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I have a form which POSTs data to a hidden
<iframe> to prevent the page from changing. However I would like the Save button to perform two consecutive
submit()s, one after the other.
<form name="updatedocform" id="updatedocform" method="post" action="http://foo.bar" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="hiddenframe">
<input type="submit" onclick="save(); return false;" value="Save" />
<iframe name="hiddenframe" id="hiddenframe"></iframe>
function save() {
// change some form values here
// alert("paused"); // if this alert is here, everything works fine
However the second
submit() is being called before the first one is finished loading. Is there a way to make the second submit wait for the first one to finish?
I could use a
setTimeout() but I'd like a cleaner solution that doesn't depend on the speed of the network.

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It took me a while to figure this out, so even though this is near-obsolete, maybe it will be useful to someone else.
I have a dBase file that contains a boolean value. I created a new row in the file with the boolean value at 0, and that worked without issues.
But then I tried to set that value to 1, and it did not work. I tried 1, "1", true - all without success.
Turns out that you need to use "Y" to set a boolean value to 1.
When you load the row later and output it using var_dump, the value will show as integer with the value 1.


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5 Dec 2012 8:03 AM #12
The tests in this system
I have permissions for a local database structure. The access and the hits that I made was in yours database system in the version released . We tried make the app and this just froze. It was very strange. Do you have a stable version?
5 Dec 2012 8:09 AM #13
tests #2
I put a table (present in your system) and he reached the end of the process, but did not allow me to watch any part of app, the screen went only with the layout and nothing else appeared.
5 Dec 2012 8:12 AM #14
The server was out, you can try again? If error occurred on the island, please let me know, but when you run the application generated it takes a while to load because it is generated for application development mode and not production.
Again, send me your script or the database so I can test. If possible, of course.
Thank you!
5 Dec 2012 8:23 AM #15
What happened
Fabio, what happened to Policenosistemas? Their programs were pretty cool, I got to try some, I remember you from another thread of extjs.
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I know who would've been reading the email, there isn't an unknown agent; so is "Mitteilungen werden nicht gelesen" strictly correct?
This was sent to me as an 'out of office' email response.
Yes, this is passive, and this phrase is certainly used often in office environments. The reason for the passive voice can be to convey that in fact, nobody will read this message - neither the recipient nor their secretaries, deputies, family members or the like. Writing this in active voice ("Niemand wird Ihre Mitteilung lesen.") would sound downright rude.
So by using the passive voice, the sender is able to politely concentrate on the message not being read by anyone, instead of directly specifying the parties who will not read that message (thereby possibly implying there will be somebody else who will read it anyway).
Yes, it is passive. And yes, it is correct. Just because the agent is known doesn't mean they must be mentioned, does it?
Yes, it is passive, and you can very well use the passive if the agent is known:
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I love real light [sunshine], but if your bird is in the shadow of a tree, you can use the fill flash to help you a little.
I like all the bird postings. Partly that's because I simply love birds and birds themselves are attractive but I'm trying to perceive what makes some shots stand out above others. Sharpness seems to be the big deal in most threads and I won't dispite it's importance but in looking a Steven's shot, I find it warm and appealing. Why? The framing, the sky background, the colors involved? What typically do you guys aim for and how do you know when you've got something that is going to be well received?Jack
Very nice shot Steven. Well done.
Mallard under cloudy sky 7D + 400 mm 1/200 f6,3 ISO 800
Thanks for the various comments guys. I'm here sharing shots of birds because i like to contribute positively to anything that is elevating the appreciation folks have for nature. But, more selfishly, I'm looking for feedback from those with more experience and/or a keener sense of quality. In other words I prefer a critique rather than praise, in case anyone has feared saying something critical.I was rather disappointed this morning with the slim pickings but a couple opportunities presented themselves.Is the robin ruined by the lighting?Should the flicker be cropped more tightly and vertically?Any other advice?6D 300 X2 640th F5.6 ISO 2500 640th F13 ISO 1250 Jack
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The 2A track regional at Sublette was bulging with quality performers last Friday. As a result, only the very best of the best athletes were able to break through and qualify for State. Skyline had a few of those, as well as a few non-qualifying but scoring placements.
Kiowa County won the girls division with 92 points. Skyline was 10th in the 16-team field with 24. On the boys side, Meade had 94 to claim the team championship while Skyline was 14th with 14.
Freshman Roman Ibarra will cap a stellar inaugural campaign with a trip to WSU. The only T-Bird boy to either score or qualify for state, Ibarra took 2nd in the 3200m (10:49) and 3rd in the 1600m (4:54).
Two Lady Thunderbirds qualified for State. Freshman Jessica DeWeese and senior Morgan Flowers both made it in the 100m, DeWeese finishing 2nd (13.41) and Flowers right behind her in 3rd (13.48). DeWeese also qualified in the 200m, finishing 4th (27.93).
DeWeese and Flowers added Ashley Koirth and Betsy Giles to finish 5th in the 4x100 relay (54.72), which placed but did not qualify.
Distance runner Brooke Fisher also got points for Skyline, but did not qualify to advance. She took 5th in both the 1600m (6:00) and the 3200m (13:00).
Flowers, DeWeese and Ibarra will compete at WSU next weekend in the State Track Meet.
Other T-Bird performances in their final meet of the season:
100mHH Taylor DeWeese 19.56 dnp; Betsy Giles 20.41 dnp
4x400 relay (Ashley Koirth, Morgan Flowers, Jessica DeWeese, Betsy Giles) 9th 4:48
Shot put Ashley Koirth 12th 29-01
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How can I see a list of all machines that are available on the LAN I'm am part of.
How much do you know about the LAN in question? I'm assuming you don't know anything just plugged in the cable or connected to wifi.
Some (most?) system administrators don't like a few of the above methods so make sure it is allowed (for example it's your network). Also note that your own firewall can prevent some of these methods (even getting an IP with DHCP) so check your rules first.
Here is how to do basic host discovery with nmap. As I said your network configuration should be correct when you try this. Let's say you are 192.168.0.50 you are on a /24 subnet. Your MAC address is something that is allowed to connect, etc. I like to have wireshark running to see what I'm doing.
First I like to try the list scan, which only tries to resolve the PTR records in DNS for the specified IP addresses. It sends nothing to the hosts so there is no guarantee it is really connected or turned on but there is a good chance. This mode obviously needs a DNS server which is willing to talk to you.
This may find nothing or it may tell you that every single IP is up.
Then I usually go for ARP scan. It sends ARP requests (you see them as "Who has ? Tell " in wireshark). This is pretty reliable since noone filters or fakes ARP. The main disadvantage is that it only works on your subnet.
If you want to scan something behind routers or firewalls then use SYN and ACK scans. SYN starts a TCP connection and you either get an RST or a SYNACK in response. Either way the host is up. You might get ICMP communication prohibited or something like that if there is a firewall. Most of the time if a firewall filtered your packets you will get nothing. Some type of firewalls only filter the TCP SYN packets and let every other TCP packet through. This is why ACK scan is useful. You will get RST in response if the host is up. Since you don't know what firewall is in place try both.
Then of course you can use the ICMP-based scans with -PE -PP -PM.
An other interesting method is -PO with a non-existent protocol number. Often only TCP and UDP is considered on firewalls and noone tests what happens when you try some unknown protocol. You get an ICMP protocol unreachable if the host is up.
You can also tell nmap to skip host discovery (-Pn) and do a portscan on every host. This is very slow but you might find other hosts that the host discovery missed for some reason.
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The following question seems pretty natural, but searching online and looking in some obvious places didn't turn up much, so maybe I can ask it here. (Disclaimer: I'm a newcomer to this topic, so apologies if the question is obviously misguided.)
Suppose that $V_1 = X_1/\Gamma_1$ and $V_2= X_2/\Gamma_2$ are arithmetic quotients of Hermitian symmetric domains. Let $V_1^\ast$ and $V_2^\ast$ be their respective Baily--Borel compactifications. Now suppose we have an analytic map $f: V_1 \rightarrow V_2$. Does it extend to a morphism $f^\ast: V_1^\ast \rightarrow V_2^\ast$?
If the answer in general is no, are there any nontrivial cases in which it is yes? (For instance, the simplest example that comes to mind is the case where $X_1=X_2$, $\Gamma_1 \subsetneq \Gamma_2$, and $f: V_1 \rightarrow V_2$ is the quotient.)


