If I cast  on my 3/1 creature and to counter my opponent uses  to return it to my hand, is my Tormented Thoughts wasted?
My friend had a  on the board with 10 counters on it.  If I destroy it and he sacs it in response to gain the life, is there anything that can be done about that?  Like, can I put another destroy artifact on the stack to resolve before his sac resolves?
I'm currently going through notes on a physics course and I'm having trouble understanding the difference between a tensor, a vector, and a matrix. I know that a vector is a kind of tensor and that a matrix is also a form of tensor, but what I'm having trouble understanding is how they differ, and how a vector is related to a matrix. Identify $P(2014)$ if $P(i)=1/i$ for every positive integer $1\le i\le2013$ Suppose $P(x)$ is a polynomial of degree $2012$ and $P(x) = 1/x$ when $x$ takes the integer values $1\cdots2013$ (inclusive). What is the value of $P(2014)$?   I get $1/1007$ but I'm not sure if it's right, and my method is very inelegant. I'm using Apache JMeter 2.3, which now supports "attempt HTTPS spoofing" under the Proxy Server element.   I've tried this on several different servers, and have had no success.  Has anyone been able to successfully record from an HTTPS source with this setting?  Or barring successfully recording, can anyone share a work-around? When available, I simply have HTTPS turned off at the server level, but this is not always feasible. Thoughts? Unable to install Ubuntu on Lenovo Y500 Finding singularities of a complex function and the respective residues Consider the function,   $$f(z) = \frac{\sin(\frac{1}{z})}{z^2+a^2} \text{ where } a&gt;0$$  I know that this has two simple poles at $z = \pm ia$ and an essential singularity at $z = 0$ because of $\sin(\frac{1}{z})$ in the numerator. For $\operatorname{Res}(f,ia)$ and $\operatorname{Res}(f,-ia)$, it is relatively easy to find the these values using   $$a_{-1} = \lim_{z\rightarrow z_0} ((z-z_0)f(z))$$  However, I am finding it much more difficult to determine the residue at an essential singularity.  From what I have read, it seems that the easiest way to determine the residue is to explicitly find the Laurent Expansion and then get it from there. Would this be the case for this function as well? How to use unnumbered chapters with KOMA-script? I am having some issues with the hyperref package. I would like to create a Introduction chapter without a number so I use \chapter*{Introduction} and \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction} because I want it in the table of contents (see example).  But then the link in my PDF viewer gets it wrong and also the automatically created header is no longer correct (see picture). The table of contents shows the right page number (p.1) but the link is also wrong.   What is my mistake here?  \documentclass{scrbook}  \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{blindtext} \usepackage{glossaries}   \makeglossaries  \newacronym{eg}{e.g.}{% for example }   \begin{document}   \frontmatter  % abstract before the table of contents \chapter*{Abstract} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract} \blindtext  \tableofcontents  % chapter with acronyms \cleardoublepage \phantomsection  \printglossary[type=\acronymtype] \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Glossary}  \cleardoublepage \mainmatter   \phantomsection % \chapter{Introduction} % with this everything is correct but I don't want the number \chapter*{Introduction} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}  \blindtext  \pagebreak  \blindtext  % first chapter \chapter{Chapter1}  \gls{eg} \blindtext  \pagebreak  \blindtext   \end{document} Prove QM-AM inequality $$\dfrac{x_1^2+ x_2^2 + \cdots + x_n^2}n \geq \left(\dfrac{x_1+x_2+\cdots+x_n}n\right)^2$$   I don't think AM, GM can be used here. And simple expansion doesn't help too. What should I do? Put your shoes on and Take your coat off I have often heard the following statements when someone talks about shoes, cloths, etc. I don't know which one is more appropriate or grammatically correct.   Hey, put your shoes on.  Hey, put on your shoes.  Take off your coat, please.  Take your coat off, please.    Any thoughts? Can we also say &quot;take out your coat&quot;? Integer solutions to the equation $a^3+b^3+c^3=30$ What does "\" mean in math Erf as term for plot of land in a town or city. Is this word only used in southern Africa? The Free Dictionary website states and so does Wikipedia:     erf [ɜːf]   n pl erven [ˈɜːvən]   (Engineering / Civil Engineering) South African a plot of land, usually urban, marked off for building purposes   [Afrikaans]   The term erf is used in legal documentation and technical English throughout South Africa and Namibia, maybe even further afield in the region.  Is it used anywhere else, except maybe the Dutch/Flemish regions in Europe, where I assume the term originated?  An example:      The client purchased Erf 132, Windhoek for a large sum of money. He intends to build a house on this erf.   The capitalisation of "Erf 132" is commonplace, since it is a definition of a location. This is similar to capitalisation of towns or cities. I find it slightly awkward, but that is how it is done. I am trying to build a computer, placing an  in a custom .  The case is an extra small form factor which can accommodate the Mini ITX board, but it requires an external power supply, similar to the power-bricks that laptops use.  I am looking at different power supplies and like , but I cannot figure out whether/how to power this system, because they provide a 24-pin connector, but the motherboard has a 4-pin connector as well.  