suppose after a long time my friend has come to my house. Can I welcome him saying 'Hey bro, what's up? I have been waiting for your visit for a long time. Nice to see you again.'? Should I use 'have been waiting' or 'was waiting' in the sentence?
Would you please explain the difference between these two sentences?     Spain ceded (or gave) Puerto Rico to the United States. Since then, Puerto Rico has been a U.S. territory.      Spain ceded(or gave) Puerto Rico to the United States. Since then, Puerto Rico was a U.S. territory.   I am stuck between 'has been' and 'was' in the above sentences.
How do I get transparency to work with the Principled BSDF shader? How do I get the Cycles Principled BSDF shader to support a base color image such as a 32bit png with alpha or a tga with an alpha channel, and get the transparency to work. I don't see anywhere on the Principled BSDF shader that handles transparency.  Without success, I have tried:   Properties Editor>Render tab>Film rollout>Transparent Properties Editor>Material tab>Settings rollout>Viewport Alpha (changing to other than Opaque). Adding a Transparent BSDF and Diffuse BSDF after the base color image node and using a Mix Shader to combine them. Is there any way to tell Google to display the updated title instead of displaying the old blog title in search results? Stop jQuery .load response from being cached I have the following code making a GET request on a URL:  $('#searchButton').click(function() {     $('#inquiry').load('/portal/?f=searchBilling&amp;pid=' + $('#query').val());             });   But the returned result is not always reflected. For example, I made a change in the response that spit out a stack trace but the stack trace did not appear when I clicked on the search button. I looked at the underlying PHP code that controls the ajax response and it had the correct code and visiting the page directly showed the correct result but the output returned by .load was old.  If I close the browser and reopen it it works once and then starts to return the stale information. Can I control this by jQuery or do I need to have my PHP script output headers to control caching? Easy way to turn JavaScript array into comma-separated list? I have a one-dimensional array of strings in JavaScript that I'd like to turn into a comma-separated list. Is there a simple way in garden-variety JavaScript (or jQuery) to turn that into a comma-separated list? (I know how to iterate through the array and build the string myself by concatenation if that's the only way.) Short story about survivors on Earth after the atmosphere has frozen This is a short story I read maybe in the '80s.  Earth has been thrown away from the Sun, probably due to a very large object passing through the Solar System, and the atmosphere has frozen in layers. There is a small family - father, mother, two children, who live in a room they have made airtight by hanging many layers of material to slow the loss of air. They keep warm with a 'camp-fire'. The father goes out every day in a suit of some sort to find food and mine frozen oxygen. It ends when they are found by another, larger group of survivors.  Does anybody know the title and author? Is it standard to say $-i \log(-1)$ is $\pi$? I typed $\pi$ into Wolfram Alpha and in the short list of definitions there appeared  $$ \pi = -i \log(-1)$$  which really bothered me. Multiplying on both sides by $2i$:  $$ 2\pi i = 2 \log(-1) = \log(-1)^2 = \log 1= 0$$  which is clearly false.  I guess my error is $\log 1 = 0$ when $\log$ is complex-valued.  I need to use $1 = e^{2 \pi i}$ instead.  So my question: is it correct for WA to say $\pi = -i \log(-1)$?  Or should be they specifying "which" $-1$ they mean?  Clearly $ -1 = e^{i \pi}$ is the "correct" value of $-1$ here. Updated DNS zone can't be seen from my local network How to mount an image file without root permission? How can I create a cross product like the one in the picture.    \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document}  \begin{tikzpicture}[line width=.7pt] \draw [-&gt;] (-.2,0)node[below]{$o$}--(4.5,0)node[below]{$x$}; \draw [-&gt;] (0,-.2)--(0,2)node[left]{$y$};  \end{tikzpicture}  \end{document} 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 to tile textures in Cycles? Is there anything in Objective-C similar to C# yield return How to prove that $\lim\limits_{x\to0}\frac{\sin x}x=1$? I was trying to install Teamviewer, but I was getting a dependency error. I tried to install the required packages, but with no luck.  I'm getting this error:  Unpacking teamviewer (from teamviewer_linux_x64.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of teamviewer:  teamviewer depends on lib32asound2; however:   Package lib32asound2 is not installed.  teamviewer depends on lib32z1; however:   Package lib32z1 is not installed.  teamviewer depends on ia32-libs; however:   Package ia32-libs is not installed.  dpkg: error processing teamviewer (--install):  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing:  teamviewer   I tried   sudo apt-get -f install   Getting   Package ia32-libs is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it:   lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0  Package lib32asound2 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source  E: Package 'lib32asound2' has no installation candidate E: Package 'ia32-libs' has no installation candidate   I can't even get to the   sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_linux_x64.deb   If I force installation  sudo dpkg --force-depends -i teamviewer_linux_x64.deb   Although it's "Setting up Temviewer" it gives me this:    How can I fix this problem? Deleting a comment (mine) shouldn't count as a comment vote Annoying flickering in 16.04 LTS - Chrome I've upgraded from 4.4.0 to 4.4.8 and then 4.5.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit, and it's still happening.   At 4.5.2 it's even more frequent, and mainly in Chrome (haven't tried firefox or opera just yet). Every time I open a new web page. Any way to fix that, or is it a bug?  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 (rev 09) 04:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus XTX [Radeon HD 8890M / R9 M275X/M375X] (rev 81)   Cheers. Is there an official Marvel Cinematic Universe viewing order? I'm planning on re-watching the currently-released 5 Marvel films prior to seeing The Avengers.  Have Marvel released any sort of official viewing order?  Captain America: The First Avenger seems like the hardest one for me to place in order with the rest.  It takes place prior to the other films, but has the greatest number of references to the other films.  So should it be watched first, or last?  The rest of them are relatively clear, as they're chronological in the order they're released, with the possible exception of The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man 2 happening at the same time. What is *Cell standby* and how can I keep it from eating my battery? Looking up my battery statistics, I almost always find Cell standby amongst the top consumers:    I never thought that "idle" would use so much energy. I saw that other people encounter similar problems:       Answers on those questions just give some raw ideas. I would like to know what exactly stands behind this, an whether there are ways to keep this "standby" from eating my battery? Lost my Downloads folder both from Dock and Finder I did something stupid apparently and lost my Downloads folder both from Dock and then when I opened Finder to drag it down to the Dock it somehow got deleted in the desktop.  Now although I can see the folder exists (e.g. by searching in Spotlight) I do not know how to restore it in the Dock and in Finder as well. Any help please? How can I install Ubuntu encrypted with LUKS with dual-boot? The Ubuntu installation disk has an option to install Ubuntu encrypted using LUKS. However, there is no option to perform an encrypted installation along-side existing partitions for a dual-boot scenario.  How can I install Ubuntu encrypted alongside another partition from the live disk?