Can You Explain This One? :-)

Okay, so I installed a sound blaster xtreme gamer onto my computer.
After manually installing the latest drivers for it from the creative website, I restarted the computer and
creative audio control panel still could not detect the card. I checked in device manager though and sure enough it was there, ali've and ticking.
I then proceed to Control Panel to set the creative as my primary device ( my other is onboard realtec)
Here's the funny thing though. I set it as the default and nothing happens, no sound.
I then set the default to the
Speakers Creative SB XF and whoolah, sound is now working fine. Have to say, it sounds a step up from that realtec crap. But isn't it ironic that I don't have to set the default to the actual device but to the speakers? For the record I use the Logitech Z2300 2. setup
Still can't get creative audio control panel to detect the card but hey, is it worth the pissing about with?

! Hell yes, been playing Half Life Episode 2 and I feel like jumping out of my skin!!
I don't know why many people rave on about how onboard is almost as good as a dedicated good sound card because it really isn't. So glad I made the upgrade and it wasn't expensi've.
I have disabled the realtec and still no update detecting the card.. Its not a big deal though, I can just check manually for drivers/software in the future.

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Hey All,
Please refer to code segment given below. As per the defination of Daemon threads it should terminate when all other user threads die. In this case it should terminate when main thread ends as thread2 has not been initiated yet.
The result is not consistent. We get the expected output sometimes, whereas sometimes program goes in to an infinite loop and other times excutes a few lines of thread2 and then quits.
Can someone explain this?
Thank you
Vidur Gupta
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It's not clear what behavior you expect, or what behavior you're observing, but here's what I would expect to happen:
thread1.start() is called.
After that, either of two things could happen:
1) the main thread could go into your very short spinlock counting up to 1000000
OR
2) thread1 starts running
You can't predict or control which one of those happens, and it may be that on successive runs of your program, one happens sometimes and the other one happens other times.
At some point, you'll get to where the main thread dies. If the only other thread that has been started is thread1, then, since it's a deamon, the program will die.
However, it may be that sometimes that happens, and other times, thread1 gets enough CPU time to call thread2.start(). You may not see any output from thread2 or see the ""Thread 1 daemon status" output that comes right after t2.start() before main ends, but if t2 has been started, then you've got another non-deamon.
Bottom line: Whether or not there's an additional non-deamon besides main depends on how the scheduler happens to schedule your threads, and you should not expect that to be consistent or predictable.

Can you explain this for me?

Hi Guys,
I'm a novice at best here, and get great satisfaction
tinkering and figuring things out with web sites. I have a question
about how to program a flash page that has a main navigation menu
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OK your code isn't quite there. First of all look up
'Buttons' in the Flash Help guide and learn more about them.
'on(release)' is a 'handler' that respondes to a mouse click, it
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'gotoAndPlay(frame OR label)' tells the playhead to move to a
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content. You can keep the 'navbar' showing by placing it on a layer
that doesn't change throughout the timeline, and on different
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create a 'page' so to speak.
HERE is a very
basic example of the principle, however in this example I have
placed the button handlers on the main timeline and you call them a
little differently this way you say:
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but the basic system is the same. it's generally a good idea
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My daughter's stolen iPhone is CCing her eMail. Can you explain this?

My daughter had her brand-new (2 days old) iPhone stolen in Baltimore, MD last summer at a concert. Recently, she has started recieving email (on a gmail account that must have been entered/configured somehow) from the phone. Since this is Verizon CDMA phone (no removable SIM - true?) we believe the thief is using the phone more or less as an iPod Touch - using it on WiFi - they are sending all kinds of email bearing photo attachments and etc. to their family members.... and my daughter is getting a copy of all the messages on her Gmail account.   The thief apparently does not realize there is a copy of their
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Can You Explain This SQL Query - Inline View Included

The query is taken from "Oracle Database 10g: SQL Fundamentals II" page 3-7 (chapter 3)
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FROM   employees a, (SELECT   department_id,
AVG(salary) salavg
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user11164565 wrote:
The query is taken from "Oracle Database 10g: SQL Fundamentals II" page 3-7 (chapter 3)
I do not fully understand the following query:
SELECT a.last_name, a.salary, a.department_id, b.salavg
FROM   employees a, (SELECT   department_id,
AVG(salary) salavg
FROM     employees
GROUP BY department_id) b
WHERE a.department_id = b.department_id
AND    a.salary > b.salavg;
The inline view can return several records. Can you please tell me in step by step how does this work. I understand the concept of join tables and aliases, etc. I just need to know the mechanism of this code.
The query is returning the last name, salary , department and average salary of all the departments where salary is greater than the average salary.
HTH
Aman....

Transport Basics: Can you explain this to me?

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Amanda,
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BWIK is nothing but your transport name, its start with that name.
Everything which you mentioned as question is properties.
Once you release the request then it will display you the status.Is the transport moved to quality or to production all the details.
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Can you explain this? Export sizes are way smaller than I want!

I shoot RAW files and I have a bunch of images from my recent vacation that are huge files like 16 - 20mp per image. I just exported a bunch of photos and now they are showing up as 64kb when I exported them to my desktop then I dragged them back into a new folder in Aperture 3 and those same files are showing up as 0.4mp! What is causing my files to get super small. I knew something was wrong when i looked at my images on my Apple TV and they looked horrible! I use my own presets I have been using since day one. Aperture is just acting real strange today. I don't know if I just need to reboot my system.
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Regards
Léonie

After I download the new version of firefox, it flashes that it cannot finish because I do not have privilages to certain things in the new version. Can you explain this?

I get all through the downloading process and move it to my applications. It then ask me if I want to replace the old version with the new one. When I click on replace, a new window comes up with the fact that my computer does have privileges for some of the operations so I cannot complete the process. What really gets me though, is that it still pops up saying I need to download the new version. I do not know what to do.

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Can you explain this topics

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Hi,
1.fixed value mapping when we have to use and how?
If we have very less values to map like for Gender we have only 2 value Male and female then we will go for it. If we have more value we will go for value mapping
In Message Mapping you will have functions there u will find Conversions in that fixValues will be there double click on it and speciy the vales.
2. what are the objects will be transferd from ECC 6.0 to XI system.
Didnt Get u Completely, Can u be more clear.
IDOCs we can transfer.
3. mapping template when and we have to use?
If we want to save the part of mapping for further use we will go for Mapping Template.
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Can anyone explain this one to me?

I open a directory containing jpeg's
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Can you explain this error message with MERGE statement

Here is the code that gives me headache.
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Columns going to be updated should not be in 'ON clause' , try to delete the line 6 of your query. By the way, there isno sense to update e2.employee_id = e.employee_id when matched, the equality is already verified.
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