Question prompted by this comic:
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I know that the Windows copy dialog (in Windows&nbsp;XP) stores the copy in memory first, and it is still copying after the dialog closes, so the time is off, but why is the estimation of the time it will take to make a copy so inaccurate, even when memory copying has been disabled (in Vista and Windows&nbsp;7)? It seems so arbitrary! How does the whole copy procedure work, and why can't Windows estimate it correctly?
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After spending some time reading  I was convinced to buy the book.  I've ordered what I think is the  in my local bookstore (yay local) and it seems to relate to the first one or two years of of web content, but I can't be sure.  My question is: "how does the book series line up with the Web comic?"  Does it contain specific episodes/adventures, relate to strips from a specific time-span or is it simply an assortment of episodes?  UPDATE: They are amazing.  It is interplanetary war in the introduction!!!!  Yes!
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How does the  change with the age of the universe?  This question was posted recently, and I had almost finished writing an answer when the question was deleted. Since it's a shame to waste the effort here's the answer anyway.  Maybe this can be one of the canonical answers .
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Question:     A man like you should not do this, _______?   Which question tag should I use in the blank space?   should he? should you?   Which would be grammatically correct? I think 1 is true.
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I often answer questions and wait to see if it meets the OP's requirements. Sometimes, it seems people will ask a question and not check on it until the next day.  Am I wrong to expect OPs to check on their questions when they just asked it?   Mmm... I should have left the question alone for a day or so, just for the fun of it :p
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When I see comic book questions, or questions on characters from comic books, they're invariably qualified with a "this canon" or a "that canon" only notice, which given certain characters is a fairly reasonable thing to do.  And of all the characters that exist, Batman by far seems to have the greatest number of intertwining canons.    Just how many different canons are there for Batman?  And to be clear, I'm counting all comic book canons, running and cancelled (but not 'planned but never released' canons), different movie canons, and TV canons.  I know there's at least two separate TV canons for Justice League and B:TAS (though not if those two are one in the same, or directly tied together with Batman Beyond).  And I know there's at least 3 different Batman Movie Canons (I think?) but I'm at a total loss on comic book canon.
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Question:   Answer:   The question was closed at 11:57:57 (according to the hover-over-"x-mins-ago" bar) and the answer was posted at 12:16:35. It's a fairly lengthy answer, so it's possible that it was started to be written before it was closed but I swear I've started to answer a question then I got a banner along the top saying "this question has been closed" and the answer was no longer post-able.
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Thaddeus's  got me wondering about what exactly is the difference between Marvel's Ultimate universe (Earth-1610) and the Cinematic universe (Earth-199999)?  After all from what I've seen of the Marvel movies (admittedly not all of them) they seem to largely draw from the Ultimate universe anyway.
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Regarding , made by me, and general questions in this matter. I did receive decent answers on the question that was asked, but it wasn't asked clear enough by me I now see. I do not want to invalidate the answers by completely restructuring the question. Should one post a new question ignoring the other? or Should one refer to their old post and writing a short &quot;because x I reposted this...&quot;?
