi
> Mamalik al Amsar in Cairo around 1342. In the tenth chapter of this
> work, there is an account of two large maritime voyages ordered by the
> predecessor of Mansa Musa, a king who inherited the Malian throne in
> 1312. This mariner king ... |
23,757 | Some sources claim that Malian soldiers arrived in the Americas in 1311 CE. For example, in [Silicon Africa: 100 African Cities destroyed by Europeans](http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/):
>
> Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus. An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, publish... | 2014/11/11 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23757",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/5337/"
] | >
> "An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, published Masalik ab Absar fi
> Mamalik al Amsar in Cairo around 1342. In the tenth chapter of this
> work, there is an account of two large maritime voyages ordered by the
> predecessor of Mansa Musa, a king who inherited the Malian throne in
> 1312. This mariner king ... | There is scientific evidence to support Africans - specifically the Mali King [Abu Bakr II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_II) landed in Mexico traded and possibly became stranded with the natives there.
Columbus's voyage and logs themselves document the presences of Africans in America before the conquest an... |
23,757 | Some sources claim that Malian soldiers arrived in the Americas in 1311 CE. For example, in [Silicon Africa: 100 African Cities destroyed by Europeans](http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/):
>
> Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus. An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, publish... | 2014/11/11 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23757",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/5337/"
] | The originator of this version of history was [Ivan van Sertima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_van_Sertima#cite_note-Haslip-Viera-2).
He authored [They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America](https://books.google.com/books?id=sCAWAQAAIAAJ&q=they%20came%20before%20columbus&dq=they%20came%20... | There is scientific evidence to support Africans - specifically the Mali King [Abu Bakr II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_II) landed in Mexico traded and possibly became stranded with the natives there.
Columbus's voyage and logs themselves document the presences of Africans in America before the conquest an... |
3,303,418 | I think the GC may treat reference type and value type differently.
GC will collect the reference type if there is nobody have a reference to it.
When GC will collect the value type like struct? My struct is not small. I want it be collected as earlier as possible. With a profiler software, I saw that struct has a big... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3303418",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/117039/"
] | A struct will only be in the managed heap (i.e. where it can be garbage collected) if it's either an instance/static field, or as part of another object, or boxed, or in an array1. It's never "naked" in the managed heap - the closest you can get is a boxed value.
If you have a large struct, that's your first problem. ... | A struct type is a value-type and inherits from System.ValueType. Value-type variable is allocated on the current thread's stack (not on the heap). Memory is not allocated on the managed heap. It is allocated on the stack and is automatically freed when value-type variable go out of scope. But if you are making the box... |
261,795 | I'm looking for some very specific features in a dual-monitor setup on Windows XP and so far have not been able to find what I'm looking for. The best way I can describe it is perhaps dual desktops or even virtual desktops displaying at the same time across two monitors. Ideally, I would like to have:
* Separate taskb... | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/261795",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/73227/"
] | [Dexpot](http://www.dexpot.de/index.php?lang=en) is a Windows-based utility for Virtual Desktops, take a look at it and see if this will assist you in what you are trying to do. | You'll likely need a full shell replacement to do that. Explorer, which is the process that creates your start menu and desktop, does not have that functionality natively that I know of.
I would start with SharpE and see if it gives you the functionality you need: <http://www.sharpenviro.com/wp/> |
21,629,969 | I want to test my AngularJS application using Selenium and PhantomJS, but I am not finding an easy to start resource or video tutorial. Can you please suggest some good resource as a starting point. | 2014/02/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/21629969",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2342089/"
] | As @Nima-Vaziri said, you should have a look at Karma to run unit tests on your app. [This article](http://www.yearofmoo.com/2013/01/full-spectrum-testing-with-angularjs-and-karma.html) will help you on this way.
Then to run e2e tests, the new runner developped by the Angular team is Protractor and you can start with ... | Have you looked at [this tutorial](http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/headless-functional-testing-with-selenium-and-phantomjs--net-30545)?
The tutorial itself seems decent. You might have to change some stuff depending on what you choose as your test-runner (this tutorial chose Mocha).
I'd also look at [Karma](http:/... |
7,697,655 | How to make release using rebar without erts included in? | 2011/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7697655",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/124411/"
] | A release **is** a self packaged erlang runtime within your application, so i think you just can't.
But you can simply give your application directory with the ebin directory in it as a release. | rebar is a good thing for managing your Erlang prjects indeed. But there are always other options which comes for Erlanf/OTP in the box. Here you can read very good tutorial about other options: <http://learnyousomeerlang.com/release-is-the-word>
p.s. I think it is worth knowing how the same thing could be done in oth... |
7,697,655 | How to make release using rebar without erts included in? | 2011/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7697655",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/124411/"
] | A release **is** a self packaged erlang runtime within your application, so i think you just can't.
But you can simply give your application directory with the ebin directory in it as a release. | Relx is very good at packaging Erlang releases with lots of options, one being what you want: {include\_erts, false}.
<https://github.com/erlware/relx> |
7,697,655 | How to make release using rebar without erts included in? | 2011/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7697655",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/124411/"
] | rebar is a good thing for managing your Erlang prjects indeed. But there are always other options which comes for Erlanf/OTP in the box. Here you can read very good tutorial about other options: <http://learnyousomeerlang.com/release-is-the-word>
p.s. I think it is worth knowing how the same thing could be done in oth... | Relx is very good at packaging Erlang releases with lots of options, one being what you want: {include\_erts, false}.
