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3,131 | Seth Priebatsch recently gave a tedtalk entitled “[Building the game layer on top of the world.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9fTc_WMbo)” In it, Seth described four “game dynamics,” techniques used by game designers to make games fun and addictive. The four dynamics that Priebtsch described were:
1. Appointment dy... | 2010/08/23 | [
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] | From [the MDA paper](http://cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/MDA.pdf):
>
> 1. Sensation:
> Game as sense-pleasure
> 2. Fantasy:
> Game as make-believe
> 3. Narrative:
> Game as drama
> 4. Challenge:
> Game as obstacle course
> 5. Fellowship:
> Game as social framework
> 6. Discovery:
> Game as uncharted territory
>... | I think he actually left out 4 major points (as opposed to 3). These are my guesses based on experience.
**Economies** - Not only do you earn points and level up but you may also spend them at your own will. For instance, look at the bounty system on Stack Exchange sites... I had a burning question to ask that was get... |
3,131 | Seth Priebatsch recently gave a tedtalk entitled “[Building the game layer on top of the world.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9fTc_WMbo)” In it, Seth described four “game dynamics,” techniques used by game designers to make games fun and addictive. The four dynamics that Priebtsch described were:
1. Appointment dy... | 2010/08/23 | [
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] | What he said in his speech is "...with seven game dynamics you can get anyone to do anything..." there was the implication that there were *only* four more.
Then I did some digging and found: <http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/>
If the site I accessed is at all correct, there are not four more game... | <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9fTc_WMbo#t=4m09s>
>
> Back at scavenger we like to joke that with seven game dynamics you can get anyone to do anything, so today I'm going to show you four because **I hope to have a competitive advantage at the end of this still.**
>
>
>
You certainly won't get the other three... |
42,128 | In a week I'll be traveling from Europe to Santiago de Chile via Atlanta-Hartsfield (ATL). Does anyone have experience with the Automated Passport Control (APC) kiosks at ATL?
I have a relatively short layover and I'm wondering if it is quicker to use the kiosks than filling out the paper form and standing in line? | 2015/01/17 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/42128",
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] | The longest part of going through passport control, especially in a busy airport like ATL, is queuing. So eyeball the queue and how fast it's moving.
APC requires you to spend a minute or so at a machine which will print a piece of paper, then show that piece of paper to an officer, so you'll queue twice; but the queu... | First, the use of the APC kiosk does not mean you will not see the CBP officer, you will still have to see an officer at a booth, it just saves the time by making the job easier for you and for the officer, basically by making you help the officer in doing some of the job (scanning the passport, taking the photograph, ... |
42,128 | In a week I'll be traveling from Europe to Santiago de Chile via Atlanta-Hartsfield (ATL). Does anyone have experience with the Automated Passport Control (APC) kiosks at ATL?
I have a relatively short layover and I'm wondering if it is quicker to use the kiosks than filling out the paper form and standing in line? | 2015/01/17 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/42128",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
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] | First, the use of the APC kiosk does not mean you will not see the CBP officer, you will still have to see an officer at a booth, it just saves the time by making the job easier for you and for the officer, basically by making you help the officer in doing some of the job (scanning the passport, taking the photograph, ... | APC is pointless in my opinion. I was in transit through Fort Worth airport 2 days ago and had to queue for ages for an APC kiosk (only half were working) then I had to queue for ages again for a rude CPB officer who took my photo and fingerprints again!
APC seems pointless. |
42,128 | In a week I'll be traveling from Europe to Santiago de Chile via Atlanta-Hartsfield (ATL). Does anyone have experience with the Automated Passport Control (APC) kiosks at ATL?
I have a relatively short layover and I'm wondering if it is quicker to use the kiosks than filling out the paper form and standing in line? | 2015/01/17 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/42128",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/26145/"
] | The longest part of going through passport control, especially in a busy airport like ATL, is queuing. So eyeball the queue and how fast it's moving.
APC requires you to spend a minute or so at a machine which will print a piece of paper, then show that piece of paper to an officer, so you'll queue twice; but the queu... | APC is pointless in my opinion. I was in transit through Fort Worth airport 2 days ago and had to queue for ages for an APC kiosk (only half were working) then I had to queue for ages again for a rude CPB officer who took my photo and fingerprints again!
APC seems pointless. |
58,835 | In *Vampire: The Requiem*, the character has points to spend between attributes, skills, disciplines, etc. Purchasing a new level in a skill, attribute or other merit has a linear cost.
During game however, the xp cost of new level depends on the level of the skill you want to improve, meaning that you **always** shou... | 2015/03/30 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/58835",
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] | Yes
---
**Fix:**
Eliminate Bonus points *or* Undo the growing cost increase on attributes, skills, disciplines, etc. *or* Add the growing cost to Bonus Point pricing.
**The Problem**
Baring that, any time where character creation resources have a different math then leveling resources, there will be an 'optimal sol... | I suppose one must first as, Why must one min-max the character? If your looking at points on a sheet, then I wonder if any Storyteller system will work.
IE: The points on the sheet, should reflect the person. It actually takes more work to go from the Master's to a PhD than it does to go from Bachelor's to Master's, ... |
90,038 | Does anyone know if an enemy discovering the body of one of his sleeping comrades counts against you for a "Ghost" run? i.e. Not if they get any bolts in the 'detected' meter over their head, but if they just see the fellow thug/guard/etc and say something like "Hey! Wake up!". I was just wondering since it seems to sh... | 2012/10/24 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/90038",
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] | It doesn't. Here is proof from my recent stealthy, super-lethal playthrough of '[House of Pleasure](http://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/House_of_Pleasure)' mission stats (With no [Shadow Kill](http://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Kill). Notice that there are 12 bodies found, but 'Ghost' is checked):
[![enter image d... | No, it does not. I was awarded both Shadow/Ghost on my play-through and I ended up with several bodies discovered in the mission statistics for quite a few missions. |
25,074 | I would like to determine as accurately as possible (ideally within an error limit of +/- 0.25% or better, but I guess that's nigh impossible) the efficiency of a converter, using a simple method.
I need to have the instantaneous value of the efficiency, so calorimetric approaches won't do (Plus I don't have the equip... | 2012/01/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/25074",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
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] | Here's a relatively simple solution, but not necessarily a cheap one (depending on your budget).
An oscilloscope is not likely to give you the accuracy you asked for because they typically use an 8-bit ADC, giving 0.2% in measurement uncertainty just from the sampling digitization.
Instead, consider simply using two... | It would seem that the easy part is to measure the wattage being consumed by the load on the 5V output since you can easily use carbon resistors to construct a purely resistive load.
To measure the power consumed by the PS it would seem you would need to do power factor calculations. If accuracy were not so critical s... |
25,074 | I would like to determine as accurately as possible (ideally within an error limit of +/- 0.25% or better, but I guess that's nigh impossible) the efficiency of a converter, using a simple method.
I need to have the instantaneous value of the efficiency, so calorimetric approaches won't do (Plus I don't have the equip... | 2012/01/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/25074",
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] | A lot of the following is (hopefully) "applied common sense 101". There is a fair bit of empirical twiddling suggested (a bigger capacitor here causes ... / a longer tome constant helps xxx but makes yyy harder ...). While this may seem to be far more complex that "just using a bench power supply" the same consideratio... | It would seem that the easy part is to measure the wattage being consumed by the load on the 5V output since you can easily use carbon resistors to construct a purely resistive load.
To measure the power consumed by the PS it would seem you would need to do power factor calculations. If accuracy were not so critical s... |
25,074 | I would like to determine as accurately as possible (ideally within an error limit of +/- 0.25% or better, but I guess that's nigh impossible) the efficiency of a converter, using a simple method.
I need to have the instantaneous value of the efficiency, so calorimetric approaches won't do (Plus I don't have the equip... | 2012/01/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/25074",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/6007/"
] | Here's a relatively simple solution, but not necessarily a cheap one (depending on your budget).
An oscilloscope is not likely to give you the accuracy you asked for because they typically use an 8-bit ADC, giving 0.2% in measurement uncertainty just from the sampling digitization.
Instead, consider simply using two... | I assume that the input is a DC source (I try guessing: a photovoltaic panel?).
OPTION1: A I->V converter at the output of the converter, like the MAX4173 that you have on the board, and the same at the input. Then, using the oscilloscope with a good averaging, you can measure quite accurately the power consumed using... |
25,074 | I would like to determine as accurately as possible (ideally within an error limit of +/- 0.25% or better, but I guess that's nigh impossible) the efficiency of a converter, using a simple method.
I need to have the instantaneous value of the efficiency, so calorimetric approaches won't do (Plus I don't have the equip... | 2012/01/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/25074",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/6007/"
] | Here's a relatively simple solution, but not necessarily a cheap one (depending on your budget).
An oscilloscope is not likely to give you the accuracy you asked for because they typically use an 8-bit ADC, giving 0.2% in measurement uncertainty just from the sampling digitization.
Instead, consider simply using two... | A lot of the following is (hopefully) "applied common sense 101". There is a fair bit of empirical twiddling suggested (a bigger capacitor here causes ... / a longer tome constant helps xxx but makes yyy harder ...). While this may seem to be far more complex that "just using a bench power supply" the same consideratio... |
25,074 | I would like to determine as accurately as possible (ideally within an error limit of +/- 0.25% or better, but I guess that's nigh impossible) the efficiency of a converter, using a simple method.