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I came across  and at the time there were no suggested answers. After reading Mark Hubbart's comment (at the time with four upvotes), which was the correct answer, and seeing that it had been over 30 minutes since his comment, I figured I would provide that answer in my own words, which I did. My answer is longer, and I think more rounded and more useful, but the core of the answer came from the comment. I have no idea if I'd have thought up the answer on my own--a definite maybe to that.  Now had I tried to be "honorable" or something, such as instead of answering, suggesting to the commenter that he make his comment an answer, I would only have accomplished giving away easy rep to some other user not as into gratuitous self-denial.  The commenter had merely to enter his comment into an answer box instead of a comment box! It was his choice! Whether he was too lazy or didn't think his answer worthwhile or some other reason is not my responsibility. Must I bend over backward to help him earn points that he so carelessly left lying around for another person to take? It just took a tiny bit of non-laziness on my part to get my text typed into the box that would reward me instead of the box that wouldn't.  If my perspective is incorrect and the community would rather see such answers-as-comments rewarded and supported, I will gladly accept that. In the meantime, I just want to shake off the tiny bit of guilt my overly-nice and overly-concerned-with-propriety self is feeling. :)
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I need help with identifying the comicbook, what follows is my best effort to gather whatever I remember from reading it years ago (circa year 2000, but I'm positive it was older than that):   The main character was a guy with white hair, who wanted to become powerful.  Through some training and a deal of some kind he was able to become a mage of sorts. The training was set on some other world, or possibly even parts were happening in different dimension. His powers might have had something with travelling between dimensions, but I'm not  100% sure. Also, I seem to recall there was a hard limit of how many times he could use them. Then followed a part where he was famous, but someone framed him into a scandalous plot (it was a sexual scandal, I think) using his clone or a doppelganger. At the end of the issue     the main character is seen trapped in some strange state, unable to move or escape using his powers (this might have to do something with the deal he made earlier). I remember the scene at the end as this: he is suspended in mid-air, his friends look at him in disbelief while some malevolent figure explains to them that he is now trapped forever.  His name was the title of the comic. The second and third parts were set on futuristic-looking planet.   Rings any bells? I'd like to read it again only I can't google it out.
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Question: Can you provide an example of a claim where the base case holds but there is a subtle flaw in the inductive step that leads to a fake proof of a clearly erroneous result? [Note: Please do not answer with the very common  example.]  Comment: Sometimes inductive arguments can lead to controversial conclusions, such as the ,  and a host of other paradoxes. However, I am interested in examples of a more mathematical nature (as opposed to linguistic) where the inductive argument is subtly flawed and leads to erroneous conclusions.   Note: If you provide an answer, please do so in a way similar to how current answers are displayed (gray out the flaw so people can be challenged to discover it).
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This is a pretty well known quote from the Star Wars movies. But isn't it a bit paradoxical?   It in itself is an absolute, and it was said by a Jedi (Obi-Wan if I recall correctly?). If this holds true, then is he leaning towards the Sith himself? If it isn't true, then both Jedi and Sith can deal in absolutes and the statement is pointless.  Surely it should be phased along the lines of "Jedi's should avoid dealing in absolutes" or something similar?
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First, here's a material that made me keep thinking about this issue in the first place.        He looks as if he knew the answer.    He is pretending as if he knew the answer. He is not as smart as he can solve the problem.      He looks as if he knows the answer.    He is a smart enough to know. Many people expect him to know the answer  Am I right to think this way? I'm trying to figure out how to use 'as if' more precisely.   Thanks in advance
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Under the  tag I have seen many questions on earth-616. Are there any other versions of earth as well? How do they differ from each other?
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I loved the comic book. I've read it multiple times. And given that the purpose of the book and consequently, the movie, was       for the Joker to prove that anyone can be driven mad simply because of "one bad day", all he needed was the Commissioner right?    Why would they need to have us, as viewers, bond with Batgirl emotionally for around 25-30 minutes, have her frolic around with Batman and try to prove herself to him, etc.?     Sure, you feel deep sorrow for Barbara when she gets shot and molested by Joker. And this obviously is what affects Commissioner Gordon (in part),   But it isn't essential to the crux and the essence of the movie in my opinion (and going by the book, so to speak). Did Sam Liu or Brian Bolland offer any explanation to this end?
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In Thor: Ragnarok, Bruce Banner mentions to Thor that he has several Ph.Ds. Later, Thor jokingly tells him, mid-fight, to     "do something, use one of your Ph.Ds".   This was hilarious to me, but it got me thinking, What are Bruce Banner's Ph.Ds?  5-7 Ph.Ds seems very excessive to me, but knowing that Banner has genius-level intellect, it would be interesting to know exactly what he specialises in.  Related: