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4,555,682 | Imagine I have the two dimensional image of a hotdog. I can draw a straight line on the hotdog between its two ends. Call this the midline. One of its properties is that it is the axis about which the (2D) hotdog has the lowest moment of inertia.
Now if I bend the hotdog in an arc, this midline will also distort.
Gi... | 2010/12/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4555682",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/287289/"
] | If I understand your question, you want a line through your object where every point is in the middle of the object, i.e. if you start from any point on the midline and walk in a direction perpendicular to the midline, you have to walk the same distance in both directions until you meet the border of the object:
![Hot... | You're probably looking for the Voronoi diagram, which will give you all the points that are equidistant from the shape "hot dog" edges -- e.g. the path/spine/ridge/midline down the middle.
And here's an image to help visualize it: <http://vision.ai.uiuc.edu/~sintod/images/research/VoronoiDiag.png>
Mapping this image... |
34,902 | its my first time to do work with wordpress , now I am wanted to show some images in my site with fancybox.when I click images then show in some big size, for this I read some document,install plugin and activate, but no popup box is open, so I want to know what is the easiest and correct way to do this, thanks.
and 1... | 2011/11/28 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/34902",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/10638/"
] | I suggest [Easy Fancybox](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-fancybox/) by RavanH. I use it on all of the sites I work on. It automatically add fancybox functionality to images, so there is minimal work required. | If you are talking about popup box (e.g. shadowbox or lightbox) than easiest way to do is download plugin called "Shadowbox JS" for dark and "Lightbox" for light theme. infact if you are familiar with css than can change look and feel.
But only thing is plugin will apply to all images and big images pops up with box.
... |
34,902 | its my first time to do work with wordpress , now I am wanted to show some images in my site with fancybox.when I click images then show in some big size, for this I read some document,install plugin and activate, but no popup box is open, so I want to know what is the easiest and correct way to do this, thanks.
and 1... | 2011/11/28 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/34902",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/10638/"
] | I suggest [Easy Fancybox](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-fancybox/) by RavanH. I use it on all of the sites I work on. It automatically add fancybox functionality to images, so there is minimal work required. | you can use Nextgen gallery plugin which will have the all option like fancybox lightbox and slide show.once activate the plugin go to the setting gallery options page and select fancyb[enter link description here](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-ngg-with-fancybox-plugin)ox option in drop down... |
33,708 | Sometimes I want to try answering someone's question to receive feedback for my answer from more qualified people, because I am not sure if my answer is valid. I am willing to take my answer down if it is completely wrong; I just mainly want the feedback.
Of course, I will try not to be the first person to answer as t... | 2021/06/15 | [
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33708",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | If you are unsure whether your answer would be valid, then it would be more sensible to ask a new question about whether your approach is correct. If people confirm that your answer is valid, then you can post your solution.
Answering people's questions without knowing whether your solution is correct is not a good id... | You may try answering. But, if it turns out not to be an answer, you may get downvotes. Are you willing to suffer downvotes? Then go ahead! This is how you learn, and this is how math.se gets good answers.
If you also have many correct answers and/or many good questions, then a bad answer or two will not be a problem.... |
33,708 | Sometimes I want to try answering someone's question to receive feedback for my answer from more qualified people, because I am not sure if my answer is valid. I am willing to take my answer down if it is completely wrong; I just mainly want the feedback.
Of course, I will try not to be the first person to answer as t... | 2021/06/15 | [
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33708",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/users/814679/"
] | (removes moderator hat)
The following is an un-nuanced and declarative answer. I acknowledge that there is room for discussion here, but I think that it is worthwhile to have a general policy which is clear. Edge cases can be handled as they arise.
>
> Is it acceptable to post an answer that has a chance of being in... | You may try answering. But, if it turns out not to be an answer, you may get downvotes. Are you willing to suffer downvotes? Then go ahead! This is how you learn, and this is how math.se gets good answers.
If you also have many correct answers and/or many good questions, then a bad answer or two will not be a problem.... |
33,708 | Sometimes I want to try answering someone's question to receive feedback for my answer from more qualified people, because I am not sure if my answer is valid. I am willing to take my answer down if it is completely wrong; I just mainly want the feedback.
Of course, I will try not to be the first person to answer as t... | 2021/06/15 | [
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33708",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/users/814679/"
] | (removes moderator hat)
The following is an un-nuanced and declarative answer. I acknowledge that there is room for discussion here, but I think that it is worthwhile to have a general policy which is clear. Edge cases can be handled as they arise.
>
> Is it acceptable to post an answer that has a chance of being in... | If you are unsure whether your answer would be valid, then it would be more sensible to ask a new question about whether your approach is correct. If people confirm that your answer is valid, then you can post your solution.
Answering people's questions without knowing whether your solution is correct is not a good id... |
387,734 | One of my client PC's blue screened overnight and wouldn't boot.
The system post was hanging also for about 10 seconds trying to find the drive.
System would not boot afterwards saying "inaccessible boot device".
The BIOS also had some trouble finding the drive half the time.
I tried slapping the drive, hitting it o... | 2012/02/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/387734",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/102181/"
] | Not sure why it affected the bios at all, but chkdsk marks bad sectors so that they won't be used again. You should replace the disk ASAP because it is likely to get worse. | Probably got lucky it started working again after the drop,freeze and thaw out.
Chkdsk log will be in event viewer but does not give much details when run in Windows.
FYI, next time you run chkdsk while in XP use the following command to generate a log
CHKDSK /R C: > C:\REPORT.TXT (this will not work if chkdsk is sc... |
387,734 | One of my client PC's blue screened overnight and wouldn't boot.
The system post was hanging also for about 10 seconds trying to find the drive.
System would not boot afterwards saying "inaccessible boot device".
The BIOS also had some trouble finding the drive half the time.
I tried slapping the drive, hitting it o... | 2012/02/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/387734",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/102181/"
] | Probably got lucky it started working again after the drop,freeze and thaw out.
Chkdsk log will be in event viewer but does not give much details when run in Windows.
FYI, next time you run chkdsk while in XP use the following command to generate a log
CHKDSK /R C: > C:\REPORT.TXT (this will not work if chkdsk is sc... | A drive can stumble over bad clusters and take forever to get past that, it does not factualy define it as being completly dead. On the other hand it could have even been a cable or controller problem. If it is having bad sectors and adding in more over time, it WILL be dead.
You now have a disk item that is aged f... |
387,734 | One of my client PC's blue screened overnight and wouldn't boot.
The system post was hanging also for about 10 seconds trying to find the drive.
System would not boot afterwards saying "inaccessible boot device".
The BIOS also had some trouble finding the drive half the time.
I tried slapping the drive, hitting it o... | 2012/02/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/387734",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/102181/"
] | Not sure why it affected the bios at all, but chkdsk marks bad sectors so that they won't be used again. You should replace the disk ASAP because it is likely to get worse. | A drive can stumble over bad clusters and take forever to get past that, it does not factualy define it as being completly dead. On the other hand it could have even been a cable or controller problem. If it is having bad sectors and adding in more over time, it WILL be dead.
You now have a disk item that is aged f... |
4,743 | ### Goal
I want to create an artificial intelligence to compete against other players in a board game.
### Game explanation
I have a board game similar to 'snakes and ladders'. You have to get to a final field before your opponent does. But instead of depending on luck (throwing the dices) this game uses something l... | 2017/12/14 | [
"https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/4743",
"https://ai.stackexchange.com",
"https://ai.stackexchange.com/users/11585/"
] | Assuming it is a turn-based game and, for each turn, there's an optimal choice that will lead to the winning state (zero-sum), you can basically simplify the question to "*What is the optimal sequences of moves for me to win, considering the current situation that is presented on the board?*". So you will need to perfo... | To make an AI opponent, you'll need to create a sub-routine that considers the current state of the board and chooses a move, just like the player would.
Now, how does this subroutine choose what move to make? You need to take the current board and calculate its value. Then consider every possible move you could make... |
443,363 | I have several used 18650 batteries from my old laptop battery. They all look OK, I have charged them and discharged. The capacity is around 1700 mAh, nominal capacity was 2500 mAh when new.
I'm thinking about how to use them.
There is wall clock in kids bedroom. I'm about to add some LEDs to it so the clock is sli... | 2019/06/13 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/443363",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/85985/"
] | No one here will give you a safety **guarantee**!
There simply are no guarantees that can be given.
However what you describe is far from the typical scenario where lithium based cells cause safety issues. Safety issues generally occur:
* when fast charging
* when charging doesn't stop when it should have
* the cell... | It depends on battery chemistry also. IMR and INR are very safe, while ICR are dangerous. Since you already have a protection device on the input side, I would think that even commercially available lights aren't any better made. Except they are probably made from Alu tube case that absorbs the explosion.
What is more... |
24,264,107 | I'm a totally .net noob and try to automatize a .net build with bamboo. It seems like most people use Nant/Msbuild as build tool but these ones does not manage project dependencies.
I want a tool like maven which handles both dependency management and build process. When I check out the documentation, NuGet seems like... | 2014/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/24264107",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/354138/"
] | You've got the right idea. Nuget is a package manager and resolves dependencies as needed. Then MSBuild is the compiler which compiles your project into assemblies which can be executed. Your project can be configured in a way which will cause Nuget to resolve all the dependencies (also known as 'restoring the packages... | From the NuGet homepage.
>
> NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform
> including .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce
> and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central package
> repository used by all package authors and consumers.
