I'm looking to place exactly 750 filled circles in a random array within a circular shape, essentially a static version of    I've considered scatter graphs (but that seems as painful as manually placing each circle), the transform effect and blend tools (but these seem linear, or require going along, rather within a path). I wonder whether I need to script this, but I've never done that before so would love it if you could step out exactly how I should go about this?   One user has suggested making a custom brush, however this does not allow me to specify an exact number of circles (I need to be sure there are 750). One thing I didn't mention earlier is that I want to select and alter the colour of 162 of the circles once they've been drawn, so they need to remain editable.
How can I make a logo in Adobe Illustrator like the AntiParticle logo below, from ?   It is a large number circles of different, varying sizes, which form the shape of a text character.
When I login, nothing happens.   I am presented with my desktop wallpaper.    No Dash, no Launcher, nothing. Problems with FOUC Adding other css files to wp_head Which one should should I use? For some reason I have always used "towards", but I see some people saying "toward", like :     A great deal of his work in economic   theory has been directed toward   strengthening the foundations of our   understanding of central banking and   social insurance--indeed, one of my   most advanced macroeconomic classes   was nothing but a set of changes rung   upon a particular model that Peter   Diamond had advanced at...   Is there a difference between the two? When should they be used? I have seen only the first three movies, so I don't know whether the other movies/TV series deal with this question or not. My main point is that in the movies, the terminator that travels back furthest in time is of the worst quality, and the quality increases with the time travel (meaning they travelled from a later time). What is a good explanation for this?  Note: I am not interested in the obvious not-in-universe explanation that they wanted something better and bigger for each new movie. How do I make sure that a socket bound to a port is properly released on process exit such that the port can be reused without bind() failing with EADDRINUSE? I've written a tiny program which just creates a socket, binds it to a fixed port, waits for a connection and then immediately terminates. When I rerun the program, the bind() call fails with EADDRINUSE, but if I wait a few minutes, it succeeds.  Is there a way I can explicitly "unbind" the socket, thereby freeing the port number? "Misaligned partition" - Should I do repartition (how?) Compute $\frac{1}{e}\sum\limits_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{n^{k}}{n!}$ for $k=0, 1, 2 ... $ Using some matlab (I know it's cheating) I found that: $$k=0 =&gt; Result=1$$ $$k=1 =&gt; Result=1$$ $$k=2 =&gt; Result=2$$ $$k=3 =&gt; Result=5$$ $$k=4 =&gt; Result=15$$ $$k=5 =&gt; Result=52$$ $$k=6 =&gt; Result=203$$  This sequence is puzzling... #include&lt;iostream&gt; using namespace std;  class A  {    int a;    int b;    public:    void eat()    {       cout&lt;&lt;"A::eat()"&lt;&lt;endl;    } };  class B: public A {    public:    void eat()    {        cout&lt;&lt;"B::eat()"&lt;&lt;endl;     }  };  class C: public A {     public:    void eat()     {        cout&lt;&lt;"C::eat()"&lt;&lt;endl;     }  };  class D: public B, C {  };  int foo(A *ptr) {  ptr-&gt;eat();  } main() {  D obj; foo(&amp;(obj.B)); //error. How do i call with D's B part.  }   The above foo call is a compile time error.  I want to call foo with obj's B part without using virtual inheritance. How do i do that.   Also, in case of virtual inheritance, why the offset information need to be stored in the vtable. This can be determined at the compile time itself. In the above case, if we pass foo with D's object, at compile time only we can calculate the offset of D's A part. Utopia of children brought up by robots I am looking for the title of a science-fiction book describing a colony (utopia) on another planet that has been established as a social experiment. The inhabitants had been brought up only by robots and therefore work perfectly as a society. I think there is no formal government and people work on what they are interested. If any catastrophe happens, they are able to form groups of specialists who react to the threat. Later there comes a group of outsiders who decide to join and live in the utopia. I am not sure, but author was probably Canadian. I am trying to find the equation of characteristic curves and solution of the partial differential equation $$x\frac{\partial u}{\partial y}-y\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}=u$$ $u(x,0)=\sin(\frac{\pi}{4}x)$ .   What I did: $$\frac{dx}{-y}=\frac{dy}{x}=\frac{du}{u}$$ with  From first two equalities $$\frac{dx}{-y}=\frac{dy}{x}$$ by solving we get $x^2+y^2=c_1$ for some constant $c_1$. Now I am stuck with the third and rest of the equalities to come up with a suitable manipulation to solve the problem. How can I do this? Any help would be great. Thanks. Can it hurt to put my GRE score on my resume? If my score is good and if I'm applying for an MS program in Europe, can it give me any kind of edge? The university I'm applying to requires GRE scores for certain programs but not the one I'm applying for. And if it won't be advantageous, can it hurt my prospects in anyway? List all files in all subfolders I created a view to show Users. These users can create nodes of the "Questions" content type.  The view has to render a table to show how many (the total number) Questions the user has created. Something like:  User +++ Questions created John --- 10 Ted  --- 4 Alf  --- 19 What is the purpose of the word 'self'? How to insert pipe symbol in (La)TeX? How to insert pipe symbol | in TeX (LaTeX)?  I have tried this sample with pdflatex tmp.tex  \documentclass{extarticle} \begin{document} \textpipe \end{document}   And it give undefined control sequence error  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./tmp.tex LaTeX2e &lt;2009/09/24&gt; Babel &lt;v3.8l&gt; and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/extsizes/extarticle.cls Document Class: extarticle 1996/10/08 v1.0 Non Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/exscale.sty)) No file tmp.aux. ! Undefined control sequence. l.3 \textpipe How would gravity change on a planet rotating around itself very fast? Let's take a planet identical to Earth, but with rotation speed multiplied by ten thousand. What would happen with the gravity if it was spinning madly around itself? Would the centrifugal force make objects seem lighter than on normal Earth? Would the people on that planet be able to jump higher? I installed Oneiric as a guest OS in VirtualBox using the Mini CD. I installed the ubuntu-desktop package and everything seems to work fine - well, except for a font issue with the terminal:    As you can see, some of the letters overlap and it's difficult to read. I checked the settings and it the checkbox "Use the system fixed width font" is checked with "Monospace | 12" selected underneath it.    Edit: running the commands mentioned in the comments:  $ fc-match "Monospace" DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" $ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/interface/monospace_font_name Monospace 10 $ debsums ttf-dejavu-core /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/AUTHORS                                        OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/BUGS                                           OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/NEWS.gz                                        OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/README                                         OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/changelog.Debian.gz                            OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/copyright                                      OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/langcover.txt.gz                               OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/status.txt.gz                                  OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/unicover.txt.gz                                OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf                      OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf                           OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf                  OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf                       OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf                     OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf                          OK How to calculate what this power series converges against? (double factorials) How do we show that equality holds in the triangle inequality $|a+b|=|a|+|b|$ iff both numbers are positive, both are negative or one is zero? I already showed that equality holds when one of the three conditions happens.