He bellowed outside: 'A disgrace! What have you got me?'  Or  He bellowed outside, 'A disgrace! What have you got me?'  Comma or Colon? Please help!
Sam developed an annual sweepstakes promotion entitled “The Free Gas Punt Return Game”.    Do I need a comma after entitled or not?
Multiple "order by" in LINQ I have two tables, movies and categories, and I get an ordered list by categoryID first and then by Name.  The movie table has three columns ID, Name and CategoryID. The category table has two columns ID and Name.  I tried something like the following, but it didn't work.  var movies = _db.Movies.OrderBy( m =&gt; { m.CategoryID, m.Name }) Medium with refractive index less than unity? Anyone know a simple method to swap the background color of a webpage using JavaScript? In FHS-2.3, we have /media that holds mount points for removable media such as CD-ROMs and we have /mnt that holds temporarily mounted filesystems.  On the other hand, we have /run/media and /run/mount. For me, the CDs and USBs are mounted on /run/media.  I don't see any clear distinction between them(/media, /mnt, /run/mount) . What are their differences?     I have seen similar trend (mount on /run/media) in fedora 20 - GNOME 3.10.4 and ubuntu 14.04.1 (installed on virtual box) with GNOME 3.10.4. But when I plugged in a USB flash (with auto-mounter script) on a system with Centos 6 and GNOME 2.28.2 it was mounted on /media On Windows 7, is there a command prompt line that can start cmd as an administrator? On Linux, we can use  sudo bash   to run a shell as the superuser.  On Windows 7, we can use     Start menu -> (in search box, type) cmd -> Right click on search result and choose Run as Administrator   to run a command prompt as an administrator. Is there also a command prompt line that is like Linux's sudo or su so as to start a shell as an administrator? Learning special relativity and working with Minkowski diagrams for a while now i am still trying to get my head around some oddity.   From my understanding time can often be seen as the dependent variable in those diagrams, so why put it to the vertical axis? What confuses me even more is the apparent convention to denote a point in space time $(t,x)$ even though $x$ is on the horizontal and $t$ is on the vertical axis, so the usual notation would be to refer to that vector as $(x, t)$.  Are there mostly historical reasons or why is it beneficial to use this notation and to violate usual conventions? I've become very accustomed to managing service startups on Redhat/RHEL platforms using chkconfig though that doesn't appear to be the Debian/Ubuntu way - How do I update runlevel information for system services on Ubuntu?  Ultimately looking for the equivalents of:  chkconfig --add &lt;service&gt; chkconfig --level 345 &lt;service&gt; on chkconfig --del &lt;service&gt; Coordinate-Free Definition of Trace. How do I print bold text in Python? How do I restore the sources.list file? Which singular names ending in “s” form possessives with only a bare apostrophe? How to rename wp-includes folder? Is there a way that we could rename wp-includes folder   I have found out there are ways to do for other folders. But how do we do it for wp-includes folder? Why are some faces in my mesh darker? While rendering a mesh with smooth shading on, I get a dark region/shadow on certain faces. The effect is more evident when smooth shading is applied to a mesh containing ngons, with the ngons turning black when rendered.   The blackening effect is visible in the viewport too.  How can I solve this problem? What is the greatest integer that divides $p^4-1$ for every prime number $p$ greater than $5$? What is the greatest integer that divides $p^4-1$ for every prime number $p &gt; 5$?  This was on a practice math GRE so it's probably really easy. In C++, what is a virtual base class? I want to know what a "virtual base class" is and what it means.  Let me show an example:  class Foo { public:     void DoSomething() { /* ... */ } };  class Bar : public virtual Foo { public:     void DoSpecific() { /* ... */ } }; If $a \cdot a = 1$ then $a = 1$ or $a = -1$ Let $F$ be a field.   And let $a \in F$ such that $a \cdot a = 1$.  Claim: $a = 1$ or $ a = -1$  Before, I begin with the proof I cannot understand what $ a = -1$ represents...  Is $a = -1$ representing the inverse of $a$?   I am capable of getting to $a = 1$ with no trouble, but how do you get the $-$ sign to show up in your proof?   