Is there a specific formula where I can compute how many hours before my 12v car battery becomes fully empty when using 100w light bulb only?
How long can I run a water pump which requires 12V and 50W from a 12V, 40Ah, 400A car battery?  Can you explain how this was calculated?
How to restore cloth presets? Is there anyway to restore the Blender default Cloth settings? Or is there anyway to find what the default settings are?  I didn't realize at the time that by changing the values I was overriding the default values.  Using Blender v2.76. When should titles like "captain" or "admiral" be capitalized? Please excuse the contrived example below, but I am wondering if this example is properly capitalised? I'm assuming that capitals are used when addressing someone directly, but lower case is used elsewhere. Can someone give some rules on this?      The captain walked into the room.    "Hi, Captain," said the admiral.   "Hi, Sir," replied the captain.   "Call me Admiral."   "Hi Admiral."   The captain and admiral stepped forward.   "Prime Minister, this is Captain Jones," said Admiral Brown.   "Pleased to meet you," said the prime minister. Once upon a time,  DISPLAY=:0.0 totem /path/to/movie.avi   after ssh 'ing into my desktop from my laptop would cause totem to play movie.avi on my desktop.  Now it gives the error:   No protocol specified Cannot open display:    I reinstalled Debian squeeze when it went stable on both computers, and I guess I broke the config.   I've googled on this, and cannot for the life of me figure out what I'm supposed to be doing.   (VLC has an HTTP interface that works, but it isn't as convenient as ssh.)  The same problem arises when I try to run this from a cron job. I wonder if someone knows any general rules of thumb regarding the number of bootstrap samples one should use, based on characteristics of the data (number of observations, etc.) and/or the variables included? How can I write a unit test to determine whether an object can be garbage collected? This bug was found on a couch in . The couch, and the two beds in the room show no signs of other bugs. Is this a bed bug that I should worry about or something harmless? It was slightly larger than a common tick. Duplicates of duplicates should be remapped I noticed today another example of duplicates of duplicates: that  (A) was closed as a duplicate of  (B), but one day later (B) was closed as duplicate of  (C). Sometimes I need to click many times from one question to another until I get to the master question.  I think that it's better if the question (A) is closed as duplicate of (C), and even if (B) has already (helpful) answers, (B) and (C) could be merged.  Is it possible to remap all duplicates to the master question, just like the tag synonyms? How do you pull first 100 characters of a string in PHP I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing.    Is there a function that can do this easily?  For example:  $string1 = "I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing."; $string2 = 100charfunction($string1); print $string2   To get:  I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string vari Is phonetic typing for Tamil available in Ubuntu 12.04?  How can I install it? has been edited by .   , see revisions 3 to 4.   Now what he did is totally inexplicable to me, as a matter of fact he destroyed the answer. The new version is neither syntactically valid nor does it make any sense.  Still, the edit got "peer-reviewed" and nodded off.  Is there any way to deal with these kinds of things, other than sighing heavily and rolling back the edit?  Rhetorical side question: Could this be a side-effect of people grinding for reviewer badges? A site URL changed and now its icon in SEDE is broken Show that$\displaystyle\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{\sin( nz)}{n}$ diverges if $\mathfrak{Im} \,(z)\neq0$ We have to show that$\displaystyle\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{sin( nz)}{n}$ diverges if $Im\,(z)\neq0$  My try:$$\sin (nz) = \mathfrak{Im}(e^{nzi})$$  $$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{\sin nz}{n} = \mathfrak{Im} \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{(e^{zi})^n}{n} = - \mathfrak{Im} \ln\left(1-e^{zi}\right). $$ Then how to proceed? Why should one use EM vs. say, Gradient Descent with MLE? Mathematically, it's often seen that expressions and algorithms for Expectation Maximization (EM) are often simpler for mixed models, yet it seems that almost everything (if not everything) that can be solved with EM can also be solved with MLE (by, say, the Newton-Raphson method, for expressions that are not closed).  In literature, though, it seems that many favour EM over other methods (including minimization of the LL by, say, gradient descent); is it because of its simplicity in these models? Or is it for other reasons? I want to add a comma in the thousands place for a number.     String.Format()? IF statement inside a LINQ SELECT How come gas molecules don't settle down? If the earth's gravity exerts a net downward gravitational force on all air molecules, how come the molecules don't eventually lose their momentum and all settle down? How is the atmosphere is still miles thick after billions of years? Manual font installation Where can I find other RPG players? Purge unused data (e.g. particle system, or groups) by script How can I completely remove a objects (e.g. particle system or groups used in particle systems) in blender using python?  The problem is this: I have a script, with which I create a scene (e.g. adding some normal objects and some group of objects with a particle system). For a research study I would like to repeat that that several times, without restarting blender. So I can create a scene, delete everything, e.g. with a script like this:  import bpy scn = bpy.context.scene for obj in scn.objects:     obj.select = True bpy.ops.object.delete()   If I rerun the script to recreate the scene with objects using particle system, the latter is not shown in the scene anymore (only the placeholders of the particle system). Now I'm not sure where exactly the problem lies, but I guess not everything is immediately deleted, running the script above. Only the startup of blender helps (but that's not what I want) or pushing the purge button. The purge button seems to start the command:  bpy.ops.outliner.orphans_purge()   But I can't get this piece of code to run in the console. It says that "the context is incorrect". Is there a way to purge the unused data by python script? Thanks a lot for any help. Index entries duplicated for captions