I need to have the instantaneous value of the efficiency, so calorimetric approaches won't do (Plus I don't have the equip... | 2012/01/14 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/25074",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/6007/"
] | A lot of the following is (hopefully) "applied common sense 101". There is a fair bit of empirical twiddling suggested (a bigger capacitor here causes ... / a longer tome constant helps xxx but makes yyy harder ...). While this may seem to be far more complex that "just using a bench power supply" the same consideratio... | I assume that the input is a DC source (I try guessing: a photovoltaic panel?).
OPTION1: A I->V converter at the output of the converter, like the MAX4173 that you have on the board, and the same at the input. Then, using the oscilloscope with a good averaging, you can measure quite accurately the power consumed using... |
666,381 | I need to write an application that accepts very simple doodles by users, kind of like in [tenthousandcents](http://www.tenthousandcents.com/) and [thesheepmarket](http://www.thesheepmarket.com/).
For example, I might want users to write their name using their mouse.
Any suggestions?
I don't even need to host it mys... | 2009/03/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/666381",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20498/"
] | Another flash alternative and I just happen to like SVG.
[Amaltas SVG Web App](http://www.amaltas.org/svgapp/) | Well, tenthousandcents is a Adobe Flash application. The best place to start is to begin learning Flash if you'd really like to make something similar. There's really not going to be anything easy about accepting even simple doodles if you don't know any frameworks. |
666,381 | I need to write an application that accepts very simple doodles by users, kind of like in [tenthousandcents](http://www.tenthousandcents.com/) and [thesheepmarket](http://www.thesheepmarket.com/).
For example, I might want users to write their name using their mouse.
Any suggestions?
I don't even need to host it mys... | 2009/03/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/666381",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20498/"
] | Another flash alternative and I just happen to like SVG.
[Amaltas SVG Web App](http://www.amaltas.org/svgapp/) | You could use a java applet like [Shi-painter](http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA016309/spainter/index_en.html) like many [oekaki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oekaki) implementations do, such as [the one at iiichan.net](http://iiichan.net/boards/oekaki/paint.pl?oek_painter=shi_norm&oek_x=300&oek_y=300).
Disclaimer: I ... |
666,381 | I need to write an application that accepts very simple doodles by users, kind of like in [tenthousandcents](http://www.tenthousandcents.com/) and [thesheepmarket](http://www.thesheepmarket.com/).
For example, I might want users to write their name using their mouse.
Any suggestions?
I don't even need to host it mys... | 2009/03/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/666381",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20498/"
] | So far, the best and easiest solution I have found is to use something like this:
<http://www.flashnifties.com/flash_guestbook.php> | Another flash alternative and I just happen to like SVG.
[Amaltas SVG Web App](http://www.amaltas.org/svgapp/) |
666,381 | I need to write an application that accepts very simple doodles by users, kind of like in [tenthousandcents](http://www.tenthousandcents.com/) and [thesheepmarket](http://www.thesheepmarket.com/).
For example, I might want users to write their name using their mouse.
Any suggestions?
I don't even need to host it mys... | 2009/03/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/666381",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20498/"
] | So far, the best and easiest solution I have found is to use something like this:
<http://www.flashnifties.com/flash_guestbook.php> | One option is to use the HTML5 `<canvas>` tag, supported in Firefox, Safari, and Opera, with javascript, then uploading the image in form data.
This blocks out everyone using IE, though.
Adobe Flash is probably your best option. |
30,546 | I got a big self watering pot with 3 different plants. After some weeks it got some mold (something like [this](https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/1562/my-indoor-plant-has-an-orange-mold-like-substance-growing-on-it-and-has-tiny-whi), but I got it earlier) in it and after trying some stuff in the internet I ... | 2017/01/21 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/30546",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
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] | 
This is my DIY self watering container, or sub irrigation planter, based on Larry Walls ideas. It's a kiddie pool with overflow holes drilled at 2 inches, with two grow bags (one's a Walmart bag used because it purportedly has low lead content) filled wit... | I have two selfwatering pots, the grey version of [this](http://www.dedeman.ro/cluj-napoca/jardiniera-verbena-cu-tava-40cm-maro/p/7033597) or [this](http://www.dedeman.ro/cluj-napoca/jardiniera-verbena-cu-tava-40cm-alba/p/7033595). The images in the links will be enlarged when you point your mouse on them. The problem ... |
30,546 | I got a big self watering pot with 3 different plants. After some weeks it got some mold (something like [this](https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/1562/my-indoor-plant-has-an-orange-mold-like-substance-growing-on-it-and-has-tiny-whi), but I got it earlier) in it and after trying some stuff in the internet I ... | 2017/01/21 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/30546",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/16552/"
] | 
This is my DIY self watering container, or sub irrigation planter, based on Larry Walls ideas. It's a kiddie pool with overflow holes drilled at 2 inches, with two grow bags (one's a Walmart bag used because it purportedly has low lead content) filled wit... | I hate self watering anything to include those stupid gels they put in the potting soil. No way is this going to be better than just being there and being aware and watering when necessary. These pots don't care about the ambient temperature, the humidity, the drainage!! There are ways to deal with automatic watering b... |
30,546 | I got a big self watering pot with 3 different plants. After some weeks it got some mold (something like [this](https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/1562/my-indoor-plant-has-an-orange-mold-like-substance-growing-on-it-and-has-tiny-whi), but I got it earlier) in it and after trying some stuff in the internet I ... | 2017/01/21 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/30546",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/16552/"
] | I have two selfwatering pots, the grey version of [this](http://www.dedeman.ro/cluj-napoca/jardiniera-verbena-cu-tava-40cm-maro/p/7033597) or [this](http://www.dedeman.ro/cluj-napoca/jardiniera-verbena-cu-tava-40cm-alba/p/7033595). The images in the links will be enlarged when you point your mouse on them. The problem ... | I hate self watering anything to include those stupid gels they put in the potting soil. No way is this going to be better than just being there and being aware and watering when necessary. These pots don't care about the ambient temperature, the humidity, the drainage!! There are ways to deal with automatic watering b... |
30,546 | I got a big self watering pot with 3 different plants. After some weeks it got some mold (something like [this](https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/1562/my-indoor-plant-has-an-orange-mold-like-substance-growing-on-it-and-has-tiny-whi), but I got it earlier) in it and after trying some stuff in the internet I ... | 2017/01/21 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/30546",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/16552/"
] | I don't like self watering containers either - I've never known one that works efficiently, supplying every plant's needs and no more, they invariably develop fungal problems in the soil, or the plant does. I can see why people buy them, but its not the best way to care for plants.
The other problem is your tomato, pe... | I have two selfwatering pots, the grey version of [this](http://www.dedeman.ro/cluj-napoca/jardiniera-verbena-cu-tava-40cm-maro/p/7033597) or [this](http://www.dedeman.ro/cluj-napoca/jardiniera-verbena-cu-tava-40cm-alba/p/7033595). The images in the links will be enlarged when you point your mouse on them. The problem ... |
30,546 | I got a big self watering pot with 3 different plants. After some weeks it got some mold (something like [this](https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/1562/my-indoor-plant-has-an-orange-mold-like-substance-growing-on-it-and-has-tiny-whi), but I got it earlier) in it and after trying some stuff in the internet I ... | 2017/01/21 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/30546",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/16552/"
] | I don't like self watering containers either - I've never known one that works efficiently, supplying every plant's needs and no more, they invariably develop fungal problems in the soil, or the plant does. I can see why people buy them, but its not the best way to care for plants.
The other problem is your tomato, pe... | I hate self watering anything to include those stupid gels they put in the potting soil. No way is this going to be better than just being there and being aware and watering when necessary. These pots don't care about the ambient temperature, the humidity, the drainage!! There are ways to deal with automatic watering b... |
206,094 | I've been working through a recent Computer Science homework involving recursion and big-O notation. I believe I understand this pretty well (certainly not perfectly, though!) But there is one question in particular that is giving me the most problems. The odd thing is that by looking it, it looks to be the most simple... | 2008/10/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/206094",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/23323/"
] | There's a couple of different ways to solve recurrences: substitution, recurrence tree and master theorem. Master theorem won't work in the case, because it doesn't fit the master theorem form.
You could use the other two methods, but the easiest way for this problem is to solve it iteratively.
T(n) = 2T(n-1) + 1
... | >
> I think this will be exponential. Each increment to n brings twice as much calculation.
>
>
>
No, it doesn't. Quite on the contrary:
Consider that for *n* iterations, we get running time *R*. Then for *n* + 1 iterations we'll get exactly *R* + 1.
Thus, the growth rate is constant and the overall runtime is i... |
206,094 | I've been working through a recent Computer Science homework involving recursion and big-O notation. I believe I understand this pretty well (certainly not perfectly, though!) But there is one question in particular that is giving me the most problems. The odd thing is that by looking it, it looks to be the most simple... | 2008/10/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/206094",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/23323/"
] | I think you have misunderstood the question a bit. It does not ask you how long it would take to solve the recurrence. It is asking what the big-O (the asymptotic bound) of the solution itself is.
What you have to do is to come up with a closed form solution, i. e. the non-recursive formula for T(n), and then determi... | >
> I think this will be exponential. Each increment to n brings twice as much calculation.
>
>
>
No, it doesn't. Quite on the contrary:
Consider that for *n* iterations, we get running time *R*. Then for *n* + 1 iterations we'll get exactly *R* + 1.