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"What You Get:
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That's not 8 hooks... as the title states/stated.
@jsoko: oops....thanks for the correction. I am glad the hooks are not the important part.
I got these last time they were offered on the site. The velcro "head" was barely glued on when I received them and I had to use super glue to stick them back on. Didn't work that well on my sink either.
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The 6 (Wrong) Questions Men Love to Ask About Women
#4. "Why Won't Women Tell You What's Wrong?"
The right question:
"Why might telling not work in this situation?"
This idea that women have some across-the-board tendency to "never tell what's wrong" breaks down when you note that the same people who ask this question also find themselves complaining about women's nagging, or the dreaded "can we talk" question, so it's pretty clear their women are pretty vocal about stating what's wrong in a variety of situations.
Perhaps too vocal.
But sometimes a woman won't answer that question, usually because she sees it as a no-win dilemma.
The first possibility is that what you did wrong is so glaringly obvious (to her) that she thinks it is you who are playing the game, and does not understand what you are trying to do. Like if you had sex with a man, or killed her dog, or both.
"What? Why won't you tell me what's wrong?"
The second possibility is that what you did wrong is so glaringly obvious (to her) that she realizes she has entered into a relationship with a man who cannot grasp a person's most basic needs without being given a laminated chart every day. She is envisioning a lifetime of constantly giving explanations about why it is wrong to skip her birthday to get drunk with his friends, or flirt with 16-year-olds in an online game. Why push that boulder up that hill today? It's not like she won't get to do it a thousand times more.
All women are well-versed in classical mythology.
A third possibility is that it's something she wanted you to do on your own initiative, like compliment her haircut or ask about her day. These things don't really mean a lot when done mechanically, which is what's going to happen if she says, "What's wrong is I wanted you to ask about my day," and you say, "Oh, of course, tell me about your day." That setup doesn't leave one convinced that you actually want to hear about her day. And compliments given on command are pretty worthless too.
"Honey, what do you think of my new contacts?"
It's unfair, but there's not a lot either of you can do about it at the time.
And finally, as mentioned before, the Manipulative Harpy does exist, sometimes a little bit in all of us, and could very well be doing it because she hates you.
#5. "Why Do Women Fuss So Much About X Trait (Makeup, Type of Clothes, Shoes) When Us Men Clearly Prefer Natural Beauty?"
The right question(s):
A) "Are they even doing it for men?"
B) "Is your idea of 'natural beauty' actually natural?"
First of all, most women's lives do not revolve entirely around pleasing men. When I get new clothes, do you know who I expect to notice? Other women and gay men.
OK, these women are in fact probably dressing specifically to please men.
If you look at women's magazines, there will be a pretty woman on the cover, and inside there will be tips on how to look like a pretty woman, as well as some kind of pointing and laughing at "fashion blunders." Not everyone wants to be a Marie Claire girl, but every demographic has fashion do's and don'ts, and nobody wants to be a fashion don't.
This seems to be a "don't."
Most girls want to meet the standards of their style, as set by their peer group. Goth girls want to look properly pasty. Female ICP fans want to be the loudest, most hideous thing visible at the Wal-Mart.
They'll do all of this even without boys in the picture. It's about living up to girl standards.
Secondly, many of these "unimportant" things do actually go towards making a girl attractive in the way men like. For example, the right kind of shirt will flatter or even shape a girl's boobs, something men have to admit does matter to them. The right boot/skirt combo can show the good parts of a girl's legs while hiding the fat/pasty parts. It's unfair to complain about her fussing about clothes, while appreciating the result.
These two near-identical everyday outfits have key differences in boob/leg display methods that anyone can enjoy studying.
For guys that say they hate makeup, many girls use a certain amount of makeup just to get to "normal." So girls with bad complexions (a.k.a. white girls) use foundation just to cover up blemishes, not to look like a painted whore. Or girls with tiny pig-like eyes (me) need eyeliner just to give the illusion they have normal-sized eyes. The point of daily makeup is to get from "ugly" (which doesn't necessarily mean ugly, see above) to "normal." If it gets to the point where you notice the actual makeup, it's either overdone, she's going to a special event or she's in show business.
Not totally "natural" looks here, but Alicia Silverstone and Heidi Klum are
going about as light on the makeup here as celebrities ever go at photo shoots.
#6. "Why Do Guys Have to do All the Work to Get a Relationship While Women Just Sit There and Can Pick Any Guy They Want?"
The right question:
"Why do I only look at the women that can pick any guy they want?"
The problem here is usually a sampling error, and the solution is to take a statistics class. The pool of women you look at to make this observation is going to be skewed toward women you like to look at. Their awkward ugly friend in the corner there can't pick any guy she wants, and you probably haven't even noticed her to the point where you include her in your survey.
No, not that. An ACTUAL ugly girl.
There are a lot of fairly sad, desperate girls out there, a situation I am no stranger to. Lonely, no-luck girls spend plenty of time obsessing over what it will take to get a guy, and often throw aside their dignity in a shameless and often fruitless attempt to pursue one. Then they will have a sob session with their girlfriends about "why doesn't he like me?" It's actually kind of funny when you look back on it.
We've all been there.
Anyway, the point is, when you try to remember "every girl" you've met to prove this is true with "every girl," you will remember the most memorable girls and not remember us sad sacks, who are simultaneously asking the same exact same question about guys, probably in the girls' bathroom while crying.


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Why did Moshe Rabbeinu balk when the women wanted to donate their mirrors to the construction of the Mishkan (Rashi, Shemot 38:8), but not when the women donated their kumaz (Shemot 35:22), which were a piece of jewelry worn in the nether regions of the body (Rashi)?
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Ramban on this verse says that the difference is that the gold from the kumazes was mixed with the rest of the gold, whereas the kiyor was made only from these mirrors, without any admixture of anything else.
Moshav Zekeinim (a collection of commentaries from the schools of Tosafos) takes a slightly different tack: the kumazes were melted down and so were no longer identifiable, whereas the mirrors were affixed to the kiyor as they were (perhaps, although they don't say so, somewhat like the fire pans used to plate the altar, Num. 17:3-4).
I understood it as a chastity belt of sorts. This would seem (IMHO) to be the exact opposite purpose of what the mirrors were used for (mirrors strengthen the Yetzer HaRa', in contradistinction to the purpose of the Kumaz, which is to fight off the Yetzer HaRa').
Similarly, according to this related essay in What's Bothering Rashi, RaMBa"N discusses the subject and states that the mirrors were rejected because they are "used for the Yetzer HaRa". (Unfortunately I just can't find it in the RaMBa"N; the cited source is incorrect.)
A quick, cursory Google search turns up some interesting questions about the strangeness of it and the conjugation of the verse, but very little substance about what it actually is.


