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I never understood why C and C++ compilers try to recover from errors and continue parsing. Almost always, the first error generates a stream of bogus errors that will disappear as soon as the first one is fixed. After several years of experience, I simply stopped looking at any error except the first one of every file. I rerun the compiler and then do that again until there is no more errors. Is it a common practice?
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Sometimes the errors are unrelated. I find it easier to look at a list of errors and fix the root cause of a series of related errors, then fix the next un-related error. If the project is large and takes a while to build, I find working in this manner less frustrating than fix first error, recompile, repeat...
It depends on the compilation time. For example, if I know that I just changed a master header that will trigger a rebuild of the entire project, I'll certainly take a closer look at the rest of the error stack and see if I can fix some of them. That gives me a better feeling when I stand up to make coffee while the compiler runs.
If there is a gap in the line numbers, the compiler probably did recover and then found another error.
Usually only try to fix one error in each bunch though.
Yes I do the same, unless I am using the compiler to help me refactor in which case I like the full list of errors :)
Better compilers will produce better results and give you more useful errors after the first one, often through some kind of automatic correction of the errors so that presumably good code can at least be checked. But then, I'm used to working in Java, in Eclipse, where syntax typos are instantly detected and easily corrected, and other compiler errors tend to be more diverse and easier for the compiler to recover from. I can only assume that it's similar when working in Microsoft's IDEs and others in C++ or C#.
Yes - or at least I skim them. It is pretty easy to figure out if the errors are related (usually a look at the line number is enough) and I like fixing them all in one pass and then recompiling.
I do this (to read the errors past the first one) only if the 1 cpp compilation is very long. Or not available. Then I prefer to make sure I fixed everything I could identify in the compiler errors as unrelated to the first error.
When your cpp file can be compiled alone and does in less than a second (or you have an "intellisense" pointing errors before the compilation even started) you don't have to do this most of the time.
I currently work on a project where I can't compile one cpp alone (and I don't have the hand on the build system so I can't change that O__o) and some cpp files can take more than ten minutes to compile (even after a lot of effort to reduce that, we only cut it by to 50% of the original compilation time...).
In this kind of very long compilation setup, you tend to think a lot first before hiting "build"... and even think a lot after, to maybe find bugs before the compiler as you're certainly faster to get them mentally than it.


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Market microstructure is generally speaking the way markets are organized at the impact of there structure on the price formation process.
Market microstructure for Quants
The Chapter Market Microstructure Knowledge Needed for Controlling an Intra-Day Trading Process of the Handbook on Systemic Risk states:
The market micro-structure of an asset class is a mix of the market design, the trading behaviours of trading agents, the regulatory environment, and the availability of correlated instruments (like Equity Traded Funds, Futures or any kind of derivative products). Formally, the micro-structure of a market can be seen as several sequences of auction mechanisms taking place in parallel, each of them having its specificity.
To optimise his behaviour, a trader has to choose an abstract description of the micro-structure of the markets he will interact with: this will be his model of market micro-structure. It can be a statistical macroscopic one like in the widely used Almgren-Chriss framework, in which the time is sliced in 5 or 10 minutes long time intervals during which the interactions with the market are aggregated in two statistical phenomena: the market impact as a function of the ``participation rate'' of the trader and the volatility as a proxy of the market risk. It can also be a microscopic description of the order-book behaviour like in:
- Simulating and analyzing order book data: The queue-reactive model where the way the first queue evolve with respect to the size of others (best opposite and second or third queues) are studied.
- a theoretical one explaining how stabilizing behaviours can emerge: Efficiency of the Price Formation Process in Presence of High Frequency Participants: a Mean Field Game analysis
- a PDE (Fokker-Planck) version of the order flows (with an intraday seasonality correction) A Fokker-Planck description for the queue dynamics of large tick stocks
- another one focused on direct analysis of the link between the state of the orderbook and the next event (midprice change or trade) Trade arrival dynamics and quote imbalance in a limit order book
- an economic view of agent behaviour (in a theoretic model) A Dynamic Model of the Limit Order Book.
Sources of information
Conference proceedings and web sites
There is a large overview of state of the art in microstructure in the talks of the conf held every two years (2010 and 2012 up to now, 2014 is planned) in Dec in Paris Market microstructure: confronting many viewpoints.