Is the 4-pin connector optional or is it required? If it is required, how can I provide power for this system? I'm developing a multilanguage software. As far as the application code goes, localizability is not an issue. We can use language specific resources and have all kinds of tools that work well with them.  But what is the best approach in defining a multilanguage database schema? Let's say we have a lot of tables (100 or more), and each table can have multiple columns that can be localized (most of nvarchar columns should be localizable). For instance one of the tables might hold product information:  CREATE TABLE T_PRODUCT (   NAME        NVARCHAR(50),   DESCRIPTION NTEXT,   PRICE       NUMBER(18, 2) )   I can think of three approaches to support multilingual text in NAME and DESCRIPTION columns:   Separate column for each language  When we add a new language to the system, we must create additional columns to store the translated text, like this:  CREATE TABLE T_PRODUCT (   NAME_EN        NVARCHAR(50),   NAME_DE        NVARCHAR(50),   NAME_SP        NVARCHAR(50),   DESCRIPTION_EN NTEXT,   DESCRIPTION_DE NTEXT,   DESCRIPTION_SP NTEXT,   PRICE          NUMBER(18,2) )  Translation table with columns for each language  Instead of storing translated text, only a foreign key to the translations table is stored. The translations table contains a column for each language.  CREATE TABLE T_PRODUCT (   NAME_FK        int,   DESCRIPTION_FK int,   PRICE          NUMBER(18, 2) )  CREATE TABLE T_TRANSLATION (   TRANSLATION_ID,   TEXT_EN NTEXT,   TEXT_DE NTEXT,   TEXT_SP NTEXT )  Translation tables with rows for each language  Instead of storing translated text, only a foreign key to the translations table is stored. The translations table contains only a key, and a separate table contains a row for each translation to a language.  CREATE TABLE T_PRODUCT (   NAME_FK        int,   DESCRIPTION_FK int,   PRICE          NUMBER(18, 2) )  CREATE TABLE T_TRANSLATION (   TRANSLATION_ID )  CREATE TABLE T_TRANSLATION_ENTRY (   TRANSLATION_FK,   LANGUAGE_FK,   TRANSLATED_TEXT NTEXT )  CREATE TABLE T_TRANSLATION_LANGUAGE (   LANGUAGE_ID,   LANGUAGE_CODE CHAR(2) )    There are pros and cons to each solution, and I would like to know what are your experiences with these approaches, what do you recommend and how would you go about designing a multilanguage database schema. Run VirtualBox in background, without a window? I was wondering if it's possible to run an Ubuntu virtual machine using VirtualBox in background, I mean, without any window open.  The idea is to connect via SSH to the Linux host, that would be running in background.  Has anyone ever done something like this? Is it possible? Elysia cron module does not execute cron job automatically I have installed the elysia cron module and setup the cron job. My module has a cron function test_cron() which inserts some data into a table.  This function lists in the elysia cron status page. I have setup the the default scheduled rule to */1 * * * * to run the cron after every minute.  When I click on the run infront of the test_cron() the cron runs and some data inserts into the database.  But this the manual method, I want to execute the cron after every minute therefore I defined the scheduled time for the test_cron(),  but it does not executed automatically after every minute.  What should I do? Is there any other configuration which I should do to run the cron automatically? I am debating whether or not to get the Potato Sack (yes, I realize I've been debating for several weeks now) bundle through steam.  I already own: Defense Grid: The Awakening, Super Meat Boy, and Audiosurf, all of which are part of the sack pack. What happens if I buy the Potato Sack?  Do I get 2nd copies of the three above mentioned games to gift elsewhere?  Is the price of the bundle reduced by the games I already have?  Do I get nothing special for already owning those 3 games? Counterexample to Leibniz criterion for alternating series I have this statement and I need to say if it is true or false:  Let $\{a_n\}$ be a real sequence.  $$\lim_{n\to +\infty} a_n = 0 \quad \implies \quad \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}(-1)^na_n \quad \text{converges}$$  I know, from the Leibniz criterion that:     If $a_n \to 0$, $a_n$ is decreasing and positive then $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}(-1)^na_n$ converges   From this fact I believe that the statement is false but I couldn't come up with an infinitesimal sequence that isn't decreasing and for that reason is divergent. I tried some function with $sin(\frac{1}{n})$ without any luck. Any help would be very appreciated, thank you! Which rational numbers can be written as the sum of two rational squares?  That is, for which rational numbers $a$, are there rational numbers $x$ and $y$ such that $a = x^2 + y^2$.  It is a famous theorem that if an integer can be written as the sum of two rational squares then it can be written as the sum of two integral squares, and then the solution is the famous one by Fermat, but I didn't find anything about the general case. "I cannot seem to find it" I've heard it is possible to add tags to a file's meta data in OS X, and have Spotlight search through such tags.   In a nutshell, how would one access this feature in Finder &ndash; not Spotlight (Command+Space) &ndash; but the adding of tags themselves? Where are these tags stored?  Do they go in .DS_Store (I tend to delete those!) or elsewhere in the filesystem? Does this tagging mechanism work on removable drives?  What are the requirements? Does this tagging mechanism work over a network share?  I have some Windows SMB network shares at home that I frequently store files on.  Would it work on those or is another configuration required? Aside from Spotlight, are there any command-line tools for searching through or accessing the tag data for files?   Thank you!