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C-Clip Eliminator Kit for an Excellent Axle UpgradeWritten by Jeff Smith on April 6, 2013
Horsepower and torque represent the Holy Grail for car crafters. But the problem with more power is that when it's matched with large sticky tires, it quickly uncovers the next weak link in your drivetrain. Stronger transmissions and large, nitrous-ready driveshafts merely transfer that power to the axles. When it comes to stock GM rear axles, the dreaded C-clip axles soon become worrisome. GM's original idea to retain the axles with C-clips inside the differential was innovative, but a flaw in the design is that if the axle breaks, there is nothing to retain the axle inside the housing. When an axle (along with the tire and wheel) comes out of a car at speed, it usually tears up the body on the way out. It's not pretty.
Ford bearings used in most aftermarket axles are much larger than stock 10- and 12-bolt axle bearings. For this reason, the aftermarket created the simple C-clip eliminator kit to make them work. The c-clip eliminator kit required cutting off the outer end of the c-clip axle housing and replacing the stock bearing with a larger one inside a pair of aluminum pillow blocks. While several companies sell the c-clip eliminator kit, the problem is that they do not allow for the use of aftermarket disc-brake kits, and, in our experience, they leak. For these reasons, the c-clip eliminator kit is not a good idea for street cars. There is a better option, but it requires fabrication skills. We took our 12-bolt Camaro rear-end housing over to Tim Moore at Moore Automotive in Sun Valley, California, to run through this procedure for us.
The better idea is to remove the entire stock 12-bolt housing-end and flange assembly and replace it with new, high-strength steel housing ends from Strange. The benefit, besides positive axle retention, is that companies like Strange Engineering offer GM-pattern housing ends that use the larger Ford 3.150-inch-diameter axle bearing. This larger bearing offers increased strength, which, when combined with a stronger axle, produces an extremely durable rear-axle package. This job demands that the new housing ends be precisely mounted to ensure that the housing is straight and does not induce either toe or camber into the axlehousing. Accomplishing this task demands the use of a mandrel. None of this is rocket science or even really difficult, as this type of modification has been going on for years. We found a mandrel tool from Mittler Brothers that makes this job even easier. The tool is not cheap at $550, but it includes a 60-inch-wide, 11⁄2-inch-diameter steel mandrel bar and several adapters that precisely establish the axle centerline using the differential bearing saddles. This tool also locates the housing ends. All you have to do is line up the ends and weld them in place. While this may not be a task that every car crafter should attempt, we thought it would be worthwhile to illustrate the process so at least you know what the job entails. If you farm this out to a fabricator, you can expect to pay $200 to $300 for the job. But if you see more than a couple of these conversions in your future, it might be worth the investment to buy the tool from Mittler Brothers and do it yourself. The only other tools you'll need are a tape measure, a digital angle finder, a cut-off saw, and a 200-amp MIG welder. Here's how it all went down.
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Here is the Mittler tool, with the 11⁄2-inch mandrel bar and the adapters. The kit comes with all the center supports for 9- and 8.8-inch Fords, 10- and 12-bolt GMs, '57–'64 Olds, as well as Chrysler 83⁄4 and the Dana 60. The small adapters are the center supports that fit inside the main caps. The larger adapter is used to position the housing ends. The flat plate establishes the pinion centerline and is used as a convenient locator for checking housing-end position.The slot is used to hook your tape measure for measuring the housing-end length. On the Camaro 12-bolt, the passenger side measures 261⁄2 inches, while the driver side measures 271⁄2 inches in length from the pinion centerline.Mittler Brothers offers a blank layout chart to help with measuring the housing. Since the passenger side is 1 inch shorter than the driver side on our Camaro rearend, this produces a 1⁄2-inch pinion offset, which is common for most GM rearends. The example shown here is for a Ford housing with a 2-inch difference in axle length, creating a 1-inch pinion offset. Clearly, this tool can also be used for narrowing rear-end housings and therefore changing the pinion offset if necessary.Moore used his Lamb Components digital angle finder to establish the position of the stock housing ends so he could duplicate the location with the new housing ends. Moore used bolts to locate the angle finder because they were more accurate than the flat portion of the housing ends and also because the Strange housing ends did not offer a flat machined surface for this purpose. The GM bolt pattern is asymmetrical, so you want to make sure the new housing ends are oriented the same way as the originals. Our ends measured -4.9 degrees from horizontal, with the large bolt spacing at the top.Moore measured the length of the Strange housing end and then marked the housing where it needed to be cut. Mittler suggests using a large cut-off wheel to remove the original housing ends. Moore's saw could not make the cut in one step due to clearance problems between the saw and the leaf-spring mounts, so he had to make two cuts on each end. The biggest challenge was ensuring that the housing was exactly 90 degrees to the cut-off wheel.Making the final cut, a light feed to the cut-off wheel ensures a straight cut. This takes time because the 12-bolt housing uses 0.375-inch-wall-thickness tubing.Using the Mittler 12-bolt Chevy adapters in the bearing bores, Moore tightened the differential bearing caps in place to locate the mandrel.
Next, Moore tacked both housing ends using the mandrel and adapters to hold the housing end in place. Mittler suggests tacking the housing end to the housing using four equally spaced positions.After checking the positions of the housing ends one final time, Moore used his Lincoln 180C 220-volt MIG welder to weld the housing ends. He welded in short sections of roughly 2 inches in length, alternating from side to side until both ends were fully welded in place.This is the final weld. The mandrel easily slides in and out of the adapters after the ends were welded on, ensuring the ends are accurately placed. The axles will now be securely attached to the housing with the retaining strap and bolts—far safer than those spindly C-clips. Next, we will thoroughly clean the housing, powdercoat it, and then it will be ready to assemble with a set of Strange 3.55:1 gears, a Strange limited-slip, and the Strange axles. End


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Hey. I'm trying to create an enemy that travels at a speed
s on screen but I'm having trouble with trying to make the speed vary in a smooth motion. Basically, I can get the enemy to move at a constant rate but at random intervals, I'd like it to speed up then slow back down to it's original speed, or slow down then speed up to it's original speed. I imagine I'd have to use a graph function of sorts, but I'm not great at maths so are there any suggestions on how this can be achieved?
Feel free to let me know if my question is unclear.Thanks!
Hey. I'm trying to create an enemy that travels at a speed
What you're talking about here is commonly called a "lerp", short for interpolation. You can find a lot of different implementations and specifics about this sort of operation on Google by searching for "lerp", but here's a very basic one:
In this, "fraction" should be a value between zero and one (inclusive), and the type T is anything that supports +, -, and * operators (So floats, vectors, etc). In your case, you'd use one with 'float' instead of T, but this same approach works for interpolating lots of other mathematical types, so this will almost certainly be useful to you again in other situations in the future.
The simplest way to get your speed to increase smoothly will be to simply interpolate from the object's current speed toward its target speed each frame, using a low fraction value for the interpolation. For example, like this:
This will give what is referred to as a "slam in, ease out" curve; the object will get a sudden burst of acceleration when it changes its desired speed, but that acceleration will taper off as it approaches that destination speed. If you make speedFraction higher, the object will approach its final speed faster. Lower, and it will reach that speed slower.
This is almost certainly all that you'll need to have your character change speeds smoothly enough for you. But be aware that this will produce different behaviours if it's being done 30 times per second than if it's being done 60 times per second.
Advanced: If you do want the object to accelerate even more smoothly than this (that is, to start accelerating slowly, instead of quickly), or if it's important that the object actually reaches that final speed (rather than approaching that speed asymptotically), or if you want to make sure that the acceleration works the same no matter what frame rate you're running at, then you can use that same interpolation function differently.
If you keep track of when the object began to accelerate, and know how long you want the acceleration to take, then you can calculate:
In this, easeInEaseOutFraction is using a hermite interpolator on the value "fraction", to convert it from a linear transition from zero to one, into a very smooth curve over that same range. And since it still varies only between zero and one, that means that we can pass it into the same Interpolation function we've already been using, to make the interpolation extremely smooth.
You may find that you prefer this smoother behaviour over the simpler approach that I gave earlier. Or you may find that it makes no difference in your case. My advice is to do the simpler version first, and stick with it if it's good enough for your purposes.
If you do go with the more advanced variation, just be aware that it's critical that the "fraction" value remains between zero and one. If you're using interpolation in this way (by passing in a variable "fraction" value that changes over time), then you must stop interpolating once the object has actually reached its target speed, or else you'll get unexpected behaviour as "fraction" exceeds 1.
You want the speed to increase smoothly from an initial value, let's call it
That sounds like a Logisic Function to me! A simple logistic function -- a smooth transition from 0 to 1 is
Set up an increment for some variable, let's say
This is all based on the fact that when
The same code works if you want to reduce speed.
EDIT: I'd made a logical error with what to choose for
You might consider attributing an acceleration value with an enemy. So for each enemy you might associate a velocity(v) and acceleration(a) variable. This would handle the case of the enemy smoothly increasing speed from an initial velocity of zero. Of course you would then need to also associate a maximum speed for the enemy. As for slowing down, there are many ways one could handle this. Simply use the negative of the acceleration, or create your own deceleration variable.
Here is a function from our engine that I've used over the years. Maybe it can help. It will take aValue up to aMax by aAmount. If you then pass aAmount=0, it will then take it down to zero by aDrag amount... all smoothly. If you view the AstroBlaster video/demo on our site, it uses this routine to control the ship speed. Works great for us. It's Object Pascal but you should be able to adopt it easily to the language you use.


