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Google Loon–A network of balloons to provide internet to everyone

- by Gopinath

Google once just a super powerful search engine provider and now they are venturing in to a lot of interesting non software projects like self driving cars, glasses that beam information right on to your eye balls, high speed internet services @ 1 Giga bytes per second. A recent addition to this innovative list is Google Loon – a network of flying balloons that provide internet access to remote parts of the world where it is not feasible for many governments/corporate to provider internet services. Google says there are several billions of people around the world who don’t have access to internet and Google Loon aim is to provide internet facilities to all these people. A pilot project is started couple of days ago by launching 30 balloons into stratosphere from New Zealand. These balloons fly 20 Kilometers above earth(much higher than where aero planes fly) and they beam internet to homes having Loon receiver wirelessly. Checkout the embedded introductory video on Google Loon What is in it for Google? Why is Google getting into these type of projects and what is in it for them? Google is the gateway to web and majority of people find information on web using Google Services/Software. So providing internet facilities to more people means, more people using Google services and it in turn contributes to their revenue growth. Google is not a charity, they do all these projects to earn money just like every other corporate. The best part is while earning money they are touching lives of billions of people in a positive way. Just imagine everyone in the world connected and have ability to take informed decisions irrespective of whether they live in developed countries or underprivileged parts of the world! Wow that will be a beautiful day. Further reading Google Loon website Google unveils its Project Loon Wi-Fi balloons – in pictures Google flies Internet balloons in stratosphere for a “network in the sky” How Google Will Use High-Flying Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands Good discussion on Google Loon at Hacker News community

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More efficient in range checking

- by Mob

I am going to use a specific example in my question, but overall it is pretty general. I use java and libgdx. I have a ship that moves through space. In space there is debris that the ship can tractor beam in and and harvest. Debris is stored in a list, and the object contains it own x and y values. So currently there is no way to to find the debris's location without first looking at the debris object. Now at any given time there can be a huge (1000+) amount of debris in space, and I figure that calculating the distance between the ship and every single piece of debris and comparing it to maximum tractor beam length is rather inefficient. I have thought of dividing space into sectors, and have each sector contain a list of every object in it. This way I could only check nearby sectors. However this essentially doubles memory for the list. (I would reference the same object so it wouldn't double overall. I am not CS major, but I doubt this would be hugely significant.) This also means anytime an object moves it has to calculate which sector it is in, again not a huge problem. I also don't know if I can use some sort of 2D MAP that uses x and y values as keys. But since I am using float locations this sounds more trouble than its worth. I am kind of new to programming games, and I imagined there would be some eloquent solution to this issue.

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My IDE is showing "undeclared FileNotFoundException must be caught or thrown"