>
>
>
It is not a bui... |
61,085 | So I have started my master thesis and I have been handed a time series dataset with 2000 rows and nearly 600 columns of data. I have dealt with time series before, but nowhere similar to this level of complexity. Many courses in time series only deals with univariate time series, and now I'm supposed to work on a time... | 2019/10/01 | [
"https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/61085",
"https://datascience.stackexchange.com",
"https://datascience.stackexchange.com/users/83098/"
] | For larger projects [snakemake](https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) is a way to go for Python (it extends Python syntax, valid Python is valid snakemake). It originates in bioinformatics and even has its own [publication](https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/28/19/2520/290322/); it is widley adopted... | Ploomber works the same way, it keeps track of your source code and it only runs outdated steps to bring your pipeline up-to-date: <https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber>
Disclaimer: I'm the project's author |
286,211 | How do we share QGIS projects that includes PostGIS data? If I create a project loading PostGIS data with reader permissions, nobody can modify the data. If saved layers had been loaded from PostGIS with an administrator or editor's credentials then anyone opening that project can modify the data.
We could create proje... | 2018/06/13 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/286211",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/34648/"
] | We use a generic 'reader' account rather than individual user accounts. This way they can be used to share QGIS projects with anyone who has that account set up on their QGIS instance.
The QGIS projects then reside on our shared network drive for anyone to use.
We also have an 'editor' account for those who are mak... | Thanks DPSSpatial. We have decided to implement generic accounts for individual workflows supplying projects with data loaded using the service account and a PostGIS connection set up with the service account credentials to each team. |
20,745 | There's BTC, and everything else. But how are the call letters registered and is there a comprehensive list of them all? | 2014/01/18 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/20745",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/12367/"
] | I don't think you'll find a complete list since there are so many of them out there. Some alt coins have changed their 3 character codes, some alt coins have used the same 3 character codes that had been used by a different coin in the past.
I've been keeping a list of my addresses on the spreadsheet below but this sp... | The 3-call letters aren't standardized, all the alt coins are just modified protocols of the original Bitcoin protocol where differences can be as small as a different port. The 3-letters thing are just abbreviations people commonly use. |
96,071 | What is the etymological origin of *quid* in its sense of a sovereign or guinea?
While preparing the question [Origin of “not for quids” phrase](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96067) I noticed that etymonline's *[quid](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=quid)* entry merely says
>
> "one pound ste... | 2012/12/30 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96071",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/11433/"
] | The OED is less confident than some other sources:
>
> Origin uncertain; **perhaps** [from] classical Latin *quid* ‘what',
> reinterpreted within English to refer to (monetary) means or
> wherewithal. (My emphasis.)
>
>
> | According to Milroy J. and Milroy. L, "Authority in Language" (1985),
>
> [...] *quid pro quo* probably gave rise to the slang "quid", a unit of money which varies with the context in which it is used.
>
>
>
And the plural is often the same as the singular. (same reference) |
96,071 | What is the etymological origin of *quid* in its sense of a sovereign or guinea?
While preparing the question [Origin of “not for quids” phrase](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96067) I noticed that etymonline's *[quid](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=quid)* entry merely says
>
> "one pound ste... | 2012/12/30 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96071",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/11433/"
] | According to Milroy J. and Milroy. L, "Authority in Language" (1985),
>
> [...] *quid pro quo* probably gave rise to the slang "quid", a unit of money which varies with the context in which it is used.
>
>
>
And the plural is often the same as the singular. (same reference) | My mother told me that another use for quid was as a term for a lump of phlegm coughed up. That it was green and, so she seemed to infer, squarish, connected it it to a pond note. Which came first, though, though, I don't know. |
96,071 | What is the etymological origin of *quid* in its sense of a sovereign or guinea?
While preparing the question [Origin of “not for quids” phrase](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96067) I noticed that etymonline's *[quid](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=quid)* entry merely says
>
> "one pound ste... | 2012/12/30 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96071",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/11433/"
] | The OED is less confident than some other sources:
>
> Origin uncertain; **perhaps** [from] classical Latin *quid* ‘what',
> reinterpreted within English to refer to (monetary) means or
> wherewithal. (My emphasis.)
>
>
> | My mother told me that another use for quid was as a term for a lump of phlegm coughed up. That it was green and, so she seemed to infer, squarish, connected it it to a pond note. Which came first, though, though, I don't know. |
179,457 | I took a few flights recently, and for the first time ever (for me), all passengers were told before departing that "taking photos or videos of other passengers or crew is not permitted unless you get permission from them". Seems like this is really being enforced, because on one flight an elderly passenger who took a ... | 2023/02/16 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/179457",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/133131/"
] | Apart from the legal aspect, I could imagine another reason why new policies concerning filming (and photographing) on board have been established:
There seems to be an increase in video footage of passengers and airline personnel in controversial situations (e.g. concerning enforcement of health-related mask manda... | >
> Photos of people in airplanes specifically not permitted. [...] Where is this coming from?
>
>
>
Typically, from the airline policy, as it's the case [in the US where airplanes are not considered public spaces](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rules-of-taking-photos-and-videos-on-planes/):
>
> Airlines have more... |
179,457 | I took a few flights recently, and for the first time ever (for me), all passengers were told before departing that "taking photos or videos of other passengers or crew is not permitted unless you get permission from them". Seems like this is really being enforced, because on one flight an elderly passenger who took a ... | 2023/02/16 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/179457",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/133131/"
] | >
> Photos of people in airplanes specifically not permitted. [...] Where is this coming from?
>
>
>
Typically, from the airline policy, as it's the case [in the US where airplanes are not considered public spaces](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rules-of-taking-photos-and-videos-on-planes/):
>
> Airlines have more... | Surely it depends on the jurisdiction to which the plane is subject, just like with ships? The law of the country under whose flag the plane flies applies to everyone in the plane, just as it would on land. If that country specifies restrictions on photographing people you are bound by those. Airlines may presumably ap... |
179,457 | I took a few flights recently, and for the first time ever (for me), all passengers were told before departing that "taking photos or videos of other passengers or crew is not permitted unless you get permission from them". Seems like this is really being enforced, because on one flight an elderly passenger who took a ... | 2023/02/16 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/179457",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/133131/"
] | Apart from the legal aspect, I could imagine another reason why new policies concerning filming (and photographing) on board have been established:
There seems to be an increase in video footage of passengers and airline personnel in controversial situations (e.g. concerning enforcement of health-related mask manda... | Surely it depends on the jurisdiction to which the plane is subject, just like with ships? The law of the country under whose flag the plane flies applies to everyone in the plane, just as it would on land. If that country specifies restrictions on photographing people you are bound by those. Airlines may presumably ap... |
171,662 | By default, Apache2 seems to allow only 1 connection per IP address.
How do I configure Apache2 to allow multiple simultaneous connections from the same IP address?
Here is my situation:
1. a web app being hosted on a server.
2. a remote client makes an request that may take 15 seconds to complete.
3. the same remot... | 2010/08/18 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/171662",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/51483/"
] | This topic is a bit outdated but i hope that my post may be useful for someone who is experiencing similar problem.
I have noticed that such a behavior is PHP related if you are using built-in sessions functions and session data is kept in files. PHP acquires an exclusive lock of the session file and if another proc... | That doesn't sound right. Apache doesn't limit it to one connection per IP. It sounds like whatever you're requesting from the server is causing the holdup. Apache is likely passing both (or more) connections to your app, and the app is causing the bottleneck.
Can you elaborate on your setup a bit further? What is you... |
91,178 | I'm a Wizard with 20 Intelligence, who has obviously memorized a few songs. Could I use my Improved Minor Illusion (Illusion School) to conjure up an illusory flute, and make sounds that make it seem like I'm actually playing it?
This would be for the purpose of securing free room & board at taverns, etc. | 2016/12/03 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/91178",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/32688/"
] | Probably not
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You can create an image of a flute, but when you try to "play" it, the illusion reveals:
>
> Physical interaction with the object reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.
>
>
>
But you can "play the invisible flute"
--------------------------------------
You ac... | Minor Illusion only lasts one minute, so there would be gaps in your song. And anyone who was listening critically would probably get a save.
If you were using your illusion skills to entertain an audience (e.g. to earn money), that would require a Charisma (Performance) check. |
91,178 | I'm a Wizard with 20 Intelligence, who has obviously memorized a few songs. Could I use my Improved Minor Illusion (Illusion School) to conjure up an illusory flute, and make sounds that make it seem like I'm actually playing it?
This would be for the purpose of securing free room & board at taverns, etc. | 2016/12/03 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/91178",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/32688/"
] | Probably not
------------
You can create an image of a flute, but when you try to "play" it, the illusion reveals:
>
> Physical interaction with the object reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.
>
>
>
But you can "play the invisible flute"
--------------------------------------
You ac... | You can create the illusion of a flute and a melody, but you need to be skilled to make it pleasant
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Minor Illusion](https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/minor-illusion) says about the sounds it can create:
>
> It can be ... |
91,178 | I'm a Wizard with 20 Intelligence, who has obviously memorized a few songs. Could I use my Improved Minor Illusion (Illusion School) to conjure up an illusory flute, and make sounds that make it seem like I'm actually playing it?
This would be for the purpose of securing free room & board at taverns, etc. | 2016/12/03 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/91178",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/32688/"
] | Minor Illusion only lasts one minute, so there would be gaps in your song. And anyone who was listening critically would probably get a save.
