If two American strangers (or for that matter any nationals) are compatriot for each other What is equivalent of a person who is from the same college or university as yours?  See below example:  Somboon to Jim: Hi, Do you like the Philippines?  Jim to Somboon: Hi, we liked Philippines a lot. Jack and me are compatriots. We are US citizen. So we like to travel different countries.  Somboon to Jim: Oh you are from the same country, but you look different. I thought you are Filipino.  Jim to Somboon: No I am not. But Jack and me are in fact ___________ (from same college).
Is there a Term to describe the relationship between two people when they share an Alma Mater?  For example; Neil Armstrong is an alumnus of Purdue University. I am an alumnus of Purdue University. Both Neil and I are alumni of Purdue University, which is to say we share an alma mater. So, I'm looking for a term to describe my relationship to to Neil with out needing to explicitly reference the university. Is co-alumni a real term? Is it appropriate to say that Neil and I are co-alumni? Is there something better? Further, is there a way to specifically describe the relationship between two people from the same graduating class?  Thank You in advance!
I understand that the entrance pupil is the image of the aperture as seen from the front of the lens. However, is the size of the entrance pupil the same as the size of the effective aperture? In other words, if I measure the size of the entrance pupil by looking at it, will that be equivalent to the focal length of the lens divided by the f-number (with the focus set to infinity)? I know that sometimes this is hard to estimate because of the shape of the aperture blades, but I was wondering whether pupil and aperture can be quite different (perhaps at very low magnification). Using customized Coordinate System in ArcGIS Desktop? Coupon Collector Problem with Batched Selections Why shouldn't root be allowed to login via ssh? why should root access be disabled for ssh? I always hear that's for security reasons. But I don't get it. What's different to login as non-root and then sudo su -? What's the preferred way to handle tasks that need privileged permissions?  Thanks  Thomas Which Ubuntu to use alongside Windows 7? Get full name twice in Bibliography I use biblatex with style=authoryear and when there are two references of the same author in the bibliography there is just a dash. How can I get the full name in the second entry too? Is it feasible to transform each variable differently while doing multiple regression How do I remove "permission denied" printout statements from the find program? Code   find / -name netcdf   Output  find: `/root/.dbus': Permission denied find: `/root/.gconf': Permission denied find: `/root/.gconfd': Permission denied find: `/root/.gnome': Permission denied find: `/root/.gnome2': Permission denied find: `/root/.gnome2_private': Permission denied Non-algebraically closed field in which every polynomial of degree $<n$ has a root My problem is to build, for every prime $p$, a field of characteristic $p$ in which every polynomial of degree $\leq n$ ($n$ a fixed natural number) has a root, but such that the field is not algebraically closed.  If I'm not wrong (please correct me if I am) such a field cannot be finite, by counting arguments. But on the other hand, the union of all finite fields (or of any ascending chain of finite fields) of characteristic $p$, which is what I get if I start with $F_p$ and add a root to each polynomial of degree $\leq n$ in each step, is the algebraic closure of $F_p$, hence algebraically closed. I don't see how I can control this process so that in the end I get a field that is not algebraically closed.  Any hint will be welcome. Thanks in advance. From what I understand, entropy is a concept defined by the experimentalist due to his ignorance of the exact microstate of a system. To say the number of accessible microstates $W$ of the universe is constantly increasing is nothing more than saying 'ignorance begets ignorance'.  I have often encountered the argument of ever increasing entropy for the presence of an inherent time asymmetry, most prominently in the works of Penrose. It just doesn't seem to make sense.  Let us imagine alien beings who are experiencing time in reverse. For them, increasing ignorance is in the direction of our decreasing ignorance. So how can perpetual increase in entropy indicate an 'arrow of time'?  One possible explanation (I thought of) for this argument was the fact that there may never be a mechanism to reduce ignorance. I will pose this as a question:  An observer determines the number of possible microstates of system+observer to be $W_0$ at time $t_0$. After improving his measurements, can he (at a later time) measure $W'$ (where $W_0&gt;W'$) as the number of possible microstates? Assume that all the microstates are equally probable in this case.  Unless the above in false in general, how else can anyone claim that entropy reveals an arrow of time?  EDIT: I am performing this discussion for isolated systems (the universe or it's parts if relevant). The means I propose to reduce entropy in the present, is by redefinition of macroscopic variables and of microscopic models used to count the number of distinguishable micro-states (that obviously yield the same macro-state). This is essentially an argument against the robustness of entropy via redefinition. I've got two branches that are fully merged together. However, after the merge is done, I realise that one file has been messed up by the merge (someone else did an auto-format, gah), and it would just be easier to change to the new version in the other branch, and then reinsert my one line change after bringing it over into my branch. So what's the easiest way in Git to do this? Finding the variable name passed to a function Let me use the following example to explain my question: public string ExampleFunction(string Variable) {     return something; }  string WhatIsMyName = &quot;Hello World&quot;; string Hello = ExampleFunction(WhatIsMyName);  When I pass the variable WhatIsMyName to the ExampleFunction, I want to be able to get a string of the original variable's name. Perhaps something like: Variable.OriginalName.ToString()  Is there any way to do this? How to embed Stack Overflow flair in a WordPress.com (free) blog? Has anyone successfully embedded their  on a WordPress.com-hosted blog?  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It is, ' The available options for mitigating pad cratering are not universally effective (see link below), but they may be helpful on a case by case basis until more crack resistant laminates are developed and become available.  '  If I am to write this, I will use 'a case-by-case basis until more crack-resistant laminates'   Can anyone tell me when to use a hyphen to coin a new word? Given a set of vectors $v_1 \cdots v_n$, the $n\times n$ Gram matrix $G$ is defined as $G_{i,j}=v_i \cdot v_j$  Due to symmetry in the dot product, $G$ is Hermitian.  I'm trying to remember why $|G|=0$ iff the set of vectors are not linearly independent. $S := \{x \in \Bbb R^3: ||x||_2 = 1 \}$ and $T: S^2 \to \Bbb R$ is a continuous function. Is $T$ injective? $S := \{x \in \Bbb R^3: ||x||_2 = 1 \} \subset (\Bbb R^3, || \cdot ||_2 )$ and $T:S^2 \to (\Bbb R, |\cdot |)$ is  a continuous function.  I've already shown that $$T_{\mathrm{max}} := \mathrm{sup}\{ T(x) : x \in S^2\}  \: \: \mathrm{ and }\: \: T_{\mathrm{min}}:= \mathrm{inf}\{ T(x) : x \in S^2\}$$ are reached by $T$ with the argument that $S^2$ is closed and bounded and therefore after the Heine-Borel-Theorem compact, and therefore since T is continuous it assumes its max and min in $S^2$.   Now i have answer the following:     1) Is there a point $x_0 \in S^2$ with $T(x_0)=T(-x_0)$ ?      2) Is there a value $T \in(T_{\mathrm{min}}, T_{\mathrm{max}})$ which is only assumed at exactly one point of $S^2$ ?   I wanted to show that $T$ is injective to get that 1) is false and 2) is true but i didn't get anywhere. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!