Thus, the growth rate is constant and the overall runtime is i... |
206,094 | I've been working through a recent Computer Science homework involving recursion and big-O notation. I believe I understand this pretty well (certainly not perfectly, though!) But there is one question in particular that is giving me the most problems. The odd thing is that by looking it, it looks to be the most simple... | 2008/10/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/206094",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/23323/"
] | There's a couple of different ways to solve recurrences: substitution, recurrence tree and master theorem. Master theorem won't work in the case, because it doesn't fit the master theorem form.
You could use the other two methods, but the easiest way for this problem is to solve it iteratively.
T(n) = 2T(n-1) + 1
... | I think you have misunderstood the question a bit. It does not ask you how long it would take to solve the recurrence. It is asking what the big-O (the asymptotic bound) of the solution itself is.
What you have to do is to come up with a closed form solution, i. e. the non-recursive formula for T(n), and then determi... |
99,922 | I have a player in my game who is playing a DEX based monk. He is using an Amulet of Mighty Fists with Agile Magic Weapon ability to aid with damage and weapon finese to hit.
He is planning on going into Dragon Style, which grants a plus 1.5 bonus to STR damage on your first unarmed attack.
First would this be wasted... | 2017/05/16 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/99922",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/31670/"
] | The description of the agile property reads:
>
> Agile weapons are unusually well balanced and responsive. A wielder with the Weapon Finesse feat can choose to apply her Dexterity modifier to damage rolls with an agile weapon in place of her Strength modifier. **This modifier to damage is not increased for two-handed... | For the swap attribute question, [this gdoc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o91Z-s0R7Vf2Ujj1lFqGC5W--9JOyU0I6uC9XRIR5to/edit) contains useful informations (even if it's less and less up-to-date). Looking at it you can find feats that could have worked (like Slashing Grace), but doesn't since erratas. The Agile pro... |
492,971 | The ink of my Canon PIXMA MP280 all-in-one inkjet printer just ran out and I realized that not only I cannot print but I cannot scan (which doesn't need any ink, of course).
Upon making some further research it seems to me that it's a general practice on the behalf of all-in-one inkjet printer manufacturers to block t... | 2012/10/25 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/492971",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/136683/"
] | The scanner in my HP F4280 AIO (admittedly somewhat dated, but not *all* that old) will work as long as actual cartridges are inserted into the printer and recognized as such, no matter what their ink level is.
However, don't take this as general advice that HP AIOs all behave like this. They might decide to change it... | EASY ! On your printer HOLD "stop" button until it clears the error. Done . You can use your scanner . Just try not to use your printer to print or you can damage it with low or missing ink. |
4,026,130 | A client do not want to consider MonoTouch for a new project.
[MonoTouch.info](http://monotouch.info/MonoTouch/Apps) has a long list of apps, but I have not found any on the caliber that can convince a client too choose a technology. The client has seen the list, and actually use the bland screenshots as an argument ... | 2010/10/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4026130",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/165059/"
] | I responded on Twitter but thought I'd reply properly here;
The first app I will mention is iCircuit - <http://icircuitapp.com/> - this application is featured on the Apple website here - <http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/apps/index.html#workflow-icircuit> - and is a pretty good seller.
Diggify is a Digg applicatio... | I know of a couple apps that were built using Monotouch and sold very well but due to the uncertainly surrounding the terms when MT first came out and later the 3.3.1 mess the devs didn't make a big fuss out of it. I suspect they aren't the only ones not publicizing what technology they used to make their app.
If your... |
4,026,130 | A client do not want to consider MonoTouch for a new project.
[MonoTouch.info](http://monotouch.info/MonoTouch/Apps) has a long list of apps, but I have not found any on the caliber that can convince a client too choose a technology. The client has seen the list, and actually use the bland screenshots as an argument ... | 2010/10/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4026130",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/165059/"
] | I responded on Twitter but thought I'd reply properly here;
The first app I will mention is iCircuit - <http://icircuitapp.com/> - this application is featured on the Apple website here - <http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/apps/index.html#workflow-icircuit> - and is a pretty good seller.
Diggify is a Digg applicatio... | I found this article to be helpful when I'm trying to explain to others why I use Monotouch over native objective-c.
["Why we chose MonoTouch to write the Diggify iPhone app"](http://simon.nureality.ca/simon-says-why-we-chose-monotouch-to-write-the-diggify-iphone-app/) |
4,026,130 | A client do not want to consider MonoTouch for a new project.
[MonoTouch.info](http://monotouch.info/MonoTouch/Apps) has a long list of apps, but I have not found any on the caliber that can convince a client too choose a technology. The client has seen the list, and actually use the bland screenshots as an argument ... | 2010/10/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4026130",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/165059/"
] | I know of a couple apps that were built using Monotouch and sold very well but due to the uncertainly surrounding the terms when MT first came out and later the 3.3.1 mess the devs didn't make a big fuss out of it. I suspect they aren't the only ones not publicizing what technology they used to make their app.
If your... | I found this article to be helpful when I'm trying to explain to others why I use Monotouch over native objective-c.
["Why we chose MonoTouch to write the Diggify iPhone app"](http://simon.nureality.ca/simon-says-why-we-chose-monotouch-to-write-the-diggify-iphone-app/) |
35,778,556 | Very newbie question I assume.. I started playing around with ES and MongoDB and I'm trying to move data out a SQL DB as an exercise.
I can't help but wonder, what data would I store in Mongo and what in ES? Can I store everything in ES? Assume *big* data load, as in price trends. | 2016/03/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/35778556",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5721688/"
] | To begin with, MongoDB is so-called a document store. Key feature of such concept is that is stores schema-dynamic documents:
* Each record in a document collection can have a different structure
* Types of each records can be different
* Document properties (columns) can have nested structures
It's not schema-free, ... | There is a big difference between mongodb and ES.
MongoDB is a database which was design in order to store data in it and query thats, while elasticsearch is an lucene base indexer in which you should only index data for searches and should not trust elastisearch. even though you can use store:true in elastic search, i... |
1,430,508 | I made an employee handbook (booklet format) now I want to add two normal page documents (sign-off docs.) to the end of the booklet so that everything is in one file ready to print. I have tried copy and paste and the sign-off pages convert to half sheets size (booklet) or if I use keep formatting the entire booklet ch... | 2019/04/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1430508",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/1028669/"
] | ### Is there a way to bypass/overcome this?
Yes.
>
> **Can I turn off Safelinks?**
>
>
> To provide the best protection for your account, Safelinks are on by
> default. You can turn them off by signing in to
> [https://outlook.live.com](https://outlook.live.com/). Then select Settings > Premium >
> Security. Th... | In a corporate environment, Safelink (ATP) feature can NOT been disabled by employees. This is a disaster, because in all e-mails replies, the personalized bandworm URLs are included.
In the URL starting with <https://che01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?..>.
there is also the individual e-mail-address of employee i... |
11,792,931 | I need to compare Bikram Sambat dates in PHP. Lets say today in AD is 2012-08-03, the BS date today is 2069-04-19. In BS, we have total number of days in a month ranging from 29 to 32. Again, the days are not consistent in every year. Example if this year current month have 31 days, next year same month might have 30 o... | 2012/08/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11792931",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/744987/"
] | Generally, I would suggest converting both dates to unix timestamps (seconds since 1970-1-1 AD) which is a simple integer value for comparison.
Apparently, there is no simple logic behind BS so you will not be able to find an analytic expression that directly gets you from here to there. If you do not wish to use an ... | Have a look at the source code of [KashmirStamps.ca/Samvat.html](http://www.kashmirstamps.ca/Samvat.html)
It is converting BS Dates to AD dates. You will find Javascript Code & Logic. You can easily adapt the logic to PHP code. |
44,865 | I was rewatching *The Age of Adaline* and I got a little bit confused. What's the age of Adaline Bowman's daughter Flemming Prescott in the movie? She is aging normally and we eventually see her age ahead of her mother. The Narrator does mention Adaline doesn't age for the next 60 or 70 years. By that estimate wouldn't... | 2015/12/16 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/44865",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/28793/"
] | The locket wasn't needed to complete the ship, but it's symbolic in that it shows **Joe is finally willing to let the past go and embrace his future without his mom.** | If I remember correctly, when the alien had Joe in his arms, he told it something to the effect of that he knew a lot of bad things happened to it, but that it needed to let it go or something to that effect. So when the alien was drawing metal to the ship, it specifically chose the necklace as a way of saying the same... |
68,158 | In *Hacksaw Ridge* the Japanese just let the American soldiers climb up and there appeared to be no defence. The American soldiers were absolutely safe once they climbed down the ridge. The Japanese could shoot since they occupied a higher elevation. So why didn't they cut the ropes? | 2017/02/06 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/68158",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/29171/"
] | Keep in mind the movie is based on true events and there can be all kinds of reasons they didn't cut the ropes given the chaos of war and strategic motives of the different sides.
The Battle of Okinawa is known to be one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War and the key attack points were the beach and the ridge... | Simple answer the Japanese built that rope latter to get on the hill. However that hill is one way up and down whatever food and supplies the Japanese would get came from the rope so they can't cut it since that is there supply chain. Also why cut the rope if it's a one way up and down. It's make it easy for ambushing ... |
68,158 | In *Hacksaw Ridge* the Japanese just let the American soldiers climb up and there appeared to be no defence. The American soldiers were absolutely safe once they climbed down the ridge. The Japanese could shoot since they occupied a higher elevation. So why didn't they cut the ropes? | 2017/02/06 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/68158",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/29171/"
] | Keep in mind the movie is based on true events and there can be all kinds of reasons they didn't cut the ropes given the chaos of war and strategic motives of the different sides.