If you were using your illusion skills to entertain an audience (e.g. to earn money), that would require a Charisma (Performance) check. | You can create the illusion of a flute and a melody, but you need to be skilled to make it pleasant
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Minor Illusion](https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/minor-illusion) says about the sounds it can create:
>
> It can be ... |
10,107 | I was considering purchasing Family Tree Maker only to find it has been discontinued.
What do they plan for a replacement ? | 2016/01/05 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/10107",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/4571/"
] | In late December 2016, MacKiev announced the free update for users who had previously purchased FTM2014 from Ancestry. (This was an update for users who had Ancestry's FTM2014 to MacKiev's version of FTM2014. Users who signed up for the mailing list at that time were eventually offered a discount for FTM2017 before it ... | Ancestry.com [announced](http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/12/08/ancestry-to-retire-family-tree-maker-software/) that Family Tree Maker was retired on 8 Dec 2015. There has been A LOT of blog coverage and commentary, both serious and hysterical. Just google: ["family tree maker" retired](https://www.google.ca/web... |
10,107 | I was considering purchasing Family Tree Maker only to find it has been discontinued.
What do they plan for a replacement ? | 2016/01/05 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/10107",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/4571/"
] | Ancestry.com [announced](http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/12/08/ancestry-to-retire-family-tree-maker-software/) that Family Tree Maker was retired on 8 Dec 2015. There has been A LOT of blog coverage and commentary, both serious and hysterical. Just google: ["family tree maker" retired](https://www.google.ca/web... | On February 1st, 2016 I had a conversation with a Ancestry.com representative and they said multiple software vendors are being worked with to provide access but could not name any of them at that time on each platform.
I also reached out to the makers of [MacFamilyTree](http://www.syniumsoftware.com/macfamilytree) an... |
10,107 | I was considering purchasing Family Tree Maker only to find it has been discontinued.
What do they plan for a replacement ? | 2016/01/05 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/10107",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/4571/"
] | Ancestry.com [announced](http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/12/08/ancestry-to-retire-family-tree-maker-software/) that Family Tree Maker was retired on 8 Dec 2015. There has been A LOT of blog coverage and commentary, both serious and hysterical. Just google: ["family tree maker" retired](https://www.google.ca/web... | I'd say that you should ask what it is you need your genealogy software to do. Then check the features on offer. If FTM matches your requirements, then by all means use it. I still see new copies of FTM on sale from time to time, and since Ancestry's announcement they are "cheap as chips".
Full disclosure: I'm still u... |
10,107 | I was considering purchasing Family Tree Maker only to find it has been discontinued.
What do they plan for a replacement ? | 2016/01/05 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/10107",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/4571/"
] | Ancestry.com [announced](http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/12/08/ancestry-to-retire-family-tree-maker-software/) that Family Tree Maker was retired on 8 Dec 2015. There has been A LOT of blog coverage and commentary, both serious and hysterical. Just google: ["family tree maker" retired](https://www.google.ca/web... | I prepaid for Family Tree Maker in May, that was suppose to come out this past summer. Here it is Christmas and I haven't received it. I paid for the CD and wanted to put it in 3 computers.
Sue Davis |
10,107 | I was considering purchasing Family Tree Maker only to find it has been discontinued.
What do they plan for a replacement ? | 2016/01/05 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/10107",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/4571/"
] | In late December 2016, MacKiev announced the free update for users who had previously purchased FTM2014 from Ancestry. (This was an update for users who had Ancestry's FTM2014 to MacKiev's version of FTM2014. Users who signed up for the mailing list at that time were eventually offered a discount for FTM2017 before it ... | On February 1st, 2016 I had a conversation with a Ancestry.com representative and they said multiple software vendors are being worked with to provide access but could not name any of them at that time on each platform.
I also reached out to the makers of [MacFamilyTree](http://www.syniumsoftware.com/macfamilytree) an... |
10,107 | I was considering purchasing Family Tree Maker only to find it has been discontinued.
What do they plan for a replacement ? | 2016/01/05 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/10107",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/4571/"
] | In late December 2016, MacKiev announced the free update for users who had previously purchased FTM2014 from Ancestry. (This was an update for users who had Ancestry's FTM2014 to MacKiev's version of FTM2014. Users who signed up for the mailing list at that time were eventually offered a discount for FTM2017 before it ... | I'd say that you should ask what it is you need your genealogy software to do. Then check the features on offer. If FTM matches your requirements, then by all means use it. I still see new copies of FTM on sale from time to time, and since Ancestry's announcement they are "cheap as chips".
Full disclosure: I'm still u... |
10,107 | I was considering purchasing Family Tree Maker only to find it has been discontinued.
What do they plan for a replacement ? | 2016/01/05 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/10107",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/4571/"
] | In late December 2016, MacKiev announced the free update for users who had previously purchased FTM2014 from Ancestry. (This was an update for users who had Ancestry's FTM2014 to MacKiev's version of FTM2014. Users who signed up for the mailing list at that time were eventually offered a discount for FTM2017 before it ... | I prepaid for Family Tree Maker in May, that was suppose to come out this past summer. Here it is Christmas and I haven't received it. I paid for the CD and wanted to put it in 3 computers.
Sue Davis |
10,107 | I was considering purchasing Family Tree Maker only to find it has been discontinued.
What do they plan for a replacement ? | 2016/01/05 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/10107",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/4571/"
] | On February 1st, 2016 I had a conversation with a Ancestry.com representative and they said multiple software vendors are being worked with to provide access but could not name any of them at that time on each platform.
I also reached out to the makers of [MacFamilyTree](http://www.syniumsoftware.com/macfamilytree) an... | I'd say that you should ask what it is you need your genealogy software to do. Then check the features on offer. If FTM matches your requirements, then by all means use it. I still see new copies of FTM on sale from time to time, and since Ancestry's announcement they are "cheap as chips".
Full disclosure: I'm still u... |
10,107 | I was considering purchasing Family Tree Maker only to find it has been discontinued.
What do they plan for a replacement ? | 2016/01/05 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/10107",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/4571/"
] | On February 1st, 2016 I had a conversation with a Ancestry.com representative and they said multiple software vendors are being worked with to provide access but could not name any of them at that time on each platform.
I also reached out to the makers of [MacFamilyTree](http://www.syniumsoftware.com/macfamilytree) an... | I prepaid for Family Tree Maker in May, that was suppose to come out this past summer. Here it is Christmas and I haven't received it. I paid for the CD and wanted to put it in 3 computers.
Sue Davis |
10,107 | I was considering purchasing Family Tree Maker only to find it has been discontinued.
What do they plan for a replacement ? | 2016/01/05 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/10107",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/4571/"
] | I'd say that you should ask what it is you need your genealogy software to do. Then check the features on offer. If FTM matches your requirements, then by all means use it. I still see new copies of FTM on sale from time to time, and since Ancestry's announcement they are "cheap as chips".
Full disclosure: I'm still u... | I prepaid for Family Tree Maker in May, that was suppose to come out this past summer. Here it is Christmas and I haven't received it. I paid for the CD and wanted to put it in 3 computers.
Sue Davis |
38,520 | I have customer data with the products they purchased and the purchase date.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KPoYO.png)
I want to extract a result that shows each customer and the first two fruits they purchased.
My actual set has 90000 rows with 9000 unique custo... | 2018/09/20 | [
"https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/38520",
"https://datascience.stackexchange.com",
"https://datascience.stackexchange.com/users/59351/"
] | Why not, because the risks outweigh the benefits.
It might work in images, where loss of pixels / voxels could be somewhat "reconstructed" by other layers, also pixel/voxel loss is somewhat common in image processing. But if you use it on other problems like NLP or tabular data, dropping columns of data randomly won't... | It is not uncommon to use dropout on the inputs. In the original [paper](http://jmlr.org/papers/v15/srivastava14a.html) the authors usually use dropout with a retention rate of 50% for hidden units and 80% for (real-valued) inputs. For inputs that represent categorical values (e.g. one-hot encoded) a simple dropout pro... |
336,428 | I have an Xbox One and I originally created an account under my name. My son is playing Fortnite and I wanted to create his own ID. Can I merge his game data from my account ID to his? | 2018/07/23 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/336428",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/215863/"
] | Game data is normally tied to the account, especially if it is an online Game like Fortnite. You can try contacting Epic Games or Microsoft for more advanced support, but there is no user-side settings for account merging. | Fortnite is different, they'll go off your Epic games account. Everything unlocked by that account will transfer over as long as the Epic account ins in place, this also applies to other platforms.
However, there are only a few games like this. So take Rapitor's point as well. |
968,091 | What is the internal storage mechanism of WSS 3.0? Does it need SQL Server 2005 or can we use **SQL Server 2005 Embedded Edition** automatically installed with WSS 3.0? If yes then what is the limit of the content for a web application if it uses SSEE?
Let say I have created a web application in WSS 3.0 then how much ... | 2009/06/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/968091",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/119574/"
] | Beside the database limitation there are some other SharePoint limitations and advises regarding the numbers of items per library or numbers of site collections per web application or content database.
[MOSS Limitations 1](http://www.migrationspecialists.com/Linda/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=350fe595-be3d-43d5-9355-70... | It uses SQL Server 2005 Express Edition which I believe has a limit of 4GB per database. You could create multiple content databases for separate site collections but there may also be some performance limitations in the express edition.
Here is a page that compares editions:
<http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/e... |
968,091 | What is the internal storage mechanism of WSS 3.0? Does it need SQL Server 2005 or can we use **SQL Server 2005 Embedded Edition** automatically installed with WSS 3.0? If yes then what is the limit of the content for a web application if it uses SSEE?