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I have this problem that I can't understand. I have osx 10.5.4. The time in the computer is 06 october 2012 at 23:59 hs. When the time runs to 00:00 hs on 07 oct 2012, then the hour change to 1:00. I tried to put the hour in 12.00, but the day change to 6 oct, then I tried to change the day to 07 oct, but the our change to 23.00 (11.00 pm). I have the zone at Buenos Aires, and I don't understand why I can't set the time at 07 oct 2012 at 12.00 hour. I see that the same situation is on 06 oct 2013, or 02 oct 2012.
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I am designing a iPhone app and the main function of the app is a 3 step process (steps most likely don't happen all at once (there could be a period of time between steps, unlike a signup flow). I am looking for examples in other apps that have steps like this and how they identify them.
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A few things to keep in mind for your design:
You could look at some games and specifically at their tutorials, which are typically broken into steps. Almost all include some kind of navigation to go back or ahead in the tutorial, and to escape it altogether. I've attached screenshots from 2 games I just looked at and they all do this in some way, maybe there's some inspiration there. For your case, I'd prefer the approach in Astronut as it uses conventions already in iOS.
For steps that occur across time, I'd recommend bringing people back to the place they left off at to help their recall, and show them what's changed in the intervening time, if anything.


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I've been using MS SQL for years. Starting now to develop GIS application and it is required to do queries and store vectors created in OpenLayers in DB. Assuming I'm developing over .Net , What will be the most convenient way to use a DB in GIS app? MS SQL 2008 or PostGIS ? (I'm using the express edition of 2008) and will be using open source WMS , probably MS4W (or GeoServer). If there is any tutorial for beginners combing DB with GIS based APP I'll be happy to see. Thank you.
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As you've already got experience with SQL Server then the easiest route to get into GIS would be to stick with what you know as the learning curve will be smaller. However, this assumes the SQL Express license will cover your needs in the future, or you can afford the cost of SQL Server licenses.
If you've got the freedom to choose the technology then, without any more specific requirements at this stage, both options should do the job for you. So choose whichever one you want to learn more about. A lot of what you learn about one platform should be transferable to the other.
I don't think the fact you're using .net should make much difference to what database you're connecting to.
My experience is that if you want to use open source stack preferred choice is PostGIS. There are some support for MS SQL ,but it's not anywhere close to PostGIS. Add all functionality that PostGIS brings, like reprojection it a winner.
I lose my nerves everytime when i have to export data from databse to another app to do basic things like reprojection, but i have more experience from PostGIs than spatial MSSQL.
This counts only database backend and programs like geoserver etc, i have not yet done any real development on C# . net and PostGIS


