How can I get this recycled plastic material with a procedural shader?
is it possible to create this kind of material with the standard textures? The Voronoi texture (set to cells) is coming close but I don’t know if it is possible to a) set the single cells apart from each other and b) to give them seperate colors.
How to set metadata for music files? In windows music files have metadata like artist name, album name associated with them. How is this metadata stored. Is it stored in file system like other file attributes or is it part of MP3 data that Windows Explorer extracts using a MP3 reader plugin?  Is it possible to read/change this information in Linux? Is it possible with commandline?  (I know these attributes can be set using Rhythymbox or some music player but I'm curious if these could also be set directly. Like in Windows the windows itself shows you artist information if you right click the file and open properties dialog) By accident, I messed up a configuration file. How do I recover the default version without reinstalling or affecting other things? I try to share my internet connection from my laptop (win7) via virtual wifi to my android phone (Samsung Gio). In an elevated cmd I enter  netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=VWiFi key=xxx keyUsage=persistent netsh wlan start hostednetwork   The android phone connects to VWifi, but the internet connection is hardly usable on the phone while the internet connection on my laptop is very good at the same time (some Mbps)  What works: I can start WhatsApp, type and receive text messages, so I guess there's no general problem, i.e. config can't be completely wrong - but when I try to send pics or audio or try to receive pics or audio messages then I see from the network monitor on my laptop that the connection doesn't even try to send or receive anything (0 kbps up/down).  What sometimes works: connection to some websites with acceptable speed - but sometimes I don't get a single byte. Also this is not reproducible - the same website sometimes shows up, sometimes android tells my the site was not available.  What never worked so far: connecting to Google Play Store. It always tells me to check my connection and try again.  What I tried so far: I read on problems with IPv6, but no matter if I enable or disable IPv6 in the settings of the virtual Wifi, it doesn't help.  I also read about problems related to static/dynamic IPs, my netsh interface ip show config tells my that dchp isn't enabled on my virtual Wifi connection. If I try to enable it by netsh interface ip set address "myWificonnection" dhcp the android phone won't even connect anymore to the virtual Wifi at all. So there may be a solution here if android would connect with dhcp enabled.  I also read about problems with MAC filters, but this is no router, there's no MAC filter in the virtual Wifi.  When I directly connect to a real WLAN router, everything is fine and working. I have the problems only when trying to get into the internet via the virtual Wifi.  Any ideas what may be configured wrong? Either on laptop or on android? Thanks. Logarithm as limit lists this as a limit representation of the natural log:  $$\ln{z} = \lim_{\omega \to \infty} \omega(z^{1/\omega} - 1)$$  Is there a quick proof of this? Thanks Just upgraded to Mountain Lion and I have to buy iPhoto again? How to convert Strings to and from UTF8 byte arrays in Java In Java, I have a String and I want to encode it as a byte array (in UTF8, or some other encoding). Alternately, I have a byte array (in some known encoding) and I want to convert it into a Java String. How do I do these conversions? How quickly is the desired state of curl of the Electric Field around a point achieved where a Magnetic Field Vector has just begun changing? My question and context with explanation are given below. Thank you in advance.   Faraday’s Law () states that a time-changing magnetic field vector induces a curl of the Electric field around that point. However it does not specify how quickly the necessary spatial gradient is developed in the Electric Field to satisfy that curl. Of course, the Electric Field vectors around that point cannot just jump to the required values instantaneously in accompaniment as soon as the magnetic field starts changing at a fixed rate, since it is required that the Electric Field has a sensible rate of change to in turn induce a curl of the magnetic Field and continue the propagation of the wave. It would seem the exact rates at which the Electric and Magnetic Fields are changing is critical in the mechanism of an EM wave’s propagation. How would I then calculate the rate of change of E somewhere along the wave given I know the rate of change of the B vector that began it, and given the wave is restricted to one dimension for simplicity? There should after all be some delay in how the EM wave moves from point to point in space, seeing as it moves at the finite speed of causality (3*10^8 m/s), as shown in the first image:    Some of my ideas so far have been that perhaps the rate of change of E is determined such that it exactly cancels the growth of the time-changing E vector that gave rise to a curl of B before, which developed at such a rate to induce a curl of E, which demands this rate of change of E which I am talking about now. In this way the wave might level out the growth of the fields in its wake and spread the change further outwards, in the same way smoothening out a crease spreads it elsewhere. However I am stuck on how to show this rigorously.  