Looking for a word or phrase to describe a man/woman, who has his/her own thoughts and opinions and isn’t afraid to put them across into conversation even when their opinion is outnumbered..?
The adjective ones I have heard recently are    forward straightforward forthcoming frank   I was wondering if each of them has positive, negative or neutral meaning?  What are other similar terms that are used for positive, neutral and negative intention?
If the Universe is expanding, how is that galaxies run into each other? As the title says. If everything is moving outward, thrown by the Big Bang, how could two Galaxies end up with velocity vectors that run them into each other? Can I have too many mods? I found a lot of mods that make thinks lighter, and add mark and recall, and a basement I like. They are all on Steam, and what I want to know is if I can have too many? Will they all work together? Or should I just leave them alone? What's the process to change a site logo? Who is responsible for defining a site logo? I mean, there are moderators of the site that define it, or stackexchange defines it? How do I make Firefox start always maximized? I am setting up Ubuntu with gnome for my grandma. How can I make firefox start ALWAYS maximized. I installed kubuntu-desktop just to experiment with its interface.  Then I decided to remove and did the traditional apt-get purge and autoremove but it seems elements of kubuntu are still there. For example interface elements, scrollbars, bootscreen etc are still there.  Is there any method I can completely remove without installing a fresh copy of ubuntu? Fibonacci proof question: $f_{n+1}f_{n-1}-f_n^2=(-1)^n$ How to use 'hover' in CSS Minecraft looks like a bad texture pack I am playing Minecraft 1.12 but today the in-game textures look much lower quality than usual. I don't have any of the super secret settings turned on, and I'm unsure how to fix this and get the normal textures back. I want to try to convert a string to a Guid, but I don't want to rely on catching exceptions (   for performance reasons - exceptions are expensive for usability reasons - the debugger pops up  for design reasons - the expected is not exceptional   In other words the code:  public static Boolean TryStrToGuid(String s, out Guid value) {     try     {         value = new Guid(s);         return true;     }     catch (FormatException)     {         value = Guid.Empty;         return false;     } }   is not suitable.  I would try using RegEx, but since the guid can be parenthesis wrapped, brace wrapped, none wrapped, makes it hard.   Additionally, I thought certain Guid values are invalid(?)    Update 1   had a good idea to catch only FormatException, rather than all. Changed the question's code sample to include suggestion.    Update 2  Why worry about thrown exceptions? Am I really expecting invalid GUIDs all that often?   The answer is yes. That is why I am using TryStrToGuid - I am expecting bad data.  Example 1 . I might be parsing folder names, checking to see if the text after the final . is a GUID.  c:\Program Files c:\Program Files.old c:\Users c:\Users.old c:\UserManager.{CE7F5AA5-6832-43FE-BAE1-80D14CD8F666} c:\Windows c:\Windows.old   Example 2 I might be running a heavily used web-server wants to check the validity of some posted back data. I don't want invalid data tying up resources 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than it needs to be.  Example 3 I might be parsing a search expression entered by a user.     If they enter GUID's I want to process them specially (such as specifically searching for that object, or highlight and format that specific search term in the response text.)    Update 3 - Performance benchmarks  Test converting 10,000 good Guids, and 10,000 bad Guids.  Catch FormatException:    10,000 good:     63,668 ticks    10,000 bad:   6,435,609 ticks  Regex Pre-Screen with try-catch:    10,000 good:    637,633 ticks    10,000 bad:     717,894 ticks  COM Interop CLSIDFromString    10,000 good:    126,120 ticks    10,000 bad:      23,134 ticks   p.s. I shouldn't have to justify a question. Calculating polygon area within polygons in QGIS? I am new to QGIS - I want to estimate the area of the reef under a polygon grid. My shapefiles are already in meters, however I am having a hard time calculating the area under the grid layer. Attached are the photos. I want to calculate the total area of the bold black polygons (reefs) under each grid square (image 2). How much reef is inside each square, for example, grid1: 25 sq.km, grid 1 sq.km, etc. Each reef polygon has its corresponding area in the layer attribute table.    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We have that $$\int_1^{\infty}\frac{\sin x}{x}dx$$ $$u=\frac{1}{x}$$ $$du=-\frac{1}{x^2}dx$$ $$dv=\sin xdx$$ $$v=-\cos x$$ $$\int_1^{\infty}\frac{\sin x}{x}dx=-\cos(1)-\int_1^{\infty}\frac{\cos x}{x^2}dx$$ $$\int_1^{\infty}\frac{\cos x}{x^2}dx&lt;\int_1^{\infty}\frac{1}{x^2}dx$$ So it converges. Now I need to find out if $\int_1^{\infty}|\frac{\sin x}{x}|dx$ converges or diverges. Cause of Alpha or Black Artefacts in Render PHP errors NOT being displayed in the browser [Ubuntu 10.10] $n$ balls are thrown randomly into $k$ bins - how many are empty? A large number of variants of this question were already asked here, including these - , , which are close, but none seem to answer my question. Assume that $n$ balls are thrown randomly and independently into $k$ bins.  What is the probability of finding $x$ empty bins? What is the expectation of the number of empty bins? How does one attack a two-time pad (i.e. one time pad with key reuse)? My question might appear the same as the question , but actually I did read all the answers and none of them helped me with the details I need.  I am new to cryptography and my problem is with two time pad attacks on OTP. The problem I had in my course was that I have 10 ciphertexts encrypted with the same key $K$. I am then given another ciphertext that I should decrypt.  I know that XOR-ing two ciphers gives me the XOR of their original messages.  My question is what is the correct thing to do after that?  I tried to take 3 ciphertexts $C_1, C_2$ and $C_3$.  Then get $S_1 = C_1 \oplus C_2  \oplus $' ', also get $S_2 = C_1 \oplus C_3 \oplus$ ' '.  After that I compared all corresponding characters in $S_1$ and $S_2$,  and if $S_1[i] = S_2[i]$ then I calculate $S_1[i] \oplus C_2[i]$ to get $K[i]$.  I tried this on paper before coding and it worked, but I might be missing something.  Is this the right approach? Why does it work? Windows 8.1 missing font files after restart Webforms and jQuery, how to match the ID's? I want to use jQuery with asp.net webfoms.  Do I need to get a special toolkit so the .net controls spit out friendly Control ID's?  Reason being, I don't want to write javascript referencing my html ID's like control_123_asdfcontrol_234.  Has this been addressed in version 3.5?  (I remember reading you have to get some special dll that makes ID's friendly). 'both in terms of' or 'in terms of both'?