Another recent book: Market Microstructure in Practice, describes why microstructure is important for trading, from a quantitative viewpoint.
A book on the 2010 eponym conference is available: Market microstructure: confronting many viewpoints (the book)

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Advertising for traditional free-to-play games is "misleading," says the European Commission, after the organisation began to receive complaints from consumers "all over Europe" regarding supposedly 'free' to use games and applications.
After meeting to discuss the matter, ministers of the European Commission may very well decide that if a developer advertises a game as 'free-to-play,' the application will need to be completely free, as opposed to free to download with in-app purchases and microtransactions included. Justice commissioner Viviane Reding says that current adverts for free-to-play games are "misleading consumers" and is "clearly the wrong business model," which Reding claims "also goes against the spirit of EU rules on consumer protection."
"The European Commission will expect very concrete answers from the app industry to the concerns raised by citizens and national consumer organisations," Reding continued.
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Those who have been playing free-to-play games for some time will know, however, that the claim of 'free' often only ever applies to the initial download with the inclusion of a game full of content that's possible to be played through either without spending a cent, or by paying to unlock new features or gain the ability to achieve more in a single play session.
The European Commission, however, fears that players (including children) not aware of the traditional free-to-play business model will unwittingly make in-app purchases:
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Do you agree that developers and publishers of free-to-play games should be forced to advertise and promote their games under another term other than free-to-play, or is this term so engrained in gaming culture that it's generally accepted without further explanation necessary?
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Encode the following arguments and show whether they are valid or not. If not valid give countermodels i.e., truth assignments to the propositions which make them false.
If the investigation continues, then new evidence is brought to light. If new evidence is brought to light, then several leading citizens are implicated. If several leading citizens are implicated, then the newspapers stop publicizing the case. If continuation of the investigation implies that the newspapers stop publicizing the case, then bringing to light of new evidence implies that the investigation continues. The investigation does not continue. Therefore, new evidence is not brought to light.
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Let $p$ denote "the investigation continues"
$\quad \space \space q$ denote "new evidence is brought to light"
$\quad \space \space r$ denote "several leading citizens are implicated"
$\quad \space \space s$ denote "the newspapers stop publicizing the case"
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$p \to q $
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$(p \to s) \to (q \to p)$
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$\therefore \neg q$
I am very much a beginner in logic so I am not sure if this is correct so far or how to prove or disprove this using the standard rules of inference. Any ideas?


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Rude, ignorant, disrespectful, smug and stretcher of the truth - these are words I find describe the vice president of the United States. I was embarrassed for him.
The Democrats will tell you that it's "Just Joe" Biden. Well, it isn't "Just Joe." He is the vice president of the United States. I would expect better behavior from him.
I was on the fence for this election, but "Just Joe" helped me decide how I would vote.
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Fulfillment of the prophetic word is front page news. This event will be the final confrontation of light and darkness. Zechariah 4:4. The Lord returns to the Mount of Olives.
Everlasting changes will be set up. Cosmic changes will be set, as will weather, lamination and geographical. The Old Testament says, "Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the Earth. (Isaiah 45:22)
Prophetically, time has hastened as we view and witness, so many Biblical signs that are apparent. A testimony of salvation and a dedicated holy life in Christ is a must. Being discerning and watchful as he told us are also definite pluses for holy living. In examining the Scriptures, their contents teach us that anyone who has believed and trusted in the truth and fullness of Christ's word can be included - rich and poor or any nationality that has received him as savior and Lord.
So in our world today we agree and disagree to what is the proper way of life.
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Henninger: Boston and the Un-Bush
On the Patriot Act, the president is very much his reviled predecessor's mirror image.
With the terror of last week's Boston Marathon bombing still seeping into the American psyche, how ironic it is that President Obama traveled this week to Dallas for the opening of the George W. Bush Library. Mr. Obama has built the politics of his presidency—its foreign policy and its economic policy—around the assertion that he is the Un-Bush.
Now, in the grimmest way possible, he is Bush, another American president who must come to grips with the aftermath of a mortal act of Islamic terror on U.S. soil, televised to the whole world. Whether the Boston killers were put in motion by Islamist handlers or sprung from Tamerlan Tsarnaev's fundamentalist reveries, jihad has come home to the Obama presidency.
