Image texture on extruded SVG I can't seem to be able to apply a texture to an extruded .SVG.  Note:  does not solve the question as it relates to an older version of Blender: there's nothing like a "grey dot icon on the right side of the Color selector" in my Blender version.   Here's what I do: 1) Import SVG and extrude  2) Transform to mesh (Mesh from Curve: Alt-C, 2)  3) Import texture file, and set texture coordinates as "View"  4) Set the viewport shading to Texture  5) Notice the the mesh does not get textured properly 6) Go to edit mode to check if something is weird 7) Notice that there IS something fishy   What am I doing wrong? Thanks AC  My materials look like this:       @cegaton:  This is how my blender looks like:   If I click on "New" this is what I get:   While this is what YOU see:   How can I do it with my GUI?
How do I put an image texture on a material in Cycles? I am creating a model of a glass and I would like to put a drawing on it (a png picture).  I know how to do it using Blender Render, but not with Cycles Render. Help :)
Need to understand parallel query execution error Today we experienced a degradation in performance on our production sql server.  Durring the time this occurred we logged several "The query processor could not start the necessary thread resources for parallel query execution" errors.  The reading that I've done suggests that this has to do with how many CPUs to use when executing a complex query.  However when I checked during the outage our CPU Utilization was only at 7%.  Is there something else this could be referring too that I haven't come across yet?  Is this a likely culprit of the performance degradation or am I chasing a red herring?  My sp_configure values for this are as follows:  name                                minimum maximum config_value run_value cost threshold for parallelism      0       32767   5            5 In many situations, JavaScript parsers will insert semicolons for you if you leave them out. My question is, do you leave them out?  If you're unfamiliar with the rules, there's a description of semicolon insertion on the . Here's the key point:     If the first through the nth tokens of a JavaScript program form are grammatically valid but the first through the n+1st tokens are not and there is a line break between the nth tokens and the n+1st tokens, then the parser tries to parse the program again after inserting a virtual semicolon token between the nth and the n+1st tokens.   That description may be incomplete, because it doesn't explain @Dreas's example. Anybody have a link to the complete rules, or see why the example gets a semicolon? (I tried it in JScript.NET.)   is related, but only talks about a specific scenario. I have recently been reading about Quantum Electrodynamics which I found very interesting, but even more confusing.  I understand photons mediate the electromagnetic force and interactions between charges can be described by virtual photon exchange. And that in Quantum Mechanics particles paths can be evaluated by sum over all paths...  An electron travelling from one point to another will take all paths, emitting and reabsorbing virtual photons. Does the electrons take all paths including those that involve faster than light velocities?  Is this question null, Does it mean anything to ask about properties of virtual particles?  Do I have the wrong idea about what virtual particles are? Am I using beta or stable? I have been doing so many sudo apt-get update/(dist-)upgrade since yesterday and  something happend - so that I am confused now whether I am using still beta or the stable version.   How do I figure that out? How do I define solar irradiance in the context of a solar cell? This is homework. I've tried my best to find the best answer that I could understand and could be accepted by my lecturer.   I've searched my lecture notes, wiki and google to find some good explanation defining solar irradiance. But somehow I still don't understand how I should 'define solar irradiance'. Can someone give me a few good sentences explaining solar irradiance. What are the changes, if any, in a photovoltaic cell (in terms of short-circuit current and open-circuit voltage) if the irradiance is reduced by 50%? Probability that no two consecutive heads occur? A fair coin is tossed $10$ times. What is the probability that no two   consecutive tosses are heads?   Possibilities are (dont mind the number of terms):  $H TTTTTTH$, $HTHTHTHTHTHTHT$.  But except for those,  let $y(n)$ be the number of sequences that start with $T$  $T _$, there are two options, $T$ and $H$ so,  $y(n) = y(n - 1) + x(n-1) = y(n - 1) + y(n - 2)$  Let $x(n)$ be the number of sequences that start with $H$,   $H _$ the next option is only $T$ hence,  $x(n) = y(n - 1)$   The total number of sequences $F(n)$ is:  $$F(n) = y(n) + x(n) = 2y(n - 1) + y(n - 2)$$  We are after $F(10)$,  $$F(10) = 2y(9) + y(8)$$  $$F(3) = 2y(2) + y(1) = 1 + 4 = 5$$  $$F(4) = 2y(3) + y(2) = 6 + 2 = 8$$  But I'm not quite sure where this will take me though. Man creates miniature population on different time-scale; uses them to invent the 'absolute protection' dome I was looking at the task manager in Windows 10 and for the first time noticed a secondary dashed line below the solid? What does this line indicate? Where does TREE(n) sit on the Fast Growing Hierarchy? Extruding Vector Files in Blender I am sure this has been discussed quite a few times, but I found a tutorial recently doing the exact same thing as I did, but in my case my logo is messing up!  Here is the link to the workflow:   This is what it looks like after adding the solidify modifier:   I already recalced the normals of my spline, but besides that it messes up my spline shape, it had no effect.  Any suggestions on how to fix it? In contemporary American English usage, I come across sentences like:   I ain’t got no money.  Ain’t no man like him.    Saying ain’t no sounds incorrect to me because it is a double negative.  