How do I improve the quality of lowlight back-lit bottle photographs with a point and shoot camera? I'm a complete novice at photography, but I want to learn to take pictures of "bottle lights". I have included an image which I took with my Samsung ST60, but as you can see, it looks terrible and doesn't do the light justice at all. If purchasing something will help, I'm willing to spend a max of £250. Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated!
How do I tell which point-and-shoot cameras take good low light photos? I have a Canon Powershot A710 and I previously had a previous Powershot A-series model. I love them due to the high amount of control they offer. Sadly, they both suck in low light conditions, their flash is very unresponsive, and the camera takes several seconds preparing itself for the next shot after a flash shot. And even then, the pictures they take in low light/flash are as bad as good are those with good light.  I'd like a camera which gives a lot of control options, but what do I need to look for to find one that's great in low light, with or without flash?
How can I account for a nonlinear variable in a logistic regression? How can I account for a nonlinear independent variable in a logistic regression?  For example, consider this data set:  b1  b2  b3  b4  b5 1   1   0   0   20 0   1   0   0   20 1   0   0   0   13 1   1   1   0   8 1   1   0   1   5 0   1   0   1   4 1   1   0   1   5 0   0   0   0   8 0   0   1   0   13 1   0   0   1   20 1   0   0   0   29 1   1   0   1   40 1   0   0   0   53 0   1   1   0   68   Suppose I gathered some data like the above (suppose I had 10,000 rows) and I want to use them to predict future sets of similar data with an equation generated by a logistic regression. I get the above data. My independent variables are b1 through b5. By looking at the data, I can clearly see that independent variables b1 through b4 are binary (maybe they are male/female, rent/own, etc).   However I see that b5 is clearly not binary. Upon graphing it and looking at the numbers I determine that the b5 variable has a bathtub shaped U curve with an equation of b5=(x-4)^2+4.   I understand that using the b5 variable as it is would screw up my logistic regression - since any interval independent variables must have a linear relationship with the dependent variable.   Yet, I must account for the variable b5 in my data set while doing a logistic regression for it to be accurate and predict well (right?).  Given the above data, how would I go about making a predictive model with a logistic regression? Any references online or in books would greatly be appreciated as I am having trouble finding a good explanation of the above.  Cheers =)  EDIT:  Sorry if my question is unclear.  Consider this: Suppose we had the following data on many people:  Y: Whether they had a stroke before the age of 50 or not 1. Whether they own a pet or not. 2. Whether they graduated college or not. 3. Whether they are male or female. 4. The number of hours they exercise every week.  We want to train a logistic regression model based on historical data to predict if someone in the future with the same data will be more apt or not to have a stroke before the age of 50.  The problem I am having is with the last variable. A continuous ratio variable like "number of hours exercised each week."  Exercising more each week may have diminishing returns on health and thus having a stroke. For example decreasing an increasing rate. Or maybe (totally made up) exercising a little bit is really good for you, exercising a moderate amount is really bad for you, and exercising a lot is really good for you again. We might have a U shaped curve like (x-4)^2+4 for example when plotting health to exercise.   I would image that having a curved, non-linear independent variable in a logistic regression like the one I described above would cause problems. Am I right? And if so, what kinds of things can you do to still include the variable in the logistic regression. Perhaps a transformation? Is that all? I noticed that if I run ls -F on a directory, some of the entries have a * or a @ after them.   spuder@ubuntu:~$ ls -F /sbin acpi_available*   getpcaps*           lvmconf*                 ntfscp*        start-stop-daemon* agetty*           getty*              lvmdiskscan@             ntfslabel*     status@ alsa*             halt@               lvmdump*                 ntfsresize*    stop@ alsactl*          hdparm*             lvmsadc@      spuder@ubuntu:~$ ls -F ~ daq-0.6.1/  examples.desktop       noname-cache.lib  snort-2.9.1/   Templates/ Desktop/    jpgraph-1.27.1/        noname.sch        snortfiles/    Ubuntu One/ Documents/     According to the ls man pages   spuder@ubuntu:~$ man ls ... -F, --classify   append indicator (one of */=&gt;@|) to entries ...   I'm guessing that @ means symbolic link,     What do these other indicators mean ( */=&gt;@| )  ? How can I view the time of a text message in iOS 7? Proof that any simple connected graph has at least 2 non-cut vertices. I'm trying to prove that any simple connected graph with at least $3$ vertices ($|V| \ge 3$) has at least $2$ vertices whose removal will not lead to the increment of number of components. In other words, there are at least $2$ vertices that are non-cut vertices.  Attempt at solution:   I tried to prove it using induction by the number of vertices: $n - t \ge 2$, where $n$ is the number of vertices our graph has, and $t$ is a number of cut vertices.   Base  Let $n =3$, then the graph will look like this:  $О-О-О$  Clearly, it has one cut vertex (the middle one). So, $3-1 \ge 2$ holds.  Or it can be a full graph, then $3 - 0 \ge 2$ also holds. Assumption  Let $n = k$, and the formula holds, $k - t &gt;= 2$ Step  Prove for $n = k + 1$ If we add one vertex to the graph, it could either be a cut vertex or non-cut vertex. In case it is a cut vertex, we have $$\begin{align*}&amp;(k+1) - (t+1) \ge 2\\ &amp;k + 1 - t - t\ge 2\\ &amp;k\ge 2\end{align*}$$   In case it is not a cut vertex...and I'm stuck here, because anything can happen. The number of cut vertices might increase, might decrease, or stay the same.  