Let say I have created a web application in WSS 3.0 then how much ... | 2009/06/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/968091",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/119574/"
] | This is quite a common misconception - the paranoid amongst us may even thing that MSFT doesn't do much to clear this up as it pushes people along the route of buying SQL Server...
Tin hats away though ...
* When you use the "Basic" install option during **MOSS 2007** installation it does install and use [SQL Server ... | It uses SQL Server 2005 Express Edition which I believe has a limit of 4GB per database. You could create multiple content databases for separate site collections but there may also be some performance limitations in the express edition.
Here is a page that compares editions:
<http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/e... |
968,091 | What is the internal storage mechanism of WSS 3.0? Does it need SQL Server 2005 or can we use **SQL Server 2005 Embedded Edition** automatically installed with WSS 3.0? If yes then what is the limit of the content for a web application if it uses SSEE?
Let say I have created a web application in WSS 3.0 then how much ... | 2009/06/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/968091",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/119574/"
] | Beside the database limitation there are some other SharePoint limitations and advises regarding the numbers of items per library or numbers of site collections per web application or content database.
[MOSS Limitations 1](http://www.migrationspecialists.com/Linda/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=350fe595-be3d-43d5-9355-70... | Josh pretty much has the answer. As for the "how many documents and lists and whatevers" question, the answer is "as many as you want so long as you don't slam into the 4gb limit."
I'd also note that if you start getting near that 4gb limit, you can always upgrade to full-blown SQL server with very minimal pain so it ... |
968,091 | What is the internal storage mechanism of WSS 3.0? Does it need SQL Server 2005 or can we use **SQL Server 2005 Embedded Edition** automatically installed with WSS 3.0? If yes then what is the limit of the content for a web application if it uses SSEE?
Let say I have created a web application in WSS 3.0 then how much ... | 2009/06/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/968091",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/119574/"
] | This is quite a common misconception - the paranoid amongst us may even thing that MSFT doesn't do much to clear this up as it pushes people along the route of buying SQL Server...
Tin hats away though ...
* When you use the "Basic" install option during **MOSS 2007** installation it does install and use [SQL Server ... | Josh pretty much has the answer. As for the "how many documents and lists and whatevers" question, the answer is "as many as you want so long as you don't slam into the 4gb limit."
I'd also note that if you start getting near that 4gb limit, you can always upgrade to full-blown SQL server with very minimal pain so it ... |
968,091 | What is the internal storage mechanism of WSS 3.0? Does it need SQL Server 2005 or can we use **SQL Server 2005 Embedded Edition** automatically installed with WSS 3.0? If yes then what is the limit of the content for a web application if it uses SSEE?
Let say I have created a web application in WSS 3.0 then how much ... | 2009/06/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/968091",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/119574/"
] | Beside the database limitation there are some other SharePoint limitations and advises regarding the numbers of items per library or numbers of site collections per web application or content database.
[MOSS Limitations 1](http://www.migrationspecialists.com/Linda/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=350fe595-be3d-43d5-9355-70... | When installing SharePoint 2007 you can specify the SQL Server database to connect to yourself. If you don't do this SharePoint will use the Windows Internal Database, otherwise known as WYukon. This database is not the same as SQL Express and there's two key differences. (1) WYukon isn't artificially limited in databa... |
968,091 | What is the internal storage mechanism of WSS 3.0? Does it need SQL Server 2005 or can we use **SQL Server 2005 Embedded Edition** automatically installed with WSS 3.0? If yes then what is the limit of the content for a web application if it uses SSEE?
Let say I have created a web application in WSS 3.0 then how much ... | 2009/06/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/968091",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/119574/"
] | This is quite a common misconception - the paranoid amongst us may even thing that MSFT doesn't do much to clear this up as it pushes people along the route of buying SQL Server...
Tin hats away though ...
* When you use the "Basic" install option during **MOSS 2007** installation it does install and use [SQL Server ... | Beside the database limitation there are some other SharePoint limitations and advises regarding the numbers of items per library or numbers of site collections per web application or content database.
[MOSS Limitations 1](http://www.migrationspecialists.com/Linda/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=350fe595-be3d-43d5-9355-70... |
968,091 | What is the internal storage mechanism of WSS 3.0? Does it need SQL Server 2005 or can we use **SQL Server 2005 Embedded Edition** automatically installed with WSS 3.0? If yes then what is the limit of the content for a web application if it uses SSEE?
Let say I have created a web application in WSS 3.0 then how much ... | 2009/06/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/968091",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/119574/"
] | This is quite a common misconception - the paranoid amongst us may even thing that MSFT doesn't do much to clear this up as it pushes people along the route of buying SQL Server...
Tin hats away though ...
* When you use the "Basic" install option during **MOSS 2007** installation it does install and use [SQL Server ... | When installing SharePoint 2007 you can specify the SQL Server database to connect to yourself. If you don't do this SharePoint will use the Windows Internal Database, otherwise known as WYukon. This database is not the same as SQL Express and there's two key differences. (1) WYukon isn't artificially limited in databa... |
250,100 | I have a photo of a laser beam (taken by sending the laser into a CCD). I then took the image and ran it through an image reader that gave an intensity surface plot. I then took a single cut from that plot and got a standard scatter plot from it. As an example, the image and final scatter plot are below.
Is there is s... | 2016/04/17 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/250100",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/55920/"
] | Per Einstein's theory, they both are one and the same thing. There is some, yet not known property of space, and mass, that causes this phenomenon. Even if the property becomes known today, the question will be why that property exists? | As general relativity says, gravity is nothing but a geometry of space time. The bending of spacetime is caused by mass and energy distributions, which we see as gravity. Both accounts to the same thing. The spacetime is affected by mass as well as condensed energy. It could successfully explain why there is gravity an... |
19,902,142 | I've developed an application that worked fine on my two devices as well as on my client's few. Though at the moment I'm facing a problem, when my application doesn't even launch on some devices and I have no access to those devices (these are the devices of people, who downloaded it from the google play).
Is there any... | 2013/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/19902142",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2448395/"
] | Consider using services like: [Crittercism](http://Crittercism.com) or [TestFlight](http://testflightapp.com/) which offer much better features to let you catch all crashes than what Android got built-in. | Try with this application. It will catch all the logs, like android Log Cat. After that you can [CrashLog](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=crashLog.cutebabyTW). You can also integrate [ACRA](https://github.com/ACRA/acra) in your application. |
440,969 | I'm trying to say that someone agrees to fly to Europe, is it correct to put it that way? | 2018/04/10 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/440969",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/292618/"
] | "To be good with (something)" is very colloquial for "to find (something) acceptable or satisfactory", "to be satisfied with (something)". I think it's a fairly recent idiom, and I don't know how broadly used it is; I'm in the U.S. It's used correctly in your sentence, as long as such casual language is appropriate for... | Compare:
"He's flying to Europe"
"He's good flying to Europe."
"He's with flying to Europe."
"He's good with Europe."
In the end, it's kind of like responding to the quesion "Do you want more salad?" with "I'm good!"
You aren't really good, and even if you were, you could possibly eat more salad and not become bad. ... |
440,969 | I'm trying to say that someone agrees to fly to Europe, is it correct to put it that way? | 2018/04/10 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/440969",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/292618/"
] | "To be good with (something)" is very colloquial for "to find (something) acceptable or satisfactory", "to be satisfied with (something)". I think it's a fairly recent idiom, and I don't know how broadly used it is; I'm in the U.S. It's used correctly in your sentence, as long as such casual language is appropriate for... | I would say, "He is agreeable to" flying to Europe. This conveys the right shade of meaning. It does not rule out reluctance on his part. |
440,969 | I'm trying to say that someone agrees to fly to Europe, is it correct to put it that way? | 2018/04/10 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/440969",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/292618/"
] | I would say, "He is agreeable to" flying to Europe. This conveys the right shade of meaning. It does not rule out reluctance on his part. | Compare:
"He's flying to Europe"
"He's good flying to Europe."
"He's with flying to Europe."
"He's good with Europe."
In the end, it's kind of like responding to the quesion "Do you want more salad?" with "I'm good!"
You aren't really good, and even if you were, you could possibly eat more salad and not become bad. ... |
941,704 | I have a newish iMac running Mountain Lion, and I'm using Word 2008. I have sorted my list, which is more than a hundred pages long and has many duplicate phrases. Each phrase is on a separate line and each line ends with a hard return. I tried entering ^([^\n]+)\n\1 into the Find What: field in the Find and Replace di... | 2015/07/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/941704",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/470267/"
] | That's a difficult thing to solve at a large distance. Possibly (and hopefully) the harddisk wasn't really formatted, but just the partition table changed. If your NTFS partition was set to RAW, then you can maybe set the type back to NTFS using some utility like [`gparted`](http://gparted.org). If you look at the home... | if you only formatted the drive without writing any other data, your data should be fine. I don't think that formatting it back to NTFS will destroy your data but if you can find a program that can recover the data from RAW that would be the safest way to recover them.
