I have two laptops and a desktop. When I travel I take, of course, one of the laptops. The thing is, I have some good bookmarks in all three of my computers, but they are all different. I would like to "dump" all my bookmarks in one folder [like windows Explorer] and reselect them there. Here it comes the question: Where does Chrome save its bookmarks on Windows 8.1? Thanks Dan
I'm trying to recover a Windows system from backups and can't seem to find where Chrome saves its bookmarks.   Does anybody know where Chrome saves its bookmarks on Windows?
Use of "save" or "save for" in sentences I want to buy a home, but I'm not interested in using a realtor as a buyer's agent.  I know that in MLS systems, when a realtor lists a house they specify what commission a buyer's agent will be paid.  Since I am the one who is bringing a qualified buyer to the listing agent, I feel that I would should get the commission (even if it is in the form of a discount on the house).    Essentially, the seller would get the same amount of money at closing... the listing agent would get the same commission as they normally would for showing the house to someone with a buyer's agent... but I would pay less for the house.  Is there a tactful way to negotiate this with the listing realtor?  For example, should I make a side contract with the realtor to pay me the commission at closing?  Or perhaps I can specify in my offer that they should reduce their fees to the seller by the commission amount if the offer is accepted, in order to make my offer more attractive?  Are these types of deals ever done, and if so, is there a conventional way to make it happen?  Thanks is there any way to decode string? Mod shows up with OP background when viewing deleted comments Select from list of reasons when performing downvotes Preamble: I know that 'give a reason when downvoting' is a very common request, and I assure you that I have read these posts and the discussions in them and my request is very different. This isn't about encouraging people to comment and is more about gathering metrics.  I'd like to see a feature whereby people who are downvoted get some better feedback on why they were downvoted, especially given that people rarely leave comments in practice.  So my suggestion is that when user clicks on the downvote, they are prompted to pick from a short list (No more than 5) of common reasons. It would be a popup that replaces the existing "Please consider adding a comment" box.  The user receiving the downvote would see how many people downvoted them for each reason, but not who did it. It would significantly address the issue of people being too lazy to comment or not wanting to comment (for fear of retaliation or any other reason) while helping to ensure the user gets useful feedback.  Perhaps the downvote could also be weighted based on whether or not a reason is picked.  For questions the list might look something like:   Not a question Not relevant to the subject area Trivial question with no research effort Poorly asked question Other   And for answers, this might be:   Nonconstructive or not an answer Incorrect or dangerous answer Poor explanation Doesn't answer the original question Other Can I create a shortcut to open a specific application on OS X? I want to create a keyboard shortcut to i.e. open Firefox while I am working in another application. I know I can use ⌘ CMD+T when I am in Firefox to open a new tab.   I haven't found a way to create that kind of shortcuts in System Preferences.  Any ideas? I have three partitions on my drive, arranged something like the following:   ___________ | 1 |  2 | 3| -------------   I wish to merge partitions 1 and 3.  Is there a way to do this, or do I have to manually "slide" partition 2 over to partition 3, and then merge the newly open space where partition 2 used to be?  Note: I do not have the space to copy partition 2 to partition 3 (2 is 200GB and 3 is 65GB). Deriving ordered statistics minimum cdf Assume ${{X}_{1}}$, ${{X}_{2}}$, ${{X}_{3}}$,...,${{X}_{n}}$  are i.i.d. samples from distribution with density f, and cdf F.  Let V=min( ${{X}_{1}}$, ${{X}_{2}}$, ${{X}_{3}}$,...,${{X}_{n}}$)  To find the minimum $${B}_{v}={\{V\ge{v}\}}=\{{X}_{1}\ge{v}\}\cap\{{X}_{2}\ge{v}\}\cap...\cap\{{X}_{n}\ge{v}\}$$  So, $$P(V\ge{v})=[1-F(v)]^{n}$$  The cdf is  $$F_{v}(V)=1-[1-F(v)]^{n}$$   The density is $${f}_{v}(V)=\frac{d}{dv}[1-F(v)]^{n}=nf(v)[1-F(v)]^{n-1}$$   To find the density, why did we use $[1-F(v)]^{n}$ instead of $1-[1-F(v)]^{n}$, shouldn't we used the cdf to derive the pdf? My PC has a build-in VT1828S chip. The connection between PC and monitor (which has built-in speakers) is through an HDMI cable.  Audio preferences shows 2 devices for audio output: analog stereo and RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200] digital stereo (HDMI).  