I'm sure there is better and shorter proof to this, and I really hope someone could help me. Labels disappear while zooming I designed a mockup on my LG monitor. When I view the same design on another monitor that I own, the colors seem drastically different. I reset both of the monitors to their factory defaults, but still the issue persists. I'm wondering if some of my clients might dislike my designs because of this. What should I do?  How can I make sure that what I design is what my client sees?  Even worse still, I've realized that my laptop is showing different colors too. Why are Perl 5's function prototypes bad? Find longest repeating string based on input in perl (using subroutines) I'm splitting a string by three different characters but I want the output to include the characters I split by. Is there any easy way to do this? In Windows, if you right-click a .bat file, there's an "Edit" option, which opens the .bat file with notepad. How do I make Windows use Notepad++ instead?  Note that this is different from the question . In that question, user asks for a way to make Notepad++ the default opener for specific file types. This is not what I want here, since I expect that double-clicking on .bat files executes them. Many questions already ask about this topic ( , , etc.) and their answers vary, but they always give exceptions to the apostrophe-s rule, for example:      6.24 The general rule for the possessive of nouns covers most proper nouns, including most names ending in sibilants."   Examples they give include Kansas’s, Ross’s land, and Jones’s reputation. Exceptions include Jesus’  and Moses’.  Which names does this apply to?  Is the Aeneas’  form correct, or is it Aeneas’s instead? How to configure lightdm to allow manual logins in Ubuntu 14.04 I used to modify /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, adding the line greeter-show-manual-login=true, in order to allow login for hidden users and root.  Now I've just installed the new Ubuntu 14.04 and the file lightdm.conf is no longer located in /etc/lightdm. It's in /etc/init and has been totally modified.  How can I force lightdm login screen to show a field to input a login name? Problem storing arrays with update_user_meta I am writing a function that adds an ID number to an array and puts the array in the usermeta. $_GET['auction'] is the post_id.  Below is the function:  $reminders = get_user_meta( $current_user-&gt;ID, "reminders" ); print_r( $reminders ); if( in_array( $_GET['auction'], $reminders ) ) {     echo "Failed: Auction already in list"; } else {     array_push( $reminders, intval( $_GET['auction'] ) );     if ( update_user_meta( $current_user-&gt;ID, "reminders", $reminders ) ) {         echo "Success";     } else {         echo "Failed: Could not update user meta";     } } print_r( $reminders );   Here is the output after adding one auction:  Array ( )  Success Array ( [0] =&gt; 7 )    Here is the output after adding two auctions:  Array ( [0] =&gt; Array ( [0] =&gt; 7 ) )  Success Array ( [0] =&gt; Array ( [0] =&gt; 7 ) [1] =&gt; 73 )   And here is the output after adding three auctions:  Array ( [0] =&gt; Array ( [0] =&gt; Array ( [0] =&gt; 7 ) [1] =&gt; 73 ) )  Success Array ( [0] =&gt; Array ( [0] =&gt; Array ( [0] =&gt; 7 ) [1] =&gt; 73 ) [1] =&gt; 0 )   Notice that adding a new element to the array using array_push works fine. But when the array is stored in the usermeta then retrieved again, the last element in the array has been put into an array of its own, creating an infinitely dimensional array. I'd prefer to keep this array one dimensional.  Is there a way I can run update_user_meta and get_user_meta without it changing the structure of my array? maximum of two uniform distributions I have a question. Let's suppose that the two random variables $X1$ and $X2$ follow two Uniform distributions that are independent but have different parameters:  $X1 \sim Uniform(l1, u1)$  $X2 \sim Uniform(l2,u2)$  If we define X3 as the maximum of X1, and X2, i.e., $X3 = max(X1, X2)$, what kind of distribution would it be? It is certainly not a uniform and I can calculate the cumulative probability, i.e., $p(X3 &lt;= a)$, because $p(X3 &lt;= a) = p(X1 &lt;= a) p(X2 &lt;= a)$. But, I wonder if there exists any density function that can model X3. show that $$\lim_{n\to \infty}\sin{(n^m)}$$  divergent,where $m\in N^{+}$  I have kown $$\lim_{n\to\infty}\sin{n^2}$$  to be divergent and dense in $[-1,1]$. This is very  famous problem,the problem is first is post $AMM$( The American Mathematical Monthly,1970-1975) problem,and after some years  $AMM$ post $\sin{(n^{14})}$ in $[-1,1]$ was dense? and this is open problem.so I Guess  $$\sin{(n^m)}$$ is dense in $[-1,1]$. Top Down RPG Movement w/ Correction? "You're too clever a man" You're too clever a man to imagine this.   The above sentence was , a man of excellent rhetorical skills.   Since he said it, I doubt it's wrong, grammatically. But, I wonder if there is an explanation for this. Because adjectives always come after the article not before it. e.g. You're a clever man.   How could this be, grammatically? How do I parse command line arguments in Bash? Say, I have a script that gets called with this line: ./myscript -vfd ./foo/bar/someFile -o /fizz/someOtherFile  or this one: ./myscript -v -f -d -o /fizz/someOtherFile ./foo/bar/someFile   What's the accepted way of parsing this such that in each case (or some combination of the two) $v, $f, and  $d will all be set to true and $outFile will be equal to /fizz/someOtherFile? How do I find (or exclude) all directories and sub-directories matching a certain pattern (in Linux)? The rules on  state:     Massive damage can kill you instantly. When damage reduces you to 0 hit points and there is damage remaining, you die if the remaining damage equals or exceeds your hit point maximum [...]   Does this only apply if you aren't already at 0 HP? Or rather, what happens if you are currently at 0 HP and take massive damage?