However, if you installed Linux after formatting ... |
941,704 | I have a newish iMac running Mountain Lion, and I'm using Word 2008. I have sorted my list, which is more than a hundred pages long and has many duplicate phrases. Each phrase is on a separate line and each line ends with a hard return. I tried entering ^([^\n]+)\n\1 into the Find What: field in the Find and Replace di... | 2015/07/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/941704",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/470267/"
] | That's a difficult thing to solve at a large distance. Possibly (and hopefully) the harddisk wasn't really formatted, but just the partition table changed. If your NTFS partition was set to RAW, then you can maybe set the type back to NTFS using some utility like [`gparted`](http://gparted.org). If you look at the home... | If you did a full delete of your files and they really have a big value for you, I'd stop doing anything on that drive, go to a harddrive recovery lab near to yours, and... recover your data if its really valuable. I had that kind (without formatting the data or anything) of issue with a damaged hard drive and I was qu... |
941,704 | I have a newish iMac running Mountain Lion, and I'm using Word 2008. I have sorted my list, which is more than a hundred pages long and has many duplicate phrases. Each phrase is on a separate line and each line ends with a hard return. I tried entering ^([^\n]+)\n\1 into the Find What: field in the Find and Replace di... | 2015/07/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/941704",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/470267/"
] | That's a difficult thing to solve at a large distance. Possibly (and hopefully) the harddisk wasn't really formatted, but just the partition table changed. If your NTFS partition was set to RAW, then you can maybe set the type back to NTFS using some utility like [`gparted`](http://gparted.org). If you look at the home... | [Minitool power data recovery](http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/) is data recovery software that can recover data from lost partitions.
I would say try their free version which works for 1 GB, and if it works it is fairly inexpensive (somewhere around $70 USD) to buy the full version. |
941,704 | I have a newish iMac running Mountain Lion, and I'm using Word 2008. I have sorted my list, which is more than a hundred pages long and has many duplicate phrases. Each phrase is on a separate line and each line ends with a hard return. I tried entering ^([^\n]+)\n\1 into the Find What: field in the Find and Replace di... | 2015/07/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/941704",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/470267/"
] | That's a difficult thing to solve at a large distance. Possibly (and hopefully) the harddisk wasn't really formatted, but just the partition table changed. If your NTFS partition was set to RAW, then you can maybe set the type back to NTFS using some utility like [`gparted`](http://gparted.org). If you look at the home... | **Those three steps are very important:**
**First**: Stop what you are doing! If you want to be able to recover as much as possible, definitely don't format again! Mount it as read-only, definitely don't write to it!
**Second**: Clone your original disc to a different drive or to an image file e.g. through a "sector ... |
941,704 | I have a newish iMac running Mountain Lion, and I'm using Word 2008. I have sorted my list, which is more than a hundred pages long and has many duplicate phrases. Each phrase is on a separate line and each line ends with a hard return. I tried entering ^([^\n]+)\n\1 into the Find What: field in the Find and Replace di... | 2015/07/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/941704",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/470267/"
] | **Those three steps are very important:**
**First**: Stop what you are doing! If you want to be able to recover as much as possible, definitely don't format again! Mount it as read-only, definitely don't write to it!
**Second**: Clone your original disc to a different drive or to an image file e.g. through a "sector ... | if you only formatted the drive without writing any other data, your data should be fine. I don't think that formatting it back to NTFS will destroy your data but if you can find a program that can recover the data from RAW that would be the safest way to recover them.
However, if you installed Linux after formatting ... |
941,704 | I have a newish iMac running Mountain Lion, and I'm using Word 2008. I have sorted my list, which is more than a hundred pages long and has many duplicate phrases. Each phrase is on a separate line and each line ends with a hard return. I tried entering ^([^\n]+)\n\1 into the Find What: field in the Find and Replace di... | 2015/07/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/941704",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/470267/"
] | **Those three steps are very important:**
**First**: Stop what you are doing! If you want to be able to recover as much as possible, definitely don't format again! Mount it as read-only, definitely don't write to it!
**Second**: Clone your original disc to a different drive or to an image file e.g. through a "sector ... | If you did a full delete of your files and they really have a big value for you, I'd stop doing anything on that drive, go to a harddrive recovery lab near to yours, and... recover your data if its really valuable. I had that kind (without formatting the data or anything) of issue with a damaged hard drive and I was qu... |
941,704 | I have a newish iMac running Mountain Lion, and I'm using Word 2008. I have sorted my list, which is more than a hundred pages long and has many duplicate phrases. Each phrase is on a separate line and each line ends with a hard return. I tried entering ^([^\n]+)\n\1 into the Find What: field in the Find and Replace di... | 2015/07/17 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/941704",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/470267/"
] | **Those three steps are very important:**
**First**: Stop what you are doing! If you want to be able to recover as much as possible, definitely don't format again! Mount it as read-only, definitely don't write to it!
**Second**: Clone your original disc to a different drive or to an image file e.g. through a "sector ... | [Minitool power data recovery](http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/) is data recovery software that can recover data from lost partitions.
I would say try their free version which works for 1 GB, and if it works it is fairly inexpensive (somewhere around $70 USD) to buy the full version. |
64,378,981 | Im checking CDN hit/miss from cache, using same PC, same client address and requesting same URL:
\*\*\*Scenario 1 Cache-Control 1day, 1month, 1 year:
-Hour 12:00
user1 Request URL it not found, cache filled.
-Hour 12:05
user1 Request URL found, cache HIT response.
-Hour 12:10
user1 Request URL not f... | 2020/10/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/64378981",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14458101/"
] | It's not a bug. In many metropolitan areas, Google Cloud CDN operates multiple caches. If you check the logs for the cache misses in your example, you will likely find the requests were served by distinct caches. You won't get cache hits from a particular cache until that cache has had a chance to cache the content.
[... | Cache modes [1](https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/caching#cache-modes) controls the factors that determine whether and how CDN caches your content. For example if you are using USE\_ORIGIN\_HEADERS as the cache mode then we should be looking at values mentioned against max-age and s-maxage mentioned in the response to ... |
14,168 | I have a pair of Adidas Los Angeles Denim running shoes the same as [these](http://www.adidas.co.uk/los-angeles-shoes-denim-pack/S78367.html?prefn1=sizeSearchValue&prefv1=). Apparently they have a denim upper which is printed with a pattern.
Over the weekend I was changing the oil on my car and mistakenly caught and k... | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/14168",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
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] | 1. Lather with Goo Goo Gone.
2. Brush with a soft bristle brush,
3. Wipe with suede rag, damp with nail polish remover (flammable!)l
4. Air dry.
*Never* machine wash sneakers! | Any time I get oil or other difficult to remove stains on my clothes I use washing up liquid (or dish soap) to remove them. The soap in the washing up liquid breaks down the oil and makes it easier to remove.
Try using a bit of soap massaged into the stain with a soft bristled toothbrush. The apply a but more soap, le... |
14,168 | I have a pair of Adidas Los Angeles Denim running shoes the same as [these](http://www.adidas.co.uk/los-angeles-shoes-denim-pack/S78367.html?prefn1=sizeSearchValue&prefv1=). Apparently they have a denim upper which is printed with a pattern.
Over the weekend I was changing the oil on my car and mistakenly caught and k... | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/14168",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
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] | Depends if it's a grease stain from oil or a blackening stain from the byproducts of combustion (the spot that engine oil accumulates turning it black. A picture would be helpful. If a grease stain I would have advocated using gasoline on a clean rag as a solvent to soak into the stain and spread it out/transfer the ma... | Shout Advanced Aerosol Spray,gets out even dried in motor oil, or any kind of oil. You could also try Dawn dishwashing liquid. I know for a fact it gets out dried in cooking grease and I have tried it on motor oil,but I think I had to wash it more than once, I can't remember. The trick to getting any kind of oil out is... |
14,168 | I have a pair of Adidas Los Angeles Denim running shoes the same as [these](http://www.adidas.co.uk/los-angeles-shoes-denim-pack/S78367.html?prefn1=sizeSearchValue&prefv1=). Apparently they have a denim upper which is printed with a pattern.
Over the weekend I was changing the oil on my car and mistakenly caught and k... | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/14168",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/7182/"
] | Orange hand cleaner (without pumice) from the auto parts store, walmart, etc.
Works on clothes, might work on your shoes. | Any time I get oil or other difficult to remove stains on my clothes I use washing up liquid (or dish soap) to remove them. The soap in the washing up liquid breaks down the oil and makes it easier to remove.
Try using a bit of soap massaged into the stain with a soft bristled toothbrush. The apply a but more soap, le... |
14,168 | I have a pair of Adidas Los Angeles Denim running shoes the same as [these](http://www.adidas.co.uk/los-angeles-shoes-denim-pack/S78367.html?prefn1=sizeSearchValue&prefv1=). Apparently they have a denim upper which is printed with a pattern.
Over the weekend I was changing the oil on my car and mistakenly caught and k... | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/14168",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/7182/"
] | Any time I get oil or other difficult to remove stains on my clothes I use washing up liquid (or dish soap) to remove them. The soap in the washing up liquid breaks down the oil and makes it easier to remove.
Try using a bit of soap massaged into the stain with a soft bristled toothbrush. The apply a but more soap, le... | Shout Advanced Aerosol Spray,gets out even dried in motor oil, or any kind of oil. You could also try Dawn dishwashing liquid. I know for a fact it gets out dried in cooking grease and I have tried it on motor oil,but I think I had to wash it more than once, I can't remember. The trick to getting any kind of oil out is... |
14,168 | I have a pair of Adidas Los Angeles Denim running shoes the same as [these](http://www.adidas.co.uk/los-angeles-shoes-denim-pack/S78367.html?prefn1=sizeSearchValue&prefv1=). Apparently they have a denim upper which is printed with a pattern.
