I swear I read such a word once, as does my partner; but no amount of Googling has been able to suss it out:  I’m looking for something that means “to extinguish a family tree,” in the sense of complete genetic extinction; to hunt down and kill all members of someone’s extended family.  (Dark, I know!)
I would like to know if there is a word or phrase for a systematic campaign to annihilate every descendant of a particular ancestor.   We have the word 'genocide' for killing off an entire race, and plenty of words for killing people based on how they are related to you (fratricide, filicide, et. al.), but looking over the  and the , I couldn't find a term for systematically killing an entire bloodline.   My question is prompted by a US news story about the horrific murder of 8 members of the same family, but those murders are not an example of what I'm thinking of because the children of the victims were left alive, so the motive for the killings was not to kill off the bloodline. The sense that some group had coordinated an attack against just one family is what made me wonder what the "not an entire race, just one bloodline" version of 'genocide' would be called.   Searching the Internet for "kill off" and bloodline sends me straight into the land of vampires, Illuminati, reptilian overlords, and, naturally, Priory of Sion nonsense so I haven't had much luck finding a thread to pull.   It may be that there is no word for it in the sense of murdering a human bloodline, because we just don't attempt kill off our royals down to the last heir often enough to coin a term for it. Maybe there is a scientific term for culling a line from a test population as part of biological research?
Use of "though" versus "however" Consider the sentence      E-books are on the rise, but they haven't suppressed paper books though.    This usage seems to be quite common, but when I learned English  I was taught to use "however" where I now read "though". My questions on this use of "though" are:     Is this a new trend? Is it restricted to American English? Is "though"  considered more colloquial than "however" ?    And on a syntactic level: Do you put a comma before "though"? adding an item to filtered table My project has a table with '+add' button and filtering. The add button opens a dialog to add item, and then to 'save' which closes it too Today I noticed the following flow:  Filter table on subject with value 'dummySubject'  Add new item with subject 'somethingelse'  save and close the new item ==&gt; the new item is shown in the table   So the outcome is that an item that does not qualify the filtering appears in the table. When I asked around I got the following answer  We don't want the new item to 'disappear' on creation just because it does not qualify the filtering. So we display it If you filter again, it will disappear as it should  I can almost understand that logic, but still it sounds wrong. I would rather have like a toaster saying 'new item create' with a 'goto' link. My question is  is the current user experience considered a reasonable one? what is the best practice way to handle such scenario?      &ndash; Wireframes created with How to nest code within a list using Markdown Vector spaces for the irreducible representations of the Lorentz Group Trigger Task Scheduler in Windows 7 when computer wakes up from sleep/hibernate I don't want task scheduler or whatever to wake the computer, but when I open the laptop back up and the machine wakes I'd like that to be the trigger that task scheduler or something uses to run an app. I'm working on a project that requires me to get some of the position and rotation values to give to an Arduino via pyserial, but after sifting through the Blender documentation I can't find how to get them through script. Show that if $f(z)=\sum\limits_{n\geq0}a_nz^n$ is analytic in $\{z\in\mathbb{C}:|z|&lt;1\}\cup\{1\}$ and $\forall n\geq0:a_n\geq0$ then the radius of convergence of the power series is strictly larger than $1$.  My approach:   Let $D=\{z\in\mathbb{C}:|z|\leq1\}$.  We have that $f(1)$ converges, so $\sum\limits_{n\geq 0} a_n&lt;\infty$. Moreover since the $a_n$'s are all positive we have that $|a_n|=a_n$, therefore $\sum\limits_{n\geq 0} |a_n|=\sum\limits_{n\geq 0} a_n&lt;\infty$.  Let $f_n(z)=a_nz^n$, then $\forall z\in D, n\geq 0$ we have:  $$|f_n(z)|=|a_nz^n|=|a_n|\cdot|z^n|=a_n\cdot |z|^n\leq a_n\cdot 1^n\leq a_n$$  Then, applying Weierstrass M-test we get that the power series is convergent in $D$.  Now, I need to "find" an open ball $B$ such that $D\subset B$ and the power series is convergent in it.  