It seems it's just as easy to transport someone or something to any part of the ship as a transporter pad (at least TNG era). Other than maybe a place to welcome guests, it seems largely unnecessary (except perhaps particularly complex operations like removing that transporter space worm out of Barclay). Do the transporter room and pads have more power, or other benefit than transporting someone directly to their room/sickbay/bridge?
I hope this isn't a silly question but I've been watching TNG and this bothers me.  The transporter 'pad' area is relatively small.  As a guess, maybe 12 people can fit on it.  But the vast majority of times it's being used by 2-3 people.  However, the transporter is able to beam people from anywhere on the ship to anywhere (within some distance I presume).  It's fairly common for them to perform a transport directly to the bridge.  So, why is there an actual room?    If a three man away team is to beam down to the surface of a planet - why do they have to walk all the way to the transporter room, then stand on the pad to get down there?  Why not simply beam them from where they are, to the surface.  The ship's computer is able to locate anyone on board.
Real Analysis, Existence of a Limit Boundedly:$|\int_0^b\frac{sin(ax)}{x}dx | \le c$ I need to show that there exists a $c$ such that $|\int_0^b\frac{sin(ax)}{x}dx | \le c$, where $a$ is any real number, and $b$ is any real number greater than 0. Also I need to show that the smallest $c$ possible is $c=\int_0^\pi\frac{sinx}{x}dx$. I know that $\int_0^\infty \frac{sin(ax)}{x}dx = sig(a)\frac{\pi}{2}$ where $sig(a)$ literally just means positive one or negative one, depending on the sign of $a$. I think the fourier tranform of the characteristic function on the interval $(0,a)$ is $\frac{sin(ax)}{x}$. After that, I am unsure about how to proceed. Thanks for your help! My local hackerspace has a CNC machine.  I can give them my Gerbers and they can print out the PCB.  The machine does not plate VIAs.  I need to do this after the CNC machine is finished.  What is the best process and materials to use? How do I install wine? I'm taking an electronic circuit analysis class, and I was asked to give the color of the 3rd band of a 1MΩ resistor. My answer was blue, thinking it could be black-brown-blue (01 * 1MΩ), but the automated quiz said the correct answer was green (brown-black-green).  So I did some research, thinking there were just multiple correct answers, and I read in a few places that the first band on a resistor is never black (0). Why is this? Does a black first band have some other meaning? It would really help me remember it if I knew the history or reasoning behind it.  This question has been answered. For further reading on zero-ohm resistors mentioned in the answers and comments here, I found these questions and answers helpful: How can I recover data from a 2TB hard drive? I have a Western Digital 2TB External Hard Drive. I basically use it to keep all my movies and videos. Its file system is NTFS, and currently I'm using 1.4TB. One night I turn it on and copied a 4GB file and there was no problem. Then I tried to copy another 6GB file and Ubuntu throw the following error: "Input/output error". I tried to create a new folder with no luck. I still could read the disk an play a file, so I thought restarting the computer would solve the problem, but it didn't. The next time, Ubuntu didn't mount the disk.   After that I tried in another PC with Window 7. It throwed a message telling me: first, that the disk needs to be formatted, and second, a "Local Disk #: Is not accessible. Data error (cyclic redundancy check)". Here is when I started to worry. I tried to fix the disk with CHKDSK (chkdsk \r). After about 5 hours, it crashed with the following error: "An unspecified error occurred".  My guess to all this is that the disk is dying. :'(  Lastly I did one more thing. I installed GSmartControl on Ubuntu to see the SMART info and the attributes tab appears in red with the following line highlited:  ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE ... 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   197   197   000    Old_age   Always       -       977 ...   Just to check, I left the disk on for about 2 minutes and then refreshed the page, and the Current_Pending_Sector RAW_VALUE increased from 977 to 979. My guess is that sectors on the disk are dying. Am I right?  If every time I turn on the disk more sectors are going to die, I need to copy the data fast. I don't know if there is a solution on Windows, and I'm worried about the time that it could take to do it with the slowness of Windows. Basically my question is: How can I recover the data? (Or at least some of it). Is there any program on Ubuntu that can help me with this (If I'm still on time)?. My main concern is the size of the disk (2TB), so I think I would need at least another 2TB disk to copy to.  