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Adıyaman Asu TV, 6 December 2010
Enmity toward the People of the Book, or Alawites or Bektashis, is a terrible thing. They are all servants of Allah. The first place that Muslims migrated to, on our Prophet's (saas) advice, was Christian Abyssinia. They sought shelter with the Christian King Nejashi. Otherwise why should the Companions go to the Christians? Why should they flee to them if they are unbelievers who should be killed, people we should have no dealings with? Why should they eat their food? Why stay in their homes? Do you think they said, "Salamun Alaykum to the unbelievers, we have come to stay in your homes." Of course not. There was respect for different religions in all our Prophet's (saas) policies, and no compelling people to be Muslims. We act in the light of the Sunnah. We act according to the language of our Prophet (saas). The Sunnah of our Prophet (saas) contains love and affection, watching over and protecting people. So they do not make them uneasy, beat and kill them or cut them into bits. Rather they watch over and protect them. There are no insults or oppression or humiliation. These things are forbidden in Islam. There can be no persecution of Allah's servants, only affection and compassion. Anyone acting otherwise is acting outside the religion.
Allah wants us to make the Earth like paradise. He wants us to make all good things, compassion, friendship, good intentions, brotherhood, art, science, freedoms and liberty. When He described evils, Almighty Allah refers to a wooden log. An empty log is a thing without a soul. Allah shows us the ugliness of selfishness and egotism in animals. What is a log of wood? It stands there. An old log. It has no soul or depth or meaning. But there is movement and life in an animal. But He cites them in terms of character. A monkey protects its young, for example, and this is an excellent example. But egotistical and selfish behavior is a bad example. Allah sometimes shows us the bad side. The pig, for example, Allah can sometimes make it useful from various aspects. For example, the wild pig goes and roots in fields with its snout, and that may be useful in helping plants to grow. But it also has an aggressive side. Its aggression looks very terrible and when people see it, they see the terrible nature and ugliness of that aggression.
It is good to always want something better. So long as he gives thanks, a Muslim will want a better house, the best car, the best streets and the best gardens. This is in any case a requirement of Islam. But in doing this there will be no greed or offence or any illicit activity, so long as it is done with goodness and rationally. Of course the ideal thing is for quality and beauty to keep on rising. That is pleasant, and the world will become a pleasanter place through it. Paradise, for instance, is very pleasant. The vehicles in paradise are lovely, as are the plants and people. The food is of the top quality possible and of the very best. Allah also wants us to make the world a very beautiful place. He wants us to make it the most delightful place.
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There are people our Muslims brothers do not approach or else leave abandoned. They say let us slaughter Jews and Christians, people who leave their heads uncovered are this or that, even people who cover their heads up are this or that, they are also impious, they say. So there are always people propelled in the direction of heresy. When we approach them with a sincere love, they may not always be exactly as we wish, of course, but in general terms good behavior can be obtained. They may not respond with a language compatible with the Qur'an and the Sunnah, but this is not something we can be angered over. When approached with love and affection, their love will also be felt straight away. A rude, hostile kind of language is very common, and that wearies people and means they cannot live in peace. But when they receive love and affection, their hearts are softened. If we are preaching the religion and telling people about it, then we will see different conditions in every individual and every event we encounter. It would be completely wrong to abandon them to solitude and impose solitary confinement on them with various imputations. That would be a grave error. When one preaches one may not hear a fully educated language fully compatible with the Qur'an and the hadiths. We generally encounter the very lightest things and responses when preaching Islam. But the exact opposite is also possible. People may be very difficult and respond rudely to whatever we say, say that black is white no matter what we say, and if we are not patient we will be unable to preach at all. In that event, the only people you speak to will be your friends, and you will not speak to other Muslims. Because that is the point where you conflict with them. I also speak with Alawites and Bektashis. I speak with Jews and Christians and freemasons. I speak with followers of Fethullah [Gulen] hodja, and with other communities and members of different sects. Our ideas may not always agree exactly, of course, but I respect their ideas and opinions. I try to talk on subjects I am not in agreement on with them using the most polite language, in order not to put them off. I am also careful about that in my general conversation. I try to tell the person opposite me the truth without damaging his love and respect, by using the most rational kind of language.
Muslims must be very patient with one another. The law of the jungle applies in many parts of the world, and people offend, fight, turn their backs on and humiliate others in many parts of the world. There can be no quarrels in Islam. One can win people over with a bit of patience and make them people who are more loving toward Muslims, the Qur'an and Allah. Otherwise, may Allah forbid, they will fall into the hands of disbelief, which would be very terrible. Our Prophet (saas) used to debate with the pagans of Mecca. He would talk to Jews and Christians. And there were very difficult people among them. I saw some unbelievable cases during my years at the academy. I had to work really hard to educate my friends properly, it took ages. It was not easy. It took me 5 years to educate some people and 10 years to train others, but others have a greater capacity and change right away.
If we use a language devoid of affection, then irreligion will avalanche. Muslims must be patient, and moderate and reasonable. The alternative is very terrible. There will be no Muslims. I have spoken with freemasons, I wrote a book about Judaism and Freemasonry, they know me. My struggle against atheist masons is still going on. But I have also invited masons here and seen that they are very pleasant people. It would be a great exaggeration to be terrified of them just because people are masons, or say they are wicked and a danger. We have spoken, and I have won over hundreds or thousands of masons. A huge love has grown in their hearts, and later on they all prayed together. The alternative is giving way to disbelief. That is unacceptable. Are we meant to surrender to the antichrist (dajjal)? If we oppose masons, Jews, atheists, communists, the sects and ignorant people, how many people will be left? There will be now more then 2,000 or 3,000 people left out of a world population of 7 billion. That would do immense harm to Islam. They need to be shown a moderate and rational kind of language.
For example, the Prophet Abraham (as) comes to people who are pagans. They say they worship the Moon. Others say they worship the Sun. And that is not all. They say they worship the Moon, but their logical framework is all wrong. You say white and they say black. You say the weather is nice, they say it is raining. They are totally imbalanced. But the Prophet Abraham (as) talks to them and wins them over. He sets up his own people. The same with the Prophet Noah (as). Most of the people he dealt with were psychopaths. And life spans were very long at that time, hundreds of years. He preached for hundreds of years and they always responded with a very harsh, unpleasant and stubborn language. But the Prophet Noah (as) kept right on. Our Prophet (saas) spoke in the Ukas market, but the hypocrites and idolaters there were not at all respectful, pleasant or reasonable toward him. They were utterly immoral and loveless. But Rasul-Allah (the Messenger of Allah) (saas) was very respectful, reasonable and patient with them. Why do we love Rasul-Allah (saas)? Because of his moral virtues. There is no questions of Muslims only speaking to other Muslims. We must be loving and reasonable. And we must not be in a hurry. Every phase is different. For example, when you first meet, you should overcome their general excitement, panic and unease. Then they will believe your language will be loving and respectful. They believe they will hear pleasant words. For example, I never say anything rude. Nothing offensive. I tell people the truth. Never offending anyone, but I always tell the truth, insha'Allah. But one could give the same reply and offend people in the process. One could use very rude and harsh language. There is also intermediate of the language. Or one can respond without hurting anyone at all, and that is the best thing. One must employ a reconciliatory language that will keep things calm on the subconscious level. One's gestures, tone of voice and general language must all run in parallel to that. You can also make people uneasy by the way you look at people, or your tone of voice, or the sentences you employ. A sentence may be quite regular but still upset people. One must choose one's sentences so as not to upset people nor give rise to the slightest doubts in their hearts. You must correct the error without offending the people committing it. If you offend them as you amend their ways, then hatred will grow in their hearts.
There is certainly a Sign in that for anyone who fears the punishment of the Hereafter. That is a Day to which mankind will all be gathered. That is a Day which will be witnessed by everyone. (Surah Hud, 103)
The Day of Judgment will be seen by everyone, even the dead, all will see.
So be in no doubt about what these people worship. They only worship as their forebears worshipped previously. We will pay them their portion in full, with no rebate! (Surah Hud, 109)
We see what they worship. There is Darwinism, materialism. When we look at the roots of this religion, we see that they believe that the atoms possess intelligence. Such a religion. One that believes in the unconscious atoms coming together and making up intelligence, and that the atoms that don't see cause seeing, the atoms that don't hear bring forth hearing, the atoms that don't know the mind makes up mind. Since when? Since the Sumerians, ancient Egypt. In the verse Allah says How their ancestors worshipped.. What did the Pharaoh say? He said we came out of the muddy waters of the Nile. What did the Sumerians say? They said by coincidence. What do present-day people say? They say the same. Allah says that they did the same.
We gave Moses the Book and people differed concerning it and had it not been for a prior Word from your Lord, it would already have been decided between them. They are indeed in grave doubt about it. (Surah Hud, 110)
They are wary of the Qur'an and are not genuinely devoted to it.
When the Prophet Moses (as) arrived he said that Allah created everything that Pharaoh and his people saw. Pharaoh said life appeared by chance from the muddy waters of the Nile. The Prophet Moses (as) was unable to respond in terms of paleontological discoveries, chromosomes or the structure of protein. There was no scientific background and anyone to understand it. The only thing they would understand was to see creation right away. When he threw his staff onto the ground it turned into a snake. The first thing he thus eliminated, the first idol he smashed, was the idea of evolution. The Prophet Moses (as) demolished evolution with a single piece of evidence. Pharaoh asked how people who lived before had come into being. The Prophet Moses (as) said that in the same way that piece of wood had turned into a snake, Allah had created people by the same law in earlier times. That evidence of his even convinced those scientists who engaged in sorcery. The scientists who did sorcery in the Prophet Moses' (as) time were rather different. They were also evolutionists and manufactured false evidence. They even stuffed a piece of skin to look like a snake and made it wriggle around in order to convince people. What do Darwinists do? The manufacture Piltdown Man, stick the pieces together and stain them up. But I smashed that idol with the Atlas of Creation. The Atlas of Creation meant the end of an era, and a new age dawned. The Prophet Moses (as) first eliminated the religion of polytheism, the main religion, and then moved on to the subject at hand.
Give good news to the believers that they will receive immense favour from Allah. (Surat al-Ahzab, 47)
There is happiness, and the global dominion of Islam and Islamic Union. There is our seeing the Prophet Jesus (as), and our seeing and recognizing Hazrat Mahdi (as), whom our Prophet (saas) spoke of 1400 years ago, and the Prophet Moses (as) 3000 years ago and the Prophet Abraham (as) 5000 years ago. The abjad value of the verse is 2005.
Do not obey the unbelievers and hypocrites and disregard their abuse of you. Put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices as a Protector. (Surat al-Ahzab, 48)
Do not implement any of their beliefs and ideas. For instance, people say we should not talk to Muslims, but we do. They tell us not to pray, but we do. Not to fast, but we do. Not to abide by the Qur'an, but we do. We do not obey them, do not obey the hypocrites. They may gossip, defame and insult us, make insinuations, torture or imprison you, but you must leave yourself in Allah's hands. It is Allah Who will make you speak, make you healthy and protect you from your enemies.
We did not send down the Qur'an to you to make you miserable (Surah Ta-Ha, 2)
The Qur'an brings freedom and joy. It brings all delights. People expect prayer, friendship, fasting, eating or going outdoors all to be difficult. But Allah says He has not sent it down to make life difficult. They make like intolerable by adding nonsensical stuff to it.
So do not try to hasten their punishment. We are simply counting out the number of their days. (Surah Maryam, 84)
A time when the movement of the Mahdi has just begun, a difficult time when his followers are acting in haste. The movement of the Mahdi that started in the 80's will be completed around 2021.