What is the origin of this particular construction? I wasn’t able to find anything online related to the origins of this incorrect usage. Story on quantum indeterminacy: protagonist has to “quantum select” a portable computer’s state How to choose a good research problem? I am working to get a PhD, maybe next year this time around. Currently, this is my second year. I have published 3 papers. All of them are not about one problem but consider different problems. My strategy to find a research idea/problem is given below.  1 - Read papers whose titles are either interesting or I have some apriori understanding of those titles.  2 - Understand those papers as best as I can. That is, I try to understand each detail presented in the paper except the simulation results (this is because I think simulation results are hard to reproduce).  3 - I analyze the paper and try to find a very small problem which can be addressed (i.e. I can solve it) by the methodology of the paper.  4 - If I am successful at step 3 I start working on that problem otherwise I repeat the process from step 1.  By applying this strategy I have been able to write 3 papers and I have submitted a fourth (I am not satisfied with those papers because at very best they can be considered average papers). But my concern is that the problems addressed in those papers do not belong to one area. As far as I have seen, for the profiles of some of the renowned researchers in my field their PhD work is focused on one area. One main thing I console myself with is that almost all of those researchers had good supervisors. My supervisor does not even read the draft/reviews of my papers and the suggestions that he provides during the meetings are so broad that the problem becomes intractable. Under these circumstances what are your opinions: Is there any better strategy to do research?   I will be very thankful to you for providing me suggestions or commenting on my dilemma. Winforms Textbox - Using Ctrl-Backspace to Delete Whole Word Why is my camera limited to a shutter speed of 1/250th when the flash is up? Sometimes in bright backlight and with large aperture (f2.8) I want flash at high shutter speeds.  But when I pop the flash up on D7000 it caps the shutter speed to 1/250th, which overexposes the shots and makes everything look like a nuclear bomb just went off.  What's the logic behind the limiting of the shutter speed when using flash? Is there anything I can do to get flash  + faster shutter speeds? How to remove app which is greyed out, can't be deleted, won't open and doesn't appear in apps list? I have this app with a greyed out icon which I'm trying to delete.    I tap and hold, and it asks me if I want to delete it and its data. I confirm and nothing happens.  I try to open it and nothing happens.  I go to Settings>General>Usage and it's not in the list.  I reboot the device and it's still here.  Is there another way to force deletion of this (ghost) app? Under what circumstances can the word "be" be used directly without any change? Possible Duplicate:          2 examples first:  1.It is announced that the accounting class of the 3rd and 4th hours on the morning of this Wednesday be cancelled  2.It is expected that everybody and each household be on guard  Someone told me this kind of examples above appears in the textbook as strict sentences to be taught in the classroom, so is that right for the usage of be  Meantime I looked up the word be at thefreedictionary.com and found one piece of interpretation says :      Archaic Used with the past participle of certain intransitive verbs to   form the perfect tense: "Where be those roses gone which sweetened so   our eyes?" (Philip Sidney).   So is there any connection between the archaic usage &amp; the examples above? BTW, how to understand the short phrase "the 3rd and 4th hours". Many thanks! So, I understand that for a NPN transistor to work the emitter-base junction needs to be forward biased and the collector-base junction needs to be reverse biased.  I understand how current flows from the emitter to the base when forward biased, but I can't seem to wrap my head around how it flows from the emitter, through the base, and into the collector.  From what I understand about the depletion region of a PN junction diode, when forward biased, the electrons in the N-type material are repulsed by the negative charge of the supply (say a battery) and the holes in the P-type material are repulsed by the positive charge from the supply, thus narrowing the depletion region and allowing electrons to flow from the N region to the P region.  I also understand that the holes and electrons are attracted to the source charges when reverse biased, widening the depletion region and blocking any electrons from flowing.  What I don't understand is what happens to the depletion region of the collector-base junction that allows electrons to flow from the emitter to the collector even though the collector-base junction is reverse biased.  Take a simple common emitter circuit for example.  I apparently am not cool enough to post pictures yet so you'll have to use your imagination.  So pretend we have the base connected to the positive terminal on a 1v battery (Vbb).  The collector is connected to the positive terminal on a 10v battery (Vcc).  The emitter and both negative terminals are connected to ground.  Also pretend that there is some kind of current limiting.  How does current get from the emitter through to the collector?  I can see how they are at different potentials, but I don't understand how this overcomes the reverse biasing of the collector-base junction.  Can anyone tell me what actually happens at the junction to allow current flow and how changing Vbb will affect that current? How do I remove 'Places' entries from the Nautilus sidebar? According to , $[0,1]$ cannot be written as union of countable disjoint closed sets, is the same true about (uncountable) family of disjoint closed intervals ?