The Battle of Okinawa is known to be one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War and the key attack points were the beach and the ridge... | According to the true story the Japanese wanted the Americans close to their hideout for tactical reasons. I guess that is part of the reason why they didn't cut the ropes. Another reason could be the exposure to the heavy artillery at sea. Also, according to the true story Desmond Doss was one of the volunteers to cli... |
68,158 | In *Hacksaw Ridge* the Japanese just let the American soldiers climb up and there appeared to be no defence. The American soldiers were absolutely safe once they climbed down the ridge. The Japanese could shoot since they occupied a higher elevation. So why didn't they cut the ropes? | 2017/02/06 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/68158",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/29171/"
] | According to the true story the Japanese wanted the Americans close to their hideout for tactical reasons. I guess that is part of the reason why they didn't cut the ropes. Another reason could be the exposure to the heavy artillery at sea. Also, according to the true story Desmond Doss was one of the volunteers to cli... | Simple answer the Japanese built that rope latter to get on the hill. However that hill is one way up and down whatever food and supplies the Japanese would get came from the rope so they can't cut it since that is there supply chain. Also why cut the rope if it's a one way up and down. It's make it easy for ambushing ... |
68,158 | In *Hacksaw Ridge* the Japanese just let the American soldiers climb up and there appeared to be no defence. The American soldiers were absolutely safe once they climbed down the ridge. The Japanese could shoot since they occupied a higher elevation. So why didn't they cut the ropes? | 2017/02/06 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/68158",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/29171/"
] | You can find the answer in many accounts of the specific battle and I recommend watching the documentary on Doss, *The Conscientious Objector*. It is true that Doss was one of the ones tasked with securing the nets in the first place.
The ridge is much shorter than depicted in the movie and the terrain below it is far... | Simple answer the Japanese built that rope latter to get on the hill. However that hill is one way up and down whatever food and supplies the Japanese would get came from the rope so they can't cut it since that is there supply chain. Also why cut the rope if it's a one way up and down. It's make it easy for ambushing ... |
68,158 | In *Hacksaw Ridge* the Japanese just let the American soldiers climb up and there appeared to be no defence. The American soldiers were absolutely safe once they climbed down the ridge. The Japanese could shoot since they occupied a higher elevation. So why didn't they cut the ropes? | 2017/02/06 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/68158",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/29171/"
] | You can find the answer in many accounts of the specific battle and I recommend watching the documentary on Doss, *The Conscientious Objector*. It is true that Doss was one of the ones tasked with securing the nets in the first place.
The ridge is much shorter than depicted in the movie and the terrain below it is far... | According to the true story the Japanese wanted the Americans close to their hideout for tactical reasons. I guess that is part of the reason why they didn't cut the ropes. Another reason could be the exposure to the heavy artillery at sea. Also, according to the true story Desmond Doss was one of the volunteers to cli... |
276,561 | I have found some answers, they are not correct, but accepted as correct answers.
How can we treat such answers. | 2014/11/11 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/276561",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2756205/"
] | Well here are things that you could do here:
1. Vote down the answer
2. Comment warnings why you think the answer is a mistake. (Author might edit it)
3. Give an alternative answer which you think is appropriate
Things you can't do
1. Edit the answer (Edit is for minor grammar, spelling or formatting problems only)
... | There are many questions on SO that are *incorrect* but *accepted*. The simplest thing that can be done is to down-vote the answer and then leave a comment to the question (so that the OP finds out) as well as the answer (so that the answerer finds out) that the accepted answer is wrong. I've been on either side of thi... |
52,816 | My sink backs up when running water for 3 min. Also into dishwasher.
It's also a double sink.
On the other hand, my dishwasher also backs up into sink.
This causes a disgusting smell through my home.
Especially in the bathroom and my bedroom.
I do have a basement, and when water backs up into sink ..it also backs up... | 2014/11/14 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/52816",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/27933/"
] | It really sounds like the drain line blockage is beyond the place where the basement drain exits the foundation and goes off to either the public sewer system or private septic system. Could be broken underground line, line filled in with tree roots seeking water through joints or holes in the piping, or sediment / dep... | The problem is in the street, or at least towards it, as Michael suggests. If you snaked it yourself I doubt it made it all the way to the street. If it was professionally snaked, start making phone calls to whoever did it and to the city.
[Jerseyville Sewage Plant](http://www.yellowpages.com/jerseyville-il/mip/jersey... |
32,234 | I admit that this observation is entirely subjective, but it seems to me that there three-bladed rotors are significantly less popular than two or four.
Factors that I'm guessing contribute -
* Storage - two-bladed helicopters take up a lot less space. So you're probably going to stick with two blades until you're c... | 2016/10/10 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/32234",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/17435/"
] | Three bladed helicopters aren't rare. Many European small helicopters are three bladed:
* [Eurocopter Fennec](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_Fennec)
* [Eurocopter AS355](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_AS355)
* [Eurocopter Écureuil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_AS350_%C3%89cureuil)
* [PZ... | [Like with propellers](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13545/why-dont-aeroplanes-use-propellers-with-more-blades-like-the-intake-on-a-fanjet), the [blade count](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/23009/what-are-the-advantages-of-more-than-4-propeller-blades) on a helicopter rotor is a matter of [... |
32,234 | I admit that this observation is entirely subjective, but it seems to me that there three-bladed rotors are significantly less popular than two or four.
Factors that I'm guessing contribute -
* Storage - two-bladed helicopters take up a lot less space. So you're probably going to stick with two blades until you're c... | 2016/10/10 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/32234",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/17435/"
] | Three bladed helicopters aren't rare. Many European small helicopters are three bladed:
* [Eurocopter Fennec](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_Fennec)
* [Eurocopter AS355](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_AS355)
* [Eurocopter Écureuil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_AS350_%C3%89cureuil)
* [PZ... | While the above answers have some correct points, they miss the fundamental points of the structure and function of the rotor hub differences in the two and four blade rotors versus the three blade rotors. Both have safety issues that are nuanced, and the difference can change the mission for a given helicopter.
Two a... |
32,234 | I admit that this observation is entirely subjective, but it seems to me that there three-bladed rotors are significantly less popular than two or four.
Factors that I'm guessing contribute -
* Storage - two-bladed helicopters take up a lot less space. So you're probably going to stick with two blades until you're c... | 2016/10/10 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/32234",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/17435/"
] | Three bladed helicopters aren't rare. Many European small helicopters are three bladed:
* [Eurocopter Fennec](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_Fennec)
* [Eurocopter AS355](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_AS355)
* [Eurocopter Écureuil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_AS350_%C3%89cureuil)
* [PZ... | In addition to the reasons stated in the other answers, there is still a bit more on the subject. Often, the number of blades incorporated into a rotor design is about blade/disk loading, load carrying, speed-performance. Many times the number of blades is driven by vibration / ride quality and noise.
In the case of 3... |
32,234 | I admit that this observation is entirely subjective, but it seems to me that there three-bladed rotors are significantly less popular than two or four.
Factors that I'm guessing contribute -
* Storage - two-bladed helicopters take up a lot less space. So you're probably going to stick with two blades until you're c... | 2016/10/10 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/32234",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/17435/"
] | [Like with propellers](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13545/why-dont-aeroplanes-use-propellers-with-more-blades-like-the-intake-on-a-fanjet), the [blade count](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/23009/what-are-the-advantages-of-more-than-4-propeller-blades) on a helicopter rotor is a matter of [... | While the above answers have some correct points, they miss the fundamental points of the structure and function of the rotor hub differences in the two and four blade rotors versus the three blade rotors. Both have safety issues that are nuanced, and the difference can change the mission for a given helicopter.
Two a... |
32,234 | I admit that this observation is entirely subjective, but it seems to me that there three-bladed rotors are significantly less popular than two or four.
Factors that I'm guessing contribute -
* Storage - two-bladed helicopters take up a lot less space. So you're probably going to stick with two blades until you're c... | 2016/10/10 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/32234",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/17435/"
] | [Like with propellers](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13545/why-dont-aeroplanes-use-propellers-with-more-blades-like-the-intake-on-a-fanjet), the [blade count](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/23009/what-are-the-advantages-of-more-than-4-propeller-blades) on a helicopter rotor is a matter of [... | In addition to the reasons stated in the other answers, there is still a bit more on the subject. Often, the number of blades incorporated into a rotor design is about blade/disk loading, load carrying, speed-performance. Many times the number of blades is driven by vibration / ride quality and noise.
In the case of 3... |
420,680 | I had a bunch of questions bookmarked, but now I can't find them on my profile page. A quick Google search shows me results that are all from 2014 or prior. Where did they go? | 2022/10/04 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/420680",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/19123103/"
] | Bookmarks are being turned into Saves. As written in the [MSE post](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/382019/),
>
> The migration process will take some time to process as there are millions of bookmarked questions to migrate over. **If you’re not seeing any questions you previously bookmarked, that means they haven’t... | According to [the post TheMaster has linked to](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/382019/bookmarks-have-evolved-into-saves), I guess Bookmarks is being renamed Saves and is getting a bunch of new features such as creating a new lists (instead of a single bookmarks list) etc. The old bookmarks are meant be moved ... |
13,769 | I'm trying to mine for slush's pool with GUIminer. The miner says that I am mining, and gives me a mhash number, but says that no matter how long I mine, I still have 0 shares.
The pool says that I have no mhash input to the pool.
![enter image descr... | 2013/10/14 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/13769",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/7094/"
] | I agree that you really don't want to be mining with your cpu. If this was with your gpu and this was happening, your debug output would probably involve a "check your hardware" error like the one many people got from the newest AMD SDK. That is fixed by rolling back drivers to the best compatible set.