Edit  $f$ is analytic in $1$, so there is an open set $U$ that contains $1$ such that   $$f(z)=\sum\limits_{n\geq 0} b_n(z-1)^n$$  Does it mean that the series is convergent in $U$?   I can see that we have that the two series coincide in $D\cap U$. I just wrote an answer to , which was trying to find numeric strings with or without commas (e.g. 1,234,567.89). I wanted to be thorough because I've seen this problem a lot, both on SO and in real-world code.   When I finished, I found 7 other new answers waiting for me, mostly variations on each other. Which would be fine, except for one thing: They're garbage answers. Unless I'm severely mistaken, every answer but mine (so far) is deeply flawed, and I want to downvote all of them. Yeah, I'm a stickler on regex, but IMHO if your pattern lets stuff like  ...,.,,.,,..9 or even ... pass as "numeric input," then you've failed to meet even the bare minimum requirements.  Enough venting. The reason I'm whining to Meta about this is that I'm about to do something that'll REALLY look like tactical downvoting, and I'm mildly concerned about the consequences. If I answer a question and then rain downvotes on every competing answer, will I get flagged for abuse? That would certainly seem like suspicious behavior to me.  More of an opinion question: At what point does a semi-correct answer deserve a downvote? Obviously, if it were just a typo, I'd edit it myself. Where's the line between "close enough" and "this answer sucks?"  Basically, is it just me? You've seen the question; am I right that these answers deserve downvotes? Seven people thought that [0-9,.]+ was good enough to declare something a number, so why am I the only one who doesn't?    Note: I found some related questions, but nothing that seemed like a duplicate:    - More of an etiquette question, plus the voter hadn't posted his own answer.  - I guess this pretty much covers my second question.   Also, as some have noted, my answer ended up pretty long and thorough. I put in a lot of effort because, with all this talk about how the other answers sucked, I wanted to be extra sure mine didn't. I don't expect pages of detail in a normal SO answer. I have just bought a new bike and had it about a month now. I don't really know much about bikes but I do know how to repair an inner tube.  I have had one puncture and just bought a new inner tube. It worked for a few days and then went down again so this time I got a puncture repair kit. I took the inner tube out to check for any punctures and found nothing. I put it in water and pumped it up and there were no bubbles. I went around the entire tube pushing it next to my ear and heard nothing. I checked the tire to see if anything was wrong - there was nothing that I could see.   So I put it all back together and took it for a ride and got about half a mile and the tire was flat. I pumped it up and got about another half a mile and it was flat again.  Do you have any suggestions for me? The Start menu no longer shows up when I press the Start button How can I use the MS JDBC driver with MS SQL Server 2008 Express? My configuration:     windows XP SP3 JDBC 2005 MS SQL Server 2008 Express, exposed via tcp/ip on port 1433 sqljdbc.jar in class path    I tried:  try {     Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver").newInstance();     con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433/SQLEXPRESS2008;databaseName=Test;selectMethod=cursor", "sa", ""); } catch (Exception e) {     e.printStackTrace(); }   But it always throws an exception:  java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver   I also tried the following urls:  localhost:1433/SQLEXPRESS2008  localhost/SQLEXPRESS2008  localhost   Same results.  Any help? The Find Familiar spell states, in part:  As an action, you can temporarily dismiss your familiar. It disappears into a pocket dimension where it awaits your summons.  The question arising from this is:  Is this pocket dimension different for every familiar in the world? Thus being a personal pocket dimension? If this is true, then it should be able to store items given by its master for safe keeping away from anyone else, as long as these are items that a familiar could carry with it. Can the familiar bring small items with it into the pocket dimension for safe keeping? How to rsync files between two remotes? I would like to transfer files between two remote hosts using on local shell, but it seems rsync doesn't support synchronisation if two remotes are specified as follow:  $ rsync -vuar host1:/var/www host2:/var/www The source and destination cannot both be remote.   