Over the weekend I was changing the oil on my car and mistakenly caught and k... | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/14168",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/7182/"
] | 1. Lather with Goo Goo Gone.
2. Brush with a soft bristle brush,
3. Wipe with suede rag, damp with nail polish remover (flammable!)l
4. Air dry.
*Never* machine wash sneakers! | Shout Advanced Aerosol Spray,gets out even dried in motor oil, or any kind of oil. You could also try Dawn dishwashing liquid. I know for a fact it gets out dried in cooking grease and I have tried it on motor oil,but I think I had to wash it more than once, I can't remember. The trick to getting any kind of oil out is... |
14,168 | I have a pair of Adidas Los Angeles Denim running shoes the same as [these](http://www.adidas.co.uk/los-angeles-shoes-denim-pack/S78367.html?prefn1=sizeSearchValue&prefv1=). Apparently they have a denim upper which is printed with a pattern.
Over the weekend I was changing the oil on my car and mistakenly caught and k... | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/14168",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/7182/"
] | 1. Lather with Goo Goo Gone.
2. Brush with a soft bristle brush,
3. Wipe with suede rag, damp with nail polish remover (flammable!)l
4. Air dry.
*Never* machine wash sneakers! | Depends if it's a grease stain from oil or a blackening stain from the byproducts of combustion (the spot that engine oil accumulates turning it black. A picture would be helpful. If a grease stain I would have advocated using gasoline on a clean rag as a solvent to soak into the stain and spread it out/transfer the ma... |
14,168 | I have a pair of Adidas Los Angeles Denim running shoes the same as [these](http://www.adidas.co.uk/los-angeles-shoes-denim-pack/S78367.html?prefn1=sizeSearchValue&prefv1=). Apparently they have a denim upper which is printed with a pattern.
Over the weekend I was changing the oil on my car and mistakenly caught and k... | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/14168",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/7182/"
] | Any time I get oil or other difficult to remove stains on my clothes I use washing up liquid (or dish soap) to remove them. The soap in the washing up liquid breaks down the oil and makes it easier to remove.
Try using a bit of soap massaged into the stain with a soft bristled toothbrush. The apply a but more soap, le... | Depends if it's a grease stain from oil or a blackening stain from the byproducts of combustion (the spot that engine oil accumulates turning it black. A picture would be helpful. If a grease stain I would have advocated using gasoline on a clean rag as a solvent to soak into the stain and spread it out/transfer the ma... |
14,168 | I have a pair of Adidas Los Angeles Denim running shoes the same as [these](http://www.adidas.co.uk/los-angeles-shoes-denim-pack/S78367.html?prefn1=sizeSearchValue&prefv1=). Apparently they have a denim upper which is printed with a pattern.
Over the weekend I was changing the oil on my car and mistakenly caught and k... | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/14168",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/7182/"
] | Orange hand cleaner (without pumice) from the auto parts store, walmart, etc.
Works on clothes, might work on your shoes. | Shout Advanced Aerosol Spray,gets out even dried in motor oil, or any kind of oil. You could also try Dawn dishwashing liquid. I know for a fact it gets out dried in cooking grease and I have tried it on motor oil,but I think I had to wash it more than once, I can't remember. The trick to getting any kind of oil out is... |
66,384,244 | I am using a database worth of 500 GBs. I want to visualize different columns to study the relationship between them using Power BI. However, there are performance issues while loading graphs.
I am using in DQ mode.
Its annoying to wait for 10 minutes for each visual to load.
Could anyone tell me if its a good idea to... | 2021/02/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66384244",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13216203/"
] | DQ doesn't have a defined limit, MS have shown demos using a Petabyte database in this case for long running queries on a database, you have a few options.
1. Understand what queries are being run, and optimise your indexing strategy, maybe for example add a covering index
2. Optimise your data source, by using a colu... | You might want to look at aggregates in Power BI. You can basically import aggregate tables to Power BI that would satisfy needs for most of your visuals and resort to Direct Query for details that you might rarely need. When properly configured, aggregations will be cached and visuals that hit the aggregation will mak... |
40,808,303 | I have a project where I have to build many apps that are basically the same, but changing the name of the company...
So I would like to change the package name and colors with flavors and publish those app in the store (with different package names)
Is it possible? | 2016/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/40808303",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7101554/"
] | Yes, it is possible.
You need to use a **different Package name, different
App Name, different Application id** & Colour - you can use anything you want
Then it will be two separate App.
So Can publish that two Apps in the Same Playstore Account or Different Account. | It is possible to publish app. but different app name,package name and app id in same developer console account in android. |
317,181 | In **Little Stars for Little Wars 2.0** each "world" has 54 Crosses, 54 Void Crosses and 3 Dark Stars. However I can't find any information on even how to start attempting the 3 Dark Stars aside from the fact that they are "hidden" ... Is a way to tell at least what levels they are on? | 2017/08/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/317181",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/1804/"
] | Found Black Stars on
2-11, 2-13, 2-16 and 6-14, 7-7, 8-18 (extra levels). Don't know how. | I'm assuming you found the voided crosses, if you didn't you need to complete each mission with 3 crosses. Then start a mission, in the upper menu, find the menu the menu that enables "Difficult Mode". The game color will change to purple and then winning levels will complete the void crosses.
As for the dark stars, ... |
317,181 | In **Little Stars for Little Wars 2.0** each "world" has 54 Crosses, 54 Void Crosses and 3 Dark Stars. However I can't find any information on even how to start attempting the 3 Dark Stars aside from the fact that they are "hidden" ... Is a way to tell at least what levels they are on? | 2017/08/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/317181",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/1804/"
] | In recent update 2.1.3 the way black stars are obtained is changed.
You can now see an empty yellow star above level - this indicates that in this level you can discover a black star. When obtained, icon above the level changes to full yellow star.
The way you can achieve a black star is different now. You can see a ... | I'm assuming you found the voided crosses, if you didn't you need to complete each mission with 3 crosses. Then start a mission, in the upper menu, find the menu the menu that enables "Difficult Mode". The game color will change to purple and then winning levels will complete the void crosses.
As for the dark stars, ... |
317,181 | In **Little Stars for Little Wars 2.0** each "world" has 54 Crosses, 54 Void Crosses and 3 Dark Stars. However I can't find any information on even how to start attempting the 3 Dark Stars aside from the fact that they are "hidden" ... Is a way to tell at least what levels they are on? | 2017/08/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/317181",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/1804/"
] | Found Black Stars on
2-11, 2-13, 2-16 and 6-14, 7-7, 8-18 (extra levels). Don't know how. | I've found two of the nine Dark Stars so far. I'm not sure exactly how or why. I wonder if it's related to completing missions in order or some other criteria, but the two stars I located were in sectors 2-11 and 2-13. However the stars don't reliably reappear when I redo those sectors. It's also worth noting I only ma... |
317,181 | In **Little Stars for Little Wars 2.0** each "world" has 54 Crosses, 54 Void Crosses and 3 Dark Stars. However I can't find any information on even how to start attempting the 3 Dark Stars aside from the fact that they are "hidden" ... Is a way to tell at least what levels they are on? | 2017/08/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/317181",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/1804/"
] | In recent update 2.1.3 the way black stars are obtained is changed.
You can now see an empty yellow star above level - this indicates that in this level you can discover a black star. When obtained, icon above the level changes to full yellow star.
The way you can achieve a black star is different now. You can see a ... | I've found two of the nine Dark Stars so far. I'm not sure exactly how or why. I wonder if it's related to completing missions in order or some other criteria, but the two stars I located were in sectors 2-11 and 2-13. However the stars don't reliably reappear when I redo those sectors. It's also worth noting I only ma... |
317,181 | In **Little Stars for Little Wars 2.0** each "world" has 54 Crosses, 54 Void Crosses and 3 Dark Stars. However I can't find any information on even how to start attempting the 3 Dark Stars aside from the fact that they are "hidden" ... Is a way to tell at least what levels they are on? | 2017/08/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/317181",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/1804/"
] | Found Black Stars on
2-11, 2-13, 2-16 and 6-14, 7-7, 8-18 (extra levels). Don't know how. | When you have one last un-conquered star left, wait a moment before sending all your ships to it. Instead look around and see if there's a dark circle around the map.
The key is the first sentence: One last star before you win the game. |
317,181 | In **Little Stars for Little Wars 2.0** each "world" has 54 Crosses, 54 Void Crosses and 3 Dark Stars. However I can't find any information on even how to start attempting the 3 Dark Stars aside from the fact that they are "hidden" ... Is a way to tell at least what levels they are on? | 2017/08/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/317181",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/1804/"
] | In recent update 2.1.3 the way black stars are obtained is changed.
You can now see an empty yellow star above level - this indicates that in this level you can discover a black star. When obtained, icon above the level changes to full yellow star.
The way you can achieve a black star is different now. You can see a ... | When you have one last un-conquered star left, wait a moment before sending all your ships to it. Instead look around and see if there's a dark circle around the map.
The key is the first sentence: One last star before you win the game. |
317,181 | In **Little Stars for Little Wars 2.0** each "world" has 54 Crosses, 54 Void Crosses and 3 Dark Stars. However I can't find any information on even how to start attempting the 3 Dark Stars aside from the fact that they are "hidden" ... Is a way to tell at least what levels they are on? | 2017/08/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/317181",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/1804/"
] | In recent update 2.1.3 the way black stars are obtained is changed.
You can now see an empty yellow star above level - this indicates that in this level you can discover a black star. When obtained, icon above the level changes to full yellow star.