- by Dan Czarnecki

I am having the following issue above. I have tried actually putting a try-catch statement into the code as you will see below, but I can't get the compiler to get past that. import java.io.*; public class DirectoryStatistics extends DirectorySize { /* Dan Czarnecki October 24, 2013 Class variables: private File directory A File object that holds the pathname of the directory to look in private long sizeInBytes A variable of type long that holds the size of a file/directory (in bytes) private long fileCount A variable of type long that holds the number of files in a directory Constructors: public DirectoryStatistics(File startingDirectory) throws FileNotFoundException Creates a DirectoryStatistics object, given a pathname (inherited from DirectorySize class), and has 3 instance variables that hold the directory to search in, the size of each file (in bytes), and the number of files within the directory Modification history: October 24, 2013 Original version of class */ private File directory; private long sizeInBytes; private long fileCount; public DirectoryStatistics(File startingDirectory) throws FileNotFoundException { super(startingDirectory); try { if(directory == null) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("null input"); } if(directory.isDirectory() == false) { throw new FileNotFoundException("the following input is not a directory!"); } } catch(IOException ioe) { System.out.println("You have not entered a directory. Please try again."); } } public File getDirectory() { return this.directory; } public long getSizeInBytes() { return this.sizeInBytes; } public long getFileCount() { return this.fileCount; } public long setFileCount(long size) { fileCount = size; return size; } public long setSizeInBytes(long size) { sizeInBytes = size; return size; } public void incrementFileCount() { fileCount = fileCount + 1; } public void addToSizeInBytes(long addend) { sizeInBytes = sizeInBytes + addend; } public String toString() { return "Directory" + this.directory + "Size (in bytes) " + this.sizeInBytes + "Number of files: " + this.fileCount; } public int hashCode() { return this.directory.hashCode(); } public boolean equals(DirectoryStatistics other) { return this.equals(other); } } import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class DirectorySize extends DirectoryProcessor { /* Dan Czarnecki October 17, 2013 Class variables: private Vector<Long> directorySizeList Variable of type Vector<Long> that holds the total file size of files in that directory as well as files within folders of that directory private Vector<File> currentFile Variable of type Vector<File> that holds the parent directory Constructors: public DirectorySize(File startingDirectory) throws FileNotFoundException Creates a DirectorySize object, takes in a pathname (inherited from DirectoryProcessor class, and has a single vector of a DirectoryStatistics object to hold the files and folders within a directory Modification History October 17, 2013 Original version of class Implemented run() and processFile() methods */ private Vector<DirectoryStatistics> directory; /* private Vector<Long> directorySizeList; private Vector<File> currentFile; */ public DirectorySize(File startingDirectory) throws FileNotFoundException { super(startingDirectory); directory = new Vector<DirectoryStatistics>(); } public void processFile(File file) { DirectoryStatistics parent; int index; File parentFile; System.out.println(file.getName()); System.out.println(file.getParent()); parentFile = file.getParentFile(); parent = new DirectoryStatistics(parentFile); System.out.println(parent); parent.equals(parent); index = directory.indexOf(parent); if(index == 0) { directory.elementAt(index).addToSizeInBytes(file.length()); directory.elementAt(index).incrementFileCount(); } if(index < 0) { directory.addElement(parent); directory.lastElement().setSizeInBytes(file.length()); directory.lastElement().incrementFileCount(); } Could someone tell me why I'm getting this issue?

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Silverlight TV with Myself, John Papa, Shawn Wildermuth and Ward Bell

- by dwahlin

I had the chance to go on a live episode of Channel 9 while at DevConnections and had a lot of fun chatting about various Silverlight topics and answering some fairly unique questions posted on Twitter. Here’s more info on the episode from John Papa’s blog: John interviews a panel of 3 well known Silverlight leaders including Shawn Wildermuth, Dan Wahlin, and Ward Bell at the Silverlight 4 launch event. The guest panel answers questions sent in from Twitter about the features in Silverlight 4, thoughts on MVVM, and the panel members' experiences developing Silverlight. This is a great chance to hear from some of the leading Silverlight minds. These guys are all experts at building business applications with Silverlight. Relevant links: John's Blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Shawn's Blog and on Twitter (@shawnwildermuth) Dan's Blog and on Twitter (@danwahlin) Ward's Blog and on Twitter (@wardbell) Silverlight Training Course on Channel 9 Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv You can see the episode online by clicking the image below:

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IOUC Summit: Open Arms and Cheese Shoes

- by Justin Kestelyn

Last week's International Oracle User Group Committee (IOUC) Summit at Oracle HQ was a high point of the past year, for a number of reasons: A "quorum" of Java User Group leaders, several Java Champions among them, were in attendance (Bert Breeman, Stephan Janssen, Dan Sline, Stephen Chin, Bruno Souza, Van Riper, and others), and it was great to get face time with them. Their guidance and advice about JavaOne and other things are always much appreciated. Mix in some Oracle ACE Directors (Debra Lilley, Dan Morgan, Sten Vesterli, and others), and you really have the making of a dynamic group. Stephan describes it best: "We (the JUG Leaders) discovered that behind the more formal dress code the ACE directors are actually as crazy as we are." (See link below for more.) Thanks to Bert's (NLJug) kindness, I am now the proud owner of a bonafide, straight-from-the-NL cheese shoe. How the heck did he get this through security? I suggest that you also read more robust reports from Stephan, Arun Gupta, and of course "Team Stanley."