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Mr. Obama is the luckier of the two presidents. His bombing happened at the start of his second term, after he'd already passed the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank. Not so Mr. Bush. The Sept. 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center towers, the driving of a passenger airliner into the Pentagon, and the crashing of another airliner in Pennsylvania changed the course of Mr. Bush's young presidency.
Mr. Obama's tour through this era of Islamic terror has been lucky in one other way: George Bush immediately used his political capital—and paid a heavy price—to pass the Patriot Act. What happened next in Washington wasn't entirely expected.
A consensus had formed back then that 9/11 "changed everything." Some of the "changed everything" mood returned in recent days, with American flags flying around Boston and chants of "U.S.A."
One of the things that was thought to have changed the first time was politics. From 9/11 forward, the war on terror was going to be bipartisan. Surely most Americans in 2001 wanted political solidarity in the antiterror effort to last. It didn't. It collapsed, and in a very short time.
The Bush administration announced the Patriot Act in October 2001. Congress passed it within days. But the assault from the left on its provisions began almost immediately, and the Bush antiterror effort became a policy war zone that lasted years. By 2006, some Democrats—angry at the Patriot Act, the Iraq war and the "torture" of al Qaeda operatives under CIA interrogation—were exploring Mr. Bush's impeachment.
Bear in mind that the primary questions being asked now are what, if anything, the FBI knew about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's descent into Islamic extremism, and what, if anything, they did about it. The Patriot Act created the means to answer such questions. Its primary weapon to prevent terror was the wiretap, a surveillance tool virtually everyone in law enforcement says is the best way to catch criminals. Two sections of the Patriot Act—the "lone wolf" provision and "roving wiretaps" (both requiring authorization by a special court)—were created precisely to identify and monitor an individual like Tamerlan Tsarnaev before he detonates a bomb in a crowded public place.
Who can forget how the structures created to prevent more terror on U.S. soil turned into a pitched battle that consumed Washington policy makers for nearly a decade after 9/11? Accusations poured forth about "illegal domestic eavesdropping" and a "domestic spying program," which violated "our values."
It was all politicized hothouse hooey. No such thing happened. When its turn came, the Obama administration used the Patriot Act—its title now grimly appropriate—and defended it in court. In 2011, the Obama administration embraced reauthorization of the Patriot Act, which Harry Reid years earlier promised to kill. On at least this one important issue, the Un-Bush president has been very much his reviled predecessor's mirror image.
But let's, so to speak, cut to the chase. In contrast to the Bush era fight over how many judges had to approve surveillance of terrorism suspects, we had the transfixing spectacle last week of Bostonians okay with having their city transformed into a state of virtual martial law after the bombs went off.
The citizens of Boston and its suburbs allowed massively armed SWAT teams to enter their homes, order residents out and eventually find the bullet-riddled Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lying half-dead in a boat. When it was over, people lined the streets to cheer the police army. You'd need more than a roving wiretap to find a peep of objection from the old Bush critics.
Who's to quibble? Some are now asking whether the protections after 9/11 have waned in the past 12 years. After these events, a responsible Congress should want to find out.
But let us posit an unimpeachable fact: Whatever their eventual opinion of "Bush-Cheney," Bostonians and Americans generally would have happily signed off on a warrantless wiretap of the Tsarnaevs' phones before the deaths and mutilations of April 15, 2013. The long fight over the Bush domestic antiterror effort was a case study in partisan extremism run amok in Washington, even as a silent majority of Americans across the political spectrum wanted such protections.
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These work pretty well. Each "brick" (8 bricks per board) is about 1" x 1" square of compressed sawdust and some sort of oil. The boxes they came in were all pretty oily. The boards break apart pretty easily by hand though not exactly on the score marks. You will still need kindling unless maybe you use several boards worth of this stuff.
This is fine, but for about $10, you can get a charcoal chimney starter and you will never need lighter fluid or oil-soaked sawdust bricks again. Heck, for years I used one I made for free out of an old coffee can. Somebody (not me) burnt their hand on it, so then I went and spent the big bucks on a fancy store-bought version with a wooden handle, something like this.
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I didn't install anything myself, but only Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on an Acer 4741g.
I use Fn+left/right to change the brightness, but failed.
How can I control the brightness levels?
I didn't install anything myself, but only Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on an Acer 4741g.
I use Fn+left/right to change the brightness, but failed.
How can I control the brightness levels?
Try this:
Hope it helps.
