I hear people saying, "He said it to my wife and I" when they would never say, "He said it to I." Why are people so inconsistent?
I've always been taught to put myself last when referring to myself in the same sentence as others but the usage of "me and..." seems to be everywhere these days. The misuse of the word "me" instead of "I" aside, is there some new rule I haven't heard of? Shouldn't we put ourselves last regardless of the "me"/"I" usage?  Examples of "correct" usage:      My friends and I went for some ice   cream. Did you see my friends and me   at the ice cream stand?   Examples of "incorrect" usage:     Me and my friends went for some ice   cream. Did you see me and my friends   at the ice cream stand?   Note: I was also taught that the only person who could put themselves first was the queen.
Can a PC with the Alert feat alert his friends? Assume the following situation: The party has been surprised by an ambush. Every PC is surprised except PC Bob because he has the Alert feat. Thanks to his high initiative bonus Bob gets to go first. He shouts "look out" to alert his party members of the imminent threat. The idea is that his party members are no longer surprised because he warned them.   While I think that this makes sense from a storytelling perspective, I am afraid this would be too strong. as it allows one PC with the Alert feat to give the "not surprised" benefit to other members of his party pretty much for free.  Is this allowed? Are there rules or an official ruling or similar on this?  If not, do you have any experience with this situation, and how did it play out in your games? Electromagnetic waves in vacuum If there is no source then also there is electromagnetic waves described by Maxwell equation. how if there is no source then existence of EM waves. What gives energy to this EM  waves. Is it vacuum fluctuation or something else? Copy existing property from e.g. Properties window to a custom panel So if I have this custom panel in the 3D view, is there a way I can take a property from for example the properties window and paste it onto my panel below the "text" prop, without creating a new property?  The reason I do not want to create a new property is because I want them to share all data, such as values, keyframes, drivers etc.        bl_info = {     "name": "",     "description": "",     "author": "",     "version": (0, 0, 1),     "blender": (2, 70, 0),     "location": "",     "warning": "",      "wiki_url": "",     "tracker_url": "",     "category": "" }  import bpy  from bpy.props import (StringProperty,                        BoolProperty,                        IntProperty,                        FloatProperty,                        FloatVectorProperty,                        EnumProperty,                        PointerProperty,                        ) from bpy.types import (Panel,                        Operator,                        AddonPreferences,                        PropertyGroup,                        )   class inouse_Settings(PropertyGroup):      my_bool = BoolProperty(         name="Enable or Disable",         description="A bool property",         default = False)     class UV_OT_my_panel(Panel):     bl_space_type = 'VIEW_3D'     bl_idname = "UV_OT_my_panel"     bl_label = "Custom"     bl_category = "Custom"     bl_region_type = 'TOOLS'      def draw(self, context):          scn = context.scene         mytool = scn.inhouse         layout = self.layout          col = layout.column(align=True)         row = col.row(align = True)         row.prop(mytool, "my_bool", text="Text")       def register():     bpy.utils.register_module(__name__)     bpy.types.Scene.inhouse = PointerProperty(type=inouse_Settings)  def unregister():     bpy.utils.unregister_module(__name__)     del bpy.types.Scene.inhouse  if __name__ == "__main__":     register() Let $A$ be an $m \times n$ matrix of rank $r$, let $I$ be a set of row indices such that the corresponding rows of $A$ are independent and let $J$ be a set of $r$ column indices such that the corresponding columns of $A$ are independent.  Let $M$ denote the $r \times r$ submatrix obtained by taking rows from $I$ and columns from $J$.  Then $M$ is invertible.  So far I've got: Let $B$ be the $m \times r$ matrix obtain from taking the rows from $J$.  $B$ is row-reducible to having a pivot in each column or else $Ax = 0$ has more than one solution, a contradiction.  Also, the dimension of the row space of $B$ equals $r$ as well. How to prevent the screen lock while watching video (Netflix, Youtube, Amazon Prime) in Ubuntu 17.10 In earlier Ubuntu versions like 16.04 and 17.04 while watching YouTube videos in full-screen mode, the screen would not get locked automatically.  In Ubuntu 17.10 while watching videos in browser, system is getting locked. So Ubuntu 17.10 is considering this scenario as user is not doing anything.  Kindly suggest a solution for that. I can work. I could work. I will work. I would work. I shall work. I should work. Been looking to pivot rows (progress_check) into columns check 1, check 2 etc... No sum or totals required, just to display the results hopefully... Can anyone help, Thanks Ad How many actuations are "too many actuations"? When looking at used camera bodies, a question that comes up a lot, is "how many shutter actuations, or clicks, does it have?"   What I am wondering is, how many is too many. In other words, is there a reference for knowing when a sensor is more likely to go? How should I judge a camera body with 20000 vs 5000? Is that a significant difference, or is that not even relevant.  