What other workarounds/commands I could use to achieve similar results? I'm designing this animal-type creature, and want to add a transparent .png image to its face with the face features (object has a subsurf). On the left is the image with the features, on the right is the part of the object where I want it to be.    I tried to import the image as a plane, but matching the shape of the plane with the face didn't work, and the lines of the face left shadows on the head, and could be seen as a different object from some angles (although it's the closest I've gotten yet). It looked like this:    So , I tried selecting the faces of the head that the features should go over, and create a new material for it. Unfortunately, since the .png is transparent, the result produced was this:    (where it's impossible to tell the transparency from a black background default color, and where I wouldn't know where to start to adjust size and position).  I also tried UV mapping, but then the whole object became black with the features repeated all over.   Is it something I have to go into Nodes for? I'm kind of stuck here. Creating a new material and applying it is simple, but applying a material that is an image is a bit more complex it seems... Ideally, I would reproduce the same technique for the adhesive bandage on its arm (seen on the right of image 1). Finitely generated monoids- axiomatization- compactness theorem. Is it possible to check a bash script syntax without executing it?  Using Perl, I can run perl -c 'script name'. Is there any equivalent command for bash scripts? pc ram memory 2x1GB or 1x2GB I don't know if it's the right place to ask but can somebody advise me for buying a ram memory for my computer.  I have a Dell Vostro 200 with 1GB of RAM and 667MHz. (2 x 512MB)  I want to buy raise the amount of RAM but I'm confused whether to buy 1 x 2GB or 2 x 1GB  I know it's the same for the available amount of memory but is ther a difference maybe in the clock speed so that 2 x 667MHz will be better than 1 x 667MHz. or maybe accessing one single memory slot will be faster and better than accessing two slots.  Please anyone helps. Prove using induction that from a set of $n+1$ numbers from $\{1,2,..2n\}$, at least one number will evenly divide another. Given a set of $n+1$ numbers out of the first $2n$ natural numbers, $\{1,2,\ldots,2n\}$, prove that there are two numbers in the set, one of which divides the other.  I can't tell if I'm reducing the problem in the right way.  Would it be something like:  Induction Hypothesis: A set of $n+1$ numbers from the first $2n$ natural numbers contains two numbers, one of which evenly divides the other.  Base Case: $n=1$, $\{1,2\}$, 2 is divisible by 1.  Consider a set of $n+2$ numbers, $A$, from the first $2n+2$ natural numbers. There are three cases:   Each number in $A$ is less than or equal to $2n$.  The proof follows from the induction hypothesis. One number in $A$ is greater than $2n$.  The remaining set of $n+1$ numbers must each be less than or equal to $2n$.  The proof follows from the induction hypothesis. $A$ contains both $2n+1$ and $2n+2$. I'm not sure how to solve this case.   I'm working through Udi Manber's Introduction To Algorithms: A Creative Approach for personal development, so in keeping with the spirit of the book, I'm trying to use induction.  Without induction, the question is identical to Table and figure side-by-side with independent captions Looking to put a table and a figure side by side so that the table and figure have their own captions. A crude sketch    ------------              -----------------     TABLE    | a |  b |                     FIGURE   | c |  d |  ------------              Table 2: Caption           -----------------                            Figure 7: Caption   The closest I've gotten is:  \begin{table}% \centering \parbox{0.4\textwidth}{ \begin{footnotesize} \begin{tabular}{| l | r |} \hline some &amp; table\\ \end{tabular} \end{footnotesize} \caption{Table} \label{tab:table} } \qquad \begin{minipage}[c]{0.53\textwidth}% \centering     \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{awesome} \caption{Figure} \label{fig:figure} \end{minipage} \end{table}   But that gives two Table X: Caption captions. I didn't find anything in subfig.  Help? Considering an ideal case(neglecting drag of air, damping etc.), a pendulum follows SHM if the angular displacement is small (upto 10 degrees). But, for large angular displacement(more than 10 degree), it does not follow SHM. Why? What force cause the pendulum not to follow SHM?