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ST. LOUIS – Missouri State University has been selected to host a pair of conference championship events during the 2014-15 academic year, the Missouri Valley Conference announced Thursday (May 29).
For the first time in 20 years, the Bears will host the MVC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, May 15-17, while MSU will also serve as the host institution at the MVC Men's Golf Championship held at Lake of the Ozarks, April 27-28.
"We're pleased that The Valley has selected us to host these events next year," said Missouri State Director of Athletics Kyle Moats. "This will give us an opportunity to showcase the new Betty and Bobby Allison South Stadium on our campus and will be a premier event right in the heart of our campus.
"We also look forward to hosting at Porto Cima again. It's an excellent test of golf in a beautiful area, and we greatly appreciate the opportunity to serve as the host for that event."
Betty and Bobby Allison South Stadium is still under construction, just south of JQH Arena on the main MSU campus in Springfield. When completed, the soccer and track complex will have 1,000 permanent seats with designed room for portable seating areas along the main straightaway. The lighted facility will also have a state-of-the-art scoreboard, two locker rooms, press box, concessions area and artificial turf infield.
Construction is expected to be completed on the facility later this summer and will also serve as the home of various student recreational and intramural events as well as MSU men's and women's soccer.
Missouri State has hosted the MVC Outdoor Track & Field meet just once when the event was held at Plaster Sports Complex in 1995. MSU also served as the host for the 1991 Gateway Conference (women's) track finals in 1991 at Plaster.
On the golf side, The Club at Porto Cima is a Nicklaus Signature Course and has an overall course rating of 74.2 and a slope rating of 141. The Sunrise Beach course features Zoysia fairways and Bent grass tees and greens with a championship distance of 7,036 yards. Opened in 2000, the course has been called by Golf Digest as one of the best private golf courses in America.
Missouri State hosted the 2013 MVC Women's Golf Championship at Porto Cima and most recently hosted the Men's Golf Championship in 2011, also at Porto Cima.
Other championship sites announced by MVC Commissioner Doug Elgin for 2014-15 are: Individual Tennis at Des Moines, Iowa; Cross Country at Carbondale, Ill.; Women's Soccer at Normal, Ill.; Men's Soccer at Peoria, Ill.; Volleyball at Cedar Falls, Iowa; Women's Swimming & Diving at Carbondale, Ill.; Indoor Track & Field at Cedar Falls, Iowa; Women's Golf at Burlington, Iowa; Team Tennis at Evansville, Ind.; Softball at Wichita, Kan.; and Baseball at Wichita, Kan. The MVC Men's Basketball Championship will celebrate its 25th year in St. Louis this year at Scottrade Center, while the Women's Basketball Championship will return to Family Arena in St. Charles for the eighth year.
All site awards are subject to ratification at the Missouri Valley Conference Presidents' Council meeting, which takes place June 6.


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How Much Homework?
Q: Another parent and I have been discussing the "right amount" of homework. While we believe in the value of some homework, we don't want our children overloaded with it. I thought I read an article in the last few years that suggested how many minutes per night or week were appropriate. For instance, 15 minutes per night for second graders, etc. Our children are in first, third, and seventh grades. Are there any specific guidelines we can use in our discussions with teachers?
A: The most popular guideline for the right amount of homework is 10 minutes each night for each grade. Therefore, your first-grader should have 10 minutes of homework; it would be 30 minutes for the third-grader and 70 minutes for the seventh-grader. While guidelines are a good idea, teachers will assign work at different rates depending on what they're doing in the classrooms.
Giving students an excessive amount of homework in the early grades can turn them away from learning. It also robs young children of a chance to do other activities after doing six or more hours of academic work in the classroom. It is only when children reach sixth grade that the amount of homework that they do is directly related to how well they achieve in school. Before then, the effect of homework on achievement is almost nonexistent.
Rather than discussing with individual teachers how much homework your children should have, a better approach would be to work through the parent-teacher organization to have the school establish a homework policy. Otherwise, there may be little consistency between how much homework Ms. A and Mr. B assign in third grade. This leads to some students being overburdened by assignments while others rarely do any homework. Also, as students get older and learn different subjects taught by different teachers, it's extremely important to have a school policy that spells out which days of the week individual teachers have to make homework assignments and how much daily homework is appropriate.
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I never played games with a controllers, but I just recently got a wireless PC one, so I might give it a shot. However, I'm not sure which games will I be able to play with it! Is there a centralized source of information, or am I supposed to browse gaming forums/ask people to find out?
If you use Steam there is a "Controller Enabled" graphic displayed in the right column near the bottom of the game page in the store. Also here you will find out what Steam features it supports like Cloud Saves or Achievements.
If the game you're interested in isn't on Steam, then check to see if there is an Xbox 360 version of the game. In my experience those usually leave the controller option available on the PC, however; its not a guarantee.
When a controller is not an option, you can use one of many programs that will map controller buttons to keyboard actions. This will allow you to use your controller for multiple games that might not otherwise support a controller.
Your wireless controller (you did not specific a brand) may come with a program that already allows you to do this. Here is another option I found after a quick search:
... you just need to get past the absolute HORROR of the user interface.
You can also hit the "Big Picture Mode" on steam and it allows you to control Steam directly with the Xbox controller. It then shows a little controller icon next to game compatible with it and a keyboard for non-compatible games.


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Google Chrome synchronizes my bookmarks between computers. When I am away from a computer that has Chrome on it is there a way to view these bookmarks on the web?
Currently, no, there is no way to view your Chrome bookmarks on the web. You will need to use Chrome or some other 3rd party extension to get access to your bookmarks. There is no URL or drive folder for Chrome bookmarks that can be viewed directly in a browser.
Prior to the release of Google Bookmarks there was the ability to view your Google Chrome Bookmarks via Google Docs:
There is an option for a web interface for Google Bookmarks - however it is old and not related to Chrome bookmarks.
Yes, if you go to docs.google.com, you'll find a 'Google Chrome' folder with your bookmarks in it.
There is an option for a web interface for the google bookmarks link. I don't know when it was set up, but it works.
Yes, I realize this is 3 years old but it's the top option on Google and the problem hasn't gone away...
What I do is periodically download the Chrome bookmarks HTML file (go to