Obviously this might something that is dependent on model, so if there is some information based on model that would be even more interesting.  One of the guys at Canon Tech Support said that this is completely irrelevant for the Rebel series cameras, but he is obviously slightly biased. :) Inform new users if they can upvote an answer they accepted I surprisingly often stumble upon answers which were accepted but clearly not upvoted by the asker. For example, the answer has not received any upvotes at all or the asker’s vote count is zero. While I acknowledge that , most such cases happen with new users, who have only recently received the privilege to vote and who upvote after a friendly reminder.  Given the anonymity of votes and that I do not check the asker’s profile for every question with an accepted answer I stumbled upon, I assume that there is a huge dark figure for this phenomenon. Also, I naturally most often spot this on my own answers, which makes reminding the asker of their privileges somewhat awkward.  I thus propose that users which accept an answer are reminded by a pop-up that they can upvote it, if:   They haven’t already upvoted it. They have the reputation required for voting. They have cast less than a handful of votes.   I consider the latter criterion to be better than an upper reputation for which the message is displayed, since I know at least one user with several thousand reputation points, who has cast much less upvotes or votes on answers than he has accepted answers on some sites (not that his acceptance rate or general feedback on answers is spectacular). Finding $\int x^xdx$ I have a laptop that has Windows 8 which I use for playing Minecraft. However when using the inventory, I have to hold my mouse to drag and pick the items and I don't like that.   I have tried switching mouses but that didn't work, is this possible to fix? Test to see if the title length requirement can be circumvented by appending lots of dots. Link to the recommended job is broken in the mobile apps The link to the recommended job in the app brings you to a page with the text: Not Found    Looking at the link it seems like after changing the URL structure in Stack Overflow Jobs they have not been updated in the apps.  For the job in the screenshot this is the used URL in the app:    The correct URL is: Non trivial valuation over a finite extension $F/\mathbb{Q}_p$ is equivalent to the one induced by $v_p$ I have the name of a function in JavaScript as a string. How do I convert that into a function pointer so I can call it later?  Depending on the circumstances, I may need to pass various arguments into the method too.  Some of the functions may take the form of namespace.namespace.function(args[...]). How do you address unknown peers in email? This is one bit of academic etiquette I'm not sure about. When I write to another researcher, a peer (we're both professors). I've never exchanged with before and never met him but I know of him (and he probably knows of me).  Erring on the side of formality, I write to him “Dear professor Mortimer”. I sign with my first name, because that's how I've always signed my emails (there's a formal signature block below, with full name and contact details) and I think it indicates a willingness to be called by my first name (which I prefer, but I don't want to force people one way or the other).  Is that going to be well received? Will people take the hint? Or should I just start using first names from the start? (it does sound weird to write “dear Philipp” to someone you don't know) What leads to the existence of critical temperature? We know that $T_c$ is the temperature above which no amount of pressure could force a gas to liquefy. But why is this? Somehow I don't buy the point that the gas molecules exert too much pressure back to get close and turn into a liquid. If we had tens of thousands of atmosphere pressure (such as on the inside of hot planets), we should be able to liquefy any gas at any temperature. How to edit Parameters for an Object after it is created? When you first add a cylinder, you have the option to change the number of vertices, etc, but once you do anything else in blender, it seems you no longer can edit those parameters.   Is there a setting anywhere or an add-on that allows these parameters to be edited later on? If not, how easy would such an addon/feature be to create for anyone reading this? Is it possible to assign a base class object to a derived class reference with an explicit typecast in C#?.  I have tried it and it creates a run-time error. Clicking on a notification on Android app opens an empty feed When I receive a message on an SE post, I get a notification like this:    If I double tap this notification, the SE application opens, but my feed is empty approximately half the time. It looks like this:    If I refresh the feed (slide from the top), the feed does refresh and shows the new notification.   The notification, above, leads to  comment.  I haven't figured out the pattern yet, but this occurs roughly half the time I open a notification. It's occurred for chat messages, comments and answers - but not consistently. I have received notifications for the same post (for example, the two comments after the one linked above) that do not show an empty feed. But, a chat message barely 10 minutes later will show the empty feed again.  I am utilizing the beta app - version 1.0.72 on Android 5.0.1.