You should look... | Try setting the server as "other" and typing in stratum.bitcoin.cz as the host and 3333 as the port. |
718,632 | I've been looking to improve my programming habits and I heard that OO is the way to go.
Also I'd much prefer online tutorials over books. | 2009/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/718632",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75173/"
] | Learning how to use classes, methods, and attributes is not sufficient for making you a good object oriented programmer. The other (and usually much more difficult) part is understanding how to solve problems in an object-oriented way.
It's a bit like chess: Even if you have memorized the rules perfectly, it does not... | Not to be mean to Php, because it's quite good to get stuff done and fast, but Object Oriented Php is a non feature in my book, it's more productive to use Php as a procedural language, after all that's what it was made for, OOP is quite poor compared to other languages, same way I'd not use OOP with Perl either, if yo... |
718,632 | I've been looking to improve my programming habits and I heard that OO is the way to go.
Also I'd much prefer online tutorials over books. | 2009/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/718632",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75173/"
] | Here are a few good tutorials from the PHP guys themselves.
* [PHP 101 (part 7): The Bear Necessities](http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/638)
* [The OO Evolution of PHP](http://devzone.zend.com/article/1717-The-OO-Evolution-of-PHP)
* [Using Objects to Create an Application](http://devzone.zend.com/article/1240-Usin... | * [OO Tips](http://www.ootips.org/)
* [PHP Classes](http://www.phpclasses.org/)
* [OOP in PHP](http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Object-Oriented-Programming-in-PHP/)
* and [Google](http://www.google.com/search?q=object%20oriented%20programming%20using%20php&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:officia... |
718,632 | I've been looking to improve my programming habits and I heard that OO is the way to go.
Also I'd much prefer online tutorials over books. | 2009/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/718632",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75173/"
] | Here are a few good tutorials from the PHP guys themselves.
* [PHP 101 (part 7): The Bear Necessities](http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/638)
* [The OO Evolution of PHP](http://devzone.zend.com/article/1717-The-OO-Evolution-of-PHP)
* [Using Objects to Create an Application](http://devzone.zend.com/article/1240-Usin... | Learning how to use classes, methods, and attributes is not sufficient for making you a good object oriented programmer. The other (and usually much more difficult) part is understanding how to solve problems in an object-oriented way.
It's a bit like chess: Even if you have memorized the rules perfectly, it does not... |
718,632 | I've been looking to improve my programming habits and I heard that OO is the way to go.
Also I'd much prefer online tutorials over books. | 2009/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/718632",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75173/"
] | Here are a few good tutorials from the PHP guys themselves.
* [PHP 101 (part 7): The Bear Necessities](http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/638)
* [The OO Evolution of PHP](http://devzone.zend.com/article/1717-The-OO-Evolution-of-PHP)
* [Using Objects to Create an Application](http://devzone.zend.com/article/1240-Usin... | Although the jury is out on certification, you could do far worse than attend a [Zend course](http://www.zend.com/en/services/certification/php-5-certification/). |
718,632 | I've been looking to improve my programming habits and I heard that OO is the way to go.
Also I'd much prefer online tutorials over books. | 2009/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/718632",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75173/"
] | Неге is nice book which shows OOP in practice. You can download the sources from website and look what the book is about.
<http://objectorientedphp.com/> | Although the jury is out on certification, you could do far worse than attend a [Zend course](http://www.zend.com/en/services/certification/php-5-certification/). |
718,632 | I've been looking to improve my programming habits and I heard that OO is the way to go.
Also I'd much prefer online tutorials over books. | 2009/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/718632",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75173/"
] | Here are a few good tutorials from the PHP guys themselves.
* [PHP 101 (part 7): The Bear Necessities](http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/638)
* [The OO Evolution of PHP](http://devzone.zend.com/article/1717-The-OO-Evolution-of-PHP)
* [Using Objects to Create an Application](http://devzone.zend.com/article/1240-Usin... | Неге is nice book which shows OOP in practice. You can download the sources from website and look what the book is about.
<http://objectorientedphp.com/> |
718,632 | I've been looking to improve my programming habits and I heard that OO is the way to go.
Also I'd much prefer online tutorials over books. | 2009/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/718632",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75173/"
] | * [OO Tips](http://www.ootips.org/)
* [PHP Classes](http://www.phpclasses.org/)
* [OOP in PHP](http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Object-Oriented-Programming-in-PHP/)
* and [Google](http://www.google.com/search?q=object%20oriented%20programming%20using%20php&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:officia... | Неге is nice book which shows OOP in practice. You can download the sources from website and look what the book is about.
<http://objectorientedphp.com/> |
718,632 | I've been looking to improve my programming habits and I heard that OO is the way to go.
Also I'd much prefer online tutorials over books. | 2009/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/718632",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75173/"
] | Learning how to use classes, methods, and attributes is not sufficient for making you a good object oriented programmer. The other (and usually much more difficult) part is understanding how to solve problems in an object-oriented way.
It's a bit like chess: Even if you have memorized the rules perfectly, it does not... | A great place to start is the [PHP Classes and Objects](http://php.net/zend-engine-2.php) manual page. |
718,632 | I've been looking to improve my programming habits and I heard that OO is the way to go.
Also I'd much prefer online tutorials over books. | 2009/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/718632",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75173/"
] | Learning how to use classes, methods, and attributes is not sufficient for making you a good object oriented programmer. The other (and usually much more difficult) part is understanding how to solve problems in an object-oriented way.
It's a bit like chess: Even if you have memorized the rules perfectly, it does not... | Неге is nice book which shows OOP in practice. You can download the sources from website and look what the book is about.
<http://objectorientedphp.com/> |
718,632 | I've been looking to improve my programming habits and I heard that OO is the way to go.
Also I'd much prefer online tutorials over books. | 2009/04/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/718632",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75173/"
] | Here are a few good tutorials from the PHP guys themselves.
* [PHP 101 (part 7): The Bear Necessities](http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/638)
* [The OO Evolution of PHP](http://devzone.zend.com/article/1717-The-OO-Evolution-of-PHP)
* [Using Objects to Create an Application](http://devzone.zend.com/article/1240-Usin... | A great place to start is the [PHP Classes and Objects](http://php.net/zend-engine-2.php) manual page. |
25,485,565 | I am looking Magento module that has instant search feature, which is fast. I have more than 150k products on my store.
Any suggestion? | 2014/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/25485565",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/633650/"
] | This is a basic examle for Concurrency. Once you call the .Start() method on a thread object, it starts getting executed independent of the thread that started it. What your programm is doing:
1. Create the thread objects
2. Start tobj1 (the thread is not executed directly, but once the scheduler finds a place to put ... | This is in the heart of threads programming. While you have control over which thread you want to start first, the CPU is not obliged to follow your order of events. During the execution of one thread the CPU is guaranteed to follow you order of code execution as per your programming. When it comes to scheduling differ... |
59,667 | I work as software test engineer in a medium sized IT company. My lead usually assigns me task for the day which I try to finish asap. Sometimes when there is no build to test or when all the test execution is done, i have nothing to do for rest of the day. I read in a self-improvement/productivity article that to be m... | 2015/12/20 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59667",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45187/"
] | Yes.
Even better than asking for more work, demonstrate some initiative. Try and think of something you could do to improve some aspect of your job/division/company then take that proposal to your boss.
You know what bosses like even more than employees who get their work done? Employees who don't even have to be t... | Yes, it's a good thing to do once in a while. It shows you're keen. Bear in my mind that it can also have two repercussions.
Firstly it adds more work to your manager, which he/she may or may not be happy about if it's constantly happening. They need to then find or make up more work for you to do.
Secondly you may f... |
59,667 | I work as software test engineer in a medium sized IT company. My lead usually assigns me task for the day which I try to finish asap. Sometimes when there is no build to test or when all the test execution is done, i have nothing to do for rest of the day. I read in a self-improvement/productivity article that to be m... | 2015/12/20 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59667",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45187/"
] | Yes.
Even better than asking for more work, demonstrate some initiative. Try and think of something you could do to improve some aspect of your job/division/company then take that proposal to your boss.
You know what bosses like even more than employees who get their work done? Employees who don't even have to be t... | Yes, if you're just starting out. As a habit, no.
If you're new, it makes sense that your lead would have to search a bit to find work that you can do that fits your skills and knowledge. Then they would maybe want to review it before moving on to the next one.
As you gain experience, it is expected that you "dive in... |
59,667 | I work as software test engineer in a medium sized IT company. My lead usually assigns me task for the day which I try to finish asap. Sometimes when there is no build to test or when all the test execution is done, i have nothing to do for rest of the day. I read in a self-improvement/productivity article that to be m... | 2015/12/20 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59667",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45187/"
] | Yes.
Even better than asking for more work, demonstrate some initiative. Try and think of something you could do to improve some aspect of your job/division/company then take that proposal to your boss.
You know what bosses like even more than employees who get their work done? Employees who don't even have to be t... | You should ask for more work.
The only exception is if your manager knows you are finished, knows you are looking for more work, and there is no more work, and you asked before, so you know that asking for more work is pointless and only gets on his nerves.
In that case you can search for useful things to do. Alway... |
59,667 | I work as software test engineer in a medium sized IT company. My lead usually assigns me task for the day which I try to finish asap. Sometimes when there is no build to test or when all the test execution is done, i have nothing to do for rest of the day. I read in a self-improvement/productivity article that to be m... | 2015/12/20 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59667",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45187/"
] | Yes.
