I recently am working on a scene in Blender Cycles which has a relatively great number of objects. Some are more detailed and need more subdivide but the small objects are all just subdivided once.  So the problem is that my blender gets slow when I move the camera in the viewport.  In 3ds Max you can choose objects that you dont need to look at right now and select "Show them as box", which will let them be displayed as a wireframe box and therefore wont stress the scene that much.   My question is if there is a function like that in Blender? (exept hiding objects)  And do you have tips on working on bigger scenes in blender too keep it fast? For example I have a lot of chopsticks in my scene. Should I merge them together to 1 object instead of individual objects and then just give them different materials?   thanks in advance :)
I'm currently working on a scene containing 1000+ objects which all need to be set to a different draw type to save on computationally expenses in the viewport. But doing this for every object separately is really tedious. Therefor I'm wondering if there's a way to change the maximum draw type of multiple objects simultaneously. Preferably only the selected objects.
What are good ways to make pdflatex output copy-and-pasteable? How to mass delete your photos in your iPhone? I cannot do it in the phone itself, neither in iPhoto.  How can you delete all your photos in iPhone? Book ID: Astronauts and Lab Students can create portals through space Desperate to locate and re-read exceptional book/series, but cannot remember the title. The high concept: The U.S. has just sent the first successful expedition to Mars, and it has just landed. As the astronauts make their initial exploration outside their ship, a tear in the fabric of space opens up right in front of them, and they look through to the insides of a laboratory (at a California university?) and two students who just figured out how to create arbitrary portals between two points in the Universe. The rest of the novel/series is a consequence of this breakthrough. But I can't remember the author and title(s). Surely someone reading this forum will remember it well! TIA.  (Reposted .) is a typical example for , though it is said that long time no see has been accepted by the mainstream English speakers.  Recently, there is a  movement in the , and a few new Chinglish words have been invented to demonstrate the characteristics of the Mainland.  The most outstanding examples (in my opinion) are:   shitizen - a citizen without citizen rights freedamn - the freedom for shitizens (no freedom) democrazy - the democracy for shitizens (no democracy) smilence - the speeches under the freedamn of speech () z-turn - to make effort in vain ( (Pinyin))   Here are my questions. Has there ever been any neologism movement in the history of English? What are the criteria to adopt new words into English? I am able to parse strings containing date/time with time.strptime  &gt;&gt;&gt; import time &gt;&gt;&gt; time.strptime('30/03/09 16:31:32', '%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S') (2009, 3, 30, 16, 31, 32, 0, 89, -1)   How can I parse a time string that contains milliseconds?  &gt;&gt;&gt; time.strptime('30/03/09 16:31:32.123', '%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S') Traceback (most recent call last):   File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/_strptime.py", line 333, in strptime     data_string[found.end():]) ValueError: unconverted data remains: .123 How I would go about getting the current users username or first and last name?  I have been looking at this for the last couple of hours - I was just wondering how I would go about getting their name and then displaying it on the page.  For example the current user is 'John Smith' and in the lightning component I want to output John Smith's name like:     Welcome to our community John Smith! Can anyone tell me if there is a way with generics to limit a generic type argument T to only:   Int16 Int32 Int64 UInt16 UInt32 UInt64   I'm aware of the where keyword, but can't find an interface for only these types,  Something like:  static bool IntegerFunction&lt;T&gt;(T value) where T : INumeric How to reconnect a logically disconnected USB device? It is possible for a USB storage device to become logically disconnected: the device is still plugged in, but is invisible from the operating system (e.g. it's not listed under /proc/bus/usb). Maybe this can happen to other kinds of USB or other removable devices as well. This can happen for example:   ; after VirtualBox has claimed a USB storage device (the device disappears from the Linux host when it is attached in the guest, and does not automatically reappear if it is detached from the guest).   What is going on in the driver or in the hardware, and most importantly, (how) can the device be logically reconnected (without physically plugging it out and back in)?  