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WPF Toolkit DataGrid SelectionChanged Getting Cell Value

- by Dan Bater

Hi, Please help me, Im trying to get the value of Cell[0] from the selected row in a SelectionChangedEvent. I am only managing to get lots of different Microsoft.Windows.Controls and am hoping im missing something daft. Hoping I can get some help from here... private void datagrid_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e) { Microsoft.Windows.Controls.DataGrid _DataGrid = sender as Microsoft.Windows.Controls.DataGrid; } I was hoping it would be something like... _DataGrid.SelectedCells[0].Value; However .Value isn't an option.... Many many thanks this has been driving me mad! Dan

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DateTimePicker not updating dataset

- by Dan

I'm binding a DateTimePicker control to my dataset (which is linked to a database). However, unless the user changes the date on that control, the dataset seems to contain null for that entry (even though the Value entry of the control isn't null). I've done a bit of googling, and there's a lot of talk about people having troubles with the DateTimePicker not supporting null values. However, I DON'T want it to support a NULL value. The column in my database table is set to "NOT NULL". It's as if the dataset isn't updating itself from the DateTimePicker control unless the user changes the date. I've tried explicitly setting the date for the control in code (using DateTimePicker.Value = DateTime.Now). This still doesn't update the dataset side. Thankyou for any help, Dan.

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Graph theory in python

- by Dan

I was wondering how people deal with graph theory in python? How is a graph stored? Are there libraries for this? For example how would I input a graph and then find its Chromatic polynomial? Or its girth? Or the number of unique spanning trees? How about problems that involve edge weight like salesman problems? I don't need all of these answered, I'm just looking for a method or tool set that will be able to help me approach solve problems like this. Thanks, Dan

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Eclipse thinks there are problems with my Android project...

- by Dan Watling

I have an Android project and Eclipse is telling me my project has an error with its build path. Specifically, the problem view shows "The project cannot be built until build path errors are resolved". The entire project builds just fine, meaning there are no red X's on any of the files. I can build the project outside of Eclipse, deploy it to the device, and it runs just fine, so I know there isn't a problem with my source code or layouts. The strange thing is when I remove the 'src' folder from the build path in Eclipse, clean and build the project, then re-add the 'src' folder to the build path and build the project it works again. However, within a few changes it gives me the same problem. Has anyone else encountered this before? Does anyone know of a solution? It's driving me mad! Thanks, -Dan

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Use sed to replace first 8 and last 4 pipes on every line in a file

- by Dan Watling

Here's the situation, I have a text file that is pipe-delimited and one of fields contains pipe characters. I already have a sed script that will change it to be tab-delimited, but the problem is it's terribly slow. It will replace the first occurrence of a pipe 8 times, then replace the last occurrence of a pipe 4 times. I'm hoping there's a quicker way to do what I need. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Here's my current sed script: sed 's/|\(.*\)/\t/;s/|\(.*\)/\t/;s/|\(.*\)/\t/;s/|\(.*\)/\t/;s/|\(.*\)/\t/;s/|\(.*\)/\t/;s/|\(.*\)/\t/;s/|\(.*\)/\t/;s/|\(.*\)/\t/;s/\(.*\)|/\t/;s/\(.*\)|/\t/;s/\(.*\)|/\t/;s/\(.*\)|/\t/' $1 > $1.tab Thanks, -Dan

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Include params/request information in Rails logger?

- by Dan Hill

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get some more information into my Rails logs, specifically the requested URI or current params, if available (and I appreciate that they won't always be). However I just don't seem able to. Here's what I've done so far: #config/environments/production.rb config.logger = Logger.new(config.log_path) config.log_level = :error config.logger.level = Logger::ERROR #config/environment.rb class Logger def format_message(level, time, progname, msg) "**********************************************************************\n#{level} #{time.to_s(:db)} -- #{msg}\n" end end So I can customize the message fine, yet I don't seem to be able to access the params/request variables here. Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so how? Or if there's a better way to get this information? (Perhaps even something Redis based?) Thanks loads, Dan

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iPhone to iPhone communication

- by Dan

Hi, I have been looking into communication methods between two iPhone devices and as I understand it there are two main methods to do this: Bluetooth and WiFi. However I wanted to know if anyone knows of any other way of sharing information between two iPhones? If I were in an area with no WiFi or mobile signal, and couldn't use Bluetooth for whatever reason, is there anything that could be done to broadcast data from one iPhone to another? I'm sure its a bit of a silly question, but if you don't ask, you don't get; and if someone knows of anything I might be able to look into with regards to this, I would be very appreciative. Thanks, Dan