Even better than asking for more work, demonstrate some initiative. Try and think of something you could do to improve some aspect of your job/division/company then take that proposal to your boss.
You know what bosses like even more than employees who get their work done? Employees who don't even have to be t... | You may work on perfecting the given task. Could we have an extra Unit test? Could we improve the code? Have you tested everything properly, have you documented everything as required? Have you read all documentation you are supposed to know? And is it clear enough what this third party library method you call actually... |
59,667 | I work as software test engineer in a medium sized IT company. My lead usually assigns me task for the day which I try to finish asap. Sometimes when there is no build to test or when all the test execution is done, i have nothing to do for rest of the day. I read in a self-improvement/productivity article that to be m... | 2015/12/20 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59667",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45187/"
] | Yes, it's a good thing to do once in a while. It shows you're keen. Bear in my mind that it can also have two repercussions.
Firstly it adds more work to your manager, which he/she may or may not be happy about if it's constantly happening. They need to then find or make up more work for you to do.
Secondly you may f... | You should ask for more work.
The only exception is if your manager knows you are finished, knows you are looking for more work, and there is no more work, and you asked before, so you know that asking for more work is pointless and only gets on his nerves.
In that case you can search for useful things to do. Alway... |
59,667 | I work as software test engineer in a medium sized IT company. My lead usually assigns me task for the day which I try to finish asap. Sometimes when there is no build to test or when all the test execution is done, i have nothing to do for rest of the day. I read in a self-improvement/productivity article that to be m... | 2015/12/20 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59667",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45187/"
] | Yes, it's a good thing to do once in a while. It shows you're keen. Bear in my mind that it can also have two repercussions.
Firstly it adds more work to your manager, which he/she may or may not be happy about if it's constantly happening. They need to then find or make up more work for you to do.
Secondly you may f... | You may work on perfecting the given task. Could we have an extra Unit test? Could we improve the code? Have you tested everything properly, have you documented everything as required? Have you read all documentation you are supposed to know? And is it clear enough what this third party library method you call actually... |
59,667 | I work as software test engineer in a medium sized IT company. My lead usually assigns me task for the day which I try to finish asap. Sometimes when there is no build to test or when all the test execution is done, i have nothing to do for rest of the day. I read in a self-improvement/productivity article that to be m... | 2015/12/20 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59667",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45187/"
] | Yes, if you're just starting out. As a habit, no.
If you're new, it makes sense that your lead would have to search a bit to find work that you can do that fits your skills and knowledge. Then they would maybe want to review it before moving on to the next one.
As you gain experience, it is expected that you "dive in... | You should ask for more work.
The only exception is if your manager knows you are finished, knows you are looking for more work, and there is no more work, and you asked before, so you know that asking for more work is pointless and only gets on his nerves.
In that case you can search for useful things to do. Alway... |
59,667 | I work as software test engineer in a medium sized IT company. My lead usually assigns me task for the day which I try to finish asap. Sometimes when there is no build to test or when all the test execution is done, i have nothing to do for rest of the day. I read in a self-improvement/productivity article that to be m... | 2015/12/20 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59667",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/45187/"
] | Yes, if you're just starting out. As a habit, no.
If you're new, it makes sense that your lead would have to search a bit to find work that you can do that fits your skills and knowledge. Then they would maybe want to review it before moving on to the next one.
As you gain experience, it is expected that you "dive in... | You may work on perfecting the given task. Could we have an extra Unit test? Could we improve the code? Have you tested everything properly, have you documented everything as required? Have you read all documentation you are supposed to know? And is it clear enough what this third party library method you call actually... |
59,455 | I came across this interesting [photographic work](https://courroiedetransmission.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/klavdij-sluban-iles-kerguelen/) by an artist who went to [Kerguelen Islands](https://goo.gl/maps/AKHfPwQxa6B2), a windswept rock with a lunar landscape in the South Indian Ocean also known by the cheerful name "Îl... | 2015/12/02 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/59455",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/9551/"
] | Beautiful photos, they certainly capture the atmosphere there.
There is indeed no airport and the supply vessel, Marion Dufresne is not really a ferry. It transports the personnel and supplies destined for the research facilities on the Crozet, Kerguelen and Saint Paul & Amsterdam islands. The round trip from Reunion ... | If the [French Wikitravel article on Kerguelen](https://fr.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Archipel_des_Kerguelen) is to be believed, there is no airport on the island:
>
> Aucune infrastructure n'est prévue pour permettre l'atterrissage d'avions, un tel projet pourtant entamé il y a quelques années est aujourd'hui retombé dans ... |
11,880 | I am looking for a software, a library or an algorithm that can be trained to recognize about a dozen speaker independent voice commands.
The commands will be very distinct phrases of 4-5 words each. They can be chosen to sound very different from each other. Additionally, the commands will be in more than two differ... | 2014/10/01 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/11880",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/8044/"
] | [Simon](https://simon.kde.org/) is exactly what you are looking for.
Simon is **not a full speech-to-text engine** like Dragon Naturally Speaking is, but rather you can program Simon to **recognize specific phrases and to perform specific actions**. This works even if the phrases are **spoken by different people**.
S... | You need a software application like, [Dragon Naturally Speaking](http://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/Custom/pbpage.resp-dragon-home-basics/&kpid=PLA_Dragon_Premium_DNS_13?kpid=PLA_Dragon_Premium_DNS_13&gclid=CLiFhoHYrcECFZBi7AodP0AAqw). Dragon Naturally Speaking is one of the original voice recognition programs. I r... |
11,880 | I am looking for a software, a library or an algorithm that can be trained to recognize about a dozen speaker independent voice commands.
The commands will be very distinct phrases of 4-5 words each. They can be chosen to sound very different from each other. Additionally, the commands will be in more than two differ... | 2014/10/01 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/11880",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/8044/"
] | **[CMU PocketSphinx](http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/download)** is specifically designed to work in cases where a small set of voice commands are employed. As it uses a word-dependent phone dictionary, this would allow you to easily map different pronunciations to word actions.
It is possible to [further train ... | You need a software application like, [Dragon Naturally Speaking](http://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/Custom/pbpage.resp-dragon-home-basics/&kpid=PLA_Dragon_Premium_DNS_13?kpid=PLA_Dragon_Premium_DNS_13&gclid=CLiFhoHYrcECFZBi7AodP0AAqw). Dragon Naturally Speaking is one of the original voice recognition programs. I r... |
60,162,448 | I have uploaded the new build yesterday , after accepting missing compliance option status of build is 'Testing' but still invitation is not send to internal testers and not even showing any update in testflight app for that build . I have added 4 testers for this build . Please refer screenshot for the same .[![enter ... | 2020/02/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/60162448",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11018922/"
] | I got this from <https://twitter.com/hashtag/testflight>
>
> We can fix TestFlightApp new build issue by adding the "App Uses Non-Exempt Encryption" key in Info.plist (in my case set NO)and republishing
>
>
> <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying_with_encryption_export_regulations>
>
>
>
... | Remove all account from testing mail address who's not getting an update and add again they will get a new invite again.
They have to accept the request and they need to use the Testflight app in that they will enter a code which they will get in the mail. |
60,162,448 | I have uploaded the new build yesterday , after accepting missing compliance option status of build is 'Testing' but still invitation is not send to internal testers and not even showing any update in testflight app for that build . I have added 4 testers for this build . Please refer screenshot for the same .[![enter ... | 2020/02/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/60162448",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11018922/"
] | To fix this issue you have to add new key *ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption* into your info.plist.
See <https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/128878?start=105> for details. | Remove all account from testing mail address who's not getting an update and add again they will get a new invite again.
They have to accept the request and they need to use the Testflight app in that they will enter a code which they will get in the mail. |
60,162,448 | I have uploaded the new build yesterday , after accepting missing compliance option status of build is 'Testing' but still invitation is not send to internal testers and not even showing any update in testflight app for that build . I have added 4 testers for this build . Please refer screenshot for the same .[![enter ... | 2020/02/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/60162448",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11018922/"
] | I got this from <https://twitter.com/hashtag/testflight>
>
> We can fix TestFlightApp new build issue by adding the "App Uses Non-Exempt Encryption" key in Info.plist (in my case set NO)and republishing
>
>
> <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying_with_encryption_export_regulations>
>
>
>
... | The invitation column for given build number in empty. That means you have not invited any testers to the new build. Open that build and add users. I think you have to add testers for each build. I faced similar problem but when I added testers to new build all my testers got invitation. |
60,162,448 | I have uploaded the new build yesterday , after accepting missing compliance option status of build is 'Testing' but still invitation is not send to internal testers and not even showing any update in testflight app for that build . I have added 4 testers for this build . Please refer screenshot for the same .[![enter ... | 2020/02/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/60162448",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11018922/"
] | To fix this issue you have to add new key *ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption* into your info.plist.
See <https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/128878?start=105> for details. | The invitation column for given build number in empty. That means you have not invited any testers to the new build. Open that build and add users. I think you have to add testers for each build. I faced similar problem but when I added testers to new build all my testers got invitation. |
60,162,448 | I have uploaded the new build yesterday , after accepting missing compliance option status of build is 'Testing' but still invitation is not send to internal testers and not even showing any update in testflight app for that build . I have added 4 testers for this build . Please refer screenshot for the same .[![enter ... | 2020/02/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/60162448",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11018922/"
] | I got this from <https://twitter.com/hashtag/testflight>
>
> We can fix TestFlightApp new build issue by adding the "App Uses Non-Exempt Encryption" key in Info.plist (in my case set NO)and republishing
>
>
> <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying_with_encryption_export_regulations>
>
>
>
... | To fix this issue you have to add new key *ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption* into your info.plist.