<https://github.com/erlware/relx> |
62,449 | In his 1786 book, "The History of Heresies and Their Refutation", (saint) Alphonsus Liguiri wrote:
>
> I think the danger of eternal perdition, by dying separated from the Church, should be a sufficient motive to convert every heretic. It was this that made Henry IV [of France] forsake Calvinism, and become a Catholi... | 2018/03/01 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/62449",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/22426/"
] | The Calvinist answer to the question "is there salvation in the Catholic Church" is "yes and no." It is "no" because there is nothing salvific in being affiliated with the papacy. We deny the legitimacy of the office of pope, in addition to many other unbiblical offices and deny sacerdotalism entirely as a scheme of sa... | This is a typical problem in Bayesian Probability Theory.
If salvation is possible for Catholics, given Calvinism is true, and impossible for Calvinists, given Catholicism is true; then IF Calvinism and Catholicism are equally likely ( in Henry's opinion) he maximises his chances by choosing Catholicism.
But if he th... |
61,954 | On a highway through a rural area, the sign says "speed limit 70 mph." But, the one cop who patrols that stretch of highway pulls over and tickets anyone who goes over 60. In the last 10 years no one has successfully appealed a ticket he's written. From the perspective of the citizen, is the speed limit 70 or 60?
Clar... | 2021/03/11 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/61954",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Courts, particularly traffic courts, tend to take a police officer's word over that of an accused person. While legally the limit is 70, the driver has very little recourse if the officer claims falsely that the actual speed was over 70. But the deterant effect of a posted limit is lost, since drivers in general have n... | >
> From the perspective of the citizen, is the speed limit 70 or 60?
>
>
>
The speed limit is 70 and the cop is a criminal who is also violating their constitutional rights.
It is unwise to intentionally try to function in places where police corruption is so deep rooted and tolerated. |
61,954 | On a highway through a rural area, the sign says "speed limit 70 mph." But, the one cop who patrols that stretch of highway pulls over and tickets anyone who goes over 60. In the last 10 years no one has successfully appealed a ticket he's written. From the perspective of the citizen, is the speed limit 70 or 60?
Clar... | 2021/03/11 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/61954",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | From the perspective of the citizen, the **legal speed limit** is 70 mph and the **temporary safe travel speed** on this stretch of highway is 60 mph. The legal speed limit is usually setting an *upper* bound on the speed one is supposed to travel, not a *lower* bound. The law does not change because it is (temporarily... | >
> From the perspective of the citizen, is the speed limit 70 or 60?
>
>
>
The speed limit is 70 and the cop is a criminal who is also violating their constitutional rights.
It is unwise to intentionally try to function in places where police corruption is so deep rooted and tolerated. |
130,020 | Builder left a few blank outlet covers in my garage, opened one of them today trying to see if I can use it for my security camera, saw an empty electrical box behind it. Picture attached below.
It's a new construction so I'm pretty sure no outlet w... | 2018/01/01 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/130020",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/79754/"
] | There should be a conduit back to the main electrical panel. California building code now [requires](https://up.codes/viewer/california/ca-green-code-2016/chapter/4/residential-mandatory-measures#4.106.4.1) garages to have the boxes and conduit installed to provide 240 V 40 A for electric car charging. (Seeing that you... | Without knowing more details, we can only speculate. Since it is so much cheaper and easier to stub-in boxes for future use than to retrofit, I am thinking this box was added for future additional electrical, security or fire protection wires.
You may be able to trace the conduit. If it leads to the electrical panel, ... |
1,005,903 | I have tried Beyond Compare, and it seems to be a good tool.
But I haven't found a way to export an overview of the differences.
The format of it should be one that most people can read. Doc, Rtf, Pdf, Html...
What I need is to display the differences of two folder. And it would be enough to display which files has b... | 2009/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1005903",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/90683/"
] | Beyond Compare has some functions to do that.
For example, in the folder diff view, select the files you want to report and then select Actions->File Compare Report. HTML is one of the output formats supported there. | This script to [colorize diff output to HTML](http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/convert-diff-output-colorized-html) might be useful. There are many other tools, one more is [difftool](http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/difftool.html).
On a relatively different note, I had used a code coverage tool that also generate... |
1,005,903 | I have tried Beyond Compare, and it seems to be a good tool.
But I haven't found a way to export an overview of the differences.
The format of it should be one that most people can read. Doc, Rtf, Pdf, Html...
What I need is to display the differences of two folder. And it would be enough to display which files has b... | 2009/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1005903",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/90683/"
] | Araxis Merge covered all of my needs.
* Simple to use
* Generated a nice overview of files in folder structure
* Could click on changed files to see the changes in the content
The colors could be better, but that can be solved by inserting a custom CSS-file. :) | This script to [colorize diff output to HTML](http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/convert-diff-output-colorized-html) might be useful. There are many other tools, one more is [difftool](http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/difftool.html).
On a relatively different note, I had used a code coverage tool that also generate... |
1,005,903 | I have tried Beyond Compare, and it seems to be a good tool.
But I haven't found a way to export an overview of the differences.
The format of it should be one that most people can read. Doc, Rtf, Pdf, Html...
What I need is to display the differences of two folder. And it would be enough to display which files has b... | 2009/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1005903",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/90683/"
] | Araxis Merge covered all of my needs.
* Simple to use
* Generated a nice overview of files in folder structure
* Could click on changed files to see the changes in the content
The colors could be better, but that can be solved by inserting a custom CSS-file. :) | Beyond Compare has some functions to do that.
For example, in the folder diff view, select the files you want to report and then select Actions->File Compare Report. HTML is one of the output formats supported there. |
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