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added by jjmartinez Jan 9 '14 at 13:11

Other question about recomendation that has been voted down. I don't understand. – jjmartinez Jan 10 '14 at 18:19

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added by scubaFun Jan 10 '14 at 17:22

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added by Stefan Jan 10 '14 at 11:07

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added by jjmartinez Jan 10 '14 at 11:05

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added by Bernhard Dec 24 '13 at 16:13

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added by user824294 Jan 10 '14 at 2:13

Once this is in beta, move the off-topic question from StackOverflow here. – user824294 Jan 10 '14 at 2:15

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added by Chenmunka Nov 14 '13 at 9:38

...and here's an interesting point, where a submitting the drive fior a professional service would be preferable over a specific program. It is an interesting question as it raises the point about: not always software is the best solution. – SF. Dec 19 '13 at 11:09

Added precision, otherwise probably too vague. – Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:35

So now the site is not limited to just software, but to any technology or service whatsover? If we agree the question is "what tool can OP get" we avoid that problem. – Ira Baxter Jan 9 '14 at 15:59

I believe the site should be limited to software. Although there may sometimes be a question to which the answer is to look elsewhere. – Chenmunka Jan 9 '14 at 16:27

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added by Dee Jan 9 '14 at 11:11

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added by Dee Jan 9 '14 at 11:14

	What do you mean? Do you want a scorewriter (which would by definition export music sheets) or should the software compose for you. Also what do you want visual input or is sheet/audio generation from text files an option. Please make the question more specific. – Tim Jan 9 '14 at 11:51
	@Tim : updated. – Dee Jan 9 '14 at 14:48

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added by Chenmunka Jan 9 '14 at 9:00

I would expect to have to define what was meant by 'efficient' in the body of the question. – Chenmunka Jan 9 '14 at 9:01

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added by Ira Baxter Jan 9 '14 at 1:59

Why is this question bad (on hold)? Obviously not tool will be able to do this task flawlessly for sure, but even a program that only visualizes what the compiler removes during optimization could be very helpful. – Tim Jan 9 '14 at 11:14

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added by martin Jan 8 '14 at 12:32

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added by raphw Dec 28 '13 at 23:41

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added by raphw Dec 28 '13 at 23:45

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added by Ira Baxter Jan 7 '14 at 10:09

It would be helpful if people would write down why they thought this kind of question was bad when downvoting. Otherwise how does the site get a concept of what is out of scope? – Ira Baxter Jan 9 '14 at 3:45

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added by Dee, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 7:00

	This question is too long for me, I would write something like: What software would I need to publish a book in format XYZ? And extra info in the body of the question. – mara Jan 9 '14 at 8:47
	@mara: sure, but here is no body yet. – Dee Jan 9 '14 at 10:53

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added by pnuts, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 6:53

	It really helps if your question is actually in the form of a proper question. Like, Where can I find a free OCR tool for Arabic text... – crownjewel82 Jan 7 '14 at 2:56
	TQ. Noted. (I just copied an actual Q Title from SU!) – pnuts Jan 7 '14 at 2:58

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added by Oxinabox, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 6:51

	I am not sure if this question would be on-topic, as it might be primarily opinion based. – Bernhard Jan 4 '14 at 12:19
	Yes, i suspect this is going to be a very common problem on the site – Oxinabox Jan 4 '14 at 12:57
	Change Q. to: Advantages and Disadvantage between OpenOffice Writer (?VERSION) and MS-Word 2010? – Vitaliy Kulikov Jan 5 '14 at 10:06
	OpenOffice versions: - OpenOffice.org 1,2,3,3.4 Beta 1 \| - Apache OpenOffice 3.4, 4.0, 4.1 \| - LibreOffice 3.x, 4.0, 4.1 – Vitaliy Kulikov Jan 5 '14 at 10:16

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added by Szymon, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 6:49

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added by Ian, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 6:47

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added by Any Body, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 6:44

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added by Stephen Ostermiller, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:33

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added by juergen d, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:27

I redefined the question because "with lots of controls" is too vague for a good answer. – Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:28

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added by Alex, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:15

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added by Chenmunka, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:13

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added by Ian, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:12

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added by Ben Miller, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:12

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added by Chenmunka, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:10

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added by kmort, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:10

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added by Ben Miller Jan 6 '14 at 17:17

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added by Chenmunka, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 6 '14 at 1:57

Should be a little more specific. Via the internet? via pendrives? On which platform? (Cross platform?) – Tim Dec 12 '13 at 12:24

The term best really kills this question for me. – Chad Jan 2 '14 at 22:20

I made the question more specific, to address the concerns raised by Tim and Chad. – Nicolas Raoul Jan 6 '14 at 1:57

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added by Oxinabox Jan 4 '14 at 4:08

	The title seems a bit long. Maybe change it to "What free referencing software for scientific papers are available" or something like that. The question body then would contain which ones you tried (probably) – Bernhard Jan 5 '14 at 11:10
	I kinda agree, but we don't have bodies for example questions, and I wanted to indicate someone might be wanting to give examples in there questions – Oxinabox Jan 5 '14 at 12:45

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added by Bernhard Jan 1 '14 at 10:20

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added by Thijser Jan 1 '14 at 9:02

	Why downvote? I think it is a valid question. It is not necessarily spam, maybe the goal is to send monthly paychecks to employees, or something similar. Question should precise whether templating is needed or not, though. – Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 6:56
	This was an actual question that failed to get answered on another site. The basic situation was that a non-profit organisation which sends newsletter to it's subscribers with a fairly large attachment. So no not spam. – Thijser Jan 7 '14 at 17:43

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added by jjmartinez Dec 31 '13 at 15:47

Why does it have a negative vote?? This is a question about software recommendation that we can't do in Stackoverflow :( – jjmartinez Jan 5 '14 at 15:08

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added by hosch250 Dec 29 '13 at 22:08

If this wasn't a tool request for "getting things done", I don't know what is. – Ira Baxter Jan 9 '14 at 3:46

Is that complementary or are you being sarcastic? It took me about 24 hours (not straight) of research to find Visual Studio, and then I only found it because of an indirect tip from the download page for an accessory at Microsoft's download page. – hosch250 Jan 9 '14 at 3:49

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added by hosch250 Dec 29 '13 at 22:04

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added by Scott Beeson Dec 19 '13 at 21:50

	Hard to read not very specific – Daniel Dec 24 '13 at 22:05
	Well I couldn't see any way to enter a question body to give more detail. – Scott Beeson Dec 25 '13 at 0:26
	It would help if you made it a real sentence and specified which system you want to emulate. For example: Is there a controller enabled, stylish, game emulator front-end for [xyz] similar to Steam Big Picture for SNES? – crownjewel82 Dec 27 '13 at 22:10