Due SO's broad impact in the network, I believe it would be very interesting to have the following feature:   When a new user gets registered in any of the pages of Stack Overflow and accept the conditions of the service, he/she could select a field to specifically indicate the mastering of English language.  If the field is not selected, his/her posts will fall into a grammar/spelling review queue before being published. Users that contribute in the correction of these questions can obtain badges and reputation.   The fact is that most of the users are willing to answer questions, but sometimes is a bit time consuming to try to understand what is the actual point, if the grammar/spelling is too bad. However, sometimes the underlying question might turn to be interesting, after all.
It would help everyone if we provided a mechanism that people could use to flag their post if English is language they are not comfortably fluent in. A lot of non-English speakers have to go to English forums for tech support and find it embarrassing to ask questions in broken Englis.   Worse, people reading a post often cannot tell if a badly-worded post results from a poor English or just laziness and sloppiness on the part of a native English speaker. Personally, I will take the time to puzzle out a poorly-worded post if I know the author is struggling with English, but if I think they're just lazy and careless I won't bother.   A simple check box could flag the author as a non-English speaker and allow everyone to adjust accordingly.   Edit01:  Some answers below have accused me of being 'elitist'. I'm not sure where they got the idea that I was sneering down at anyone because their abilities at either English or coding. That was not my intent.   When I said I would not bother with post that appeared to incoherent owing to laziness or carelessness, I am not being elitist. I'm giving priority in my time budget to people who are respectful enough of my time to spend the their time writing as clear a question as their grasp of English and coding allows. Why should I spend time answering a careless and slapdash post when I could spend that time helping posters who took more of their time writing their questions?   I am perfectly willing to burn a lot of time helping someone struggling to write code in their non-native language. I have a hard enough time coding myself in English that I can't even imagine what a dog's breakfast I would make of it if I had to code in, say, Korean.    I have seen many instances in which questions have been downvoted when a quick glance at the poster's profile gives a strong hint they are not native English speakers. I would like a system that would spare those posters from being downvoted or ignored by using an interface element that clearly communicates in a standardized way whether the poster natively speaks English or not.   I don't see what's elitist about that.    Edit02:   (original unedited) I'm talking about:     Hy, I have a childe view that put it   self over other brother views. The   problem is that when i touch it the   brother also reacts at the touch   event. How can I disable touch   propagation on the underlieng brother   views?   I'm not even exactly sure what he is describing. I can guess that he has a sibling view that extends over its siblings but I'm not sure. If I edited it, I might not end up asking the same question the poster intended.   To answer the question, I will either have to (1) first ask for more detail and then keep checking back until I get it or (2) try to answer what I think the question is and possibly mangle it then have to come back and edit my answer all the while risking a downvote because I answered the wrong question.   I will take the time and the risk of down vote if the poster is not a native English speaker (or is a child) and the confusing question represents their honest best effort. If they're just being lazy, I have other people to help.   I would like a mechanism that would help me decide how to allocate my time and would protect the non-English speaking posters from unjust downvotes.
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Let $g=x+(x+1)+(x+2)+(x+3)+...+(x+(k-1))$, hence g is the sum of k consecutive positive integers.  $g=kx+\sum_{d=1}^{k-1}d$  Hence, $g=kx+\frac{k(k-1)}{2}$  Rearranging for x we find, $x=\frac{g}{k}-\frac{(k-1)}{2}$  So, for certain values of $k$, we can be sure that a positive integer value of $x$ can be found, and hence $g$ can be written as the sum of $k$ consecutive positive integers.There are two cases for $k$ to considor:  Case 1)  $k$ is odd. If $x$ exists, it must be the case $k$ | $g$, as for odd values of $k$, $\frac{(k-1)}{2}$ will alwyas be an integer, and hence $x$ will.  Case 2)  $k$ is even. $k$ does not divide $g$, but $\frac{g}{k}$ must be a multiple of $\frac{1}{2}$, and hence equals $\frac{h}{2}$, for some odd $h$.  Letting $j=2^n$, assume that we can write $j$ as the sum of $k$ consecutive positive integers.  If $k$ is odd, then if a $k$ exists, it must divide $j$, by Case 1. But, $j$ has no odd factors as it is a power of two, hence $k$ could not be odd.  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The current offset is something I somehow managed to conjure up accidentally, I thought it worked as page 2 was correct but as I added more test posts, I realised it didn't work.  function page_2_posts_per_page_filter( $query ) {      $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;      if ( !is_admin() &amp;&amp; $query-&gt;is_paged &amp;&amp; $query-&gt;is_main_query() ) {          $offset = 4 + (($paged - 2) * 8);         $query-&gt;set( 'offset', $offset );         $query-&gt;set( 'posts_per_page', 8 );      } else if (!is_admin() &amp;&amp; $query-&gt;is_main_query()) {          $query-&gt;set( 'posts_per_page', 4 );      }     return; } add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'page_2_posts_per_page_filter', 1 );   EDIT: SOLUTION  function page_2_posts_per_page_filter( $query ) {      $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;     $offset = 4;      if ( !is_admin() &amp;&amp; $query-&gt;is_paged &amp;&amp; $query-&gt;is_main_query() ) {          $offset = (($paged - 1) * 8) - $offset;         $query-&gt;set( 'posts_per_page', 8 );         $query-&gt;set( 'offset', $offset );      } else if (!is_admin() &amp;&amp; $query-&gt;is_main_query()) {          $query-&gt;set( 'posts_per_page', 4 );      }     return; } add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'page_2_posts_per_page_filter');  function found_offset( $found_posts, $query ) {      $offset = 4;      if( !is_admin() &amp;&amp; $query-&gt;is_main_query() ) {         $found_posts = $found_posts + $offset;     }     return $found_posts; } add_action( 'found_posts', 'found_offset', 10, 2 ); Autorun.inf in Windows 8/8.1 for USB Drives I have created a file named autorun.inf to make one of my software setup run when the usb is plugged into Windows 8/8.1 OS .  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