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Odd Celebrity Couples: Do You Remember When These Natural Beauties Dated?
Do Hollywood's hot shots have a dedicated type or do natural beauties simply stick together?
The thing is though, all you have to do is examine their dating history to realize that being a celebrity is a lot like being in the "it crowd" in high school -- these people only go out with each other. Take a gander at these former flames and you immediately realize how closely knit that inner sanctum or celebrity "couples' circle" really is.
But, what is it that drew all these couples together in the first place? Is it a preference for a certain type? Is it just that naturally beautiful people prefer other natural beauties? Let's see if we can detect a common thread, a unifying theme -- and, while we're at it try to see whether the person they used to date has anything in common looks-wise with their current love.
So, what do you say? Are you up for a quick round of a little game we like to call, What's Their Type ?
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oh my, scandalous
by LittleBunny Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 04:21PM Report as inappropriate
How the stars get around.
by tiffany_gallehugh Monday, December 19, 2011 at 02:48PM Report as inappropriate
wow I forgot about these!
by Bon_Bon Monday, August 15, 2011 at 02:30AM Report as inappropriate
That was interesting.
by MissPurple Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 09:52AM Report as inappropriate
Hmmm... it is such a small world and you can see clearly from this. George Clooney, Jhonny Deep, Tom and Julia oh my they all are looking great!
by ebbsandtides Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 07:37AM Report as inappropriate
it's so funny how everyone in hollywood has dated each other LOL
by kenya Monday, April 11, 2011 at 07:41AM Report as inappropriate
it's so funny how everyone is hollywood had dated each other LOL
by kenya Monday, April 11, 2011 at 07:35AM Report as inappropriate
Ahh johnny Depp! LOVE!!
by ladyboarder9669 Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 10:17AM Report as inappropriate
ew matthew McConaughhey, only his accent is sexy, if he didn't have it he wouldn't be turning my head at all!
by Bon_Bon Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 07:14PM Report as inappropriate
I can't believe that I don't remember most of these couples, I never even knew half of them were together...
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I finally figured out how to do it on non-ranked matches. However, when I make a ranked match and push triangle, nothing happens. So, how do I play my friends to also get ranking? Otherwise I feel like I'm just wasting time if I'm playing but have nothing to show for it.
You can't specify your opponent in a ranked game because that would allow people to 'cheat' the ranking system by simply having your friend allow you to win again and again.


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6 Jul 2012 12:03 AM #1
GridPanel column header headerclick and move events
Hi all,
I have three questions about gridpanel column header events:
1)I try to call a function whenever a column header is clicked. In the previous version of ExtJS, there was headerclick event in gridpanel. But now i found this event in Ext.grid.column.Column. I set this event as a column event but it never called:
columns:[{ //other properties listeners:{ headerclick:function(){} } } ]
2) I could not find any event that is triggered before any column header is moved like beforemove.How can i implement such an event? I also wonder if i can drag drop column header into a textbox.
3)When header grouping is used, i can move a column into a group or i can move a group header into another group header which is absurd in my case. I need to make impossible to drag a group header into another group header. This question is actually related with my second question.
6 Jul 2012 3:49 AM #2
hi tempvalue,
{ //other properties
It is not right way to attach listeners in the grid column.See sample example for your first question
Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', { title: 'Simpsons', store: Ext.data.StoreManager.lookup('simpsonsStore'), columns: { items:[ { header: 'Name', dataIndex: 'name'}, { header: 'Email', dataIndex: 'email', flex: 1}, { header: 'Phone', dataIndex: 'phone'} ], listeners:{ headerclick:function(container, column, e){ alert('Header Clicked'); }, columnmove:function(container, coulmn, from , to){ alert('Column Moved From' + from+ 'To' +to); // for your second question } } }, height: 200, width: 400, renderTo: Ext.getBody() });sword-it.com, Sencha Developer House in Turkey - Istanbul University Technopark Suite 204.
6 Jul 2012 4:31 AM #3
Thanks for the answer. I missed to point that columns can be object.
I thing, i also found another way for my first question.
mygrid.headerCt.onHeaderClick is called whenever a column header is clicked. I am now setting my custom function to that method.


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A 22-point second quarter explosion coupled with a three-point defensive effort in that same frame put the Lourdes boys' basketball team in control on the way to a 65-48 win over Weeping Water at the Class C2-1 sub-district tourney at Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca on Tuesday.
Four players made it to double figures for the Knights. Aaron Miller hit for 19 points to lead the team. Other scorers were Mitch Gude, 13; Tom Gress, 12; Noah Vasa, 11; Jameson DeFreece, nine; and Bret Kochanowicz, one.
With the win, the Knights will advance to play in the sub-district final, which is now set for 7 p.m. on Friday at the S-D-A gym. The game was originally set for Thursday, but has been moved due to the impending snow storm expected to begin sometime late on Wednesday night.
Snow has been forecasted to continue through the day Thursday and could still affect a Friday night tip off. In the event of further weather complications, the sub-district final could be moved to Saturday.
District finals action is expected to be played on Monday
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D'Emilio is a pioneer in the developing field of gay and lesbian studies. He is the author of more than a half dozen books, including "Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States;" "Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in American;" and "Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin." U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy quoted "Intimate Matters" in the 2003 Lawrence vs. Texas case that declared state sodomy statutes unconstitutional.
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6 WTF Japanese Trends (You Can Blame on White Guys)
#3. The Japanese Are Obsessed With Panties (Since We Introduced Them)
You've heard about how Japan has vending machines that sell used women's panties, right? That's actually true, and really weird. Sure, Western men do enjoy seeing a flash of women's undergarments now and then, but few would ask a naked woman to put on some underwear before she gets intimate. What the hell, Japan?
"Awww yeah. Now put on a parka ... slowly."
How It's Our Fault:
It's important to understand that Japanese women didn't traditionally wear underwear before the 1930s or so. Then, in the late 1950s, Western culture started to pour into Japan, and with it came Western clothing styles, which included women's underwear. The Japanese historian Shoichi Inoue pinpoints this as the time when the West helpfully taught Japanese women the concept of being ashamed of their vaginas (thanks, America!) and it became standard practice to cover them up.
"Seriously, have you seen a vagina? It's horrifying."
So why didn't the rest of the underpants-wearing world develop the same fetish for women's underwear when they were introduced? Well, when panties first came to Japan, they were an expensive commodity. After World War II, when Japan plunged into poverty, the only women who could afford to wear Western style underwear were "pan-pan girls" -- high-class hookers.
So, during the crucial first years of exposure to women's underwear, Japanese culture associated it almost exclusively with sexuality. Before too long, the Westernization of Japan brought women's underwear into the mainstream, but by the time regular women started wearing them, it was too late: Coming-of-age Japanese men had already boner-associated with them, and a cultural fetish was born.
#2. They Kill Whales Because We Told Them To
As Greenpeace constantly reminds us, the Japanese still kill an inordinate number of whales in the name of "scientific research." And most of this research seems to center on the question of their deliciousness when paired with soy sauce. Although the rest of the world has mostly given up on whaling, due to the fact that we're running out of whales and cows don't swim very well, Japan won't let something like morality get between them and a juicy whale buffet.
"Oooh, I'll take that one, he looks like he has some fight in him!"
How It's Our Fault:
We tend to assume that, because they're traditionally a fishing-based society, whaling is just an extension of that practice. But whale meat was never really a significant part of Japanese culture until recently. Like the rest of the world, they briefly tried to harvest whale oil on an industrial scale, but even that was Norway's bad influence. To explain this modern craze, we're going right back to World War II again (it was kind of a big deal at the time).
After the war ended, the Japanese became deeply impoverished and were on the verge of famine. It was General Douglas MacArthur, leader of American-occupied Japan, who helpfully suggested that the answer to Japan's food shortages was to take up whaling as a large-scale industry. Ever since then, whale has become a notable factor in the Japanese diet.
"The secret ingredient is mercury."
But that doesn't explain why the Japanese remain whale-crazy after the rest of the world decided that whaling was a bad idea, does it? Well, Japan's answer to that is pretty simple: After centuries of having all these other weird traditions -- panty machines and giant monsters and penises-that-should-not-be -- pushed on them by the West, Japan is finally taking a stand against being told what to like. It's just unfortunate for the whales that Japan decided, arbitrarily, to make them the line in the sand.
#1. The Japanese Work Themselves to Death (Because We Taught Them To)
One of the most well-established stereotypes of the Japanese is that they work too damn hard. So hard that there's an actual word in Japanese, karoshi, that specifically means a death caused by overwork. It's not an obscure concept, either: Karoshi is so common in Japan that it's recognized by insurance companies as a reason to pay out benefits. It seems so bizarre to the rest of us because we can't imagine why those crazy Japanese businessmen don't just take a personal day when they start getting heart palpitations.
Whereas we call in sick to work if we can't find our cellphone charger.
How It's Our Fault:
That whole World War II thing basically hit the reset button on Japan's economy. Having come closer to Mad Max style nuclear apocalypse than any other nation in history, their task in the following years was to rebuild their economic system from the ground up. Luckily, in 1950, Japan's deliverance from economic ruin came in the form of an American statistician named W. Edwards Deming.
Deming came up with a unique style of company management that focused on perpetual improvement. His philosophy was that you don't just pick a standard of quality and settle for it, but constantly improve upon your own quality standard, going through a constant cycle of never being satisfied. If your employees have worked their fingers to the bone, tell them to grind those bones down to a fine powder, and after they've done that, have them go door to door selling that powder as some sort of aphrodisiac. It's known as the Deming cycle, and it's been standard practice in the Japanese workplace since Deming ran a series of lectures in 1950s Japan that were so effective that they cemented him as a folk hero in Japanese corporate culture.
Like if John Galt was played by Carl Fredricksen.
So why does Japan fall victim to this culture of office suicide while the rest of us simply flip the middle finger when our boss tells us to work overtime? First of all, thanks to Japan's unique economic situation, they were the only country to adopt Deming's teachings on a wide scale. (Why would we? We had a booming economy that was working just fine.) But perhaps more significant was the way the Deming cycle combined with ingrained Japanese tradition.
The Japanese have a deep respect for seniority, so it's extremely impolite to go home before your boss does. And your boss might just stay at the office until one in the morning because he's such a hard worker ... or because he hates his wife, or possibly just because he's got a Nintendo in his office.
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I wonder if it is possible to search in just my favorited questions?
If not, can it be considered as a feature request?
I wonder if it is possible to search in just my favorited questions?
If not, can it be considered as a feature request?
From my original answer here:
I think the most flexible solution would be to add a search parameter
The parameter
This plays well with all the existing search parameters.
Since everyone's favourites are public anyway (and are included in the data dump), I don't see a problem exposing this type of feature in search.
I currently have 1850 questions favorited for various reasons. Many of them have good answers in them (I can't favorite answers, grrr) or otherwise have information relevant to me. Some of them I want to track over a period of time. Some are just amusing or otherwise illustrative of programmer peculiarities.
I would welcome some kind of search facility on my favorites, even if it just found a keyword or two in the text of the questions or answers, or if I have to use a special string in Google to accomplish it.
Actually, filtering the favorites on a specified tag would work too.
This could be part of an advanced search page.
UPDATE: infavorites:mine has been implemented.
I have found stackoverflow favorites organizer by googling.
It works well in Chrome but I had issues with it in Firefox. Not perfect but I managed to find the question I was looking for reasonably quick.
I hope
This has now been completed with the new elasticsearch engine, see here.