The way you can achieve a black star is different now. You can see a ... | Found Black Stars on
2-11, 2-13, 2-16 and 6-14, 7-7, 8-18 (extra levels). Don't know how. |
78,413 | I'm trying to use django-reversion (<http://code.google.com/p/django-reversion/>) on one of my projects, but it won't work on the project that's running on Apache. It works perfectly fine with a project running on the Django development server, but once I try to use it with the project that's running on Apache, I can a... | 2009/10/26 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/78413",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/12837/"
] | I've been emailing back and forth with the project owner of django-reversion and after a bunch of troubleshooting he came to a conclusion - my URLconf was using (r'^admin/(.\*)', admin.site.root) which is apparently deprecated, so I changed that to (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)) and now it works. | If you're using SQLite, does the apache user (or www-data or whatever it is on your system) have permissions to read/write your database? |
319,734 | I was reading a book written in the UK and a character stated that speaking to her sister made her "feel Humpty". I am not sure what she was feeling, as the rest of the dialogue gave no clue. Can anyone help clarify this? | 2016/04/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/319734",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/170531/"
] | My father (From Birmingham England) used the term 'feeling humpty' for feeling unwell, which figures, as in the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty has a great fall and can't be put back together again. | From Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty> at Origins
"...According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term "humpty dumpty" referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale in the seventeenth century.[8] The riddle probably exploited, for misdirection, **the fact that "humpty dumpty" was also eight... |
319,734 | I was reading a book written in the UK and a character stated that speaking to her sister made her "feel Humpty". I am not sure what she was feeling, as the rest of the dialogue gave no clue. Can anyone help clarify this? | 2016/04/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/319734",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/170531/"
] | 'Getting the hump' and 'humpty' are common Cockney or London expressions for being annoyed or disgruntled. My mother's family were Cockneys. | From Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty> at Origins
"...According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term "humpty dumpty" referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale in the seventeenth century.[8] The riddle probably exploited, for misdirection, **the fact that "humpty dumpty" was also eight... |
45,452,213 | I installed apache tomcat 8.5 but it didn't show up while creating dynamic web project in Eclipse Indigo. It showed up versions until 7.0 only. Finally, I had to install tomcat 7 to proceed. What could be the issue? | 2017/08/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/45452213",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8403362/"
] | Download Eclipse Neon which supports Tomcat 8.5. | Install "JST Server Adapters Extensions (Apache Tomcat)" (via window menu > "Help" > "Install New Software"):
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/53xvc.png) |
223,864 | In single mode fiber the light propagates in two orthogonal planes. Input will be linearly polarized light, which state of polarization will be on output and why? And if there will be some different state of polarizatin on output what will happen? | 2015/12/13 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/223864",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/101242/"
] | In standard single-mode fiber, the polarization will tend to drift as the signal propagates (due to slight and varying birefringence of the glass, possibly stress-induced, coupling one polarization to the other).
For short lenths (1 m or so) polarization is typically maintained fairly well. For long distances (1 km o... | It is my experience that in experiments with limited length (<3 meters) of single mode fibers the output polarization given a linear input polarization is elliptical. The reason for this is that the fiber is often bent causing strain in the fiber material leading to birefringent behaviour of the fiber.
I would not cal... |
9,021,552 | Im very new in Delphi WSDL programming, is there any example of Amazon Product API with delphi? i was search this topic in google and not found.
how to make authentication with amazon product api?
how to make request "item lookup"? | 2012/01/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9021552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1019981/"
] | Some informations/example for Amazon E-Commerce Service is in [Freepascal WEB SERVICE TOOLKIT](http://wiki.freepascal.org/Web_Service_Toolkit), based on Freepascal but also have Delphi example. | This is not specific to Amazon, but if you're new to WDSL/SOAP, these might come in handy:
<http://delphi.about.com/od/webservices/Developing_Web_Services_with_Delphi.htm>
<http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Delphi-Kylix/Creating-a-Web-Service-Client-with-Delphi/>
<http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Delphi-Kylix/Building-a-... |
453,265 | Is it possible to create a temporary empty environment for a new user in a Shell like Bash or zsh?
I mean like the incognito mode in Chrome which opens an isolated environment in which everything you did gets removed locally (no history, no cookies, no cache, etc). Is such a thing possible in a Linux Shell? | 2018/07/03 | [
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/453265",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/105077/"
] | To just add the obvious (at this point it hasn’t been mentioned), this is one of the intentions of jails/containers/zones, and although it may seem like overkill to the uninitiated (I’m assuming nothing), it’s trivial if one is already using them. (And if one is *not* using them, attempting to reinvent this wheel will ... | Use a snapshot in a virtual machine.
1. Create a virtual machine with the needed prerequisites.
2. Create a snapshot of the VM.
3. Do any test in your VM.
4. Restore the snapshot, deleting any modification you did to the system.
5. Go to 3. |
170,821 | Context: There is civilization of God Seekers. They try to prove the existence of (a) God(s) by finding a god-chosen civilization that would be able to survive the genocidal attacks of the God Seekers. The God Seekers are so much more powerful than any other civilization they've encountered, that if a civilization surv... | 2020/03/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/170821",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/10910/"
] | The 'how' question can be answered with a technological singularity through artificial intelligence. Due to sheer luck your God Seekers where the first civilization to build an artificial intelligence strong enough to be able to improve itself. Boom, singularity. Only seconds after it was created, it was on a technolog... | If we assume something of exponential grow of civilization, you would reach point when you can literally spam with weapons capable of destroying whole galaxies or more.
If you want know which weapons would do it, list would be quite long, for examples:
* shooting black holes with relativistic speeds onto planets
* f... |
170,821 | Context: There is civilization of God Seekers. They try to prove the existence of (a) God(s) by finding a god-chosen civilization that would be able to survive the genocidal attacks of the God Seekers. The God Seekers are so much more powerful than any other civilization they've encountered, that if a civilization surv... | 2020/03/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/170821",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/10910/"
] | ***They’ve already killed everyone else***
Your race has already suffered through millennia of the most horrific war imaginable. Their foes could deploy weapons that would sterilise whole clusters of stars. They could deploy defences that would prevent this. Industry, medicine, power generation, basically every aspect... | If we assume something of exponential grow of civilization, you would reach point when you can literally spam with weapons capable of destroying whole galaxies or more.
If you want know which weapons would do it, list would be quite long, for examples:
* shooting black holes with relativistic speeds onto planets
* f... |
170,821 | Context: There is civilization of God Seekers. They try to prove the existence of (a) God(s) by finding a god-chosen civilization that would be able to survive the genocidal attacks of the God Seekers. The God Seekers are so much more powerful than any other civilization they've encountered, that if a civilization surv... | 2020/03/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/170821",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/10910/"
] | This civilization unlocked the secret of time-travel. More so, they can detect other civilizations trying to fight them using time travel and prevent it.
God Seekers is a really peaceful civilization. They abhor violence and war. When any other civilization threatens them, they simply travel back in time and make sure... | If we assume something of exponential grow of civilization, you would reach point when you can literally spam with weapons capable of destroying whole galaxies or more.
If you want know which weapons would do it, list would be quite long, for examples:
* shooting black holes with relativistic speeds onto planets
* f... |
170,821 | Context: There is civilization of God Seekers. They try to prove the existence of (a) God(s) by finding a god-chosen civilization that would be able to survive the genocidal attacks of the God Seekers. The God Seekers are so much more powerful than any other civilization they've encountered, that if a civilization surv... | 2020/03/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/170821",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/10910/"
] | ***They’ve already killed everyone else***
Your race has already suffered through millennia of the most horrific war imaginable. Their foes could deploy weapons that would sterilise whole clusters of stars. They could deploy defences that would prevent this. Industry, medicine, power generation, basically every aspect... | The 'how' question can be answered with a technological singularity through artificial intelligence. Due to sheer luck your God Seekers where the first civilization to build an artificial intelligence strong enough to be able to improve itself. Boom, singularity. Only seconds after it was created, it was on a technolog... |
170,821 | Context: There is civilization of God Seekers. They try to prove the existence of (a) God(s) by finding a god-chosen civilization that would be able to survive the genocidal attacks of the God Seekers. The God Seekers are so much more powerful than any other civilization they've encountered, that if a civilization surv... | 2020/03/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/170821",
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] | The 'how' question can be answered with a technological singularity through artificial intelligence. Due to sheer luck your God Seekers where the first civilization to build an artificial intelligence strong enough to be able to improve itself. Boom, singularity. Only seconds after it was created, it was on a technolog... | Because someone has to be the best. The universe is infinite, but there are a countable number of spacefaring civilizations. The God-Seekers just happen to be the most advanced, most capable race which has ever graced the universe.
There doesn't have to be a how. How is Michael Phelps the most gifted swimmer in the wo... |
170,821 | Context: There is civilization of God Seekers. They try to prove the existence of (a) God(s) by finding a god-chosen civilization that would be able to survive the genocidal attacks of the God Seekers. The God Seekers are so much more powerful than any other civilization they've encountered, that if a civilization surv... | 2020/03/09 | [
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] | ***They’ve already killed everyone else***
Your race has already suffered through millennia of the most horrific war imaginable. Their foes could deploy weapons that would sterilise whole clusters of stars. They could deploy defences that would prevent this. Industry, medicine, power generation, basically every aspect... | This civilization unlocked the secret of time-travel. More so, they can detect other civilizations trying to fight them using time travel and prevent it.
