I saw a  and the announcer said (39:25) on the ship building that "the super-tanker is not what she was a few months ago... Now she's painted".   The same thing I saw in a  (0:03) on aircraft: "she is the latest model.."   Therefor I am wondering why this ship or aircraft get the pronoun "she"?
In English, especially in a poetic description, ships and cars are  referred to as "she".   Maybe their owners compare their beauty and elegance with those of women, but what if a female owner wanted to describe her yacht or car?   Would she also say, "She is a real beauty", or it might be "he" then?   Does the choice of a pronoun depend on whom she is giving the description of it to — a man or a woman?  What about a man-o’-war or a merchantman? Being ships, are they also referred as "she"?  P.S.  on the use of "she" in reference to ships, but there seems to be no answer to my question there.  P.P.S. My question wasn't pulled out of a thin air. I came across a book by a prominent Russian linguist, G.Veichman, written in 1990, (Novelties in The English Grammar is my translation of the title), where I read that the rule of personification of vehicles may be added regarding a female owner talking about her car using the preposition "he". Period. No further explanation or reference examples.
XeTeX: What happened to \mathcal and \mathscr? Recently I switched from pdflatex to xelatex to be able to use OpenType fonts. I like to use variables highlighted using \mathcal for specific variables, while I used to use \mathscr-typeset variables for matrices. But when I compile with XeLaTeX they look exaclty the same.  Old code  \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \begin{document} $\mathcal{C} = \mathscr{C}$ \end{document}   Output        New code  \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{unicode-math} \begin{document} $\mathcal{C} = \mathscr{C}$ \end{document}   Output        Broken code  I tried to get back the glyphs from mathrsfs, but it failed this way.  \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{unicode-math} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \begin{document} $\mathcal{C} = \mathscr{C}$ \end{document}   Output        Question: How can I get back the behaviour? In principle I'd like to have the old \mathcal letters from the pdflatex-version of Computer/Latin Modern.    Alternate solutions (Addendum 2016/05/11) Is $\mathbb{R}$ a subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$? Is it correct to say that $\mathbb{R}$ is a subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$? Or, put more generally, given $n,m\in\mathbb{N}$, $n&lt;m$, is $\mathbb{R}^n$ a subset of $\mathbb{R}^m$?  Also, strictly related to that: what is then the "relationship" between the set $\{(x,0)\in\mathbb{R}^2,x\in\mathbb{R}\}\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{R}$? Do they coincide (I would say no)? As vector spaces, do they have the same dimension (I would say yes)?  If you could give me a reference book for this kind of stuff, I would really appreciate it.  Thank you very much in advance.  (Please correct the tags if they are not appropriate) I have a problem when I try to start a Workflow 2013 in SharePoint Server 2013. I believe the error is related with permissions, but I cannot be sure.  Here is the error message in the log:  RequestorId: ef9edb7c-cc3d-5e10-3681-eada907596a4.  Details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP 401 {"Transfer-Encoding":["chunked"],"X-SharePointHealthScore":["0"],"SPRequestGuid":["ef9edb7c-cc3d-5e10-3681-eada907596a4"],"request-id":["ef9edb7c-cc3d-5e10-3681-eada907596a4"],"X-FRAME-OPTIONS":["SAMEORIGIN"],"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices":["15.0.0.4420"],"X-Content-Type-Options":["nosniff"],"X-MS-InvokeApp":["1; RequireReadOnly"],"Cache-Control":["max-age=0, private"],"Date":["Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:36:44 GMT"],"Server":["Microsoft-IIS\/8.0"],"WWW-Authenticate":["NTLM"],"X-AspNet-Version":["4.0.30319"],"X-Powered-By":["ASP.NET"]}  The HTTP response content could not be read.  'Error while copying content to a stream.'. at Microsoft.Activities.Hosting.Runtime.Subroutine.SubroutineChild.Execute(CodeActivityContext context) at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem   The question is: What permissions do I need to configure in SharePoint for the WF publisher and the WF manager service account?  I’ve set a WF Manager service account named “wfservice” (this account is a local admin and has the sysadmin permissions in SQL Server), and I published the workflow and tested it using the account “wfuser”. Both accounts have full control permissions in the web app and are site owners, for testing WF 2013 purposes.  