Any help would be appreciated. how to Query parent to child I have process in salesforce in such a way opportunity we can relate this opportunity to this lookup field parent_opportunity__c . Which relates opportunity to other parent opportunity.  I want to write a query parent to child :  select id,(select id from opportunity where parent_opportunity__c!=null) from opportunity where parent_opportunity__c=null   I have worked with different scenarios i cant able to crack it  select id,name,(select id,name from parent_opportunity__r) from opportunity this is showing error and   select id,name,(select id,name from opportunity) from parent_opportunity__c this is also error I made a hair particle system and set the Dupli Group to a group of 3 objects. Each of the 3 objects has:   it's origin set to be touching the XY plane (on layer 2) it's Scale applied to 1 and it's Rotation applied to 0     I am trying to get each of the objects to sit directly on top of the ground, but instead, they are centered in the plane, half above the plane and half below the plane:      What am I doing wrong? Here is . How can we discipline a strong-willed, misbehaving 5 year-old? My 5 year old son receives and fears punishment but repeatedly exhibits the same unacceptable behaviors.  He's always been strong-willed, and is usually the kind to view a statement like "Don't do that" as an open invitation to do it.  We've tried redirection or distraction tactics, but he is still so narrowly focused on doing the original behavior.  Even worse, he will typically do the prohibited behavior and flagrantly tell us or show us that he's done it.  Repeatedly, even after punishment.  (He's in time out right now for this very thing).  He's consistently punished, yet he continues down the same self-destructive path each time.  When he is punished, we explain what he did wrong, why he's being punished, and why he shouldn't do what he was told not to do.  Sometimes he'll even tell us first why he's in trouble, so it makes me wonder if he's acting out for the inevitable negative attention he gets.  I think he gets plenty of love and positive attention- he's an only child and stays with a relative during the day.  We're trying to give him a good, fun childhood, but we need to figure out how to effectively discipline him.    His repeated misbehavior includes:   Yelling at the top of his lungs in public (stores, friends' houses, etc) Running away from us (at parks, stores, parking lots, etc) Talking back and disrespecting authority figures Hurting animals even after we explain why it's wrong Repetitive nuisance behaviors (repeating himself, banging his fists, kicking walls, intentionally crumbling food on floors, etc) Repeatedly asking us why he can't do something even after it's been explained to him Basically, most bad behaviors that young children may do, but repeated over and over again, even after discipline   He gets a warning to stop the behavior, then depending on the severity of what he's done (and where we are), he'll either go to time out or lose a privilege (such as taking away a favorite movie or missing out on an activity).  Going to time outs and losing privileges really upset him, but still do not ultimately deter him from the bad behavior.  It's like he can't help himself.  My spouse and I are getting worn down.  We try to model good behavior and encourage him to be well-mannered and respectful.  This behavior mortifies us.  It seems we can't even enjoy life as a family because our son is so disruptive and unresponsive.  Most public outings have to be cut short or eliminated because he consistently misbehaves and doesn't respond to our discipline.  After he's misbehaved, when we try to have heart-to-heart talks with him about his behavior and why we expect him to mind us, he usually has a little trouble expressing himself, and a lot of times we get the same nonsensical responses from him (Us: Why did you do [bad behavior]?  Him: Because I didn't want to).  He also doesn't like to make eye contact.  We don't usually feel like we've gotten through to him.  Is there another discipline tactic we could try?  Or does it sound like we need to see a professional at this point?  We're at a loss, and don't want things to spiral further out of control as he gets older (and even begins school).  We just want him to understand that his behavior isn't always acceptable.  Thanks for reading.  Update (from comments below): My spouse and I disagree on spanking, as we had different experiences with it. He feels it's necessary sometimes. Since our son failed to improve after time outs and taking away items/privileges, I grew to agree with him and we used it for select bad behaviors. It didn't work any better. However, when he was spanked, he was always told why. I didn't mention that we have used it because I was afraid it would distract from the original question, but since it has already come up [in comments], yes, it has been explored, but with no better results than our other tactics. In the story I'm trying to recall, everybody on their thirteenth birthday (?) is assigned by some kind of brain analysis method a profession and given some kind of pill (?) that instantly (?) grants them the required knowledge and skills to start working immediately. Some professions are more sought after than others, especially in view of the olympic (?) games regularly held on a profession-by-profession basis.  