Works for Acer Aspire v3-571,Acer Aspire v3 571g,Hewlett Packard Bell EasyNote TS,Acer Aspire 4755G,Acer Aspire 5750-6866, Acer Aspire 5739, Lenovo T540p
OP reported in Revisions 2 & 3 of the question that the following worked for him.
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(I'm on an Aspire 5750-6866.) It works fine, same control levels I had in Windows.
My brightness used to be stuck at max before I discovered this.
(Although brightness levels still reset after a restart/hibernate/shutdown)
I found out a solution that worked with my laptop:
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I had the same problem. I have a Travelmate P633-V and I did this code to fix it.
After installing the scripts my FN-Left and FN-Right are working fine.
The script should work with all intel devices that exposes /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight
I got this problem when i upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04. enter this in terminal code:
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Most simple and fast way to do this.... Use this command
Set the value in between 0 to 1 like in this case it is 0.5 This works for me Try this !!!
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Use Add Drivers / Additional Drivers to load Cedar Trail drm driver (closed source).
For Ubuntu 12.04.2 (and fully updated 12.04) this issue is resolved by more recent updates. It does not require the proprietary driver.
If you have just done a fresh install of 12.04.2, then you need to update (and re-start) to fix this.
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Repeated steps, with fresh install. This did not fix problem.
While the brightness is fixed, any dimness/brightness adjustment (using function keys) does not seem work after this fix ..
Ongoing ...
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I was struggling with this problem as well. My notebook is an Acer Aspire E1-522. I could solve the brightness issue by changing from the X.Org X server to the proprietary AMD video driver.
To do so, go to Software & Updates and then go to the tab Additional Drivers. There you can probably find the proprietary driver. Select it and click Apply Changes. You will need to reboot you computer in order to know if it really helped.
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IT WAS heartening to see Michael Howard in such fine sparkling form when speaking to businessmen last week. They loved his message and at times the UK Opposition leader was almost Churchillian with a dash of Thatcherism. Now there's a heady thought. But it did strike me that all the best policies adopted after the Conservative's 1979 victory were once deemed utterly impractical by diffident Torie's.
All the privatisations were opposed by the forces of complacency. Scrapping exchange controls was a huge boost to the economy but nearly every official was opposed. Now is the time surely to rehearse some popular liberalisations that would deliver not only a far better society but, if Howard will forgive my bluntness, also millions of voters Elections are similar to auctions except politicians love to offer "free" items. Here are my 10 winning ideas why might win the election for Howard:
1 Make taxes far simpler and scrap many of them. Tax forms should be the size of postcards not books.
Introduce income tax at a flat rate of 20% with no exceptions, as just instituted in Singapore. That would liberate everyone and the paradox is that revenues would soar too.
The European Union (EU) Commission wants us to harmonise VAT at 20%. That may be a firm clue that we might reduce it to 15%. The taxation of capital, or savings, should be abandoned. They are all merely remnants of the stale hostility to "unearned income". It is a virtue to save not a sin.
Inheritance tax is no longer a hazard for the wealthy who all take professional evading action. It penalises only those of modest wealth. Don't talk of shifting the thresholds, abolish it.
Tax Freedom Day in June should become a February public holiday replacing the socialist May Day. The Conservatives' plans to reduce tax are so tentative as to barely register with the public. Boldness would pay rewards in May.
2 Sell off the State's dormant assets The sums raised could go to every family as a trust. The Ministry of Defence owns land areas greater than all of Devon and Cornwall. Sell it off or rather give it back to those who nominally own it - the British public. The Forestry Commission is the greatest single property owner in the country. It hides behind its pine needles as an agency for the birds and the bees but it is little more than a nationalised industry that has escaped reform. Add its acres to the new trust's assets.
Every ministry owns a ragbag of properties Let them all be brought to market. The privatisation harvest is not near its end. Rusting nationalised industries may have gone but the government still owns far too much and husbands it poorly.
Buying shares in the privatised entities was popular but this was really only the public buying back what it already nominally owned. A trust composed of all asset sales would represent a real gift of capital to everyone. I doubt the Labour Party could respond; they have their lingering love affair with collective ownership.