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It could have been easier if Flash/SilverLight made it possible to trigger file dialog programmatically, but file should still be selected, dialog confirmed, upload initiated... Looks like it has to be automated from outside. What's the usual automation path in such cases?
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Flash and Silverlight are generally difficult to automate because they don't have full MSAA/UIAutomation implementations. Silverlight has been getting better, but specifically to your question, the file upload dialog is not actually a part of Flash or Silverlight and is MSAA/UIAutomation compliant.
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7 Terrible Life Lessons Learned from 'The Neverending Story'
#3. Always Trust Strangers
At the same time that Atreyu is learning his lessons about luck, he meets an old couple living in the side of a cave in the middle of nowhere. They are literally the only noticeable signs of life living in this area from horizon to horizon. The man claims to be a scientist, and the woman claims to be a doctor. Keep in mind that the only thing our hero knows about these people is that the first 15 seconds of interaction with them shows that they are both clearly insane.
"Even I think you're fucked up, and I'm goddamn crazy!"
The woman steps forward and hands him a "potion." There is a thick fog boiling out of the top of the cup, and live wormlike creatures are trying to escape. He takes a whiff and recoils in disgust. Then drinks it without question. As he's gulping down whatever the hell is in that thing, the woman says, "There's eye of newt in there. Tree mold. Old lizard brains. Scales from a rancid sea serpent." The bacteria alone in that concoction is enough to kill him. But she said she's a doctor, right? Must be OK to trust her and just do whatever she says.
"Also, I shit in there."
#2. Running Trumps Self-Worth Every Time.
So now he's off to see the Southern Oracle, but first has to pass through a gate made of a large set of titty-baring statues who judge your confidence. If your own self-worth isn't up to their standards, they open their eyes and fry your punk ass with lasers. The movie demonstrates this as an armored man rides through while Atreyu and the scientist watch from a distance through a telescope.
Someone could easily make a career writing the psychological breakdown of the director's mother issues from this one picture.
Atreyu decides that he has to try it himself. Everything seems fine, and he's made it halfway through before he looks down to see the charred face of the armored man that the tittymoms just lasered. Just as he's shitting himself, the eyes start to open. He has clearly failed their test. So how does he get out of this one? Does he summon the courage to defeat his inner doubt and regain his sense of self worth, thus calming the statues?
Nope. He runs like a bitch.
As it turns out, the statues rules became more defined that day. "He who shows true self-worth within his own heart -- or runs really fast with his own legs -- shall pass unharmed. Because it's really hard to hit a moving target." It just goes to show that confidence is nice and all, but if you're really athletic, you don't really need all that pansy psychobabble bullshit.
#1. Success Means Exacting Revenge Upon Your Enemies
The world is destroyed. Everyone is dead except for the Empress. Bastian has been pulled into the fantasy world. There is darkness.
The Empress opens her hand and a single grain of sand lights up their faces. She explains to him that this is all that's left of her empire and hands it over. She then tells him that he can make wishes with it -- as many as he wants. Each wish he makes will cause Fantasia to be rebuilt. So what does he wish for? Love? World peace? The end of disease and famine?
Nope. Sweet, terrible revenge. He and the Luck Dragon swoop down into the real world and dive headfirst towards the three bullies who attacked him in the beginning of the movie. Bastian and the dragon laugh and cheer as women clutch their children and scream in terror at the sight of the demonic dogmonster.
Look at all that delicious terror.
Look, we realize that this was a book before it was a movie. And we realize that maybe some things just didn't translate all that well from German to English, and from English to Hollywood. And maybe the book explained things a little better and taught lessons that were wholesome and practical.
But fuck you if you think we're reading it. After all, the final, convincing lesson of The NeverEnding Story is that books are twisted portals that will take you to an amoral universe and return you in a state of corrupted insanity.
We want no part of that.
Be sure to pick up our book and dive into the amoral universe of Cracked.
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The problem is concerning the use of a thermal fluxed squared weighting factor in a thermal reactor.
I have seen in sources the thermal flux in a reactor is squared as a statistical weighting factor, for example looking at temperature feedback. Say a number of thermocouples are measured in a reactor, the weighting of the importance of the thermocouples are to flux squared. Why is this when the reaction rate is equal to the flux? Is it simple statistics I'm not understanding.