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Apache/PHP - alias outgoing URL

- by Dan

In my PHP code I've got references to a URL on another website. I'm testing my website locally (using XAMPP). Is it possible to get Apache to automatically replace the domain of this other website for localhost? For example my PHP code might be: <?php echo "<a href='http://www.othersite.com'>Click me</a>"; ?> And I'd like for my local Apache to alias this to <?php echo "<a href='http://localhost'>Click me</a>"; ?> Is this possible? Cheers, Dan.

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C# .Net file in use issue

- by Dan

I'm having an issue opening files that have recently been closed by the .Net framework. Basically, what happens is the following: -Read in an XML file using DataSet.ReadXml() -Make some changes to the data -Write out the XML file using DataSet.WriteXml() -Copy the XML file to a new location using File.Copy -FTP the file using a custom control This sequence can intermittently fail either after the WriteXML or the File.Copy with a file in use exception. I'm guessing it could be the Windows write cache not flushing right away. Can anyone confirm that this could be causing my issue? Any solutions to suggest? Thanks, Dan

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JavaScript border-color/color styling

- by Dan

Hi! I'd like to style 'input.submit' of a form (hover effect for IE) using JS and tried the following which doesn't work unfortunately.  Could you please fix this for me? TIA, Dan

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IWshShortcut Target Resolution in Windows 7

- by Dan Walker

I've got some code to read shortcuts using the Windows Script Host, but it appears to have a problem in Windows 7. When reading shortcuts, if there is an environment variable in the target path, it resolves to the wrong drive. For example, the shortcut to Notepad resolves to D:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe instead of C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe. The problem is not with my computer's settings, because the shortcut works just fine, and when looking at the value for %SystemRoot%, it shows C:\Windows. Any ideas as to what could be the problem, or alternatively, what a different method of reading shortcuts would be? Thanks, Dan

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Combobox in bound DataGridView

- by Dan

Hi. I've got a DataGridView control which is bound to a database table. I want one of the columns in the gridview to be of combobox type. The combobox should contain a list of hardcoded strings, which is the same for all rows in the datagridview. One of the fields in my database table is an index for this list of hardcoded strings. I've programatically added a new column to the gridview of type "DataGridViewComboBoxColumn", which successfully creates the column with comboboxes in it. However, that's then not bound to the index field in my DB table. The index field in my DB table is actually automatically bound to a column via the DataAdapter::Fill method. I've set this column to hidden, so it's hidden to the user. Obviously just before updating the dataadapter, I can programatically fixup the hidden column in my datatable with the SelectedIndex of my combobox. Just wondering if there's a better way of doing this? Thankyou for any help with this, Dan.

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Execute C++ exe from C# form using Process.start()

- by Dan

Hi, I'm trying to create a C# form app that will allow me to use all of my previous C++ programs from one central program. I'm able to open the exes with Process.start, however it does not compile the code correctly. Example code: Process.Start("C:\\Documents and Settings\\dan\\Desktop\\test.exe"); This will bring up the console and act like it's running, but it does not run like when I normally compile out of the C++ editor. Is there a startinfo variable I need to set to signify that it's a c++ program or something along that line? Also, is there any way to execute a C++ program using process.start that will allow me to pass it variables through the command line via argc and argv? Thanks

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How do I close a database connection in a WCF service?