I’ve already done the DNS flush, as mentioned in Andrew Connell’s article, and I’m still getting an Unauthorized exception in the Item Workflow Status.  Anyone knows what’s going on? Which permissions do I need to configure? Pagination broken when merging search results with additional WP_Query On the search results page (search.php) I would like to perform an additional WP_Query to keep a specific order of search result types e.g. search results from authors should always be shown before the other results -  The first few pages should hold the author results, the other results should be shown on all the following pages only (not mixed on each page).  global $wp_query; //holds the results of the initial search query  $authorposts = $wp_query-&gt;posts;     $query = new WP_Query( 'year=2012&amp;monthnum=12&amp;day=12' ); $otherposts = $query-&gt;posts;  $wp_query-&gt;posts = array_merge( $authorposts, $otherposts  ); $wp_query-&gt;post_count = count( $wp_query-&gt;posts );  if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?&gt;   //show results loop...   The problems appear with the behaviour of pagination - while the $authorposts seem to paginate correctly i.e. correct page numbers for author posts and pagination works as only those where existent. But the $otherposts on the other hand are shown at the bottom of each page, right under the author posts. And they are the same on every page! Also the page count reflects the count of the first query only.  I have also tried to merge with the plus operator:  $wp_query-&gt;posts = $authorposts + $otherposts;   but in this scenario the $otherposts don't show up at all and the page count stays the same (page count for author posts).  All the examples with similar goals using two separate queries I've seen looked quite the same -  So I'm wondering if the my way of extending the original search query results with that additional WP_Query is sufficient or if I'm missing some $wp_query fields to be populated (correctly)? What's the correct way doing this?  Update: It should be noted that I'm using the WP-PageNavi plugin to paginate but this should not be relevant in the first place as the first page is already rendered wrong. And it's also initialized with the query object: wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' =&gt; $wp_query )); Constants of integration in integration by parts How much money did Charlie Harper have? This is quite tricky to figure out, and I am not looking for a specific number, but for a approximation.  As you know, Charlie (nearly) always had a lot of money to spend, but a few hints suggest that he actually did not have money at all (talking about absolute, not cash flow)   he went bancrupt after a few months without income he told Alan that there is no money, and everything just a house of cards he worries about Bertha giving away a few clothes he has three mortgages on his house when he died, there was no inheritage to Alan or anyone, and they had to sell the house ...   However, considering the lifestyle and spendings, Charlie must have had a substantial amount available.   driving the latest foreign expensive cars owning a malibu beachhouse paying the property tax for said house discussing retirement at 45 spending endless money on booze, betting and women ...   So all things considered, did he have money, or was he just a scam? SQL Server CE in a multi user scenario - is this really, really stupid? I was recently in a bit of a quandary over which answer to accept to .  Of the answers I got, two were the clear leaders and, of course, I up-voted both. Choosing a 'winner' was more difficult though as their approaches were quite different.  Answer A addressed my question and provided a clear and well thought out response. I'd anticipate that this answer would be of most use to a user who found my question via a search. Selecting this would probably be the more community-focused way to go.  Answer B took a more lateral approach and made some guesses at the business logic behind my request, suggesting that I might be asking the wrong question. Their solution was based on this assumption - and they were spot on. Answer B formed the basis of my fix for the problem.  So... Best answer to the question or best solution to the problem - they may not always be the same thing.   I took the selfish approach and went with B. I'm not losing sleep over it, but I do wonder if I did the right thing? I asked this question  but I haven't gotten a useful answer. Could you tell me the difference in meaning between these sentences?        Do you think you will visit them next week?     Will you visit them next week?     Are you going to visit them next week?     Are you visiting them next week?     Are you going to be visiting them next week?     Are you planning to be visiting them next week?     