3 Sell off the BBC and abolish the licence fee. The corporation's prime asset is its strands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Price them by an auction process. Its vast endowment was inadvertent. Programming would barely change but the funding would be audience and advertising driven, rather than our superiors filtering what they deem good for us through "public service". The ending of this odd poll tax would yield a useful downward blip on the retail price index (RPI). The money raised from a sale of the BBC's spectrum space should be added to the trust fund established on everyone's behalf.
4 Secede from the European Union's monstrous Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Cease to make donations to what even its auditors declare to be organised crime. Simultaneously cease to pay farmers for producing what nobody wants. British supermarket prices would tumble by one third. Opening our borders to cheaper foodstuffs would be highly popular and will wrongfoot the Labour Party. This could be presented as a significant gesture against world poverty. This single reform would do far more to assist the poor than cascades of official aid. Promise to relinquish membership of World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) type bodies. Far wiser and more popular would be to choose simple unilateral free trade. A British refusal to support the CAP may prompt the European Commission to abandon the system altogether - creating a benign ripple around the world.
5 Reform the local authorities, the most visibly failing institutions in Britain. Convert municipal bodies into no more than contracting agencies. Town halls would do nothing but buy in the best tenders. Local education authorities (LEAs), for example, would shrivel and die if every family was given vouchers of £3,000 (E4,320, $5.730) for primary and £5,000 for secondary pupils redeemable wherever they choose. The Conservative Party has been hinting at giving parental choice for decades, but nothing seems to dent the producer monopoly (the LEAs and teacher unions). Every family is apprehensive at the calibre of municipal education. Liberating parents could be as popular as council house sales, perhaps even more potent as a voter winner.
6 Town and country planning ought to be relaxed, or better scrapped. Municipal taste is uglifying every community in the country. Let systems of third party contracting control new building. Contrived rural housing shortages would evaporate. Leave planning to private agreements and covenants such as were used when all the big beautiful squares, crescents and parks were built in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and other cities. Town hall cadres running the failing system will squeal loudly and that would enhance the appeal.
7 Oblige every strand of the social security system to be contracted out to friendly societies. Voluntary co-operative models have to be happier and more alert than the monster bureaucracies of the Department of Work and Pension.s The sinking fund of National Insurance (NI) should be closed down and the sums attributed to personal accounts. Once everyone can identify their own personal sums accruing the popular appreciation will be transformed. NI is no more than a tax by another name.
8 Abolish the minimum wage and compulsory retirement. Let us make British employment contracts as flexible or adaptable as possible. Radically reduced income tax would stop penalising employers as much as employees. The job market will flourish.
9 Relax migration rules. The doors to Britain ought to be open, but with zero public benefits or subsidies to immigrants.
10 There are many small policy gestures that would give near universal pleasure. For example, scrap party political broadcasts. Declare a public holiday on Adam Smith's birthday, or possibly Margaret Thatcher's. Drop petrol tax but create road use metering. Raise motorway speed limits to 90mph. Put hereditary peers back in the Lords. Perhaps we should recapture Calais.
John Blundell is director general of The Institute of Economic Affairs


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What Is Gluten?
Gluten is a protein in wheat, rye, and barley that is commonly found in bread, beer, pasta, and a wide range of other processed foods containing these grains.
For about 1% of the population, eating gluten causes celiac disease, an intestinal condition characterized by the inability to absorb nutrients from food.
Celiac disease is diagnosed through blood and bowel tests, but there are no good tests to determine non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and there has been considerable debate about whether the condition even exists.
In their essay published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Celiac researchers Antonio Di Sabatino, MD, and Gino Roberto Corazza, MD, of Italy's University of Pavia, explored what is and is not known about gluten sensitivity and addressed the growing hype about the benefits of gluten-free eating.
"Claims [about gluten-free diets] seem to increase daily, with no adequate scientific support to back them up," they write. "This clamor has increased and moved from the Internet to the popular press, where gluten has become the new diet villain."
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3 Dec 2012 10:37 AM #1
Unanswered: How can I access a date typed field from an ExtJS JSonStore?