- by Dan

I have been unable to find any documentation on properly closing database connections in WCF service operations. I have a service that returns a streamed response through the following method. public virtual Message GetData() { string sqlString = BuildSqlString(); SqlConnection conn = Utils.GetConnection(); SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sqlString, conn); XmlReader xr = cmd.ExecuteXmlReader(); Message msg = Message.CreateMessage( OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageVersion, GetResponseAction(), xr); return msg; } I cannot close the connection within the method or the streaming of the response message will be terminated. Since control returns to the WCF system after the completion of that method, I don't know how I can close that connection afterwards. Any suggestions or pointers to additional documentation would be appreciated. Dan

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Upload/Download images to FTP without bothering the user

- by Dan B

Hi, I know a lot of posts have been made in regards to FTP, but none have led me to what I need. I'm trying to upload a picture to a server (currently attempting FTP) but do it without notifying requiring the user to be involved. I want to be able to seamlessly upload/download the image when a certain user action occurs, but I don't want to use a third-party app like AndFTP. The idea is that a user will upload a picture, and then another user will be able to grab that picture based on which user put it up. No user will know where it's going or where it came from, nor will they navigate the FTP. Alternatively, does anyone have thoughts on a better way to do that? I thought of using the imgur api, but it can't be used commercially. It would, however, be perfect for my purposes. Is there a similar open-source alternative? Any help is greatly appreciated. Dan

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One large file or multiple small files?

- by Dan

I have an application (currently written in Python as we iron out the specifics but eventually it will be written in C) that makes use of individual records stored in plain text files. We can't use a database and new records will need to be manually added regularly. My question is this: would it be faster to have a single file (500k-1Mb) and have my application open, loop through, find and close a file OR would it be faster to have the records separated and named using some appropriate convention so that the application could simply loop over filenames to find the data it needs? I know my question is quite general so direction to any good articles on the topic are as appreciated as much as suggestions. Thanks very much in advance for your time, Dan

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Static lib that links another static lib and qmake? Odd linking error

- by Dan O

I have two qt .pro files, both using the lib TEMPLATE and staticlib CONFIG. The first library (lets call it 'core') is a dependency for the second lib (I'll call it 'foo'). In fact, there's a class in foo that extends a class in core, I will call this class Bar. When I instantiate the class (which is defined and implemented in foo, but extends a class (Bar) from core) in another project (not a lib) I get the following linking error: /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: Bar::Bar() Basically, the linker cannot find the class in the core lib that has been derived in the foo lib, but ONLY when I instantiate the class in a third project that is using both libs. Is this behaviour expected? Regards, Dan O Update: I fixed it by directly invoking the Bars constructor in the third project before using derived class... does anyone know why I need to do this?

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Using bash shell from within PHP

- by Dan

Hi everyone, In my terminal window (using Max OS X) my shell is bash. However when I run a command in PHP via shell_exec or backtick operators I see that PHP is using the Bourne Shell (sh). Here's an example of what I'm seeing: From within my terminal window: $ echo $0 - bash Also if I call php as follows: $ php -r "echo shell_exec('echo $0');" -bash However, if I create a script called test.php with the following: <?php echo shell_exec('echo $0'); ?> And then run test php I get the following: $ php test.php sh I'm wanting to use the bash shell when calling shell_exec - why is it choosing the Bourne shell and can I force it to use bash? Thanks! Dan

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Get list of named queries in NHibernate

- by Dan

I have a dozen or so named queries in my NHibernate project and I want to execute them against a test database in unit tests to make sure the syntax still matches the changing domain/database model. Currently I have a unit test for each named query where I get and execute the query, for example: IQuery query = session.GetNamedQuery("GetPersonSummaries"); var personSummaryArray = query.List(); Assert.That(personSummaryArray, Is.Not.Null); This works fine, but I would like to have one unit test that loops thru all of the named queries and executes them. Is there a way to discover all of the available named queries? Thanks Dan

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Complicated football league Dynamic Ordering in MySQL?

- by Dan

I have a table 'games' for a football league as follows: date home_team_id away_team_id home_score away_score - 1 2 6 21 - 3 1 7 19 I can't figure out how to dynamically generate a list of team ID's ordered by Wins (then points for if poss)? -- I have this query which works fine when I have a $team_id but of cause then I can only do 1 team at a time, and that doesn't allow for ordering at query level ((SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `games` WHERE ((`home_score` > `away_score`) AND `home_team_id` = '.$team_id.')) + (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `games` WHERE ((`home_score` < `away_score`) AND `away_team_id` = '.$team_id.'))) AS `wins` I wonder if i can use this with some form of GROUP, or mySQL can know the $team_id itself? I've also tried some multiple JOINs with the 'team' table but they didn't work either. Thanks, Dan

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