I am open to any difficulty of maths, so long as the answer provides the explanation. Below are some diagrams to help visualize what I am talking about:    Faraday's Law requires that a curl of E is developed, which under these restrictions requires a spatial gradient of E to appear across that point. Since the field across that point was previously in some other state, it is required that the Electric Field vectors that are infinitesimally close to that point undergo a rate of change through time to achieve the desired state of curl. The question is, how quickly is this desired state of curl achieved? We are planning a two-night trip to the Canary Islands. The cheapest options include Lanzarote and Las Palmas for flights. Travel dates are last week of November, so I guess weather should be okay. I have never been to these islands. I'd like to sleep on the beach in a tent or mattresses. Is that possible, safety, legality, and weather? It would also be nice to know how populated with tourists the islands are. QR factorization of complex matrix If you have two complex numbers $a,b$ how can you find the QR factorization of   $ M = \begin{bmatrix}        aI_n\\          bI_n \end{bmatrix} $,  I can't seem to be able to do it. I tried an earlier trick, but I now know it's not necessary true for complex numbers. Is there anyway to do this?  I think if I use a Givens algorithm I should be able to reduce it to a QR factorization. "the 90s were the best decade ever" or "the 90s was the best decade ever"  "the 90s" and "decade" are both referring to the same singular period of 10 years, so "was" seems to make more sense. "90s were" rolls off the tongue better though. Connecting two Ethernet PHY without magnetics? Photoshop: How to draw a guide with an exact distance from another guide Before drawing, I want to draw all guides for my layout. For example, I have a guide line named A already. After that, I want to have another guide named B  parallel with guide A and at 50px distance from it.   I have three solutions:   Draw line B and by "some way", I can see the current distance directly when I'm drawing, so I can make the distance exactly what I want it to be.  Draw line B. And then I use the Ruler tool to see the distance between the two guides. This method has disadvantages: maybe the ruler line that I draw isn't perpendicular with the guides and I'm not sure when the distance is enough. There are other clever ways, that help me get this job done fast and easily, but that I don't know yet. I think Photoshop should support this feature.   What is the best way to achieve this? Is it possible to batch import Wavefront .obj to blender? I'm working on 2.69. If I select multiple .obj files, only one gets imported. Also if I hit A on file selection window to select all files (.obj and .mtl) I get an error, nothing gets imported. I have to import several hundreds of .obj into the blender file, is this possible? When computing the covariance matrix of a sample, is one then guaranteed to get a symmetric and positive-definite matrix?  Currently my problem has a sample of 4600 observation vectors and 24 dimensions. $M$ finitely generated if submodule and quotient are finitely generated. I know this must be easy. I'm new to modules, so perhaps I must be missing  something important.     Let $M$ be an $R$-module. Show that if there exists a submodule $N$ such that $N$ and $M/N$ are finitely generated, then $M$ is finitely generated.   If the exact sequence $0 \longrightarrow N \longrightarrow M \longrightarrow M/N \longrightarrow 0 $ (where the second and third arrows are inclusion and projection respectively) splits then $M$ would be isomorphic to the direct sum of $M$ and $M/N$ and the conclusion would follow (I think). But I can't show that it splits.  Thank you. Several times now I have inadvertently lost the .tex file that generated a PDF file with pdflatex. Given what I know of the internal structure of PDF files, it should be possible to embed a text file containing the original LaTeX file into the PDF file so that it can be extracted later.   I am aware of no technology for doing this, but perhaps you are. Does anybody have something like this? Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel doesn't work on 64 bit The Chinese government has a really specific list of requirements for visa photos:    I had an old unused photo from last time I applied for a visa or passport, and compared it to the requirements (decided not to use it because it was damaged). It seemed to match most of the requirements, except that it seems that they want a photo which isn't square: The required width is less than the required height.  Assuming most drugstores are still providing square passport photos, the question becomes: Should I cut the photo to match the specified width?   What adds to the confusion is if you look at the  the box for the photo is nearly square, not the oblong shape in the requirements. And I have seen other advice that you need to make sure it fully fits the box.  Any advice about what to do here? How to keep the console window open in Visual C++? I'm starting out in Visual C++ and I'd like to know how to keep the console window.  For instance this would be a typical "hello world" application:   int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) {     cout &lt;&lt; "Hello World";     return 0; }   What's the line I'm missing? How do I pass a string into subprocess.Popen (using the stdin argument)?