Note that this question is not about mounting. In the “logically disconnected” state, the kernel believes there is nothing on the USB bus (and so of course there is no entry under /dev). Are there any open source alternative to Landscape? My wife has several files and folders that somehow ended up having filenames that have caused them to be undeleteable (can't be deleted) by normal means or via the command line. I believe the filenames are too long due to the depth of the folder structures. Does anyone know of a good utility for cleaning up files like this? What's the word for the when you suck snot back up your nose? My mom and I say 'soup' like: "Why are you souping the snot back up your nose?" But I realise that this is not accurate. So what's the word? How do you spawn ONLY zombies in Singleplayer? How to Translate Content type name using i18n module? I am developing a multilingual site that supports English and Norsk bokmal. I have set English as my default language. I wanted to translate the contents and the other things in the site.  My real problem started when I found that I was unable to see the translation of the content type's name. I went to admin/config/regional/translate/translate and translated everything, but still my content type's name is not translated.  I have attached a screenshot of the translation page. Still I don't find a way to translate the content type's name. Solve recurrence relation $a_n = 3 a_{n - 3} + a_{n-1} + 2 n$ I am not able to solve the above recurrence relation which involves $n$. The initial conditions $a_0 = 1, a_1 = 2, a_2 = 3$, for $n \geq 0$. Please try to give closed form in terms of arbitrary $a_i \geq 1 $ for $i \geq 0$ How can I clear the water out of this area? I've sectioned of this area in the sea near my base, and I need to get rid of all the water from it.  From what I've tried the only way I can see to clear it is fully cover one layer, delete the blocks, then go down to the next layer. Is that the only way I can clear the area or is there a better approach?  Ideally I'd like a survival method (if there is a better one), but any commands what could be used I'd like to hear just so I can learn more commands :) How can I maximize the "blurry background, sharp subject" (bokeh) effect? To ensure that a new chapter starts on a right-hand page, the book class (and the report class with the options twoside and openright) will insert blank pages between chapters if necessary. However, these pages still contain the headers and footers as defined by the class. How can I remove those?  Note: I know that I can manually add \clearpage\thispagestyle{empty} at the appropriate points of my document. However, this seems awkward and is prone to fail if I change my document later. I'm looking for automatic solutions. How to rank a million images with a crowdsourced sort I'd like to rank a collection of landscape images by making a game whereby site visitors can rate them, in order to find out which images people find the  most appealing.  What would be a good method of doing that?   Hot-or-Not style? I.e. show a single image, ask the user to rank it from 1-10. As I see it, this allows me to average the scores, and I would just need to ensure that I get an even distribution of votes across all the images. Fairly simple to implement. Pick A-or-B? I.e. show two images, ask user to pick the better one. This is appealing as there is no numerical ranking, it's just a comparison. But how would I implement it? My first thought was to do it as a quicksort, with the comparison operations being provided by humans, and once completed, simply repeat the sort ad-infinitum.   How would you do it?  If you need numbers, I'm talking about one million images, on a site with 20,000 daily visits. I'd imagine a small proportion might play the game, for the sake of argument, lets say I can generate 2,000 human sort operations a day! It's a non-profit website, and the terminally curious will find it through my profile :) Do not allow giving minus one for new user questions I always see Stack Overflow users giving -1 to new users' questions. This is not how you welcome a new user to the community. A new user does not know the rules yet.    I suggest that if one wants to give -1 to a new user, you prevent that and ask the downvoter to write a comment instead. new user = 2 first questions    I see the credit rating on my question is now at -9?  My question, is she not well formed or formatted? If you don't agree with the content of a question do you down-rate it? If an Ubuntu user asks a question that might not be reasonable, will you also down-rate it?  No. You post an answer that will present your thinking and correct him? I think that is part of the problem. When you first go to a community like Facebook, and you don't know the faces, you don't feel like any of those people are your relations. Newbies exist here as well, especially in a professional community.    First, welcome the new user in more appropriate way. And most importantly, force them to see/read how to post a good question. What hinge is this? Bit of a newbie to DIY here.  We've moved in to a house that came with a summer house but the double doors were a bit wonky/wouldn't open easily without breaking in the door. I need to get 4 new hinges for the doors but I'm not sure where I can find these ones. I've looked online on UK sites such as Screwfix but as I'm not sure of the particular name I'm not having much luck.  I've attached a drawing (sorry it's the best I can do as my camera isn't working). My Paint skills aren't the best, it's actually a cylinder shape and half of it spins/moves (this is what is broken/doesn't move anymore so it breaks in to the door).    Cheers, Jack