I have an app that runs on several mobile devices running either Fedora or Android. To consolidate my codebase and distribution I would like to determine which OS I am on. I tried System.getProperty("os.name"), but that just returns "Linux". Is there something unique to Android in the System properties? Thanks
I would like to determine the operating system of the host that my Java program is running programmatically (for example: I would like to be able to load different properties based on whether I am on a Windows or Unix platform). What is the safest way to do this with 100% reliability?
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The output says " Metric (TFM) file not found." but I am not sure where to go from there. How can I remap a keyboard key? One of my laptop's keys has fallen off. Is there any way I can remap another key to serve as that key?  I'll 'sacrifice' the other key because I never use it. Why do we use Hermitian operators in QM? Position, momentum, energy and other observables yield real-valued measurements. The Hilbert-space formalism accounts for this physical fact by associating observables with Hermitian ('self-adjoint') operators. The eigenvalues of the operator are the allowed values of the observable. Since Hermitian operators have a real spectrum, all is well.  However, there are non-Hermitian operators with real eigenvalues, too. Consider the real triangular matrix:  $$ \left( \begin{array}{ccc} 1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 \\ 8 &amp; 4 &amp; 0 \\ 5 &amp; 9 &amp; 3 \end{array} \right)  $$  Obviously this matrix isn't Hermitian, but it does have real eigenvalues, as can be easily verified.  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Here's the data from the query, currently sorted by date (asc):   ID      Date               Value 12410   01/03/2017 12:17    0.000178 12410   01/10/2017 11:36    0.000186 12410   01/17/2017 11:27    0.000189 12410   01/24/2017 13:09    0.000182 12410   01/31/2017 10:37    0.000169 12410   02/07/2017 11:03    0.000214 12410   02/14/2017 11:52    0.000176 12410   02/21/2017 10:51    0.000200 12410   02/28/2017 12:29    0.000194 12410   03/07/2017 08:39    0.000206   Here's the query:   select AnalysisID as "ID" , AnalysisDateTime as "Date", AnalysisValue as "Value" from AnalysisValueTbl where AnalysisID = 12410 and DatePart(m, AnalysisDateTime) = DatePart(m, DateAdd(m, -3, getdate())) and DatePart(yyyy, AnalysisDateTime) = DatePart(yyyy, DateAdd(m,-3, getdate())) or AnalysisID = 12410 and DatePart(m, AnalysisDateTime) = DatePart(m, DateAdd(m, -2, getdate())) and DatePart(yyyy, AnalysisDateTime) = DatePart(yyyy, DateAdd(m,-2, getdate())) or AnalysisID = 12410 and DatePart(m, AnalysisDateTime) = DatePart(m, DateAdd(m, -1, getdate())) and DatePart(yyyy, AnalysisDateTime) = DatePart(yyyy, DateAdd(m,-1, getdate())) order by AnalysisValue desc How are PCA and classical MDS different? 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($\sin\theta$ also works.) $$\eqalign{\lim_{\theta\to0}\dfrac{\sin\theta}{8\theta+\tan\theta}&amp;= \lim_{\theta\to0}\dfrac{\dfrac{\sin\theta}\theta}{8+\dfrac{\sin\theta}\theta\cdot\dfrac1{\cos\theta}}\\&amp;=\dfrac{\lim\limits_{\theta\to0}\dfrac{\sin\theta}\theta}{8+\lim\limits_{\theta\to0}\dfrac{\sin\theta}\theta\lim\limits_{\theta\to0}\dfrac1{\cos\theta}}\\&amp;=\dfrac1{8+1\cdot1}\\&amp;=\dfrac19.}$$ What is the 'molecular' origin of the viscosity? The molecular origin of elasticity is almost clear for me: at the very bottom the 'elasticity' comes from the attraction and repulsion between atoms when they are reasonably far from each other or very close (like Lennard-Jones potential). Is there a similar description for the viscosity as well? Where does it come from? What do you call somebody who asks a question and somebody who answers a question? What do you call somebody who asks a question and somebody who answers a question?  I have exhausted the thesaurus with no real luck... any ideas?  EDIT: It is in reference to this - or any other StackExchange - site in which the question is posed by X and answer is submitted by Y.    EDIT 2: In the context of StackExchange, and the fact I need plurality (something I neglected to mention oooops), I have decided upon "Posters" and "Respondents"... On the grade of an ideal I need to prove the following statment (actually a special case of it).     Let $R$ be a Noetherian ring, $M$ a finite $R$-module and $I$ an ideal of $R$. Then   $\operatorname{grade}(I,M)\geq 2$ if and only if the homomorphism $M\rightarrow$Hom$_R(I,M)$ given by $m\mapsto(i\mapsto im)$ is an isomorphism.   This is Exercise 1.2.24 in Bruns and Herzog, Cohen-Macaulay Rings. How can I display site logo, name and slogan?