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Is there a way to detect the status of the monitor in Windows (on or off)?

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What is the best way to detect the browser in Javascript?

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What is the fastest way to detect the maximum value of the variable in SAS

I am trying to find an efficient way of detecting the maximum value of a date variable. One caveat of the data that I will receive daily, is that the date is recorded as text. I would usually do it in the following way: proc sql noprint ; select MAX(

Is there a way to detect the millennium in which an NSDate is located?

I have an NSDate from a string of 01/01/14. Unfortunately the strings are saved with two digits so I have no idea if the year is from 1900's or 2000's. But I want create some intelligent code to guess what millennium and century the full year is. I k

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A simple and reliable way to get the maximum value of the attribute of a base data object?

Is there an easy (or just reliable) way to find the max value of a core data attribute? Apple's example just does not work (plus it is ridiculously long and complicated for such a simple task). I have spent almost a day on this and haven't been able

A reliable way to detect if a column in a data.frame is.

R has is.vector, is.list, is.integer, is.double, is.numeric, is.factor, is.character, etc. Why is there no is.POSIXct, is.POSIXlt or is.Date? I need a reliable way to detect POSIXct object, and class(x)[1] == "POSIXct" seems really... dirty.I wo

In Java, what is the best way to get the last 250 characters of a string?

In Java what's the best way to get the last 250 characters of a string? The string maybe empty, less than and greater than 250 chars. ThanksI don't exactly understand what you what, but this can do it: if(string.length() > 250) { char[] lastCharacter

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