Hello all,
I've been trying to retrieve a date value and an integer value from the database, using the following code:
var l_alsChampsMois, l_stoDonneesMois; try { l_alsChampsMois = [ {name: "date_mois", type: "date", dateFormat: "Y-m-d"}, {name: "indice", type: "integer"} ]; l_stoDonneesMois = new Ext.data.JsonStore({ fields: l_alsChampsMois, autoLoad: false, proxy: { type: "ajax", url: "/commun/req_sql/req_ind_per_mois.php", reader: { type: "json", root: "rows" }, // some configs to use jsFiddle echo service (you will remove them) actionMethods: { read: "POST" }, extraParams: { key:"test" } }, listeners: { load: function(objStore, alsLignes, blnOk, objOptions) { window.alert("Mois fin : " + objStore.getAt(0).get("date_mois")); } } }); l_stoDonneesMois.load({params: { p_idsoc: l_strIdSociete, p_mois: l_datDebut.getMonth() + 1, // getMonth renvoie 0 pour janvier, etc. p_annee: l_datDebut.getFullYear(), p_debut: 1, p_etape: 1 } });
It seems to work fine (indeed, Firebug tells me the load does retrieve a data structure with "date_mois" and "indice" containing the values I expect them to), only the window.alert returns undefined. If I replace "date_mois" with "indice", it returns the expected value for "indice".
I've tried to use objStore.getAt(0).getData()["date_mois"], to no avail.
My only clue about this is that "date_mois" in the data structure shown by Firebug is an Object, but even so it shouldn't be undefined, now should it? I looked up http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-1/#!...Field-cfg-type that wasn't exactly forthcoming with straight answers.
So what did I do wrong there?
4 Dec 2012 4:19 AM #2
If it is an Object, then toString representation would be [object Object], which can be parsed in correct date with any format. Server should convert dates to proper strings.
7 Dec 2012 3:00 PM #3
Please post your JSON
Perhaps the JSON is not correctly formatted. You could post it here for us to see. Is there a "rows" object that contains the other fields? I ask because the other variable names are in French and "rows" is not - perhaps it was copied from an example.
7 Dec 2012 11:42 PM #4
You need to recreate the date format
by default the mysql gives date format in format
after retrieving date from mysql you need to change the date format to
the corresponding format that you were used in the date field
if you are not customised the
xtype : 'datefield',
nb the format will be 12/04/2012 that is month/date/year
so i think you need to change the retrieved data from the database server to the above format in the json
then it will load to the xtype : 'datefield',
if you found problem again please post your json and xtype used for date field


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I tend to build my house nearly completely out of glass because I like to be able to see all nearby threats. Are there any monsters with the ability to break glass? If so, which ones?
Glass is a fragile block when compared to other ones. Looking at this page on the Minecraft Wiki which lists every block and their resistances to explosions, Glass blocks have a blast resistance rating of 1.5. There are two mobs in the game which either explode or shoot projectiles that explode: the Creeper and the Ghast. In order to not be broken by a Ghast's fireballs, a block must have a resistance rating of 20.17 or higher, and a Creeper's explosion is even more powerful than that. Because of this, you have to be careful to not let Creepers explode near or Ghasts shoot at your glass structures.
The other two destructive mob in Minecraft are the Enderman and Silverfish. Endermen can pick up certain blocks and place them down elsewhere, but Glass is not one of the blocks they can pick up. Silverfish can hide in Stone, Cobblestone, and Stone Brick blocks which get destroyed when they appear from them, so they have no effect on Glass.
As an additional note to Kevin's response, while ghasts can break glass, according to the wiki they don't have much reason to:
equally, this page http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Creeper has a lovely discussion towards the bottom about creepers and buildings. The salient details? glad you asked!
(the above is because, apparently, creepers only explode when they're near you, not when they're blocked by walls)
I had this same question, so I did a test. I made a glass box, and stayed in it over night. I saw a zombie, who didn't seem to notice me, so I broke the glass and walked over to get his attention, then ran back into the glass box and put new glass in the holes I had made to seal myself in. The zombie then acted as if he couldnt even see me.
A few minutes later I saw a creeper and ran out to get his attention, then ran back and sealed myself in the box at the last second, and he immediately de-aggroed me and simply walked away.
I did this all on Hard difficulty survival mode. I wanted to know the question, so I could build a box to be safe in and AFK while my crops grew in my huge farm tower!!
Well so far no. Zombies have tried to break in my house so along with other creatures but they haven't been able to break my windows... And I'm not on creative mode EVER! I play survival mode.
No monsters break glass, with the exception of creeper explosions.
No Mobs can break glass with the exception of creeper blasts. I would recommend putting a fence around your house and torching up the fence so that creeper explosions can't affect your house.