Do you plan to visit them next week?      Will there be any difference in the answers?        I think I will visit them next week.     I will visit them next week.     I am going to visit them next week.     I am visiting them next week.     I am going to be visiting them next week.     I am planning to be visiting them next week.     I plan to visit them next week.      Can I use "planning to" instead of "going to"?  (E.g. "Are you planning to visit them next week? — Yes, I am planning to visit them next week.") Which of these sentences show that the subject of conversation has already been discussed? For example, I talked with a friend of mine about my plans to visit somebody. So my friend is aware of my plans.  And my last question. Which of these seven sentences express that the action will certainly take place? Me and my friend want to build a basic 101 mob farm, but we can't decide where to put it. He says it has got to be over an ocean, I say it can just be 128 blocks above ground and it will be just fine.  So the question is:    What is the absolute ideal place for a mob spawner?  If we build it 128 blocks above ground do we still need to light up caves? If we dig a 128x128 square straight to bedrock will that make a perfect environment?   Please advise! Compiling PHP 5.1.6 with PDO MySQL PuTTY inserts random characters during a session I recently started renting space on a remote server so that I could work on a project. I found that a relatively painless way to access it on a windows machine is through PuTTY. However, there is one thing that has always irked me when using it: for seemingly no reason random characters are sometimes inserted at the cursor.  Most of the time it is just a single tilde, but rarely it spits out what looks like some escape sequence ([[^8 or the like). It will only occur when I am focused on the window, whether I am typing or 20 feet away from the keyboard. If left for long enough, it will spit tildes at random intervals (average is about 1 minute).  Finally, this behavior seems to be inconsistant when running programs such as nano or the mysql interface: in nano, instead of inserting tildes, it will set marks (ctrl-^); in mysql, lines will become un-editable.  My question is this: Has anyone else experienced this sort of behavior in PuTTY? And if so, what can be done to prevent/correct this behavior? I would like to know if my brother can fly by United Airlines from USA to El Salvador, and my father, from El Salvador to USA using the same round trip ticket, both of them have the same name. Why is there not a simpler way to calculate the standard deviation? Steps of getting standard deviation. :        Work out the average (mean value) of your set of numbers   Work out the difference between each number and the mean   Square the differences   Add up the square of all the differences   Divide this by one less than the number of numbers in your set -   this is called the variance   Take the square root of the variance and you've got the standard   deviation      Am I missing out something, or why do we need to square the differences in step 3?  Why not simply do a Abs (multiply all negative numbers by -1) in step 3?  Also, my second question is why do we need to divide by one less than the number of numbers in the set in step 5? why not simply divide by the number of numbers? Interview: How to ensure that a thread runs after another? What do 'real', 'user' and 'sys' mean in the output of time(1)? How to write file into another Alternative activity monitors for OS X? I’m a bit intrigued by the new detailed activity monitors and progress indicators in Windows 8 (copying files, the task monitor, network activity, etc.) It got me thinking: surely there must be some better alternatives to the built-in Activity Monitor.app?  “Better” as in more detailed and nicer graphs. Specifically, it would be interested and see percentage disk I/O (out of disk capacity), memory usage, and CPU usage in the same nice way   The Building windows blog has an article  in Windows 8.  I just think that OS X’s task manager — which I have always found superior — just doesn’t cut it anymore compared to what is coming in Windows 8. Can I open a US bank account even if I don't live in the country? When trying to deploy the converted metadata using VS code sfdx force:mdapi:deploy deploy to my Production Org and I get the error Property 'itemInstances' not valid in version 48.0 and Property 'processOrder' not valid in version 48.0. But when I go to Developer Console and open a class, even though it says 48.0, I have the option to select 49.0, so I am assuming I have 49.0. Yet I get this error. Pretty much all my classes, trigger and components are version 48.0, but I am not sure how that affects flexipages and Approval processes.