God Seekers is a really peaceful civilization. They abhor violence and war. When any other civilization threatens them, they simply travel back in time and make sure... |
170,821 | Context: There is civilization of God Seekers. They try to prove the existence of (a) God(s) by finding a god-chosen civilization that would be able to survive the genocidal attacks of the God Seekers. The God Seekers are so much more powerful than any other civilization they've encountered, that if a civilization surv... | 2020/03/09 | [
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] | ***They’ve already killed everyone else***
Your race has already suffered through millennia of the most horrific war imaginable. Their foes could deploy weapons that would sterilise whole clusters of stars. They could deploy defences that would prevent this. Industry, medicine, power generation, basically every aspect... | Because someone has to be the best. The universe is infinite, but there are a countable number of spacefaring civilizations. The God-Seekers just happen to be the most advanced, most capable race which has ever graced the universe.
There doesn't have to be a how. How is Michael Phelps the most gifted swimmer in the wo... |
170,821 | Context: There is civilization of God Seekers. They try to prove the existence of (a) God(s) by finding a god-chosen civilization that would be able to survive the genocidal attacks of the God Seekers. The God Seekers are so much more powerful than any other civilization they've encountered, that if a civilization surv... | 2020/03/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/170821",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
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] | This civilization unlocked the secret of time-travel. More so, they can detect other civilizations trying to fight them using time travel and prevent it.
God Seekers is a really peaceful civilization. They abhor violence and war. When any other civilization threatens them, they simply travel back in time and make sure... | Because someone has to be the best. The universe is infinite, but there are a countable number of spacefaring civilizations. The God-Seekers just happen to be the most advanced, most capable race which has ever graced the universe.
There doesn't have to be a how. How is Michael Phelps the most gifted swimmer in the wo... |
24,021 | I am interested in recreating chiptunes in a NES (8 bit) style
A google search has shown that the original NES had 2 pulsewave, a triangle, noise, some sort of sampling channel and that emulations of these sounds can be obtained from various VST instruments such as triforce. What isn't so obvious to me however is find... | 2010/12/07 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/24021",
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] | Who knows if it's still available, but there's a cartridge that allows MIDI control of an NES…that should certainly allow you only what the developers had: <http://www.wayfar.net/0xf00000_overview.php> | Hey! I don't know much about how the early consoles worked. But if you're interested, here's a VST plugin you could have a look at. It's called the Magical 8-Bit plugin. It might give you an idea or two somewhere. You could also hook this up to a midi controller, I'm sure?
I downloaded this a while ago, but since then... |
24,021 | I am interested in recreating chiptunes in a NES (8 bit) style
A google search has shown that the original NES had 2 pulsewave, a triangle, noise, some sort of sampling channel and that emulations of these sounds can be obtained from various VST instruments such as triforce. What isn't so obvious to me however is find... | 2010/12/07 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/24021",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I recommend checking out [FamiTracker](http://famitracker.shoodot.net), for a much more raw, and direct method of programming the NES. Using that for a bit will give you a better idea.
It is my understanding that each game production company made their own tools and assemblers so they weren't bashing out raw bytes in ... | Hey! I don't know much about how the early consoles worked. But if you're interested, here's a VST plugin you could have a look at. It's called the Magical 8-Bit plugin. It might give you an idea or two somewhere. You could also hook this up to a midi controller, I'm sure?
I downloaded this a while ago, but since then... |
24,021 | I am interested in recreating chiptunes in a NES (8 bit) style
A google search has shown that the original NES had 2 pulsewave, a triangle, noise, some sort of sampling channel and that emulations of these sounds can be obtained from various VST instruments such as triforce. What isn't so obvious to me however is find... | 2010/12/07 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/24021",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Check out programs like Nanoloop or LSDJ on a Gameboy or emulator to get a feel for how the limits of the chip shape the way people write for it. You have amplitude and filter envelopes ranging from instant to a few seconds. I believe the hardware enables pitch bending as well if the software supports it.
For me perso... | Hey! I don't know much about how the early consoles worked. But if you're interested, here's a VST plugin you could have a look at. It's called the Magical 8-Bit plugin. It might give you an idea or two somewhere. You could also hook this up to a midi controller, I'm sure?
I downloaded this a while ago, but since then... |
24,021 | I am interested in recreating chiptunes in a NES (8 bit) style
A google search has shown that the original NES had 2 pulsewave, a triangle, noise, some sort of sampling channel and that emulations of these sounds can be obtained from various VST instruments such as triforce. What isn't so obvious to me however is find... | 2010/12/07 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/24021",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com",
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | "faux delay" is pretty simple, you can just repeat the notes at whatever delay interval you want with descending velocity.
Pulse waves and a noise source are really where it's at if you're looking for "video gamey" sounds in my opinion. Playing around with the pulse width will give you many timbres.
It's very fun and i... | Hey! I don't know much about how the early consoles worked. But if you're interested, here's a VST plugin you could have a look at. It's called the Magical 8-Bit plugin. It might give you an idea or two somewhere. You could also hook this up to a midi controller, I'm sure?
I downloaded this a while ago, but since then... |
1,327,408 | what are the ways to do server-side validation in an asp.net web form? Using custom validator
and it's serverValidate event? or what else? | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1327408",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/61156/"
] | You can use following Validators in ASP.NET
* RequiredFieldValidator,
* CompareValidator,
* RangeValidator,
* RegularExpressionValidator,
* CustomValidator,
* ValidationSummary
See [here](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479013.aspx) for more details. | I have always been a proponent of homemade solutions. So you can do it also the old school way: validate before you save directly in code (maybe separate the validation to its own function for cleanliness). To be honest, I have never understood why this method is being so frowned upon, and why we needed to invent the v... |
1,327,408 | what are the ways to do server-side validation in an asp.net web form? Using custom validator
and it's serverValidate event? or what else? | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1327408",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/61156/"
] | All standard ASP.NET validators perform both client-side and server-side validation. If you don't need the former (enabled by default) set their EnableClientScript property to false. The server-side validation is performed when you call Page.Validate() or the postback was triggered by a control with CausesValidation pr... | I have always been a proponent of homemade solutions. So you can do it also the old school way: validate before you save directly in code (maybe separate the validation to its own function for cleanliness). To be honest, I have never understood why this method is being so frowned upon, and why we needed to invent the v... |
1,327,408 | what are the ways to do server-side validation in an asp.net web form? Using custom validator
and it's serverValidate event? or what else? | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1327408",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/61156/"
] | You can use following Validators in ASP.NET
* RequiredFieldValidator,
* CompareValidator,
* RangeValidator,
* RegularExpressionValidator,
* CustomValidator,
* ValidationSummary
See [here](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479013.aspx) for more details. | If shorty, yes, [CustomValidator.ServerValidate](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.customvalidator.servervalidate.aspx) |
1,327,408 | what are the ways to do server-side validation in an asp.net web form? Using custom validator
and it's serverValidate event? or what else? | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1327408",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/61156/"
] | All standard ASP.NET validators perform both client-side and server-side validation. If you don't need the former (enabled by default) set their EnableClientScript property to false. The server-side validation is performed when you call Page.Validate() or the postback was triggered by a control with CausesValidation pr... | You can use following Validators in ASP.NET
* RequiredFieldValidator,
* CompareValidator,
* RangeValidator,
* RegularExpressionValidator,
* CustomValidator,
* ValidationSummary
See [here](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479013.aspx) for more details. |
1,327,408 | what are the ways to do server-side validation in an asp.net web form? Using custom validator
and it's serverValidate event? or what else? | 2009/08/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1327408",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/61156/"
] | All standard ASP.NET validators perform both client-side and server-side validation. If you don't need the former (enabled by default) set their EnableClientScript property to false. The server-side validation is performed when you call Page.Validate() or the postback was triggered by a control with CausesValidation pr... | If shorty, yes, [CustomValidator.ServerValidate](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.customvalidator.servervalidate.aspx) |
28,314 | I've become a bit spoiled with all the newer games offering [borderless window mode](http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Borderless_Fullscreen_Windowed)1. Is there anyway to enable it for Diablo 2? Or am I stuck with the nasty border around my window?
1. Borderless fullscreen windowed is the display option of having a game r... | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/28314",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3015/"
] | I'm inclined to suggest that if the game wasn't coded in such a way that it won't be possible.
Given the age of Diablo II and the very recent rise in popularity of boarderless windowed mode I think it's very unlikely. | Yes it is possible. In fact it works with any and every program. Please check my tutorial on [my Operating Systems class website](http://elf.cs.pub.ro/so/wiki/laboratoare/resurse/injections). It might be bannable, but not more than with Fraps or MSI Afterburner. If you get into trouble contact Blizzard support and link... |
28,314 | I've become a bit spoiled with all the newer games offering [borderless window mode](http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Borderless_Fullscreen_Windowed)1. Is there anyway to enable it for Diablo 2? Or am I stuck with the nasty border around my window?
1. Borderless fullscreen windowed is the display option of having a game r... | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/28314",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3015/"
] | I'm inclined to suggest that if the game wasn't coded in such a way that it won't be possible.
Given the age of Diablo II and the very recent rise in popularity of boarderless windowed mode I think it's very unlikely. | There is a way of using a launcher called [D2MultiRes 1.02](http://www.moddb.com/games/diablo-2/downloads/d2multires-version-102) which will basically launch the game in a window at a higher resolution. You should be able to manipulate the screen to a borderless window by using some tools. The only stipulation is that ... |
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