The protagonist, however, is turned down from this system and dismissed with some general reason and has to work his way to adulthood the boring old way: studying from books. Eventually he rejects from his status as a "special" student and goes on the run, hiding from the teachers and envying the normal people.      Eventually, it turns out that the protagonist was actually smart enough that being spoonfed premade information was a waste. What he actually was assigned to was advancing the bundles of knowledge themselves, as well as being front line in the technological progress.  "Somebody has to write those textbooks! You can infuse knowledge about how to use today's technology, but you can't do that for tomorrow's - people that get assigned a profession become tied with their assigned technology and are only as relevant as that. If you want more, you must learn how things actually work, and there's no shortcut for that." (not an actual quote, but a specific passage as I remember it.)  The troubles the protagonists underwent were actually planned and necessary for him to acknowledge and accept his role in society.   This story was certainly longer than a couple pages, but it wasn't very long either. If it's a short story, it was probably written by Asimov, but I can't be sure. It rings me of Brave New World given the theme of government-issued population planning, but it certainly doesn't fit with anything else in the actual plot. Any idea? Not booting from USB or CD (SYSLINUX Message) How to show to the user a progression in a script? how to change a pose lib using script I want to make a button that changes the active poselib to another one from the list, a specific one. I look in the console and can't see any operator. any ideas? Roth-IRA withdrawal penalty: 10% of what? Early non-exempt withdrawal from a Roth-IRA results in a "10% penalty". A 10% penalty on what amount: The amount withdrawn? The remaining balance of the Roth IRA? Both?   Insight appreciated Some Windows 10 UWP icons not displaying on search, or in settings This prints 83  System.out.println(0123)   However this prints 123  System.out.println(123)   Why does it work that way? Can we let users with privileges on one site have them on another? I have almost 4k reputation on Arqade. On Stack Overflow, I have to suggest edits and can't hit the close button. But I want to help with the close queue, which is at 62k at the time of this writing.  While I realize that people may be inexperienced with the system, I think I am experienced enough. If I want to edit something, I have to let it sit in the queue and get robo-reviewed. Yes, I know more about gaming than about coding. But I think I would know if this question is a duplicate of that, and if this question is off topic.  So, my request is that we should have the same privledges on every site, based on the site that we have the most reputation in. I am not asking that all the reputation be merged. The energy of a moving object is $E = mv^2\;.$ That is it increases with velocity squared.  I walk at say 3 miles per hour, or lets round that down to 1 meter per second for a slow walk. I weigh less than $100~\mathrm{kg}\;,$ but lets just round that up to $100~\mathrm{ kg}$ for convenience (it is just after Christmas).  So when I walk along the pavement, I have $100~\mathrm{kg\; m^2 s^{-2}}$, 100 joules of kinetic energy.  Now I get on a passenger jet, which is cruising at around 500 knots, call that 250 meters per second.  In my seat I have $100\times 250^2 = 6250000$ joules of kinetic energy. But when I walk down the aisle I have $100\times 251^2 = 6300100$ joules of kinetic energy. The difference between these is: 50100 joules.  It feels the same to me, walking down the pavement as walking down the aisle of the plane. I didn't have to make some huge effort to get up to speed on the plane, yet I needed 500 times the energy to do it.  How is this possible, and where did the energy come from? Surface tension: the paper clip experiment In the paper clip experiment, the surface tension of water prevents the clip from falling, thus we can assume it exerts a force of $mg$ (weight of clip) upwards.   However, if you try to pull the clip out of water, surface tension opposes this motion also. If for simplicity we assume that the clip is a rectangle of length $l$ and breadth $b$, and the surface tension is $T$, then the liquid exerts a downward force of: $$T×2(l+b)$$  What is going on here? Why is there an inconsistency in the direction along which the force acts? number of prime ideals in algebraic integers Salesforce1 on focus scroll to the top