See <https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/128878?start=105> for details. |
60,162,448 | I have uploaded the new build yesterday , after accepting missing compliance option status of build is 'Testing' but still invitation is not send to internal testers and not even showing any update in testflight app for that build . I have added 4 testers for this build . Please refer screenshot for the same .[![enter ... | 2020/02/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/60162448",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11018922/"
] | I got this from <https://twitter.com/hashtag/testflight>
>
> We can fix TestFlightApp new build issue by adding the "App Uses Non-Exempt Encryption" key in Info.plist (in my case set NO)and republishing
>
>
> <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying_with_encryption_export_regulations>
>
>
>
... | Was uploading a few versions successfully to appstore connect for testflight, the new version appears in appstore connect but not on client testflight apps.
Adding ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption in info.plist set to NO and reuploading another version solved the issue for me. |
60,162,448 | I have uploaded the new build yesterday , after accepting missing compliance option status of build is 'Testing' but still invitation is not send to internal testers and not even showing any update in testflight app for that build . I have added 4 testers for this build . Please refer screenshot for the same .[![enter ... | 2020/02/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/60162448",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11018922/"
] | To fix this issue you have to add new key *ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption* into your info.plist.
See <https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/128878?start=105> for details. | Was uploading a few versions successfully to appstore connect for testflight, the new version appears in appstore connect but not on client testflight apps.
Adding ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption in info.plist set to NO and reuploading another version solved the issue for me. |
33,712 | For precision I'm excluding artificial meteoroids and satellite debris (which is discussed in [another question](https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4858)) of all kinds. I'm also considering collisions large enough to produce a noticeable impact or scar (not truly microscopic dust that can only be detected from w... | 2019/01/19 | [
"https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/33712",
"https://space.stackexchange.com",
"https://space.stackexchange.com/users/23003/"
] | Hypervelocity impacts on the space shuttle Orbiters were analyzed over the years to determine their origin.
>
> After the post-flight inspection is completed, JSC
> personnel analyze samples extracted from the impact
> sites using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipped
> with energy dispersive X-ray spe... | [A History of Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris Impacts On The Space Shuttle](http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/2001ESASP.473..191H/0000193.000.html) lists the "top 20" strikes on space shuttle windows and radiators from 1992 to 2000; most of them are from debris but 4 appear to be from meteoroids. The biggest meteoroid ... |
33,712 | For precision I'm excluding artificial meteoroids and satellite debris (which is discussed in [another question](https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4858)) of all kinds. I'm also considering collisions large enough to produce a noticeable impact or scar (not truly microscopic dust that can only be detected from w... | 2019/01/19 | [
"https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/33712",
"https://space.stackexchange.com",
"https://space.stackexchange.com/users/23003/"
] | Hypervelocity impacts on the space shuttle Orbiters were analyzed over the years to determine their origin.
>
> After the post-flight inspection is completed, JSC
> personnel analyze samples extracted from the impact
> sites using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipped
> with energy dispersive X-ray spe... | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VdAMp.jpg)
Source: <https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/camera-on-nasas-lunar-orbiter-survi... |
33,712 | For precision I'm excluding artificial meteoroids and satellite debris (which is discussed in [another question](https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4858)) of all kinds. I'm also considering collisions large enough to produce a noticeable impact or scar (not truly microscopic dust that can only be detected from w... | 2019/01/19 | [
"https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/33712",
"https://space.stackexchange.com",
"https://space.stackexchange.com/users/23003/"
] | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VdAMp.jpg)
Source: <https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/camera-on-nasas-lunar-orbiter-survi... | [A History of Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris Impacts On The Space Shuttle](http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/2001ESASP.473..191H/0000193.000.html) lists the "top 20" strikes on space shuttle windows and radiators from 1992 to 2000; most of them are from debris but 4 appear to be from meteoroids. The biggest meteoroid ... |
5,589,047 | Hello I have a question recently I seen more and more sites using #/pagename instead of going to /pagename which is useful because it does not reload the page.
How can I do the same thing with jQuery? <http://mysite.com/id#/1> <-- would load user with id 1 if you would change that 1 to say 4564 <http://mysite.com/id#/... | 2011/04/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5589047",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/692114/"
] | You are actually seeing two things:
1. The request for content is be done asynchronously (AJAX). To accomplish this look at jQuery.Ajax. <http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/>
2. There is also a 'hash trick' to enable back button support. Typically, a standard Ajax call does not play well with the back button. For this ... | YOU are looking for the [jQuery history plugin](http://tkyk.github.com/jquery-history-plugin/). I've had great success with it, and there are triggers for when the hash changes so you can do whatever you want: load content with AJAX, or load a different slide, etc. |
5,589,047 | Hello I have a question recently I seen more and more sites using #/pagename instead of going to /pagename which is useful because it does not reload the page.
How can I do the same thing with jQuery? <http://mysite.com/id#/1> <-- would load user with id 1 if you would change that 1 to say 4564 <http://mysite.com/id#/... | 2011/04/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5589047",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/692114/"
] | You are actually seeing two things:
1. The request for content is be done asynchronously (AJAX). To accomplish this look at jQuery.Ajax. <http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/>
2. There is also a 'hash trick' to enable back button support. Typically, a standard Ajax call does not play well with the back button. For this ... | I would recommend you look at [sammy](http://sammyjs.org/).
It's a very light javascript framework intended to implement a thin-server model like this where the rendering occurs on the client's computer in javascript instead of served pages from a remote server. This is what allows many sites to avoid doing full relo... |
223,014 | The purring sound of the Enterprise warp core is iconic (for example <https://news.avclub.com/read-this-behind-the-scenes-of-sci-fi-s-most-soothing-1798247701>). Is there an in-universe explanation for the components or processes specifically responsible for this sound?
I'm asking specifically about the throbbing of t... | 2019/11/13 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/223014",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/69587/"
] | According to the EU novel *[Captain's Glory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%27s_Glory)* (written by William Shatner), the sound you're hearing is **the sounds of matter-antimatter collision, contained within a forcefield.**
>
> At once he heard **the thrum of the matter-antimatter reactor power up** as the ves... | The pulsating thrum of the engine could be a [beat](http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/beat.html), that is, the sound resulting from the alternation of constructive and destructive interference of sound waves. But what generates the sound waves to begin with, I do not know. You can hear a beat demonstrate... |
63,494 | Here's an image to help (the top is the original image, the bottom is after moving the white object to the front):
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qS5Ub.png)
What I need is an object that is all of the white in the image. The problem is that the white s... | 2015/11/20 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/63494",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/54516/"
] | * Select all blue paths;
* Go to Path > Union; this will join them in one big path;
* Select both the white path underneath and the blue shape;
* Go to Path > Difference; this will "cut out" the blue shape out of the white. | A totally different approach which works also (even if it's a bit odd) is to take a screenshot, import it into a new Inkscape file (File -> Import) and then do Trace Bitmap (it's in the Path menu).
This creates a vector object on top of the selected bitmap.
I usually prefer the "vector" approach (as explained in other... |
4,789,075 | **original question**
when should i use multi-tier web application instead of single tier web application?
**update to my question**
i accepted the following definition to differentiale **"Tier"** and **"Layer"**
**Layers** Refer to specific layers of abstraction with in an application (software) where as **tiers**... | 2011/01/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4789075",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/521066/"
] | Let's start by asking, will the application hold data? If it does, is the data going to be read by multiple users concurrently? How often? Based on the answer to these questions (and many other) you might want to decide whether a database is the way to go.
As far as layers (UI, Data Access, Business Logic, etc) is con... | >
> when should i use multi-tier web application (Tier == "Hardware"------physical)
>
>
>
Scalability. |
204,687 | I own two starbound characters: one Avian and one Novakid. I need to know how to make a new world for every character. The latter of the two is my first character, and he already exhausted the resources on every planet in the system. I need to know how to generate a new world for my avian, and, if possible, every chara... | 2015/02/08 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/204687",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/101691/"
] | There's no way to generate a new universe, as each character on your PC will share the same planets. This means any buildings you create can be visited by any character, not just the one that built it. You could also place chests full of things for your other characters to pick up and use for themselves.
Given that th... | Since all the characters on your pc share the same universe, stuff you leave on the planet will be available for all your characters going there.
So if your first character exhausted the resources of the base planet, you could go haverst some in another system and then bring them back to the base planet and leave them... |
204,687 | I own two starbound characters: one Avian and one Novakid. I need to know how to make a new world for every character. The latter of the two is my first character, and he already exhausted the resources on every planet in the system. I need to know how to generate a new world for my avian, and, if possible, every chara... | 2015/02/08 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/204687",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/101691/"
] | There's no way to make a new universe for each character *in the game*, but there is a workaround you can use. Amongst the folders where Starbound is installed on your computer, you can find a folder called "universe" and a folder called "player." These folders do exactly what it says on the tin: one saves all your uni... | There's no way to generate a new universe, as each character on your PC will share the same planets. This means any buildings you create can be visited by any character, not just the one that built it. You could also place chests full of things for your other characters to pick up and use for themselves.
Given that th... |
204,687 | I own two starbound characters: one Avian and one Novakid. I need to know how to make a new world for every character. The latter of the two is my first character, and he already exhausted the resources on every planet in the system. I need to know how to generate a new world for my avian, and, if possible, every chara... | 2015/02/08 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/204687",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/101691/"
] | There's no way to make a new universe for each character *in the game*, but there is a workaround you can use. Amongst the folders where Starbound is installed on your computer, you can find a folder called "universe" and a folder called "player." These folders do exactly what it says on the tin: one saves all your uni... | Since all the characters on your pc share the same universe, stuff you leave on the planet will be available for all your characters going there.
So if your first character exhausted the resources of the base planet, you could go haverst some in another system and then bring them back to the base planet and leave them... |
1,184 | For a school project, I'm trying to make an automated flight planner, considering mainly the differences in flight paths according to wind.
Now I've heard that flying with/against the wind affects airspeed. But I really don't know any specific(even empirical) laws on determining by how much it does so.
What's more, ... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1184",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/579/"
] | Well, the formulae in the Wikipedia page you reference are simple consequences of this model:
* Your aircraft instruments measure speed relative to the surrounding air (air speed)
* The surrounding air moves with respect to the ground (wind speed)
* The speed of the aircraft vs the ground will be the vector sum of bot... | +1 on the notion that ground speed is the straightforward vector addition of air speed and wind speed.
Manual flight computers such as the classic Dalton E6B allow you to do this vector math graphically. From a starting point in the middle of your plastic plate you draw a line in the direction of the wind speed, with ... |
1,184 | For a school project, I'm trying to make an automated flight planner, considering mainly the differences in flight paths according to wind.
Now I've heard that flying with/against the wind affects airspeed. But I really don't know any specific(even empirical) laws on determining by how much it does so.
What's more, ... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1184",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/579/"
] | Well, the formulae in the Wikipedia page you reference are simple consequences of this model:
* Your aircraft instruments measure speed relative to the surrounding air (air speed)
* The surrounding air moves with respect to the ground (wind speed)
* The speed of the aircraft vs the ground will be the vector sum of bot... | Get yourself an [E6B](http://www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/12654).
It has two sides.
One side is a simple circular slide rule, for doing all kinds of multiplication and division, for speed-time-fuel-flow problems.
You want the other side, which features a sliding card and a transparent disk overlay on it, on which... |
1,184 | For a school project, I'm trying to make an automated flight planner, considering mainly the differences in flight paths according to wind.
Now I've heard that flying with/against the wind affects airspeed. But I really don't know any specific(even empirical) laws on determining by how much it does so.
What's more, ... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1184",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/579/"
] | For your purposes, you can simply assume that the airplane travels at a constant velocity through the air mass. "Wind" simply means that this air mass is moving with respect to the ground.
If the airplane's velocity through the air is (a vector) v, and the air velocity with respect to the ground is a vector w, then t... | +1 on the notion that ground speed is the straightforward vector addition of air speed and wind speed.
Manual flight computers such as the classic Dalton E6B allow you to do this vector math graphically. From a starting point in the middle of your plastic plate you draw a line in the direction of the wind speed, with ... |
1,184 | For a school project, I'm trying to make an automated flight planner, considering mainly the differences in flight paths according to wind.
Now I've heard that flying with/against the wind affects airspeed. But I really don't know any specific(even empirical) laws on determining by how much it does so.
What's more, ... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1184",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/579/"
] | For your purposes, you can simply assume that the airplane travels at a constant velocity through the air mass. "Wind" simply means that this air mass is moving with respect to the ground.
If the airplane's velocity through the air is (a vector) v, and the air velocity with respect to the ground is a vector w, then t... | Get yourself an [E6B](http://www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/12654).
It has two sides.
One side is a simple circular slide rule, for doing all kinds of multiplication and division, for speed-time-fuel-flow problems.
You want the other side, which features a sliding card and a transparent disk overlay on it, on which... |
25,030 | Apple and Google are going head-to-head to define meaning of the three-horizontal-bars icon: 
In iOS this icon means "drag me to rearrange items in a list" while Google Chrome's version means "click me to bring up a menu".
Is one of these two meanin... | 2012/08/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/25030",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11413/"
] | **Three bar icons are now being used widely to indicate a "show list/menu" function - it's not just Chrome.** Below are screenshots from Day One and PlaceMe (I only had to open a couple of apps to find examples of this usage).
 
Matching tha... |
25,030 | Apple and Google are going head-to-head to define meaning of the three-horizontal-bars icon: 
In iOS this icon means "drag me to rearrange items in a list" while Google Chrome's version means "click me to bring up a menu".
Is one of these two meanin... | 2012/08/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/25030",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11413/"
] | **Three bar icons are now being used widely to indicate a "show list/menu" function - it's not just Chrome.** Below are screenshots from Day One and PlaceMe (I only had to open a couple of apps to find examples of this usage).
 ](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k8O3X.png)
Apple has changed its drag-and-drop icon to be visually distinct fr... |
25,030 | Apple and Google are going head-to-head to define meaning of the three-horizontal-bars icon: 
In iOS this icon means "drag me to rearrange items in a list" while Google Chrome's version means "click me to bring up a menu".
Is one of these two meanin... | 2012/08/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/25030",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11413/"
] | drag'n'drop nearly always has bad affordance.
The current model in gmail is the following:
Albeit I'm not sure if they're really serious about it, esp. as it only appears to the hovered element.
The previous one was this:
In iOS this icon means "drag me to rearrange items in a list" while Google Chrome's version means "click me to bring up a menu".
Is one of these two meanin... | 2012/08/25 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/25030",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/11413/"
] | drag'n'drop nearly always has bad affordance.
The current model in gmail is the following:
Albeit I'm not sure if they're really serious about it, esp. as it only appears to the hovered element.
The previous one was this:
](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k8O3X.png)
Apple has changed its drag-and-drop icon to be visually distinct fr... |
37,930 | We are building a ecommerce with a inventory of about 6000 products, the problem is most of the products have the same description so we decided to keep description as `noindex` and make it available to users to prevent the issue of duplicate content.
I heard that it will be a big impact if there is no product descrip... | 2012/11/16 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/37930",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/19987/"
] | If you have no descriptive text for your products you will have lots of "thin content" pages that will not be viewed favorably by search engines such as Google.
On the other hand, if you have repeated descriptions you will have lots of "duplicate content" that will not be viewed favorably, either.
Unfortuantely, ther... | What do you mean you decided to keep descriptions as noindex? Isn't the product description displaying on the product page? If you don't have product descriptions setup product features so that each page has an ordered list of features of the product. Color size etc. |
37,930 | We are building a ecommerce with a inventory of about 6000 products, the problem is most of the products have the same description so we decided to keep description as `noindex` and make it available to users to prevent the issue of duplicate content.
I heard that it will be a big impact if there is no product descrip... | 2012/11/16 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/37930",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/19987/"
] | If you have no descriptive text for your products you will have lots of "thin content" pages that will not be viewed favorably by search engines such as Google.
On the other hand, if you have repeated descriptions you will have lots of "duplicate content" that will not be viewed favorably, either.
Unfortuantely, ther... | It all boils down to what you're planning to do and what your expectations are (and whether they're realistic).
Your website isn't up yet, and the question you should ask yourself is: are you expecting to receive traffic from Google? Getting customers to find your website through some search engine?
If the answer is ... |
267,741 | I autoresolved a battle against a rebellion and got a shiny new mortar.
After several manual tries on the same battle, I have been unable to actually capture any artillery myself.
How does that work? What do you have to do? | 2016/06/02 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/267741",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/28546/"
] | My understanding is as follows -
* The army you are fighting against must be of the same faction
* The artillery crew must be wiped out and there artillery pieces intact
* You must have a spare unit slot at the end of the battle
Many people have stated that there is an element of randomness too. Some have quoted roug... | After several manual battles i only get one capture art. I send one unit to attack them , forget that unit and battle finish while my unit was close, attacking the abandoned machines.
But others battles didnt work |
133,125 | Are there any other IDEs worth my time for Lotus Notes development? We're doing mostly LotusScript development and would kill for features of Eclipse or Visual Studio, like "Show Declaration". I know there's [an Eclipse plugin for Java development in Notes](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notes-eclipse/... | 2008/09/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/133125",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6897/"
] | The closest thing you're going to find is the [Teamstudio LotusScript Browser](http://www.teamstudio.com/support/free-utilities.html).
It's not very good, but it is free and that almost makes up for it.
Features:
1. No support for keyboard shortcuts.
2. Not completely integrated into the designer so is a bit sluggi... | Teamstudio sell a number of tools to assist your Lotus Notes development, and it looks like they can do some of the things you want, but it doesn't look like they can be assembled into an IDE.
<http://www.teamstudio.com/products/product-index.html>
(Disclosure: I worked for a sister company of Team Studio a number of... |
133,125 | Are there any other IDEs worth my time for Lotus Notes development? We're doing mostly LotusScript development and would kill for features of Eclipse or Visual Studio, like "Show Declaration". I know there's [an Eclipse plugin for Java development in Notes](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notes-eclipse/... | 2008/09/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/133125",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6897/"
] | Lotus Notes has moved to the Eclipse platform in version 8. You can run the client in 2 different modes, basic mode which is the version we all know or on the Eclipse platform (know as the standard). The IDE is also moving to eclipse, version 8.5 beta 2 is currently available with the new Eclipse based IDE. Bear in min... | The closest thing you're going to find is the [Teamstudio LotusScript Browser](http://www.teamstudio.com/support/free-utilities.html).
It's not very good, but it is free and that almost makes up for it.
Features:
1. No support for keyboard shortcuts.
2. Not completely integrated into the designer so is a bit sluggi... |
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