When I plug a headphone in the rear jack and I choose the former device, everything works. When I choose the latter device, instead, no sound is heard, and video playback is too fast. It is as if video frames want to synchronise with the audio timing, but the audio timing information is wrong.  HDMI audio worked perfectly with Ubuntu 11.04, but stopped after 11.10 upgrade. In the Law of Reflection, the angle of incidence is equal to angle of reflection. Why is this true? This is clearly true experimentally, but how does one prove this true mathematically? Pygame rotating cubes around axis Why do some materials reflect (metals) and other materials reflect and refract (glass) from the quantum perspective? Recently I was asked to explain the difference between reflection and total internal reflection from a purely conceptual standpoint (no math).    Let me explain what I already know.  Reflection and refraction at the quantum level are the same thing.  Light is a photon.  A photon is a discrete particle that has wave characteristics (a finite wave traveling like a bullet).  As the photon travels it collides with electrons in the matter of the medium it is traveling in.  Depending on the energy of the photon and the allowed energy bands of the medium the photon cause the electron to jump up a level.  If the photon is absorbed then the medium will increase its motion (at the macro scale increasing its temperature).  If the photon is not absorbed it will be re-emitted (really as a new photon). I have read and watched Feynman's QED lectures and book and have a pretty good understanding of his process for determining how all these paths come together to give the net path of the photon.  The general rule of thumb is that the photon wants to take the path which requires the least amount of time.  I understand how this principle goes to explain refraction and reflection.    What I don't seem to understand is why does one material seem to cause a higher percentage of refraction compared to another (metal vs. glass).  What about the electron configuration of a the medium changes the net effect of the absorption and re-emissions of the photons?  Is there a change in the probability of the photon being re-emitted in a reverse direction?  Is there a farther distance the photon can travel before being incident onto an electron?  This is the part where my understand breaks down.    When you have hit the critical angle in a medium that refracts and the light completely reflects, are the photons moving is the same manner as they would be in a material that always reflects? How does this connect to the question in the previous paragraph?  I know I have a bunch of mini questions embedded in answering this one larger question.  Any help on any of the parts would be greatly appreciated? Let $a$, $b$, and $c$ be complex numbers with $a\neq0$. Show that the solutions of $az^2+bz+c=0$ are $z_1,z_2=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$, just as they are in the case when $a$, $b$, and $c$ are real numbers. Gameplay programmers write game code, but so do game designers and developers. Where is the line drawn? What skills do gameplay programmers use that game designers or developers do not? ggplot2: facet_wrap strip color based on variable in data set Nonlinear regression model linear in some parameters In a set of  that I stumbled upon online, the author discusses a nonlinear regression model, which is linear in some parameters, like this $$ y = \theta_1 + \theta_2\exp \left( {\theta_3x} \right) + \varepsilon $$ and suggests to first perform a nonlinear regression to estimate $\theta_3$, and then use OLS to estimate the other two parameters. I am not very experienced in regression modeling, so please forgive me if I ask a very simple question, but I don't understand how you can do this consistently without also estimating the other 2 parameters? Apparently, there is some trick involved, which I don't understand...  Another question is what happens to the ability to do inferences based on parameter estimates to the complete model if you do the regression in two stages like that?  Many thanks! CAST and IsNumeric Why would the following query return "Error converting data type varchar to bigint"?  Doesn't IsNumeric make the CAST safe?  I've tried every numeric datatype in the cast and get the same "Error converting..." error.  I don't believe the size of the resulting number is a problem because overflow is a different error.  The interesting thing is, in management studio, the results actually show up in the results pane for a split second before the error comes back.  SELECT CAST(myVarcharColumn AS bigint)   FROM myTable   WHERE IsNumeric(myVarcharColumn) = 1 AND myVarcharColumn IS NOT NULL   GROUP BY myVarcharColumn   Any thoughts? How to scale a tikzpicture to \textwidth I was making a scene in blender and I wanted to change the texture from "Material_1" to "Material_2". It lets me change it but when I go to rendered view the part looks the same. can someone please help me Zip using Oracle Stored Procedure