Proof: This is my attempt at getting to $a=-1$.  If $a = 0$ then we have $0 \cdot 0 = 0 \neq 1$. Then this implies that $a \neq 0$ which implies that $ \exists b \in F,$ s.t. $a \cdot b = 1$, i.e. $b$ is the multiplicative inverse of $a$.  Knowing this fact prove as follows...:  $a \cdot a = 1 \implies$ $ (a \cdot a) \cdot b = 1 \cdot b \implies$ $a \cdot (a \cdot b) = 1 \cdot b \implies$ $a \cdot 1 = 1 \cdot b \implies$ $ 1 \cdot a =1 \cdot b \implies$ $a = b$.   But since $b$ is the multiplicative inverse of $a$ is this enough to say that $a = -1$? I'm using biblatex and I have it set up like this:  In my bib file I have 3 sorts of entrys, online, booklet, and book.   And in my thesis I want them printed separate like this:  \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,title={Books},type=book, nottype=url, nottype=booklet, nottype=online] \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,title={Websites},type=online, nottype=book, nottype=booklet, nottype=url] \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,title={Misc},type=booklet]   For some reason this won't work, it still puts the websites where the books should be. And vice versa. The booklet thing does work though, it only shows my booklet entries there.  I recently started using biblatex so this might be a stupid question. I am currently using Sheep It! to render my blend (built on v2.68c) on multiple computers, and I noticed something rather strange. According to the log on-site, the frames rendered from other people's blends were completing in 3 to 4 minutes. This was on an 4 core i5. My main rig (with an 8 core i7) was completing frames in no less than half an hour. How is this possible?  To clarify, these people's frames are very complex, often with very detailed textures. I have 2 objects in my blend. Below are the options I changed for my blend:   Aspect Ratio: 1000px x 1000px Output: PNG Clamp Indirect: 0.98 Render Sampling: 128 Min Light Bounces: 0 Max Light Bounces: 4 Cycles Render   Is there something in there that I should change to make it go faster? I can't really comprehend how it's going to quickly.  EDIT: To answer what @Duarte asked...   System Specs: i7-920, 3GB DDR3, GT 630, Windows 10 I have two circles, extended to form a sort of coin with a star on it. It is not complex at all. I have Firefox and Steam running in the background, but not actively. I've been away from the computer for 8 hours and noticed this behavior. (I am running Blender from Steam.) I made sure when I began rendering that the blend was set for CPU rendering.          And to answer what @pycoder asked, yes, I am using Cycles Render. I recently wanted to add some RAM to my old computer, but unfortunately I mixed together "good" RAM with chips that I extracted from a computer that failed after getting too much voltage. I know it sounds like a bad idea to just plug it into a motherboard, so I figured I'd ask first - is there usually any protection in the motherboards against this kind of faulty chips? Also, how likely is that RAM got damaged when computer got his deadly current or failed for internal reasons (something shorted because of dust, failed components etc.)? While working together, how can I discuss my ideas and objections without killing the other person’s motivation?  I want to do a design project with a friend, for study purposes, but I experienced some obstacles I don’t know how to deal with:   We didn’t learn yet how to deal with objections or dislikes from the other. As a result our meetings are inefficient, either because we let the other do whatever they want, or because someone gets into a bad mood and instead of thinking, they try to put on an unaffected face. My friend has a habit of letting their attention stray away, and they do it at the most unexpected times.   I know that being sincere is needed and inevitable, but I would like to learn a method to keep the attention and motivation even in these situations. My problem is that I don’t know what to say or do to keep our task looking interesting and fun to do.  As a possible solution I thought of inserting a 5 minute period where we shouldn’t say any good things, not even a word, but have to point out the bad parts of our own work.  But I fear this one won’t be enough, that’s why I would like to hear ideas and tricks that could make our sessions going.