No zombies and other creatures can't break glass. I make my house out of glass too!
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I find a definition of "exact neighborhood" (the book is online (*1) Definition 1.5 on p.10) confusing.
Do I understand it right that neighborhood that contains the global optimum and no other local optimums/ma is what they call "exact neighborhood" in this book ?
Is this terminology accepted anywhere, or just in this book ?
(*1) http://books.google.com/books?id=u1RmDoJqkF4C&pg=PA10&lr=&hl=iw&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false Papadimitriou Steiglitz Combinatorial optimization
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Yuan-ti are snake humanoids. Nagas are snake humanoids. What are the differences? What different roles do they serve? Is there in-game history about this?
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To take up another of your points, they're designed (in D&D) to serve very different roles. The yuan-ti are a race of creepy, sinister beings that serve as a rival to humanity. They build cities, create magic items and jewelry, have servants, and seek geopolitical power of some kind. They have a whole civilization going on, like elves or hobgoblins. But since they're freaky snake-men, they also embody the Other in a way that elves or hobgoblins don't. They look very different, they think weird reptilian thoughts, and whether or not you consider sex to be something that should come directly into an RPG, their presence raises unconscious questions about exactly how they breed (and with whom...).
Nagas are solitary boss monsters. They hang out at some distance from civilization, whether that distance is physical or social. They don't want the things that humanoid races want. Instead of serving as an uncomfortable parallel of humanistic society, they're clearly Big Monsters. Regardless of their alignments (if you use alignments), they embody the chaos and fear inherent in the wilderness - they're the opposite of civilization. You can draw some interesting rakshasa parallels there, if you like a little Hinduism in your roleplaying.
Alternately, you can say "they're all creepy snake dudes!" and just kill 'em.
It's not "version specific," it's "setting specific." In the Forgotten Realms there is a common origin for yuan-ti and nagas. From the FR wiki, and derived I believe from the FR supplement Serpent Kingdoms:
"Long before humans dominated the continent of Faerûn, the Creator Races ruled Toril. The reptilian Creator Race, the sarrukh, were foremost amongst these and built up great empires. They bred the first yuan-ti by magically experimenting with and breeding men with snakes. This way they also created naga, and through a similar process, lizardmen. They eventually fell from power and the resourceful yuan-ti rose up to claim their Creators' power vacuum, even while sustaining the empire of Mhairshaulk. Of the fragmented World Serpent deity that the sarrukh had worshiped, the yuan-ti venerated the strongest aspect, a cruel and despotic deity, Merrshaulk, who grew distant and aloof."
Other game worlds make up different stories, of course.
I don't believe there is an "official" answer beyond what you wish in your own campaign. Yuan Ti or serpent men seem to be a homage to the Robert E. Howard serpent men while nagas appear to have a more mythological basis. I would think about making naga the leaders of the serpent men---their spellcasting abilities, heightened intelligence, and not having any hands---makes it logical the yuan ti would do all the "grunt" work while the naga commanded them. Perhaps nagas are rarely spawned by serpent men sort of like a bee hive spawns a queen bee, with several nagas competing in combat until one survives to rule over the brood.
They are not really related. Nagas in Hinduism and Buddhism are related a to version of the Asian or Oriental Dragon. They can be good or evil spirits, in Chinese myth they would be at the same rank as Heavenly fairy or genie. One is even the protector of the Buddha. In Cambodia there is a legend of reptilian race that ruled a empire. These sound more like Yuan-ti.
DnD tends to take most mythological and fantasy creatures out of there original context and create a polyglot world with creatures that would not be together. Nagas if you follow there background would think of them as superior to Yuan-ti in every way and would no more rule them than any other intelligent creature. In fact you could see benevolent empires rule by Nagas as well as despotic ones.
As far as I can remember, D&D's nagas are human-headed snakes. They never have legs, arms or other features that together make something truly "humanoid".
There are similar (high ranking?) yuan-ti as well (again, as far as I can remember), but yuan-ti are more varied, each (subclass?) having a mixed set of human and snake features (limbs, body, tail, head, tongue, scales, skin etc.)
The question is interesting, though, if somewhat broad - I'd say the (3.5) core books leave the answer, that is, the development of the relationship of the two races up to the DM. (There might be setting-specific answers, of course, but the question had no pointer about this.)


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